The Washington herald., 1917-08-14
May VIII Meet November.

While some industrious women are
taking mems places In the business
world, others are taking mems places
as vagrants and being sent to Deco
quan. More female loafers have been
sent to the workhouse during the
past month than in any previous
month for a long time back. May
Hudson is the latest recruit from the
ranks of the Lady Weary Willies."
She hung around Four-and-a-Half
street and the Avenue, blocking traf-
fic and stumbling into policemen. But
she managed to eat and sleep, a thing
which is done only with difficulty
by people who actually work. May
refused advice from several police
men about getting a Job, and Judge
Pugh decided to send her where he
was absolutely certain that she would
work II she expected to eat. Ninety
days for May in August.
Another Reckless Man.
A three-handed crap game Saturday
night on Third street southwest al
most resulted in a scandal. Joe Pat
ten, Eugene Hicks and another man
who either didn't have a name or he
lost 1t in the game, were squatted
on the floor with a lamp in the mid
die, about 10 o'clock or 50. Joe was
winning and he wasn't watching to
see what the others were doing be-
cause they were such poor hands at
the game. One Of them blew out the
light, seized the pot" and ran. A
cop caught Joe and Hicks, but the
nameless one disappeared with s112
and .Joe's coat with his market
money.
He and Hicks put up IS bill for
fines, but that lost coat contained
some letters" which Joe said he
didn't want anyone to see. not even
his wife. Wonder what they were?
He Deserved 1t.
Harry Thomas got "sick" Saturday
night and his wife decided to 60 to
market alone. The minute she got
her head out of the house Harry got
''welP and dressed himself All the
time he was under the impression
that his wife was going to the Center
Market. when she really was going to
the o Street Market
AS wifey was going the rounds of
the o Street Market a friend walked
up and said, "Ah jest saw your hus-
band and he's lookin' fine." Wifey al
most fell through the concrete side
walk. Right away she hunted for
Harry, and when she found him he
was a few doors above the market
standing with some other men and
women. She listened for a while and
she heard enough to take Harry by
the neck and blacken his eye. This
was the first time that she ever sus-
pected him OF duplicity and the court
took her personal bonds not to bruise
her husband anymore.
Why Preachers Leave Home.
Church at II O'Clock, a fuss at noon
and in Jail at / o'clock is the record
Of Hattie Miller. And she went to
Jail in the same clothes that she wore
to church. When Hattie left the
church door she put her religion in
her pocket and went by a neighbor's s
house and asked for a certain young
man she knew roomed there.
The neighbor understood things al
right and told Hattie to go where the
preacher told her she would go If
she sinned. Hattie cnce worked on
a canal boat and she outcussed the
other woman forty different ways
while the young man poked his head
out of the window and said "sic 'em. "
We don't know what Hattie put in the
collection box, but she left S in Police
Court.
Just Hunting Trouble.
1t is no wonder that some policemen
have grouches. Jim Martin is one of
the causes. Sunday afternoon Jim was
all dressed up. He looked it and felt
it. He even said so. On NJ street
southwest where Jim goes when he
wants to get into trouble lives a wom-
en- whom Jim has known since they
made mud pies together. She wasn't
home that afternoon and Jim just
stood around and knocked, knocked
and knocked some more.
Folks next door told him no one was
home, and if they were they would be
"out" to him. This peeved Jim a little
and a cop told him to go on where
he came from and not start a fuss.
Jim consigned the cop to purgatory
and ran. He came back late at night
and knocked again. The woman was
still away and then Jim started in to
raise the dead and as everyone in
the locality was behaving themselves
the cop had to nab Jim and he Is out
S. bill.
Twice In the Same Place.
Rob Calvert is very clever at deduc-
tion. He is no relation to Sherlock
Holmes, but when he sees a brick
laying on the sidewalk or in an alley
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