NEED OF THE TIMES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 9

NEED OF THE TIMES

With the passing of each rainy day it becomes increasingly strange that no benefactor of the race has been prodded,' gouged, or spattered into preparing a "Manual of Umbrellas." People have been carrying some sort of protection against the rain ever since anybody can remember, yet the only thing they have really learned to do well is to lose umbrellas. No tw6 persons, .not even lovers, can walk under one umbrella without getting wet, and raincoats probably were first devised by a man who tried to carry an umbrella, over his wife's hat. '

j What excuse is there for the person I who goes through a crowded street holding an umbrella before him in a charge- | bayonets fashion ? An apology does not exactly meet the requirements after the' tip'of an umbrella rib. lias'been thrust into someone!a eye. Folded, , the umbrella, is just as dangerous, when someone (femes plunging along the sidewalk holding an umbrella at an angle of about 45 degrees ahead of him, tripping every--1 one but himself. Then there is the per. son who tucks the handle under the arm, so thai, fljit innocent person may become speared on the sharp end which sticks out like a-sixty-foot telegraph pole on a fifteen-foot truck. Furthermore, wet umbrellas' never J were intended as partitions between | seats, even at a motion picture theatre. There is no desire to distract the best brains of the country from consideration of war problems, but some sort of umbrella regulations are needed.—lndianapolis News. ■-'./.■