Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-30
HEARD AND SEEN

Az euc IeStdUIAulS THESE Gays.
| stack Of wheat" is the way they
are usually ordered. although often
the order is Stack 'em up" The
counterman is never at any loss to
MI the order.
Stack: he bawls out so that all
the world and the chef may hear.
Just why an Unsuitable appetite for
pancakes at the luncheon hour should
have overtaken male Washington re-
Gently is hard to say. OF course,
there is no questioning the filing
qualities of griddle cakes when prop
erly made.
Cakes always have been in demand
for breakfast. but now they have in
raded the noon hour, so that a visit
20 a downtown restaurant will show
policemen. hackers, clerks. bankers
ana all others making away with
stacks O. wheat.
In one restaurant perhaps eight out
| OF ten luncheon orders are for PAN
cakes, some with" but most with
out. The term stack with" signifies.
IN restaurant parlance, that sausage
Is to be served with the cakes.
Surely, We are living in an heroic
age.
Ny old friend the Rambler. his long
gray beard waving In the wind as
usual. went rambling through a
pretty section of very nearby state
recently.
| After he had done sitting on logs,
communfng with birds and dragging
inonensive words out of the diction-
airy for dress parade interviews. the
Rambler took fancy to a house in
the distance
"rll just walk up to that house and
announce myself" he said. Every
BODY in two states knows me. 1 am
the Rambler"
AS a matter of fact, most every
body in two states does know the
Rambler. His coming is looked for
ward TO. and his going regretted.
When he shows up everybody Is glad
to see him.
II am the Rambler" he announces.
in his dignifed manner. much as
Santa Claus would say, II am Santa
Claus"
So when the Rambler knocked at
the door Of that pretty cottage, he
naturally anticipated a hearty well
come and the usual recognition.
Good morning. madam" he said to
the housewife. Il am the Rambler"
| "Oh, is that 3d." she said. II have
some Of your roses"
| A grocery store UP my way pos
sesses possibly the only retrieving
cat in the city.
| This feline is as yet kitten, al
though Just at that indefinite stage
where kittenhood ends and cathood
should begin. Yet the kittenish look
| Billy, for such is his name, will
run after a ball or small wad of
paper in exactly the same way that
q dog does. AS the grocery man
holds the ball. and makes motions as
II to throw it. Billy win stand ready
to jump, his eyes following the mo-
lions of the hand.
! When the ball is thrown Billy is
! after it like a flash. He grabs the
ball in his teeth. and Immediately
Frances back to the thrower. now and
then letting the ball slip and tossing
lit with his paws.
Nine out OF ten times. Just like a
dog. Billy will return the ball to his
master. and allow it to be thrown
again.
But that tenth time he will skirt
around the left flank and make of
with the ball behind a pile of boxes.
| The cat will out.
How great government bureau
can deftly hide itself away on F
street is demonstrated daily by the
United States forest service.
| Visitors have the hardest sort Of
time finding this bureau. located on
the south side of F street between
9Th and 10th streets. Although 1t has
a sign announcing itself, the sign is
not gaudy, and visitors often over
look it.
| Some day the forest service will
be located with the main Department
of Agriculture group. when the plans
already in existence are carried into
effect. But for the present you have
to hunt for 1t.
| A visitor to Washington was stand
ing on street one day last week
looking disconsolately around.
| young man, can you tell me where
! the forest service building is?" he asked.
You are standing right in. front
of it now" was the answer. And he
was, but he didn't know it.
| CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.