Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
LONESOME SUNDAY

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tdat Warrington Is q lonesome town 20 ave
In" observed q western man who recently
{ "a ma back To washington TO live after an
$780, Z .a,,a-aI - .s,,t a. certainly
eosS1ASS Va sese.aA seAs' " -
did seem to me like ono vast oasisiess oes-
ert last Sunday for fact.
sIAst Sunday was nv Srst Sunday In
yx,a.h,,~tar .,,,,. rot ha,,, bere X TIVE
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been out in my little town IN the west TOT
q number of years. and only got back here
q cotlple of days before last Sunday.
..yvhar = ,,uaa hara ,afora oniv knew
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one family intimately. l knew iot Oh
folks. OF course. In q st1n, Instant SOFT Oh
way, ana was acquainted with the people
q, tha h,,.a xvhora had nv room, iust
.syi e,cugS ~ exchanra mods with them
whep u,et them on the stairs going out or
cominr in
.1Esnt there 1ras only one family that 1
knew we'll enough to no and VISIT with
..The man was n chan I used to play
v,.-hio. a,,a .hsrrv 18th sxactr in the little
western town where We were raised to-
rether He came TO washington years be-
fore I did married began to raise q fam
ily. ana when got here the family was
nicely sstfled In =. flat over In Georeetown.
.sT5is wife was a mighty nice little Wash
,ngton woman. and the kids were interest
ing and fiyely. Used to enjoy going over
70 see ,em when was hers before above
at that time were rirht frequent. They'd
lat me so around the fiat FOR q few hours
every Sunday and make me stay to dinner
more often than not and sure used to en-
foy those visits a bean. ENJOYED the din
ners' fno after .rasslir,R' around for what
I co,,ld get At INV boarding house.
"After dinner the man and I'd light Gig
ira that I,d contrihute as NV share OF the
entertainroent and wed sit down In his
den and talk about the way he used to lick
me or licked him. when we were playing
hockey from school back In the little west
ern town and cross-auestion each other
about what hecayne of All the boys that be-
ionxed to our particular gang. While we
thfs talked his wife,d come in and sit down
and listen to us with her hands in her lap,
and fell ,,s that NE weren't much better
than hinge irresponsible kids yet-sor we'd
eufraw and hoIler 40 that It's a wonder the
folks in The other fats didn't rap on the
walls or comnlain to the ianitor. I always
ba tod to pet I'm and come away I used to
enjoy my visits over in that little George
town fat 80 nnuch
.sWeII when T got back here feeling lone
some like a mans liable to feel after he's
been away from town for some time L
decided to drop in at that Georgetown flat
~, tha nsxt Srnder-u,hjch was last SIM
dav I'd been feeling as ihlne as the deuce
and honestiv did feel good over the pres
nac+ of GOING oyer there and meeting nv
did friends
az raacbed tbere along ahout . O'clock In
the afternoon and II ali looked so natural
around that neiehborhnod thai 7 guess /
shortanad NV strsda in INV eayerness to
n,,sh tho elactr,c hutton Of that f1at.
ramemhered inst the button to push.
ond ga,.s ~ three short bushes like I'd
ai,,,s no edonoN.hraa ,usbes hejno The rae,,
iar unserstood siena1 that was the anil
can't for adrnittanca down in the vestibiie.
1T waited for the littIe clicks in renlv mat
IA 49,, acc,,s+oned 70 signif,ing that the
,,a.,.i,,,,Ia 49, had hesr 1nhoitad ~ nm
hs rraS or mn,onLeaWhowevsr it's done /
nar,ar ,,,,ia ,,aIa at 60, tho Eat sbove
"R,,t the ,ittIa clicks I,dn.t COME