Show IRM capital city full of uniforms without glitter W 14 iett washington lit in it few OH central respects must in these days remind it civil war veteran of tile time little when the capital swarmed with file lie soldiers of 0 tile union there were certainly never moro more generals and admirals on the streets lit in 1801 RB 65 than there are arc today writes nil lit in tho the bloston transcript are na as nun numerous crous on connecticut avenue an a civilian chilian suits stilts the of th tho place Is military hut but tho the civil veteran suddenly dropped down clown tn in Was washington illington now would not know tile tho city for n war city nevertheless tilla drab dress this flits intensely neutral cloth would not represent soldiering to him nt at tit all it would seem to bertolon lic bottle sort bort of custodianship nt ht a club orb ora public institution not n sword tit nt n mans side not it gun on a binante shoulders derl gold flold laco lace conspicuous hy by its from soldiers though to ile ho sure bure tile ho are still permitted to wear it all the people bu etling about like it lot of bank messengers or pared parcel hoys boys intent upon nothing but business instead of soldiers bivouacked bivouac ked on oil licht li lots us ns lit in tho civil war washington Is full of great barrack ilke temporary buildings mostly made of somo settle kind of stucco though hough somo settle aro of wood within which hundreds of yemen women arc writing in a whirling fashion on typewriters mixed up with those women are men lit in these drab stilts either cither superintending super intending ur or interfering with their operations this war so far as the vl visitor altor nt at washington can observe Is being fought by n conion with H n typewriter all the ho space that hint was occupied dui ing tho the civil war by tile depart doport mcnut tind and nil all its officers clerks and sen nuts would scarcely sulpico bodny for one of the numerous bureaus of the department which were inere entirely undiscovered tn in 1805 1803 and consider that lit in 1801 OB GIS tile tho typewriter did not exist aull and that every letter order memorandum record and reference was written by hand I 1 patron of sand art reminds of other pictures ith la Is one woman in tills this town own for whom angelo lived lit in vain ayou you call it a personal grudge seeing title mil lind never heard board tell felt of him until another woman happened to any things nebout ills art and nt lit that nil all sho she did was to alahn that no painter aver made better pictures than tile ones site ah saw auw on tho the bench beach nt lit atlantic city there are anro times when ft hen argument la Is so BO much Itin language guage gone to waste and tills this seemed to bo be one of tile times bo 11 sides bide the woman who lind had backed an ali golo gelo knew that the patron of sand annil art was visioning with memory eyon eyes some under the board walk who was doing hit angels and things to the fall of nickels while she leaned over tho the railing with a companion who had kept loving step with her womanhood until they came to a cemetery goto gate then she bho began to recall past pictures heros heres onet one A blue sea aca billowing into a bench baach with tw two 0 soldiers drawing straight lines on the sand to let tile the waves know how far they may roll in ills lloyal pool Is hilpas inside the lines sits site tn lit its his throne chair to see that tant tile son den obeys liti orders and while lie ho loco does it the breakers consta in atrit in and in over tile tho lines up to tile the throne chair na lis if anny canute that ever lived can liopo hope to own a world that lint belongs to tile people thereof heres a better onet one A park lit in syracuse with archimedes on oil a bench drawing mathematical circles tit in the snail band you yon con can see fee that the alio Itol liall invader rushing toward him Is about to cut liun litin down and that hint Archi archimedes medea knows it nut but there are more important things to ile bo considered dont spoil tho the circle I 1 you end can hear ills his warning cry no as life his blood soaks into tho sand but you know that archimedes did not die because tio ho to Is living now and will keen on living so long no as there Is oil an earth andeen on oil it with state above and waters beneath and this thin Is the best ono one of all another place of sand band with it white robed figure stooping to write a sentence changes charges wrought in washington by the war avenue used to bo be a stately thoroughfare thorough anro on which you yott P pennsylvania could promenade nonchalantly froni brorn the capitol to tho the white house view ing at leisure the massive masill government buildings tile tho souvenirs in tho the curio shops tile ho marble statuary and tile creeping trolleys it still belll hug has tho stamn bom old shooting galleries and tile tho rooms tor for 60 cents oril the liand hand painted martha washington china plates and VIP tho the miniature meats inen tf with thermometers attached ira in the bliok windows but today Is tin an applin way wicy along which surges aurgea constantly a continual of elbowing energetic endless humanity and vehicles potomac Io tomac park used to bo be a n place where you could ride dron mIly along lit in your open harouche on oil n sunday afternoon with fin an occa blonny nod to a cabinet officer or con congress ressman iuan now it la Is n north son sen where on a splendid spring sabbath Is IA mobilized a fleet of allied joy wagons that strive constantly for the sano sane privilege of pursuing the oven even tenor of their way unmolested it the city of washington to Is over ever threatened by nn an unexpected invasion an aa was paris in the early days of tile ho war the secretary of war has only to comman commandeer commandeur deir tho the motorcars lit in the no district of columbia ns its the taxicabs of parts paris and ho he can rush up ill troops enough from camp oleado and caulp meigs and marines from Qua quantico va to saye save tile day |