The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-11

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 the stove with every intent of frying or broiling or baking them, find that they turn out poached or just plain boiled.
 Three months of the year, Wash ington is too hot to live in and 1t must be that the only reason people do is because they love their coun- try or just can't conceive of getting off its payroll. The government has gone in heavy for air conditioning to keep the workers happy and do- ing a semblance of work, but the department which has had enough brains to really outsmart the Wash ington weather is the Supreme court. Its original old men saw to 1t that they got a three-months' vaca- ton every year.
 Even air conditioning doesn't solve all the problems. Spend an average eight-hour day in an air. conditioned government building and then step out onto an un- air-conditioned street and you know how the live lobster feels when they take him of the ice and drop him in boiling water. No wonder he turns from grassy green to lip- stick red.
 WE'LL, FAN MY BROW
 If you work in an office which has to open the windows, or If you be- long to any of the pavement-pound- ing guilds such as selling vacuum cleaners, directing traffic or report ing for newspapers, your shirt is likely to be soaking wet from per- spiration all the time. You get used to this if you have 1t steady, but If you step from this simmering, steaming teakettle status into all air-cooled office, that sopping wet smack in the middle of your back turns to jellied consomme and your whole being turns into that unen- viable, gciatinous condition of the pigsfeet in the aspic. Some people who undergo this change too sud- denly have been known to semi solidify on the spot.
 The 57 varieties of new govern ment worker who have come to Washington for defense jobs since last fall are now trying to acclima- tize themselves to this Washington atmosphere, but they're finding the going none too easy. The trouble is that not much can. be done about getting away from It., The Virginia foothilles and the Maryland shore resorts are just far enough away to be inconvenient. The Potomac, that river that things are supposed to be quiet along, is safe for canoeing but not for swimming, and the towns swimming pools, far too few in number in the first place, are-well, they're swimming pools
 POCKETBOOK FEELS
 THE HEAT, TOO
 The numerous parks often open spaces but even they soak Up enough heat during the day to make them like soapstones in a fireless cooker at night. Air-cooled movies and res- taurants give temporary relief, though in unlimited quantities they contribute to myopia and indiges- ton, respectively.
 There are a few open-air eating places of the stable -coverted-into- tearoom variety, but they close early There are two hotel roofs and If there's a breeze blowing of any kind they get 1t. Visited too often, they have a draining influence on the pocketbook and therefore they catch the visiting fireman trade, except on government payday Saturday nights when the town turns out for a real hot time.
 WASHINGTON
 CONTRASTS
 For real extremes of Washington summer nights entertainment, though, you must take in (a) the Shoreham terrace and (b) either of the two Potomac river excursion boats.
 The first you go to when you're flush, and it's really lovely spot. Several hundred tables out under the stars, which are helped along by colored lights, and, on reflect ing pool, an electric display that does everything but spell out HAROLD I-C-K-E-S.
 A good hunk of Washington's din- ner table society will be there, dip lomats, New Dealers and even few dowagers dating back to the Hard ing administration. Mostly, the crowd is smoothies in white coats and summer evening gowns, danc- ing on 8 polished floor where all is cover charge and swank.
 But for two bucks couple, you can ride for three hours down the Potomac on an excursion boat, and you don't have to spend another cent if you don't want to. One or- chestra plays for the dance floors on two decks.
 Families, boys and boy friends, girls and girl friends, but mostly boys and girl friends, dancing, sit- ting out on deck as long as the chairs last, standing up when they're gone. and here and there necking publicly, blissfully in as nice and polite and pretty way as you'll ever sec while the boat floats gently past the new aiFporC, past Boiling Field. past Alexandria and Mount Vernon, with Hut-sut Rawls0n on Potomac and a Bfawla- -BraWla SoosIt,