Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
THE CITY

A flock of small boys were swarming
around an open manhole, with one cotton
haired midget leaning hazardously over that
same.
Look out, Shorty" admonshed a proph-
ct in the crowd. You fall down that hole
and your mall whale you
In no way daunted by this prediction,
Shorty replied in the same foretelling vein:
Don't care if she do! She'll gimme a
nickel afterward"
And the spinster who overheard wondered
how long it would be before the Mothers
Congress would see the necessity of sending
out old maid missionaries to teach the ay-
erage woman how to rear her children.
In a department store:
A stocky. pink-faced man who showed for
good living was buying a doll. He finally
decided in favor of a foot-high blonde dress
ed in pink silk and lace; cost $3.50. AS he
was about to hand her to the clerk to be
wrapped he noticed beside him shabby bit
of girl who was staring up at Miss Wax
face with open mouth and greedy eyes She
was Such an intense-looking little body that
he said to her, with the friendly familiarity
that the right kind of people generally use
TO children:
Say, sis, you ought to know all about
doll babies. Do you think this will suit my
little grl?"
The child answered that his little girl
would be sure to think 1t grand Indeed
she was so excitedly admiring In her rec
concentration that the mans attention was
hxed. He noticed that her face was hun
grily thin and that her faded clothes were
100 short at the wrists and knees.
so you think this doll is all right eh?"
The child beamed at Miss Waxface with
adoring eyes and gave convincing answer.
THAT being the case, suppose you keen
her'-and he the in b.
arms and deliberately bought another
And woman looking on said to herself:
of such is the kingdom of heaven"
freckle-faced boy was walking along
Columbia road. pulling after him a refrac-
tory goat that he had lassoed over the
horns 1t was big brown ana white spot
TED goat, and 1t had sherry-colored eyes
that snapped with unholy satisfaction
Mn Billy doesn't seem to like the road
you are going laughed a passerby to the
boy.
'Oh. Billys all right" answered the little
tellow with the spontaneousness that be-
longs to the knee-pants era. Hes Just
mad 1t out with another boy, and it's raised
MS dander so that 1t will take him a little
time to cool off and settle down. You see,
iady, Bill he slips his stable sometimes, but
the folks in the neighborhood know him. so
ne just roves around the streets and then
InoSeys nome when he gets good and ready
Wen, this morning boy around the corner
trled to steal him. and Billy he butt into
MIN MIN for all ne was worth. But you are all
right now, amt you, old mann"
There wasn't the least doubt about the
goat being all right, but lady wondered
now things We're going with the kid
1t was the last blowy, snowy night of the
winter. Inc wind was especially agrees
siVe at the corner of 18th and G. streets
ana small girl blowing around IL looked
TO De very nearly frozen. As she reached
the shelter of the hotel wall she was
joined by a boy, a bit taller than herself.
who carried a batch of papers The girl
mad taken hunk of bread from under'her
when another person turned the corner
He was splendidly big man, with a BEAM
ing pink face and beard as white as err
mine. The sight of the children must have
touched him, for he stopped and wanted 10
know what such little people were doing
out on SO stormy a night. The boy an
swered that he had to sell his papers and
that his sister had brought him his supper.
The man went into his pocket handed
something to the little girl and told them
both to run home. AS he passed on the
Gee. Billy. wonder IL there's a Santa
Claus, after all! Looks like him, don't hep
Santa Claus. nothin'." responded the
a glimpse of the dollar, that's Santa
Stewart, up at the Capitol"
And the woman who was waiting on the
motel porch for her car to come along
the senator from Nevada.
Two colored youngsters were quarreiine
over their superiority as news vendors
The larger imp finally sneered out, with a
maddening grin:
You thinks you kin sell papahs, do yuh.
Why. yous daid failyuh-"
Then 1t was that the ragged brown mite
got in a jiu jitsu whack that sprawled the
ether on the asphalt.
'Daid, is II" crowed the conuueror as
he strutted around his foe like game BAN
tam In the ring. well. may be daid, Mr.
Tawmpson, but amt laid out"
And even the big, blue policeman laughed
as he shooed them off instead of running
them in.
woman went into drug store in 14th
street and asked for face powder.
.Mennen's?" suggested the clerk?
Certainly not Women's."
And she wondered why he giggled
government pavement in a wind that blew
back the trash as soon as he had brushed
1t away. Another colored man stopped to
sympathize with him and to state in forcf-
BILE but perhaps undesirable language that
If he had to work against nature like
that there would be cuss words flying
around his way.
THAT aint my pint OF view" replied the
old man complacently. II makes it out dat
de good Lawd raise de win a special pup
pose, case he knows my rents behin'han
and dat Pm gittin paid for dis heah job by
de hour Everything depends. son, on de
pint Of view"
1T does. for fact" laughed the other.
as he loafed on.
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