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The Washington times., 1923-04-26
One=Man Cars Are Unpopular
They Should Be Done Away With Well-Traveled
City Lines.

The Public Utilities Commission may have been Justified,
trying fares in this city to authorize the
routes where traffic is light 1t has
been justified in extending the of these cars to lines
running through cky populated portions OF the CITY, par
cuar during the rush hours of the day when patrons are
seeking get work the quickest possible time and
in reasonable time in the afternoon
From 10 o'clock in the morning until o'clock In the after
might not be Objectionable to the public
many portions of the city, but they decidedly objection
able during when throngs of people trying to
get to their offices their homes.
Why the Commission has agreed to discrimination against
portions of Washington be well explained.
pointed by the Federation Of Citizens Assoca
tons be operated safely conveniently and speed
twomen then the change should be made throughout
Washington It is clearly of discrimination against
parts of the city Discrimination unfair and improper
the rush hours of morning afternoon mantesty
impossible for take fares transfers
the proper discharge passengers inquiries start and
stop his in the time the various activities could be
done by There is necessarily slowing down of
schedules and irritating conditions that passengers the
present high fares should cope with.
This scheme is mainly imposed upon people who
live away the of city the suburbs It is
attempted short and profitable in busy sections
of Washington The street railway companies permitted
to give every advantage in schedule and satisfactory service
to the shorhau passengers while suburban travellers
compelled accept whatever service offered them They
can't walk, as could the shorthaul passengers
The rate of fare in Washington certainly high enough
to justify every accommodation to the travelling public In
stead of agreeing lines the Public
Utilities Commission should shorten the schedules in
existence SO as to give quicker service.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
MINERS CHEW
COAL BITS IN
YORKSHIRE

TEW persons who carelessly
toss a shoveIful of coal on
the fire realize the dangers
braved by the coal miners. AS in
all callings where the element of
danger plays a part, there are
superstitions. But on investiga-
ton many of these superstitions
have a reason.
For instance, in the great coal
mines in Yorkshire, England. if a
fatality occurs, all the miners
stop work and go home.
It is supposed to be unlucky to
continue work on that day, al
though many of the men will de-
clare that it is simply a mark of
tribute to a comrade who has
gone.
To work on Good Friday is con-
sidered enough to bring bad luck.
There on that day little work is
done.
Yet the miners do not object
to going down in the cage, which
lowers them thirteen at a time.
But these same miners do an
extraordinary thing, which to the
visitor would seem to bring more
bad luck than working on a Good
Friday or after an accident.
1t is the habit of chewing coal.
This was explained by a miner
in the following way:
He said that, of course, in the
mines the men cannot smoke for
fear of causing an explosion or n
fire, and that the constant bend
ing causes heartburn if they chew
tobacco.
Their mouths get so fearfuIly
dry they must chew something to
keep the saliva flowing, so they
pick up a piece Of coal and chew
1t for that reason.
1t was reported that one miner
had died of chewing too much
coal, but this was met with a
general laugh, as one particularly
strapp1ng Yorkshireman an
nounced that they would all be
dead if that were the case.
Copyright, 1928. Newspa per Feature
Service Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Lucy Lowell Says No Woman Need
Let the World Know
Her Age
By Lucy Lowell.
Her Age

HHE speaks with conviction,
this writer and physical cul-
~ turist. And what she says
is that Il woman of forty or forty
odd who looks her age these days
should be ashamed of herself.
She declares that the woman
who has passed the two-score
mark and looks it is either stupid
or lazy or both. And she says
other things not all compliment
airy to her whom you'd know at
sight to be, for instance, forty
three.
Now, of course, I don't find
any fault with the truth of this
writer's philosophy. l believe, as
she suggests, that with proper
exercise fair amount of time
spent with the masseuse and hair
dresser and whatnot, no woman
needs to let the world know that
she is approaching middle-age.
And | forgot to add the dress
maker to my list of appearance
of-youth producers. For, of course,
everybody knows just how far
line and coloring Of garb go to
suggest years yet to be.
What 1 am wondering is
whether life and the world would
be happier with it's forties left
out?
/ know little woman who
wasn't pretty or attractive at all
when she was twenty-five. She
was awkward, and her hair
wasn't any special color, and
there wasn't any mark of per-
sonality in her face.
OF course, it wasn't in the least
her fault. She had lived too long
to retain the freshness of extreme
youth which always is lovely, and
not long enough-but that's the
story.
She wandered through life till
she p passed a milestone that
stands beside the age we're CON
sidering-fOrty. And then time
touched her hair and it became
quite white.
A line or two began to show
beside her lips and at the corners
Of her eyes. And while nobody
loves lines these seemed to love
the women, for they gave her a
look of smiling and that, in turn,
meant an atmosphere of kindness
which you can't but love even if
you'd rather not.
Her eyes became soft with
rather long watching the moods
and mistakes and achievements
and experiences of others. And
one evening she dressed herself in
silver gray and hung a string of
pearls round her throat and put
a silverColored Spanish comb in
her white hair and went to a
party.
And long before the evening
was over they were talking of the
beautiful woman" They told her
about it, too, and, oh, if you
could have seen the light of pure
joy in her eyes-the ugly duck
ling become swan!
Nearly forty years went into
the making of that beauty. And
supposing that she had stopped
growing 0lder-I can't say old.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

MAN is a bundle of habits.
4V1 Who waits for time loses
Be wise today-'tis madness
to defer.
Timidity enthroned is usually
tyranny.
Error by his own arms is best
evinced.
Small service is true service
while it lasts.
None think the great unhappy
but the great.
Vain is the world-but only to
the vain.
Nothing is more terrible than
active ignorance.
A willful man has need to be
very wise.
One half the world laughs at
the other half.
The wise learn many things
from their foes.
Sometimes even wisdom sur
renders to desire of gain.
Allowance is to be made for
him who first attempts a thing
1t is easier to give counsel than
to bear sufferings manfully.
Allow time and moderate delay
haste administers all things
badly.
Often it happens to a man
flying from fate that he rushes
into the midst of it.
Prosperity usually brings with
it an intoxication, which inferior
natures seldom resist.
One part of knowledge con-
sists in being ignorant of such
things as are not worthy to be
known.
The three things most difficult
for some are-to keep a secret,
to forget an injury and to make
good use of labor.
Copyright, 1928, Newspa per Feature
service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-26

reached out magic finger and
you see-at Twenty-Five or thirty
three or thirty-nine!
And 1 know another woman
but why go on? What I'd like
to say is that / don't believe forty
to be either disgrace and some
thing to be ashamed of, or a
menace, and / don't believe women
who are forty or more and look
it to be either stupid or lazy or
both.
In this day of progress we
women have things more impor-
tant than our years to think
about anyway-don't you believe
SO?
Copyright. 1928. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
SAP AND SALT
Bert Moses

A real good dancer is seldom
good at anything else.
The first requirement in reach
ing fame is to pay no attention
to ethics.
Politics is an arrangement to
keep people from getting what they
want.
You may know as much as the
boss. but he used his knowledge
and you didn't.
Tt takes close calculation to
make the bread and butter served
in restaurants come out even.
Orators who monkey with their
watch chains and girls who bite
their finger nails are not much
good when the house catches on
fire.
Hez Heck says: "They amt
much o anything left to rubber
neck at"
Pedigrees that trace to the
MayfloWer are not we'll consid-
cred as security for loans at a
bank.
Hez Heck says: TROUBLES and
babies both gifts bigger when you
nurse EN-"
Copyright 1923, by Premier Syndica te
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The Washington times., 1923-04-26
This Lottery Is Allowed
Foreigners Are Running 1t.

Some Americans bought Belgian bon with interesting
lottery attachment The other day advertised
bers of the bonds that had drawn the ottery prizes
The amount paid out two million three hundred thou
sand dollars Everybody that had bought bond for hun
dred dollars less got back his moy and fifteen dollars
bonus very interesting gambling attachment
But how does happen that United States
bids AMERICAN citizens to carry alottery country
allows FOREIGN governments bond business here
with a lottery attachment?
Those that got their lottery reward recently were the
ucest OF the Belgian bondholders ne of fine days
II Russia and Germany start moving Belgian bonds and
some others from abroad will be the bargain counter
worth about much Russian ruble that
your international banking friend win sells you the foreign
bonds takes his commission and has hng to lose
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
T1UO Chips of the Same Block.

REEK legend celebrates the stark grit of Spartan lad
who kept denying the theft of pet fox, while the ami
NAL, hidden in his tunc gnawed through flesh and
bono.
Here's youngster made of the stern stuff Stephen
Bresac years DID, falls from tree breaks an arm IN
two places Dreang punishment he conceals the hurt and
continues attend school
Something's wrong at home when fear drives shaver to
such piteous lengths of fortitude.
Something's wrong in government when nation can t
throtng grip of its profteers The Dutch East
Sugar Trust boosts prices and the market
promptly responds with another twist of the thumbscrew
Cuban raw and granulated advance Is cents casts
it's shadow retail stores.
Beet growers furnishing 100000 of the 5OOOOO tons OF
sweets consumed the United States better friends of
Congress than the rest of the people.
America will pay hundreds of millions to rapacty if
special interests attain their fixed goal.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Plays Many Hours
Without firing

AYEW YORK-The secret of
III Pachmann's Youthfulness
- lies, as he himself tells all
audiences, lin my new method"
BY such technical facility does he
manage, without fatigue, to play
with all the esprit of young man.
In his own words, ~ am never
tired by playing the piano. At the
end of recital I'm. ready to give
another program"
The number Of his encores bears
vivid testimony to the truth of
such statement. Not SO long
since, when his managers objected
to his giving so many additional
pieces, Pachmann begged to play
just one more" Being permitted.
he went before his audience and
played an entire Beethoven sonata.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
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