Evening star., 1924-06-22
AROUND THE CITY
-Bv Mamie Lancaster

| then. If they can't pay their debts, I
| should worry"
You mind your own business, Sadie
| Blank. an lemme tend to mine. j gotta
good Pop and Mom-an' the kiddies are
as fine as they come. Say, look at that
young soger fella Amt he grand?
wouldn' mind if l knowed that chap
Finance was forgotten. But listener
in who had been trailing behind, for a
reason, caught a flash of loyalty and
home love in the eyes of the beauty
comb girl. 1t wasn't the shine of rhine
stones
1t was the real thing.
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nNE long time ago there was IAN old
~ white hen with yellow legs that
laid her master many eggs" And though
her clucks and cutters were limited to
the farmyard of way back child verse it
seems only fair to get work to her.
through this reliable source, that she has
a descendant near Washington who is
piling UP a record in keeping with her
own.
Her master. likewise a subscriber,
travels around the farms in nearby
Maryland and Virginia, to buy up poul
try which he kills and dresses for mar
ket One of his purchases was a little
dun -colored hen who seemingly belonged
in the same class with other victims of
the coOp-but:
When it came her turn to have her
head chopped off she took advantage of
the psychological moment-which meant
when the man seized the aX-to lay an
egg in his hand. And as he is a buyer
of eggs as well as of chickens he said to
the little hen as he fiuttercd her to free
dom:
LAS long as YOU can turn a trick
like that you may keep on living.
90 the little dun hon who also has
yellow legs, keeps on laying many
eggs. to the obvious objection of the
home brooders, VINO have no use for
strangers in their run. But she
doesn't mind: just goes about her
work SedateIy. scratching earth,
cluckinE and cackling, and hunting
as many bugs as the next. 1t isn't
at all likely that little biddy real
ICES that she is on probation, or com
pares herself to that Scherenezada
iady-if that's the way she spells
herself-who will have to have her
head chopped off the first time she
fails to tell the vizier new story.
But she keeps up her record as
though the first failure meant death
which seems to hint that she is
wide awake to the fact that an egg
a day keeps the AK away.
Maybe she gets her information
from that other old white hen with
yellow legs who laid her master
Anyhow. whether we be hen or
human, ii is wise plan to recog-
niEe "a psychological moment when 1t
comes our way.
A WOMAN citizen went to d movie
that featured the French revou-
tion. Right behind her were seated
a woman and her half-grown son.
She had evidently seen the film
before. for she kept on explaining
what was going to happen next, and
what surprised and shocked the
citizen women was the vindictive
hatred of both woman and boy to
any character that stood for law and
order. At the onrushing Of vic
torious mob they chuckled at every
phase of slaughter. and when. for
climax, the army came to the rescue.
the boy hiSSed with a venom that was
as real as that nf any rattleSnake
you may have heard when hunting
for huckleberries in the West Vir-
ginia Wild:
IF I could get at those blanked
soldiers I'd wipe out every blanked
one-blanked if ! wouldn't" In the
interest of accuracy it must be
limited that the eXpletiVe was of a
stronger brand.
In telling about it, the citizen
woman admitted her shocked sur
prise:
Il have heard and read Of such
people. but when you consider that
we are taxed to send such a boy to
the public school-actually educating
him into more dangerous anarchist
than his ignorant forbears-what
may not We suffer in future from
many such boys OF his kind?'
The listener conceded the injustice
of educating ID boy like that, but
failed to recognize the power of
such abnormals to harm. why, a
boy like that is of no more danger
than a leaf blown in the wind"
She didn't seem to be acquainted
with the fact that leaf that flutters
up from n Sun-baked road may be the
sinister harbinger of a storm that
destroys.