The Washington herald., 1913-03-03
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By FRED G. KELLY.

DIR. Harvey W. Wiley. the pure food
expert, has found way by which he
can colaborate with the parcel post to
solve certain perplexities Of one-nisht
stands, and to keep in better touch with
the home folks.
Wiley usually is away from home for
six weeks at a stretch, and does not stop
at any one place long enough to get any
laundry done Now he has a great
scheme. He sets out with a six weeks
supply or collars and shirts in his grip.
As rapidly as he wears these he flrss
them home "a parcel post, to be re-
juvenated. This not only saves Juggling
them about. but saves buying souvenir
cards on which to write home.
Every day or so the postman carries
to the doctors wife and young son .
token much more intimate than any SOU
venir card showing the city hall or
union station in a distant city could pos
sibly be. 1t may be a pink shirt he
wore at Duluth, cor full dress shirt
that he had on when he brought 'em to
their feet In Sioux City.
Sometimes the bundle contains little
but collars. One Of these may have some
little sentiment scrawled on 1t. such as:
"Deucedly dull town here" "Ate q
quantity of benZoate Of soda at a home
here this evening rather than make
scene" or Nearly every chicken ons
sees here has been in cold storage at
some time"
The personal element about this form
OF greeting is the thing that counts. II
the morning mail brings a striped blue
shirt and a note penciled on the bosom
saying. please mend this where its
torn" 1t is almost IL the sender wee
right at home. With a husband away
lecturing. and not even his laundry con-
ing home on Thursday to be put away in
the chiHonier drawer. there is a gap In
the household that no picture postal. 10
matter how ornate. can fill. But cor
slider the Joy of a wife who can go to
the mail box and pick up a shirt Con-
tanning wrinkles in the sleeves form ed
by her husbands familiar gestures, and
see with her own eyes a wilted collar
that he has tuGged at and sworn at only
a night or two previous,
Also. DR.. Wiley says, there is great Joy
to be derived from seeing ones hand
baggage growing less burdensome Hay
by day.
John II. Patterson, the multi-miIlion-
aire cash register manufacturer, OF Day
ton. Ohio. who has been sentenced to a
year III jail,
He will never be content in a Jail His
soul Graves that which Is slightly and
suggestive of thrift. In driving in his
automobile, from the Dayton business
center out a mile or so TO his imr1ense
cash register plant he noticed that
number of houses along the street were
unpainted. These comprised sour note.
He wished he might so back and forth
to his business with everything in sight
looking spick and span and attractive.
In a day or two Patterson had a rep
resentative call on the people whose
homes were unpainted and ascertain il
they could afford to have them painted
The agent also sounded them out to
learn II they would be offended II Pat
terson had their houses painted for them
The result was that practically every
home in that stretch of mile or so Is
now neatly painted, many of them at
John II. Pattcrson's expense.
The two men who will represent West
Virginia in the Senate after March 4
figure in a funny little prank played by
Time in its celebrated and ceaseless on
ward fight.
4 few years ago Senator William F..
Chiffon was a page boy in the United
States Federal court. Judge Nathan
b GOff. who now becomes the junior
was the district attorney Con-
often paused to pat little Chiffon on the
head and wish him well. and they be-
came great friends. II anybody had told
Chiffon right then that some fine day
he would be the senior Senator from
West Virginia. escorting the learned GOff
down the aisle to receive the oath as
junior Senator-if anybody had told him
that with serious face, ne would
have run home to his mother screaming
about the crazy man that tried TO talk
To him.
1t is to be noted that Senator COTS
name is Nathan B.. the same as former
Senator Scott. who would have liked ii
come back.
Representative George Loud OF Michi-
gan. who can recite North Woods
French dialect stuff in a way that II
worth hearing. was defeated at the last
election. But if he had numbered just
1 few more people among his constitu-
,nts like one Ferguson with whom fTs
was associated in the lumber camps
rears ago. things might have been dif-
'erent.
Ferguson was and is a Swede. Brief
Y. this is what happened, shortly after
he came to this country and went to
umbering: He was driving team of
ken out to the camp through the mud,
md stopped at farm house to inquire
he way. A little farther along the oxen
,egan TO plunge about, and he went to
heir heads. In the excitement they
and he never knew it.
When he came to the same farm house
where he had stopped a short time be-
ore. Ferguson remarked to himself:
Huh, all the houses on this road ara
like
Foolishly. he told the story to Loud
when he got to camp
Then he promised Loud he would dd
.nything in the world for him If only
ic would refrain from telling the joks
o the other lumberjacks. Loud didn't
ell. And when. years later. Loud began
o run for Congress, Ferguson always
ropped everything to help along hiI
few more workers liks
i'm would have kept Loud in Congress
orever
Copyright 1918. by Fred c. Kelly. All rights ~
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