Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Western and Business are just about
tied in the merit of their ranges The
big armory of Business High School is
high -ceilinged. light and we'll venti-
lated, but it is no more so than the
lunchroom at Western. And, paradoxi-
cal as it may seem. Westerns lunch
room is also its rife range. Comes 2
o'clock of Wednesday afternoon and
the tables and chairs are showed aside,
the target is put in place, and where
two hours earlier girls munched sand
wiches they now stand or lie prone and
superinduce early wrinkles between
their eyes trying to get the exact bead
on a bull's-eye fifty feet distant and no
bigger than a ten-cent piece.
At present the girls shooting club
at Western, while essentially a femi
der the direction of the boys. But this
was at the expressed wish of the girls
expressed through the medium of the
ballot box. At the hrst meeting. be-
shape. they voted on whether they
should practice alone or with the boys.
BY an overwhelming ma jority they de-
cided on the latter.
They wanted to get the full benefit
of the boys experience. wanted to learn
all that the boys knew. that they
might later use that knowledge against
them Looking at it very coldly. this
somehow doesn't seem quite fair to the
boys But the boys themselves don't
care. On the contrary. they are will
ing to teach the new marksmen all they
can and then take chance The raster
the girls learn, the more adept they
grow, the prouder the boys. 1t is the
world-old case of the teacher content
ing himself with the brighter but re-
So, in the end, it is really the boys
ayers of the drawing would often re
sort to politics to make them happy,
and many joyful marriages were
brought about in this way
ST Valentines day has played a big
part in the literature of the world. In
Hamlet, Ophelia says:
Good morrow: it's st. Valentines day.
All in the morning betime.
And l maid at your window
To be your Valentine.
sylvanus, poetizing on lovers
plight. wrote:
Haste friendly Saint: to my relief:
Ny ae EAR IS sotn help as:c stop w he esre
And found Eliza lurking there.
In st Valentines Day, or the FAIR
Maid of Perth" Sir Walter Scott makes
the father of Catherine Glover. who
has concluded to turn deaf ear to
gallants, address her thus: Let them
go Tomorrow is st. Valentines day.
when every bird chooses her mate: but
YOU will not see the linnet pair with
the sparrow-hawk, nor the robin red
breast with the kite. And now lay
by thy work, lass, for it Is holytide
eve and it becomes US to go to the
evening service, and pray that heaven
may send three good valentine to-
morrow"
Charles Lamb wrote this apostrophe
to st. Valentine and the day: Hail
to the returning festival! Great is thy
name in the rubric. thou venerable
arch Hamen of Hymen. Immortal go
between. Who and what manner of
person art thou? Art thou but name
IMPLYING the restless principle which
impels poor humans to seek perfection
in union? Or vert thou indeed NOR
tai prelate with thy tippet and thy
rochet, thy apron on and decent lawn
sleeves. Mysterious parsonage! like
unto thee, assuredly. there is no other
mitered father in the calendar. Thou
contest attended with thousands and
tens of thousands of little Loves. and
the air is Brushed with the hiss of
rustling wings; singing Cupids are
thy choristers and thy precentors; and
instead of the crozier, the mystical
arrow is borne before thee"