Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07

reading room a woman slipped in his
seat and opened 1t at a page showing
closely written slip. 1t was about
animals. and he said
Well, of course, 1t isn't genteel
to crib persons private notes. but, If
you had been on vacation and come
home with your brains so caked that
you couldn't dig intelligent ideas out
with your pencil and hated to use a
pickax, you'd fnl ready-made copy
come in mighty handy and, besides.
he was going to print it himself. so
it's just the same-in a way.
"Mahomet says there are two equines
in paradise. One is Alvorak, that car
ried Gabriel to the seventh heaven,
reproved Balaam," which shows that
even if Mahomet did write the Koran
he didn't know his little book, for
The Architect who built the corridor
of time has put hoofbeat in it's
every age, from the first centaur to
laid down his life for man. If Alvorak
and Balaam's nameless steed, why not
the humble donkey that helped to save
the Child from Herod's knife--and
that other one that carried the Naz-
arene over Jerusalems palm strewn
way? From crusader to circuit rider,
the horse has borne Christianity to
earth ends that could never have been
plodded by man. He has suffered the
thirsts and famines of every mission
airy he ever bore and he has died a
martyrs death with no hope of a mar
tyr's reward. And, as his sinless body.
burdened by man and book, suffered
the added toll of travel, what right
have we to presume that He who
marked the sparrow's fall will
apotheosize the evangel and disre-
gard the beast?
Oh, yes, there are animals in para
disc. Mahomet put some of them
there. including the calf that was Of
fered UP in sacrifice for Isaac, Solo
mons ant that said things to the slug
gard, and Jonah's hospitable whale
swimming in the waters of life. And
there are green fields and trees with
birds singing in their branches and
rivers of real water with waves to
them. Dante saw everything like that
in his round trip to the other world.
And, when you come really down to it,
Dante's word ought to be as good as
that scientists who throws souls in
the waste basket, or that other one
who puts them in scales to see how
much they weigh. And what is
science. anyhow. but a word of seven
letters. So that settles that.
There would hav ebeen more animals
to tab down except that the man came
back and the woman had to let 60
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TWO men putting away at cigars
boarded car at the Treasury
They stopped smoking, of course, got
a cross seat together and resumed
conversation about some woman they
knew who wanted to vote-a wife,
most likely:
THE whole fool thing is ridiculous
and l told her So Why, women would
ruin the country if they ever had
hand in running it! Women have no
judgment, no business honesty, no
respect for property values, no"
They got out at the House building
and spinstery being. who had been
anchored to brass loop at their
backs. slipped in the vacated seat.
A thread of smoke caught her no.
tice. 1t was smoldering up from the
straw mating of the seat in front
The man who had been lamenting
woman's lack of respect for property
values had let his cigar scorch a
place as big us an egg. She put the
fire out.
Votes for women!
A BREEZE famed its way from the
dear Rockies and the weather
bureau had to call its hot wave in.
And in the evening women went
car riding without taking wraps
along. They always do and, until
they get more gumption, they always
will. Posi-. ra..I ,..g
In one trolley that whizzed ont
Glen Echo way the seats were aom-
med with lace-insert girls, with cs-
corts attached; giggllng subaapperr
and u sprinkle Of sedate, oldish wom-