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Show F01T1S FUL TO SUPPLY WATER "No beer; no booze; no wines for Christmas." That is the plaint of .one attache at the United States forestry office this morning. Then he continued: "All that is bad enough. It's too bad. If one has acquired the habit of believing that liquid stimulants should be a part of every properly regulated Yuletide. "To be denied water also is making the occasion entirely too bone-dry. I stroll along the streets with a heavy coat of fur spread over the upper surface sur-face of my tongue. I would enjoy a good long draft of 100 per cent pure water. am doomed to thirst, though, for tho city has closed the fountains." ' It is oxplained by tho city that the fountains are closed because of zero temperatures, now long since qver-due. qver-due. This explanation, however, is met by tho 'same complaining forestry service ser-vice attache that the smaller towns and larger ones, Also, in Idaho and Utah, permit the fountains to operato all winter. Cold weather doesn't interfere in-terfere and peculiarly there are no ice accumulations in tho guttering. |