Evening star., 1925-09-13
" ONE again, and glad to be
4 back on the job.
The big world on the other


countries to get your small peeps at
the great sights each nation has to
show, 1t is good to return to the old
home town-Whether you come marcn-
ing back like Civil War Johnnie or
Just slip under the roof tree in the
twilight-never mind that the roof
tree belongs to some one else; we
can't have all of heaven in this world.
X X
A n official who carries sack on his
a shoulder and a long handled hook
for picking up trash was going over
the grass by a. car track.
A woman at the near car stop, who
has insisted for years upon claiming
acquaintance with the official, but who
cannot say for certain that he knows
her by sight, called out socially to ask
if he had spent a pleasant Summer
having just come home, herself.
The official, a Samson for work
it isn't necessary to mention ages
paused long enough to say, Yes,
ma am" Then he speared half
smoked cigarette and dropped 1t in
the sack.
Did you go away for your vaca-
tion?"
No. the official had not been away.
He found the city all right to stay in.
And, at that. he nailed an apple core.
II lSIl l DOllI0 10 Do OlllCIOuS, SO thO
woman who had just come home and
wanted to be nice to all the folks that
came her way refrained from further
comment The official kept along cap
turing trash trophies, and when, at
last, a car showed up in the distance,
he stepped back with spry dignity to
correct a former statement:
Il did-go to my sisters over Sunday
in August Her man died, and she
OF hn hl1r-yir10 T hQ cZ
late Monday, but 1 didn't enjoy my
self I'd been better off If had saved
my carfare and stayed home-some
may like to gallop off and throw their
money away, but I'd rather save up
my nest egg for a rainy day. It's
better in the long run.
The woman, having galloped of and
spent big lump Of savings, decided
to keep quiet. The official extended
his remarks:
"I know a man that takes his whole
family to Colonial Beach for two
weeks-fooIish of him, with no bank
account to speak of-and I never pick
up paper that / don't see where
passle of foolish men and women are
gadding every whicherway-some of
them idiots enough to go as far as
Europe-instead of saving up for q
rainy day. They don't gain nothing
but a pack of foolish ideas that no.
body wants to hear about. Did you go
away, NUM-"
The woman would doubtless have
lied with every expectation that the
Great Recorder would understand the
circumstances, but fate-or maybe the
Recorder Himself-you never can tell
saved her by whizzing the car to
the front.
And that was all there was to the
incident, except that the woman de-
cided that the next time foolish trav-
els were talked about she would keep
dumb. Dumb people escape a lot of
trouble in this world.
** X
F your eighteenth amendment con-
science will permit a free glass of
SO champagne, go to Rheims and
sample one of the very best wines in
the world.
You will find that Rockefeller and
other Samaritans, the world over.
have put a smile on the face of this
dignified French city-except for
some sorrowful women and crippled
men. The ancient church-rising in
gray majesty against a far-of Alpine
line-is recovering from its shell
shock, and though truck could be
driven through the fronts of many
creamy stone houses, here and there
HiloO", SOY Will IIO"ci DOAcS. give
testimony to the philosophy-or
maybe it is honest to goodness re-
ligion-of those who, somehow, man.
age to live within. It is even a cheer
full place, for little children play in
gardens, and building is going on in
every section of the town.
The district which French law has
authorized to give the name of Cham
pagne County is so small that it is
said the cellars Of Rheims, successor
10 Heidsieck & Co, represent the
greatest champagne output in France
which means about the whole
world. AS soon as the enemy that had
harassed the section for two years
had vanished, the peasants camped
out in the ruined villages around; put
their vineyards in order; began the
the cultivation Of such grapes as
were spared. and the business of wine
making was on again.
A guide will lead your party to a
vast fnclosure, where new wooden Of
ices replace stone buildings DESTROYED
curing the war. AS you descend the
cavernous depths, occasional electric
lights reveal vast vaults of wine mel
lowed by a decade of years, other
vaults of more recent vintage, and
great vats for making the crop of
the season. 1t is cool and spotless
erS have tasks which for generations
have descended from father to son,
and the proceeds thereof have made
a contented and most exemplary
people, who owned their own homes
and little vineyards-until the war
came along.
When you have been initiated into
the process OF wine making from
grape TO cork, the manager pilots you
Nd
where a youth with q. silver tray of
cut crystal glasses and three imposing
bottles, each a decade old, pours out
hrimming quaffs of liquid gold, which
everybody drinkS-except one Wash
ington woman, who refused for the
not overvirtuous reason that it seemed
a pity to waste such precious stuff on
one who had never liked the taste of
wine-but may possibly come to it;
YOU never can tell what prohibition
will lead TO, judging by the things
you read of and hear tell.
x x X x
IN the third century the wines i'm
ported into Champagne by those ir-
repressible Romans were cultivated
and improved by religious orders
which recognized the value of cham
pagne as source of health. st.
Remy, Archbishop Of Rheims, men
ioned the vines in his will when he
died in $50 and at the end of the
fourteenth century a Benedictine monk
discovered the method of bottling
wine at the right season. The mem
ory of this Dom Perignon is perpetu-
ated in a statue that the people love
u e n iVs IL ri z 5as