Evening star., 1925-01-09

! no. While the Senator has a good
| time unburdening his soul TO me
enjoy talking to a man-size Senator
at close range.
Soon we shall proceed along the
street, past the stores with their stuff
in the windows, to a restaurant we
know and there enjoy the circus put
on for the Immense entertainment of
all the patrons.
Johnny, the couhterman, is q looua-
cious fellow. His middle name, which
| even the chef has never heard, begins
with l., SO probably 1t is Loquacious.
Certainly that would fit
Johnny must have worked in a side
show once in his checkered, striped
| and otherwise decorated career, for
| this is the way he begins:
well, what will you have, brother?
What can we do for you today? Here
we have a little ham and eggs, or
| maybe you want a stack O. wheat, or
couple of these fine doughnuts. or a
plate of sauerkraut; it's good for
what ails you.
"Whatll you have today. brother /?
| Step right up and put in your order.
We have plenty more where this
| came from. Let US have your order,
friend Whatll IL be today, brother"'
| You are delighted to find you are a
| full-fledged brother to honest John,
| the counterman, whose worst fault
and most delightful proclivity is his
| ambulating tongue, that cannot keep
still though the heavens fall. Johns
| tongue is OF the self-starting va
! riety-by no means Il rare phenome-
non-and it never tires. No, never
| tires.
| Aboard a street car we proceeded
to the front platform, there to take
| a stand behind the thick-set, gray
| haired motorman. who has travelled
! 2.e9e.9s9 miles through the streets of
| Washington and Is now bowling off
his three millionth mile.
! Grabbed old fellow, I'll bet" you
| say to yourself as you note the wide
| face, the steel-gray eyes, the deter
mined lips. He might be anything
with that face. Why, take him out
| of that blue suit, drag off that cap.
put him in a gray sack suit, felt
hat on his gray haed, bet he would
pass for a. successful merchant any
| where.
! Put him into another sort of blue
suit, give his legs a slight list to star
| board, he would answer well TO the
title of Captain" and take his place
| In the immortal company of the mas
ters of the clipper ships of the olden
days.
| LOOKS IKE ram, YOU H4uTIIluT lllO
his ear in supreme disdain of gram
matical niceties.
| Looks like it," he replies, hands
| on the controller, eyes steadily ahead
| Been running on this line nigh onto
| 40 years"
A proper ejaculation Of, wonder
mixed with congratulation passes out
of your mouth The lines of the mo-
torman's lips soften. You wonder
what he is going to say now
See that big high school there?
he asks, indicating with a toss OF his
| head great secondary school struc-
ture that stretches out to one side OF
the tracks for a block.
MY girls in there-soin' TO sradu-
ate next June
4 cruel and a heartlesS world-and
yet
Humanity finds much to love in IL
besides much TO do in 1t. and more to
dream.
Senator Jones OF Washing ston. you
would have been pleased that rainy
afternoon when the colorless appear
ing man stopped to view the starved
kitten dragging itself along the walk
! He went on--but half an hour later
he was back again with a big SOAP
box and a bottle of warm milk and a
big saucer. He poured the milk into
j the saucer and left the kitten under
the box drinking in 3 new lease or
| life. a.. =.
Yes, as the dwarf said, " .
Something human is dearer to US
than the wealth of all the world.