Evening star., 1924-07-20

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tiance Of toupe or S~W lS~INNV//N
dye. Also, he was rrI9HG AT n
the end passenger 6[N w.
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on the sidS bench
of a car SO gam HNHNVNNS
up to the first BHYN@ E
cross seat that the ~ w W
passenger W h aa W w -
was getting out XK - g.
stumbled owe S
him in passing.
girl, next,
moved up to the vacated place by
the window and the bench man slid
uo"n few inches to give her more
room. Having made himself as
scarce as possible, he gave the girl
casual glance. Then he slid back.
This proof that he was a bachelor
man instead. went unnoticed by the
girl, who kept on looking out of
the window and paid no attention.
whatever.
Having sized her up in series of
those side loOks-permitted by be-
neficent eye-nerves-the skin pink chif-
fon blouse over skin-pink chif-
fon, and more skin pink in the silk
stockings revealed by the Scantine SIS
of d white satin skirt-the bobbed
hair and poster coloring glamoured
over with the charm that is youth
the man surreptitiously patted down
the sparse webs of hair and fiddled
with his tie. Then. beset by self
consciousness. he Strengthened his
somewhat potty contour, hitched up
the knees of his trousers and flourish
cd out handkerchief to mop his
Just-acquired blush.
The girl never let on, and as he
had obviously used up all his little
tricks. he just sat there and drummed
his fingers on his gray cloth knees
until the car stopped before the
House Building. Then he got out and
crossed over to the steps.
There is no telling what man
going into the House Building may
mean. SO the girl. with astonishing
alertneSs to the situation, futtered
goodbye, but unfortunately for her
intention, the man was watching a
couple of rretty young women ahead
of him-and that was all there was
to it except that:
1t does seem that while TennySon
was telling US about what the Sprin G
does to a young mans fancy he might
have said a little something concern
ing July's effect on an easy going
bachelor getting gray-or. maybe ne
was widower-or just grass.
You couldn't tell.
A CLEVER newspaper colleague
who loves her pretty home, sends
to the column this bit about her
garden:
With the blooming Of the city's
Mimosa or sensitive trees, the hum
anything timer. more brilliantly hued
or swifter of movement is scarcely
Imaginable Yet. scientists have re-
Gently announced that they are capa-
BILE of flying 100 miles without stop
ring. That I cannot vouch for. But.
this / do know-that where there rs
d Mimosa tree there will be found
hummng birds at this particular sea-
son.
I'm that greenly walled space.
which ] call my garden. there is Sucn
"A lovely. graceful MimoSa tree-and
there also are the humming oirds-a
wonder always of coloring and dart
ing motion.
ure are birdhouses. For two seasons
now l have been watching the willy
little wrenS They are most elusive
birds, but with what looks to be
uniaue home making instinct. mas
much as for these two successive
easons in which l have watched
them. / have observed that they build
not one but three nests each season.
The eggs. of course, are laid in but
one of them But always there are
the three carefully constructed nests
in rather widely scattered areas
Il was afraid that l was seeing
double or treble rather, in this con-
nection. until ! read recently that
Theodore Roosevelt had written this
very characteristic of wrens coming
under his bird lovers eyes. The
birds ] have observed are known as
house wrens. while those of the late
PnoSpVe1f
wrens. which came under his OBJ
scrvation at Sycamore Hill, his sum-
mcr home at Oyster Bay"
THEY had views and were express
ing them-in a club grill:
The earnest one with the fluent
argument insisted that it was pro-
nounced "pahgcant." She gave the
reason why.
The other earnest one with the
fluent argument insisted that it was
pronounced "paygeant." She gave
the reason why.
A member at the next table came
over to arbitrate-bringing her salad
and iced tea along.
She didn't insist. She merely
stated that the proper pronunciation
was p'garnt''-Without giving any
10 a slice of the double portion of
toast which the two combatants were
too excited to eat.
Which, doubtless, would have sup
Piled Aesop with a new fable con-
corning arbitration.
A COUPLE of colored laborers were
working on the street in front
of a house in which something out of
the usual seemed to be going on. The
one with the shovel called attention
to a man who had jumped out of a
machine and was hurrying in:
See the doctor? somebody must be
Ill" w
The man with the pick shook his
head. The man going in might be a
lawyer or a plumber or anybody, so
whether he was a doctor or not. The
shoveler Strengthened up to dispense
criticism.
Huh. you look. but you don't see!
many of US, taking US by and large,
present company excepted, Of course.
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TWO women and a. man were pass
u ing the District building. You
could tell they were strangers: they
knew so much about Washington
that wasn't so.
The woman, who seemed to be chief
dispenser of knowledge, gesticulated
with a hand grimy at the knuckles-
can't help it while touristing-and
resplendent with a cluster diamond
with one set gone. Also her voice
possessed the merits Of a megaphone.
This is a Roman Church-see the
statchers all around?'
The other woman registered dis