Evening star., 1923-12-02
Heard and Seen

liners lS I'LL
set in an old street, in the northwest
section of the city.
1t has served it's neighborhood for
many years, an old neighborhood,
yet not built up. That was last year.
Today scores of new homes have
arisen in the vicinity, bringing in
many new persons, men and women
who like the bright, the attractive,
the clean.
The old store was not spick and
span. One was as liable to find
bread reposing on the top of potatoes
as any place else. Dust was in evil
dence.
If you wanted to buy bottle of
ink it was hauled out from some
recess. The place served almost as
a store of the village type, catering
to the general wants of its patrons.
But the owner found out that the
store. A few timidly opened the
door and looked in, but they speedily
backed out.
So he and his daughter Annie decided
to start a new one. just across the
street, to capture the new trade. You
ought to see Annie-snappy black
eyes, etc.
So they established the new store,
Plenty of glass cases. everything
neat. fancy brands, brightly painted
exterior.
The people came eagerly.
+ Talking among themselves, the
store folk have their own names for
the two stores.
Old-fashioned Annie" is the name
for the old store.
New ashioned Annie they call
the new one.
/ If you GO to the old place you go
to "Old fashioned Annie" according
to- neiehborhood parlance. If you
.patronize the new store across the
street you purchase from "New-fash-
ioned Annie"
Take your choice.
X
Ben and Bill are two little boys.
two and one years old, respectively.
This is story about Ben.
He has two grandmothers. both of
whom he visits often.
One of them has made herself solid
with Ben by giving him candy every
time he calls.
The other grandmother. also wise
in the way to mans heart, mas
given him a species of tiny cracker
"Grandrna Cracker is his name for
one of the two; Grandma Candy"
His RECOMMENDATION is not quite like
that, more like "Andma CacR" and
"Andma Andy only ms mother
Dot~aoa xo1lr more or
less their own.
Not quite. for their mothers can
translate every phrase.
/ It is really marvellous the way a
mother can take the apparently In
coherent sounds that issue from her
child's lips and declare that se-and-
so is what baby is saying.
"Ahwainkawa," says the baby.
'T want a drink of water Is what
the little one said, according to his
mother, and tho listener is forced to
admit that that is certainly what 1t
did say.
That's easy So the more difficult
ones are easy to the mother, VINO
has followed each struggle to make
words
Words. words!
NO WONDER SOUleUOuy sol" tho
words are things"
* x
What a power there is in words!
Often 1t is not so much what Is
said, as the way 1t Is said.
Certain phrases ring in our ears
forever, just because they are melo-
dious--because they possess some
felicity in themselves. Many of Poe's
poems are worthless except as won
derful combinations of words.
When inherent felicity of word is
combined with something really
worth saying, as in Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address, the result transcends
all other kinds of writing.
after long ages we are goins
home"
| There Is something about that SEN
tence that sets it apart. like a rose
in the bud. gem on the finger,
bird in the tree.
No. wonder the world loves its
CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.