Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-16


= to breakfast the other
morning, all gussied up in freshly
ironed pongee suit.
II suppose So" says l.
"Then you have another guess" cuts
in Barry Plat. looking over the top
Of a two-day-old New York paper.
Listen to, this from the weather
report: Maximum. So: minimum. 3D.
That was last Tuesday, and the fore
cast for the next day was: 'Contin-
ued cloudiness with rain at night, fol-
lowed by clearing and high north
west Winds knew what that means,
don't you?"
I'll bet 1 do" says I. ut means
that old winter is still lolling around
in the lap of spring. April days!
Yes, I've met 'em. There'll be two or
three when the sun really shines and
you can turn off the steam and have
window open during the middle of
the day; the Jersey commuters will
wear their overcoats on their arms;
some comedian will appear in last
years straw hat: a few organ grind
ers will stray up and down the side
streets and the florists windows
will have exhibits of pussywillow
buds and forsythia and yellow jon
quils. All New York. from the but
tonhole makers on lower 5th avenue
to the kids on Riverside drive. will
grin grateful and tell each other that
at last spring has arrived. Then.
bang! The sun ducks behind the
clouds, the breeze gets back into the
north and down goes the mercury.
Say. 1 can just feel it sweeping across
the corner of 57th and 9Th avenue and
see the bus riders turning up their
coat collars or climbing down for an
inside seat"
HUH" says Inez, indicating doubt.
Il know, mex. dear" says /. IT'S
hard to believe at this distance. es-
pecially il your bump OF Imagination
is a dimple; but if you know when
you're let in for something soft you'll
not get restless for New York just
yet Anyway. I'll take this for mine"
X x
EOR we were getting acquainted
with the west coast of Florida in
April. And say. If anything better in
the way OF weather ever happened
anywhere I've never heard of it.
Nearly three weeks of it we'd had
one perfect day after another, with
out break. 1t would be ~ when we
got up the same as when we went to
bed; and in between. even il the
thermometer did climb up to 81 or so.
there would be a nice breeze off the
gulf and you wouldn't care. Oh. I'll
admit that anybody carrying as much
excess weight as Inez does would
leak a little il they got to thrashing
around, but it would do EN- good. AS
| for Barry and Uncle Nels and !, we
kept going and didn't mind bit.
a wonderful neck color. but that came
from sitting out on the fishing pier
half the day. Say. we never suspect
ed the old boy was such fish hound.
1t seems, though. that he hadn't had
| a pole in his hand since he was a
youngster, and now he was making
up for lost time. Hour after hour he'd
fish away. sitting in line with dozens
of other old boys and old girls. as
solemn as the pelicans that tried to
steal ever.~ catch. And when he'd
come trailing back to the hotel with
| a string of sea trout and founders
| he'd be as chesty as If he was ward
ing of a famine. Then he'd tip the
cook a dollar and we'd have fish for
dinner again.
AS for Barry and I, we couldn't
get tired of driving about and just
| looking at things. Everywhere was
splash of color. No soft, low
/ toned pastelle shades. either; but
a riot of barbaric reds and yellows
| and puppies. Look down any
street and you'd see the oleanders,
| great clumps of them a dozen or