Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1926, Page 111

“Alma, dear, be sure to put something around you, if you're going to sit in that chilly library.” somewhere a voice is calling during the fuel shortage. And Alma, unlike so many girls of the vounger generation, who have to be told twice, calls back: “Yes, mamma, | have!” Say what you will for and against the use of soft coal, it's terrible for those ladies who own little white, woolly dogs. One turn around the block and a woolly dog which started out as white as the driven snow looks like the black cat’s twin. [ i\ = @\~ D THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, During the Coal Strike wwem. (Copyright. 1978, by Chicage Tribune.) D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MARCH 14, “Ten dirty little fingers on two dirty little hands,” ran the otu song. There was more truth than poetry in those homely sentiments, what with the recent anthracite shortage, soft coal more or less. Many a debutante came home from a little innocent fun with a boy friend and everybodv using and got into no end of trouble with mamma, thanks to the attendant soft-coal grime It's an ill wind that doesn't blow some one a little good. You hear a lot against the use of soft coal in our big cities these days. To quote verbatim the words of Miss Viola May Johnson, debutante: “There hasn’t one of us girls been inflicted with a shiny nose since they started burning soft coal!” The lady from the fifth floor of the Andalusia Apartments is complaining in person about the chill radiator and is greeted by a wave of almost tropical heat from the janitor's domicile. It's a well known fact that heat seldom rises in an apartment house during a coal shortage. looking ones) were enticed before the camera and photographed. Whenever a deadlock between warring factions in the coal regions was reached, a delegation of committee members (the most benevolent- 1926. A chill Sunday morning, a chillier radiator and an even chillier member of the great Amer- ican public thinking nasty thoughts about the coal operators. Soft coal dust is a terri- ble handicap for stenogs who roll their own. Knees soil so casily these days on even the cleanest girls. Mect Mr. Le Roy Ver- bose, the genial press representative. It was Le Roy's job to sec that only the tidiest news stories dealing with the coal situation (we for- get which side he was on) got to the news- paper boys. “Keep it clean, boys!" was Le Roy's slogan.