Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-10

is for an assembly of muSsel Shells you slip
off and land on another Soviet of shells with
the edge uppermost. You will say, of course,
that it's rather odd that when you slip off
smooth congregation of shells you should
invariably land on chisel-edge combination.
To which | reply that it isn't a coincidence
at all IT, having tobogganed from one
smooth bunch you land on another highly
polished bunch, you merely go slipping
until you find the sharp ones. 1t is an in
variable rule AS a result, l have frequently
been tempted to miss the IA on purpose
and come home and tell my wife that l was
too late to go into the water"
oh" l said.
"A moral crime, no doubt" he said Com
sidering the sacrifices my wife has made
she prefers the mountains every time-in
order that / might get my sea bath after
the days grind in the office. But there's
another side to the moral problem. Consider.
You leave the office in the thought of the
jolly time you are going to have in the cool,
fresh sea. You miss your subway train, but
you think of the silver CLINT of the sun on
the water and are consoled. You get to the
station just in time to the tail lights of
the 5 5:06, but you think of the cold shower
after the bath The trolley is jammed and
you hang on perilously to the footboard, but
the first glimpse of the ripple on the water
what there is of it-makes you forget. Then
you get into your bathing suit, step out and
the first one to greet you is the Succulent
and nourishing mussel. If the army regula-
tions weren't strict about civilians in uni
form / have often thought that a pair of
Cqrdovan-"
NDUT look here" 1 said, quite out of pa
d tience; you know as well as do that
the tides vary an hour every day"
That's just it," he interrupted; Il thought
that If the Government took them over-be-
cause it's absurd you see, that the women
and children and other nonproducers like
lifeguards and such should have the best of
it, while we who pay income taxes and buy
thrift stamps"
Il was saying" l remarked severely that
with the tides varying at least an hour every
day, there must be times when your 5:44
brings you down to Dngle Cove at high tide
say. only three or four days a month"
Those are the days when there is some
thing wrong with the third rail and l get in
| at TAB" he said.
! knew l had him then.
And who is it runs the railroads." l said.
THE Government, to be sure" he admit
| ted manfuly And that's what l had in
mind when / wanted the Government to
take over our bay at Dinge Cove Under
the same administration the two things might
| be adjusted"
| SGX/OU mean they might regulate the 5:44
| i so that it gets in on time when there Is
| high water?'
| "Oh, / am not as optimistic as all that !"
he replied. But l thought they might regu-
| late the tide"
They'd have to regulate the moon, then"
| / said caustically. "And the moon is hardly
| within Federal jurisdiction"
| 1.-THE moon?" he said.
Briefly / outlined to him how the moon in
| its revolution around the earth at an angle
| of AZ degrees to the ecliptic in the ascendant
/ angle of the Zodiac close to the Little Dipper
| drew up the tides toward itself and let them
| go again, especially In the northern hemi-
| sphere. AS he evinced some difficulty in fol-
lowing my argument I showed him the tide
| table on a pocket folder together with the
train schedule, the trolley schedule, the mail
| schedule. and the best place to get your fresh
\ butter and eggs.
II see," he said, "and it isn't at all bad
you know. If can put 1t up either to the
moon or the Government 1t might get by my
wife. You know, there's nothing like a
cold splash in the bathtub at home. For
tunately, it isn't very long to Labor Day
Copyright, 1918