Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03

tories Of both. and to be called the
City of Washington"
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Income tax inequities were the sub.
ject of frequent complaint nifty years
ago. when that method
Income Tax of raising revenue for
r:A-- the federal Treasury
Ane4oA'J' was still in vogue. In
The Star of July 81. 1859. 10 the fol-
lowing item:
1--WE are glad that attention 10 at
last being called to the defects In
the system of collecting income taxesy
from government employees. both in
the civil and military service, by
the 'G treasury sasn at least $40
the passage of the income tax act
more than they are legally requirefuS
to do by the revenue laws. This fS,.
q aHnn p Army and Navy se oeers and
civil employees at the time of thar
payment of their monthly salaries,,a
without giving them the opportunii,
have of making deductions for house A
rent, losses in business, etc. 1t is
further claimed that the system is
wrong. because, as has frequently
ployes discharged before completing
a years work and before receivingSs
the $1,000 exempted by law are un-s
able to obtsin employment MT for ,. the
nevertheless, paid the pro rata month";
ly tax, when. in fact, they are noe6s
under the law required to pay any
tax whatever" 80
Fifty years ago the mosquito was
recognized as a pestiferous but not
pestilential nui-'o.
"A Bill to Check sance. 1t was NOT.
:, until long after ~
mosquitoes. ward that It wasF
recoenixed as carrier of malarianh
and other diseases. Nevertheless. 1t nj
was enough of a menace to puoIo
comfort to cause it to be fought. M"
The Star of July -2s, 1858. is an item
telling Of the INTRODUCTION In tine
board of common council s By DE- ,n ! g1yar
Sibit the raising OF MOSQUITOES in the'nf
CITY of Washington" The .reaoihs OBJ
Of the bill, The star rs seSs that1ai
If it was successful in its 'operatiSnsTs
II would entitle the doctor 70 tne sm
thanks Of the community: ~ fpomss
II TO IS on every person who. should ns
allow any bucket. tub or otner res-rs
ceptacle. containing water 20 ~,
in their yards, without having .ne
same s,, sesur frsm G n0ropaSating.
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.Jennie June" was the name"or nom 10
de plume of a woman writer freouent-''s
IA ly appearing IN on
The Star of atty
' 800 years ago. sheac
on Fashions. generally discussed 4,
topics of special interest to the WON ~,
an readers. In The Star of July 2i.1w
1859. is column and half OF her
correspondents from New York, which
should have been as interesting to the
men of that day as to the women, for
it discoursed upon questions of cost :
Of apparel. In the course of the arti-
."The past few years has been har- so,
vest for fashionable, dressmakers.s n
of which they have made. the, -s
most in putting up prices 10 Amos. sw
prohibitory rates. The modern SUIT
lis very complicated anair ana II lssm
not uncommon for the making to costfS
twice and three times as much as the oS
material A simple street costumet s sa
which has cost SIS or less. will come ~
up to fifty or more by the time 1t hasa
left the dressmaker's hands. This
may supply. only a. required margin
establishment, but thereJ
are few ladies who can afford to draw, So
on their resources to that extent forsf1
4 ny considerable length OF sttme.s ecats
the number Sof such estabfishmene1s-
must always remain limited. SFor tne ns
past two or three years the changesiss
In costumes have been so great and 50
SO rapid that very many have en-,
ployed frst-rate dressmakers In or-ns
der to obtain models from which they ia,
could fashion their own wardrobes,ss1
or get their seamstresses to DO SO storsd3
them. The style of goring. OF ,mak-si.
ing two skirts. of changing sashes;at
into bows, adding bows to panniers tssJe
now pretty we'll understood, and the-I
dressmaker finds her oc-eqe
cupation not exactly gone, but less gin
easily sought and paid for: p =
Jenkins' to- contrary notwfth. :
standing, assert there never was
time when 1t was possible to dress
fashionably with so much freedom "a
and simplicity as at present. Sensa-iss
ton paragraphists talk Of false mgr
ures and false faces. of thousand Il
dollars spent in enameling, as IL eyerysn3
woman practiced these arts and wassuh
but a painted and bedizened copy of NJ
her real self. It is like generalixinG ,ux
over the cholera. until everybody iss 81
supposed to have X, when the reai =
truth is that only. one case reported ,sf
and that doubtful. whether 1T was-vr
real cholera or not. So long as wom--bs
en- can wear linen suits and be ready ot1
for the streets as quickly rs q MANI.
can put on his hat and coat there Dn s
cannot be much fault on the score OF 81
simplicity The fault is in charging =
upon all women the faults Of q few -
and in taking it for granted that an q
extravaganza committed by, one per- ~.
son who can afford 1t is repeated by . n
thousand who cannot AFFORD 1t. ,dt
''The truth Ia. written fashions tell q 9
not SO much what Is worn as what IL ert
not. 1t is an axiom in fashions that
as soon as a style Is popularity worn
1t ceases to be fashionable. The aim.
therefore. Of the fashion writer is not
SO much to tell what Is as what 10 MOTIF.
generally worn. In this way readers ma
of fashion magazines and periodicals ma
are kept In a paroxysm of fear andoig
anxiety. The style Of today is dis e
carded on paper tomorrow. almobtSs
perhaps before 1t has been worn. and 40
the admiring copyist sees something g
else described in glowing terms ana,