Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07

A friend who had also pinned his
faith to a lost cause had sent her
a box of candy. and as she passed il
around she showed the penciled card.
| that went with it:
Heads up. Never say die,''
Oh. yes, he was very wise adage
| man, but not quite SO wise as il he
had been woman. for you know.
| neighbors dear, that when a thing
| counts for courage it is never little.
/ Why, courage is one of the biggest
| things in the world.
tHERE is another little thing-of
another kind:
| There is business woman who
| lives far enough from Washington
to vote. and she owns a home with
a beautiful big garden. And in the
garden there is a grape arbor. Being
] a generous woman, she cordially in
vited fellow worker to come out
and gather some of the grapes. He
went. And he picked and he picked
until he had filled big market bas-
ket and after that a sack that held
twice as much more. Then he went
on picking and picking until he had
gathered over hundred pounds. And
when he couldn't pick any more. he
said to his hostess:
| Il must have thirty. pounds here.
and l want to pay you for them.
So he handed her nice silver quar-
| ter.
| Instead of accepting it, the lady
asked Outstanding boy if he had
any use for a quarter-and you never
heard of a boy refusing a tip, did
you?
| If you have been buying grapes this
season, you will understand that this
wasn't such a little thing, either.
unless you consider the man.
THE last day it rained every body
who passed certain theater at a
! certain time must have noticed pair
of feminine gender sandals that had
been dropped or shed near the curb.
A Cuvier could have built from them
! vamp de luxe, and even everyday
folks could know without telling thae
| they were as coquettishly fresh ana
shiny as if just out of store. Nat.
urally. quite little crowd fringee
around. and. as usual from Adam "a
| date. crowd will have it's say:
Somebody must have dropped
| them" was a common-sense sugges-
ton that was throttled on the spot:
IF they had been dropped they
! would be sprawled GU. instead of
standing as. if ready to walk"
That's So Looks as if the owner
| had just stepped out of them"
you don't know but what she is
standing in them now. only you cant
see them unless you got astral eyes.
The woman who breathed out this
statement somehow conveyed the i'm
preston that she had astral eyes OF
her own.
There was a smoker of derision. but
tI,.. Of ha ~ a
ways be relied on to catch victim.
the same as sugar catches flies
there being two present who looked
mysteriously knowing. Then
With the suddenness that is always
, a star feature of the unexpected. "A
trampy sort of man. whose own shoes
were down at heel, invaded the lime
light. abducted the sandals and mad
off with the announcement:
"TheSe'r mine.
The announcement was accepted
with such unanimous doubt as to en-
holden one sober-minded woman to
calculate to nobody in particular:
1T pays some people to rubber
And by that time the show was
over.
THERE is a scrap of something that
IL shows the folly of being wise:
n
store restroom. was telling another
Young woman why it was that she
had not named her baby Mary, as her
| mother wished:
Ma thinks Mary is the best name
| in the world, but. AS 1 said to Joe. |
| want the kid to go by name that
fmeans some pn-some'pn extra, you
| know guess / lay awake a dozen
! nights thinkin' up what / wanted
| that had no drawbacks, but i couldn
| nick on one that was good enough
| lin all of a sudden / come across il
in story that belonged to a sweet.
| lovely girl who was poor, but mar
ried a lord. SO / says to Joe that
I had hit on Rosamond. and he said it
sounded good 10 him..
The other young woman SAID IL was
a wonderful name. and SO on, winch
showed the folly. of being wise, Tor;
suppose that young mother. IN ner
earnest and truly feminine desire to
start her daughter out with a name
calculated to lure lords, had known
a bout. saw. that somewhat reprehe nsi-
Bile Fair Rosamond OF the Bower. or
Of Roman Rosamond, who abolished
The rovai gentleman who had made
her drink his health out of cup
made of her murdered fathers skull:
mr. of that Princess Rosamond of
fairyland who vowed to marry mo-
BODY but the king and the king died
and she had to be a cantankerous
old maid; or Of
Oh. YES. ignorance is Bliss all
ripht-eNcept of course, when U len'G
NANNIE LANCASTER