Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

themselves during the summer by shoot
ing at target In their frantic effort TO
escape the warm weather by excitement
1t is not recorded that one of them left
the shooting gallery in sweet frame OF
mind.
Thus it is also with the motor boatisfs.
You start out with the best intentions in
the world and enough gasoline to carry
YOU over four ordinary trips. Then your
engine goes wrong This is assuming
may make your trip and get away with
it. Several hundred odd motor boatists
have attempted il and their stories vary.
even as the debates in the Ta!mud.
miles down the river. catch an approx
mate hundred fish--his own approxima-
tion-and return with glorious accounts
of his voyage.
deceived into buying a disused cotton
gin secreted In tub which blew up
sorrowfully just he got outside of
land. There is no matching of the incl
dents. One can only quote them.
The man who was successful says:
Yes, we ran down the river about
twenty miles or so and then we struck
place where the perch We're biting. We
stuck along there and caught forty or
fifty. but the game got rather slow and
we decided to pass it up We ran down
another ten miles and caught thirty
more fish. Then We returned to Wash
lngtOn In good time.
The other says:
I'VE started out in something that had
been wished on us and over which We
had no control. The part of the
machinery which was supposed to run
the boat-and which reminded me Of a
glue factory gone to seed-delivered itself
10 the river after We got outside of land.
Then We started to row. A wind blew
up and. as we did not seem to get any
where by rowing. some fool hoisted a
In2f finished
you never can convince me that she
wasn't one-rolled over on her side and
dumped us all into the river. How we
got out L don't know. It seemed to be
purely Providence Anyhow we landed
and with thankful hearts ate cantaloupe
and bacon offered US by a negro man
who happened to be around
Judge for yourself who lodged the
warm weather better. Was 1t the mar
who fished all day was it the mar
who. with leaky motor boat wa:
caught In storm and subsisted on canta
lOupe and bacon?
NO less than week ago party O
congressman. roaming out of the Hous,
OF Representatives. decided to visit al
amusement park. They missed nothing
A red-faced congressman from the mid
die western district proudly announced
that he had done the ferris wheel three
times and was going to do it again.
Two other members with him stated tina
they had gone on the merry-go-round
until they were weary of the game ant
were ready to quit. Thus 1t was witt
the entire party. They had earnestl,
sought recreation and had found it not
something about the razzle- dazzle
hurry-scurry of the merry-go-roun
seems to appeal to all who visit i,
hn koI hnn
touch with many resorts:
You should take the children O
the. carrousel"
To which her neighbor replied:
Not only the children. I will e
there myself Every time that thin
takes lurch I can feel myself gettin
ten degrees cooler
That is the way I feel" admitte
the first neighbor, shamefacedly.
Lets go tOgether-with the children,
suggested the second in a tone Of on
inaugurating a great enterprise.
Thus 1t was carried out and thus /
was that two elderlN women with thei
children swarmed upon a local parl
and took the manager by storm
Theydodged the heat and in a simpl
way. too.
The philosopher could never under
standby what process Of reasoning
he is beating the heat by standing u
in his shirt sleeves and yelling. AS
matter of fact the base ball fan doe
not seem to consider it, either. Da
after day he will go forth to the par
and drink lemon pop and ginger ale.
Yet the fans do not seem to suffe,
On the contrary. they seem to thrfv,
Weather of which they would com
plain outside they welcome within tn
3 ball park on the vague theory tina
it greases up the pitchers arm.
The Seeker After Information aske
a wise friend what was the cause @
i. this delusion.
5 "It isn't delusion," replied the wis
: friend, Indignantly. IT'S a cold an
: sober fact. We fans found out lon
: ago that yelling never hurt anybod,
: and we propose to yell to the end G
: the chapter
Numerous Washington families ha,
attempted to escape warm evenings b
3 retiring to the roof or the sleepin
r porch. Throughout the northwest SCI
ton OF the city there are many apar
q menf houses whose nrnudest boast