The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-10

with general approval. There may
be slight difference of opinion as to
minor details but the present indica-
lions are that resolution submitting
such a proposal to the states for rati-
lication will be adopted. Just why the
date of March fourth was ever agreed
on by the fathers is beyond compre-
hension. 1t is the exact center OF the
era of the vilest weather Of the year
in Washington and the chances are as
ten to one that hopelessly impossible
weather will prevail on that date.
= With this is also proposed a change
in the biennial election date, from NO
yember to April or Whereabouts. The
principal reason and an unanswerable
one why this change should be made
is to permit newly chosen congress
to convene in December, instead OF
allowing the old one which the coun-
try may have repudiated to hold a
session when many of its members
have already been defeated There
can be no possible justification for
the present arrangement of dates
which allows or compels a defeated
congress to go on and do business,
and does not permit a new congress
to get down to business and execute
the public will for year and month
after il is chosen. This would have
been the situation this year, had not
the extra session brought the new
congress to the front eight months be-
fore il was due under the constitu-
! ton
AS Washington is by far the most
beautiful city on this continent and
probably in the world, 1t is also GER
tainly the most enjoyable in May and
June Many include the entire sum
mer, but there are those who believe
that July and August contain a little
too much of a good thing in the way
of heat. And yet, any weather is
bearable here, if one is not compelled
to exercise vigorously in the sun. Dur
, ing the summer and in fact as soon as
| the weather will allow in the spring
and until after frost comes, Washing
tom lives almost wholly out OF doors
AS soon as the six o'clock dinner is
out OF the way the family gets out and
remains out until bedtime calls them
in. Thousands of families, even, ar
range to sleep in cots and hammocks
on the back verandah or in the back
yard under only a roof. Ladies go fol
months without any more head GOV
ering than an occasional opera scarf
and a hat for wear around town FOL
business or pleasure, or even tC
church, is unthought of.
| al, oil hn HnaC
from end to end of the city and in the
warm weather many of them long dis
tances into the country. Every warn
summer evening sees the family boarc
Ian open car and whirl off ten or fifteer
miles into the country over in Mary
land or Virginia to some pleasure re
sort in the suburbs, where an hour Ii
spent most enjoyably to all concern
ed. Many of these resorts are patron
lied almost exclusively at night. Sew
eral acres of woodland are ablaze will
arc lights, and open air theatres, NOV
ing pictures, merry-go-rounds, shoe
the chutes, dancing pavilions an'
candy, soda and ice cream bazaars d.
rushing business from late after
noon to midnight. After a day o
enforced seclusion inside swift rid
of twenty miles and back through tn
cool fresh air on an open car goin
mile in two minutes fills the lung
and whole system with the best toni
in the world, and compels night
rest worth having.
1t must be understood that trolle
lines, properly speaking, are not pc
: mitted in, the city where there ar
paved streets. Instead the city line
have the third rail system, an arr
from the bottom of the car followin
a slot midway between the two rail
e Unless one gets out into the unpave
: section of the city, a pole or wire
e never seen. The absence Of this hi
g eous and obnoxious litter of wires an
L poles is one of the principal reason
= for the beauty and neatness Of Il
: city streets When a car reaches Il
4 extension of it's line into the COUNT
c shift is made TO the trolley syste
! by disconnecting the under arm ar
connecting the arm from the top
| the car to the overhead wire.
/ AS | write, four parties OF two eaC
, among the boarders at the house al
! just coming in to dinner from a who
e day spent in the country. Two hay
; been down the Potomac past Moul
Vernon, two have been up the riv'
g to Great Falls, two have been over
l Fairfax courthouse, thirty miles in
e Virginia by trolley, and the four
:. party has put in the day at Annapoli
}. This latter is trolley ride Of abol
e two hours, and is delightful tri
: And of such is Washington Su
Z day What! Did l say Sunday? We
y never mind 1t is too late to tai
q it back. Now I'll go out and mail thi
l and then jump on a car and skip ov
e to Georgetown and back to rest II
5 head and get breath of air.
e J. Il. Harris.