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Show Showing That Sometimes the Late Bird "Gets His" WASHINGTON Yes, the early bird catches the worm. But the late bird sometimes catches it, too ; especially if he stays np late enough. The matin hours have been sung through history, but no one has laid much stress upon the vanre of the analogous hours at the other end of the day. I have always thought that the crafty bird which would sit out on the limb after his fellows had sought their downy nests would probably catch more worms than if he had beat the bugle. Birds ani men it is all the same. Messenger boys were gathered in a room at ie of the local telegraph offices the other night. It was late for this nartlcular shift of messeneers. (lorlLY MADE ) f $ 53 THIS n even if messengers are supposed to know no hours. The boys wero counting their day's earnings. One little fellow displayed $15, and anothe- told how' he was making $150 a month easy as rolling off a log, he said. How to spend it all was the problem. Some favored going over to "de hotel" and blowing several dollars in for a real feed, while others thought of the theaters, only to recall that the theaters are closed on account of the Spanish influenza. Amid these boys stood a veteran messenger, a frail old man, seemingly, yet there must be a deep well of life in that old fellow, for he is to be seen night and day, rain and shine, walking around, delivering messages. "Anybody want to go tip to the capitol to get some calls?" cried the man at the desk. He named a prominent congressman. "Naw," spoke up one youth, pulling his cap over his eyes. "We got too much ter do from now on ter bother wid 'im." "I'll go," said the old fellow. The boys gave him the "ha ha" as he shuffled slowly out the door. He was gone about two hours. Yben he came back he brought with him a bundle of telegrams as big as a trunk. The congressman had a big constituency. The man at the desk figured up the "commissions." On the telegrams which the boys had refused that old messenger made $53. Just Two Foolish and Frivolous Young Women SHE is the office pet. She said so. The other young woman accepted the boast with the indifference which you notice usually greets our self-praisements self-praisements people are so aggravating and went on dabbing rouge from ( C.) TOBEnUTYfO the box on the dresser before the mirror mir-ror in n theater primping room after the matinee. "This town must be run away with office pets. You are about the forty-eleventh I've come across and I haven't been here a month yet. But you can count me out. I got off be-! be-! cause I had a day coming to me k same as you, I guess." "No such a thing! Two of the other girls wanted to get off and he wouldn t lettem. But when 1 asked him he was as sweet as any peach that ever grew." "Oh, I see; he could spare you better than the others. You'll be out of a job first thing you know." "Hateful thing, you ! Say, if you expect me to go on the street with you you gotta rub off some of that paint. I wouldn't bo caught dead looking Ilka you do." "Don't worry, love; you'll never look like me, dead or alive. You gotta be born to beauty like mine," nnd the girl who was making up laughed out with the graceless joyousness of a street kid. And the other took her at her face value. "The vanity of some people," she said. "You certainly can speak for yourself, can't you kid?" All of which would be too foolish to waste print paper on except that it Is exactly the way two girls went on the other afternoon. Vith Souvenirs and Memories of the Great Game IT WAS a strange audience that listened to Representative Klncheloe of Kentucky recently In the big, comfortable auditorium of the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. building at the Walter Reed Military hospital, on the outskirts of Washington. Not a man but wore bis bathrobe, and In the pocket of almost every negligee reposed a proud souve-' nlr of the owner's prowess under the shell fire of the Huns, for the listeners listen-ers were veterans of the war. A youth from North Carolina mountains, still shivering from shell shock, fished up a piece of shrapnel from his kimono pocket. "They gouged this out of my hip," he explained. ex-plained. "Another piece got me in the ff5(lTO0K THIS 0ME1 I'S tw A nun bead. I don't reckon PI! ever be fit to go back wisht I could, though." lie and many of his slippered comrades wore Jauntily the tiny, soft "overseas" trench cap, that readily accommodates a gas mask, that supersedes the campaign hat as soon as our men leave our shores and Is rapidly becoming the only military headgear of our troops except the steel helmet. The auditorium thronged wilh many hundred Invalid young soldiers, a number of whom brought In by their comrades lay around the walls on cots, bristled with a tragic forest of crutches. A game young chap with a bandaged fraction of a foot led the applause together with a handsome sportsman whose case is particularly pathetic, who has no legs at all. The latter is carried tenderly from place to place by comrades less severely stricken. Departments Have Long Needed More Floor Space WITH many buildiiiKs either requisitioned or eroded to iiceoinmodate the nation's war business, floor space to take care of peace-time business Is insufficient. This statement was authorized by Secretary of tit? Treasury ,ri. ii . ; it v JWoAdoo. The Arlington building and the treasury annex, botli of which wil! be ready for occupancy In Ihe winter, provide 1,200,1)00 feet of Moor space. Hut. even with this addition lo Unavailable Un-available space the treasury department depart-ment win had It u million feet short of the requirements for normal limes. The work of Ihe treasury department, is done In lifly-llve buildings scattered over the city. Every building nnd all rooms nre crowded lo "siilfc,' -a I Ion," an olliehil of Ihe department said. "Any pci:-oii who tells you that nt lie- chco o the war there will be u number of mitK-c npb-d department biilhlirg's In Wie liinglon displays grons Igiiorauei. r,r eoieliih.ic! here," aid tin- ollirinl riTi-rred lo. "The truth Is, we in ed two more bui Mini's thai : hoi. Id be at bast equal in si.e lo the annex nnd the Arlington lo lain- c:ii.- of tin- peace dcmand-i in proper shape. " Vi a biii'ion, in far ir ie-e. my public bui ng t lire eiiiieerin-i, wan I, I . ;i v -! about a:t much unprepared I'm pence a", 'In- luiM been i liown to lie in. prepared for war. And now Ibnt inlluii.:i ha.i nprend, coiulilioiiM have l-i oino oiihm ublc." |