Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
Around the CITY

A heav1er-than-air woman was buying
q silk skirt. A clerk was rendering
first aid.
1t was a marked-down skirt, with rows
Of little frills climbing up q steep flounce.
And It ratified. The clerk sized up the
stoutness of her customer and expressed
q polite but firm impression that the
marked-down numbers were too small
for her.
The customer scorned the 1nsinuation.
you can't tell by mo this morning. /
just ran out any way underneath. be-
cause had to wear my coat. I'm real
small when I draw myself in"
The clerk. unconvinced, picked out the
largest size skirt on the rack. and held
it against the customers figure. The
contrast was enough to make any stout
woman weep. except the woman in hand.
She fought.
II can let it out in the waist
But you can never make It meet
across the hips" interrupted the clerk.
I'VE have some larger sizes in black
The stout woman interrupted in turn.
The black skirts had not been marked
down. And. anyhow. she preferred dres-
.This skirts going to ut me all right
when I get on my straightfront I'll
mako It At. I'm one Of the kind that
can do anything when I make up my
MIND to IT,
Just another illustration of the superb
ority OF mind over matter.
A child was slightly injured by q car
and taken to q corner drug store. A
street crowd cropped up. apparently from
the bricks and asphalt. and the passen-
gers started in on an impromptu per-
formance that might have been entitled
"Babel-and Some"
Everybody knew Just how the accident
% <haxr IL . n
top of their lungs. No two agreed as
to details, but-didn't a wise man up
and tell US that variety is the spice Of
life?
excitement Of the near-tragedy was q
woman who had been watching the new
green OF the trees She accumulated I'm
mediate Information. however. from q tu-
multuous man on her left. who had
jumped up and was shouting at the mo-
jealous thrills to q calliope:
IT you had been attending to your
business. instead Of chewing the rag with
those men out there with you-"
mo sucher thingr' snapped q voice ON
the ignorant woman's right.
Il seen the whole business. The mo-
torman amt to blame"
The tumultuous man hurled back q
drug store. The two men on the plat
form protested that they were talking
to each other of their own affairs, and
the young motorman. white faced Gnd
rigid from the shock. stood his ground
while the conductor went through the
crowd with book and pencil. Then the
voice-which belonged to q trig little
woman, black skirt, white shirt waist.
straw sailor. green necktie and q gold
t0Oth-started into exhilarated details.
Il seen the whole business. The mo-
torman tried his best to stop the car
I'm telling this lady here seen the
whole business. and you amt to blame
the rag with him. either"
The motorman. thus upheld. tried to
smile his appreciation, and failed. His
face seemed set In q form and screwed
down. The two men were prsfuse in
who had been watching the new green OF
the tre,s kept quis: and imbibed more In
Yes. and If you want me. III 20
whole business. why. child almost
got killed on my brothers car once, but
he stopped It in time. It's awful tho way
children try to set under cars. And
into it. The moto1man tried his best
to keep that wagon of, but It would
run into the car. And told 'em It
wasn't the motorman's fault. because
had seen the whole business"
The passengers were climbing back.
and the conductor. having q vindi-
eating majority Of signatures. was put
ting his book In his pocket when the
woman with tho voice. and, incident
ally. with eyes. reached out for It:
Il want to put down my name ana
ADDRESS. II you want me to. I'll go on
the stand, because I seen the whole
business. Some people don't like to own
up TO what they know. but I'm never
AFRAID to get up and tell tho truth. You
want to stgn?"
The woman who had been Watching
the green Of the trees shook her head.
That's 80. You didn't sec It. I seen
the whole business
The car whizxed on, ana the ono
woman OF crowd Of forty-elsven who
had been watching the green Of the
trees, instead Of overseeing q child
nearly run over. turned back the lapel
OF nor coat and smiled apologetically
az tho thing she most pr1ses Of all her
worldly possessions:
A Newspaper badge.
Tho Unfit In Denver.