Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-19

residence streets of the city. The dog catch
er and his active assistants had made a
raid along the block, and, as it happened
the pet dogs of two ladies well known in
fashionable society were out in the charge
of maids, but they were without tags. The
paid guardians of the law attempted to
gather in these canine violators, and what
with the bowls of the animals and the
shrieks of the maids the neighborhood was
soon aroused. The fair owners of the en-
dangered animals were attracted to the
windows. One glance sufficed to show that
they had personal interest in the happen
ings on the street, and so they botn rushed
OUT In the meantime the maids came to
the rescue of the pets, and before the rude
hands of the minions of the law could be
laid upon the delicate bodies of the oeiib-
boned animals they had gathered them IN
their arms and FASTENED to their resp ective
homes At this juncture the ladies appear
ed on the scene, and while their pets were
practically out of danger, yet such vas
their excitement that the only form uf ex-
preston seemed to be tears, and hence the
spectacle was presented of two well dressed
women standing in the center of the street
weeping loudly
Time was" said the man who has some
thing to say on any old subject that comes
up. when the name of Washington was
rather more than any other name in this
anu " Dc d " "oo
greater than a king. or words to that ef-
feet. The name is just as good now as it
ever was. of course, for the immortal
George gave it a permanent value before
he finished with 1t that can never be dis
counted, but the great persons of our day
and generation are not WaShing+olS,
though there were enough of them in the
beginning to have made some sort Of
show with posterity. 1 was looking over
VI l.. r;aaf > al do
volume which contains the names of 11,5ol
persons of sufficient distinction to De in
cluded in A biographical dictionary of not
able living men and women of the United
States, and the only Washington N the
entire eleven and a half regiments of great
ness therein enrolled is Booker T., and he
is not a white man. He is a credit to tire
name, just the same, despite hts color,
but really it would seem that there ought
to be white Washington or two among all
the thousands who have risen to notability
III country whose father bore that name. y
He was only a ballroom boarder. per-
haps, and still he had some rights that
chambermaid at 50 a week and found was
bound to respect He had been waiting In
the debris of a nights rest for the young
chamberiady to come around and straighten
things up. but up to 1890 she had not ap-
peared, and as it was Sunday morning and
he had a day in, he rather felt that he
would like to see things in some kind of
shapeliness, so he went boldly out into the
hall where she was chatting pleasantly
with the elevator boy and addressed her:
When are you going to fix my room?'
he inquired in a tone showing slight traces
of irritation. but not unpardonably rude.
''Oh, 1 don't know she responded with
naughty toss of her head; Il haven't
made up my mind yet"
This more than he could endure.
Jaw, your mind be darned," he growled;
you make up my bed and let your mind
rest awhile"
She had been a summer girl all summer
but her reign over now and she was
home and beneath the watchful eye of her
father, a man of staid decorum and one
ness of heart. He had heard stories of her
summer firtations. but he had said no
word, because he knew that summer girl
like the measles and other adolescent trou-
bles, had to run her course. Now, how
ever. the summer had ended and he pro-
posed to have her settle down to something
more permanent than moonshine and cara
mels. One morning when he had nerved
himself for the orueal he called her into
the library. She was prettier than a pict-
-ure, and as she came tripping before him.
all sparkle and smiles and sunshine, he al
most wished ne was young aagin and she
was somebody else's daughter. But he
gathered his strength and confronted her
Sternly-
My dear he said very slowly, 81 am
afraid that you are too frivolous; too fond
OF mems attention; too ready to listen to
any wooer who comes
Really, papa she responded, there's
only one
Are you sure?' he said insistently.
Think moment"
That's all, papa" she persisted .To
tell you frankly"
"Um-er," he interrupted, Frankly, is it
thought from what / had heard that II
was not only Frankly, but Freddy and
Jackly and Dickly and Tomly and Harrvly
and" but the bright being did not stay
TO listen TO the arrangement She knew that
her father had an invoice made out of ali
the others and she fed away, leaving him
10 his reflections.
X X X
In the life of the inyeterate angler there
occur many narrowing and annoying ex-
periences. but even the failure to land the
biggest trout of the season after he had
nibbled the fly would hardly have brought
more chagrin TO follower of Izaak Wal
ton than did the experience which befeIl a
local fisherman in a Georgetown car the
other day.
He had been up the Potomac some dis
lance fishing for the little fellows tina,
now abound in the river, having put out in