Evening star., 1921-09-18
Heard and Seen

How to get . seat On q Washing
ton street car has long been . prob
lem. .--
It Is with the hope that some help
may be afforded to foot-weary man
kind-with accent on the man-that
the following suggestions are offered:
They are the result of matin study
Of this acute problem. Of lengthy re-
search and much observation of the
street car habits OF Washingtonians.
The thing to do is to board your
car for work during one Of the slack
Observation will reveal these.
One often wonders why 1t Ii 50
many people are on the cars at about
or near the time when they should
be In their offices and at their places
of business.
to work. For instance. the biggest
jams occur from $50 to S:65. cars
being packed with folk who started
Just a bit too late to reach the ONCE
on time.
Therefore. get in ahead of 'em. II
you are due at work at Z Am, board
your car at any time up to $50
o'clock, or shortly before. The birds
who are late won't start until $50
o'clock.
II you are due at 7:so am. take
advantage of the slack" from 7:0s
to the large group aiming to get to
work at o'clock. be at the corner
for cars coming along between 1885
and 1850 am. II due at $50 o'clock.
try for the cars between 8:06 and
about $3.50. And IL government
OF course. these periods are not uni
form, and every one will have to work
the table out for himself, but by fol-
lowing out something along this line
one stands great deal better chance
| Of getting seat.
r X
The modern child comes in for q lot
of discussion.
Much Of the comment, too, is not
favorable, but perhaps the kids are
| not as bad as these writers make out.
Conditions of modern life. the wide
spread scope Of activities once en-
joyed only by a relatively few. have
! much to do with it.
The result is that many children
nowadays know more and have seen
more than people many years their
elders. Place the blame where you
will, the fact remains.
Take a nine-year-old girl OF TINS
city. She was discussing the mother
of one Of her playmates.
'She Is very mean. said the chiio.
decidedly. my own mother Is no
wonder, but this one is hopeless.
Probably the largest waste paper
basket in Washington is on duty In
the office of Kirk Russell. head of the
Office of information OF the fose VI
a n -fv
The average government depart
ment waste basket is the normal af-
fair. just wide enough across the
brim SO that the average loss OF
crumpled paper will hit, but to faii
out on the floor.
This basket Of Russelrs is a whale.
or a we'll, or whatever you choose
to call II. in comparison. Even the
worst shot can't miss the capacious
basket.
basket is used comparatively little,
for one Of the big jobs OF the once
is filing away articles from newspa-
pers of the country in relation to the
postal service.
POSTMASTER General Hays SO keeps
anfairs on the move that most of the
material finds its way into the dles.
rather than into the waste-p paper
basket.
School starts tomorrow. marking in
picturesque fashion the beginning OF
another autumn in the National Cap
ital.
For, whatever the calendar may say.
or the weather indicate, fall begins in
Washington when the children start
to school.
Soon the leaves will begin to fall
from the city's thousands Of trees. on
streets and in parks. especially In
Rock Creek Park.
Leaf-falling time Is looked forward
! to annually by thousands Of people as
I perhaps the most beautiful season of
all. The cold snap in the air. the
l leRyes the new i'm.