The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-12-01
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
WHAT SHE HEARS AND SEES
WHAT SHE HEARS AND SEES.

rather use one than throw his discarded
neckties on the floor. as is the present
custom. ] was wrong MaTie's idea IS
a pair OF fog strainers. II 1 may use the
! expression. She says that when her
brother Jim was motoring through New
England last summer. he discovered that
the lamps on his car would pierce a fog
or night mist three times as far when
he covered them with his handkerchief
az when they shone unprotected. He
used 20 tie his handkerchief over the
lamp with a string. but Marie's ribbons
viii be ever 50 much more convenient.
L don't know whether Jim's idea IS
founded on scientific truth or not. but
those bUtton-holed circles certainly do
make pretty Christmas presents. And
one great beauty OF them Is that. being
adjustable. the man who receives them
won't be obliged 20 buy a new auto
mobile 70 III them
Awful One on Boston.
When we want 70 say something
whitening about amy one who han
pens 10 come 10 Boston" says a Mass
achusetts wSls.c-s who is here for the
winter. eve say he's provincial Il
really means that he doesn't know his
way about Boston. / didn't realize
how beastedIy provincial we are our
selves till / went 10 California with
Aunt Rhodora last winter. We went
b. way OF New Orleans and on the
way we made the acquaintance Of a
charming Louisiana woman. Aunt
RhOdOra asked her a great many cues
tiOns- Aunt RhOdOra. you see, was
a sort OF Miss Columbus. discovering
the South. but il wasn't till we were
about TO leave the train in New Or
leans that Aunt RhOdOra disgraced the
family. She looked from the window
of the car as We came into the city and
saw az a street corner the sign 'Elysian
Fields Avenue
How nice II is that you don't have
any bitter feeling toward the North
down here she said, candidly, 20 the
Louisiana woman. Wasn't that street
named for that great dry goods mer-
chant who lived in Chicago or Nil
waukee, or some place like that?
Point of View Decides.
After al. the attitude Of most OF Us to-
ward our home town IS wholly provincial
and altogether as IL should be L makes
me think OF story Gen. Myles. OF New
Orleans told when he was in the North
last summer Several years ago. he said.
while on a hunting trip in the Adiron-
dacks ne met a guide who pleased him
50 much that he wanted 10 enjoy more OF
the mans society
Come IN down 20 New York with ne"
the General said 10 hin
How far is it," the guide asked.
"Oh. about 800 miles"
-Four hundred miles, said the el:ide
Gosh, that's too far from everywhere"
Gas-making Made Easy.
Ms Dash has been telling me Of the
many improvements her son-iu-Iav has
made lately at his farm IN Maryland.
The house IS all lighted By gas now"
she told me. Homemade gas. too.
rs il satisfactory I asked. for I once
stayed in a country house where We had
10 use candles most OF the time. because
II you lighted the aceteIyne burners and
turned your back. the pipes would be
stopped Up or the sodium carbide in th-
tank worn out or the water would stop
running OF something else would happen
80 that the light would go out; and n
you forgot 10 turn the thing of you'd la
smothered in your bed or blown 10 before
morning. ! hope state the thing cor
rectly. but I never did understand a thing
about that gas.
Isn't i hard 10 make 1t work?"
added
Not al all she said. ct burns Dsau-
tifulIy al over the house. and its the
easiest gas 10 make you ever heard on
All in the world my son-in-law has 10 DO
is 10 put some water In the tank and mix