Evening star., 1918-07-21
: INFORMATION always CON

T INFORMATION always comes In
handy. especially when you hook It
while hshin for something else.
As the American and French hags
were raised at last Sundays celebra-
tion Of Bastile day every man ON the
Ellipse took OF his hat except the
marines on guard.
A patriotic young lady, who Is going
to heaven when she dies, provided
she takes az good care Of her soul as
Of her CLASSY pink finger nails. OBJ
3ected to the omission. but as no one
paid the least attention to her. that
was all there was to that-except:
A woman who happened to be stand
ing next q uniformed youngster on
learned that no marine may take on
his hat when he is wearing his belt
Being q sociable chap. glad OF the
chance to talk to 30 obviously q nice
woman. he told OF soldier life gen
orally. until he came at last TO the
inside Information that:
Every marine is his own chink.
This explains for you why u dnat
some uniforms look 80 much niLIef
than others, from laundry point OF
its wcarer has inherited the feminine
art Of suds, starch and iron, or goes
around In limp khaki that proves MS
virtues to be exclusively Of the mas
Also, Il may account for wise gov
ernment's changing army blue Tor
color that won't show dirt. You have
to know the reason Of a thing to have
proper respect for Its value .,...u
A marine has to wash a UNIFORM
every day-and he has four, unless II
may be more or less. for listener
gets the wires crossed now ana tnen
and he uses brush instead OF a
wash board. which saves wear and
tear on the garments. to say nothing
of his knuckles and immortal soul
Try 1t once, sisters. In preparedness
for the vanishing of that patient
brown creature who laundered US as
swear by-and which was too often a
price to sweer at-and whose forever
absence is Sing to take some OF the
sweetness 6ut of old-time life, the
sweetness Of brown sugar:
So now you know what to do when
Tubing time comes to help you win
the war, and also-which is really
more important-the lady Of the CLASSY
pink nails win find from this important
document just why the marines kept on
their hats.
You don't have to ask Mr.. F. for
every little thing that comes along
There are others
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TWO girls ON q Glen Echo car were
giggling at strap-hangiRg
young man.
They were not nirtatious giggIes.
understand. for the two were blocked
in from undue frfvols by a family
party. headed by ma and pa More
over. the young man had eyes only
for his nAwQna
He didn't seem to be a mirth COM
peller. either. His face and figure were
nicely conventional and his clothes all
they should be-palm beach suit, cor
rect hat. silk shirt as white ss Pixies
Peak, with its collar pinned down by
yeurself-by beauty pin of the sort
that fastens your blouse in the back
when you don't wear it bare in a ".
1t may be that the young man was
paying the penalty of bet that had
gone wrong. maybe. again. he was ex-
plotting some kink new to- Washing
ton styles. You never can tell why
people do things. probably for the rea-
son that they SO seldom know them
selves.
All of which is merely to show how
little it takes to make girls giggle
when girls are at the giggling age
and some Of them way and way be-
portant question to you:
Has the breastpin found its way to
the mans store?
TT looked like a tricycle. that had
decided at the very last minute to
become an automobile. And in the middle
of its green lacquer and burnished brass
was seated young woman. She was
such bouyantly smiling young woman
and SO generally good to look at that
people on the street stared. as she
SKINNED near the curb as IL they en-
joyed the sight. But you always have
to allow for the irrepressible excep-
ton:
Don't some people have the luck?
Riding as IL she owned the streets
while you and have to walk like all
the other poor dubs-"
The woman who made the criticism
had eyes only for the machine. She
failed to see the two crutches.
Otherwise. 1t might have occurred
to her that walking on q pair OF
strong feet Is q whole lot more bless
eder than pegging around on sticks.
TWO woman clerks started to walk
to work in the early days Of car
crushes and have kept It up ever since
going and coming. without missing