Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

that makes life desirable in Athens?"
Precisely does one who has taken
root here feel about his beloved Wash
| ington. for Washington, like Paris, is
| more than a lovely city: it is a city be-
loved as a beautiful, tender friend is
| loved. and that in truth is Washington
| "a friendly city.
Washington is often compared to
Paris because the streets are broad and
green and gay and the buildings orna-
MENTAL pretty park with some nice
houses houses in IN IT, one Englishman de-
like Paris in that Ms a city with a
soul and a charming disposition
Emerging from the Union station,
there she lies. voluptuously. a gentle
figure, wrapped in a seductive bluey
mist; the Capitol is near. the Monu-
ment off in the distance well defined.
but the monuments of history do not
Gike Bunker Hill monument for in
stance1 prod one painfully to be
| with the sheer delight of being in
Washington, for from every point, at
every turn, in every mood the city
smiles. EMBEDDING all comers-rich,
poor. simple. learned, black, white
enfolding them all warmly to her heart
That is why Washington is the queen
of health resorts.
Washington is rest cure.
Washington is nerve cure
Washington is a wonderful treatment
for chronic grouches.
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To be sure when the man from New
/ York comes into town full of Holsters,
and in heavy clothing tears about in
summer time with the one idea of
getting ahead of the game. Washing
ton does not agree with him; but as
he stays here, little by little he changes
his ideas, his habits and his clothes.
Finally he goes to work in white
linen as gayly as though he were going
to a lawn party; he walks slowly along
the shady side of the street; by and
by his spirit plays as joyfully in the
heat waves as, up north. people sport
in the ocean, he likes to see the SHIN
mer of it, and oh, the luxury of it, he
feels laZy-lazy with a clear con-
science! Then on the bouyancy of this
sensation he rises to his tasks and he
is often surprised to see what work he
is able to accomplish in summertime
After working not more than eight
hours-nobody works long hours in
likes, and all over Washington there
is park just across the street, if not
next door. Friends he never saw be-
fore are there full of welcome for him
friends from Kalamazoo. Kamchatka,
or his own Podunk, perhaps, and
every one glad to see him.
Children, as thick as squirrels in the
parks, are Just as tame and pretty;
they have such absolute confidence in
ones liking for them that nothing
they do is annoying. In any case one
will have to get used to them, for I'M
assailable evidence of the healthfuI-
ness of Washington is the numbers of
well dressed, hearty, happy children
that run and play and laugh all over
town.
Out in the big and beautiful Rock
Creek Park it is hard to believe one is
in the United States. for here families
are taking their dinner on the grass,
the grown-ups as cheerful and playful
as the children. Down on the speed
way in the evening a wonderful pic
ture-the green. the trees, the vapory
Virginia hills. the river. the basin. the
reflected light in the water, the swift
moving motors, the comfortable, easy
going, gay humanity-again 1t is hard
to believe one is in the America of
smelling pots and factories and prob
lens and pain. But this is Washing
ton.
dime, one may take car rides through
scenery which the foreigner who
spends a summer here never ceases to
praise Former Ambassador Bryce
wrote book on the beauty OF WASH
ington with never a complaint against
the climate.
Ambassador Jusserand may one day
do the same. for he and Nine. JUS
serand and the entire embassy staff
have spent the whole summer here
At the end, the young baby of Nine. de
Laboulaye, strong and bright, contin-
ues to take it's daily airing in Rock
Creek Park-grateful. no doubt if it
would speak for publication, that it's
young life has been spared the trials
of Massachusetts mosquitoes at Man
chester by-t he-Sea.
There is only one thing to be taken
into consideration in publishing to the
world the joys of life in Washington
winter and summer. Spring and fall;
and that is that achieving its just fame
as a health resort, too many grouches
may be brought here for treatment,
and, overrunning the town, do what
foreign immigration has done to some
of our commercial cities; there is, for
instance, Revolutionary Boston chok-
ing down a population three fifths for
eign, and Minneapolis the third largest
Scandinavian city in the world.
Cheek.