Evening star., 1932-08-04

the purpose Of keeping the window up.
He remembers seeing a window along
| another street held up by childs
drum.
Somebody had denuded little Johnny
CT his favorite toy, evidently
The drum had been occupying its
post at the window ever since Christ
mas, Jones noted not long ago, as he
went along that way.
Broken windows seldom are fixed,
especially if the crack is not the sort
to let in water
They are unsightly, however, even If
in the back of the house, or at a cor
ner not easily noticed in any position.
Home owners go to all sorts of shifts
to make broken articles do, when it
would be a great deal pleasanter to
buy new ones
Here is a front door lock, which, ow-
ing 10 just one small screw in its little
inSideS, has become very stubborn.
The entire family groans in spirit
over the wretched thing.
But nobody does anything about it.
BY sheer power of wrist the handle
of the big front door may be turned.
but it protests more and more every
day.
Finally the hour strikes when the
ldJCH Simply Won move.
The head of the family. instead Of
calling locksmith, or carpenter, who
ought to know about such matters, and
does, decides that the latch must be
pulled clear back and the door locked
thereafter by the use of the so-called
night latch.
So this makeShift is put into effect.
Mostly the family forgets about 1t
and Stubbornly paws at the door, in
the belief that strength is the solution
when all the time all one has to do
Is to give pull.
Or the attic window won't open when
it is shut. or it won't go shut when it
is open.
1t is amazing how stubborn that attic
window can become The builder evi-
6fntl{ der att didn't put as muGh M thought on
rate, this one IS stubborn.
Nobody does a thing about 1t, how
ever.
Kept open most of the time in Sum-
mer in the naive belief that somehow it
helped keep the house COOL" the win
dow always refuses to go down in a
hurry.
Hence, when a sudden thunderstorm
comes up, bearing in with black clouds
filled with wind and rain, all hands
must go aloft to get the attic window
down.
1t is regular rite.
First one member of the family and
then another struggles with it.
Like these street car windows, which
nobody can get up or down, seemingly,
except the conductor and of course it is
his job the old attic window refuses to
come down until the thunder and light
ming starts.
Then, just as every one has given 1t
uo, after much heaving and tugging,
and growing purple in the face, along
comes some one with the magic touch.
The window obeyS instantly.
"See?" he says, in an irritating voice.
Il did all the heavy work and got it
loose" says one of the others, "and then
you come along and of course it goes
down for you, after I had worked it
loose"
You have got to know how to do
such things" says the other, trium-
phantly.
The joke Of it is, he is right.
One does have to know how to do
such things. And not every one can, in
the very nature of things. Handiness
with tools, and with the things which
tools build, Is not every ones portion.
Locks and the like which are sup
posed to turn, but which won't turn, are
a terrible nuisance; often the cause
IS ridiculously small one. But the
man who knows" is required, here as
elsewhere.