The Washington herald., 1907-01-13

Oh the pages We tear, and the woIds ve swear:
For 10 none Of US all is Il given
To remember the year TIL ss'Ve written 1t wrong.
For a half-mouth at least. Ne al put It down
wrong.
With siz where We ought to put sssen.
II used to think # would be the
loyeliest thing in the world 10 be Be-
hemian." says a young woman who was
married ID an architect last fall. Il was
brought up a Presbyterian. you know,
and I really think what first attracted me
TO Ted was the delightful way he used
to talk about his student days IN Paris.
When We were married we made W our
minds 10 be as unconventional and Bo-
hemian as we could possibly be. We
called our sitting room a studio. and had
lots Of cushions on the divan and stems
on top the bookcase, and all the regular
Bohemian stage settings. Uncle Joe gave
US piano for a wedding present 1t was
a great surprise 20 Us. too. because Uncle
Joe's money Is usually glued 10 him. It
wasn't a very well known brand Of plano.
but when We had it set with the end
against the wall and a rug nailed TO the
back Of it it looked too artistic and
Bohemian for words We'd been married
about six weeks when Ted asked some Of
his artistic and musical friends I'D for
what they call q studio racket We had
beer and a welsh rabbit, and some OF Us
sat on the floor and some OF US sat on
the table. and | felt exactly as IL I were
in the Latin Quarter. OF course. 1 let the
men smoke-mother'd have a conniption
1T II she heard Of gentlemen smoking in
the presence Of ladies-but they did It,
And one Of Ted's friends started TO sing
US real Latin Quarter song He took
a Whit Of his cigarette and laid 1t down
at the end Of the keyboard. IL rolled over
and struck the keys. That was the end
o. our piano. The man turned to speak
to US and the whole keyboard CT that
piano burned Up. Yes. it did. and by the
time we'd put it out the works were
mostly charcoal Next time I try TO be
Bohemian III do II with a piano that
hasn't celluloid keys"
Speaking Of pianos, reminds me Of some
news / heard the other day Of a Wash
ington lad who set out few months
ago to learn the trade or art, whichever
1t IS. OF piano tuning. I always imagined
that ali you had TO do 10 tune a plano
was 20 take tuning fork and a wrench
and screw ID things till you had 1t fixed
to suit you. l suppose you could tune
as many pianos as your muscles would
let you, but it seems / didn't know. The
bog / speak OF is suffering from what
tuners cali a shut-up eardrum. In other
words. he has gone stone deaf from too
much tuning, and can't tell whether a
note Is sharper or fatter than it ought
10 be. In such cases the tone deafness
sometimes lasts for many months. and
I am told that IL is not an uncommon
thing among young tuners. Indeed. any
tuner runs the risk Of losing his tone per
ception II he tunes too many pianos in
day at any time AT twenty-five H:ne
pianos In a day is 3 tax on the ears.
and few piano tuners are successful after
forty-hve with more than TWO instru-
ments in that length Of time. Age makes
[ a tuners ear inaccurate. He tunes fat.
The Washington boy Will work at the
construction Of pianos till his ears hear
accurately again. and at the end OF a
year he expects 70 be a full-hedged tuner
A very much vexed little Southern wo-
man met me yesterday and held me to
( account for something I'm not in the
slightest degree responsible for.
I went over 10 New York Monday for
the first tine in my life" she said, and
1 read copy Of The Washington Herald
on the train. There wss a paragraph in
il about the herdics. and il mentioned
the comfortable omnlbuses on Broadway
Well, / always believe what I read, so
when I wanted TO go up town over there
/ stood on Broadway corner and waited
for a bus. There were lots of cars, but
they were all full, and | saw by TIE way
the conductors showed people ab0 II that
they wouldn't do at all for me- 10 ride
IN. waited. and 1 waited. and 1 waited
and l didn't see a bus any ne-e. FL
naIly kind looking policeman came along
and I spoke 10 him.
90 When Will The next hnibus come
along?' I asked.
Huh?' he said.
'' I haven't seen one s by explained
When did the last one so up?
He looked at me a solemn. plying
way.
&c Twenty-Five yef ago. he said
Ny small fTieB Lucy has lost her re-
ligion. I met in Dupont Circle one
day Of the week and the first thing she
told me was that she didn't mean to pray
any more.
After 1 found out there wasn't any
Santa Claus" she said. and 1 couldn't
write to him any more TO tell him what
wanted for Christmas, l took TO pray
ing for what I wanted 1 prayed right
along from Thanksgiving till Christmas
and I'm never going 10 do it again"
Didn't you get what you wanted?" I
asked namely.
Lucy looked like statuette OF disgust
y wanted bulldog" she said, and
I got canary bird"
Il never passed reasonably coniforta-
bic night in a sleeping car till 1 was out
in the Middle West" an unusually tall
man told me. I'm too long to at into a
Pullman berth lying down. and too long
to get dressed and undressed in one with
out doing enough contorticn stunts to
sprain me in ten places. Out In Illinois l
struck an electric line going I'd from ST.
Louis, and II runs a sleeper. It's a car
that looks pretty much like an ordinary
suburban electric, with seats like a rail-
way day coach. The upper berth let's
down like Pullman, and the seats form
the lower The curtain is a sort of screen,
made on the principle of a roll top TO a
desk 1t pulls up from a crack in the
floor and hooks to the top Of the car. II
has Stats inside and cretonne outside,
and when it's up there's space of about
a foot between it and the edge of the
berth. You can dress and undress with
out ending W in an ambulance, and.
what's better still. the berth is six feet
eight inches long. I never in my life had
good nights sleep on car till struck