The Washington herald., 1922-07-30

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THESE how TO keep cooi- cru
saders should be taken out at
sunrise and shot Let them see the
beautiful sunrise and then shoot
'em- Washington can produce won
derfui evenings in this latitude or
Longitude. OF course you viii not
nnd the cool breeze IN an alley
where there are a dozen smoking
automobiles being put away for the
night but just get down on the
river near the Polo Field or sf
Hsines Point Speaking Of keep
ing an once cool-few people know
how to do e. Put your electric
fan on the foor and TIT it up Just
trine- Blow the hot air up. n
rises anyway. 10 help Il along ana
also out Not one person in q
thousand seems TO have sense
enough TO do this. Every place you
go you see electric fans nailed 10
walls nghting'ali day long to keep
the hot air down on the floor and
coming back up in your face
Then, too. washington cannot b.
such q hot town in the day time
judging by the way the folks leave
their ice out on the sidewalk until
8 and 10 o'clock every morning.
There is one store in G street that
does not take the ice in until around
IL. and by that time they have
to pick IL up with q mop. over on
auto row" In Connecticut avenue.
you can pick out almost any size
chunk you want up to in the
morning.
KID" Rollins blew into town
the other day and right out again
on his way to the roundup at Pen
dleton. Oregon In HIS frock coat
and with his serious-looking face
you would not think Of calling Roll
Inns kid" first OF. But Rollin,
has q unique distinction IN that he
Is graduate of Princeton-the
place that woodrow Wilson made
famous-and was for twenty years
a cowboy. So it happen, that PhiIip
Ashton Rollins is going TO be the
guest OF honor at the thirteenth
annual roundup. There he will sit
in judgment on the cowboy OF to-
day and compare him with the cow
boy OF the eighties: the cowboy that
did SO much In the making Of the
West.
Rollins makes a great distinction
eetwen the cowboy. now almost
gone. and the bad man OF the West
or other days. As historian Of the
cowboy. Rollins has made a study
OF every phase OF the life of the
days when Horace Greeley was
handing out the tip 20 go West in
stead Of hanging ground r stree,
and eyeins the fiappers of a Sstur-
day afternoon. The historian knew
Woody" the pal Of Roosevelt
when woody" wa, making tbinrs
unhealthy for the road agents. Th.T.
are old-timers in the West who
get into New York once in q vhils
and hunt up Kid" Rollins and talk
over old times.
Mention Of Roosevelt call. 70
mind the memoirs OF II. II. Kohlssat
of Chicago. 1t was all fixed for
Ben odell OF New York TO be on IN.
ticket with Mckinley the second
time. according 10 the Satevepost.
our worthy contemporary. Bur fat.
stepped in and busted an elevator
In a New York hotel. This DELAYED
Roosevelt getting TO his room ana
while waiting he met group OF
men who took him into a corner
and talked turkey 20 him. They
talked so hard he caved in and went
on the ticket Mckinley was as
ssssinated and Roosevelt moved into
the White House. Thus odeil cam.
very close to being President OF IN.
United States. Just missed IL bv
an elevator cable.
me washington auto driver. lik.
the heather Chinee. has ways ina,
are dark and tricks that are vain
The strange thing about washine-
ton drivers is that they fight each
other and have little considera,Ior
1or their kind. Go down To Han,
foint any evening. Not one drjy,
IN the bunch seems 10 cara uhe,h,
any OF the other drivers can 9,
70 the parking curb and enjoy n
oree1e and the sunset There "a
oe an open space for two a.
ana into IL will shoot a car.
70 one side-right in the mido.
ehus running IL for another car
? nave seen drivers spend a
minutes backing and bucking tnT !
enoesVor to make a certain sns
"hen a ten-inch move oy.r or
part OF the man on either -
would let the car in. Blu, No 81
other Fellows sit there with thetr
} s~eeties in a half nelson embrac,
ana pay no attention whatever :,
.ne struggling driver who vould
fun evening
Things have come 70 ,pc, . ,
Col sherrill has to assign a
man 10 Haines Point around (
O'Clock every Sunday afternoon ana
keep him there during the rnsh
hours just to make the auto drive.
exercise a little courtesy tovsrd
one another. That is certsInly J.
nne occupation for a poIic.m.,-
70 teach other folks manner, wh,,
ne ought to be making his rounds
aho taking a look under N. 80
ana In the dsrkened automoh,Ies
now and then.
naroest thing this winter u-,rl
ung little soft coal. -Ji,,
Murphy announces wh.,.
can hear from his post heh,,S
.ne papers at Seventeenth .na ~.
enee- Doc" joins him wit,
night you are, boss h
As to monun.