Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18
AROUND THE CITY

\ huge woman stepped ont OF Masonic
Temple the first morning OF the dress
makers convention. Another woman. who
vas waiting outside. greeted her anxiously:
Amy tuck?''
Middln, answered the huge one with
an indecision that put a worry line between
her eyes and smirk on her lips. I didn't
get the job but"
Amt that too mean, ia Ike 10 know
where they expect to find anybody fatter
thought you'd make the finest sort OF
model OF what a figure oughtn't TO be.
didn't you7''
Wei, we were both mistaken" and the
brasSadocio on the huge woman's face
routed both the worry and the smirk The
woman that dom the Choosin for models
SAYS We got too good A form
She didn't have the face to tell You
that?" ~"
She did so. then What she wants is
squashy. shapeless igger Of woman to
show on how they can improve EN- by the
right kind OF clothes"
Wen. what's the matter with you? Amt
that your style all right"
NO. ma am, IL amt And what's more
nobody dasnt pass remarks on my ngger
AFTER TINS, neither The woman saws that
While I'm right smart OF size I've got
good lines. so there's no excuse for clothes
iookin good on me. They've go, n power-
put heard one of the bosses say they amt
round anybody skinny enough so far
thouSh' dear knows. one OF EN- sittin' on a
cha.r waitin' her turn amt nothin' but a
i've bone. Say. why don't Won run nm am
have try Name? I'll wait for YOU. .
money"
We'll, want the money" And the worry
line peeped out again. They nav 81 80 TOR
each demonstration an therein be three
Stlll its worth good cash to get II di-rect
rom the dressmakers association that You
got good lines"
She took one of the baskets the other was
holdlng, and they started marketward-the
thih woman with her lips pressed ominous-
iy. and the other overpoweringly impressed
WIN ner newly acquired knowledge that az
lar as hggers' 60. she could give cards
ana spades to, say, Cleopatra on the barge.
ana the person who had taken in the in
cluent said to herself:
Defeat hath its victories no less ronoHn.
cd than peace and war;
A man and dog came out OF n store in
ID street The man held copper wire
trap with a rat In it. and the dog barked
and ieaped eNcitedly as the man waved the
trap teasingly over its head. They had
barely crossed pavement TO the street when
TWO passers-by stopped 10 take a look At
what they knew was going to happen Then
TWO others followed suit. and a negro who
was driving an empty coal cart refined In
MS horse and guffawed boisterously az
the dog $ antics to draw several people
from the opposite side. The man kept on
waving his trap the dog kept on barking
and the crowd kept on gathering until n
fairly blocked the street
On the outer edge OF the commatiun two
men were overlooking the scene one had
black beard and foreign accent, and
when a woman who was making 4 short
cut To her work had squirmed out of ~.
mass this is what She heard him say.
self"
Can't say 7 agr.. --itt, ,-,,, 1.t.t.z...,
the other man. who was plainly local You
are talking about mobs. but this is merely
a casual crowd Of well-meaning people"
Exactly. They have probably the means
to crafty the average wants of man: can
go 70 theaters and dances buy books and
take trips, and yet it gives them plea sure
10 see a rat torn 10 pieces by a dog Sup
pose they were 50 Isolated and could NOT
get even so lawful an amusement as rat
batting, and a cry should go up to them:
This fellow is not fit to live: let's kin him.
what DO you suppose this crowd would
The plainly local man laughed with the
forbearance due TO a stranger within the
gates. and proceeded 10 move on.
Your shade of yellow Is Just a shade too
deep. he ehuckled when he had stoppq
laughing This crowds all right: no hass~
TO kill rat; about the best use YOU GO
put him TO; don't know how 1t is in your
United States"
II tell you. my friend It is not a question
OF my country or yours. II is a fact OF HUI
man nature. Excitement is as essential as
salt. If you can't get Il lawfully as a
crowd you will get it unlawfully 8 a MOB.
II you doubt me read DE Maupassant"
The man with the foreign accent was
wrong, OF course-oh, of course SO was ID.
Maupassant but
The woman looked back TO see If size
could study faces with the foreign mans
eyes The man was holding his trap so
high that she caught glimpse of a furry
scrap; Its body stiff; its eyes glazed with
terror. Then the man made a motion to
open the door Of the trap The dog bsrked
frantically. somebody called out Sic EN-"
and the woman hurried on.
The nice man who works In the sunken
gardens of the treasury was clipping rose
bushes yesterday, when a woman who had
overlooked from the wedding crowd about
the White House poked her nose between
the ratings and called down:
Say, 1t don't seem just right 10 cut those
stems; they look too green and sappy-what
makes you do 1t, huh?'
The nice man raised up from his STOPPING
position, touched his cap, and answered:
They too forward for the season
ma'am, and they have to be kept back a
bit to save them
oh is that it?''
And the woman withdrew her nose from
the railing and walked of. beautifully un-
conscious that she had pOked il into an
other persons affairs.
They were promenading in front OF tbe
White House, waiting for something TO
happen.
''Oh, look" exclaimed the young lady
wearing the rabbit furs, there goes a wo-
man with peacock feathers i'm her hat. IL
she isn't married already, Ill bet there'u
be no wedding bells for her.
That's all you know about it," contra
dicted her companion in the red coat and
hat. Peacock feathers aren't unluclcy
when they are over your head-but she
ought to be ashamed of herself TO come
here ard hoodoo Alice Roosevelt"
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