Evening star., 1924-04-20

happening and tells about it-like
this:
After one Of my inspection trips I
came in on a railroad train and saw
che following take place in the Wash
mgton station: .
The through train from the west
pulled into the station and the usual
army of redcaps took up their stand
opposite the exit from each Pullman.
"A nervous man, wearing yellow gog-
giles. was noticed going from entrance
to entrance, closely followed by
redcap with a wheel chair. Appar
emily he was unceI ain as to what
car the infirm person whom he was to
meet would alight from.
Perhaps the yellow goggles were
the identification feature, instead Of a
red carnation' in his buttonhole, for
soon trim little lady. about whom
nature had woven the silver-threaded
shawl of age, and upon whose snow
white hair perched a little black bon
net edged with white ruching, alight-
ed from the train. The gentleman,
trailed by the wheel chair. was soon
spici BY her. and he Immediately gave
IL ii MISS upb!l HST SOll CIleeh, anu,
taking her tenderly by one arm. with
his other arm about her, he led her
on.
The dear little old lady was too
Interested in visiting with him to no.
tic where she was being led, and, as
tn" reached the chair, he said. Now.
-tua;ic. get into this chair The dear
litti" soul opened her bright eyes
Mjd", took one look al the chair, and
N>y heard to say: For the lands
5; =. what do ! want with that
t"an2:? come on" And she tripped
u. the station platform at a speed
which almost distanced the nephew
~ =, had been SO solicitous for her
Con. .uIt.
Npr~rcrtl3. he was told TO meet
Haric, and. after consulting the
{; nly Bible and noting she was sew
eIll nine yea : old. had not figured
that ladies at seventy-nine of this Pc
ri are seventy-nine years young.
This is not an act from Mae Robson's
'Eejuvenation of Aunt Mary but an
=, tual occurrence in the Washington
station"
81 have often been amazed at the
wonderful memory for names and
faces possessed by head walters in
Sctcls and restaurants, said a Wash
), gtonian who has just returned from a
f,l-day visit at Pinehurst. the so-caled
home of winter golf. For us it was
tho home of wet golf, for it rained al
most every day we were there. How
eyer. we managed to get in our regular
sounds pretty much every day.
But that is not what / want to get
or my chest. I had been at the hotel
couple of days when head waiter,
whose name l think is Cahill, came to
sny table. Ny stalwart six-foot son was
SITTING across the table from me, and
Cahjll said:
Ever since you have been here 1
have been trying to locate you, and now
i have you. 1 remember that young man
when he was a Spindle-shanked red
1leaded boy in knickerbockers. You
brought him to the Hotel Lafayette in
Portland Me-. and the next morning you
aooli him TO the Maine General Hospital
10 BE- operated on for appendicitis. I
was head waiter at the Lafayette at the
lime
Now when I tell you that that incl
cent occurred just fourteen years ago
this coming summer, and you stop to
onsider how many thousands of people
that waiter has met and escorted to
their tables in that length Of time,
uhink you will agree with me that he
has some memory for names and faces
= = X x
HIGH up in the air-make it nine
stories-there is a lunchroom.
where magnates and Office boys feast
on equal terms except in the matter
"f money-a boys inward demands
Tor outward cakes, pies and ice cream
naturally exceeding the price OF a
big chiefs sandwich. and
Friday, for one time, three young
stcrs. knee-pants size. were leaving
the room VIXEN the youngest dropped
an apple. Before he could pick it up
another boy kicked it ahead. Then
the third boy took a hand-meaning
Il foot-and sent the apple rolling
that let the three Of them outside.
laughing and scrapDing as boys will,
Lord. love them!
While they were having their fun.
- rlain soul, who was keeping Lent
with dry bread and coffee in what
looked to he kidnapped shaving mug,
said TO herself-having no one handy
10 say it to:
IT only Adam had kicked Ewes
sprle around like that instead of
samplng It, this would have been a
different world-with no trials and
tribS--'
''uSl tl-tii lIic SflldliSSL Ivy SlippCo
back. nabbed his apple, rubbed it on
Itis jacket sleeve and took what
Jonah would caIl---naybe--aw whale Of
a bite. And this proof that the old
-kdam still abideS with US caused the
plain soul to qualify her comment
with d postscript:
oh, well. this world is pretty all
right as it is"
:: :: !: j.
fTHERE is Judge of the court who
also is a generous hearted wom-
an. whose personal hobby is to give
pleasure to friends. Sometimes it is
3 Sunday morning breakfast in her
cpmy apartment--frizzled bacon on a
oliver dish, coffee Of the color and
sparkle OF port wine, if any one re-
ancrabers what port wine used to look
like, and such griddle cakes as mar
lied mans mother never could make,
lore the reason that she went to
ieaven before electric plates came on
Garth.
Then again. with last Sunday for
1hjs case, she filled her car with
women who have no cars of their
s.Nn, and off they whizzed, taking in
ith the speedway cherry blooms for
Climax. The trees were as snow
~,:hite as so many little girls in their
= rst communion vei1s: the roads were
,ot: and if all the adjectives and ex-
lama ton points and raphsodic si-
Jences could have peen strung to-
;'ether they would proba hiy-oh, most
1tndoubt btedIy--have stretched back to
Japan, where the dear trees came |
,rom But some people are never sat-
isfied. One woman In the judges car
stuck a pin in the general rapture by |
iShing out:
What pity the trees are not
sruit-bearing. 1 love cherries!
The sensihle woman next said 1t