Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-04
Around the City

Two sisters % some religious order OF
the Catholic Church were buying flags.
The younger one had her hands full VI
tiny silk standards with gilt-tipped spears,
and the other had selected larger ones
thas iay in bursts of color against the
black robe Of her habit
And II man who was with n woman.
who WAS also getting ready for patriotic
juhilation. said 10 her:
There's the pretties; picture you a,s
ever going 10 see cf the union of church
and state
K was n hot day. with The mercury n.y.
] ing for tie worlds 20 ord: with the haze
That calls Itself humidity stcaming up
from the asphalt ard with the sky glaI
ing down q speCkic.S blue
ID on Eth street force o. culored Ia
horers We're wrecking a frame house OF a
terrace, and a woman who was trying TO
Keep in The laccwork Of shade made 10y
droory -leaved NAPLES happened along tust
III time 10 he caught IN a shower of piaS-
ter and dust made by tile tumble OF
planks.
Being human Sic Was about Ia work
herself int" a perfectly natural and equal
IS foolish fit Of temper. wien the powerful
black samson who had raised ihe dust
emerged from il. struck with a sudden
helplessness, as If neli!ah had just done
things L. him with her shears The wom-
an recognized the look.
His overal!s were OF blue denim and a
( SHIRT 81 the same of the kind that
. fastcns with one horn button at the back
Of the neck. Che button had come 'un-
doHH' and the band had slipped down to
show the steamng black throat and
shoulders TO the suddenly helpless look
vas added Il most beSeechinE wail-which
thc woman also recognized:
iii. one of YOU boys. come heah an
button me mp in the back.
nj. lar tll.4. nf
. tobacco. numbered over and took the
business in charge.
You done bus yoh button ciar of
, GIMME 4 pin
HI. over thar Any you boys got
pin fob Johnson's Shirt
None Of the boys had a pin.
'I.awd'n heben. Johns How 20
gwine sleep tonight" WHY. man. yoh
backs all over sun blistcrs.
What is a shower of plaster and mi
crobes compared 10 sun blisters that
won't let YOU sleep: The woman went
And the incident was over. The only
excuse for mentioning 1t is for the sake
OF the suggestion II gives that though 1t
be 4 far cry from the work shirt of :,
Samson To the lingerie waist Of n sum
mer girl there come times when their
needs are the same.
II is the uuexpectednesS Of things that
makes this world such a nice exciting
:
Tie students Of the Cathedral School
had, doubtless, many admirers OH their
commencement day. but none So out
spoken as Fanny, whose profession is TO
rule the kitchen OF Il villa on the Ten
ieytown road. The file of pretty girls III
their white uniforms. and the graduates
in their academic gowns. appealed to he
artist soul lying dormant III the comfort
able body Of Fanny, and, II use her
OWE words:
n ct.ulder sat an sat al day wul.hiu'
EN- rs they ali marched across the grass
from the school To the church. They
looked grand. them ckiilau dad. They
looked cam an peaceful-ike-ie as
If they was a funeral with corpse in
their midst
The words were nothing extra. but
the sentiment they stood for was worth
! its weight in gold.
And sentiment is the thing that counts
Two men had stopped 10 look AT tie
hats in mil iner,- window. 1t was a
I tons on display were labeled with mark
( eddown prices. none OF them was cheap.
! LII the average meaning Of the word.
A black combination of lace and let
with shaded green plumes and a sparkle
/ Of rilinestones, rather caught the fancy
/ of the elder man, who considered it care
fully. peeked around the side at Il, asked
[ the others opinion, and then remarked:
That's a pretty fair looking hat. 80
! rar as ] can see-I don't know why won-
| en- should spend such everlasting lot
I OF money on headge3r wien YOU can
/ buy neat thing like this for fifty cents
! And the man moved on, Serenely un-
conscious of the small but Nitally inn
! portant mark that showed the hat to
! be reduced to fifty dollars"