The Washington herald., 1920-06-15
Folks and Things
Around Washington
Labert 81 Clair.
Labeft St Clair.


ton IL dead now that some of the
In fact, IL seems as live as ever.
did before the war, anyhow, and
maybe this has something to do
with the seeming liveiiness OF the
Capital.
Two habits that the Washing.
tonians caught during the war seem
to be hxed. One is having drives
for money and the other 10 hold
ing parades. The drive thing has
become almost q daily affair. Some
thing is being relieved almost every
day. and while most Of the causes
are worthy. they certainly are fire.
quent. So many folks speed mp
just to keep away from divers. And
its rare day that some sort Of q
parade is not staged.
On q recent day veterans OF two
wars, the recent one and another,
possibly the civil war, were having
! parades on Pennsylvania avenue.
An old chap, who belonged in the
hrst war section fell in with the
young soldiers and walked several
blocks before he noticed that he
was with the wrong crowd.
| Mercy sakes" he said when he
realized his mistake and hobbled
toward the curb. I'm in the wrong
war"
The cigarmakers strike in
Tampa. the limited stogie output
and various other causes for gen
ersl shortage Of cigars worries
Washingtonians little. They have
Lee Ying. their own Chinese cigar
maker. who operates his shop down
almost under the shadow OF the
capitol. He works many hours
u day as a laundryman and liter
ally turns out bales OF cigars. He
is one of the few Chinese cigar
makers In the country, and the
only one in Washington.
A member of the Laundrymen' 8
Association here was HORNED 10
discover recently that many of the
colored washerwomen of the Capt.
tai OF whom there are thousands,
really are not washerwomen at all,
but just agents for washings. They
take in the wash, carry IL home.
cend it to the laundries for a rough
dry" finish and upon return iron
and deliver il at a high price. The
plan saves perspiration and worry,
and the housewives are none the
| wiser.
| Incidentally, Washington, once the
best waSherwoman town in the
country from the point of the
owner of clothes on account of the
large cOlored population, no longer
belongs In the select class. The 81
a day washerwoman no longer eX-
lists. The minimum price for fam
lily wash seems to be 81, and, in
some cases, the washerwomen calm
ily demand Sl2 and declare. indiffer-
emily, that they do not care whether
they wash or not.
I One of Washington's authoresses.
whose books are published privately
that a vulgar public may not grovel
over them, recently gave a recep-
tion and dinner at her home and
promised to favor the guests with
readings from her latest works.
After the feasting had been finished
and the dancing had begun, the
hostess retired by elevator to an up
stairs room to obtain her book for
the reading. To her great distress,
while the elevator was between
floors, it stuck and the reading
never came of. Thus was art
thwartsd again.
! Hon. Obadiah Dubb announces
that he will wear his Congress
shoes to the conventions this year
in the interest of both economy and
comfort.
There is nothing like giving a
corn air quickly when il begins TO
hurt at one OF these national con-
yentions," he says in explanation.