Evening star., 1922-08-27
Heard and Seen

1t is cheaper to travel than to stay
| at home.
Cheaper, that is. IL you know how
to do it.
Dirrelle Clancy of the auditors Of
fee. Post Omoe Department. does.
He recently completed an eleven
day automobile trip to Sullivan, Ird..
and back to Washington by way of
Niagara Falls and New York. a total
OF 2.372 miles.
5000. ~ ' ~
His wife accompanied him on the
| way out, and on the trip back they
had their eleven-year-o boy along,
who ate innumerabie ice cream cones.
The cones were the only items not in
cluded in the list.
CLANCY figures that the railroad
fare for the three Of them for like
trip would have figured up between
$3.50 and $500.
His repair bill was exactly 10 cents.
ing $2s33. and their food cost n total
of $18.74. They camped along the
| way, cooking their meals. They had
a small ice box carried on the running
board. and most of the other comforts
of home.
You certainly do get to see the
country, too." CLANCY told me.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt visited the Civil
Service Commission the other day to
select q photograph Of his father to
| hang on the commission walls.
Oficials there are securing photo
graphs Of all the men who held the
NfRts1
| each case allowing relatives to pass
upon the photograph selected.
Secretary Roosevelt made his choice
from several photos of his father. and
! then looked around the room.
why. ] used to play in that bask ct
over there" he said. pointing to a
capacious basket in the ONCE left va
| cant by the resignation of Gov. Bart
lett, president of the commission, to
| become first assistant postmaster
general Of the United States.
You can come up and play in il
| any time you want to-" smiled Com
missioner Gardener.
Moo, m-o-o-o-o"
The above letters are universally
accented as designating the cries of q
certain popular animal, much as
| another.
So when a series Of "moos" re-
sounded In the vicinity of the Cor
coran Gallery OF Art the other morn
ing, passersby looked around to see
what was loose.
No cow could be seen.
Seventeenth street was as bare of
cows as it usually is, to all appear
ances.
Still the lowing kept up.
Then the discerning located the
creature.
It was in a bsfred wagon standing
Maybe it had been used in an art
class.
One Of my correspondents, reading
that story about the lady who was
proud of her small sons ability TO
swear sends me another along the
same line.
II told my eight-year-old son that
he must be careful never to use ugly
little playmate. John, who was
younger. to hear them. He replied,
Don't worry about that mamma.
| John knows up to damn already"
'T often wonder why all these birds
\ wear rubber bands around their
arms to keep their shirt sleeves up"
| he was heard to remark.
You see. nine out of ten men," he
continued. get shirts with the sleeves
too long. I suppose the manufactur-
ers make them that way TO fit all sizes.
so about nine out Of ten fnd their
sleeves much too long. And about
eight out OF the nine place rubber
| bands just below their biceps. in order
| to keep the cuffs from dropping down
over their hands.
THE funny part of it Is. practi-
cally all these men are married. And
| any wife ought to have enough abil-
| ity to calmly and deftly take a tuck
| in said sleeves, making them the
right length in about two minutes,
! and saving friend husband all that
| worry with rubber bands. One Is al
most forced to conclude that the
average wife of today Is no seam
! stress" CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.