Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22
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You see, said Mr.. James, Il mao not
been married very long. 1 did not know
my bearings very we'll and when my wife
asked me to go shopping with her jumped
at the chance.
well. we went to every big department
store in the city of Washington. We
looked at everything from sealskin cloaks
to the daintiest and prettiest lines of feml-
nine hosiery 1 had ever seen. My wife
wanted to see everything in every depart
ment of each store, and she did. With the
air and manner of a czarina she demanded
that the poor little shop girls climb up and
reach for any article that she imagined she
wanted then or that she might want in the
years to come.
1--WE trudged and trudged all over the city
and then back again to the same stores. I'M
til l thought in my soul l would faint from
sheer exhaustion: and do you know that
when we got through, or. at least when
we finally quit my wife had not bought a
blooming thing?
Il told her then and there that in future
there would be but one thing in all the
world that she could ask of me that would
not do. told her that when out of COOK
1 would make all the fires: that | would
allow her TO have all of her kinfolks visit
us whenever she pleased and remain as
long they pleased; that l would go with
her to the marriages of all her friends and
that would accompany her to the funerals
of all her rich relatives. but never again
would l go shopping with her.
why" continued the big congressman,
II would rather worm and sucker cabbages
on a Saturday afternoon. in the hearing OF
the enthusiastic shouts of thousands of base
ball fans. than ever again to go shopping
with any woman"
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Domingo Obaldia, the siX-year old son Of
the former minister from and the present
acting president of Panama, made many
friends during his fathers residence in this
city. He is a precocious youngster. quick
raIi nSi lion,
to interrogate children of foreign countries.
For instance, directly a person inquired his
name he not only gave it promptly but sup
piled the information that 1T was just the
same as Sunday" for which Intelligent
people were correspondence grateful.
Several months ago Domingo paid visit
with his mother to very handsome and
popular Washington hostess. He was great
ly impressed with her appearance and
charm and expressed a wish to pay a sec
ond visit The opportunity never arose,
however. but his mother consented to take
him with her when she recently called to
say goodbye to the lady in question. 1t
was the latters day at home and the draw
ing room was filled when Nine. Obaldia was
announced. Little Domingo-'the same as
Sunday'-paused in the center of the room
clasped his hands and gaZed with all his
soul in his eyes at his hostess. Then In
rapid but quite audible Spanish he said to
his mother:
''There she is-just look at her-as heav-
emily beautiful as ever!'
If Domingo follows in the footsteps of
his father he is likely to be good diplo-
mat.
One d. last winter a newspaper man
was talking to a friend and the subject
turned to the pesky moth and the best
means of DISCRIMINATING the busy little
creature. The newspaper man told of fnnu-
merable garments that had been riddled by
tIa ho fria wa
springing that ancient chestnut on him
about capturing the moth and pulling its
teeth out, when practical man of the
world, carpenter by trade, came along
and joined in the conversation.
"You can take my word for it," inter-
polated the carpenter. that the best way
to protect your clothing against moths is
to pack them in chest made of cedar
wood The strong odor of cedar is pizen to
the moth and you can't get one of 'em to
light within smelling distance of the cedar
chest. A friend of mine tried it and his
goods proved to be perfectly immune to the
destroyers."
Impressed by the words of the man of
wood, saws, hatchets and the like. the
newspaper man forthwith had a cedar
chest constructed and proudly Informed
his wife he had at last reached a safe and
sane solution of the moth problem. or
course he packed his best garments in the
chest and it was but the other day that
he had occasion to go into the immune
chest to get garment, when, 10! to his
horror a flock of moths were seen hustling
about in the receptacle.
He removed his clothing piece by piece
and found that each of the garments had
been perforated early and often by the
pestiferous insects, until they looked as
though they had been shot at and hit by
several loads of bird shot, causing him
loss of many Of his best articles of dress.
Now the newspaper man is looking for
the carpenter to give him some good advice
about giving advice, and in the meantime
the edar chest has been used as kindling
to start a spring blaze in the furnace to
warm the freakish atmosphere.
''If the government wants to save money
and a lot of it, don't why they don't
economic little on thu quality Of envel-
opes and even somewhat on the sort of
paper they use." said an old Washington
newspaper man. speaking to a Star reporter
this week. "Of course it is all very nice to
get government pamphlets in high-grade
envelopes and to be sure that every piece of
government printing you are going to look
at will be the very highest class of work
printed on the best paper obtaina~.e. But
we all know that when we are buying sta
tionery. We buy it for specific purposes and
do not bull the paper market regardless of
expense. Take my own case. / am In the
Congressional directory along with about
40 other correspondents. l get about every
thing that is turned out by the government
printing office. l certainly average half a
dozen pamphlets and publications of one
sort and another every day. Some throw
away, but most of them | at least want to
look over. But not only are all of them
printed on the very highest grade of paper
but they come in Manila envelopes as a rule
made out of the highest grade and most ex-
pensive paper of that sort that can be
bought. The daily post office and the daily
weather bureau reports about the only
ones that use cheap envelopes. The others,
especially the big envelopes must cost
cent apiece Now when you think of the
amount Of money that is thrown away
simply on the correspondents list in Wash
ington and add to this the waste that is
going on every day all over the country, it
Is a wonder to me that there is any surplus
in the treasury at the end of the year at
ALL OF course the paper contractors fatten
on this sort of thing. But how long would
that sort of extravaganza lie allowed to con-
tlnue in any private business hOuse?"