Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

mary school the day 1 ran off and Joined
the army.
Il fought clear through from Bull Run
to Gettysburg. 1 got as far as San Juan
in the rumpus with Spain.
Il can fight for the flag as well as the
next one. 1 can't throw language at 1t,
| because-well. 1 guess it's because 1
never went to college,
Then the man who sold hags got or.
The patriotic man held his peace.
Exceptions may not be as important Is
rules. but they are generally more notice
able. For instance:
The ma jority of visitors to the new Ma
tional Museum are conventionally appre-
ciative of the paintings in the various
rooms. But 1t wasn't that way with
grandpa.
He had been lowed around perfunctorily
by two young girls, and was apparently
dead tired of the whole show, when they
"Circe.' The girls were not educated UP
to the history of that lady. SO they asked
woman who was near. When the wom-
an had explained the story and was NOV
ing on, grandpa held her up.
Excuse me, ma'am, I'd like to get
this thing shipshape. Now this young
Grey woman has started her stove the
smoke will trail seaward in the shape OF
flynn female figgers. hopin' that some
passin' fisherman will feel interested
enough to pull for the shore an get ac-
quainted.- An when he strikes the rocks
the lions go for him. That straight"
The woman assured him to that effect.
Well how do you account for lions
on a rock in the middle of the sea? I
never heard of 'em anywhere's except in
jungles an zoos
The woman explained that they were
merely allegorical embodiments Of the
foreclosures of the waves.
well, sir. IL the feller that done this
picture had ever followed the sea as 1
did, he'd know enough not to depend on
beats for foreclosures. There amt a
Gods thing in the whole world to beat
the water for danger. An here's another
never heard Of this Grey woman in all
the ten years I worked before the
mast
"Oh. grandpa"
The girl who interrupted was palpably
nervous over the old mans sudden squirt
into art criticism.
Don't bother me. hon, I'm gettin' at
the facts of this thing. Now then. ma am.
you take that string of half-baked fyin
ladies. What's the good of EN-? II
Grey had meant real business she'd a
trained her smoke into grog an fine-cut.
Oh, its a good enough picture for them
that like it. but-Excuse me. lam.
you know SO much about 1t, maybe you
done it yourself?"
The woman relieved his sudden gust OF
anxiety-for he was a kindly faced old
fellow-then the girls towed him of.
And grandpa followed without the
least idea that he was representing an
exception to a rule.
His eyes were the blue Of midocean and
his complexion could give points to pink
sweet peas. Also he had dimple. 9th
erwise he was a young conductor, max
i'm ha have been his maiden
A plain, spinsterish woman had given
him a quarter and he had handed her
back six tickets.
IT usually pay my way" observed the
woman.
She smiled as she said it, and as he tore
off one of the tickets he also smiled and
showed a dimple. Alas, the woman had
none to show.
This is my first mistake. but find it
hard to charge the ladies. 1t doesn't seem
the right thing for a gentleman to do
Down in Virginia we"
Three rough and tumble youngsters
rushed the car as 1t was rounding the
Capitol grounds and scrambled over the
woman before she could move from the
end seat to make room for them.> In
stantly the dimple turned itself into
frown, the sweet pea pink deepened to
wrathy red and the ocean-blue eyes be-
came storm centers.
How dare you treat a lady Lac that?-
crossing in front of her without even
III llllS your HdlS.
The youngsters stared at him an in
slant and then looked at each other and
laughed. 1t was noisy laughter rich with
the unstudied melody Of youth. and In the
middle of it the toughest of the three
kissed a grimy paw at the conductor and
called out:
Hello, sweetheart!
The conductor fairly grabbed their tick
cts, touched his hat In difference to the
spinterish passengers announcement that
it was customary for women to be walked
over in cars-outside of Virginia-and then
he backed down the running board to help
another woman off.
But maybe he wasn't mad!