Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09

WASHINGTON. ID. O.,
superintendent had q little falling
which Jackson finally decided not to
stand for. so he sent for Maher
Jimmy says Jackson, you know
how like you, but I'm told you are
drinking again. so you VIII have 10
And is that all that's troubling
you, general dear? Sure and IL every
body believed all the stories told
about you where would yoursilf be.
general dearT
And Jimmy stayed on his job"
\
TRADITION claims that if you
make wish while hugging that
old dwarf chestnut in Lafayette Park
I, Is bound 10 come true. Here's a
proof;
A tired-to- death colored woman.
who had TO cut through the park
every night after a hard days work
and long walk after 1t. put her arms
around the tree as far as she could
reach and wished her hardest for
bicycle, and--she had barely got out
of the grounds when she picked up
bicycle lamp, II her arms had been
long enough she would have found
wheel. She said so and she certainly
ought to know.
A WOMAN not worth describing was
hurrying through the stone can
yon that calls itself the post Office,
when her arm was grabbed by a
pretty girl with blue beads around
her in, hal N
the beads. because they matched her
blue suit that matched her blue eyes:
Hello, Miss Ann, You'd make your
fortune as a race horse. Mamma ask
ed me only this morning why it is
you never come around any more"
oh, I'll be heaming in on you one
or these fine days. In gust OF a
hurry now to post an important let
ter But Is she said it the Miss Ann
woman slowed up long enough to
smile appreciation on the young thing
dancing along beside her.
Going to the registry division,
aren't YOU? I'll go with you. | al
ways register my important letters,
too. when l have any and mamma
never thinks of trusting her packages
and things to the ordinary mail. It's
so perfectly silly for people to risk
valuables. when registering costs
only a few extra cents. Well here
you are--and be sure and come around
soon"
The woman showed her letter under
the registry window. The clerk
stamped It and showed back a receipt.
And by that time ii came to the poor
things consciousness with thump
that she had had no intention what
ever of registering that letter She
had meant to send 1t by special de-
livery.
And as she went over to another
window and paid out another dime
. she said to herself-having no one
handy to say it to:
That's what l get for fooling with
the girls"
ELECTRIC lights starred the dusk
cars flashed up and down the
Avenue and automobiles whizzed by
like devil chasers with eyes Of COLDER
fame.
There was a tumble of footsteps or
the tagging. wheels on the asphalt
and newsboy cries from everywhere
{ And between a here -and-there crevict
in the noises rose the voice OF stree
. singer up the way bit. His sons
caught the interest of three men who
, were cumming IN front Oh Il HOtel.
, 'Old chaps out again tonight will
, the same old tune
He couldn't choose a finer one
that's opera, mani
IAN right, only he might tear off {
ragtime for a change. Good singer II
his time. l guess"
You bet--sounds like Caruso on tn
!, bum. Listen at that high bawl, will
: your
q Must be tough lines to have t,
s come down to singing in the street
Y like that"
a His own fault. These singers max
r big money while they are young an,
o spend il as it comes. Deserves all he
getting"
- The third man took no part In tn
: talk. He looked too arrogantly pros
= porous and middle aged, strong an
c self-satisfied to bother himself over
r wrecked voice singing its appeal TO
|, food and shelter. And even while tn
S others were bandying their criticism
n he left and started up the street.
e And then a nearby woman who ha
been overhearing noticed that tn
q man. having walked out of the focu
:, of the two he had left, hurried a bi
until he came to the singer and drop
ped something into his hat.
Then he kept on as if nothing ha
happened. And the chances are h
will never give the incident anothe
thought until some day, somewhere,
voice will say to him.