Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
Around the CITY

The extremes Of human contrast me
yesterday when two men. hurrying down
10th street. passed a gray stone church
The oldish man lifted his hat in passing
The youngish fellow glanced ahead ant
across the street and, seeing no one In
close range. asked:
''who on earth are you bowling to-
The oldish man answered with the read
ness Of one who considers that he Is say
ing a very ordinary thing.
I'm bowling to no one on earth. I al.
ways uncover when I pass a church OF
my faith
The others exclamation was streaked
with the superiority that comes from
knowing everything-and more.
"Nonsensei I don't believe In churches
myself. The forests were Gods first tenn
pies. and the only religion they've evel
taught Is the brotherhood OF man."
He made his statement with a sure
ness that implied that he had never heard
for instance. Of Druid affairs drenched
with human red. but, after alias the
woman who was tagging behind. said tC
herself, because there was no one hand,
''If people talked only Of the things the,
know about. the world would be deaf ant
dumb.
A woman from Spotless Town was way
laid by a microbe. He wanted her to
buy shoestrings.
Any student Of fashion plates could see
she wasn't the sort Of woman to tolerate
cotton shoe laces, but perhaps the mi
crobe possessed his share Of the instinct
that makes a street kiddie know kind
ness when he sees It, Anyhow. he asked
her to buy shoestrings.
He was very small. even for a microbe,
and the dirt that grtmed him from NANCY
cap to almost no-shoes was OF char
acter that dear Mr.. Venus would have
clessed as various"
The Spotless Town woman knew Of one
remedy for all ills.
You poor dirty little boy, you! Why
don't you wash yourself? II I give you
a nickel will you promise me to go tight
away and buy a cake OF soap?'
Nome, won't buy no soap
She must have recognized the honesty
OF "a :iicro5e who could readily have de-
ceived her. for she put her hand on his
head.
"Of course. child, the soap money would
have been extra. I think II were q boy
ia rather sell papers. because It's more
businesslike. When buy a newspaper
from a boy I'm getting the worth Of my
money, and that makes II fair on both
sides. But you ask three times as much
they are not as good. SO that 1t Is only
kindness that makes people take them.
And that isn't the right way to start in
to be man. Now. tell me why you won't
!Cause I'd rather go to movin' pitch
ers"
The woman must herself have had a
weakness for moving pictures, for she
opened her silver meshed purse.
Here's a dime for the pictures--no.
to do an unfair thing. I give you the
money because you are my friend"
The microbe may or may not have APP
preciated the woman's moral mathe-
matics, but he must have known wha,
1t was to have found q friend. for as
were making rash promise. that mus,
be Immediately honored, but as some
thing to be considered In the future:
Il might buy soap-some time.
1t was q sensational. suggestion. but the
woman went hers-way with smiling
conviction that the microbe would keer
his wOrd-some time.
She was a woman of lumpy contour
who looked as II her life's aim was &c
fight fat. and she was talking to another
woman who was a positive bone. And
while the fat woman talked and the bone
woman listened they ate pink ice cream
in a cafe.
well. I should say I did 60 to Atlantic
City! They say roller skating is a fine
thing for reducing the hips. so the min.
ute I got to the Boardwalk 1 went to the
rink on the pier and rented pair OF
skates. The first thing / did was to en-.
gage q teacher at dollar an hour for the
exclusive privilege OF knocking him down
and tumbling on top Of him. When he
had dragged me TO my feet-don't ASK
me howl Immediately upset a young
woman who was gliding along as easily
as IL she wore CREASED wings. Then
wrecked group that was doing fancy
steps to music. and by the time / had got
my full dollars worth Of tumbles and
bruises and ruined my white frock anc
burst my gloves and lost my temper
got weighed and found l had lost ar
ounce of flesh somewhere in the scrim-
mage. So 1 kept II up-and now I'm on a
strict diet
They say ice cream is fattening," re.
marked the bone woman with the air OF
one who has the very best intentions In
the world.
For the lands sake. why didn't you re
mind me before?'
The woman of fat pushed her half-fin
ished brick aside, and-it was a NEAR
thing to do-the bone woman drew the
saucer over to herself and ate the cream
TO the very last scraping.
And another woman at another table
wondered why the poet left her sex Out
when he wrote about mans inhumanity &c
man.
THRONE OF GREECE