Evening star., 1920-06-27

A WAR garden is so tempera-
~ mental that there's never any
~ telling how it means to turn
out. Everybody knows about
war gardens.
You plant, say, lettuce. and after
you have watered and dug around
and bug-picked and nursed it gener-
ally, as if it were a teething baby.
like as not all you will get for your
optimism will be leathery leaf or
two. witty at the roots. Isn't that so.
Adam?
On the other hand. lettuce may take
an unexpected notion to oblige, as In
this case: ;.
A man, who owns a lawn sowed it
in seed supposed to be grass. but the
crop came up in fluttery green skirts
instead Of tailor-made spears-as
pretty a bed of lettuce as you would
care to see. The lawn man appre-
ciates lettuce, of course, but Wnat ne
wanted was grass, SO he gets out MS
mower to crush the invasion before the
neighbors can catch on-as If ANYBODY
ever fooled neighbors or ever will! =.
Still, a lot of good-natured fun Is
fine thing to handy around, once IN
a while, especially when the victim
is a happy-natured planter, like the
lawn man to make it unanimous-and.
anyhow, he had his compensation
salad.
WHEN theory. bucks into fact one
w of the two will go to the wall.
And it won't be fact! Leander proves
it-for what says icthyology:
goldfish that leaves the water Tor an
instant will die"
Leander Goldfish was getting along
in years when he and his silver-sc
wife, Hero, travelled to washington
from their home town, in New Jersey.
On the way, the car gave !urch tnat
the lap of the woman who owned them.
She tapped them back-and that was
all there was to it. Their Hellespont
here was an aquarium OF c!earess
water with a grotto in the middle OF
the gravely bottom. and the two were
until Leander, whose other name might
have been Mathulsalah, died at the
age of fifteen years. Hero was bit
younger, but widowhood held none OF
the charms quite often evidenced In
the human-for one reason. perhaps,
there were no other fish around to
take her mind of. Anyhow, she stop
ped flashing and darting in and
out Of the grotto and just hoated slug
gishly until she died, with nothing
in this world the matter with her
except that she wanted Leander and
couldn't have him ever any more.
Some people are that way.
Also, just to show. it was the same
way with Martina:
From the time Martina was
broken colt she used to come to
Center Market with horse Billy. the
two hauling a truck cart from farm
out in Virginia quite little way.
For years and years they teamed to-
gether, and when rest time came
around they would play in the
tree by fence. Then Billy went the
way Of flesh, horse and human, and
Martina got so lonesome that she just
grieved her poor old self to death.
The farmer man hitched her to an
other horse, but Martina wanted Billy.
And when she couldn't get him. she
up and died.
knew, because 1T was the same way
with an old drake he owned once
Nothing to any Of it, of course, ex-
cept that do you suppose-do you
suppose there can be any possible
way for any power to sum up the
loneliness and heart sorroWs OF this
world-not counting in men and
women?
A wORK-HOUR car, jammed most
n ly with clerks on their way to
the pension bureau. was stopped the
other morning by an automobile park
ed on the track in front: The woman
chauffeur had stopped her machine
and skipped over to corner orus
store.
In about three minutes she was back
to find the car passengers In fer
ment of excitement-clerks in danger
of being docked, or whatever 1t fs
that happens when one Is late, 40 NOT
take kindly to delay any more than