Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
AROUND THE CITY

A small precise-looking woman was walk
ing nervously around the corridor of the
post Office, apparently hunting for some
thing she failed to find. Finally. she ap-
pealed to another woman:
Isn't it strange they don't tell you where
to drop your mail9''
"Oh. but they do" corrected the other
woman IF you turn into that corridor,
there. you will see sign that says: Mail
letters here to all points.
"Oh, yes, I've read that, answered the
small precise-looking woman. but mine
isn't letter. It's postal card.
A cripple lay under the spell of intoxica-
ton yesterday on 9th street. He made many
attempts to scramble to his distorted feet
but each time failed. and fell back to
squirm like a wcrm on the bricks.
And at every failure the crowd around
him snickered. It was a crowd made up of
men who looked as If they might be de-
cent citizens. But they all snickered alike
and there was no difference In the quality
of the jests banded about at the expense
of the ill-shaped creature they had hedged
around in @ ring.
When the drunken man had dashed him
self into insane rage over his inability to
rise, they laughed and egged him on and
when he whimpered appeal to be taken
home to his wife they laughed louder as
If it were the best joke ever. 1t did not
seem to occur to one of them to be thank
Iul LOT HIS own SlTOHS lSSS
After a bit a policeman came. He neil
Their snickered nor TESTED as he lifted the
drunken to his feet and then tele-
phoned for a wagon.
He actually treated him as If he were a
human being, made in the image of his
God.
A plain woman In black was hurrying
through the post Office door when she was
overtaken by pretty girl In white, with
green beads around her neck.
How dye do, Miss Blank! You'd make
your fortune as an automobile; you rush
So I've been trying to attract your atten-
ton ever since you left The Star corner.
Why don't you come us?
Am soon's I get time. In a hurry now
to post an important letter. but the wo-
man took time to smile approximately at
the bit of human sunshine dancing beside
her.
"Oh do slow up bit! Going to the reg
istry division, aren't you? l always register
my important letters too when have any.
Just look at the size of this bundle! Isn't
1t tedious buying feathersf They look so
sweet and fluffy, but when you put them on
your hat they come out OF curl without
even waiting for damp Neutrality-suspicious.
are awful cheats, but you've just got to buy
their plumes, these days. And. oh, Miss
Blank. I'm sure mammals going to scold
when she finds OUT I've been at the lace
counter again. She says dissipate on lace
like Tom does on horses-but Toms turned
over a new leaf since he got engaged. l
liAiih &adi&oA - Aotciy, uOu yDuf LOOKS
SO innocent. That's the way with country
girls. but between you and me. think
country girl knows more about wickedness
than city girls do, any day in the year
though, OF Course. I wouldn't breathe a
thing like that to Tom. Well. here's your
registry division. and I suppose you want
to get rid OF me. Ia, ta--and do come and
see us!'
They parted and the elder woman went
to the registry division and passed her Inn
portant letter through the window. The
clerk showed Il back with the stamp, and
when she had moistened the latter on
sponge, pasted It, showed it through the
window again and watched the clerk cancel
1t and write out a receipt. she suddenly
Strengthened, looked amazed and cried out:
Il didn't want to register that letter.. /
want 1t to go out by special delivery on the
first train to Philadelphia. Add special
stamp, please
And az the plain woman paid out an ex-.
ira dime she said to herself, but loud
enough for the clerk to hear:
That's what get FOR fooiIng with
womenss
In an open car:
"A Wild. stormy night; bIowy on deck,
and the lighthouse showing e mile 81