Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-11
THIS AND THAT



What can one see on 2-miie
walk?
Two miles is not much of a hike.
AS walking goes, but 1t enab les one
10 see a great deal of that most
interesting of commodities human
nature.
Perhaps one can see rs much in
9 miles as he would in 10. for after
the first mile 1t is merely the same
| old thing over and over again.
| Ten boys Fostering kittens are not
different from one boy engaged in
| the game occapation--there is merely
10 times as much cruelty as in the
| first instance.
Ten Doors encountered in as many
miles means just that many with =
! out breeding. Ten gentlemen are not
essentially different from one gentle
| man. Ten gentlewomen are not
particularly more TO be praised than
one.
A good quality is no better in
| essence, because 1t Ia multiplied. eX-
cept in SO far as this world sore!y
! needs all such multiplica ton. The
; mass attack of crudity upon civiliZa :
ton is reslsted. In the final analysis,
not so much by an aggregat ton OF
1
for right thought and suggestion.
=. Ii, in our 2-mile walk. we meet
one instance of kindness. it will
! far outweigh. as it ought. any amount
OF i'll we may encounter.
X X x *
| Two miles may easily be clipped
off in half an hour. but we are TAX
ling it easy Today. just loafing along
Our object is not SO much mileage
as smileace. We want to be in tune
with Nature on this beautiful after
noon which stands where Summer
and Autumn meet.
The air is warm. but has suc
gestion of crispness in it. The boys
and girls are bareheaded. and the
crickets sing in the underbrush 1--WE
suppose they are cricketa). but q
! slight chill tempers the heat, even at
4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Deity we tread we'll kept side
walks y high official of the District
! government lives in this block
! Street sweepers appear here regular
! ly, day after day. Isn't that nice of
/ the white Wings So thoughtful
Of them
| Around the corner we go, like birds
in Spring, aiding north, a clean,
| straight mile before US. Here we
| pass q row of newly built houses,
with no one in them as yet. Hope.
| fully real estate statesmen sit on the
| steps. There is porch after porch
and front door after front door. Soon
families will move in, for houses are
still selling like hot cakes. Here,
where only empty rooms greet one,
will live men, women. children, dogs
| cats, canaries, goldfish.
Each moving-in will be an adven-
! ture. 1t will mean a great deal to
each family. in turn, and to each
dog. cat, canary and goldfish. in its
turn. The human beings will SO from
| the old place to the new Of their own
free will, whereas the so-called dumb
! beings will be taken. Probably one
| will he no more free than the other;
but it helps great deal If one have
ina gination.
Here the sidewalk ends; now we
! must take to the street, which is not
exactly dirt, but which il certainly
not asphalt or concrete. This street
| is in section evidently overlooked
when street laying was discussed in
the past Now that the ''city Is going
this way" something will have to be
done about It, Down a side street
we see whole block torn up from
curb to curb. Barriers are in place.
but the concrete has not been poured