Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19

little dog-he WIS Z most delightful lit
tie companion-strayed into the saIe ahc
was locked in by mistake.
THAT night u terrible fire burned dowl
burned a week, and after the firemen had
extinguished the confiagratton IT loon
fourteen days to cool off the safe After
that we opened my fireproof safe. and
there was the little dog. Wagging his tan
and as happy AS "A lark.
II done sol a fab proof sale nah sen
Mis- Nicherson. Yassir. ] sol a sale 10
q man who run d great big chicken farm
earth. Yassir Vel. he put at safe in
his, office an one day half a dozen o his
yet chickens run in at safe an dey close
de safe on en-.
catch fab. How long you say 20 bank
burn"
"One week, Mister Bones, one week.
"Yassir Well. this Yer office burn one
jes' couldn't get to it No, sab. And wheI
She done burn outflow long you say il
took em to cool off at SAFE"
Fourteen days, Mr.. Bones, fourteen
days
TOOK EN- ninety days to cool OFF
disher safe Il sold, and what you think
we found happen dose chickens"
Now: look her: Bones. suppose
and you'll say those chickens after
being four months in that red-hot safe
came out alive and we'll Its ridiculous
They roasted to death
Muffin like it, Mis- Nickerson. Wher
we finally open at safe, how you speech
we find dem chickensy
II don't know"
why, man, at safe held of that heat
| so well dose chickens was all frozei
| stif''
"Mr Vincent Parcheesi. The iucom-
parable tenor. VIII now sing thai
touching ballad Of home and mother
entitled: ~ Let You Kiss Me, Swee,
T. - Is II
We come now to the Silk Hat us ar
| American institution. 1t is the one link
| connecting the true democracy to tho
stiff -neciled aristocracy, for when Blue
| Stocking wants 10 go to church or q
wedding he wears the silk hat Of tn.
! American politician. and when Red Shirt
wants to dress up and march with !:
| torchlight crowd. an atom in the anal,
! gamated mass OF voters who voted
right, he borrows the plug hat modelled
after the shining tile Of Blue Stocking
| There you are. the classes turn up theil
| noses at the masses, and the. masses
would die Of ennui If they had NJ
| classes to blame for everything from
! the measles to the cost of living Yet
they have in common the silk hat
! Don't you remember when the SuItaI
of Sulu first saw silk hat, how he burst
into song:
! Could anything,
! Could anything,
Excel the simple beauty Of a HatE
| OF Hat:
These thoughts came to me when | saw
ninety of my fellow townsmen arr.yed in
| slken lids of variegated styles and vint-
| ages. They were the marshars aids in a
| recent parade. Some of them had hats
| of their own; some Of them borrowed
| two of them confessed to me privately
| they had rented theirs. ] think they haG
| also been rented to enthusiasts in tn.
Buchanan inaugural.
| Let us imagine the scene i'm the HON.
| OF A man who is about to girt his fran.
| with n frock coat. stick a ,ricolor ro-
settle in his buttonhole. place a silk ha,
upon his head, rub his tan shoes with
| black and fare him forth to mount the
! fiery steed which awaits him. great
| calm has descended upon that house. TO,
| father Is going to ride in the parade
| with a silk hat Mother, who takes trials
and blessings and sorrows and lows witt
the same imperturbed spirit. PUSHES hith.
| or and yon and finds collar buttons anf
| spa is and clean collars and other neces.
sites and looks upon her husband as ar
exalted being. He came home with :
lderby-but within that very hour he will
fare forth in silk hat and ride in tn.
front rank, upon q raging horse
| outside the steed awaits His frs
Job in life was in connection with {
contractor. who hauled considerabl.
brick. Later laundry got him, and hi,