Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

here's a token. = u NM WIZ
You fellows have " III VN XIII -
worries enough y AM Wt
without my adding &N'
share. Let me
out at the next stop. please"
The conductor touched his cap in
recognition OF the unusual, remark,
and woman passenger said to the
prosaic man beside her:
What do you suppose made him
give up that token when he was 60
ing to get right out, huh?"
Suppose he felt like he owed for
|, the two squares he rode" answered
the prosaic man.
'Must be honest. mustn't he?"
"He's a blame fool, if you ask me-"
And that was all there was to that.
: Another case in another car:
Two prosperous men hung onto
straps in a car that was choked up
with going home clerks and an over
flow from a movie matinee. The
younger man, waiting until the con-
ductor had taken toll from an in
coming rush, held UP a token to at
tract that official, who, being merely
human and with but one pair of eyes,
had overlooked him, in the crowd.
The man with him put his surprise
in protest:
What did you do that for? You
bet if ever I can slip in, lay low
and save my little token for another
time"-and he tapped his vest pocket
and grinned.
IT don't do business on a scale as
low as that"
Funny how different folks are! Some
men would have blaZed out at re-
F1r lilo that nd ol1f q frinndShin
TO shreds and thrown the pieces
away. But the other man wasn't like
that. He just laughed.
A woman passenger got on
Georgetown car and handed a coin to
the conductor:
This is a Canadian dime, madam;
s cents, please"
Whats wrong with a Canadian
dime? 1 guess you better not let
Canada hear you say that--as If she
isn't as good as the United States any
day in the year."
I'm not criticizing, madam. All I
say is that the fare is either token
or cents flat"
I'm going to see the head Of this
car line about you-insulting Canada
like that" And she passed over a
token.
Must be a Canadian" said the con-
ductor to a man he seemed to know.
Bet she isn'ti Somebody passed
that dime on to her and she is trying
to get rid Of it. Had her token, all
right"
Which is the one great, vital point
In street car riding. You must have
a token-or cents fiat.
"A s science has never been able to
unite on the exact cause of
genius, we can only look on great
writers, artists and musicians as rare
beings, specially created and endowed
but never to be accounted for, say, |
like long-gone Blind Tom, the baby |
chess player and like mysteriously |
gifted beings who seem somewhow to |
have souls different from the common
run. And yet:
It can scarcely be matter of soul
superiority, for look at the wonder
gifts that are sometimes bestowed on
creatures to which theology grants no
souls at all!
For this case there is a dog that
lives out in the near-country along
side railroad track. Every evening
at o'clock he goes on the front
piazza to wait for his master, who
Twill be due on the $40. AS the car
shows in sight the dog runs across
the lawn, and IL the gate isn't open
he jumps the fence to get to the sta
tion platform. Sometimes his master
is delayed, for one reason or another,
and il he fails to be on the car the
dog goes back to the porch or plays
around until exactly $40, when he re-
turns to the station to welcome the
traveller home.
II he is disappointed again, he must
know, in some inscrutable fashion,
tkat the next train his master can
take will be the 1918, for he trots
around the grounds, eats his supper,
plays with the children a bit, and then
goes in the house to lie down and go
to sleep, apparently without giving
his master thought, but:
At 10 o'clock he goes to the front
door and, II it is shut, he scratches
at the knob and whines until some
one opens it, when he runs to the
station to wait excitedly for the com.
ing of the train.
On this one occasion the man had
been delayed, and the dog was plainly
disappointed. He must have been
aware of the fact that no more trains
would bring his master that night,
but no coaxing could bring him inside
the house. He knew it would be
locked up and he didn't intend to be
locked in it, for:
On several occasions of like delays,
the man had been obliged to take a
suburban street car to the end of the
line, and then walk five miles to his
home along the State road. And as
there was no telling just when he
would be able to start from the city,
the dog, waiting for awhile, as if he
was no longer interested, finally
started for the State road, and was
at the end of the line to welcome the
man as he got off the trolley.
How 1t was he knew the route the
man was to take or just what place
to wait for him no one can reason
out. seeing that animals are not sup.
posed to understand what humans
talk about; or how it is he under
stands the exact hours of his usual
comings on the regular train. His
owner Just pets him a bit for his
cleverness, and that is all there is
about it.
Still. when it comes to genius,
wouldn't you put a dog like that in
the class along. say, with Blind Tom
and the baby chess player? Or, may
be, with Shakespeare, himself.
"a WOMAN was considering artifi
"A cjal flowers. Pending her deci-
Eeton the clerk waited on other Gus
toners fringed around the counter of
"a five-and ten. Deciding on six sprays
of apple blossoms that had faded into
shopworn pallidness and contrasting
bunch of roses of a robustious red,
she remarked to an obvious husband,
who had been standing beside her
without a word of comment:
II suppose it would strike you dead
to say you like 'em, huh?"
The man, an everyday soul, looking
tired, as II from a hot days work and
with worry lines between his spec