Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
Around the City.

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Speaker Clark stood in the rain. waiting
for a car.
AS a car he didn't want whizzed by,
passenger who was looking out through
mist-drenched glass remarked socially
TO her obvious husband:
That man out there in the storm looks
as cheerful as a Christmas tree. l love
a man in a red necktie!'
HUH?
The obvious husband was not loaua-
cious. Probably because his own tie was
black.
red necktie may not be the Hottest
reason for loving a perfectly strange
man. but it makes a right cheerful one
when the rain is slanting down like so
many gray glass tribes from gray clouds
To gray asphalt.
The one momentous question is:
Does Christmas tree make good pres
idential timber?
She was small and very, Very black.
And she looked as if she had got every
stitch of her clothes. free. for nothing.
from some generously disposed dump
heap-aIl except her hat She didn't have
a hat. And. to he entirely accurate there
wasn't an extravaganza OF stitches
But she was happy, She was so happy
that her eyes bulged and her bit of
figure stood rigid with excitement; the
scrawny fingers scooped IN like brown
claws and the mouth open for all the
world to count her brand-new ''shedders.
To grown-up eyes. that had lost the
glamour of childhood. she was merely
looking in Il shop window at a house
made of silver tinsel. with doll Santa
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Christmas tree inside.
Isn't it pretty. little girl2
The woman who Stoke meant to be
Kind. of course, but. also. she was curious
to know what was going on behind the
bullying eyes.
.'Yassum- But dat amt no house whar
chillen lives OATS Santa Claus own
home, whar he live hissef. You can't see
his sleigh counter de walls hidin' it. but
it's dar waitin' for him. all packed with
toys an candies an'-ev'ything-
You are going TO hang up your stock
fngs. aren't you?"
Nome 'Tain't no use He all never
comes nigh our house cause we amt got
any. We jes' lives in one room, an it
amt got no chimbley an de CONAN what
keeps de house her chiliens gfts-evy
thing. But 1 knows Santa Claus same's
eff he know'd me. counter iearin' bout
how he brings chiIlen's toys an candies
an nuts an'-ev ything-
Did you know 1 was Mrs Santa
Claus?"
The woman inquired with a casualty
really commendable in so sere and yellow
spinster, but the child bulged and
gaped. speechless in her surprise
Honest am Santa said to me: See
that little girl looking in at my house?
Well. she hasn't got any chimney and
want you to take her in that store and
get her what she wants"
did he say dat-sure?"
The woman was very, very sure. So the
two went into a store where You can
And that's how Christmas came to one
child in this town who hasn't any Chin
bley to her house.
This is about another child who looked
In windows:
finely dressed woman was worrying
along a crowded street in the shopping
section. With her was a tiny girl in
white plush with lot of fluffy dark hair
The child was whimpering and the woman
was mad-no not mad, exactly, just wOr-
rying.
Presently the crowd brought to them
another finely dressed woman who at once
noticed the little one.
why. Carrie. honey, what's the mat
ter? You'll make Santa sorry il You cry
Christmas times"
"Oh. for PHYS sake. don't make her
worser' clipped in the worried woman
She's just mad because l won't stop al
every window to look at toys she wouldn't
notice at home. And I'm in a big hurry
Her Sunday school is giving an entertain
ment this afternoon and Carries got tc
recite. Oh, for goodness sake. stop sniv-
cling. your nose looks like a beet Be a
good girl now. and say your piece FOL
Mrs. Blank"
Indeed she shan't then, Poor baby
IL she belonged to me SHE should look in
windows all she wanted to. shouldn't you
honey Here I've been buying a drum
three dolls and a hobby horse with stiff
tail for other peoples children. because
I've got none Of my own-and trying my
best not to be envious of women like you
-and-here you are fussing with the
little thing because she wants to look
at toys at Christmas time
There was more to it. but this is enough
\ to show that the stork is liable to- mis-
takes.
There is a dear little old-timy stand
down near the market. Behind the coun-
ter sits dear little old-timy woman and
on the counter. spread out and piled VI
and strung around. are sugar apples
candy baskets, made of plated pepper
mint; pink sugar piums. with straw
stems; horse cakes and
for cent?
The customer and the dear little old
TINY woman laughed chummily-as if q
wooden-jointed doll for cent could bt
found on the top of the earth outside d
the museum up In the German mountain:
where its model is kept
The customer bought pink sugar plum
ON straw stems in tribute to the way
hack day when she thought them mos
lovely to wear as earringS-befOre eating
Then she lowered a newse with he
purchase and went on feeling. someway
as il she had seen beautiful vision:
The Christmas of her childhood