Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
Things Heard and Seen

I Club and elsewhere R. Edwin Joyce has
won a reputation as story teller. Mr..
Joyce was given three minutes to put
across a story at u dinner given by the
| Ad Club last week at the Cafe Re-
publique. This is his story.
IAN Irishrnan went into his accustomed
saloon and asked the bartender to trust
him for a drink
| You're on the books for SLIGO now.
Nothin dom.
so the Irishman waited round bit.
Pretty soon an Englishman sauntered
into the saloonf He ordered drink and
| asked the Irishman to join him.
Sure, an I WILL said the Irishman.
| The more power to We. l wish there was
more av yer race in the world. By the
same token, there's 1000 av yer country
men in the place where l work. wish
there was twice as many. They're a
foine bunch
THE two had several drinks together,
:-nd the Irishman kept on praising the
English. Finally the Englishn,an asked
him where 1t was he worked where there
were 5000 Englishmen.
I'm a grave digger in the British
, cemetery replied the Irishman.'
a fashionable apartment house on 10th
street. north of r street, recently, when
the colored janitor thought he had dis
covered a my sterious crime.
An architect occupies one OF the apart
ments. Some Of his friends, who had
gone on a hunting expedition and were
fortunate enough to kill bear, decided
to send the architect some bear meat. The
meat arrived In due time, and the archi-
tect and his wife invited party to taste
real bear.
The following morning the architect
was surprised to see a couple Of police
men, closely followed by the janitor, at
his door. The policemen said they had
come to ask how a human arm happened
to be found in a can outside the archi-
tect's apartment that morning.
The architect was astounded He ask
ed the police to produce the arm They
pulled out an object which sent the
architect into fit Of laughter. It was
some Of the bears bones.
A kindergarten teacher was telling the
children in her class about the moon:
Now, children" she asked. "how large
do you think the moon is?''
A pair Of chubby hands belonging to
one little girl designated the size Of a
large orange. A small boy next to her
held his hands open a little more, saying
another yonngster opened his arms to
their fullest extent, saying he was GER
tain that that was the size Of the moon.
''Well. children said the kindergarten
teacher, ''Pu tell you how large the moon
is. 1t Is larger than this ROOM
Chorus of "Oh's" from the child assem-
bly,.
ayes" continued the K. T., lit is larger
than this entire school building"
Childish mouths opened wide, showing
vacancies where milk teeth had been, and
little eyes opened wide In establishment.
1.-The moon Is larger than the whole city
of Washington" declared the teacher with
emphasis.
The tiny mouths opened wider ana it
seemed that the eyes would pop out.
Children" said the teacher, speaking
slowly and dramatically, evidently pleased
with the effect she was making" the
moon is larger than the whole United
States"
AS she settled back In her chair q ST.
fence reigned. A whole minute q 81
lence and then from one corner OF the
class in childish tones came just tw"
words:
Good night!