Evening star., 1909-06-27
Around the City

women of this county"
The person who made the remark in
terrupted herself to drop some oil in
a dressing she was making for let
tuce salad.
Perhaps he considers himself solid
enough, already" observed the pers on
who was tearing the lettuce apart with
fork
IF he had just barely mentioned to
those aero club folks that the first
aviator was a woman, it would have
given us fair credit and done the
Wrights no harm, seeing they are get
ting all the glory But. of course. this
world Is of the masculine gender, and
there wasn't a soul brave enough that
day at the White House to speak up
for our rights. Pass the vinegar.
please
i've never heard of any woman avia-
tor-and / don't believe you ever have,
either-Don't pour too much-Who was
she?''
don't, but I'll put some on, If you say
Old woman. old woman. oh. whittier high: ?
TO sweep the cobwebs out Of the say
The Wright boys may wear all the
medals they can carry, but the record
goes to the Witch and her Broom bet
you'll say this is the best dressing you
ever tasted
And sweet young thing in pink
linen and a beehive hat. who was being
treated at the next table by a perfectly
grand young feller. wondered, doubtless
her expression gave her away-how
two plain women who had outlived their
spring-chicken era and forgot could pos
sibly manage to have good times to-
gether without beau. a pink gown and
plate of ice cream with pound cake
on the side.
Considering spring chickens:
Every man and woman who was pass
ing up or down 18th street yesterday
afternoon paused to watch a couple Of
callow, yellow-legged pullets that were
pecking between the cobbles In front OF
the rear entrance of Columbia Theater.
One ancient observer furnished his ju-
venile companion with a "reminiscences:
Il remember when that was a COM
mon sight in this town. About fifty
years ago people used to own cows and
let them run loose in the streets. My
father had an old black horse that used
TO roam all round the neighborhood
whenever he didn't feel like working.
and I had to follow him up-and a
neighbor of ours who lived little way
out in the country, along where Du-
pont Circle is now, had pen Of hogs
that used TO get off once in a while
and parade down town. One of them
got run over by an omnibus. Oh. yes,
streets used to be alive with chickens
and other stock in those times-and
they were good old times. too.
Then huckster came tearing along
and sWooped down on the two white
chickens that had fallen from his wag-
on. and the ancient one consented to the
child's wall to Come on.
"A car was whizzing uptown when some
body pressed a button. AS the passen-
ger was getting out the slim, long-legSed
young conductor hoped off the car.
sprinted few steps on the asphalt and
then made q running leap for the trailer.
He had sprinted just one step too many,
however, for he missed the running
board, and the car bounded on without
him.
Then three young men and very
young woman, who were on the last
bench of the trailer. turned back, and
sters shouted, one after another, to the
running blue figure in the rear:
Step lively!'
Move UP in front there!'
"Get aboard"'
The conductor laughed at his own dis
comflture. but was beginning to pant from
his run on the scorching asphalt, when
the very young woman made trumpet of
her hands and bawled back at him:
Wait till the car stops. LADY,
Then she pressed button, and at the
next corner breathless conductor got
aboard.
Two women were entertaining them
selves between acts by talking over the
directed the others attention to a dapper
little man on an end seat half way down
the aisle. He was dressed with tropical
elegance in white flannel. and his crossed
leg revealed white silk hose and pumps
OF snowy kid. His short hair was like
polished ebony. and his brown hand was
as delicately slender as girls.
Say. jim, that Chinaman looks exactly
like Ling. doesn't he
The jim woman saw the resemblance.
Wouldn't you think he'd be scared to
death? He certainly has got a nerve all
right-sitting there as cool as a cucum-
ber. Say, wouldn't it be- awful if the
police was to cope down on him while
the play was going onr'
The jim woman responded that 1t would
be awful in a voice that implied that IL
would be perfectly fine.
Regular dandy. amt he? Them Chi
namen always do dress to kill"
Then the curtain went up and the two
women forgot about the young man from
Japan.
A young woman was crossing the as
phalt at 18th and F streets. She looked
like frontisp.ece that had escaped from
fashion magazine, though most women
would have appeared ordinary enough in
plain white frock and black hat with
one perky quill Perhaps 1t was the
swing Of her exquisitely laundered skirts
or the fautless cut of her jacket.
Perhaps, again, IL was just the young
woman herself.
she lifted her skirts carefully and tip
toed. as If she were lodging puddies.
though the sun was scorching and the
sky a staring merciless blaze.
Looks as If ycu had developed the rain
habit" commented the woman with her
a plain body In crow black. Il don't
wonder at you, after all the wet weather
we've been having
Rain. ] don't mind rain. because it's
clean. II is automobile grease l am try
ing TO avoid. My clothes are nearly all
ruined"
And to think I've been Wondering all
this time how the hem of my black
tafreta came To be messed up So
Tie woman in crow black must have
been of an anarchistic temperament. for
her everyday wrinkles deepened into 8
scowl:
IT'S hard to nave only the grease spots
while others do the riding.
''Oh, we have more than the spots" re-
minded the frontispiece. airily. There
Is always the exciting possibility of being
run overland having the chauff eur rur
in"
Then the frontispiece, having reached
the sidewalk, shook her immaculate
skirts with the little swish that only
stylish woman can achieve. and led the
way to a place where they serve hickory
nuts with the ice cream.
William b. Herring, Hagerstowr
grocer. has made a deed of trust for the
benefit of his creditors. The trustee gayS