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Show Washington Roof ledgers. A look through a powerful field glass from one of the narrow windows in the top of the Washington monument in hot weather shows a new side of domestic life in the capital what might be termed term-ed the upper side as a writer has said in a book of which all the rest has been forgotten. Washington is a city of boarding houses. As you look from the top of the monument with your field glass you can see bedrooms on the house tops. That is, light, portable cots have been taken upon the flat roofs of houses, rugs spread over the sheets of tin lhat have become floors, and sometimes Elding Eld-ing screens have been placed between the beds. Tho houses so topped off are probablv the big boarding houses where unmarried department clerks live, and they take to the roofs on hot nights for the sake of the maximum of air and minimum of temperature. And the plan is not bad one by long odds. Washington Wash-ington Post. |