The Washington times., 1911-10-17
TUESDAY. OCTOBER II, 1911.


TUESDAY. OCTOBER II. 1911.
Is II a mere coincidence that F. w.
rlusse is secretary of the Washington
The announcement that the price of
tea is in danger Of being advanced is
less alarming than the probable fluctu-
ations Of toast.
There are cynics who wonder why one
lunatic moro or less, running at largo
in the streets. should have caused SO
much excitement.
Commissioner Judson no doubt brought
some valuable observations from Toledo,
where he went to inspect the system of
garbage reduction.
A couple Of offenders are being held
under thousand-dollar bond for en-
fering saloon after hours. The pro-
prietor was asleep in bed at the time
The Street Cleaning Department.
when 1t gets through at night with
thedead leaves. feels that 1t would be Just
as we'll satisfied II all the NAPLES were
evergreens.
The report on the wool schedule which
will soon be made. will come at a time
when the weather seems little more
appropriate than II was WREN the de-
bates were going on.
The new biplane invented by DR.. WILL
lam w. Chi istmas Is of u unique type,
and yet highly successful. Thete will
coon be as many kirds of aeroplanss
as there are Of automobiles.
The Retail Merchants Association
banquet has been changed tc a "get
together" dinner for all merchants. The
plans as announced today give prom
ise Of a great gathering.
There are still quite O number of faces
missing from the Avenue coincident
with the great championship series of
games. but there are enough stay at
homes 70 conduct business.
woman's hair is her crown of glory,
and the man who goes about snip
ping Off the braids of young girls should
get all that is coming to him.
Washingtons postal savings bank is
growing in popularity and the indica-
tions are. according to Postmaster Mer-
ritt. that the deposits will amount to
half a million dollars by the end of the
Wear.
Five hundred dollars Is to revert to
the Treasury because 1t is not enough
to do much In the way of exterminating
rats. Evidently we shall have to sit
down patiently and wait for a Pied
Piper.
w. r. Smith. Of the Botanic Gardens
--the old friend whom Harry Lauder
hastered to visit--who Is now in his
eighty-third year. has a collection of
the editions Of Robert Burns which is
conceded to be one Of the finest in the
country.
The deposits at the Business High
School Bank already amount to a
thousand dollars, and business is I'M
froving every day. What is more. the
students are learning some valuab BILE
lessons in practical business.
the Soldiers Home there passed one
CT the few remaining veterans of the
Mexican war. and a member of the
famed Mounted Rifles" that wrought
havoc with the Mexican forces.
A horse fell dead at the sight of an
aeroplane at Lakewood. N. j., yester-
day. and a Washington nightliner's s
faithful steed looked at a woman in a
harem skirt and died. And yet they
speak OF ''horse sense"
That girl who accused a friend of de-
lugtng her hat with a basin of water
might have persuaded the Judge to
mete worse punishment to the offender
II she had proved that It was her new
fall bonnet.
AT the Franklin Nisht School. where
CLASSES are conducted for the children
or foreign parents, one may get a
pretty good line on the cosmopolitan
nature of Washingtons population,
There are few nationalities which are
not represented.
The food inspectors of the District