Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 75

THE WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—JULY 5, 1925. STAR, INFORMATION By W. E. HILL (Copyright. 1925. by The Chicago Tribune) A lot of people who never thought much about it think an information desk in a railroad station is just a place where people go to ask questions ahout trains. They're all w The place labeled information has its higgest clientele, as the advertising boys would say, from the people who, as a last resort, think that maybe it was the information desk and not the platform or the taxi stand or the ticket window where Joe said Clara would wait Of course, a job behind an information desk in a railway terminal is wearing, but, then, one does meet such charming people now and then. For instance, the lady asking about trains to Brookfield Junction. She has been back from the ticket window three times to find out if he really knows it will be all right to stop off over-night at Bethel. “But are you sure?” she is saying. “Are you sure?” Two boarding-school girls and one anxious teacher waiting by the information desk. Ethel's mamma is waiting at a railway terminal the other side of town Dorothy’s dear mamma is meeting the wrong train, though in the right station. It’s a hard life! A red cap guarding the luggage of a lovely lady traveler. The handbag with the wired end holds an enraged and loudly complaining cat. The lady has gone to powder her nose. Young lady all ready to an- nounce icily. “I've only been waiting 35 minutes, dearie!” Josie, the $90-a-month cook, on hand to keep a date with her future employer at the informa- tion desk. e, she has her cute little straw suit case The dressy young man en route to the suburbs for over Sunday. Just would dress the part to the limit. Something very special has walked past the desk, causing Benny, the infor- mation wizard, to say, “Hot daggity!” right in the midst of helping an { : 4 old party who is set on : ;o “Why, Fowler, you never oing tc Montreal and said the waitin room! uebec by way of Niagara You said the information Falls, Providence and desk as plain as plain could Brockton. i be!”