Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-16
AROUND THE CITY.

Immortality as the inventor Of perpet-
ual motion. And IL you want to change
the chill freshness for a tropic breath
you can cross over to the Botanic
greenhouse and make believe you are
in. say. Panama. except that the palms
are too clean and sappy for any spot
on earth except dear little Bermuda.
Then out again. to call on big. bronze
Grant and tell him he looks like a rider
Of the Ku Klux Khan. and over to the
main entrance OF the Capitol. to fol-
low the way of the friendly trees until
you come to the steps.
At the head of the first flight, onA
woman curved around the terrace to look
down on the tops OF the shiny green
leather leaves of magnolia trees that
guard the fountain beneath and. Incl
dentally. to ask big policeman why
it was that everybody climbed both
flights. instead Of breaking the trip
into two easy stages-with the view
Of the city thrown in. And the police
man. who was kind. as we'll as big.
said:
II have sometimes wondered, myself
though once you have mounted the main
steps you are on the floor leading to
the rotunda." and so on.
When she had topped the upper
flight the woman saw a girl perched ons
bumps all over the terrace. She was
powdering her nose. So she kept on
her way until she came to another
woman resting on one of the riffie OF
steps that lead to higher terrace.
Then she stopped and said to the seated
one:
You look like wise woman: but all
the same you are flirting with pneu-
monia, sitting on that step like that"
The woman was as wise as she looked
for she popped up. smiled. and in a
trifle less than two seconds they were
telling each other what the President
and Congress ought to do for the Capt.
toll and about the Shipping Board. and
the wonder-weather and tulip bulbs and
not breath about short skirts nor
any other sort of what is the world
coming to- stuff. which shows how
wise she was. And then the woman
travelled and Travelled until she had
rounded the building and come to
stretch Of sunny terrace that was de-
serted except for an old man on
His hat had blown Off and he had
poked it with one crutch to the railing
in an effort to lean over. Tho scheme
was a failure. So the woman picked
the hat up and he told her he was
nightly obliged. Which he looked il.
And that was about all there was to
1t, but, anyhow. a hike Is good tning-
not counting the saving OF a token
though. honest. when the woman startea
she wasn't tnlnklIlE VI CiShcA. N.'O $50
gone over to the platform. but changed
her mind before the car came-or,. IL
YOU know what that queer little notion
ia felt. that something outside OF her
everydayness had changed it for her
AS if, perhaps. merely perhaps. she had
been sent. as a child is sent on an er,
rand to 20 to the Capitol terrace and
pick up a lame mans hat.
reason forty-eleven- why men do
N neesgive up car seats to the ladies':
"If a xoman has an escort and they
can get a cross section. she puts him
in the window seat, so that he needn't
get up for other women. Also:
When war workers. aeeomp san aa,c 0s
u,hv shonld a fellow who lets his wife
work nike a man expect other men TO
treat her with the chivalry due 10
womer?"
~ y & MAMIE LANCASTER.