The Washington herald., 1922-10-12
Eastside, Westside
AHAround Town
Intimate GIimpses Into Dis
trict Happenings as Seen
By Rowing Reporters

this city, whose name is withheld
under threats of assault and bat.
terry upon the person of the writer,
challenges to mortal combat the au-
thor of the statement. "clothe. make
he man"
The scene was the first tee on the
municipal golf links the time was
one day last week and the prin-
cIpais were the scribe and a man or
pleasing personality who requested
the pleasure of playing a round with
him. Both were attired in the con-
ventional tweed.
The scribe had an OFF day. He
sliced and hooked his drives. went
of on his iron shots and punctuated
each and every misplay with what
hea claimed to be an appropriate ex-
pletiYe.
At the close of the game his COM
panion offered to give him a lift In
his car as soon as he changed back
into street clothes. and the scribe
accepted with thanks.
Now try to imagine my embar-
rassment," the hard-boiled news
paper man asked, when my COM
panion showed up attired as a
clergyman. 1t was Father Tierney.
1 learned later"
In this dizzy age of everyone-for-
himself. the evidence that some
one has stopped to consider the
comfort of others, with no oppor-
tunity of gain, always strikes a
pleasing note.
At the Fourteenth street entrance
TO the District Building. just in
side the door. is a public drink
ing fountain of the "squirter" vari-
ETY.. Thousands of people have
stopped there to drink and passeo
on. But one man. an employe
OF the building. considered the
height of the fountain from the
floor and returned with two wooden
steps so the children might drink.
There is no denying the fact
that European. Influences are
making themselves felt In this
country. We have English-cut
clothes, scotch brogues. Alpine
chapeaus, French gloves, and
now window on Ninth street
Is displaying trousers with ball
bottoms. slit a In Madrid.
\ newsboy stood on Sixteenth
street with bundle of papers near
ly his own size, watching the au-
tomobiles whiz by for some min
utes. Finally he selected one. waved
to the driver, who stopped and
took him aboard. The driver later
told of the conversation.
why did you let the machine
in front Of me pass and hail me"
the driver inquired of the young
ster
"a chauffeur was drivin.s was
the answer.
Yes. but maybe some rich lady
was sitting in the car who would
; have taken you in and-who can
/ tell-maybe adopted you"
Say mister" laughed the mite.
| you better stop goin' to these
movies" and then, getting serious.
he explained that il wasn't being
| done.
/ It's the guys what drive them
/ themselves that give you the lift"
And he gave his age as eight years
did.
Tie lie mist had just attached that
| i1StrumHn; used Ey the profession to
remove the top of the head by open
/ ing the mouth wide enough to al
/ low work without interference,
when the fire bell rang.
Z As in all other properly orx4 nzed
offices of the government. this Is
signal in the Veterans Bureau to
abandon ship Immediately. So the
dentist and his staff withdrew without
| further formalities, leaving the vet
eran to his own devices.
Having been thrown Cpon his own
/ resources before. the former soldier,
wondering why anyone should COM
plain about the trenches. rushed into
the street looking like Il fugitive from
I the Spanish 1pquisition.
The fire lrlll having been pro-
nounced a success. the instrument of
/ torture eventually was extracted; but
| from now on fire drills are going to
be one of the pet ayersions of at