Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
Around the City,.

r r was noon by all the once clocks
In town-not counting wrist
watches.
Noon means lunch time for the
werk-a-day world. and 1t set a swarm
OF iahorers on one big building to
nashins down from scaffolds, popping
up from foundations and swarming
around from everywhere to eat and
talk together. az dramatically nat
ursl as II they we're moving pictures
with music on the side. The passing
crowd was too intent on its own
lunch to care up for a batch Of
workmen squatting around on cross
beams, cement bags and the like.
but there are always EXCEPTIONS:
Two men. as fine as money could
make them. were swinging along on
the outer edge OF the debris, when
the younger paused as if TO continue
some subject under discussion
Here's another proof right under
your eyes," he said. DO these chaps
look like the human putty we used
to turn and twist and pat and lick
into whatever shape hi2 vote called
FORT Those men reading that news
paper together are as familiar with
industrial conditions as you or /. See
that fellow taking his hot drink from
= thermos bottle. Look at that laugh
ing negro with a gold tooth ON the
side. Can't you see that every evil
dence of bodily Improvement stands
for mental progress, and that poll
tics can no longer laugh down the
Will OF the workman or bribe him
with fee? The time has come when
we vote hunters Will have to reckon
taf4 In <.fx Ill
we used to laugh at and cartoon.
Let mo tell you, 1t was the every
day man who won this war. And 1T
- the everyday man who will keep
on winning. And the name of that
man is the Ultimate Consumer"
Which shows what seemingly i'm
possible things can come to pass in
this world--praise be,
GENERAL women piled into
crowded street car Each woman
carried book and each book carried
stock of verbal furniture, weather
food and the like. tackled on to a
re" or q ia" Each woman parlez-
voued the other with glibness that
halted only when they groped for
connecting links between words--the
only difference between the lot being
that each felt called on to correct the
accent OF the other---to be corrected
in turn.
The student. who was fair and fat,
but who would never be forty again
in this world. was exporting herself
In the pronunciation of an inkwell,
aloud:
Lay on caraa--is 1t lie or a la?
forget whether an inkwell is mas
cuIine or feminine"
The student on the strap next kind
~ explained that 1t should be called
Ion caree."
"But 1t isn't. It fs Law on caraa-
all asked IL It feminine or mascu-
line? Say. Mrs. Blank. isn't it lay on
caraa?"
Mrs. Blank was Solomon in her
mo. my dear--but neither Is 1t
Ion caree. You put the accent on the
first syllable--larn careier--see?"
My souln' commented man.
Sounds as IL Ollendorf had come to
town and brought his colloquial
phrases"
But the man was mistaken. The
women did not sound like Ollendorf.
They sounded exactly like what they
were, French class speeding up to
surprise soldier sons when they got
home from the war.
And that made the pandemonium
beautifully worth while.
n X
"A HANDSOME and somewhat but
ter-ballish young woman was
weighing herself on slot machine in
D department store.
A passing shopper whose contour