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Show Fashionable Flappers Draw Mankind io F Street WASHINGTON. War does not prevent feminine Washington from promenading prom-enading F street every afternoon. F street is a particularly appropriate thoroughfare for the parade, for all the flip and fashionable flappers flit by In nossy fripperies. Ana then again at night F street is the scene of the final flaunting of flamboyant furbelows. Washington is famed for the beauty, beau-ty, for the dash, for the chic of its women. And justly so, too. There ore, of course, many more pretty girls on Broadway or Fifth avenue in an hour than there are on F street in a day, but, with all respect to New York ( city, it must bt admitted that the lovely love-ly women of Washington give an ira- ' pression of culture, of breeding, of the high manners and fine customs of another day, that is not obtained along the great and not so white way. The sun is hot in the afternoon and the frocks are thin, and if one strolls toward the sun the view resembles the back pages of the magazines. Here and there on a street corner is a pretty group. Often in the center of it is a French or a Serb or an Italian officer, vivid in his uniform, a spot of rich color In a circumfluent band of admiring ladies who shimmer about him and bend and sway much in the manner of goldfish dodging about their ruined castle in a globe. And the saluting that goes on must represent untold useless expenditure of horse power. The women salute, too, for there are scores of them in uniform, most of them ambulance drivers. Nor is their uniform an empty symbol. They work from early morning until late at night ; most of them give their own cars and buy their own gas and oil ; and their labors are not less arduous than those of a masculine ambulance driver. And no more romantic, either. They carry one end of a stretcher that bears very frequently fre-quently a dying person to the waiting car. Little Verbal Slip, but It Spoiled Romance WHILE meandering, a solitary reaper, across lots over the vast and verdant ellipse that fills up the geography between the Monument and the back view of the White House, my $12.50 white-pointed toe, reduced from $13 because it was a Friday bargain, came in contact with a square stone marker embedded deep in the grass bearing this simple and pathetic inscription, "U. S. Meridian, 1S84." I shed a few silent tears. These memorial stones are so sad. "U. S. Meridian, 18S4" so simple and eloquent ! Then lifting my streaming eyes, I observed as a crow flies from that mortuary tablet in the ellipse where the tank Britannia was ( wont to gambol some months ago, straight through the south door of the executive mansion and out through the north door, across Lafayette Park and out Sixteenth street it would find its last roosting place linearly on the top of "Meridian hill," in a direct line with that wistful little overgrown tablet. I had always thought before that a meridian was a vague and abstract thing like an equator or a horizon. I never realized before that you could stump your toe against one. Did you? And speaking of as1 the crow flies, it was this amiable typewriter's proud privilege recently to go snooping down F street on the heels of a dapper young first lieutenant and the new girl upon whom he was obviously desirous of making an impression before he started off kaiser chasing. The sweet young thing asked her soldier the exact distance between two certain towns. "Just fifty miles," replied the lieutenant with precision and dignity, "that is, as the fly crows." And the foolish girl giggled and spoiled all the atmosphere. That official will never propose now. You know, yourself, Geraldine, how hard it is to get a man, soldier or civilian, up to the scratch again once he's side-tracked. . r, " - Here Is Trip Visitor to Capital Must Not Miss I F OPPORTUNITY presents itself, especially If you are a newcomer to thf 1 national capital, take a little hike through the beautiful park on the north west corner of the city and become acquainted with some of the prettiest scenery you can find anywhere. Even the entrances to the park are things of beauty. They are numerous nnd widespread, wide-spread, and residents of any section of the city will find an easy way to get into the park. . Especially is this true of the zoo, which presents, in addition to its trees, rolling hills and streams, a congregation con-gregation of animals as interesting as any to be found. Familiar entrances to the Zoological park are four in number num-ber First of all. there Is the Adams IN I CAN'T 5EE THAT 1 fJi5 SO PI HE IT Mm?) J mill road entrance, down which, every sunshiny Sunday afternoon, stream hundreds of people from all sections of the city. This entrance leads down the stone steps, and affords perhaps the most picturesque doorway to the Zoo. The Connecticut avenue entrance Is perhaps the most pleasant way of all for those who are not fond of walking, and admits one at once into the park. But there Is yet another way of getting Into tbo park, and with the Initiated the favorite. Walk across the Calvert street bridge until you come to the west end. Turn directly to your right, and there, at the side of the bridge, you will see steps leading downward. Follow these down and down and down. Then you will come to a place where you haven't the slightest idea which way to go. Don't. Strike down the road to the left and you suddenly will come out at the ford. There before you will be the creek rushing over the rocks, rocks over which small hoys of Washington have crossed the "crick" these many decades. I remember when I used to hop from rock to stone to stone. Either the stones have been washed away, or something, for I wouldn't care to try the passage now ! Soon you come to a bridge, pass the Jackal cages, and before you know it are right with the animals, the bears being Just, above your head. Considerable Amusement in Store for Registrars JUST because a thing is serious Is no reason why one shouldn't see the funny side, if it is there. When you think of a Hun you think of a biped that ri'vver smiles or laughs. When you think of the American soldier you think of (MJZ CJyou bet l' M? r-'"V REGISTER a smiling man. When that big registration regis-tration comes off the registrars throughout the country are going to see anil hear amusing things galore, If they keep their eyes and oars open, which I expect1 they will do. Already citizens not registered In the draft are beginning to manifest relui'tance, here ami there, at giving out Information as to whether or not they will have to rcglslcr. This tiling hits the age-shy one.-, both ways. Suppose you are fifty years old. say, and pride yourself on looking young. .Somebody comes up an I pays. "Say, J'.lll, will you have to register?" Th.'t sounds li.';o tin easy question to answer, and so It Is; lull If you ;.m: '.v t il daily, llien ibat fellow knows you are not forty-nix years old. Then, in, if you have to register, ami are trying to make folks believe you are , il In u-'dnm, vou Hbir.v yourself up w hen you adinil II. .Members of local boards throughout the nation will reg!:ier I heiinelvcH )., .( ,. ,;r,,n ic they iiune within the iige limit, and II I'l p.-obable that, the ,,,..,1 i j,r;i,v of tin- f.,000 board members will r","l.sler. . , rt.u'l fii. I out until the dayand in .soon- ea::es you eolnir t-. ! a 1. i.il lime (.- n i'-i n I |