Evening star., 1925-10-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

You say your coffee is degrees
too cold, sir?" asked the little man.
Yes" replied Templeton Jones.
Il will get you a fresh cup, sir"
said the waiter. While he was gone
Jones replaced his sensitive ther-
mometer in his vest pocket.
You ought to get job as a coffee
companion. one Ned Forsooth. portly,
amiable, sleek.
II knew 1t was too cold when
tasted 1t. but thought 1t best to be
sure
By this time the new cup Of So
called Mocha and Java was steauing
before Jones, whose popularity was
pleasantly known to all his walters, as
we'll as to all his friends.
The aristocratic lips of Templeton
Jones sampled the coffee, and smile
lit them as he pronounced it perfect
in warmth.
"If there is anything I hate in this
world" he hastened to assure For
sooth (who was not so particularly. ''it
is a cup of coffee that is not hot
enough
''Unless it is a plate of cold soup.
Where have you been all morning."
zen," retorted Jones, with a smile.
THAT so?"
Yes. helping my friend Bobbie Doo-
little-who does great deal. by the
way-f1le his application for citizen
ship. We had quite round Of it."
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While tho busy noontime life Of the
Old Bar flowed on, Templeton Jones
proceeded to entertain his friend with
his adventures of the morning. Jones,
for all his flnicky ways. is one OF the
best-hearted men in Washington. He
willingly gives up a morning II he can
do any good by it.
You see. this Doolittle chap" be-
gan Jones. refusing a cigarette, 'is
one of these blooming Britishers you
read about. He came over to this
country some seven or eight years
ago. as young fellow, and travelled
all over the country.
when he tried to take out his pa
pers. after deciding that the United
States is the best place in the world,
he found himself in mess on account
Of his travelling around. Some way or
other he had to prove his continuous
residence in this country, which would
have taken affidavits from every hotel
he stopped at.
LAS he had stayed in cities and
small towns in practically every State
in the Union. he decided such a course
would be almost out of the question,
as we'll as horribly expensive, as he
put it. These Britishers have a way
of talking. you know"
Yes, l have noticed it," smiled For.
sooth.
They have sense of hundreds and
hundreds of years behind them that
gives them self -sufficiency that some
times strikes us as bumptious," went
on Jones. But love them, just the
same. What people they are,
never forget that they are the original
custodians of our beloved English Ian.
guage. l can forgive them a great
deal for that.
The English have a precise. won.
derful way of handling our common
tongue. You can notice it even in re-
views Of books In their literary papers
They use words offhand that we never
see except in a dictionary, but with
such propriety that instinctively we
know they are correct.
ITO get back to Doolittle. however.
He rounded up Hamilton Carruth-I
don't believe YOU know him. either
and took US two along as witnesses.
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The air smelied good when we set
out for the Naturalization Bureau, up
at the Department Of Labor Building
Beautiful Fall day, isn't it? We went
up to the second floor and into a
room.
Outside that room, in the hall,