The Washington herald., 1907-05-19
Woman About Town
What She Sees and Hears

windows Instead. Il has a cotton net
tent arrangement over the bed. This "a
true Of both hotels and private houses.
The bed bars are usually clean 50 far as
looks go. They are washed about as
often as window curtains. but certainly
they are not anuseptically clean.
never yet slept under one without won
dering whether the former user Of il
hadn't been tubercuious. Just as an igno-
rant layman, | feel sure that the per
centage Of tuberculosis would be cut
down tremendously in all Southern cities
By the abolition OF the bars over beds
They keep out mosquitoes. and mos
quitocs convey good many diseases.
but they must be excellent lairs for the
tuberculosis bacillus"
Speaking Of New Orleans, a Georgetown
woman who went down there for this
years carnival season brought back with
her a great armful Of Spanish moss.
which she proceeded to festoon on the
old magnolia tree In her yard. hoping
that IL would grow there I've no daubt
in the world that Providence sent "a an
inclement spring for the express plrpose
Of discouTaging that Spanish moss and
l reioiced when I passed the magnolia
last Tuesday and saw that the mos. had
fallen of. Half the old live oaks on the
Gulf Coast are smOtherinE under tba
moss. II kills every leaf. every branch
on which it fastens its parasite self r
has the cheering look Of Grape streamers
on a door, and why anybody should want
to infest Washington with IT, cant
imagine. The only proper use for Span
ish moss is 10 stun furniture with #. and
when it's nicely killed by boiling or bur,.-
ing, il turns into something not unlike
the hair we buy in mattresses It's
worth about cents a pound for stuffng
and If 1t grew on any tree I owned. III
be willing TO pay twice cents a pound
to have IL picked of. II there were any
real likelihood Of its fourishing in this
climate, I'd ask Congress 10 make bring
ing it here penal offense.
I see they're discussing the question Of
whether a woman should be called by her
husbands name, says the club womap's
husband. Il suppose it is a bit calling %
d woman to reflect that no matter how
many times her husband marrles. one
Mrs visiting cardplate is all he ever has
10 buy. No doubt a woman hates 10 give
uP her family name when she marrfas
I've heard my wife say that her visiting
card doesn't represent a personality al
ALL She says II expresses a sociological
fact merely. She's talked about this name
business lot, and I'm willing 10 let her
call herself anything she likes. I don't
want 10 hamper the free expression Of
/ her individuality in any way. but there's
one thing 1 won't stand for. Il happened
20 me once, and I'm never going 10 tag
along with my wife anywhere unless she
can assure me it won't happen again. A
/ man has a few feelings even in these
/ days She took me % an entertainment
her club gave not long ago. There was
/ whole draWing-ro0m full OF women. with
a man here and there, and every one Of
| those men looked as II he'd been caught
stealing sheep. ! understood why as
soon as We We're announced. a brisk
! looking young woman stood IN The door
and shouted out the names. Never again
d - IT.
! Mrs. Minnie Bings Brown"
a young woman who had rather a
/ prominent part In an amateur musical en-
tertainment given not so very long ago
| tells this story on herself one Of the
/ bellboys Ia the apartment house IN which
/ she lives went on an eTrand for her the
| day before the entertainment. When he
/ returned, with an anticipatory look on his
! face. she wished TO reward him. and
| asked him whether he'd rather have half
O dollar or a ticket 70 the entertainment.
lie chose the latter. A few days after
Ward the young woman asked him how he
liked the performance. His reply was
frank
I'd a-enjoyed il better" he said. II !
hadn't KEEP a thinkin. OF that 30 cents"
I have discovered the use Of those in.
numerable pufs which the up-to-dats
woman pins promiscuously about her top.
knot. had supposed they were INTENDED
merely 10 enlarge the Coiffure 10 the di
|mensions demanded by the new fashion II
hats-anC as soon as l can find a fireman
who will give me his helmet I'm going [,
lpUt a brown bow on it and have one oi
those new hats myself. by the way. l had
looked on those puffs, as I ss. as mere
useless eXCrescenCes. hut since Monday
lam better informed. a very smart young
woman came into the dressing-room O.
one Of the department stores. She was
Iundulated and puffed and hated till hel
head was the size of a bushel basket Sh,
took Oft nine yards of veil and pried N.
hat loose Then she touched her row o
puff5 tin she came to the third one from
lhe starboard end. This she took off, an,
from its interior extracted a roll Of bills
! Il seemed 70 me an excellent idea fe
safety in these pocketless days Of han.
bags. I've known dozens of people VIII,
carried their fortunes in their heads. hu
not one OF them could take any Of thei
wealth out in an emergency as easily a
that girl did.
One Of the dozen l know who carr
money in their heads is a woman VIII
writes-writes. if not precisely for he
bread and butter, for whatever cake sh