Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1921, Page 66

1921. WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—JUXNE 26, Among Us Mortals Dayligl.t Saving Copyright, 1821, N. Y. Tribune.Inc. Dinner guests from town. How were Hos- mer and Dot to know that the clocks went by railroad time out at Bensonia! They are just an hour too early and no one is dressed to receive them. It's pretty hard going, these daylight saving evenings, for those delightful little backyard restaurants in Greenwich Vil- e. Diners can see what they’'re eating. Take it from Umberto, waiter at “The Flan- nel Stocking,” it’s worse than prohibition. With a little in- genuity you can get around that, but what are you going to do when a customer finds a patch of green mold on the filet mignon! Thanke to the difference between daylight saving and the railroad time in use in the suburb of Jessie, the winsome stenog, she gets home of a late afternoon just five minutes before she left the office. Eddie is one of those super-efficiency guys~ Carries two watches. one standard and one day- light saving time. Like as not he’ll show up at 10 for a 9 o’clock appointment, having fol- lowed the wrong timepiece. Daylight saving is all right for some -but it is awfully hard on couples in the park who have to sit around and wait for the dusk before at- tempting a strangle hold. It stays light a long time these sum- mer evenings and the parks are full of nosey »old ladies and prying little girls. Some people have no respect for the cosmic urge. “I think to-morrow night, Morton, you'd better transplant the seedlings.” Mr. Auerbach, who hates intensive gardening, is no champion of uvini daylight. It sounds great on paper—long summer evenings out of dcors and all that—but right there it ends. On the other hand, Mrs. Auerbach thinks daylight saving is a capital idea! “It gives Morton a whole extra hour. think of it, a whole hour to garden!” Crowd around the incoming train bulletin in any daylight saving locality doing little mental arithmetic problems. When dear Aunt Julia writes that her train gets in some time between four and five—daylight or standard, Aunt Julia doesn’t state—and the train is fifty-eight minutes late (that is, if it is really Aunt Julia's train) why the answer is obvious. Aunt Julia won't be The men behind the information counter in the @ met. railroad station are having a terrible time these days explaining and explaining.