Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

beings. one would have been cream chif-
ION and the other ten-cent Bingham. The
chinony young woman was expressing
valuable ideas as to man:
You see, Mary, you are good-Iookine
enough. but you are so awful sensible, You
couldn't expect fellows to lose their heads
over girl who knows how to get off
cars properly and talk politics. about the
The high cost Of living" corrected th.
ginghamy girl.
There you go-and the worst of you is
Inat you q Just as lieve say pTosaic
LING IKE that to fellow who was treat
ing you 10 Ice cream
L should think husband would want
an intelligent wife,
Maybe SO. but you've got to catch a
beau before you can get husband, and.
anyhow. husbands don't count"
And third woman. who was WALKING
behind, wondered If it could be possible
tnat solomon In all his wisdom had been
re Inca ahe into chiffony girl
true, chiffon Is a frothy trifle whose
glory departs with its freshness. while
Eihgnam improves with washing-stiIl
there are always marked-down remnants
on the Bingham counter. while chiffon
never lacks for customers. and
Man always will be man
me market was alive with Chickens
mere were barred rocks and domineck
ers and leghorns clucking In MANY crates
out they got no notice except from GUS
toners who were considering fricassees
and potpies.
Ihen came along women with a chan
tecier hat-beak, red comb. yellow hackle.
speckled wings and blue green tail
feathers, sQuatting on a crown of black
lace.
AND II that chanticleer had been the
COCK that made St Peter cry, or the
rooster that crowed in the moon to wake
the priest all shaven and shorn: or that
an ALL
its master many eggs, it couldn't have
created greater sensation.
which shows what fashion can do.
tours around tree.
Two equally small white kiddies, IN
Ieatner war bonnets and fringed yellow
suits exactly like Indians don't wear,
stood at little distance on the bricks
one aiming toy gun, the other with "A
cigar box. The boy with the gun yelled
out. Bang. The boy with the pox
snapped the lid.
The boy on all tours fell to the ground
with a grOan suggestive of green apples
AS soon as he was sprawled out nice and
dead the boy with the gun whipped a
silver of tin from his yellow suit, sprang
to the PROSTATE figure and began to RIP
him open In fine style.
What you playing, chiIdren?"
asked passing woman, who most vitally
wanted to know
I'VE amt a payin. I'm Teddy KILN
elfants. Him is Kummit takin' pixters
an the coon Is Africy. I'm shot him an
now I'm skinnin' him.
He was entirely right. They were not
playing. 1t was the real thing-as long
as 1t lasted.
Way up town there is a common garden
with weedy blossoms. In the weeds are
early grasShOpperS that could make the
score Tor marathon long jumps look fool
ish, and bObbng around irresponsibly are
just-born butterflies of palest bun. It 10
such way-off quiet place that a woman
had 1t all to herself, except for the tiny
live things that buzzed and hoped and
crawled and flew around her. and she was
having a perfectly lovely time making
believe she was in the country, when-all
of a sudden-a tremendously big black
giant. looking like locomotive with legs
for wheels, came rushing at her as If he
meant to grind her where she stood. In
stead of headlight he had popped eyes
that could see everything everywhere.
and the part of him that would have been
the coal box if he had been a locomotive
instead Of live thing. was bristly with
spikes. And he was dreadful
The poor woman, oh, the poor woman
who wouldn't harm a fly, got out of the
monsters track, but the first thing she
knew another tremendously big giant-a
The poor woman thought at first flash
that 1t was a red automobile-the devil
hnd-but as the creature had the polite
ness to stop she couldn't help seeing that
she was a perfect lady. Oh, anybody
could tell she was lady! Her red dress
had black coin spots all over 1t and the
cape she wore was the loveliest black
chiffon, GauZy and voluminOus like the
draperies that serpentine dancers wear
She must have known the poor woman
was admiring her appearance, for she
paused at least a minute before she start
ed off again. OF course the creatures
didn't harm her. or course not because
she couldn't be alive to tell about It, Be
sides. they were nothing in the world
but
A hustling black ant and q ladybird fy
And a magnifying glass.