Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11

pocket q note book and with grave
carefuiness tabled iN dOwrl.
The little old lady murmured, my!
Ny! Myr'and them the attendant
| helped her back to the car.
She had bucled into the inexorabie
law Of change that, with one wave
Of its wand of progress, had changed
a convent into q MayfoWer Hotel
Ibut it was all right. The reliable
attendant doubtless guided her to the
| abiding place of Sister Mary St. john,
ufiless--a quarter OF n century ~ p
fright long time the good nun may
have moved again.
~ n
IsTF YOU dab, powder on your nose
- while on the street, crane your face
lhaekward and put out leg to be sure
yofr stocking seams are straight, ana
allow your georgette scarf TO dangle
50 far down your back as to let It's
fringe trail on the pavement Whlie
you try to Yamp every man VINO
comes along. from vealy youth TO RED
| or bronzed manhood In clothes that
mean prosperity, then--there - no use
denying it--you are a fiapperkin 81
class that flgood, average man
disdains as he disdains oysters IN
month without an r.
~
tyne as he watched q callow couple. q
chaIked and painted ilnocents the
other afternoon
'aThose KIDS" he explained to an
everyday woman waiting Tor TIE.
up to let her acrose--a moment OK
compelling rest for the man In blue
those kids belong in the seventh
grade. and lie ! had my way ID ecoot
every last fiapperkin to the Board OF
Education to be dealt with IN tne
proper way. Those girls don't mean
harm, you know, and. generally, lney
don't come to it--thanks to the boys.
You hear q whole lot about the wicked
ness OF men, but II you take notice
the cases are mighty rare when you
figure them down to numbers. rake
the crew boys that come here IN snips
or from camps, or maybe college
youngsters here for bit Of sight
seeing. Being strangers, they get
mighty lonesome for somebody to help
them spend their little wads, and the
gfrlies At right in. They take IN the
movies together or 30 to q resort,
but when the time limit Is up the
boys go away leaving these pesky ~. Z.
tie kids as good as they found them.
Which, folks. dear, is a comforting
thing to know.
4 Z = y.
lTF 1t be true that ignorance Is bliss.
! there is one man who ought TO
have been entirely satisfied. A clever,
woman who belongs to q literary club
was telling about him to another
woman at q desk.
"In the old days. strangers saw the
Capitol first as they emerged from
| Union Station. Now many arrive IN
l. ~ y 0tt a
rious angles. One old gentleman
drove in after, night to the home Of
| a relative in the northeast section.
EARLY next morning, while break
| fast was being prepared, he went out
| for walk, and on his return an
nounced that he had been down to the
| Capitol. On inquiry the family found
| that he had walked around the big
old brewery at 4th and # streets
which has now given way to high
school. And he was just as pleased
as If he had seen the real thing"
And, OF course the woman at the
desk had her only little "reminiscences
| in turn:
"A country in-law came here on, a
/ visit to US years agO-nice woman,
and all that. except for determine.
Il ton not to be impressed by any sight
i the city had to show. Her first re-
/ quest was to visit q school friend, who
had married q Government clerk who
had bought her a. pretty home. The
tresidence Is 50 near the Capitol that.
In getting out OF the street car the
native meaning me-pointed with
pridefsil finger to the great white
| glory OE It's dome. The action was
Imisifterpreted. for the country rela-
tive's face puckered into wrinkles and
her voice was mixture OF disappoint-
ment and contempt
els that her home? Well, don't
see that 1t is anything to brag about.
thought from her letter that she
must have married real well--hasn't
even got her garden fenced in.'
II am not a regularly cruel woman,
but have my bad spots. The answer
gave that sister-in.law Of mine was
to walk her around all four sides OF
the Capitol building to give her an
idea of its size. And by the time we
reached the pretty little six.room
house OF the school friend she was so
tagged that when the hostess took her
to a breezy back porch and gave her
iced lemonade she sighed with ecstatic
relief:
What a lovely home you haye-a
real little paradise. r
An OF us have our funny bonesi
You, and and-everybody!