Evening star., 1924-03-16

her to police head
auarters-I think they can help her
The Ruth girl was glad to do the
favor-being that sort of girl-and
the woman explained her condition,
something like this:
I'VE live on farm in Virginia. My
husband was very Ill there, and as
he had been soldier I wrote to the
government about him and the war
Department sent down a doctor, who
brought him to hospital here. My
little girl and 1 wanted to see him,
but the trip cost SO much more than
] expected that it left me no money
to buy my ticket home"
Instructions, Ruth took them over to
the Union station, gave the woman
all the money she happened to have
Sl2-and said Just the right M and com com
as soon as She could get the money.
And that would be all there is to
say about it, except that a,vla when aon5 II
may outglory even her pinky cheeks
and eyes with sparkles in them.
Also. to show that ingratitude is
makes it out to be, the little country
woman has been sending the girl
fresh eggs from her farm.
X 4
A WOMAN cloaked in expensive fur
- that called for a Limousine rather
than the snow-powdered umbrella she
stood under waited on the platform
in front of the Willard Hotel until a
car came along. Then she asked the
will this car take me to Cont
mental Hall?"
1t would not. 1t was going to
Georgetown by way of the Avenue.
while the F and G line is nearer to
the hall by at least six yards, and
probably an inch or two over, SO the
conductor clipped back:
Take the next car.
was trying its best to rain until the
next car stopped. 1t was a 14th
street router, but she got on it in obed-
ience to the conductors instruction.
Which isn't much of an incident to
tab down here, but will undoubtedly
show to advantage when the woman
gets back to her home state. and, as
leading officer in one OF the most
important organizations in the coun-
try, lets it's membership know just
what she thinks of the way we run
cars in this town.
lie was undoubtedly the finest
~ young man at the concert. And
he knew it. His clothes were of matt
nee cut and color; the jonQuil in his
buttonhole was a spring poem. by
nature: his cane was the latest thing
in silver-topped switches and his col
lar cost 25 cents.
because the young man had forgotten
to take the tag from the back button
hole, and it lay conspicuously on the
collar of his coat
A motherly spinster behind him
was dying to take it off, but the girl
with her protested:
"Oh, leave him alone, aunty. What's
the use of interfering with a fellow
1uhap he's hannvo
Aunty explained that she wanted
to save him from ridicu!e later on:
Whats the use Of making him feel
ridiculous right now! Let him ENJOY
his pipe dream in peace"
And aunty let him. All the same,
when the young man betrayed symp-
toms of going out for the lntermlS-
sion the motherly spinster touched
He let her tuck the tag out of sight,
and with a poor show of enjoying the
little joke on himself departed
And the girl said, by way OF
"He won't come back. People al
bet you he won't come back"
And he didn't.
X X X
A COUPLE entered motion picture
"A theater before the performance
began. Both were plain and not over
young, and anybody could tell they
had to count their pennies. But:
Once they were seated together, the
man took two slabs of gum from his
pocket, passed one to his obvious
wife and helped himself to the other.
And for the next five minutes they
talked like good old chums and
chewed and chewed and chewed. -
To chew things in public is too
awful to talk about, and yet you can't
always go by appearances.
A woman in a seat behind, who
wouldn't be caught dead doing such
an unpleasant thing, felt a sort of
homesick stabbing at her heart, for
the sharing of the gum meant COM
radeship and a whole lot of other
things that stand for loyalty and love.
And no matter how perfect a citizen
YOU may be or how entirely genteel
in your scorn of chewing gum, if you
live in a solitary place called Lone
some Land-never mind about the
1nap-you somehow feel that COM
radeship is the splendidest thing in
ell the world.
Ask any woman who lives there, or