Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
AROUND THE CITY

Two women passed a church just as an
"army and navy wedding" was over and
the guests were driving away. The wom-
en- fingered until the last piece of finery
had switched around the corner or rolled
| Off in carriages, and then one of them
said to the other:
For goodness sake Mag. look at that
teency tincey policeman talkin' to that
driver! l wouldn't like to have to de-
pend on him if l was In a fix, would
you?"
Mag investigated the appearance of
| blue and brass person who was giving d.
rections to the man on the box. and then
| answered:
Nav indeedy. wouldn't IT,
Then they went their way without
the remotest idea that they had been COM
menting on one of the nations defenders
who did something one day to win I'M
dying fame.
Four men were seated comfortably on
one of the side benches Of 14th street
car. A young woman in a Merry Widow
| hat entered and, as the car was crowded,
man got up from that particular side
bench and the young woman sat down.
| The buzZ-saw edge Of her straw man.
moth cut into the next mans territory.
| and he also got up She settled herself
in the extra space and was doubtless en-
| joying her ride when another young Wom-
| man in Merry Widow hat entered. and
! the third man on the side bench vacated
his seat to let her sit down.
two hats. The buzz-saw burnt straw
rasped into the Copenhagen chip, and
| there was frightful probability of a MILL
| merry carnage between wings, aigrets,
flowers and ostrich plumes, when the
| fourth man got up and saved the situa-
| ton.
Then the second woman settled her
self in the added space. and the two
Merry Widow young women rode along
comfortably on seats provided for four.
An ordinary young man paused before
The Star building: With him was spir-
itually sweet looking young woman who
might have posed as an Easter NY IN
| her creamy gown and hat and nimbus OF
golden hair.
Like any other attentive escort. he read
the news on the bulletin board to the
young woman But 1t seemed waste OF
breath for 1t was easy to judge from her
appearance that she was like the poets
fair one-too exalted for human natures
daily food. The young man must nave
been entirely too ordinary. however. to
properly appreciate the delicate nature un-
der his care. for he read out. en1oyably.
about the strike in Philadelphia. the bomb
explosion in New York. the broken dam
| in Montana and the earth trembltngs In
Utah.
And when he was through with the last
lack letter the Easter lily young woman
| sighed out:
Things can happen everywhere except
| ir this punk town.!
| Which shows that the young man
mightn't have been so ordinary after all.
They were buying Easter flowers and
| the woman wanted lilies.
Whats the use of getting the most ex-
pensive things in the market, objecSed
the man. Wont these do?"
| He held up some branches of snowy
almond blossoms and sprays of spirea.
| but the woman was quite sure she want
ed lilies: :. ..,.s. %
| belittle Easter it's more than 1 am
ut isn't what you buy" persisted the
man, who evidently had a kitchen garden
income that failed to harmonic with the
dollhouse ambition of his wife. 'its the
spirit with which you buy
"Oh, dry up! You make me tired-what
did you say your lilies were?''
The market woman, business Flora
| in her tangle of greenery and blush of
| bloom, asked her customer whether she
| wanted them potted. cut or wired in de-
| sign. The customer eyed the exhibit I'M
decidedly and then asked an important
question:
Haven't you got anything newer than
| that cross PATTERN"
Flora explained about the appropriate
ness of the Easter cross. The customer
| listened with superior smile as though
| her with old stock that she wanted to
get rid of.
| "Uh, huh. Maybe some folks would like
| 1t, but I'm not that kind. I like things
I right up to the minute. No old-fashions
| in mine, thank you-gimmie six cup lilies
with the longest stems you got. and
stick of them white tiger lilies with
plenty of buds on EN-
Flora selected six long-stemmed callas
and a stalk of annunciation lilies with
| five blooms and seven buds. wrapped
! them in tissue and handed them to the
| man.
And the price that man had to pay!
| A woman who apparently had no OBJ
| lection to airing her innermost emotions
in public was talking to another woman
| at table in cafe. And as a third
| woman took a seat at the next table, this
| is what she was saying:
| IT have never yearned to marry just
! anybody for the sake of getting married
| any stupid woman can do that-but If
could buy myself a pattern of man as
| you do rag babies, stuff him full of the
| best material and galvanize him into
| earning a salary-oh, there would be
bliss. My self-made partner should have
| the best that was going, SO that the bar
gain would be fair. I believe in being
| fair"
| Then the waiter came with a clatter of
| dishes and the woman at the next table