Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24

dog teams, temporary camps
and the long cruise of an
ice-battered ship to the
nearest port of men and
cablegrams-that was Polar
Exploration a few years ago.
Now, a scratching crackle
and Byrd speaks to us from
the bleak Antarctic Circle;
we hear his voice while he
can still "See his breath" on
the subpolar air! Time, space
and the elements have been
set aside by radio.
Eckener'S Zeppelin leaves
LakehurSt one midnight,
flying over oceans, the ST.
berian wilderness, the tenn
plies of Japan, and lands
again at LakehurSt after
circling the globe in less
time than ever before in
human history.
twenty-five years ago,
the best cars racing at sixty
miles per hour were de
mons" Today a wire-wheeled
Ford flashes by at Sixty-t1ve.
THE HORSE is with us
yet (See Sheridan's statue
on Massachusetts, Avenue).
The horse remains useful II
some ways even now; though
wyoming is the only stats
where he still outnumbers
the automobile.
Candle light is still vita
us. The mellow candleglow
of dinner-tab)e decorations,
quaint, but hardly useful
otherwise.
The black coal still rattleS
down the chute. though, and
it is not quaint-but other
wise! "Ole King Coal amt
what he used to be" since
liquid fuels in compact tanks
have supplanted the grimy
giant who Sprawled blackly
over a good portion of the
cellar. BUT HE IS still there,
isn't he? You still shovel
him into the furnace. shake
down his dusty remains and
ease them into the ash can?
You "bank" the fire at night
and "open it up" in the
morning-or perhaps your
wife does? No one may be
home all day so YOU "fire up"
when you get in at night;
the house is damp, cold.
maybe-(and it is a NUS
ance to go downstairs some
tines.
There's no thrill in chang
ing grimy coal to gritty
ashes-any time. There's no
economv. The uncertain
heat, the slavery to the
shovel, the Slithering coal,
the ash canS-it's Just a
daily bother, and it is as old
fashioned as horse cars
would be on Connecticut
Avenue.
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Who that has mechanical
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You set it at seventy degrees,
for instance. There is the
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your ears-yet you cannot
hear this burner on the first
floor. The automatic con-
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with a click like turning off
an electric switch - your
home is seventy degrees
warm, with no more effort
than your fingers setting
the thermostatic control up
stairs. Thus "painlessly"
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