Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
AROUND THE CITY
A demonstration In a department store


was calling out:
ruby wine. made from strictly temperance
| extract: five gallons to the bottle-take
! glass. Inadam."
| Madam was a self-made woman. From
| her waist UP she swellad out like a pan
| OF rolls that had raised and run over Her
| hips buged large and solid. and her belt
WIS brought down to a point and oucK!ed
! over a cave-in. where her stomach ought
| to have been and wasn't
When she had taken her first sip she
| held her glass to the light to catch its
| warm glow. 1t was the trick of a con-
| nolsseur but madam's words were those
| of aquarium:
I'm afraid there's an intoxicant IN TINS
| drink. and, being temperance woman
! cannot indorse 1t.
The demonstration was positive to the
| contrary and while he protested madam
| drained the glass
Cant help what You say, young man.
| this is certainly fermented wine
And then the self-made woman. VINO
| looked incidentally. IL she never went
| to bed without her beer. gave way to
sharp-eyed person who carried cord Dag
| so crammed with packages tnat every hnol
was strained:
Temperance wine. huh! Well 1 guess
| you've fixed this up richer than the
| boughten stuff would be. Why a bottle
would be drowned out in five gallons OF
water Tastes sorter insipid to me. I'm
| as temperance the next, but l guess
| | like a dash of spirits in the drinks | SIT
| abolishin' the canteen. an never will. Look
| at soldiers since they dove away with
| lawful drnkin'."
| Yes. ma am. look at EN- put in
meek appearing woman whose tongue was
| surprise. Just look at them brave boys
| that's bein' saved from the demon rum
| amt you got any bottles cheaperen 80
cents mister?
| The demonstration had not.
| We'll all right. you can give me bottle
| next time l come round. No. don want
| it today"
| And the two women having finished their
glasses dropped their argument and LETT
| the booth.
| why, isn't it a perfectly Lovely color
| exclaimed a dear. sweet little woman IN
| all white down to her shoes. And 1t
| tastes just fine! On I think it will be
| the incest thing to take with crackers: At
| night, you know. when you want just a
| triie before retiring think 1t s. SO ouu
| they never had anything like this before
| Thank you. so much. No. l won't take
| a bottle today. I'm merely looking around
| No don't send 1t c. 0. D.. l always pay
| as I go. This. is the darlingest little glass!
| Can't | have it souvenir
| She had to put the glass down, but she
| put 1t down empty.
Say. Mollie," suggested one of two PLAIN
| skirts, Tets try some OF that rube wine.
.Oh, we dasn't Maggie. We amt any
| money to spend on tom foolishness.
You don't have to pay. He's invtin'
everybody. Come on an take some with
me.
So Noble came on. but the two of them
should really have stayed away, for they
| lacked the nerve of the CRATER. They
slipped guiltily, and as the demonstrator
stood ready to extend a wrapped-up bot
| tie, they looked cowed and miserabiy
failed in their attempts 10 look as If they
had the least notion of buying. The
demonstration saw through them and they
knew he did, and there's 10 telling what
suffering and shame they slipped with the
rube wine, until a lady with a face like
a knife blade and a figure like knife
handle hustled up and said:
Il here yesterday and I've made up
my mind to get a bottle for a social our
society Is going to hold tomorrow night.
If you are sure one bottle will make five
gallons of wine give me one" And she
handed him half dollar.
The demonstration was earning his money.
But he was doing it by the sweat of his
brow.
Three women were passing a hotel.
The midi aged was ariStocratlc
looking in simple black. The second was
bithe little old lady in soft gray and the
third was a grave and loving faced negro
woman In a dark frOck ana white ruined
apron and cap.
The little old lady leaned on the arm Of
the aristocratic woman and chartered as
care-free as a little child. The other lis
tened with smiling face and patient eyes
| and the negro woman walked a step be-
hind the two.
The one thing remarkable about the
party was that the blithe little old lady
| Rugged to her breast Old-time rubber
! dol and dragged after her a gray-spotted
| tin horse on wheels.
| And OF two men standing on the
! hotel steps. and who must have recognized
| that the little old lady was. indeed. a lit
| tie old child. took off his hat and said to
| his companion:
| goes the saddest sight 1 have ever seen
| In my life
| A woman who had worked late the other
| night looked down on the deserted avenue
| and pitied herself that she had to walk nine
| squares through the darkness to a lonely
| room in boarding house. And while she
| taking herself so seriously a voice
| doomed out:
Mother mother. mother. pin rose on
me"
The voice belonged to a shirt-sleeved
| young giant at the next desk. who rae
| ing blue pencil like blue lightning across
| copy, and who sang, unconsciously, for the
mere joy of living.
| And there was such jovial chaerfuness
| in the booming voice that the woman who
| had been plying herself realized, all at
once that the electric lights were really
beautiful; that she would rather have her
| Work tnan a peck Oh HlOHty Without II, anu
that she had a lovely big room and the
| kindest landady in the world
| Which seems to show that if a sermon Is
| a good sermon it doesn't matter about the
| preacher or the text.
| Two young women were admiring a por-
| trait hung in photograph gallery.
| "Oh. there's Father Blank! Doesn't he
look like Ben Hur?'
"Oh, do you think so? Why, he's the
very image of BelaScO"
| 1t didn't seem to occur to either of them
| that the portrait might resemble the orig
| inal.
A plain, spinster person going down
| the street, when she met a young man with
| a nice face and friendly eyes. They mus,
have had feeling of honest kindness to-
ward each other, for they stopped to shake
| hands, as If they really liked to do it, and
| the spinster person began:
| What have you been doing with yourself
| all this long time? l hope you can tell me
| you have a nice little wife,
Il have no wife, but I've got thrty-sever
dogs"
| The young man made his interruption
! Wit a smiling SatiSfa CtOn that implied tina