Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
Around the City

Leave my caterpiliars alone. win your
Well. he didn't say II in words. but 10
looked II. as he turned in his car sat -
face the woman who had plucksd ths
wiggiedy thing from his collar. Whes
he did say to her explanation. was:
"You need not have troubled yourself
madam. am not afraid OF caterpillara"
The passengers around could have told
him that the woman had troubled herself.
for before she could screw her courage
to the picking point she gave q nervous
little shiver and made the face that every
woman makes when brought 20 close
quarters with a worm. When she ala
manage to life the thing with her hand
kerchief and hing Il in the street. she gave
another SILVER and made another face:
Il don't see how you could touch the
horrid creature" said the woman with
her. Il can't abide the feel OF them.
mo more can i" admitted the worm
woman but I know I'd thank anybody
to take a caterpillar on me. and we've got
to do unto oilers as you would have them
do unto you
And then that man"
"oh. we'll. Ii just shows that the golden
rule doesn't always work both ways
He was a mIddle-aged man with an air
OF being satisfied with the world and ALI
contained therein.
Yes. I'm a demonstrating fellow now.
but I've been n traveller in my day. Queer
how some tribe will stand out In man
memory long after important events have
dulled. i remember once when 1 was In
the west-the early times when women
were scarce and far between. 1 had eeen
| only men for a long spell. but not being
especially attached TO any girl. 1 got
along first class without them We'll. one
| day as ! was travelling along through
| what looked to be a no-man's world, L
came across a shack with smoke curling
up from fits chimney and fire showing
| from the open door. Then my eyes took
| IN something that gave my heart jerk
and set II beating until / trembled from
head TO foot. And the thing that upset
me was an apron hanging on q line.
1T was just an apron. but. somehow, -
I watched IL tapping in the sunny breese
| IL meant a heap more than two yards OF
| blue Bingham. II stood for home and
| love and civilization. Yes. I've seen a
good bit OF the world In my time. but
| the strongest thrill I've ever got out OF
IL was that apron hanging on "a"
| And then the man who was talking TO
companion got too far ahead to be
overheard by q woman who was walking
| behind.
A lamp cleaner had left his ladder
against an electric pole in a park.
An atom Of a boy saw the ladder and
proceeded to climb IL.
| A passing woman saw the atom and
paused.
II wouldn't do that. dear. The ladder
might fall and hurt YOU"
| The atom made a mouth at her and
lifted bare foot to a higher rung.
man came by and said to the atom:
Get down from there. you little rascal
and scoot."
The atom got down and scooted.
| And the woman said TO herself with
suffragette dependency:
| What's the use. This world r. OF the
masculine gender and II won't ever. ever
change its sex.
woman I'm a 9th street trailer had
double seat to herself. IL was on the
side Of the car that was shaded from the
| sun-and the sun was glaring. Every
| time the car stopped for a passenger the
| woman put a dry goods bundle In the
| empty seat and looked out of the win
dow. When the passenger was seated on
the sunny side. the woman took the
bundle on her lap and spread herself
out.
No one seemed to notice her little con-
tinuous performance until an old and
heat-weakened man got aboard. He look
ed longingiy at the empty seat with the
bundle In il. but the woman's face was
forbidding as she kept her eyes toward
the window. The man was turning to a
sunny seat when a woman on the shady
side arose and made him take her place.
Then she stepped UP to the woman with
the bundle:
Move your stun away. want this
| seat"
| The owner OF the bundle looked up
surlily and concluded she wasn't going
to pay any attention to a plain woman
| in q plain frock She let the bundle lay
in the seat and turned her eyes to the
| window. The other woman put the
bundle on the floor and sat down. Then
the owner of the bundle picked II up
meekiy, moved closer to the window to
make more room for the newcomer, and
said hgratiatingly:
Hot. amt it?"
The plain woman I'm plain frock
| showed a perfect willingness to con-
| verse
Yes. and / reckon its going to be pretty
hot for you the day you die and have to
be judged for your selfishness."
And then the conversation stopped