Evening star., 1922-02-26

attraction for an aspiring
Young woman, she snatched at therop-
portunity to teach country schoo'
in the green hills Of. Virginia not So
very far. away
. she discovered that her duties in
Irc,uded sweeping the school. keeping
mn the fire and SO on. but, as every
good ,teache- is a. Tom Sawyer al
heart the boys and girls were soon
outracing each other for the grasp
ing of such :honors-and she' IN 'ui =
became SO Interested in her WORK anu
IN fbe little people that she though.
nm many pleasures for them anu m
ta,ipbt them many simple songs III
M time they were on piping terms
with patriotic anthems and Ola -rasn-
,oned hymns, which they dearly lo.e1'
esp,c,ally Onward. Christian so'-
d,ers II because of it's swing and lniec-
tious rhythm. As one tiny s"i
f1ded to her with shy ardor:
"Teachet, 1. love. all the songs 'u'
xbat I. love best. of any. is 'on"ar"'
kissing Soldier"
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oSE: Of tile. most popular singers
~ this city has ever known anu
,need owns a pretty home here every
inch of 1t reminiscent OF a career that
brought hsr. the. admiration o. 'his
and other countries and OF traVei'
that have enabled her to enrich walls
.,d cabinets with treasures of liter
ature and art
Pecsntly a mother called on her TOT
.dv5ca. She was possessed of voice
ful young daughter who aspired 10 ee-
come prima donna. And her oooee-
tions to such "a career were gwen
with a tragic completeness: :,
"singers are so fearfully immoral :
.ctresses are bad enough. but singers
are worse.
II the ,actfulvisitor caused the uni
verse. 20 rock on it's axis for the iaos
Of the house. she made no other sign
than to express an impersonai OPINION J.
Yes. there. is immortality on the
stage. but more Of it in the ~orid
outside. l...think you will find that
present day stage annals lnciude
neither murder. arson nor burglary.
.But if il is your conviction that vice
is rampant among singers you kho"
Won have the alternative of keeping
your daughter. off the stage
And the lady. went her way. una
ware of the fact that had she pos
spssed common sense and some prac-
t;c.I EnewIedge of wiz. she was tank :
;np about, her dauk .er could ma {
fourd no better friend ana aotise, 70
help her work out her ambition lnan
the singer who bad listened 50 equapiS
Which gives another reason for the
millenniunl.s, delay.
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THE bandbox OF everybodies. CO.
i lorial 'gra ntimother has vanished
along with her hoops. but there are
always times whenthe past pops INTO
the mind of the present--ever notice:
At the point where the North Capt.
tol car track curves. into Michigan
avenue There is wooden some-
thing that your once brown nanny
would have called a tremendemus
bambos. with ia that opens over
a round front that looks like a car
toon of the shrine in which flats
and pokes and gig-bonnets were kept
when grandma was a girl
To one young woman who has more
than her fair share of Imagination
the kfnship was so insistent that
she had to ask a car man about 1t.
And that ended the lure: for the
thing was filled with fools for car
doctoring: monkey wrenches and the
. like, and a whole lot of-she de-
scribed every last. thing in. the box
to a woman who wanted to remem-
.ber; but, you know what happens
when you have forty-eleven other
things to think of at the same time.
but, anyhow, it. was more like a
top drawer than a bonnet box. Still,
If YOU own an embarrassed imagina-
tion. you need only a. reminder to
send it trundlins back to the country
garrett of your childhood. where there
used to be .fiowered paper boxes
packed with age-yellewed ieghorns:
fats with a. suilefui PINK rIpGon
of a firtatious b,rim: poRes. with in.
side ruches stuck all. over with pink
buds-and lovely long hairpins. with
dangling wax balls that your colonial
dame, of a grandmother used to wear
provided. you own badge to prove
remembers a garret like that, ex-
cept, Of course. those who don't.
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i YOUNG girl stopped an acauaint-:
n ance in front. of the Library Of
Congress-: :.
''How. lucky I am to meet you. dear
Mrs. Blank. L am soliciting for the
Near East. Relief. Don't you want to
help out?'' =. =
Dear Mrs. Blank did not
1--WE got a near east of my own,
right here in the southeast: where
I've just been. to see my brother, who
was fired from the navy yard yester-
day without a word of warming. Four
children, mind you, and without a
cent to- start new month with, apd
his wife been ill for two weeks. HIS
home isn't paid for. and-you go
down to the navy yard and hear Of
come around asking for help for for
.eigners at the other end of the world.
Besides, I've. been 'Ei wing to relief
funds and welfares and drives ever
since the war started, and. Pm
through. You couldn't find more
generous folks than those. navy yard
:wurkers-and see what they're get
ocean and have all the world saying
how rich and generous we are, but
L know some families In my-neighbor-
hood who ;Wifl he starving this time
All Of which a movie director might
call "ciose e:up Of things as they are"
-, MAMIE. LANCASTER
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