Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-15
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use OF her delightful grounds for the old
people. and each bright Thursday afternoon
contented old ladies may be seen taking
their cup of tea and peaceful old gentle
men smoking their pipes under the shade OF
trees. which. city trees though they may be,
stand for the county to these dweilers in
narrow streets and crowded tenements.
The Woman's Woman
Can penetrate under the surface. With q
certain witch hazel wand she discovers peo-
pie who have heartaches who are carrying
burdens too great for them, who cannot
sleep at night for cares and troubles. and
somehow her touch Of the hand, her smile
and her gentle word bring them ease and
relief.
The woman's woman makes allowances.
She sees that life is hard for some people,
or that thev have not had chance-she is
quite as well with crowd OF girls who are
chattering gayly or In company of ma
ture women who are discussing their af-
fairs, as in mixed society.
She ALWAYS Is the most delighted Of
guests for she has a faculty OF amusing
herself and she does not require men.
either singly or In numbers, to show her at
her best. At a country house or in sum-
mer hotel she is invaluable. She can enter
tain the children. talk pleasantly to the
deaf old lady. who therefore misses much.
listens patiently to the rheumatic or to the
recitals of those whose tales have been told
before.
All her life the woman's woman is apt to
live for others. Her browning charm is her
unselffshness.
The Boys Model
Is the next bigger boy that he knows.
Sometimes this bos. is his elder brother: and
it is a good thing for the little fellow IL his
brother who has the start OF him for four
or FIVE years Is manly, polite and lovable
lad. Sometimes 1t is a neighbor's son, or
the boy in the next room at school; but 1t
Ia invariably the older boy who is the object
of the intense admiration and enthusiastic
regard of the younger
The mother who wonders where her little
seven year-old picks up the queer phrases
and the odd gestures and contortions which
he never sees or hears at home, usualiy
need go no farther than the biggest BOY
with whom he oftenest plays. This lad is
his model. He Is happiest when most 10y
ally initiating the lad who towers above
him only by a couple OF Inches, perhaps, IN
reality, but by the height OF superior
knowledge which cannot be estimated by
any measure known to childhood.
The bigger boy, in his turn. usually has
his own model-a young man. Is NOT
often his father. because the majority or
fathers through their absorption In busi-
ness, see little of their sons. There are hum
dreds of children who do not associate with
their fathers at all, except on Sundays. the
father reaching home so late every night
and leaving again so early In the morning
that the children literally are strangers TO
them from Monday to Saturday. Often an
antagonism exists between the teacher and
the boys. so the latter do not particularly
emulate the former. Between boys OF diff
ferent ages there exists no antagonlsm.
Patronage and liberation often are ex-
tended by the older to the younger. but the
younger bless their hearts usually have
naught save loving worship for their elders.
ADA MAY KRECKER.