Evening star., 1925-05-24

''You better be thinking of your poor
husband. Come on, he'll miss his
lunch if you don't hurry.
The sympathetic waller dldn want
to hurry. She wasn't one OF that sort.
THE poor thing looks as II 1t mad
broken it's leg. Won't 1t be a"1ul IL
thay have to shoot him-let go my
arm, Mame-you maven SoI d pi' VI
pity"
Never you mind what | haven I
cot-it's YOU that's carrying Sam S
lunch-and If you don't hustle with
that basket you are going to miss his
car. A man that's been working be-
fore sunup wants his hot coffee"
Hot coffee! What are you talking
about woman? How do you suppose
I'm going to keep the coffee hot all
this way, huh?"
"You don't mean that you haven't I
got him a thermos bottle-as good a
provider as Sam is? Why, 1 wouldn t
think of letting one of my boarders
eat a cold lunch. | got a thermos for
every last one"
No, ma am. l haven't got no bottle.
an lemmc tell you sumpin'. The more
you honey up a man the harder he is
to get along with. l gottim a good
rasher of bacon"
Ought to be ham Cold bacon grease
|
my boarders off this morning with
plenty of cold beef, tomato. four
slices OF bread. wedge of pie and a
pint of hot coffee-all except old Ben,
who wants his tea. ] bet if l was in
your place Sam would get all the hot
coffee he wanted"
But you amt in my place, see. Sam
wouldn't look at any other woman but
me. That man just loves blonde
hair
"Oh, get out with you, And, say, you
needn't be flinging my gray hair at
me, neither. l guess I could bleach it,
if that's all the hold you got on him
come along, silly"
But the woman whose custard ear
wheels held Sans heart fingered until
the horse decided TO be harnessed up
and attend to business.
Then there came to her face the ex-
preston OF one whose time has been
wasted on d creature that refused to
break d leg and be killed before large
and interested audience. As for Sans
time
Maybe she made it all right-judg.
ing by the way the gray woman hur.
ried her along.
THE gold star mother who had to
= stand in a street car is hereby
provided with three incidents sent
by friends of the column to show
that her experience was not an un-
usual one:
"One of your Around the City
notes in Sundays Star was so exact
ly in line with incidents which l, too
have observed on our city street cars
that 1 cannot resist the temptation
to mention one of them, whether YOU
publish it or not
"One morning last week a group
Of half a dozen cadets boarded a Con
necticut avenue car bound for school
Western High, to be eXact-and tilled
the side seats at the rear of the car
Women, young, middle-aged and
elderly, crowded the aisles in course
of time, but still these youthful de-
Tenders of our country held their
positions with a persistency worthy
a better cause-until a little f1apper
properly bobbed, powdered, rouged
and lip -Sticked, entered, when, with
lightning like celebrity, one of the boys
arose and offered her his cherished
seat. And a little later, two of the
other boys decided that by sitting a
little closer together, they could make
room for another passenger-oh, no.
not one of the women who were
standing. but for one of their own
get a seat. And l could not help
wondering whether it might not be
advisable to mix with the military
training in our schools just a little
drill in respect for age-even in
women"
/ am so glad to see that reference
has been made to the diScourtesies
practised daily on our city and Subur-
ban cars, and it gives me courage to
add my mite of experience which oc-
CURED a few days ago. A lame elderly
lady with snow-white hair boarded the
car on which occupied rear side seat
and passed up the aisle few steps
in front of me before l noticed her.
AS a man was sitting right by her,
next to the aisle, / waited for a mo-
ment, expecting him to offer her his
seat. He showed no intention of so
doing, however, and before / could do
so, young woman opposite him arose
and offered hers. Then, seeing that
by little judicious squeezing, space
might be made on the side seat for
another passenger, 1 moved up and
the lady next to me moved down, but
before the young woman who had
given up her seat could sit down, a
well developed specimen of the male
species had deposited himself therein!
"I have no personal complaint to
make on the subject of standing in