Evening star., 1921-02-20
AROUND THE CITY.

L@h'' sent 10 us, neighbors. by
iesntieman and poet of Virginia. And.
as an unpublished story OF Gen Grant
has its money value in newspaper
land. 1t seems as If We ought to give
him rising vote of thanks. The ayes
have it:
This aneodote. which merits a place
IN history, was related to myself by
the Greek scholar. Prof. Charles
Cameron OF Princeton College. where
ne was the senior, and enjoyed the
privilege of entertaining Gen. Grant.
Then President. upon the occasion OF
the iatter's visit to the university.
when the proffered honorary degree
was conferred upon him.
After dinner. President Grant. in his
kindly way toward children. said TO
the professors twelve-year- boy.
who was standing beside him:
Well, my little friend what is il
your ambition to be when you shall
grow up to be a man.
The Camerons. descended from the
I.ochiel clan. which so bravely sacri-
hced itself at Colloden for adherence
proclivity. by inheritance. SO the
young clansman. unabashed by any
reticence. answered up:
Il would be soldier il ] could he
great general like you" Whereupon
Grant answered the boy with solem-
nifty:
My little man. I hope by the time
you are grown all nations will have
found wiser plan for settling their
auarrels than marching out and muir
derlng each other-and that there
will be no use for soldiers"
1t must be noted that at this time
Gen. Grant was plying all his energy
and persuasion TO arrange with Eng
land for the Geneva conference TO
be given the power of arbitration and
L ha Ba, ,laf,
| And he. the most renowned COM
mander of modern times. fondly hoped
that il would be the beginning OF "a
world court. that would do away with
| war.
His great antagonist. Lee. had tho
same humanity. and said, after his
greatest victory at Chancellorsville:
"a 1T is well that war is so horrible
1t forestalls our ever becoming fond
Of its glory" -
There is a self-respecting little
street that the income tax will never
get acquainted with. And on the
street is little frame with wood
steps wobbling up a bit of terrace
that is overrun with sappy spikes
that are going to be jonquils the first
chance they get.
In window there is a lithograph
of Harding and Coolidge. and beneath
the picture is a pasteboard boxtop
lettered with painful disregard TO
spelling:
"Washin and irinin and days work"
At first glimpse there is laughable
incongruity between the statesmen
and the work they seem to advertise.
but when you come right down to
facts: Isn't government expected to
clean conditions and smooth over
nation troubles? And haven't Harding
and Coolidge taken contract for a
days work for every day of the next
four years?
Everything in this world is linked
together in some fashion-ever
notice?
Geography may measure her dis
tances from pole to pole, but when il
comes to human nature we can trace
a sort of likeness, good or bad. with
every problem that comes along; high,
low and middling-and most times,
even II we won't admit it, the kinship
Is as close as. say. Siamese twins.
This is of vital interest to Santa Claus.
AND as santa comes around the city
once a year, seems like he belongs"
The other night a woman who knew
exactly what she was talking about laid
important facts before a club of men
and women who are always doing worth
The government of Alaska has COM
pleted $40 miles of railroad. The peo-
pie pay for this road cents a mile,
while road operated by private in
COStS IL Genus a mile FOR
merly they didn't get their Christmas
presents until July; this year they re-
ceived them two weeks before Christ
was"
Naturally, it would be asking too
much of any railroad TO progress to the
extent of bringing presents before they
we're sent, but, even as 1t is, 1t means
good news for Santa. and for the people
out in Alaska. And that counts.
She looked as if she owned the earth
and all therein, but. all the same. as she
revolved through a department store
entrance she ripped a bit of braid on her
skirt-eveH as you or |.
Naturally. you can't go around one
minute with a string OF braid trailing
after you, so she went to a clerk at
the nearest counter, explained the dis
aSter, and asked for a couple of pins.
II can do better than that" says the
little clerk. SO she goes under the
counter for a needle and thread and In
less than the two shakes of that rams
tail that literature so kindly allows us
for comparison, the braid is sewed on
as good as new: the young Samaritan
is thanked. and that would be all there
was to it, except that in telling Of the
incident to another woman, the lady of
the braid was SO enthusiastically ap-
preciative Of that dear girls" resource
fulness that, honest. you might have be-
lieved her to be person 10 whom
favers came few and far between unless
| She is golden voiced singer. whose
triumphs in opera is still a pulsing
memory with the boys and girls of
not so long ago. Whenever she APP
| peared, Albaugh's was packed, and
the crowd that couldn't get in would
bank itself around the stage en-
trance, to see her come and 60. To
the gay wickedness of. Fra Diavolo,
; and the picturesqueness of that
lighting young blade, Boccaccio, size
added the splendid melody of grand
. opera and to both such a joyously
wholesome acceptance of the adula tions
. showered upon her that the whole
. town loved her, personally, except. OF
) course the cynics-and there are al
. ways cynics, dearS-and cynics love
to talk. One of the things they found
, fault with was her deceitfulness. No
singer SO besieged with admiration
could possibly care a hang about the
| people who swarmed around her, ex-
|, cent for the advertisement she was
|. | getting out of them. But the cynics
, were wrong. You notice they most
. in general always are-for DISPOSE
tions are like leopard spots; they do
| not change. The appreciation for the
| little clerks stitch in time was or
the same genuine kindliness she felt
in the earlier days, for the reason that
she is now, as she was then ana al
ways will be, here and in heaven,
Jeanie Winston.
1 FOUR.YEAR-0LO CITY
/ PROMISES TO GROW