Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-25
AROUND THE CITY.

ITHIS is about money seed. Also.
about business ONCE. all mar
i BILE and frescoes, with a long
! counter and a rubber tree at
the door. There are other doors. but
why brag.
| II you peek through one spiked-in
| corner at the far end OF the big plaza
you can see two wonder-men forever
and ever doing things to ledsers and
checks and raw money EXCEPT for
SUCH social filings as envelope recep-
| lions. and monthly afternoon In
honor Of Welcome Robin Bonus-but.
at that they are never too rushed for
| kindly woodland you couldn't ask
, anything finer from any business man.
Or woman.
Last Monday. for'one time, a woman,
| waiting her turn outside the spikes,
ghmpsed through at some sacks
tumbled on a desk: unhleached cotton
sacks, like peas and beans and thing.
come in. So, as one of the wonder
men poked ner envelope at her she
asked him il the sacks meant seed.
ano was he making garden? He
smiled cheerful tolerance and ex-
planned about like this:
wen. you might call 1t money seed.
Ihese are cents to be taken to the
Treasury and exchanged for bills. The
SACKS weigh ninety-six pounds and
contain $500. Average cents-in ordi-
nary condition-weigh eight pounds
10 the thousand. The government
VIII make a recount and If the total
differs, its result will stand. II it was
gold coin it would be weighed instead
OF counted The counting is done by
machine
Then he poked another envelope at
! the next in line and the woman felt
| That she had been told ali that was
coming to her. Still. it was a new
| interest-if only cents worth.
And II you consider the tons and
tons of copper minted into pennies
sent to the Treasury by all the big
corporations and stores and churches
or the city, it gives you newly
acquired appreciation of that adage-
hnancier who advised us to:
Take care of the pennies and the
pounds Will take care of themselves"
| A TINY boy, wearing smoked
glasses. sat on curb and watch
| ed other boys playing in the street
He made an eXcitable audience;
jumping up, waving his arms and
calling out as if he really had some
thing to do with the game. And some
times-just something's boy would
think to wave back, which sent the
child into near-spasms of delight.
He was rather pathetic little
chap, but he didn't know it. for when
a passing man paused to ask IL he
were having a good time. he piped out
with happy Importance:
Yes. sir; I'm the umpire"
That's a fine position. How did
they come to give II to you?"
Because I can't see straight"
The man said it was an excellent
reason-but he doubtless knew that
the boys had a better one.
AN Army officer, while in Chicago,
"A CHANGED in shop conducted by
lady BARRIERS" 1t was first expe-
rience, and he didn't take kindly to
|it-but. you know how most OF US
make the best of things as they come
|along-and, really, it wasn't bad. The
woman who had him in hand under
stood her business, and. being bar
Der. naturally wanted to know, among
other things:
what part of Illinois do you come
FROM"
The officer told her that he was
not native of the state. Then she
wanted 10 hHOw NHdl StdtGl fhO 0io
come from. He told her that he did
not come from any state; he belonged
to the District of Columbia.
The barber paused in her work,
looked at him with the bewilderment
Of one who is mired in Ignorance and
put her question:
Which gnat of an incident seems to
point out to the Americanization
movement that Chicago would be q
good little place to start in on.
fkx -
TWO fapperish matrons were dis
L cussing man.
my husband says we women are
hypnotized into buying any freak
tHins the stores wish onto us, and
that / ought to be ashamed to be seen
on the street in rig like this-he
worries me SO"
And the other. having got what she
would doubtless call the number" OF
that being who poses as an inscruta-
BILE riddle this side the wedding ring,
pooh-poohed the idea:
"Don't listen at him! Your husbands
a man, and they're all alike. If Fred
was to come across you in longer
he would say was why in blazes you
couldn't look like other women? Don't
tell me, hon! I known 'em from A to
lizard. and they are every man-5ack
alike
And an overhearing spinster in the
rear, whose lifeview of man has been
as a kohinoor in a case-some other
woman's case-pondered to herself, in
strictest confidence, as to whether
this dastardly thing could be true.
3 X
CHURCH service over, young
~ woman was lingering for a bit
Of last prayer when little old lady
who seemed to be cropping up the
aisle reached out, touched her arm
and whispered:
will you please take me home? I
am blind
The girl did, of course. because she
is that sort of a girl. And no one
would have heard the first word
about it. except that
The little old lady confided, on the
years old and had nine children and
fourteen grandchildren.
Finding fault is about the easiest
thing we do. and the most foolish.
seeing that there is generally a rea-
son for things, if we could get at
both sides. Still
Until the end of time lecturers and
books will insist upon advising women
to marry to protect themselves from
the loneliness of the years.
And the question is-Why?
A FRIEND of the column sends this
n to help out:
Put yourself in my place and take
a seat at a cafe table and listen to
this comment on cartoons:
"And each cartoon held full two
pounds. at twenty cents pound"
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