Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08

n other da, that i, va. tn. most
artistically splendid structure
In the world Having seen the world,
his words were not Of the vapory stun
OF which dreams are made. They ex-
pressed an opinion founded on fact.
Which compliment serves to recall q
moro spectacular impression made on
an Indian chief. who was in our midst
SOHO years ago. and which you doubt
less recall. or. II you don't. listen:
Back In the sage bush country he
had started . scheme for . holy war
TO get back the land which the white
father had taken from the red man.
and the government, wise to the fact.
whisked the chieftain ana his conspir-
ing braves across the continent to
show the pathetic uselessness OF
bucking into Uncle Sam.
From the frontier to Chicago. from
New York to Washington. there was
the silence Of the desert in each voice.
less tongue. the inscrutable remote
ness Of the desert In the eyes under
each feathered bonnet and the hidden
mystery Of the desert in the blanket
that folded each bronze figure from
moccasin to chin.
The agent. dead tired and discour-
aged from Juggling . lot OF Loes a.
wooden ~ 20 many cigar store In
dams over the country. gave mp In
hopeless disgust. when they treated
the Capitol TO . non -committal grunt.
Still he had to earn his money. SO he
hauled the bunch over to the Library
end then the miracle!
"Was IL built by manr'
The big chief asked his question
with the awed reverence Of one who
~sees God in the clouds and hears Him
in the wind" The government had
won.
What about dragging Japanese
Ind a red Indian into where they
don't belong7 Oh. nothing. Nothing
whatever, except that
A lady tourist who was doing the
Library yesterday paused on the
snowy stairway to study its sculptured
blossoms and vines. She was so acute
iy interested that she had to take OF
while she was doing 1t, another wom-
Rn in the same party. a poor scrap Of
a worked to-death soul, whose untu-
tored eyes were seeing with the vision
of the Indian and every other wise
pilgrim from tho four corners of the
world, which 10 round, said:
"Oh. my dear, what do you think of
80 liant ~ the ruoat-"
BY that time My Dear had got her
spectacles back on her nose and was
yoicing . clarified view:
Look at the dust on those leaves?
Don't believe It has had a rag to it
Tor . month"
"A WOMAN mentally alive and as
stylish az II she had Just stepped
out Of an Anne Rittenhouse page, stood
at the head Of flight Of steps with one
hand on the railing. And this is what
she said to another woman who was
about to scurry down from the suit de-
partment to the first floor:
''Wouh you mind letting me catch
hold Of your arm? Both Of the elevators
were crowded and az I'm in a hurry
thought I'd walk this one flight, but I
feel rather dixxy."
Tho other woman helped out. and
when they were on the ground floor Of
the store asked II there was anything
she could do. and wouldn't 1t be wise
to call cab?
"Oh, no: thanks. I'm all right now.
It's just that have lived In apartment
houses for SO long and SO seldom walk
up or down stairs that I am getting
timid at sight Of steep incline-as IL 1
were looking over chasm."
Which is merely to show that the
time may be coming when we can no
longer illustrate any simple doing with
that hoary adage, AS easy as going
downstairs"
And that some future generation may
put its feet back in the rudimentary
stage along with that third eye some
where in the back Of our heads.
A MAN was watering the grass
around public building.
The grass was already drenched with
rain, with more rain coming down, but
the man with the hose paid no atten-
ton. He was watering the grass
Government clerks coming along