Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27

rural visitor was being shown ABOUT
Washington by his city cousin recently.
They visited the patent office and the sew
eral museums, the Capitol and the WASH
ington Monument. In all those places the
city man took the greatest pains TO explain
10 his country relative about the bulidlhSS
and their interesting contents. Finally TO
the disgust of the Washing tonldn, MS guest
exclaimed:
Cousin Sam 1t amt no use ter tell me
all them things. l don't understand notnlh
about 'em, an yer words is all wasted. But
gee, Wilkins, l wish thar were circus
here now. That's what l likes.
The city man in relating the circum-
stance said:
But that country fellow made me awfully
tired while We were on our way to my
home after making the wearisome rounds
Of the public buildings. My several vol
umes of descriptive talk had been utterly
wasted on him. just as though had been
talking Choctaw to him. He had gazed list
lessly and dumbly at all the exhibits in the
National Museum, but when We had arrived
within three blocks of home. and l as hun
CRY as a hawk, We came upon spawned
old mule hitched to an ash cart, the animal
having fallen in the roadway.
Don't you know continued the city
cousin. that hayseed gawk just stopped
IN front of the PROSTATE mule. his eyes fair
~ bulging with interest. He stood there
like n stone man. watching the drivers
every movement as he tried to get the old
mule on his feet. kept urging him to come
on home. as dinner would be cold. but moth
ing would move him. Finally he turned to
me and said:
Now. Cousin Sam. please lets stay hyar
till the man gifts his mule on his pins.
You've bin a-showin' me things al day that
| didn't know nothing about. This hyar
episode is somethin' l do understan', an.
blast my picter but I'm goin to stay
right hyar and see this thing out"
x X 4 y
do YOU see that rose bush?'' said sub
stantial householder the other evening as
he sat with a friend on the lawn in front
of his house. He pointed to a climbing
bush that threw the glory of its blooms
over a slight trellis that extended up the
side of the wall.
Il not only see it now" remarked his
friend. but l have seen 1t before, and al
ways admired the beauty of the display"
Il am not surprised" was the response.
"A great many people speak of that rose
bush, and II evidently has an attraction.
Personally l don't care for such things,
and while l don't dislike them, I would not
spend money or time to have them about
the house II it was not for one thing
What is that?" was the inquiry from the
listener, who was curious to know in what
way the influence of flowers had made 1t
self felt in such an uncongenial atmo-
sphere.
Some years ago" he began when 1
was trying to gather together some money.
a house came into my hands in payment of
an Indebtedness 1t had been the home of
a man who had given good deal OF care
and attention to cultivating flowers. Dur
ing the time the house stood idle the
grounds were neglected. and when l got
hold of il there was practically nothing
left but a rose bush at one side of the
main entrance.
Il fixed up the house but for some rea-
son the rose bush was left, although had
given orders that all that sort of stuff be
cleaned away. The house did not sell, and
1 was beginning 10 feel that it would be
q loss to me. One day about this time of
the year / went with prospective buyer
TO show the house. His wife was along.
and as soon as came lin sight of tho
house the wife exclaimed, with enthusiasm.
oh, look at that beautiful bush and
those lovely roses.
Il looked and there sure enough, was
that old rose bush which i had ordered
down. still in its place, but it covered
with red roses. Do you know the house
suited that woman exactly from top 10
bottom and I sold it. But l always be-
leved that the sale was made because of
the climbing rose at the front door. Since
that time l have always taken an interest
in climbing rose bushes.
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Wouldn't this drive you to large
bowl of chop suey?" asked a local tailor
OF a Star reporter as he showed the latter
a letter he had received a few days be-
fore. IF that isn't the best specimen of
celestialized English that ever passed
through the mails I'll buy for the house.
Just listen to this:
II want to see you on nest Sunday.
After noon about tow clock. Can you
open. If can you open please you answer
for me. l want to make a suit cloth. Wun
Lung
1T reads just as badly backward as the
other way. Translated. 1 suppose the
Chinaman wants to see me Sunday after
noon about . o'clock to get measured for
u suit of clothes. but when | first glanced
over the communication l thought 1T was
1t cipher dispatch from the front. l hope
the fellow talks better than he writes"
"One OF my chief sources of daily amuse-
ment" remarked well-known Washing
tonian who lives out in the country in the
summer time. to a friend the other day.
lis derived from the conversations 1 over
hear coming In to town every morning.
My two nearest neighbors. one of whom
Wen call Smith and the other Brown have
been having regular morning arguments on
the WashingtOn-bound car as to the laying
abilities OF their chickens. Finally one
morning Smith owned up and admitted that