Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03

oh. you need not bother to talk pidgin
English to me. 1 understand some Eng
lish.'
Il guess she did talk some English, all
right. She talked it as Well as l do. It
struck the other officer all of a heap, and
he turned to another one of us and said In
French: By jove, she does talk English
all right; and amt she a beauty at that?
The little girl smiled even more deeply
and replied in French that made ours look
like thirty-tive cents. Yes, | talk some
French, too, and am very much obliged for
the compliment
Before we got through with that seance
we found that she was graduate of Smith
College and she talked Japanese and German
in addition to French English and Chinese
l would have been glad enough TO marry
her myself, for she was pretty as the pic
lures inside cigar box. But she had bet
ter taste than that. and in the course of
year or two she was married to young
American with lots of money and social
good choice and is having a good time. For
she was one of the most winsome little
bodies ever saw.
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Life in fat may be better than dwell
ing among the tall tilnbers, but you've co.
to show me-" a husky brother from Mis-
scuri was heard to say the other day in
gentleman is a politician from way back
and came on to Washington recently to do
Some stunts before the national legislature.
Up to a week ago we had fiat of five
rooms on the alley side of swell apart
nlent house. and, until 1 hiked out, living
was one uninterrupted chain of agony and
pain. The baby squalled across the hall
way from am. 10 6 am The poll-parrot
continually contaminated the air win
breezy and prodgious passages from pro-
fame history while the two-by-four rooms
IN which we We're stalled We're half the time
as cold as the ice foes of northern Alaska.
Kick when the rent fell due? No sir
rec Fork over and say nothing In fiat
HE you're up against a stiff proposition
when you buck against the rights of a
Hcighbor tenant, and when you think of
doing 1t you better back up and take
water.
out Missouri way I've been used to
knowing the reason why. So when | had
gained an audience with the manager and
began to complain about conditions around
me he threw his optics up at me with utter
cnagrln and amaZcment and made g noise
like a rooster l struck the earth with a
dull thud when he told me | could If
liked, bundle up my telescopes and shift
| shifted. For mine, It's soon back to Mis-
souri, and the native heath to enjoy its
laughing waters and the gentle breezas
waited from its fields of waving gran.'
X x /.
a few days after New Year a well-known
local business man. having been deserted by
his trusty Mercury" advertised for another
messenger boy. Next morning his outer Of
flee was crowded with applicants. the
would-he messengers ranging in age from
ten to twenty years and the business man.
being also particularly busy man at that
time of day, was sorely puzzled to make
selection First he tried to persuade one
of his assistants to do the choosing, but
tho assistant back-pedaled vigorously. No
other course was open. so the busy man
stepped through the door and into the midst
of the eXpectant throng. Difficulties an
tlcipated became difficulties in fact when
the situation and the boys were viewed at
close range, but the choice finally fell upon
the only boy in the room who showed suf-
ficient sense of the proprieties to remove his
hat.
johnny" as We might call him, was
taken on trial for two weeks his conduct
during that time to determine whether he
was 10 be hired permarently-and Johnny
he * known. rapidly developed into a treas
ure. as messenger boys go. He never spoke
unless spoken to. and all of his necessary
communications TO his superiors took the
original form of quantity WOrded notes So
pleased was every one IN the Office with the
boy that the specification two weeks on
trl T. was forgOtten-but not by Johnny
time he hired the boy. the business man
felt a piece of paper softly pushed into his
hand. 1t could be from no ore but Johnny
for all other employees Of the Office stated
their wants by word of mouth so he opened
the paper and read:
Honoured Sir: Does I suit Be I goin
20 stay? YOUR OFFICE LOY.''
1t goes without saying that JOHNNY is
"goin' to stay" ans that he is goin to be
given every opportunity to develop into d
useful mepber OF the community,
4 x
One of the older sergeants on the local
police force was talking over odd expert
ences he had had while in the course of his
duties. Among the stories which he told
was one which illustrated the democratic
ideas of President Grant.
The sergeant, then private. was on
duty az the Baltimore and Ohio station
one evening. Among HIS other duties he
had to keep carriages from standing at
the curb directly in front of the station
entrance, 1t being necessary TO keep that
place clear for carriages that were coming
and going at that point.
President Grant drove to the station to
meet one of the incoming trains While the
officer was in another place the carriage
stopped in front of the station. When the
officer returned he noticed the president 8
rig standing there and waited for It to
move along, When It did not move and no
one alighted, the officer supposed that the
President had gone into the station.
You know as well as l do that you
cannot stand there, said the officer to the
Presidents coachman.
DO you know whose carriage this is?'
was the only answer of the man on the
box.
THAT makes no difference. You must
move But there was 40 move on the part
Of the coachman to stir from the place.
Hawkins came a voice from Inside.
did you hear what that officer said?" And
the head of the President of the United
States was pokcd out of the carriage win
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