Evening star., 1912-02-25

else from a branch of the United States
Post Office Department to fifteen-thou-
sand-dollar fountain for the dispensing of
ice cream drinks. 1 believe the drug store
is getting to be the most important es-
tablishment in the city because it is the
one which fills more varied wants. In
this store, for instance, man can send
off an express package, buy postal
money order. puS paper and envelopes
write a letter and mail 1t. He can stay
here and telephone to any city in the
United States. He can buy razor,
shaving soap and brush, and mirror,
too. I'm running a sale on French china
ware this week, too. He can get all kinds
of candy for his best girl, and can leave
an order here for roses for her, and for
the laundryman to call for his collars III
he's reading man.. run a circulating
Ilbrary and sell him magazines and
newspapers. If he wants paper napkins.
/ have 'em by the bale. There is scarcely
any little need that isn't to be filled in
drug store these days.
Drugs? Yes we could sell him some.
But we don't sell many. People don l
take medicine any more. They are too
sensible. They live out of doors and the
health fad movements have done a lot
for the drugged systems of the old timers
l remember one Sunday when l closed
my store, all except the drug end or
it, on account of funeral. We did less
than one-thrd of the business we gen.
orally do, and of that the bulk was for
We'll known proprietary AieuiSiie1'
When it comes down to the old time
prescription filing, l figure that is less
than one-tenth of the drug store busl-
ness of today.
The marvellous FourYear-Old had just
come home from Sunday school.
What did you learn?" asked one of
the family.
I'VE learned where the Lord SAT.
Let's haYe a light, and they struck "a
light" replied the child.
X.
The band of Australian boys who vis-
tied Washington the last week made a
decided impression here because of their
brightness and their natural boyishness.
The boys ranged in age from ten to nine
teen years, and all of them spoke with
a decided British accent, somewhat modi-
fed by the distance of Australia from
old England. Lieut.. ]. j. Simons of the
department of education of Australia, in
charge of the boys. said that since the
party had been in America he had again
and again been asked II the boys cou:d
speak English.
"A school teacher out in Kansas" said
Lieut.. Simons, "asked if there We're any
boys in the party who spoke English
well enough for his pupils to converse
with"
When the boys We're the guests of the
| chamber of commerce at luncheon, 'One
| of the boys was overheard asking another
! what he was eating, referring to a cup
| of Roman punch
! II don't know, I'm sure" answered the
| little fellow, who was not more than ten
years old. but it tastes to me like eau
, de cologne.
washington street car conductors, like
conductors everywhere else, hear ana
| see great deal more than they ever tell.
| Luckily for many of them, they have &C
quired the habit of appreciating the hu-
NOR in things, otherwise their lives would
| be made unbearabie by petty annoyances
!! that would drive any one else desperate.
j. Since the street car companies installed
the new type of cars with the high STEP
to the Inconvenience OF woman pasSen-
gers and the short, fat man, the lives OF
| the conductors have been made nlisera-
BILE by suggestions which usually so
| into one ear and out the other.
| They look for complaints because
lthey know they are coming, but the otner
fday one of the conductors had an en-
tirely new experience, and 1t was causedI
| by one of the active women who are'
pushing the campaign in favor of the low
step.
| 1t was during the rush hours, when
fevery. one was in hurry, and the car
| was already behind time, while a small
| crowd of impatient persons was waiting
/ on the next corner The car had stopped
| to take on some passengers, and the last
! in the line, a woman, seemed to hesitate
as though she was undecided to get on
or not The conductor waited with hand
on the bell cord. wait minute, the
woman asked. pleadingiy, and. as the car
/ remained standing. she quickly took out
la carpenters measure from the folds of
)her dress, stopped down and calmly
measured the height of the car step. to
the Indignation of the conductor ana the
| anna cement of the passengers.
! Eighteen inches,'' she said, triumph
antly. holding up her rule to the con-
ductor so every one could see IT, And
the conductor gave a short gasp and a
1 vicious ..go ahead to his, bell cord.
/ well, / never!' he said. Il wonder
what they'll be doing next
] Insult tn Iniurv