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Show HIGH COST IN WASHINGTON Houses and Apartments Rent at Fib-xUlous Fib-xUlous Prices One Woman Prom-Ises Prom-Ises Ordinary Wear ami Tear. Two women sat at a local theater the other night. They were dressed "fit to kill," in the good old Hoosier idiom, and wore diamonds galore, writes Charles E. Tracewell in Washington Wash-ington Star. They were talking about the subject or rents, a topic of absorbing Interest In Washington just now, when a house or apartment of any kind Is difficult to obtain for love or money. It has been a matter of gossip that ninny wealthy people have come to Washington recently, and that many of these have rented furnished housei and apartments at fabulous rates. The two women at the theater were discussing this very thing. What was more, one of them -was one of those wealthy ones In question, judging from what she said. "Xou know, my dear," she was saying say-ing to the other, "I won't say I'm going go-ing to use an ax, but" she smiled significantly "when my lease is over" and she smiled again "well, there is going to be some ordinary wear and tear, my dear, there is going to b some ordinary wear and tear." |