Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
BY EARL GOODWIN.

Mount Pleasant has a four-and-a-half-
year-old boy who is bound to succeed if
looking out for his own interests is
rule for ultimate success His name is
DeEhy, and he has brother named
Harry. The two OF them have little
girl friend who has all the habits of a
well trained shoplifter Every time she
visits Harry and Denny they miss some
thing from the nursery. Denny's father
gave him a warning about allowing this
little girl in the house:
I'm not going to let her come in any
more he said, because when she gets
through taking Harry's things she Will
start TO take mine
J. r. Hildebrand. who used TO write
theatrical criticisms headed by his own
Game in large black type, ard who is now
the managing editor OF a daily up in Con-
necticut. had ar experience with VIII
Macdonald once that must have Spot ed
promising afternoon for Hi0ebraEd 1T
was one of those terrible days in news
paper office. Murders We're oeis COM
mitted, Congress was op.nS-the-ioOp.
witnesses in divorce cases We're siapping
each other in the face. railroads We're
being wrecked on Wall street and trains
We're being smashed in every state in the
Union. The star reporter was sick, the
ntdC copy reader ndCn SHOWN up the
composing room was vel ing to cut things
down and the city editor-that was Mac
donald-was stru& Cling between the
knowledge thai he was going to be scoop
ed and an effort TO cover the city with a
stan that had twice much to 90 as it
could. Macdonald was tearing his hair.
Just at the moment large fire occur
red. two heireSseS ran away with their
cnauteurs, an army balloon exploded and
fell into the river, and the business Of
fee sent up heart-ess demand for a
reporter.
About that time in strolIed HiIdebrand
fresh from the bath, with a lilac in his
buttonhoe and swin@inp a walking stick
Mac he said. as II his name was Aian
Dale. Il think III stroll up 10 the VIII
lard and get an Interview with Nine.
Tetrazzini. You know. she's in town. and
] would like a little story from her on
my Sunday theatrical page
And then the lightning broke. Macdon-
aid unleashed that voice of his and roar
cd at the top of his lungs He had the
business Offices written request for a re-
porter in his hand
''Tetrazzini, Tetrazzini." he shrieked.
You'll go down or AZ street and write
a story about Mike Cohen's five and ten
cent store getting in new supply OF
babies underwear That's what you'll
do
And he did, too
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Miss Marietta Stockard. VINO conducts
the Normal School kindergarten. in the
Thompson building. has nine-year-od
nephew who came up from that portion
of the south where IL is not a matter of
everyday occurrence 10 see women at
work The young man, being of OBJ
servant nature, saw at once that Wash
ington is filed with energetic young wom-
en- WHO do work of all kinds-stenogra-
ply, selling. teaching, etc. He used his
boyish brain on the matter for several
days and then finally spoke to his aunt
about il:
''Why do all the ladies work up here?
Have the suffragettes won?'
used to drop down from the reporters
Police Court. to advise some bird of the
sentence. has newspaper man appeared
barrister until a few days ago. when
.Bin'' Corcoran pleaded with Judge
Push TO save his, "BilIs.' cook from a
sentence.
Bill covers the Police Court for a
character around the courthouse. He
ing in question, because his cook had
.'Bilf' saw the cook in the line of Police
Ing emotions IL seems she had been
paid by "BiIr' the day before and had
celebrated the event in such a manner
that a policeman had arrested her. not
knowing that "Bilr' would have to go