Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15

added as though to head him off. No. l
don't want to rent II, want to buy it.
X X x
People who are in love with themselves.
as well as those who are In love with each
other. especially in the latter instance X
they are of the opposite SEX and unmarried.
are apt to be rather selfish. In fact. they
are so. without any qualifications of any
sort. The expression that is generally more
acceptable. used in this connection is that
they are absorbed in each other, and from
the general point of view it is looked upon
as highly commendab,e that this is the
case.
There is another side, however. 1t Is
brought out In the expression of a man VINO
recently visited one of the resorts in the
Vicinity of the city that is reached by the
trolley cars. He had located himself COM
fortably in a rustic arbor with which the
place abounded. and had taken off his coat
and lighted his cigar and was enjoying the
cool air and the scenery well as a lonely
man could be expected to do.
Presently young girl and a young man
wandered that way. and seeing empty
seat in the arbor. they came in. The man
had lunch basket and also a newSpape
and soon they were seated he became
absorbed in the news of the day and the
young woman, taking part of the Journal
also gave her attention to its columns.
The solitary man was soon made to real
lie in some intangible manner. perhaps a
soul wave, that the current news was not
after all. what the young couple were In
terested in. 1t was gradually fioated in on
his consciousness by the same sort of men,
tai telepathy that he was a disturbing ele-
ment in this peaceful scene.
There was species of restlessness de-
EeIODpu that could the
news paragraphs that were apparently be-
ing devoured by these young people. Some
how change took place in the atmosphere.
or appeared to do So and the first occu-
pant of the place began to be affected In
fact. the comfort of the spot had departed.
He began 10 feel that the arbor was getting
crowded. and he rather thought that the
latest corners would move along.
1t was soon evident that a change as far
as they were personally concerned. was not
in their thoughts. In fact. in the same sort
of vague fashion the other impressions
had been conveyed he soon realized that he
was the one that expected to go. So
he took himself off.
AS for word of appreciation for his act
of self-sacrifce, that is yet to be uttered
!: X
For many years during the latter part OF
June and July In this city the sidewalks
and roadways have been Uttered during
the early morning hours, before the sweep
other insects that met their death by con-
tinually butting against the electric light
globes. There were also many crippled
bugs crawling about beneath the lamps.
This season 1t has been observed by citi-
zens that when the stir and hustle of bust
ness life begins there are comparatively
few insects to be seen.
A 4th street man who takes constitu-
tional walk every morning in the early
dawning has discovered the cause of this
scarcity of bugs. and he has explained it
to The Star ...
MANY people" he said "have claimed
that the English sparrow is not an insectiv-
orous bird. Now, I am prepared to dis
pute that statement from my own observa-
lions. If you will get up any morning at
the peep o dawn and take a walk down
town over the business thorOughfares, you
will see hundreds of the little gray birds
hopping and flying about busily engaged in
| devouring the yellow mayfies that have
fallen by the wayside. as well as other va
rietes of insects that have had an expert
ence with the electric globes. By sun up
nearly all the bugs have been disposed of.
That Is the reason we do not see mayfies
now piled in riffs in the mornings. as was
the case several years ago. After all, 1t
may happen that the mayfy diet may yet
convert the English sparrows to insectIv-
Orous habits