Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

~ city BY Americas greatest
man.
When Gen. Washington had har-
vested his Immortality and subsidized
into a citizen with an eye for real
estate, he built two houses facing the
Capitol's north front and planted sew
eral elms. He must have impaired to
one sapling = germ OF his own DEATH
lessness, for the tree has tfiumphed
over century Of time and stands to-
day living shaft reared by nature to
keep his memory green.
The old elm was big and green and
breezy when our ancientest grand
father was wearing a white slip ana
trying to say Dada" It grew bigger
ana greener and breexier In the dec
AIDES that aged q hot-blooded young
Army into q few veterans. whose but
tons are marked G. A. r., ana birds
Will be nesting in its branches when
the babies Of this generation will be
sans everything In the generations to
come. unless
Unless progress comes along with
an axe.
me other morning 4 man, having
introduced an obvious tourist to the
old elm and called attention to the
chain which girded its bole and other
evidences Of the tree surgeons ability
to preserve the trees perpetual youth,
added to his recital a bit OF history
connected with the Washington
homes.
Just walk this way a bit and look
over to the government dormitories.
They cover the site Of the houses built
by the general. who bought the two
lots--and big ones at that--tor 1928.
Not long ago that one lot over there
was leased for ten years for SIS, 900,
which shows how this town has in
creased in value
To quote the dramatic classics. It
was some show
X X X X
A SP1NsTERY sort of person who
had no objections whatever to
airing her convictions to lunch
audience in a cafe, was talking to
another woman whose little girl i'm
piled matrimony.
The subject was man, and the spin-
ster was attending to his diagnosis
like unto this:
Honest, Name, I have never what
you might call yearned to get mar.
rled just to have a handle to my name
any fool woman can get married II
she wants to. If you don't believe me,
look at some women who do, but
we'll, I'll tell you:
III 1 could buy a pattern of a hus-
band the same as you would a pat
tern for a rag doll for Maize, and
stun him with good intentions and the
will to and power to carry them out,
and galvanize him into earning
good salary without wanting to
smoke or fool away his time with
other men. but stay home and help his
share around the house--why. don't
know but what"
Having created an enemio Franken-
stein that no average woman would
give house room to, the spinstery
person turned her interest to griddle
cakes and strip, without in the least
realizing that she herself might not
be worthy Of such cloying perfection.
Some women are that way-mar-
ried and single.
4 4 4
EVERYBODY stops before The Star
bulletin board these days.
Yesterday, for one instance. . tour
ist-marked young man who was
locked arms with an obviously brand
new bride seemed unusually con-
cerned with the news concerning the
NC-3, which had just been posted.
His good natured face sobered into
worry lines. and he took his hat off
and clamped it on again as If 1t were
a habit when nervous.
And the young woman, to show that
she was really a helpmate who could
be soulfully responsive on the two
hearts tn at beat -as-o one basis. put in
a few congenial words:
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