The Washington times., 1911-05-25

of duty.
Major Sylvester says that hereafter
1t will cost Washers caught speaking
10 women the maximum penalty Of SIS,
which shows the major is going at the
evil in the right spirit.
The awful -calamities which have re-
suited from fires in institutions for the
insane should result in the immediate
correction of the inadequate protection
now given the lives of inmates of the
Government Hospital.
A bricklayer who was at work on the
new Ivy City school building fell TWEEN
ty-five feet and sustained a laceration
Of the scalp. If he keeps on taking
long chances like this he is liable to
break some of his legs.
The dramatic club of the Business
IIigh School has been presenting The
Return of Ulysses" The news Of his re-
dnrn is gratifying to his old friends. who
had begun to fear that he was caught
in the November landslide.
Hints for the Health Officer: Violet
Purcell, 1872 K street southwest: Nettie
Baker, 1917 Twenty-third street north
west and Beulah Thomas, 2456 Snow
court were bitten by dogs Tuesday
evening. How about those muzzles?
Z Vice President Sherman has been pre-
scented with a set Of automobile Blue
Books, showing the best routes to travel
throughout the United States. PRESUME
ably there are marginal notes indicat-
ing the best field fer political mission
ary work along the way.
The former president of the National
Civil Service Improvement Association
has announced his intention to reorgan-
he that moribund organization. What
is the use when there is already COM
potent organization working for the bet
terment of the civil service employees?
Why duplicate?
Time does hang rather heavily on the
hands of the soldiers on the Mexican
border, at times, and there should be
a generous response to the appeal OF
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, of the Amerf-
can Red Cross. for old magazines and
other periodicals to help them drive
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The snow bill has passed the Senate.
UNLESS the House gets cold feet the
measure will soon become law. Wheth-
er 1t is enacted or not the bill will have
at least performed the useful service Of
suggesting cooling thoughts at time
when 1t is difficult to imagine that there
is ever any winter weather in Wash
ington.
Social workers of the District will find
q friend in Senator Works, the new
Republican progressive from Cali
fornia, who has been given a place on
8, the Senate District Committee. Sena-
tor Works announces that he is study
ing housing conditions in Washington,
with a view of using his efforts to i'm
prove them. AS president of the city
council, Senator Works was instrumen-
tai in bringing about marked improve
ment in housing conditions in Los
Angeles.
The rapidly with which Japan has
been Americanized finds apt iIlustra.
ton in the fact that a baseball team
OF Nipponese is now touring the United
States-and winning most of its games
IL Will meet the Blue and Gray team
on Georgetown Field tomorrow after
noon. and the sporting department
dope" is that the Hilltop lads will have
to hustle TO teach any diamond trick!
to the boys from the Orient, who art
reported to have done in baseball wha
the nation is famous for doing il
everything else-copied somebody's in
! vention and produced a better article
than the original 49,
Senator Gallinger.s bill requiring
health and accident insurance com
panies in the District to maintain 9
guarantee fund of at least $25.0OO is II
line with the modern requirements o.
most of the States. Experience hal
taught that efforts to operate com
panies OF this character without thu