Evening star., 1918-01-27

N brigade 4d1utant VINO lives In Chevy
Chase. whom he isn't soldering at camI
&AA. Va. has Just sent this unit q
>huekls from Norfolk:
Among the lawyers who volunteered
% assist men eligible to the draft with
che -questionnaires was hish-Erade
-oolored attorney. who was helping out
. negro. as black as a cosi-if ycu re-
member what coal looks like.
",Have you any consc eious scru-
tles2' asked the lawyer nat is, have
y6u any religious objection to going in
fhe Army and fightingT
Ne? Got objections: Nc. sub. No, in
Head why, man. we Angry Saxons have
1ust- got to jump in and settle this
var" .
And that ebon faced Moor who died at
ehe gates OF Grenada when he might
have saved himself by giving up key
NAV, be living again this minute in the
militant soul of one Angry saxon IN
eur midst.
Who knows: And. not knowing. who
1ares deny it,
~
A war suuib notes the bombarding or
4 palace hung with some of the most
famous tapestries in the world
a thing like that Must reconcile italy
10 rhe-fact that collection of her Bar-
herini weaves is right here in TINS
kown-a Washingtonian now gone TO
{ 4 place too beautiful for handmade dec
orations having bought them from
Prfncess Barberini for dizzy sum
The designs represent episodes in the
Adventures of Aeneas after his night
from Troy and before reaching l.ais;
Ehere are eight scenes, DESCRIPTIVE oa
his philanderings with. Dido; from ms
0rst meeting with the Queen OF car.
ehare to- her suicide in the cave OF
lnasne forgotten. but Virgil has II patti.
Cardinal Barberini tapestry ran.
mar Traditional history, had the scenes
Eoyen by man -named-what was
that mans name? But. anyhow, he is TOO
dead to care, one way or the otnei-
from designs made by Romanell' whose
portrait you may have seen IN the
Louvre.
France also, ought TO be entirely
satisfied by this time with our posses
: sion of lot of her historic trihes. me
cups. say, designed by Napoleon and
used personally by himself and Joseph
: Ire: tiny dark blue after-dinners.
ewarming with golden bees. In the
same home, on Connecticut avenue. un-
less time has changed their location.
fhere is a wonderful table -immed with
ivory miniatures of queens and famous
court beauties of the French monarcny,
to4ether with pretty plate "hici
Marie Antoinette preferred to all
cfhers. And over In an ancient brick
house IN Georgetown there IS mos.
rare and curious But this ism
meant to be book.
Jelly on the table is a story too old
70 talk about. This is new one about
sefiy on russet shoes. 1t seemed to be
excellent jelly. and there was no
doubt whatever as to the fneness of
the Shoes Everything was strictly
6rstclass.
ffse man who wore the shoes stood
an. q car platform-crcwded inside
when the Jelly got on. To be severely
seusible, two women boarded the car,
aaAh carrying a bulgy something
wrapped in holly-wreathed paper nap
Efns, and one of them holding glass
tewl-ths jelly. you understand:
The man moved aside to give the
women . chance to wedge inside. The
ous- ahead was lucky enough to anchor
6arself against a Gibraltarish gentle
mAm who didn't mind. but the other
N0fnan-oh. the poor woman-stumb1ed
anA her bowl fell smash on the rus
set phoes-oh. the poor, poor man.
While he was trying to stamp his
80 free Of the wabbly mess the man
fe8t assuring the woman that it didn't
snatter-Lord love him for the fb-and
EA1 woman with her who was plastered
Gumfortably against her human rock
pasoed out q holly-wreathed napkin to
Alm with the social matter-of-course-
ness. which would have been a credit
t0~Nrs. Lecks that time in the Pacific
6ETln-remember?
HE man did the best he could by
tie napkin. and when that was used up
a1other passenger came across with a
oeVy Of The Star.
ii reason goes with most everything
ff Yeu take the trouble to rummage for
at.sthough the man didn't have to hunt
Tha. woman sobbed the cause of her
ASsastsr as freely as she had bestowed
the jelly.
: She and the other woman had been to
aseharity tea, and as the attendance
. va poor on account of the weather,
they thought they would help out by
t41fng home some cake and jelly. The
cake was in the napkins. She didn't
nsed to locate the jelly.
Tho man insisted all over that it did
net In the least matter-and that was
an there was to it. except that
Does anybody know what will take
Jelly stains out Of russet shoes?
An angel in an overcoat is something
Ufrx, rarity. even in this world. where
a1etting novelties crop up every day.
hut I woman found one the morning of
M big snow.
II was 80 early that the city might
haHa baen 4 movie Of the Polar sea, with
two black blots on its frozen white
ness
oRe was the woman who had come to
atfagic halt. knee deep in snow. She
Just couldn't go on. She gasped it to
hsPself, with the weakness of one whose
life had been sheltered by chivalry.
wealth and love until time and death
had swept them all away, and away and
aXay-But her soul hitched upits cour-
age and reminded her that she just had
to go on, because her work depended on
her opening that ONCE before customers
started to come along. And one must
work to live.
Tho other black spot meant a very
young man who was plodding along the
onposite way with the buoyancy which
only youth can give. At sight of his
fellow explorer in distress he resolved
himself into a relief expedition and
forded the white sea of crossing to her
side:
This is bad weather for an elderly
lady to be out in. Let me help you part
ef~the way"
The woman recognized the splendid
mercy of the offer, and accepted it so
Ear their road might run together.