Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-06
Around the City

lave you seen your Uncle Joe
= jazz? "
Gentlemen. when fun time comes
around he can fling off those eighty
years OF his as bouyantly as Doug
twirls a lariat-and you know Doug!
Just give him the right sort of tune
on the right sort of fiddle and UncTe
Joe comes dancing down the line with
the best Of them-from minuet mincer
to jumping Jim Crow.
Lord love him. there was a time
when Speaker Cannons spear knew
no relations, but today 1t lie an Aarons
rod, poisoning into brother love for
every man-a compensation which
Father Time has given him to make
up for the blood rush Of youth which
he has taken away.
IF John Barton Payne were an auto
mobile you would call him hfst-
class machine. For motor power ne
has brains, arteries and nerves tnat
would roll up speed record. and you
couldn't ask for a safer hand at the
wheel-yet, with all this assurance OF
many years ahead, he is giving away
his treasures as prodigally as soile
gabbies said he was ready TO give
away ships. Isn't 1t fierce the way
some Of US find fault? But anyhow.
The Secretary of the, Interior mas
presented his paintings. old masters
modern schools, Whistler etchings.
Pennell drawings and the Ike 70 .ne
McIntire School Of Fine Arts OF tne
University of Virginia after previous
dwellings among other institutions Oh
the state.
For why?
Every one gives a different reason.
but, SO far, it doesn't seem to nave
occurred to any of us that:
Way down deep in his heart or nfGn
up where his soul lives~there nlsn.
be feeling that he anted TO give
his splendid things away because ms
wife loved her Virginia. Ana he
loved her. And she is dead
oENATOR GRONNA'S secretary, MT
= Herbert-don't know his mrs.
name, but 1t ought to be mishty
soul-Mr. Herbert, not 30 long ago.
attended to q social matter In wnicn
the senator's family was interested
and when 1t was over he sent q tokeI,
Of appreciation to each OF the severa'
writers who had helped him out
NOlnlnR OIL LHOhc$ SoAuCs
Just neck ribbon OF gay peaes
woven into symbolic design BY the
Indians Of North Dakota, where the
senator lives.
Regardless of how many chains
she could buy for herself. the giit
spelled sunbeam for every woman
who got one, because
Because recognition IL such spien-
did thing. And SO rare.
X 4 X
THEATERs open their back doors
J. and windows these days to let In
cool breeses. and, as a consequence
things happen-like this:
A vaudeville team had reacned 3
point where the supporting actor had
to efface himself to let the spotlight
lady work herself UP to the big mo-
ment OF the turn" And she was
beginning to tear Off thrills In fine
style. when
A kitten strayed across the stage.
The actor picked 1t up quietly. gave
the small back a friendly stroke ana
handed it to some ono in the nearest
wing, and that would have been all
there was to it, except-the house
broke loose.
The applause sounded like one of
those sudden summer downpours, and
with it went gusts Of laughter that
ranged from giggles to outlaws. For
one little minute everybody jamn1ed
in the big place was as boisterously
happy as child on q frolic-except
the spotlight lady, whose lines were
ruined and who was mad enough to