Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15
HEARD AND SEEN.

I fend olders who were brought I'D
| right" But this particular office boy
| must have come from a good family
/ indeed, because he was a model Of po-
| likeness.
| He was such an efficient boy. in
| fact, that when the war came along
he was lured into the government by
| a fifteen -dollar-a-week wage. The
business man thought that salary
was too much for mere boy, but at
the time he was glad to see little
| Tom-we will call him-get more
money. as the boy really needed it.
But what he learned last week COM
pletely upset him. He is one of these
week when he was boy, and thought
Santa Claus was a fine fellow, in
| deed, when he remembered him with
| a popcorn ball at Christmas.
What are the children coming to"
been doing various sorts of war
| time work recently, and I am far
| from sure that it will do him good in
/ the long run.
Tom said, what are you doing
now?
Tom shifted the chew of tobacco
which he plainly hoped I wouldn't
/ notice and replied:
| I'm passing rivets now
| "'How much do you get?'
| Twenty dollars a week
| 1.-The boy plainly saw my surprise
| Then he seized the strategic offensive
| and f1oored me.
Lash summer I was a plumbers
| helper
His manner plainly said, Ask me
how much / made again. So I bit.
"'How much did you make as
! plumbers helper. Tom?
Tom waited a moment, for effect,
and replied:
"1 made $3.50 a week."
Have you seen the sorrowful sis
! ters?"
| Such is the name people have given
them, and the next time you happen
to be over by Union station you may
Judge for yourself whether the name
is we'll chosen.
| No, they are not war workers, al
| though they have something to do
| with war workers, or war workers
habitations, at any rate. They are
| to be seen any day on the roof of
| the government dormitories on the
| Union station plaza.
There they stand, two bowed wom-
| en-, their arms crossed on their
breasts, as If in silent prayer. Many
/; persons coming through C street
, toward the Senate Office building.
| with the morning sun not yet over
| the buildings, have been struck At
| the sight.
| For. of course. the sisters are not
women at all, standing up there. but
are some kind of ventilating device,
| or, maybe, new-fangled chimneys,
| with round top inclined forward.
| Seen the proper way. however,
their resemblance to a pair Of women
is startling. hence their appellation
of 1.-The sorrowful sisters"
With the reduction of airplane mail
rates this week, and the establish
| ment of the New York-to-Chicago
route, Postmaster General Burleson
| has promised the faster planes will
be placed on the Washington-to-New-
York airline.
/ 1t may be interesting to the au
thorities to know that the children
Of Washington have coined q new
word to designate the modern "hying
machine"
Back in 'ss people talked Of ''aying
machines" Then came tho word
! "aeroplane," which stuck until re-
Gently, when the good American
word. "airplane." was substituted
whether or not the children of the
National Capital have misinterpreted
the latter word. or nave nohcnaiahtIy
is the way they universally pronounce
it. and think il is pretty good:
! - CHARLES E. rRAcEw7E