Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES B. TRACEWELL.

/ something Of a task, as every one win
admit who has tried It. Especially If
there is q hight of steps to be negott-
ated
Johnny's wagon may be pressed into
service, but the strain comes in getting
the full can into the wagon. There is
possibility, too, that the vehicle may
have wheel on on Monday morning,
when the ash mans mellow voice rolls
| in from the far alley.
Surely the housewares department
must have some gadget which will make
ash can disposal plain sailing. It is
impossible that these thousands of busy
inventors would have overlooked so
simple problem of the household.
No. they have not forgotten. Here
are several admirable tricks, wherewith
one can watt big can of ashes from
house to back gate m no time at ALL
The busy Investigators fancy fixes on
a cart Of iron, with two hooks at the
bottom to come up under the rim of
the bottom of the can, and a sliding
bar at the top to grasp the upper rim
gently, soothingly, appealingly.
With this strange hold on the full
can, the gadget rolls as neatly as you
please, with a sound like thunder If
steps intervene, the thing to do is to
lean back on the handle and pull up.
Then the two small wheels slip
neatly enough over the steps, and be-
fore one knows 1t the whole affair is
at the top of the flight This, of
course, If the can is not too fun of
ashes. Ashes, for all their impalpable,
flying qualities, are amazingly heavy.
We would advise beginners to try cut
their ash carts with cans half-filled.
Tt is a great deal easier that way, and
more in line with the wishes Of the
unknown inventor.
x X X
Trick egg beaters gleam down yonder
aisle. HeIe is a display of kitchen
| clocks, here a table with fancy Their
mometers, and small "hourglasses"
for timing hard-boiled eggs.
| One sidles away from that table,
knowing that he will never be able
to resist the appeal of the tiny minute
glasses. Ever since a child one has had
a laundering for an hour glass, but
Someway or other never got around to
| purchasing one.
Surely there must be something
charming about one of the old hour
| glasses, such as George Washington
used, or did he use one? Well, it makes
no difference. One always has had a
suspicion that they did not tell time
accurately.
1t will do no harm to stop by this
table and examine them. This little
fellow is intended to run for three
minutes, and this larger one for five
minutes.
Let's elevate the thing, and watch
| the sand run through. Who but the
/ Germans could have had the patience
to have formed that tiny neck, and
to have measured out this red sand
until they got 1t to tell time almost to
the second?
One of these would look rather well
in the space between the kitchen door
and the window. What if one does
know that, after the novelty has worn
OFF, no one viii ever look at the space
between the door and the window,
but will turn instead to the alarm
clock sitting on the top of the kitchen
cabinet.
Habit is terrible thing! Kitchen
clocks, spring or electric, are as easy
to watch as the sand running down a
tube. Old things compete with new
things, and almost invariably lose
at least in kitchens.
We warn all wives to keep their hus-
bands out of housewares departments.
else they will come home loaded down
with 1nnumerable tricks which NAV
or may not work, but which will at
least add to the gayety of home.