Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11

been run over or something. the way tho
car jolted."
That was all there was to It, but-did
you ever meet up with tender-hearted
And-contidentially OF course-what did
you think of her?
business woman was sitting at a
table in a cafe. While she waited for her
order to be filed another woman sat
down at the table and began to estab-
lish social relations. First she stared at
the business woman long enough to take
in her dark skirt. white blouse with
thread of blue around the neck and even
the fur coat thrown over the Chair back.
Then she started in:
Excuse me, but are you a Christian
Scientist?
The business woman suhdued any sur
prise she mi NJ have felt and answered
politely that she was not Christian
Scientist
That so? I was most sure you must
be?"
This made the business woman take
notice of the other woman who was old
ish and shabby nd had a lonesome-look.
ing face that was yellow as palm
leaf fan.
Why do you think | am Christian
Scientist"
Me.ho'i~- nren't you?"
She asked very much as a man would
ask another If he were. say, an Elk. but
the business woman had got her oyster
stew, and was seemingly too busy To
hear. This didn't i'll the least disturb the
social efforts of the paim-leaf-fan-face
woman. for she kept right on:
Il know you Amt Methodist now. or
course. because you're eating oysters.
and it's Friday. and oysters are fish
Lots of Catholics and Baptists III the
! city. I see you amt married Well.
| you've missed a lot of trouble.
acutely normal
For goodness sake. woman. what
makes you think I'm not married? Why'
| I've got grown grandchildren!
The palm leaf-ian- lace woman locked
ecandaiized And she let 1t be known
| III" she was scandal'Zed:
"You got grandchildren? And wearing
your body fastened up in the back. Ana
| olue beads!''
| There were just two things the business
woman could do. She could get mad or
she could laugh.
She laughed.
Maybe she was jolly enough to enjoy In
| advance the hard-kpock story she meant
! to tell her friends Maybe. again. she
| was clever enough to know that she was
up against lonely old woman who was
| fam shed for talk. Anyhow, she
| laughed.
| her laugh was a fine thing to hear.
chummy old couple were crunching
/ along on the snow. Between them they
] called attention to every beauty the park
| could show-ice- coated trees. white puHs
| that were bushes and stretches or daz-
| zing glaze.
LOOK at the poor little snowbirds.
! john
| "Sparrows, my dear" corrected John.
| mo, indeedy. They're snowbirds L
used to see millions Of 'em on ON the farm farm
when / was a sir. i can tell sno"-
| bird with my eyes shut
why. my dear. don't you know the
sparrows killed off the snowbirds dozens
| of years ago.?
| con. John. honey. is that so?"
They crunched on ahead and the two
| men who were walking behind took up
the subject where the couple had lett on;
| John, honey, is mistaken, chuckled
one man to the other. Those are snow
| BIRDS
BET you dollar they are sparrows,
said the other man.
And a woman who was following in the
beaten prin' $ of the men in front sara
/ to herself-having no one TO say Ii to:
Il bet they are neither sparrows nor
snowbirds.'
woman was so interested in what
she WAS saving to the man she was
walking with that she let her fur boa
slip until one end dragged on tile pave
ment.
| Two Young girls who were walking
| behind seemed to think il the funniest
sort of joke to see perfectly good 1ur
trai ed over the aslush of the street-and
they laughed and laup hed-and the fur
jagged and draer ed until when an old
lish man overlook the woman and called
her attention to the boa quarter OF q
yard of one end of 1t was hopeiessiy
ruined
at am sorry / could not overtake you
before, madam, but / was across the
street going in the opposite direction
when happened to look back
And viii he was explaining the wv"
girls passed on.