Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26

es wide, and at the popular size sixteen
inches long, not measuring to fractions
This gives an area of ffty-slX square
inches per collar. and this amount multi
piled by 100000 and one pencil gives
some 272,OOO square feet. This is some
what more than three and one-half acres
of ground, which means that the capltai
collars and collarettes would cover the
great Capitol building with ease and leave
enough to make a canopy from the '"es'
front to point 1000 feet away, COW
ering under which the legislators ana
visitors could march to be twelve Iee'
wide and parti-colored.
Taking a sixty-foot street like F. these
collars would cover it's surface for dls-
tance of some 400 feet or more than
enough to clothe it from the treasury u
9TH street, with some left over 10 moe
the baroness of G street, ltS close coHi-
panion in many ways.
Cut the collars into strips one inch ana
one-sixth wide and stretch TINS pfouucl
out end to end, and the rope thus con-
structed would reach from washington
to Cumberland Md. which is about 500 :
OGO lineal feet distant. rms rope couiu
be turned on occasions into sort VI
trapeze for English sparrows or mlgh'
be used by train robbers v'lo 90 not III,
fest the region to tie up several .,ious o,.ar
express messengers who don't run over
the railroads that go to the Maryland
city.
$4,000 Pairs of Cuffs.
Cuffs come third in the list OF those per-
sonal things which must be laundered
even in the summer months, Wheh NOS
men prefer to turn such hot and seeming
ly superfluous articles back upon Inc
sleeves. There are. according to the estl-
majors, Just about $1,000 pairs or Guns
attended to in the Washington laundries
each week This is bad enough, showing
that a small percentage of the city's male
population uses such articles at all.
Computed an average laundry, or. If
you prefer it. figured up at the average or
4 cents per pair. the cum Dill OF the cry
amounts to $4,000 per week, or more
than enough to buy three Easter oonnets.
Taking each cuff to measure about ten
and one-half inches by three inches, II
will be seen at once that IN each one
there are thirty-one and one-half square
inches. or in $4,000 pairs there are over
10000 square feet.
While compared to the area Of the
shirts or sleeves this is comparatively
small, still the things the cuffs would
cover are not small at all. The area or
the White House. according to figures
given in all good and intelligent guide
books. is about 14,too square feet This
would mean that on occasion or storm
there could be placed over the mansion or
the chief executive a mantle of cuffs
donated by patriotic citizens. In cases
of great stress this mantle could be re-
newed once and there would be almost
enough left to go over the same ground
third time, only a small border being left
unprotected on this third and last Occa-
sion.
The east room. where all the big re-
ceptions are held. is only eighty-four by
forty feet so that the area of Washing
tons cuffs is just about twelve times that
of this famous chamber of state. Enough
cuffs would likely be left over to do
the portraits of our twentyfour former
Presidents in cloth, so that the room