The Washington herald., 1908-04-05
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
FRAILT!Es AND FoIBLES OF HER SEX

be held bis post when all the men
Who should have helped hiin ran.
He held his post aud risked lis life
All that like man.
His wife letter gave to mail.
| Addressed 10 sister Anne
He kept It Ia his coli ioF weeks
All, hat vas like man,
Praise high blame low. there's naught he does
Or does not that one can
/ kecord-and strange il seeIas-thst's not
Exactly like a
sts
WOnien's styles Change Houses.
Were going to move on the lst o.
May said young newspaper man to
me. and j expect TO pay for the van and
the broken glasses and the knoc1ed-off
| chair legs and the other expenses OF
moving with the proceeds of an article
I'm going 10 write on The influence Of
Feminine Dress on Architecture Good
subject. Look at all the big. roomy houses
/ of the SOS Why, were the doors wide
and the rooms large? Hoop skirts Hoop
skirts had 10 have room TO swing them
/ selves in Why were the stairs put in q
narrow front hall? Prunella CATERS and
white hosiery. In colonial times women
dressed their feet coquettishly. Houses
had 10 be built 10 give woman n chance
/ 10 show her buckled shoe coming down
stairs. But the CATERS of the COS were
ugly enough 10 make a hermit vince, and
| stairs were made so that nobody had
much chance 10 see the feet that went up
/ and down. The abolition Of the hoop
| skirt made apartment houses possible,
and now this new fashion OF cart-wheel
hats is going TO drive people out of fats
/ into houses again We have a mighty
nice fat. but there isn't q closet in il
She's had them covered with figured stun
and set around here and there all winter,
/ but her new hat is too tall to shove under
/ the bed when we want room enough to
/ turn around in If the fashion for big
hats keeps up, half the apartment houses
I in town viii be vacant By another spring.
We're moving on account of my wifes
new hat Great subject for an article,
isn't it? I can pay all the damage Of
moving with what I'll get for it. The
new landlord knocks of months rent,
and that viii just about pay for the hat"
Animals in Heaven.
Ny small friend Jim has been suffering
lately from serious doubt in the matter
Of religion. He wriggled in his chair for
fully ten minutes the last time he came
to see me before he could bring himself
/ to discuss the subject.
DO you believe everybody's happy in
heaven?T he asked me.
"0f course. I answered. "Everybody's
happy there
He fixed ne with a cynical eye.
What about the terrapin?" he demand
ed. They amt happy"
Are there teTrapin in heaven p asked.
not wanting 20 commit myself. On my
sunday-schoOl days we were taught that
the beloved kittens and the dear dogs.
without nope of whose companionship II
wasn't at all easy 10 imagine heaven at
all desirable place. never. never went
there at all, and It was wicked of YOU to
say you didn't want 10 go there unless
they did. But religion isn't made quite so
crushing and disCOuragiRg 10 children as
It used to be. and I fanCied Jim might
have been given reason 10 hope for celes-
tial terrapin9
Don't YOU know there are?" he asked.
They said so in church when I went.
They can't be happy, because they cry
I heard EN- say so right out Ia church,
Cherry pin and terrspin continly do
cry"
Haunted by Sins of old.
I suppose all children 80 TO Sunday
school these days. but in my early youth
J knew a very old lady who regarded
sabbath school as something very nearly
menace to religious training. Oddly
enough, it was she who. with a girl
friend founded the first Sunday school in
New England, OF in Maine at least. If
remember Alright, the town was Kenne-
bunk, and the Sunday school was estab-
lished for the beneht Of the children in
the mills. The deacons Of the church
opposed the project bitterly It was re-
hection on the religious conscience of the
community, this intimation that even min
children weren't properly taught the Bible
and the catchism al home They wouldn't
allow the meetings Of the school 10 be