Evening star., 1921-07-31
AROUND THE CITY

lTHERE is a house that still in
sists upon shutters. One Of
the ponderous green things
broke hinge in the last
storm, and next day work.
man stood on a third-story sill, with
stone area beneath. and with no ap-
parent purchase on safety. detached
the derelict and swung it into the
room. 1t was a perilous pose. but he
didn't mind it a bit. He said SO to
nervous woman who had looked on.
mo danger whatever If you keep
your eyes on what you are doing. If
you look down your head would swim
and you might be goner. OF course,
like everything else, the rule has it's
exceptions. l saw one man walk
girder nine stories high, and when he
got to the middle of it he lit a cigar
cite and looked down to see what was
going on In the street, but it was
mighty hazardous trick. Keep your
eyes on your job and you are as safe
as If you were in this rocker"
The man toed a seam Of the mat
ting on the floor and said: IF 1 look
down at this line my feet are apt to
founder and 1 miss my step. but If I
keep my eyes ahead / can follow the
feel of the line as straight as a die.
That's all there is to this girder
walking. ladder-swinging and high
sill balancing.
Look up. but never look down.
Which sounded. somehow, more con-
vincing than the same advice SO CO.
piously administered by self f-appointed
uplifters.
THE Fine Arts Society may or may
not have found something wrong
with certain statue in this town. The
one in question is an equestrian
statue, in bronze, Of a man astride a
horse, mounted on granite pedestal,
set In grassy circle. Many tourists
II look 1t over, and occasionally some
body comes along and registers a
II complaint. This time it was a man
with woman. presumably his wife.
wonder why they put that sort of
II man on that sort of horse?"
Cant you read" The inquiry snap
Il ped like mouse trap.
"Oh, can read. all right. The thing
I'm wanting to know is why they put
soldier on race horse?"
II 1T isn't race horse and you know
| it. It's q war steed. 1 should think
you'd have little regard~for gen.
eral who"
''Oh, let up. can't you, I'm just
talking ABOUT the 1OOlSnneSS Oh tne
/ sculptor putting a big chunk of a
fellow on slim mount that calls for
a jockey"
well. if you're so smart. why don't
| you make better statue right now,
| huh? You are forever finding fault
n doing anything yourself"
III I'm not finding fault, I tell you.
4 The horse is all right and the man is
all right; I'm just saying they don't
Just like you said over at the mu-
scum, that my mother used to stab
people with hatpins."
II The man laughed. He had to.
Il didn't say it, and what's more I'm
not going back on what 1 did say
N What l told you was that the bronze
balls with the long points that we
saw in the case were used as weapons
Of defense by the Amazons. and tina,
II they doubtless were the originals OF
II the hatpins your mother used to wear
meaning anybody's mother who wore
hatpins."
For goodness sake. keep quiet and
III come on"
The man shut up and went on. And
Nj a lone. lorn soul who had been skirt
II ing the circle near enough for the
skirmish tried to see if the woman
III wore a wedding ring. She couldn't
iii silk gloves.
I'll But she was sure the ring was
nj there.
III A woman with nothing better to do
y walked along Main street an6
picked up unfinished stories. as you
might come across so many stray
beads. without knowing who the neck
lace belonged to or how it came to be
spilled
shes just paid $40 to have he,
daughters hair bobbed, with a per.
manent wave. and her eyebrows
plucked! OF course, she's got a gov.
ernment job, but just think of it, SAC
to have her daughter's-
Consider, sisters, what you have
got to pay when you get ready to
have your hair bobbed, with a per-
well. can't say as Josie has done
so bad. Nobody can deny but what
Gus has got his failin's-my soul and
body, I'd want to kill a man that run
around the way Gus does-still, she
gets to Atlantic City every summer
a hat"
So much for Josie and Gus.
X X X
lone Of several letters on the same
subject begins:
AFTER reading about Alice have
concluded that the March Hare's'
home is the paradise of our Miss
Mamie. If Alice is you. can you use
an officers tent for a lean-to, and