Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-09-02
AROUND THE CITY,

days. but one woman. who likes silent
places. went through an ever-open door
ana slipped into pew far down the aisle.
People came in. knelt a few minutes and
went out again, but one man remained
long enough to concentrate her attention.
His face was old and brown and prayer
child IL taught to pray
When you are in a big. silent church
on week day you think curious things
To the woman. it seemed that though
tiny light glowing crimson before a marble
altar. 1t might belt might be-that the
rspt and rigidly upright figure was one q
me me VIE kings. come again. and that
OF course. he couldn't have been a king.
because:
The next time the woman saw him he
was peddiins peanuts from a push cart.
IS
There 10 no denying that the worm
trust has cornered the silk market.
And it 10 mysteriously true that the
lace Isn't made that can hold q candle
to spiders web. Also. yet again.
rags are royal raiment when worn
for virtues sake-but-
Ne1tner nature nor morals help you
out when 1t comes to bucking against
the elegances Of lNe-which. In this
case. means wearing a shirt waist suit
to gala first night performance at a
theater packed with dne feather WON.
en- and evening dressed men.
A clean white frock 10 entirely all
right for movie show. and that is
where its wearer supposed she was
bound for. until the screen Official
ing. to hide his contempt for a woman
who was on her way without knowing
where she was gofng-explained that
the tickets were for q thester farther
There was no time to go home and
preen up. and rs she had to be among
those present-never mind why-the
woman. with a providentially genteeI
got there in time to Join the pageant
OF tngoing gorgeousness. looking like
z =, poor child at party, and feeling
going to a ball in your outing flannel
was simply a crumpIed rose
leaf compared to the wide-awake
OF being what you might
Of chifSons billowy with tuIle and opa-
lescent with diamonds-and diamonda
and rhinestones!
A Cleopatra barge touch was given tn
the aquatic suggestion by sleeveless la
less and backless. also sometimes
lumoxy. helped along with limitations of
venuses rising from frothy seas Of
4cofketteb ana S2uBe9s Dut from which
they did not merge because a stay may
always be relied on to keep a good
tat woman down.
All Of which is a small thing that
wouldn't be worth mentioning except
that small things make up life. And as
dear Hymn Book Watts tells us that
every suffering is d sermon. the text
OF this one might be that toys, on oc-
casion, take on the importance of more
Landed OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES mind that
oentghted adage about clothes NOT ynaE.
ing the man!
One. Of course. might take a phari.
saical turn In the matter of barebacked
aides. but how would that excuse her
.or not being like unto the majority Of
1lgnined women properly gowned?
The shtrtwaister likewise tried to
bolster her conceit with the inward
assertion that she was as good as the
next-but it called for more vanity
han she had brought along. SO she fell
back ON the nings at ffnery. as voiced
by Marcus Aurelius and friend Homer.
But even they failed her. for Marcus
wrote his lofty diatribes in the robes Of
'oyalty and wasn't Homer blind?
MAMIE LANCASTER