Evening star., 1924-08-10

" today. That sentence might
have been written, You
must go to Bradbury Heights
today" but must" would give the
sentence a nuance that you would go
more from necessity than desire. 1t
would not be fair to suggest that the
trip is for other reason than pleasure.
The village is on a farm that was
owned by men who deserve place in
these annals, and the little town is
all right. All kinds of men, except
the very homely, are found there. AS
IN Belgravia, Piccadilly and Pail
Mall, ST. Germaine and Sheridan Cir
Gle, there are pretty children and
those whose mothers think them
pretty. There are ladies who run
their own homes well. and probably
ladies who keep more an eye on what
their neighbors have for dinner.
There are men who go to church be-
cause they like to, those who go be-
cause of public opinion, and those
who prefer the movies. Social dis
tinctions are not more marked there
than elsewhere.
1t is known that in our republican.
democratic or progressive country
there are no social distinctions or So
Cial determinations. There is no need
to write this. Everybody knows it.
Everybody knows that Mrs. Floren-
tina Artemesia Jones of Mayfair ter
race insists that Mrs. Bill Smith of
Kettle street shall join her at tea.
Everybody knows how often General
Manager Jones invites Clerk Jack
Robinson home to dinner Everybody
knows how often the ladies of Green
way court call on the ladies of Wash
tub lane. especially when making
drive" for funds. But there are no
more social distinctions in this viii
lage than elsewhere in the District.
1t is a pleasant place, with quiet
homes in gardens. and where one can
hear fire sirens in the city and COW
bells in the country.
Having written that Introductory
paragraph. l ask permission to wipe
the perspiration from my face and
to rest a moment on pine stump by
the road. 1t is hot day and Bowen
road is long and-no, not weary, but
tarry. There has been some COM
plant against the weather this year
and the present administration has
not given US weather that We all
like. The Democratic and La Fol-
lete platforms should have had
plank such as this: We denounce the
present Administration for folStine
on the people a Winter so mild that
sleighs stuck in the mud; for burden
ing US with a Spring so cold that
turnips would not grow in green
house, and for affecting the common
people with days so hot that some
citizens would rather sit in the shade
eight hours than work ten minutes.
We pledge ourselves to reform these
unjust conditions and to give to the
sovereign people weather that Will
conform to the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence and the Ten Command
ments."
The Rambler has not had lunch
at the White House this week, and
he will make an appointment with
the President to tell him that the
weather question is one OF the nu-
merous paramount issues and that
the weather vote demands an explicit
statement of what kind of weather
he would provide for the common
people during the next four years.
But the pine stump is near and the
Rambler proposes to rest and smoke.
He stuffs his faithful briar. whose
fragance has disturbed the neighbors,
and strikes a blue-head sulphur
match, but recalling the slurs that
he was born too long ago and lacks
modernity, he lays down the pipe and
lights a cigarette of that popular
because we'll advertised-brandc called
Imperial Ragweed.
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COON. we come to Bradbury Heights.
- The first reference to this land
to be found in records at Annapolis
is it's grant by the Proprietary of
Maryland to Richard Mashall in 1871.
The tract of 200 acres was patented
as "Marshalrs Adventure" and the
certificate of survey was in the name
of Joseph Douglass.
Adjoining were tracts patented as
"Bayley's Purchase" and Fortune
Enlarged" and parts of the settle
rnent are on those tracts.
"Marshalrs Adventure" and parts
of "Bayley's Purchase" and Fortune
Enlarged" came to be the farms of
William Trimble and his brother,
Joseph Trimble, in 1S47 under the
will of their uncle, Matthew Wright.
Matthew Wright came to Wash