Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22
AROUND THE CITY

waited an ancient tOlOTti man wearing 4
wooden stump whitfield to point hob
bled up to her and inquired, with affable
difference:
Beg yoh nahdon. lady, but kin you tell
me when dey gwne finish dis heah mony-
ment?"
The woman answered that it was already
completed
The ancient mans voice changed from af-
fable Difference to affable superiority.
NO. undeedy, chile; it amt nigh done
Wit. l bin Twin right heah in Washn'tn
ever sence dev all struck de fus lick on it.
and de why 70 dat l knows it amt finished :;
ev'yhody bin calm it piece er monny-
/ ment ever sence"
And while the woman was explaining the
mission OF the stone ladies on the pedestal
her car whizZed by.
Three young persons were in the front
/ row at a matinee the other afternoon.
They We're not Social Register young per-
sons, bat Lord love them. they were hap
Ply, And each possessed the elusive pretti-
ness that youth gives to q girl who may
turn into homely woman next morning.
The one in the middle had her skinny
flaXen hair piastered over a pOmpadour
that showed wide gaps of woolly brown
rat" and around her tender young neck
was a string of beads tied with a wisp of
grimy white ribbon. Her square-necked
white China silk had been Numbered into
yellowish streaks and her powder was UNI
mistakenly chalk-not prepared"
The girl on the left was a taiOr-:nadc bru-
rettc whose eyes will be sharp after they
get over their childish luster-and if any
body except herself had put her into so
high and stiff and SO starchy a collar
she would probably have complained to the
police.
The third girl was a s,data little body in
a simple lawn frock, with her plated hair
tied with blue ribbon.
1t was the taior-made girl who started
theological discussion as she watched the
middle girl draw five pins from a Happy hat
rugged out with limp yelling and what used
to be pink roses in fullest bloom.
Say. Daise. think it's awful to have to
take your hat off in the theayter, don't
you?"
DAISIES answer did her credit. despite an
apparent trouble she was having with her
Cdramcl:
''Nonedeed. Name. People gotter see
5 wells me. l think worter taken off
church, too"
We can't Daisy" interrupted the sedate
little body. The Bible forbids it"
"Oh. jusisnat Luly!' went on Daise and
her caramel. 81 donesee why the church
can't fol- the fash'ns same's the theayters
an stores do
who wrote up the fashions in the Bible.
anyhow" inquired the tailor-made girl,
with just peep of the coming sharpness in
the childish luster of her eyes.
I.uly knew all about It. and there was a
really pretty pink flush of Importance in
her face as she dispensed he" information.
why, the twelve apostles and Matthew.
Mark. Luke and john
I'd like to know what men know about
fashions" calculated the tailormade girl.
with what would have been shrug had 1t
not been for the stiff collar. Il think they'd
Oughtar had a woman at the head OF tae
millinery department. don't you, Daise?"
'Yessundeederdo,' indorSed the m d lie
girl. with promptness that implied an in
innate knowledge of just how a millinery
department should be run.
I'd like to know what men know about
Women's clotheS,'' went tailor ade
Name with the worldwide experience of a
girl of sixteen. why, my father can't tell
one color from another"
Law. Sdkesi neither mine, Name"
put in the middle girl. who had triumph
antly downed her candy. Il guess tnose
poor Bible men did the best they knew
how. but-Sdy, girls. look who's here
\ couple of callow. smirky youths, with
| fambOyant ties and big canes, had entered
a nearby box, and the girls giggled and
gggled and giggled.
The Bible men were discarded for young
gentlemen W no We're up-tO date.
Two women were passing the White
! House. one was quick stepping and vi
| NariOuS, while her older and StOuter COM
! panion seemed inclined to consider her
weight. and drag. The Yivacious woman
was talking a blue streak. on scale known
| outside of rhetoric What she said before
the person behind got within distance
or what she said afterward only the stout
woman could tell. but this was her subject
in hand during the TWO minutes that the
third person enjoyed the benefit of her
converse ton:
do you know why sparrows hop instead
of walk? Well. / II tell you. Once IN
time they had a quarrel with the flies
and agreed 10 arbitrate. The flies charged
that the sparrows stole rice from the fields.
he without waiting for the
other side of the story ordered the sparrows
to be beaten their legs until they hoped
up and down with pain. Then the spar
rows got their innings. They complained
| that the flies woke people up too early IN
the mornings. the umpire ordered the
| flies to be beaten. The flies began to rub
| their hands together. as the Koreans do
| when they are Supplicatng. So the umpire
| called il Il tie, and pardoned both teams
/ on condition that the sparrows would al
| ways hop and the flies rub their hands
| together before alightinS. Ana do you
know why shad has 50 many bones?--'
| The vivacious woman had evidently been
| reading Korean folklore, and she was air
| ing her knowledge.
She had likewise, heard of a game called
| base ball
stout woman carrying two market bas-
| kets. boarded that was so crowded
that she had to sit on the front seat fac
/ ing tile passengers on the second row.
The basket which she placed on the
| very end contained two LIGHTED ducks. One
was a sober fowl of sluggish habits. but
! the one with white feathers and round, in
quring eyes Immediately craned its long
, orange yellow bill forward and proceeded
! 10 nibblr at the umbrella held by a man
ON the opposite sat.
He was important looking tourist man
and he spoke loud and pompouSIy that
every body in the car heard him tell the
! conductor to let him out at the White
House. With him was roly poly woman,
! well along In years, who Wore taffeta that
! cracked and extra amount of thread
J lace.
= When the man jerkcd the umbrella out
/ OF the ducks bill the duck squawked
| The conductor reached over for the wom-
! ans fare and the duck reached out for
/ his sleeve. When he playfully drew his
/ arm away the duck squawked.
| Then the important tourist man. in turn
| ing To call his companions attention to the
! new District building, leaned "A bit forward