Evening star., 1907-09-01
AROUND THE CITY

An austere woman in black alpaca was
! going through Franklin Park yesterday
afternoon. In one hand she carried stout
| whip and the other gripped leather
thonged leash with such force that her
knuckles showed up like white marbles. AT
the end of the leash trotted fluff OF white
wool and blue ribbon
The tiny scrap of poodle. being playtully
obstreperous. according to the nature of all
healthy young things, made frlsky darts at
every one who passed. Some people shooed
| 1t off laughingly. others sco!ded it indul-
| gently. and one woman. who perhaps has
a special liking for dogs, stopped down to
pat its head. To be exact, that's what she
stopped down to do. but the austere woman
prevented her with jerk at the leash that
| sent the small thing at the end OF it ca
| pering In the air.
"Oh. you mustn't do that! He's danger
GUS. He bites
so do musuuitoes.' laughed the other
woman. I'm not afraid of him; I've had
dog friends all my life"
"Oh. but you don't know Rudolph. Why,
I'm kept worried day and night by this
dog. l haven't the heart to Kill him. and
he's too dangerous to give away; II would
go against my conscience and / should feel
responsible for everything that happened.
My niece left him with me when she went
abroad and l try to do my duty by him,
but he S a great care. If 1 don't bring him
out every day he raises the house. and
when do he carries on like mad-you Ru-
dolph!'
She gave another yank at the leash that
lifted the small thing, from the ground and
when the two had turned the curve the
other woman said to herself:
| There goes a poor soul who new was
young herself and who doesn't know youth
when she sees 1t.
A 10 the munlciDal build ng
was walking along the outer ledge near
the roof. when a woman In an open car
said to her companion:
Il wish l could get that man to wash my
windows for me. You can't get woman
to SIT outside on. the sill any more; and
even men refuse. Why, l offered Uncle
Ben. who does odd jobs TO-. me- 20 cents
apiece for every front window on the fourth
fioor-and, don't you know. Ire was afraid
to risk it, even at that price! 1t taxes
man like that one up there to do justice TO
windows these days..
1t didn't seem to occur to her that the
windows wouldn't do justic, to the man.
Two men were passing a drug store, when
the one who was red-necked and loudly
good natured. stopped to spell out some
white chil.a lettering on the window glass.
.P-h-a-r-m-acy How do you pronounce
that. johnson, and what. does II meah!.
johnson explained:
Same as il you spelled it NTH an F.
It's Greek or Latin, or some old thing Tor
drug store. :.
"Then. 1 suppose if was as peart as that
young feller behind the soda water counter
I'd be spelling myself a p-h-a-r-m-e-r'
| would I? Huh. see myself!
Perhaps-he didn't know 1t, but he was
a farmer an after Secretary Wilson's own
heart.
A bicycle rider whizzed around corner
and knocked woman down.
He must have the right sort OF a man
for he stopped to pick her up.
And she must have been the right sort
of woman, for when she had brushei the
dust from her skirt ana got her nat Oh
straight she said
THANK you so much for not being an
automobile"
a puffy-faced man with sporty red
nose and clothes that looked cd enough
to vote was wobbling down F street In the
sun AS he wobbled he talked Passersby
turned to laugh or pity him, according 10
their natures but the man wobbled and
talked right along without noticing, and
when he seemed to think his remarks
AS a woman passed him this is what he
was saying:
you are going to have your own way. All
you've got to do is to tell me whether you
want to go to Europe or spend the sum-
mer at the Old White, and I'll give You
the money. O,d George has never stinted
YOU vet and he's never going to"
repeating something that he had really
said in earnest long time ago."
mock of tourists was looking Gown at
the city from the Capitol dome.
pretty high. aren't we?' chuckled
jolly man to preoccupied woman in
black jumper suit and specs.
NO higher than our lunch. Think OF
that cafe charging quarter for two eggs"
.Oh, forget it. Look at the scenery"
And they weren't extra good eggs,
either"
Hang the eggs! We even up by getting
this show tree. This is simply great
Eggs are not worth that much doz-
en-"
The man looked around and said some
thing in an undertone. The woman an
swered aloud.
II don't care who hears me! Two eggs
for a quarter Is downright gouging."
And there are probably a million women
two million women-in this country who
would have been grateful for such view.
To say nothing of such jolly man!