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Show Possibly Wartime Conditions Brought This About HE WAS the happiest man in Washington. That's a pretty broad statement, but be said it himself, and he ought to know. "You see, it is this way," he was heard to say: "For many mouths I had been eating around, here and C COFFEE mere anu e er nei e. Aim something some-thing always bothered me. Maybe you have experienced it. In winter and summer it is always the same, only the medium is changed. "Talk United States? Sure! What rm complaining about is that in wartime war-time Washington in winter, say you can't ever get your second cup of coffee as hot as the first, or with as much cream in it. And in summer the second glass of ice tea is warm. Ask me not why this is true, .mere is no valid reason why the second cup of coffee should not be as hot as the first, or why the second cup should be 'dark' instead of 'light.' Nor have I ever been able to find a real excuse for your second glass of ice tea coming to you lukewarm, with an invisible piece of ice in it. "I threatened, besought and bewailed, and all were of no avail. I must go through life, I thought, accepting a lukewarm second cup cf coffee and a ! tepid second glass of ice tea. "But now all that is changed. My second cup of coffee is steaming and my second glass of Ice tea looks like an iceberg afloat on an amber sea. Oh, boy!" j |