The Washington bee., 1911-03-25
Public Men AndThinUs
(By the Sage OF the Potomac.)

high toned cullod ladies" standing ir
'front.', looking at the latest gowns anc
lingerie. They were deeply interested
IN the same, One spoke to another
IN subdued tones without taking her
Eyes on the dresses, and the other
tetuTned a mOnOsyllabic reply. A
Ihird Shltted her position and took a
sue view. The fourth approached a
little closer and inspected intently a
mite run or tuck in the sleeves, and
quietly remarked how she intended to
remodeI her last summers foulard.
! ana up and down the street rampant
business came and went; hurrying We
hicles, Gathering cars, rapidly talking
! men, corrugated brows, and all the
signs OF an anxious, toiling. money
| getting world. But these women
| were not OF the world. They were
over in the land Of serenity. where
the thoughts roam about like the bio
| bee bumbleth across the clover HOS
som. lheTe was an anxiety in their
hearts. In the twilight of their medi-
| cations over gowns cOntentment. deli
cately punCtured with desire, came
softly as clouds float by. There IS no
such lovely world for men; because
they are not entitled to it. An hour
later | passed the same store and
| those women were still there-win-
| dow shopping. They may make one
or two more window inspections. and
| then they will muster sufficient cour-
| age to enter, and along about the first
| of the month hubble will be awak-
ened, ruthlessly, from his reverie over
a highball with a bill large enough
to eat up his months salary. But 1t
is far better to dress up the wives
and daughters than to buy diamonds
for Tom Allen and automobiles for
Barry, SO let the dear women buy
gowns and lingerie. Let them enjoy
the pride of dress attire.
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Scientists all over the world are
keenly interested in the experiments
which DIR. Houston, Director of
Water Examination of London, is
carrying on with the object of prov
ing that even typhoid bacilli infected
water need have no perils if the stor-
| age accommodations be adequate.
The bold step he took to show his
confidence in the conclusions he form
ed from his laboratory meteorological
tests, of drinking half a pint of water
which contained 2I8,68O,oOo typhoid
baCilli, amazed the medical world
| But "heaVIngs,' that was not such a
trick. have seen a corrugated
stomach gentleman, OF a hue slightly
/ dishgured with about seventeen
eighteenths colored pigments, drink
two trapped sOurs, three Scotch high
balls, two martinies, one Manhattan
and two bottles of Pabst without
| paying for a single one Now there S
record which makes DR.. Houston S
act look like Ewes attire beside a
| tuT-lined overcOat. Why, DR.. Hous-
ton IS but an amateur.
\
It's funny to note the tastes of men
/ for neCktIes. Tastes vary with men.
Now Lincoln Johnson sticks to the
, old black strino tie, and it always
looks as if he was interrupted before
he got it tied, by a fire alarm, and
had to hurry away before he could
finish tying the blamed thing. They
! suit his taste, however, so huff sed.
| Judge Terrell wears anything from
a lemon yellow to an Irish gray. He
wears the big, tat, bargain-counter
| fOur-in-hand ties, and makes no ef-
| tort to match his ties with his socks.
That would not be evidence of Judi
cial mood. DR.. Sumner Wormley is
always attired in a tie that's right
down to the second in style, and of d
color to match his socks and shirt,
and harmonic with his clothes. Ii
is told that while playing billiards
down at Walters one evening he hap
pened to discover that his tie and
socks didn't match, and he threw
down his cue in disgust, went home
and made a change. Walter Pinch
back amt a bit slow when it comes
to ties, and seldom wears the same
tie two successive days. He goes in
for quiet COlOrs, but will occasionally
show a penchant for a bright red.
Lincoln Brown always matches his tie
with his shirt, and he has lot OF
Shirts-all COlOTS of the rainbow. Dr..
Williston usually wears any old color.
| | have seen him with a red shirt and
tan-cOlored tie, and that's pretty
near the limit. You know Doc Is
| color blind when it comes to picking
neCkties and shirts. DR.. WillstOn
never heard of E. Barry Wall and his
| clothes. DR.. Curtis wears either d
cardinal red or a grass green tie
around a collar about six inches high,
front and back Dr. Henry Freeman
usually sports tie to match his auto
mobile-if he thinks of it. Dancy
wears a saImond-colOred four-in-hand
with a dress suit, a Ive-cent black
string tie with a cutaway coat, and a
mixed red, green and white four-in-
hand with white socks. Dancy can
drive you crazy on ties. But Sidney
Pittman is the boy who gives fashion
solar plexus when it comes to ties.
For colors, he makes a Gypsy go
chase himself. He wears ties for
which there is no sale, except 10 him,
outside of Zulu land. | don't know
where he got his taste for ties, but
Landlord use to say it was handed
down from JOcO and Caddo, the
monks, who cruised with old Noah
during his forty days on the water
wagon. Sidney's ties resemble a vio-
| lent form of dementia.
|
Speaking about Pittman, reminds
me that he is the son-in-law of Ger
tain temporary resident Of hamlet
! in Alabama who anesthetizes mil
lionaires in New York as pleasant