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

was downright iumpy paused to
watch the outcome. And as the scale
tipped az a substantial ngure she said
TO the perfectly strange weighee:
II see you are heavier than am.
No woman could stand for blow
like that--not this side OF heayen-so
the perfectly strange weig nee got
back with a little statement or hef
own:
Indeed, / am not, then---the idea"
"Oh, yes, you are. You weigh at
least FIVE pounds more than do"
mo such thing. Here, get on the
scales and see"
10 assure myself that you weigh more
than / do. IT'S a satisfaction when 4
seen a good classy figure of a woman
who outsizes me. What number cor
set do you wear?'
Here, you get on these scales
Come on, be a sport and face your
pounds I've got a penny in change
Badgered into backing her assertion
the lumpy woman went In her own
bag for a penny. stepped on the ma
chine with the reckless repetition that
her weight would be at least hNe
pounds less--and-----
1t was eleven pounds more.
And when the question was settled
the two laughed at each other ana
went their ways. ~ a., -.
Which shows what a little BIT II
takes 10 interest women--sometnes
II 4
SQUIRREL sat on It's launches
ON the stone coping of the White
House. When people came too near
it darted between the rails ana out.
Once dog trotted by and the SOUR
rel caught outside on the Tagging,
scampered up a tree. When the DOG
rad trotted past the squirrel came
down and made itself at home on the
sidewalk. Among the passers-by VINO
paused to watch the things antics
were two men wearing blue badges
lettered with gilt. And one of them
said unto the other:
what would squirrel look like
in the heart of New York;
"Or Chi?"
washington Is cooking itself on Its
war workers. but when you COM
down to il, what Is this place poe
burg, anyhow
That's right. but how In thunder
can you expect anything better from
a town where a man cant vote any
more than a squirrel"
And that's the way they talk ABOUT
*
coIOMON was wise old owl, but
- he didn't know every thing, which
must serve as excuse for the nice man
who slipped up on his dates in telling
this unit about the headless lady.
and who has been corrected by an
other nice man, who adds to her MIS-
tory. like this:
at may be a true version of the
headless lady, but it Is not correct as
to the time. In 1860 1 was attending
school in the basement of the Sweden
boreian Church, on North Capitol
street. now the site of the dormitories.
At the corner of North Capitol and b
streets was stonecutter's yard, own
ed and operated by man named Jou-
venal. This headless lady was In his
front ward Often have the boys at re-
cess made a snow head and placed 1t
on where her own head ought to nave
been, and then knocked 1t on with
This was before the frst
soldiers of the civil war arrived in
Washington, and before the dome OF
the Capitol was covered In. for, when
they came, 1 saw the New York Fire
Zouaves man the projecting girders on
what is now the dome. So you may
erase the part concerning the van
dalism of the Yankee soldiers. If you
so or SO you will find that the young
daughter of Jouvenal met with a
tragic fate. Her mother died Of a
broken heart, and the father gave up
business and left the city"
MAMIE LANCASTER