Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
AROUND THE CITY

way the steps and pavement are piled up
with snow. The butler has gone home with
a pain. and cook says she will leave before
she will demean herself with a shovel.
suppose l can make a try at it"
Not while I'm around" Interrupted So
ciety young man who often leads cotillions~
Just let me have a shovel. and you will
see how beautifully 1 can demean myself
as soon as get through with my dinner"
Let us all demean ourselves. suggested
one of the young women present. all of
whom were going to the ball.
The motion was carried unanimously. ana
in something less than half-hour the
young man and his assistants had cleaned
the steps and pavement and were debating
the advisa bility of applying for a Joo next
door.
gray hen. They live in a back yard in r
street not far from the War Department
and their affection for each other ana the
show they make of 1t are worth gong q
mile to see. During the last cold spell II
was funny-to say nothing of the pathos OF
ito see the effort they made to keep each
other warm. The kitten rubbed against the
hen with such force as to nearly upset tue
object OF its devotion and the hen In turn
spread her wing over the kitten and ciucked
as though she covered the dearest thins
that ever came out of an egg Their star
performance is a kissing act. IN whlcn tne
kitten puts up its mouth and the hen peeKs
down her bill. There Is nothing Romeo
and Julietish about this salute. the Kitten
is plainly a helpless orphan. and there Is
no mistaldng the maternal instinct or the
hen.
Unlike the Vifginians Emily. the F street
hen has had her brood OF chicks-and her
owner wonders whether she remembers tnat
every last one of them was devoured Dy the
kittens tom-cat pa. or, remembering Is
magnanimous enough not to visit the enor-
mites of the father upon the son.
woman whose business often keeps her
out late was battling along one black
sleety night, when the streets were 50 ue
serted that there seemed to De nothins oul
in them besides herself and the weather AS
she slipped and shivered on her way. all the
bright things in her life disappeared IN the
dreary darkness. She could only FeaH]o
that she was cold. tired and discouraged
and OH so many squares from nome
Suddenly somebody commenced TO WINS
tie 1t was a shr;Il boyish whistle and the
tune was THE Good Old summer Time
The woman lifted her umbrella from over
her face as the steps approached her
curious to see the Mark Tapley who couid
be jolly under such lamentable conditions
She recognized him. 1t was black Jim.
scrap of newsboy. from whom she oiteh
buys papers. because ne is always so ragged
and hungry looking-so merry ana SO oe-
formed.
wants a Star Mis- Halls? rs akin
twenty-f cents erpiece tonight. SOS KIN
bny me a par pattern levver shoes. He
glinned and poked out for her Inspection
a twisted foot. in rundown, broken ofo-
gan.
this?'
Nome amt never had none
Had your supper
Little bit.
Hungry?
"Yasm. 1 always is"
We'll. come with me- We are going to
have some sandwiches and coffee at the
lunch room around the corner.
Jim's eyes danced. but he hung back
De won't femme go In, Mis- Halls. is
niger
.You come along and see if they won't.
When they got to the little open all
night cafe the woman went in. but Jim re-
NAMED outside, with his eager face fiattened
against the glass door. This did not satisfy
Mis- Halls. She opened the door ana the
boy slipped into the blessed light ana
warmth and effaced himself in corner.
Jim and / are cold and hungry. she said
to the man behind the counter: we both
want coffee and three sandwiches and some
doughnuts for Jim. He says you won let
him eat in here, but you will, this one time,
won't you? He is so little and so fofiorn.
The man gave the race problem Thought
that brought furrow to his forehead, Inen
he looked at the ecstasy of appeal on Jfms
face and at the woman, whose smile was
both an appeal and command. The fur
row gave way to laugh and he went TOT
two Steamin2 mugs or co1ee-
As Mis- Halls drank hers there returned
to her consciousness the pretty home and
the dear ones in it for whom she was able to
care for as tenderiy though she were a
man; of her friends. and of her successful
and growing career The small ragmufin
had taught her great big lesson. and as he
went whistling off in the sieety biackness
she felt that he had left in her heart
CLEAN of the brightness of 1.-The Good Old
Summer Time.
Two women were ploughing home in Mon
A. ,,txrl &c IN w
a world-battered creature, whose clothes
showed poverty to be his taiior-shambled
up to them and quavered out:
Ladies for Gods sake give me dime
to get a bite to eat
one of the women handed him a quarter.
You must like to throw away your good
n oney" said the other, who had forged
ahead You know that old fraud has
gene straight off to get drink.
Reckon so? 1t must be awful to want
drink "a night like this and not be able to
get it,
That's a pretty remark to come from
a virtuously trained old maidi l suppose
you know that you are deliberately en-
uraginz vice.?
Sounds so. the way you put it. AS
look at it, l simply helped somebody who
asked it, in the name of his God and mine
II he uses it to get a drink, I'm glad to
know that l gave him little extra so that
he can get his bite as well. poor soul.
ANNE Blank, you are simply a heathen.
THAT being the case l serve a purpose.
for ! give a good woman like you the OPP
portunity to preach
Then they laughed at the fat man in
front who tumbled into a snowdrift, and
the small Incident was closed.
Another case of begging during the cold
spell: decently attired man, with gem
tlemanly manners, approached kindly
citizen and said to him respectfully: II
am sorry to say that have been drinking,
and 1 want bracer before / can get the
courage to hunt a job If you will give
me quarter 1 can't promise to pay 1t
back. because l don't know when l will
get work. but L will be extremely obliged"
The citizen Is not of the flowing bowl
type but he saw that the man looked white
and exhausted. and he gave him the change.
He did more He handed him his card and
told him that he could possibly help him to
work. Then the man said:
II told you a lie. didn't want the money
for a drink. l was about starved, but 1