Evening star., 1917-10-21
AROUND The CITY.

things ct one lick. A. wAs sayin';
You boil your milk. then you add your
size of an
Don't that make It taste slimyf
never put In my butter until my DISH
ters begin to curl around the
edges
well. all I can say is I pity the one
that haster eat it. There Amt but one
way of maxim an oishter stew, an
that's the right way"
That's what I'm teilin' you-
AN the right way IL my way. II yoa
ter while it's a-say. you come aroun'
some time an I'll show you how q
stew oushter be made.
Thanks. butt don't mean to hurt
your feelins julie, but I don't believe
I'd relish It. Putin the butter in the
way you do would make II shiny to the
taste"
''Oh, get out with you! When ben
ner maxim oishter stews ever since
you was knee-high to grasshop,
per-
That don't cut no ice with me-
know too many old cooks who don't
know beans-mamma's one OF EN-.
Bay. julie. what you want to do 10 to
read UP them household ressypees in
the papers that tells what's yougenic
to eat. an then cook accordin'."
And dear, spinstery person VINO
prides herself on her oyster stsws
said to herself-but who wants to hear
about spinsters?
A policeman with kindly eyes. but a
! Spartan sense of duty. was towing
small boy to the nearest station.
! flock of other boys. white and COL
ored. tagged behind.
The criminal grinned with nervous
bragadocio. Each boy was a human
| geyser of sympathy and the whole show
| from a strictly scenic viewpoint, sup
piled a comic supplement tempest OF the
sort We know about-with the teapot
| left out.
As he reached his last edge Of free
dom the prisoner passed over . batch
Of newspapers to the nearest boy with
orders to divide them all around even
stevn-except one. He handed that one
to the policeman.
! he ordered the boys to return the pa
| pers. Then he gave the criminal a
good od-humored shake and told him to be
And dom let me catch you scrappins
again. you little scamp, your
| And the little scamp took to his
heels.
/ Which is merely to note that there is
growing up in this town certain small
boy who has already put Chesterfield
| among the also rams
Airships are wonder. all right.
but-consider the buszard that came to
town.
but. as it was just after the Caproni
- Z IL
| the same circles and swoops IN the
| same sky, it may be-just may be.
nind-that he felt called on to come
| up from the piney woods to show Wash
| ington the difference between airships and
| the real thing
Anyhow. a buz1ard came to town.
| And in one high-up window the
that had watched the Italian flyer
| made an audience for the bird. with
| this difference: The man captured in
I tellectual homage. while the buzzard
merely served to recall buzzards gone
| before
Takes me back to the time when
was a Kid. and another boy and my
| a turkey buzzard. and they used to
tell story about some humorist who
| offered So to anybody who would bring
him buzzard gizzard-''
1 I'VE call them carrlon crows Wnero
| I come from. You don't want to be
anywhere near one, but when II comes
| to flying he beats any other bird that
cuts the air.
"They are known as vultures in
South America. When I was in Pan.
anna
And the one feminine microbe in the
.. crowd. but not of II, sat at another
window and. by the magic of the
swirling. swooping. splendid thing up
| in the patch of blue. visioned once
| more: A lithely picturesque brown boy.
| his outstretched arms and body sway
| ing to black women's hand-heating
| rhythm of the turkey" buzzard dance
| the silver moonlight-the shadowy
green hills of Maryland so forever far
away
Which just helps to show that every
thing in this world commands an in.
! terest of some sort, whether 1t be q
| Caproni. the latest born of science or
| just an old black winged. red-wattled
turkey buzzard that was flying around
creation before the birth of the ark.
MAMIE LANCASTER.