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Show I WHEN THE DUST OF SPRING ARISES. I After the winter months, the streets I are beginning to get dry and dust, in r many places, covers t,ho surface. As j a result, where there is no sprinkling, i the autos develop a cloud of dust. This is the condition on Washington avenue, ave-nue, north of the bridge. One of the careful housekeepers living liv-ing north of Ogden river roported to The Standard this morning, requesting that tho city board bo made aware of tho fact that tho sprinkling wagons j should visit that part of the city, if the homes along the path of the specd- ing autos are to remain habitable.' j "Dust fills the air and pours into our I homes," said the lady over tho telephone. tele-phone. "Urge the commissioners to come out of their hibernating holes. This is the spring lime. We cannot start our housecleaning until the dust In the street is kept down by sprinkling." sprink-ling." When tho housewife hung up her phone, a little man, without any pre-! pre-! tense at dress, walked into the sanctum sanc-tum and said: "I am a poet and have a poem for you to publish." Which confirmed the message from north of tho bridge. |