Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-24

| to be In fine shape, with just few
blue names licking up. The draft
is opened, the smoke.pipe damper IL
laid down. you go back up stairs.
| The kitchen door comes open
again, and the bitter cold whips
morning" you say. to nobody in
thermometer.
"Kittie. kittie, kittie." you sing
out. "Kittie, kittie, kittie."
This time kittie answers with a
soft meow, as he comes galloping
| over the fence from out of the dark
| His tiger coat blurs into a streak
as he darts up the steps and into
| the Kitchen.
well. where have you been, old
busy drinking milk to reply. You,
STOPPING to pet him, find his body
as warm as ever. The tips of his
ears are a bit cold. that is all the
difference he finds between a heated
| house and the great-and cold-out-
| doors.
| Either the Lord was better to the
| animals. in some ways, than He was
| to us, or else we have lost qualities
which they have been wise enough
| to hold onto.
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By this time the furnace is singing
/ A hasty look into the iron monster
shows flames leaping high. We bend
to the shaker, and manhandle it un-
til the ashes are shaken down and 9
bright glare illumines the ash pit
Most people will tell you to shake
a furnace until there is a bright
glow" but I tell you to- shake II
until there is bright glare. Onl.
in moderate weather should a layer
of ashes be left on the CRATE. 1r
other times, clean CRATE means q
brisk fire, and brisk FIRE means heat
upstairs, where You want 1t.
Now open comes the big door. ir
go couple of shovelfuls of coal
slam goes the door. while you gallon
| upstairs to make your morning
ablutions.
Cold water is the thing to use fol
shaving and face wash. You car
| get as good shave with cold watel
as with hot. after you find out how
and the face is left as smooth anC
burnless as baby's skin.
Then down to breakfast, and &c
into the overcoat, and out the from
| steps. where you find a rose in full
bloom that survived that attempt a.
snow the other afternoon. and look,
pretty and pink yet, despite the cold
1t is not often roses bloom thi:
| late. you reflect as you snuggle tht
overcoat around the still glowing
breakfast. Well fed and well cloth
ed, like old Tom. it is not so hare
to view the world as pleasant
place to live in as it would be il
| these factors were lacking.
Ask the very poor, and they will
tell you. if they think you are moi
patronizing them.
People walk briskly this morning
This is the happy result OF our eli.
mate. Nature kicks us along, for oui
own good. at least six months of the
year. and we are all the better fol-
lit unless we fall before the on.
slaught of the pneumonia germ.
The street car, this morning. is q
minutes behind schedule. That wa,
to be expected. You stamp around or
the sidewalk, watch the pretty girl,
going to high school, are glad 20,
are through with schools of all kinds
except the school Of life.
Here comes the car at last-ant
full to the brim, as was to be ex.
pected. also. You cram In, however
despite the protest OF two dear la
dies-dear to somebody-and so are
on your way to work at last.
The streets, as you do what 1:
fguratively spoken OF as bowling
along" seem clear and calm. 1t 4,
the effect of the cold. Cold makes
the landscape seem white and spot.
less. 1t lays the dust, perhaps. ant
keeps many indoors, giving a touch
of aloofness to the scene, a grea'
city.
These are some few OF the thing,
one does on the first really colo
morning of Winter.