Evening star., 1922-07-23

no their flowers and where nonins nus
hands get in restful hours on Dig
co,cbes and under shady trees to tone
I'D for the city's work next day.
On July 4 a young lawyer ana MS
girl wife gave fireworks party os
tensibly for their baby daughter ana
her playmates, but the gathering oi
neirhbors showed that the 1atners
and mothers We're as interested ds
their children. And everybody hao
patriotic time.
Tbe next morning as the host was
about to have his breakfast neigh
bor across the road sent over piate
or bo. cakes and honey. And after
that came moro honey and CAKES
enough for family of three.
She did it because she kne" '"e
young lawyer must get to town. anu
as he and his wife had entertainer
their friends to such a late hour she
felt that she wanted to do neiSn-
borly service.
And that, if YOU please. is old-time
Maryland hospitality.
Also, it stood for unselhshness
and that is about the best thing III
the world.
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1-oI- NAV have noticed that the gov
ernmentaI home that houses the
coast and geodetic survey mas eA
changed it's longtime red dullness
for coat of bride-like gray. Ac-
Cording to the oriental pundit'
who assured us last winter at so
much per that houses are human
In their likes and dislikes of other
houses" it may be-just may be
that something romantic is going on
between the lightsome gray and the
marble House Office building across
the way There is no means OF teilins.
of course, except by oriental pundits,
and they are scarce around mere AT
this season of the year.
True, a policeman gives you the
prosaic fact that the survey was
painted to conform to other light
colored government buildings along
side, but-who cares for prosaic facts
in the middle of July?
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THEY wore gilt-frnged badges. and
they were sizing up a dinosaur
over at the museum-the one
spraw1ed out in the middle of every
thing:
IF / was to go home and tell the
folks that | had seen skeleton as
long as our front yar1 they w"uidn't I
believe me on oath. l don't believe
St myself.
.J do then, because animals grew
big like this one before .he flood. 1
was reading about IL m paper.
"The flood was in the Bible, hut this
is the city of Washington. Besides.
YOU never read of any creatures as
bir as this one that went in the ark.
two by two.
well. maybe they were too big
70 get inside and Noah had to leave
them out and that's why they were
drowned and got dug up all over the
west. like the cards say.
.'weu. they didn't none of 'em
come from Iowa, where I live, be-
cause never heard of onc-and IL
stands to reason my father would
know. with the big ranch he's got
and. besides, if wild animals were
this big to begin with, they would
have grown 10. bigger the wa!
farmers cross stock.
There was more to it. but this is
enough TO show why tha- millennium
is held UP. Once let ignorance scat
out of the world and them
You watch perfection come am
bling in.
"A TINY boy and girl stood alone, at
dusk, in grassy triangle out
near the southeast bridge. She looked
SO worried and he SO sullen, and both
were so pathetically shut off from
other playing children on the street.
that two passing women paused at
the outer links of the green inclos-
ing chains to ask if they were lost.
They were not.
Nom. i come to this store to buy
a loaf Of bread and this man is
chargin' me moren he oughter. 1
would'n tech a thing he's got in his
whole shop, 'cep'n my childen gotter
eat
Frowning disapproNal that
matched her words. she passed him
a handful of white clover blooms. He
counted them ostentatiousjy to see
If the price was right. gave her a
couple of pebbles in return and the
deal was over.
And so true is it that trif1e may
remind You of something truly great
that one OF the women said to the
other:
"She asked for bread and he gave
her a stone
"A WOMAN who is sick of what
~ bricks look like and how asphalt
smells was wishing she could get out
of town, somewhere-anywher
when, all of a sudden. fairy waved
a wand, and there she was scattering
herself over the Tropic of Cancer
Mahogany forests. coffee plantations.
banana walks. castor oil fields, or
chids, trailing silver moss, scar
let butterflies, sharks, earthquakes
all on the way from Port Lii
mon, that clearing house of gone
mad emotions, up. up on mountain
of curves to Sa-, Jose. on top of Cen
trail America. After that che found
herself on the Caribbean seas, 'as
blue as an indigo bag with no sign
of marine life except flying fish as
small as minnows that suggest hum
ming birds as they spring up from