Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-17

Charles II of England when he had hn-
isLed that task 10 his own satisfaction ana
lad succeeded. after his herculesn efforts.
lr aNing up that bar sinister FOR himself 2.
he was without exception the most delight
cd human being that ever met up with in
my life He Dragged about Il with all Tho
Veiuhihty OF conqueror OF the middle
ages who had just taken a city Of the yls n.
III that man had 20 wear HIS !nGcniou "
crntriNed bar sinister in the form OF rcd
welt across his face I verify believe that
he'd be proud OF It. He has so little sense
OF humor that thu open sneers with winch
his claim Co straight descent from the ami
able lady OF Charles court Is received ny
lis male trends have no effect whatever
upon him. other than that he probably at
tributes the sneers 70 envy on the part OF
the fellows Into whose unwilling ears no
pours out the story OF his ancestry upon.
the 5 'ightest occasion. or upon no occasion
at all
This man was a tolerabie enough sort OF
a jeilyish before the genealogical bug
Stripped him. His presence In a room or
elsewhere In your Contigu!ty or viciuaga
was az least cadurable. But sinca -
famed his latent flame OF snobbery lEto 4
paze 10y porting over the genealogical
works be has become the most impossible
pore and asa that you couia meet up with
~ the course OF six months walking
tour taking any direction He offers one
habby finger to the strangers he meets.
enVelops himself In that phony nimbus
or one set apart by right of birth and
walks the world in general a screechiug ex-
ample OF an individual ohsessed By the
genealogical Authorization
This one. by the way. qGte declines 20
join any OF those American revolutionary
societies OF which men become members.
lie doesn't believe in en-. The American
reyOlutionists fought against their king
you see. Positively. that's his view. be-
lieve IL or not. The genealogical bug so
completely Slapped whatever patriotism this
chinless mollusk ever possessed that after
chasing his genealogy back to the agree
able female OF the Stuarts court he at
length came TO believe that the United
States ought to still be an English colony,
even If IL had to be ruled over by the Han
overian family. IL you can show me any
thing more Grassy imhecile. more pic
turesquely idiotic than this. you will md
me with receptive mind at any hour or
the day or night.
School Children Have the Bug"
Il sometimes wonder whether the critics
who claim to perceive the growth OF a tre-
mendous snobbery in the United States are
rot right DO you know that there are
even slathers and slews OF school children.
mostly girls. i'm little old Washington who
spend many hours over the genealogical
works, engaged In building up lines ~
ancestry for themselves There was n
Washington high school girl brought before
the principal Of her school not long ago
for somewhat contumscious treatment OF
her teacher. The principal told the girl
that she would be required To apologize 70
the teacher. What do you suppose the
snip OF a school girl did then? Why, she
drew herself up TO her full four-feei-siX.
curled her liz after the approved manner
OF laura Lean Jibbey heroine. and re-
Piled:
u am a farrell and the Tarreus never
apologize"
II use fictitious name. but as for the
rest ! give her words exactly as she spoke
them. The principal laughed. Of course
How could he help laughing
1T may be that the big output OF his
torical or mi-historical novels durinE re-
cent years has had something to do with
the fostering of the genealogical bug
among the girls. They come across MS
torical names resembling their own I'm the
pages Of these generally sloppy pieces or
fiction. The people whose names resemble
their own figure in such perfectly lovely
and exalted dongs that the devourcrs OF
this kind OF mental pabulum begin To day
dream that they're descended from the gay
dogs Of sword players and such Ike until
finally thcy're plunged elb0W-high in tho
genealogical works tracing and chasing
the thing down. Their mothers encourage
them In this sort of thing. Thus. II Tle
girls who get themselves into this kind OF
a morass are iunateiy suobhish. or suscep-
tible To snObbish influences they eventually
develop into ful-hedged genealogical bugs,
and then there's little or no hope for them
They generate high-3nd-mighty ideas -
to the kind Of quality genoa o2iealiy
speaking they intend % make q st1nd Tor
as to the husbands they take. The boy
who comes along the path of the girl who's
a genealogical bug has got to be able 70
show her a greats grandfather or 50, or
she's going to stall and stand him or
Great thing for the making Of old maids,
by the way, the genealogical bug. The
middle-class young woman of today who.
submerged herself in the swamp OF geneal-
ogy. demands that the young man who
sUims into her ken show her something
in the way Of family tree. is lust beautl-
fully liable 10 get retort that would mako
anybody elses ears burn except the ears
OF a genealogical bug.
There isn't any antidOte that know OF
for the bugeusis gcnealogicUs. It's one OF
these continuous performance affairs, ana
n grows bv accretion. something llko
wen II develops a sort Of nguratiYe eIe-
phantiasis. causing its voluntary victims
10 swell up about two thousand times IN
their own seif-esteem. IT is sometimes
capable Of making fools OF the wise as wen
as Of the weak and silly. When the VIC
Tins Of il at length fail to find ANYBODY
else 60 listen 10 their accounts OF their
trees they gibber TO themselves. linen
they're ready for the Hotel de 'Lazbeth-oR-
the Eastern Branch &. l. -