Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-03

blouse that was almost no
blouse at all. A. . graceful conces-
sion 20 police rules there were ribbon
shoulder straps tackled on to an un-
der bandags Of lowered SILK you
know the kind--and her white SILK
skirt was short enough to reveal suede
pumps that boiled over At the Sides
like rising dough. ;.
with q small girl who didn't count
she was waiting for car. which faii-
"a to show up-it sometimes happens
and . flock Of boys made good use
Of the opportunity 20 sell scout tses
among the half dozen or 90 people
who were also around Naturally. one
Of them made for the woman. wnos 70
give her o second look. was less sue-
restive Of Recamier than OF . MIL
tonian tabIeau OF Eve.
"Buy tag for the Boy SCOUTS
lady"
Lady looked at the boy as II tags
were q crime and Boy Scouts hope
less disease.
you buy my car ticket for me. will
your
The kid, bless his heart. grinned
and scampered on. just rs announcer
darted up:
4Say. lady. don't you want to buy
tags for you and the little girl! IT'S
Boy Scout day. y'know."
'Why, certainly 1 will. Il you wlii
buy car tickets for US.
The second boy was too young and
too biessedly ignorant OF cheap sar-
casm to know what Recamaer-Eve
meant. SO, he waited with smiling
expectancy. hoidine out his tags until
another woman who was standing W
took what you might cali an interest
In the conversations:
'Tf you will give that boy dime
will be glad to hand you over quar-
ter to buy yourself a respectable
something for your shoulders"
OF course she didn't really say 1t.
She just wished she could. You cant
always voice your innermost Thoughts
in this world. It isn't healthy. All she
really did was to give the Boy Scout
q dime With sort OF Aoud-peoai
statement that Everybody ought 70
help out"
But IL you think her hint influenced
Recamier-Eve you miss your ideal
little guess. She didn't even notice
the transaction until the small girl
nudged her and asked for nickel
and at that she paid no attention.
Which shows that the child didn't
count.
The one curious thing about the
incident was that the woman looked
entirely satisfied with herself. which
is also the way with pork.
A CAR was whixsing to the green
"A hills Of Virginia not 90 far
away.
Tho big suburban was crammed
with men, women and bundles and
the day was = scorcher. but every
body was making the best Of 1t, ex-
cept one passenger who weighed. say.
200 pounds-and every pound jag.
He was noisy man and he wanted
to tight He was 20 set for scrim-
mage that the m0torman finally &C
commodated him to the extent Of put
ting him on the car. Before the mo-
torman could get back to his crank
the jaggy man was ON the track in
front. daring any motorman on top
Of creation to run him down. and. as
you can't keep q car standing all day.
why. naturally the 200 pounds got
aboard again.
The motorman. with the assistance
Of the conductor. put the jag-man or
that car four distinct times. And
for four distinct and dramatic times
he stood himself on the track and
did the Ajax defy.
Well. sir, the thing got to be 10
exciting that at last man who had
been reading newspaper took hand
in the game. He was az heavy a.
the Jaeger, as sober as that, Judge
we do our comparing by.
ITS all right. motorman. He's my
good-for-nothing brother. I'll settle
him for you right now"
And you bet he did! Before the
explanation was out of his mouth
he had dragged Ajax to the side of
the track, sprawled him on the ground
and was sitting astride of him, like a
temperance Gambrinus straddling an
intoxicating cask.