Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-21
SIDELIGHT FLASHES
SOME OF THE AMUSING THINGS
NOT IN THE PEACE LINE
How the Vocal Stream Of Gallo
Thought Boiled Out of Baron
Rosen's Butler.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

discovered lonely seeker after facts single
footing up the road which leads to the cot
tage of Baron Rosen, two long, crooked
miles from Magnolia, Mass.
The heart interest in the peace conferences
had been shifting so rapidly from Ports
mouth to oyster Bay. from oyster Bay TO
Magnolia and back again that IL behooved
somebody TO invade Massachusetts and see
what there was to see over that way.
Moses never found anything when the
light went out that was darker than that
road to Baron Rosen's. Il let up only when
some bleating banshee of "A bubble wagon
throbbed by. once when a small black and
white animal with bushy TAIL a member
of the cat family and distantly related TO
te goat, had crossed over from left TO right,
there was break in the oGor OF burnt gas
oline that laid heavy upon the roadway.
The baron's cottage loomed up high on
knoll in gloom, save for a light blind. Al
frosted glass In the basement showed
beared a drunkard's eye. A ring at the
front door brought a butler buttoning down
his waistcoat as he came. a very dream OF
a French butler. with crooked side whisker8
over his ears. parenthesis marks inclosing
a blank space. and figure as wooden as q
wooden Indian.
The caller asked in English II Baron
RoSen or NJ. Witte in, the butler said
something presumably in French) shook his
| head and made as If to withdraw. The CALI
er said the question over again and then
produced card
Conversation Boiled Out of Him.
The wooden figure suddenly took on life,
the butler came out on the porch. He laid
a little silver waiter on a what-not, and q
vocal stream of Gallo thought began to
boil out of him. hundred licks to a min.
| ute. He also began creditable imitation
| of a contortionist, tuning up for q regular
performance.
There is a spdery-looking East Indian
god-the name doesn't matter it isn't much
for name anyhow-that has eight arms. all
serviceable-no property wings about them.
AS pictured, two of the arms are usually
pointed upward. two pointing downward.
one passing the butler, one laying q carpet
and the others just rotating around miscel-
laneouSly.
In the darkness the butler looked like
the inane god; his two hands were the
busiest things In the world except his two
shoulders, and the conversation kept CONF
ing. 1t grew in volume and force. He
reached down into his pockets and pulled
out pals of speech and flung them into
the wayfarer's face. He felt in his boot for
conversational razor with which to cut
out his heart He heaved talk out of him-
self in quivering, pulsatfng chunks.
Visitor Swept Off the Varanda.
Suffering astounded, trying to get q
word in edgewise, the visitor was swept
like a tabby cat in tidal wave of the
veranda, off the walk. off the lawn, back
into the road again. The torrent carried
him for seventy-five yards away before
he found his feet. There was a noise Dor.
ing through the night that was not tho
noise of an automobile, nor yet the noise OF
the bullfrogs in the marsh. 1t was Baron
Rosen's butler working the language out OF
his system.
The village of Newcastle, one mile from
the hotel as the chauffeur flies. heard yes~
terday that there was something going on
at the Wentworth and came hither. brings
ing with it food, children and umbrellas.
Dozens of natives camped on the rocks
across the road, where they spent the day
watching the crowds on the porches. From
time to time the correspondents. imported
and domestic filters. came out into full view
on the veranda and gave them a real treat.
At dusk they left for Newcastle satisfied.
They had seen the show from reserved
seats, front row, and without costing anYt
thing but time.
Newcastle Worth Seeing.
Newcastle is worth seeing itself II It only
knew it. Most of the houses were built IN
the days wien Ben Franklin's company
was setting lightning rods on the mansiona
of Portsmouth.
The huge brass knockers on the white
doors. shaded by colonial porticos. are shin-
ing temptations to every collector OF ans
tiques who passes through the single street.
In the morning the oldest inhabitant and
his form underStudieS sit on the steps in
front of Pythan Hall.
Afternoons they move over to Howard'a
general store because Pythian Hall is in
the sun after II O'Clock. Nearly every Sat-
urday this season of the year they cut e
watermelon and twice this summer
strangers came along and set 'em up to
everybody with root beer. There is also
prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, un-
less the preacher is prudentially hindere6
from being present
Two Unique Sign Boards.
There are two signs in Newcastle that YOU
wouldn't find anywhere except in New EnS
gland. One Is over livery and feed stables
this is Horses Baited Here:' the other
stretches above the portals of the official
boarding house, and 1t says "Mealing by
the Day or Week.
These two put it all over Portsmouths
which has only "Dyeing and cleansing's
establishment. Observe the cleansing*
However it was an eighty-year old Portss
mouth boy who was discovered today, sit.
ting en- a street car, reading Quincy
Adams Sawyer.
He wore spectacles. round and large lenses
and looked as IL he hadn't heard a mother
goose rhyme for fully half a century.
Rojestvensky of the Russian suite Is haps
py today, for an American wife, handA
some woman, came over from Magnolia
yesterday. She brought with her new
sensation among the women folks since
the night Sato played Going to jerusalem"
with a lot of summer girls in the ball room
1t looked like brown toupee. with legs atA
tached.
Monocle Frozen in His Face.
Rojestvensky drove up from the station ID
a cab with his wife, the little brown brindlA
dog in his arms and his monocle frozen
solid in his face.
well, 1 guess the conference will be ends
ing this week." said a European corresponds
ent to one of the summer girls today. "Oh.
we'll" she said, 'the tennis tournament
isn't near over yet, and Pm sure that's in-
teresting enough for anybody. Why. they
have two beautiful silver cups for prizes
and the way some of the fellows serve -
just delicious"
That's the way a good part Of the reg1A