Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14

We feel sympathy even for the worker
| who insists on Wiping his buttered paper
bag of lunch across the shoulder OF
/ our coat as he stands in the aisle
| above the seat in which we jog buSWard
10 work every morning.
| Every one should feel sympathy for
| the plight Of mere males who must eat
during the noon hour and who have
choice of taking their own food or buy
ing something downtown.
Government workers and others fall
into two great classiiications into which
all of them descend at some time or
other. either permanently or alternately,
as one might say:
/. Those who take their lunch.
>. Those who buy their lunch.
Among the first group is the merry
individual of whom we have spoken,
the man with the buttcred paper bag.
Of course. his good wife didn't mean
to butter the bag. Government en-
ployes don't have to eat paper bags any
more. Redistribution has seen to that.
The trouble mainly arises because of
the permeating quality Of butter. The
worse the butter. the farther it spreads.
Even good butter has tremendous
ScepinC qualities When it comes to
first class sccpagC, even the best buffers
need no help from little Johnny AL
though John may be an adept at smear
ing butter on the hall curtains and
along the wall paper, his daddy can
show him pointers, and here is how
Any ordinary ham sandwich, closely
confined in a wrapping Of thin waXed
paper will nevertheless manage to cXude
a certain quantity Of it's butter, and
most Of this emulation will relcntlessly
find its way 10 the bottom OF the bag
t.fi1f a.
degrees, TO the clothing of those who
sit near the owner, if he insists. as
he mostly does. in resting the bag
against his neighbours shoulder. arm or
trOuSer leg.
AS for oursen. if we must have a
neighbours lunch bag pressed against us,
we prefer that he select the trouser,
Shoulders are rather prominent, and
coat sleeves almost as much so, whereas
the trousers. being on lesser plane, re-
feet melted butter less prominently.
To bear the insignia Of nelghbors
butter upon ones clothing IS inspiring
TO those who insist on maintaining
correct outlook upon life, which attitude
inculates making the most OF things
Instead of punching the careless wight
in the jaw, or rudely reminding him that
it costs money 10 get clothes cleaned
the careful citizen will huddle to the
left or right. as the case may be. in
an effort to get away from his bag OF
lunch.
BY carefully struggling the shoulder
on the aisle the relative position OF
butter and cloth may be changed, SO
that the grease is in midair and the
remainder of the bag on the shoulder.
Pickle juice. we have found, IS not
quite SO bad as melted butter. Vinegar
has a depressing effect upon dirt, and
may be used. as perhaps 1t IS, for clean
ing clothes We don't know
Even fiecks of chocolate cake upon
the outside of lunch bag offer no such
problem as the buttered bottom,
BY Watching your chance, and waiting
until the fellow is busy looking at the
girl who just got on. one may easily
flick the crumbs TO the floor with the
sturdy right forefinger. and by the time
the fellow has decided that the girl Is
not so wonderful. after ell, you may DE
innocently looking out the window.
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Do not think for an instant. that
the worker who drags his bag OF iuncn
to Office over the shoulders Of mankind
is through with his troubles when ne
gets downtown.