The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-06-07
VIEWS OF THE
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
ON THE FRAILTIEs OF HER SEX.

The man who had the seat next hers
Why when she moved her bead
She saved along his shaver cheek
scratch that showed blood red.
The woman on the other side.
With anger she turned pale
When she perceived her neighbor had
Made tatters q a veil.
She left the car. that girl. and scratched
The varnish Of the door.
And lace cTavats and fraly-dals
On ev'ry side She tore.
But nsught cared she Why should she stop
Fer little things Ike thati
She tripTed Of Hnilingly Fayly II
Her Merry Widow bat
Church Entrances ut Fault.
II was the most beautiful afternoon OF
the whole year when I passed a pictur-
esque church in one OF the lesser streets
The church is bull: with two entrances.
50 arranged that from the one the other
can't be seen. Close against the door n
the first entrance I came to were two
girls. One Of them was a lit.'e pale and
seer7ed 20 be relying for encouragement
on the other. They peerod eagerly down
the street. and the pale sill flushed a lit
tie every time a cab came in sight, and
paled again as Il drove on. I stared as
long as 7 dared and walked on On the
steps Of the other entrance were Two
young men. obviously perturbed. They.
too. kept peering along the street, bur Up
instead OF down. and one Of lhem held
his watch in his hand. They were unmis-
takably anxious about something. ari &.
didn't occur, TO me till I was a block
away what the something might be. I
wished then I'd told them the girls were
az the other door. Somebody must have
mixed things. Churches oughtnt 10 have
doors put in that way I hope II all came
out right 1 walked for half mile with
the Junest feeling you can imagine, sure
that the clergyman must come out soon
and straighten out the mistake.
Takes the Place of n Pig.
There seems to be a general belief that
you can easily manage to live hundred
years II you'l only drink enough sour
milk; though why any one should care to
live with a diet like that embittering one
three times a day I can't understand.
People who a year ago were carrying
medicine bottles TO the table with them
at home and tablets when they dined or.
are now talking OF nothing but the Won
ders sour milk and buttermllk and the
kinds that come in bottles have done for
them. There's Mr.. Dash, for example.
who told me last Tuesday that he expects
to stick to buttermilk all summer I for
got to ask him where he intended to stay
while he was doing the sticking. but |
found out a little later when I met Mrs.
Blank in market She positively shifted
at the butter in the very incest STALL
You don't know what a difference Il
makes when you have homemade but
ter" she said. Since we've been living
out in Maryland we've had our own COW.
We make all our own butter and have
plenty OF milk for everything Why, last
year we fattened a splendid pig just on
buttermilk."
And have you a pig this Year," !
asked politely.
"Oh, not" she said. We're not going
to have a pig this year. We don't need
one. Mr. Dash is going to stay with us. %
Not Worried About the ship.
I've always heard that seasickness
makes people so depressed in spirit that
they really don't care what happens. %
says q woman I know I've heard Il.
and now 1 believe it, Rhodora and ]
came UP from New Orleans two weeks
ago by sea. The first four days the sea
was as smooth as the Potomac and hot.
Everybody went around Dragging about
being a good sailor. Rhodora said It was
no more unsettling than trip to Mar
shall Hall Some time in the next night
the ship began to toss bit. Rhodora said
the feeling was exhilarating This was
before breakfast Down In the dining sa-
loon at breakfast heard her say quite
suddenly to the waiter:
Take these scrambled eggs away; ]
don't like the color of them
THE ship lurched fearfully just then,
and Rhodora fairly flew back to the state
room. When I went up she was In her
berth. and asked me please to go away
and let her sleep. II really was heavy
sea we had all day, and Rhodora didn't
eat-quite the contrary, may say Still.
didn't suppose her spirits were much
depressed. 1t must have been about 3
next morning when dreamed that a sur
geon had me laid out ready to remove
some OF my works. / heard him say
choloroform was too expensive these hard
times, so he began to dilute 1t with ben
zine. That didn't work we'll so he dump
cd lot of Jumps Of calcium carbide on