Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
Around the City

Around the City
lie wore a picture hat of green plush.
but the brains under it were entitled to
green bays.
The man with him had been Keeling off
platitudes about the unsatisfactoriness OF
riches, and, at last. to emphasize his cli-
max, stopped on the street where they
were walking to demand:
Take love, which you must grant to
be the guiding power of life. When did
money ever buy the fresh love of d true
woman's hearth"
The green plush young fellow had no
need to pause for his reply. He simply
fiici<ed his cane and chuckled:
Fresh love, What's the matter with
canned goods? There's loads of people
don't know the diff"
The young man of platitudes put in a
protest. The other paid 10 attention,
but proceeded with his proofs.
Look at all these women just out OF
church. They must be satisfied with
their appearance or they wouldn't be
promenading They'd have gone straight
home with the plain ones. who have the
sense to know they are not worth look
ing at from pictorial point OF view.
Well look EN- over; made-up figures and
compilations. beached hair. imitation
laces and diamonds which pass for gen.
uine because people know they can at
ford the real thing. Canned goods, every
one of 'em. See:"
The young man of platitudes tried an
other protest, but, as the woman who
was walking behind has no great cause
to be proud of her ears. his wisdom was
lost TO print.
a man was marching through a park.
He didn't just walk. He marched. Per-
haps he had struck the gait that suited
him because there was no living thing
around except some sparrows and SPUR
rel. Perhaps, again Well. anyhow,
he was marching through the park, and
he held before him, reverently. as an
altar boy holds q blessed candle, a yellow
ionquil with a sappy green stem. He
was a nice-looking man, as straight as q
ramrod and with hair that was beauti-
fully gray. He must have seen IN the
blossom he was looking at something
more than an every-day-or rather an
every-spring joinquil. for as two skittish
young women turned one Of the winding
paths and came toward him he apparently
failed to hear one of them say, perhaps
for his benefit:
Look at the spring opening"
Maybe he heard, but didn't let on.
Maybe. again, the jonquil was reminding
him of other jonauils that blOomed In
way-back golden days half century ago.
You never can tell what wonderful
things are going OH in the heart and soul
a man who goes marcn,
ing through a park carrying jonquil
as if it were q blessed candle.
One young person was confaboing with
another young person. The scene was a
corner; the subject a man. Both the
young persons We're as brown as ginger
nuts and each was ostentaffously con-
scious of her alley cat furs and delirium-
tremen hat.
A white woman paused at the corner
to wait for a car. and the opportunity al
forded her the privilege of oyerhear1ng
few choice remarks.
90 cose. he said the same thing evy
felluh says to evy girl
What diddy say"
Love me- an the world was hisn."
Men who write ccld-blooded grammars
might possibly have accused the young
person of slipping up In the quotation,
but. on the other hand. the far wiser men
who write novels and get them copyright
ed might argue back that she had her
fact straight from Pa Adam down. And
it is fact that counts. Ask MI. Grad
grind.
The woman who had overheard made
a bolt for her car. and once in and her
fare paid there was nothing better TO
do than watch the motOrman through
the open door. He was strictly on his
lob, but he was also young, with the
splendid bronze-pink of health in his
face, and, maybe. the heat of tho new
spring in his veins and muscles and
heart ANYHOW. while he Kept MS
track, the part of him that was his
heart and soul made him whistle softly,
but joyously and mistakenly. And the
at - NJ and Tho World Is Nine"
Yes, sir, from Pa Adam clear down!
A man was going along Pennsylvania
avenue. To be judicially exact. he was
only a half man, for some tragedy had
deprived him of both legs, and ne nao
made the best Of what was left or him
self by setting his body on tiny wheels
and shoeing his hands with iron soles,
which were also on rollers. He motored
briskly on the outer side of the curb, and
on his face was the cheerful smile OF g.
man who has suffered and grown strong.
That's brave old fellow, exclaimed
a big man in a sombrero, who was walk
ing by with another man in derby hat.
mot necessarily. More apt to have lost
his legs in an accident than In war
What's that got to do with It? It
isn't how you lose your legs: Its how you
bear it after they are gone. Why. look
And as he said it the big man lifted his
Sombrero.
Maybe he did 1t without thinking.
Two voung men. who wore the best
clothes a tailor could make. stood close
together outside pawnshop on 9th street.
One of them slipped diamond ring from
his finger and handed it to the other:
"Get twenty thirty-any old thing on
It.
They may have been Il couple of horrid
fellows making ready for the mysterious
high jinks that man calls blowout
Then, again, Damon may have been CIV
ing up his last asset to friend Pythias-
It's just as well not to judge.
A little old gentleman stood at the
crossing that divides the White House
from tho Treasury grounds He was
not standing, either. for he swayed
from side to side with his arms out
stretched and with his feet lettering
as IL he wanted to go on but was afraid
to move.
Many people passed him. All stared,
some grinned and a few stopped to see
what was going to happen.
"Waltz me again. Willie" sang out
one exceedingly facetious young gen.
tleman.
wheels" remarked another
Guess he's sorry he took that last
glass" said the first young man. who
list Of his party. The others snickered
how on earth could they help snlcl-
ering at a clever thing like that?-and
the facetious young man was Just
up something equally as good
when another man came along.
He. too. was elderly. but he stepped
along vigorously until he came to the
clump of men half surrounding the lit
tie old gentleman OF the lettering feet
and outstretched arms. Then he stop
ped.
Can be Of service to you. sir?"
little old gentleman stood still