Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
Around the City.

for the man who was teaching their,
this poor fellow would keep on for
getting what to do next. or course.
the keeper man didn't know he was
ashamed of being stupid. so he beat
MN ana kept on beating him until
6 bns, night I'm, And after that. he never
That night when the man went to
take last look at his elephants bcA
iore going to bed, he missed the
stupid one. SO he went out to hunt
There was poor %a' Stupid ST. I'D" out ,a'" there
alone In the moonlight going through
his tricks all by himself so that no
would 19a know how to do them next day.
the same. but tho keeper man pattcd
him on the back instead of using the
whip. and that encouraged Stupid so
beautifully that he practiced harder
says so--the stupid elephant learned
to perform better than the others. 1t
wasn't because he was stupid, after
an; 1T was just that it took him
And that is the story, but the truth
Is that:
Some one wrote about 1t to this unit
and signed Peter Rabbits name.
A MAN stood on a platform and
charged club audience so much
per for the privilege of learning that
"Woman's extravaganza is proved by
the hairplns she sheds on the street.
But there is always the other side of thu
shield, praise be-
A woman waiting for car the other
afternoon noticed a hairpin lying ne"r
the track. Also, she noticed scattered
on the ground near the hairpin:
Sixteen cigarette stubs. a half
smoked cigar, three chewed-up stogi.
ends, the covers of a used-up packa...
Of Gigs and about forty-elevcn dead
matches.
It's n mans world. COrig:nal. Copy
right applied for))
il i:
A MAN jabbcd away at Il typewriter
as IL there wasn't Il blamed thin'.
else in the world worth his doint;
When his stuff was finished he lit ~
cigarette and began to talk to u
woman at the next desk
The woman stopped her pegginE at
club notes and began to sharpen pen
ellis. The subject in hand was tramps:
'"Tramps come In mighty handy II; s"n
days with help SO scarce. You sec. +
live near the road and when Il chan
wants to stop long enough to earn =,
little money he'll do odd jobs arou~l
the neighbolhood until the notion
strikes him and he's off again. OF
course. even trampS are scarce L No
days. but they drop in now and then
and every last one of them keeps ny.
guessing.
lone fellow did so many things
welcoming chairs, soldering kitchen
pans, putting in window panes. paint
ing and the like, that when he was
starting on his way ] told hin. that no
was mighty foolish to follow the read
when he might make money right in
our place, but he said he was n thief
by nature and had been in tho peni-
tertiary long enough to learn several
trades. Another chap was a queer
foreign old fellow who would never
enter the house without taking off his
shoes.
And there was one man, a client.
moody sort, who stopped with me
nearly week. After he had helned
me so many hours n day for so m,rn
money and his keep, he would do oll
jobs around among the neighbors, pni
then come home and either reid o..
sulk out on the kitchen porch nrtil al
hours of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tn
whether he was drunk or sober
"One night. after he had been paid
he came home half fun and hunre,!
himself on the porch. A young iq,!.t
visitor was playing the piano, Win
my wife and l and IL couple CT frirnis
around, when, without IL word. ,b,t
tramp stalked through the kitchen AMI
dining room, straight into the parln"
lifted the young lady from stool 10
chair. and before could put in a.
word. had seated himself at thot iia,D
and played such music as nct.,,.
heard equaled in my life. Thrn he
Went back to his seat on the ,,orc'i.
The next morning. when i've VS.
sober. he swo"e that I was nl;tn,. =,
about his performance, that he ,i,.tt'L
know note and couldn't tsl one l'l",
from another. He had cause for hi; To-
nag suppose. as he kited OFF wi-it4.c
waiting for his break"
The man had to stop and lool o,.r-
proof and the woman took no ONE 80 =
IoWn---lkc This.