The Washington times., 1911-03-20

nf The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month Of February was as follows:
February 5.......t6 l76lFeurbray ls...... 46.!2i
February 7.1Jl February 26....... As, 2O9
Total for month h.........................lS $3.50
Sunday average for month..............469I7
me net total circulation OF The Washington
Times Sunday during the month Of Feb
ruarN 1891. a copies left over and
returned by agents being eliminated. This
number, when div ided by 4, the number OF
SUNDAYS during February. shows the net
Sunday average for February to have been
q 90
In each issue OF The Times the circulation
figures for the prev ious day plainly
printed Al tine head OF the first page at the
left of the date line.
Entered at tho Fostoffice at Washington
D. c. as second class matter.
"The" Cannon will be unmuzzled
Apr.l :
Tramp, tramp. tramp. the boys are
marching"
After an extended visit in our midst,
LICK Balingcr will return to Seattle
this week.
SNecthearts of the Fort Myer soldiers,
exactly what Sherman said it was.
Is it a part of the 'testimonial' that
Herr Heinrich Hammer is to be per-
nitted to hear some OF his own music?
President Taft has never made
dash up Kettle Hill, but he has ven
tured to come home on the Southern
railroad.
Walter Johnson ought to he drafted
hy the Mexican insurgents as a last
ditch He would be able to hold out
until the last armed foe expired.
our distinguished ferow-townsman
George Won Lengerke Meyer. who has
been 'maneuvering" ur in Boston re-
Gently, returned to the city today.
Judge Adamson wants to know whose
business It is how a corporation raises
its money. That's another way of say
ing Mr.. Vanderbilt's famous motto.
The fact that Canadian reciprocity won
out i'm the moot court of the National
Law School is no reason why it isn't
n pretty good measure just the same.
There is a pretty general notion that
tC he enlarged so that Bill Schlcy How
ard will lave room in which to laugh.
The proposed system Of mailing let
ters on Washington street cars will
Icip break up the Podunk habit of try
ing TO post them in the fire alarm boxes
The three madmen who escaped from
ST. Elizabeth's aren't half so mad as
are the residents of Congress Heights
that So many are allowed to escape
periodically from that institution.
William Warner Bishop, of the Con-
grcssional Library, knows a lot about
the methods Of reproducing old MSS.
But what this weary world wants is
method of killing off the new ones.
Jack O'Neill has been given a new
gold watch for his services in securing
a day off for the mail carriers. He
wore out the other one trying to find
out when it was time to quit work.
1t Is hoped that all the Congressional
raw material which stands any chance
Cf getting on the District Committee
will attend the forthcoming Weaver
NNinsIow kindergarten on vocational
training
When the great dramatist placed
Patience on a monument he had not
seen those lonG-suffering decoys who
wait for bronchitis or recruits on the
rubber-neCk wagon at Fourteenth and
the Avenue.
Mr.. D. J. Kaufman shows a good yeasty
spirit when ii comes to raising that
George Washington memorial fund
With due apologies to the mixed meta
phor, now let the forty-niners dig I'D
the rest of the dust.
Tetrazzini objects to female suffrage
on the ground that only handsome men
would be elected to office. and that the
Rresident would necessarily be the best
looking man in the country. This would
bar the candidacy of several Democratic
aspirantS.
Superintendent Stuart says that
there is more of politeness. good man
ners, and discipline in the Washing
ton schools than in any other city he
knows Of Courtesy and consideration
arc often wrongfully associated with
effeminacy. Chesterfield was no mol
lycoddle.
Prof. Henry Oldys, of the Bureau of
Biological Survey, is uncertain wheth-
er birds are polygamous or keep one
mate for life. This is rather a danger
Gus topic, since the only bird which
IS known to be content with one wife
is the ostrich.
The names of George Washington
and a member of the Lee family ap-
pear on an old ledger and day book
which will be on exhibition at the
Washington Club. One of the side
lights they throw on the old days is
that tie accounts are paid.
The plan OF Mrs MediIl Mccormick 10
provide for the working girls of Wash
ington homelike and comfortable livihs
surroundings at moderate cost is an
other example Of how rich women are