Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1935, Page 35

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LETTERS. UDGING from the letters that| drop into the mail basket every - morning, Washington leside% now has ai least one operative In every block. | These communications are varied. | One correspondent sends us a clipped | headline: “District Commissioners to be Done in Oil,” with the scribbled no- tation, “Is that the human thing to do?” Another letter will bring a new voice in the city-wide controversy over where the hand-stamping of paid cus- | tomers at school dances originated.| ported item. Some of these form the | nucleus for today'’s column. Inci-| ticularly on the lookout for short,| anecdotal legends centered about If they have a trace of mystery, the | supernatural, or even the macabre, s0 = A SENSE OF PROPERTY. 1\ necticut avenue, sends in this one: | nent Washington woman, has a little | mongrel pup named Skeet. Nancy is not so enthusiastic about this canine newcomer in the family. Bkeet seemed to be having a delightful time on the porch when all of a sud- curdling screams. She rushed in terror | to her child and elmost fainted when the elbow had disappeared down the dog’s throat. when Nancy between screams, cried, “Skeet swallowed my gum and I only Still another will send us a fully re- dentally, you operatives, we're par- ‘Washington and nearby communities. | much the better. Send them in. ARGUERITE C. RAND, 2900 Con- Little Nancy, daughter of a promi- | devoted to Skeet, though her mother is One morning recently Nancy and den Nancy's mother heard blood- she saw that Nancy's forearm up to She started to seize upon the dog lent it to him, and now I can't get it.” *x ok ok ok OLD IN OMAHA. Miss Pat Graham, 1914 I street, enters the controversy on rubber= stamping the hands of paid cus- tomers at school dances. Miss Graham says this was done 10 years ago at the Omaha, Nebr, high school she attended. Miss Graham also says that these tight-legged trousers women wear for horseback riding are spelled “‘jodhpurs”—according to the latest dictionaries—advertise- ments notwithstanding. > 4 % OBJECT LESSON ROM “D” comes the following se- quel to our item about the tree growing from the concrete steps in the | 900 block of E street: “I have watched that little tree ever since it started to grow, eight years ago. When any of my associates be- come discouraged I take them around to see that tree and tell them if a tree can make the grade under such hard circumstances they ought not to com- plain over their small woes. “The interesting thing is that at first the crevice in the stone steps where the tree started was only about a quar- ter of an inch wide. Now it has pushed the stone block out about 2 inches.” * % ¥ X GUEST DUNKER. From Lulie W. Smith, 1860 Co=~ lumbia road, a regular contributor, comes a tale of the socially and financially high-up man who loves to eat in a penny restaurant. The other day he was nudged by a pleasant-faced hobo seated mext to him at the long steam table. The hobo tilted his empty cup toward his new friend. “Say, buddy, may I dip my toast in your coffee? Mine is all gone.” * % % X KINDLY POLICEMAN, 'HIS one came unsigned: ! One day last week, about 8:30 em, a land turtle was laboriously crossing Irving street northeast. When- ever an auto would pass the turtle would draw back into his shell. A policeman riding a motor cycle, s €35 D. C. No. 1, came along and had to swerve his cycle to keep from hitting the turtle. He turned around, came back, got off his cycle and approached the turtle, which promptly withdrew into its shell. ‘The policeman picked up the turtle e ———— DON’'T BLAME your OIL BURNER if you burn too much oil you don’t get quick heat if house temperature doesn’t stay uniform Your burnerinanold-fashioned castiron boiler is handicapped. Oil firing de- mands a steel boiler. Put that same burner in the FITZGIBBONS OIL-EIGHTY f——— AUTOMATIC the modern CO PER-STEEL boilef, expressly develop- ed to meet oil burn- ing requirements, and you'll be surprised at the wonderful im- provement in your heating and how much less oil you'll And this Your burner fits behind this sbnel works with any ng system, and any afew hours. FITZGIBBONS BOILER CO. Phone : District 2037 (OFFICE and SHOWROOM ., 1427 EYE ST. N.W., WASH. ils obout the OIL-EIGHTY AUTO- TIC and your FHA 3-YEARPURCHASE PLAN, NAME..... ADDRESS. g e e e . Inc. | and carried him across the street, de- positing him on the grass. Whereupon the turtle trudged merrily away. - ko a WHERE IS ETHIOPIA? D. S. Myers, 1763 Q street, would like to know what became of Ethiopia on the floor map in the entrance to the Benjamin Franklin post office. He reports that it ap- pears to be swallowed up by Eritrea or British Somaliland. * x> NIGHT BUS. {ROM John R. Wilson, jr., 5106 Fourteenth street: The other night the bus driver, making his usual midnight run from Forest Glen to Sixteenth and Ken- nedy streets, was & few minutes ahead of schedule, so he decided to wait at Forest Glen. Meanwhile, two attractive young ladies got on the bus, with numerous suitcases and coats, and used very persuasive methods to urge the driver to leave ahead of schedule. He re- fused. Finally the time came for the bus to leave, and the two young ladies sank nervously into a seat. The bus lumbered leisurely along the highway and into Silver Spring. Suddenly a Maryland State police scout car dashed to the side of the bus and a shrill whistle was blown | by one of the two officers in the car. The bus driver obediently drove the bus to the side of the road while the | two young ladies uttered cries of dismay. A crowd gathered. | “Got two girls aboard?” one of | the officers yelled. The bus driver nodded. The two! officers climbed into the bus and| grabbed the suitcases. “Come on, girls. We have to take you in,” they announced. | The girls begged and pleaded, but the officers were firm. Stiffiy they got out of the bus and were escorted to the police car. Suddenly, one of the girls turned to the other. | “This is the last time I'm going to try to run away from school,” she said. * ok k% ‘ REPORTER'S MISTAKE. story's bizarre truth. | A Washington resident, then trav-| eling in New Orleans, was eye-wit- ness, and brings the story north. At 3 a.m. the fire broke out in the big hotel. The roof garden closed half | an hour before. Some one's cigarette | stub, probably. | At any rate, the flames skippedi down through the five floors of the| { hotel, making a torch of th. whole| | structure. Five guests were burned to | death, only—but the newspaper ac-| count said nine. Here's why: Next door to the hotel was an un dertaking parlor on a ground floor. The day before the fire an accident LIFETIME FURNITU Mode Iti popular! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935, girls. Their bodies had been brought to the mortuary and laid out. This fact was unknown to the several volunteers who were among those aiding at the great fire. By the flamelight, through the under- taker’s rear windows, these volunteers saw the bodies. As the shop was in imminent dan- ger of being consumed, they smashed the windows, forced doors and dragged BAR NAMES LOWREY National Group Appoints D. C. Lawyer to Commercial Post. Vernon B. Lowrey, Washington at- torney, has been appointed to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Commercial Law and Bankruptcy, according to word re- IN© FEWSPAPER ever carried this | | ceived here, Lowrey was elected to the associa- tion in 1931 and has served for the past two years cn both the Committee on Practice of Law in the District and the Committee on Amendments to the Federal Securities Act. out the four quiet forms. In the excitement, they afterward explained, it had seemed to them that these were four pecple who had been over- come by the smoke and chemical fumes and fainted. So they carried them ouf and laid them down beside the five who met death in the hotel. Pronounced dead, reporters added the score: Nine. TOSSING FOWLS HALTED FREEPORT, Ill, October 25 (#).— ‘They can't toss poultry from office building roofs here and get away with it, ‘The Humane Society protested, so sponsors of a “poultry scramble” con- test have decided to use metal disks instead. 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