Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19
WASHINGTON man owns a
country home in nearby Vir-
| ginia. and on Government
A holidays that take in three


dovs as has occurred with
| blessed frequency of late, he likes 10
spend the time in sylvan solitude with
| no outsiders around. You know how
| men are.
| The pretty place and all it stands
| for owes It's existence to the man s
| energy and thrift. but his wite
chinped in with the automohile--lii<e
| the good sport some wives are,
| Naturally, she has but little use OF ~
when the machine Is needed by her
husband. but on holidays, when ne -
home and the car is free, she feels
that che would like to show her
| friends the scenic sights or the couh'
try. So: .t4ns -
On n recent holiday she invited a
woman friend to spend 1t ut her home
promising. by way of pleasure, 10 take
! hcv on lovely ride. And the frieho
/ came. s,,..o Cos. ,.her
| ,rn wife tried to start the machine
tho thing refused To bulge. She
kent on trying. and the car kept on
stnving mi. greatly to the disappolht-
ment Of the guest and to ANXIOUS
worry on the part of The hn"'eSS.
II can't understand IT, IL ms al,
ways been such a dandy cur III ~
sorry" ,;t,Ia
The friend may have had little
.baarv IF her own. Others always
seem 70 know more about our aiaifS
tbon we do ourselves~if you nave
oyer noticed-but she made the nesl
of Il and, after right pleasant i''ie
time. she went home.
Convinced that the car would hlVe
70 be overhauled. the wife was can
siderablv astonished when WORK my
ono,o around To see her husband get
~ the machine and whizz or TO the
CITY as easily as that thing we can
creased lightning. .,,
This deepened the mystery uI''i1
she learned that her husband hau
drained every drop OF gasoline Iro,n
the tank and for some reason--detali,o
not available--poured 1t into COUPE
Of dozen empty beer bottles: W nen
the guest was gone he felliieu '.r
tarll and--that was all there was 10
tbe story. unless you like to consider
things: ,.5.. 1,;s
A husband who would begrudge MS
wife a few gallons of gasoline to run
her own automobile is too mean 10
talk about. but, on the other hand. II
NAV not have been stinginess from
money standpoint, but merely sen
ishness that didn't want 10 pc
bothered with outsiders. and mace
him work UP the little incident as
lesson to his wife. In either case;
Which would you rather be: "A WIG
with a husband like that' or
woman with no husband at all!
A washington man has just Travelled
70 that uncharted land that no one
will ever truly know about until ne
makes the Journey himself
There is no news value to spcn
world.old method of departure. OF
course. but you may have notlceo
that no matter how slight your ac'
ouaintance with fellow being, or
how set apart your social spheres,
deaths remotenesS seems, somehow,
tn bring q nearness that life never
gave. and any memory you may have
had Of him flashes back from the JUNK
nile of forgetfulneSs--as IL appearing
for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES disappearing
again into the cobwebs of the past
which is the way of most memories,
great or small-but anyhow:
A languid.looking woman once went
into a store to buy things In a hurry:
The clerk who waited on her was at
tentive and so dapper as to have an
air of having been sandpapered ana
Wdx1us ilS WOhlbh "eS
quacious.
80 the doctor said must have q
sea voyage at once. l don't know
what on earth Is the matter with me.
I'm not what you could call sick. ex-
actly; just tired out. Can't get up an
interest in anything
"Onwee," suggested the clerk.
"I guess that's what you'd call It
anyhow, I'm sailing Wednesday from
New York"
When the clerk went back to have the
purchases wrapped the proprietor OF
the store, who had been standing near
and was apparently on commercial
terms with the woman, Joined her to
say, with twinkle in his humorous
eyes:
"You see, we have the real thing In
Parisians."
II thought he must be French
looks so foreign, don't you know-like
diplomat"
Born in South Washington like his
parents before him"--and the humor-
Gus twinkle broadened into chuckling
smile, (which just shows what an
cestors will do to you. Frenchy-
that's our nickname for hlm-had a
way-back grandfather who was fine