Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1935, Page 10

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. COSMOPOLITAN. N A Fourteenth street barber shop there is a barber who was born in Pennsylvania of @ Swedish father and a Scotch mother, and Who speaks and writes the Welsh lan- guage and belongs to the Welsh So- OXFORD GUIDE BOOK. Dr. Joseph R. Sizop, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, is back from Europe @nd is telling a story that may indicate how Ozford and Cambridge Uni- versities feel about each other. At Ozford he picked up a guide book, which said every tourist should be sure to visit England’s two match- less universities—Ozford and Cam- bridge. “But,’ said the guide book, “if you haven’t time to see them both you can leave out Cambridge.” * x ¥ X INTERPRETER AT WORK. IN THE interpretation of all speeches, papers, discussions and disputes at the second general assembly of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History here last week, Trans- lator Jose Tercero made only one mis- take. He misquoted the Minister of Haitl as saying 1854 when it was 1804. The other error was when he trans- | lated the announcement of the next assembly. He said: “Lima, Peru, has been selected as the seat of the forth- coming assembly.” Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, president of the institute, turned to him and made this correction: . “Not the fourth—it is the third.” i 2 * LOOKING FOR R. R. A? The Rural Resettlement Ad- ministration gets the medal for be- ing the most widely spread Gov- ernment organization in Washing- ton. The administration occupies office space in 17 different buildings. ¥ W . LOFPTY MIRAGE. ITHIN the next few days observ- ers in the downtown section of the city may witness a semi-annual phenomenon. Twice a year—early in March and toward the end of October—the alu- minum cap of the Washington Monu- ment takes on the brilliant effect of a ~leaming diamond. For several days 2t a time the spectacle may be seen. The United States Weather Bureau gives this explanation: “Three things are necessary to produce the glow on the peak of the Monument. They are the proper position of the obelisk it- self, the proper position of the sun and the proper position of the specta- tor. When these requisites are avail- able, regardless of the time of the vear, the glow may be seen. One day it may be visible from one posi- tion, another day from another. It is wisible from any fixed point twice a year.” * X ¥ *x INEFFECTUAL REWARD. The once ornate sign placed on the drinking fountain on Skyline Drive, mear Panorama, Va., has been so marred that only a few of its words are decipherable. One of the words is “mar” and another is “reward.” Once it contained @ full warning that a reward of $100 would be paid to any one furnish- ing information leading to the |sun’s rays were free to enter the arrest of any person guilly of marriay the sign. * * ¥ % SUNLIGHT—MORE SUNLIGHT. | WASHINGTONIAN traveling through North Carolina brings back this story. About 1900 & doctor told his woman patient “You must have sunlight— more sunlight.” And the woman was | taken to Hendersonville, N. C. There, too, the doctors said “You must have | sunlight—more sunlight.” For four years the woman lingered in the sun- light, and then she passed away. The doctors’ words must Lave been on her mind at the last. Her dying wish was that she might be buried where she would have “sunlight— more sunlight.” A brick sarcophagus, 10 feet long, 5 feet wide and 4 feet nigh was con- structed above the ground in the family plot. The lidless coffin was lowered into this. Over the entire crypt was placed a slab with glass windows. From dawn to dusk the | grave. For years the curious came to see.| Then, about five years ago, a member | of the family had a thick coat of tar poured over the glass windows to stop the pilgrimages of the morbid. More time passed. Children heard the story of the windowed grave and | |came and tried to seratch away the | |tar. But in doing so they scratched | | the glass so it was not transparent. | But today, if you visit the windowed | grave in Hendersonville, you probably | will find a child near the grave, hold- ing & jar of water. For a nickel he | will pour water on the glass, so that it fills the scratches in the glass, mak- | ing it smooth enough to see through. | ! And if you look within you can see | a skeleton lying in a violet light—the | skull resting on a mat of horsehair, the covering of the pillow long since vanished. You can discern a gold breast pin lying on the breast bone. | The pin glitters in the sunlight. *x ¥ % x MULES AND CANARIES. | FAMILIAR words in strange usage | usually sends readers to diction- | aries. Sometimes it sends them to the | telephone, especially when a fancied error seems to justify bawling out a | newspaper. | Recently the following classified ad | brought a large number of calls to| ‘The Star, as subscribers sought to | | jolly the editors: | |” “Canary and mule, both good sing- | ers; cages furnished; etc.” | The dictionary describes a mule bird as & hybrid bird, half goldfinch and half canary. INTOXICATION CHARGE | DISMISSED BY JUDGE| | | Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Black Win | Contention They Were Il- | legally Arrested. A contention that they were iliegally arrested because they were on their own property resulted in the dis- | | missal of intoxication end disorderly | | charges against Mrs. Eugenia Black and intoxication.charges against her husband, Theodore Black, when they | were arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court yesterday. | Policemen C. S. Trice and R. J. Serber testified they found the woman in an unconscious condition in the front yard of her home in the North- | west, section of the city. The hus. | band was seen to run into the base- | | ment of the house upon the arrival | of police and one of them caught him | and brought him out. | The alleged offense occurred early | yesterday. The woman, police said, | was unclad except for an overcoat which had been thrown over her. 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