Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15


be honest, and make it a garage
without her tipping him to the fact
that tin wedding anniversaries went
out when aluminium came in.
Maybe she did not know. being so
blissfully young; but we. Of course, are
aware that Father Time slowed TN
wedding anniversaries in his oack
attic years ago, along with hoop
skirts, shakers and Merry Widow mats
Whether he will ever scatter these
has-beens in the worlds spotlght
again only time can tell. And. you
notice, Time isn't much for TAKING
He just acts when the time comes.
But, ANYHOW. the sole concern OF TINS
announcement is that tin wedding
anniversaries have gone out Of fashion.
What the daughter -inIaw is going
10 say when that CARLOAD of denatured
stuff is hauled to her stylish home
naturally, II must be stylish II her
husband matches his ponGee poP-ls
q story vet to he told, but mere IS
one little something about a progress
i've matron who accented her WISHES
in a recent stack of invitations sent
out for her 10 years of martial ups
and downs: "1916-1926-Aluminum.
There was no getting around re-
ninder like that so each guest passed
more expensive stuff. And when the
marty was over and the hostess count
ed results she found herself richer by
10 aluminium kitchen spoons, IA anu
minum kitchen forks, aluminium
matchboxes and Ill
And what she had hoped for was
a chatting dish, a douhle-deck roaSter'
a ham boIier-oh, the disappolnt ments
we are called on to bear in this lie.
And it isn't pleasant to have to con
slider roastings and boilinSs in the
next onei
But the daughter-in-law of the pom
gee gentleman will have one satls1ac-
tion-he will be perfectly willing to
send her another cartload-of alumni
mum instead of tin. You could tell
by the looks of him
x x i
IF YOU stand on the steps OF the
National Museum. you will notice
notice many pigeons on street,
sight which, in course OF progress
will soon be thing of the past. for
The street divides the museum from
the market that is soon to go. ana
If YOU are lucky you will meet up with
a little old man, who looks like a dried
up apple with a soul to 1t. ANA ne
NAV tell YOU something like this:
'Yes'm, these pigeons know market
DAYS the same as hucksters do 1hey
come from all over the city for the
bits of grain and stuff that get spllieo
or thrown away. Birds nave eot
wisdom we don't equal to. / used TO
work on a Pacific train in my young
DAYS. and when dinner time would
come on the desert here would come
the sea gulls focking to the diner, on
time like a clock. How they got from
the seaShore precisely on the uot 10
u.hat can't tell. neither can your or
the wiset man that ever liVed-put
there they were waiting Tor the gar
ha ge to be flung out. Some lolhs liio
doubt there being angels on accouiltel
feathers, but the way look at 1t: ny
one who nut all that cleverness lnter
hirj critters can be trusted TO run the
otbor world without any advice from
me or you-yes'm
Look at that bunch of horses
s,.ndin' at the curb over yander.
Didie ever tigger on white horSe9-
Won soc there's four of EN- TINS MOI ~
in'-average owners don't want Wiii.e
horses. You don't never see Whlte
team hitched to a Carrlage-Weliuiil;
of course, the carriages Is mlsht
scarce themselves. ! haven't seen a
pair Of white horses in fine harness.
Naylor ulster fly down the avenue
like a streak of white lishtnin'. yes m
An If YOU notice. white horses has
a detected droop. specially old mares,
the reason hein' that dark horses
look down on EN- an it hurts their
pride-yeS nj.
Nothing exalted to talk about, OF
course: just pigeons and line OF
country horses hitched to market
wagons on the curling of the farmers
market-mostly white. But 1t would
have seemed different to YOU if you
could have seen il through the eyes
of a little old man who looked like a
dried apple with q soul to it. And
be something to remember, because a
sight like that will soon belong TO the
past
CHE was a vigorous woman with
~ thick braids Of gray hair and a
double deck of strong white teeth. Her
figure. straight and Self-reliant. was
gowned in amethyst geOrgette flow
cred with jet peonieS. and she carried
her head With an assure nee that called
for laurels rather than its cream chip
Panama banded with plum and silver.
And she was giving advice to another
woman--suit department. second floor
who was trying to make up her