Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-01
Around the City

II thank God have God to be thank
full to-
It was a creedless prayer in which all
creeds might join. And the woman who
voiced it was plain, oldish soul whose
Thursdays feast was the leftover of
Wednesdays stew.
A sedately pretty girl sat on the side
bench Of a car going east. She had
brown, wavy hair. really fine blue eyes
under correctly arched brows, and her
clothes were genteelly plain and COM
Portable, except for an almost boyishly
rakish hat. 1t was a brown cloth hat
with machine stitched rim and a single
scarlet quill caught with a cigarette but
ton. And the red disk of the button was
lettered in fiaring white:
IF you love me, grim
The girl seemed SO unconscious of the
invitation she was Haunting that it would
have been an extra audacious youngster
who would have taken the challenge at
its word. She doubtless stuck the thing
on her hat in a merry prank. saw that it
matched the feather and held it snug.
and straightway considered it a. buckle.
And let it go at that.
Still. it is rather unusual to see a Sc
dately pretty girl wearing a red cigar
cite button lettered in flaring white:
IF you love me, grim
some poor devoted old church-going soul
who had drudged all her life and was at
last able to obtain her supreme ambition
After decades of longing she had rented
a pew in a fine church, and had her name
lettered on its porcelain tablet.
'One day she went to the church and
found a strange woman kneeling in her
pew as If she owned it. The old soul
motioned the trespaSser out and shrilled
a whispered eviction:
"'You come out of that. You've got
no right in this pew. It's mine I've
rented it and paid for it. Out with you
quick.
1.-The intruder naturally got out but no
sooner had she touched the aisle than the
old woman beseechingly begged her to re-
turn.
YOU'RE as welcome as the daisies in
spring / only wanted to let you know
that the pew belongs to me, and now you
can come back and stay as long as you
like. Come next Sunday, too
"And, don't you know. the stranger
really thanked her and went in the pew
and knelt down. l don't see how she
And by that time the two had walked
beyond the hearing of the woman behind
A woman was riding downtown on a
Navy Yard car. And this is how the
passengers in the seats. fore and aft.
varied the monotony of the trip:
IT envy that old chap sweeping dead
leaves off the grass; no mental strain to
it."
1.-THE chief told her that her copy
would have to be verified, because he
couldn't send a statement out of the de-
partment with only one going over, and
think that fool clerk didn't go and tell
her influence that she had been insulted?"
well, we amt decisioned yet whether
it's to be a pahlor social or a prayah
meetin' wiv experiences. De pastor say
"Oh, you pay five dollars down and a
dollar a week as long as you live!'
THAT so? I'm Yale man-class 49,"
And by that time the car had reached
The Star building and the woman got
out.
Two women outside the Public Library:
One had a platform voice and eye
glasses that seemed to shine with ex-
element The other was a plain sort OF
creature, not worth mentioning. And the
platform voice had the right Of way:
well. of course. you're got right to
your own opinions, but that stuff about
unseen forces Is perfect foolishness. I've
got to see a. thing before believe it"
the other woman. NOR electricity, nor the
perfume of a flower. nor the taste of
fruit, nor
''Shuh, that's different! I mean spirits
and things like that. The book I just
turned in tells exactly how the world
happened without heaven having q thing
to do with It. The first man started out
as the white OF an egg-and nobody can
make me believe that eggs have sous.