Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

means new frock or a very own
pig to the child who picks so many for
early prizing-or of damp days in the
barn when tobacco stripping Keeps tune
to the rich, unstudied melody or
laughter which nature seems to have
given to the brown man In atonement
for the dark of his skin: of the haul
ing along deep country roads--Wlth
ruts in them-to a gray wharf, ana
then wait till a Baltimore steamer
tortoises along; of the anxious ex-
pectancy of what the crop VIII bring
after inspectors are through with
their proddings up there in the ware
house-and then to work again on an
other crop. with tobacco forever grow
ing in the field or drying in the barn,
and more trouble both ways than
teething baby
She ignores the million of men. wom'
en- and children throughout the land
whose lives have depended on just
such crops since Americas Childhood
days. when tobacco was colonial
money. and forgets, if she ever knew.
how tobacco planters of nearby Mary
land and Virginia helped to make the
laws of this country and died on land
and sea in its defense.
1t is the things we do not know that
make us cruel with the very best in.
tentions in the world.
X X X
TWO small girls were wheeling
l. their baby carriages along pleas
ant. residential street. They were
daintiIy dressed children and the
that went to its church around the
corner on Sundays and TO the
movies at nearby Main street any
night in the week. In one carriage
reposed a character doll with
nursing bottle in it's mouth and in
the other was a brown Teddy bear.
AS they walked and chatted a man
came along-a looking man who
held his head upward as is the way
of people who resolutely fight any
affection that handicapS them in the
matter of height. In his eyes, how
ever. was the ever-present reminder
of the life burden he was carrying.
in the shape of a hump on his back.
The little girls stopped, looked after
the man and giggled. Then the
owner of the brown Teddy bear
picked the thing up and fixed 1t to
look like a hump on her shoulder.
Then the two laughed and laughed.
If the man heard the giggles and
saw the burlesque, he made no sign.
Affection learns early to take its
ridicule as a philosophic matter, of
course
The only thing about the incident
was:
Where did these two young chill
dren learn to take delight in de-
riding the Affections of others? With
mammas and homes and church and
Sunday school-who taught them?
The movies, of course, get the
blame for most falls from grace.
Then, again, it may have been the
spontaneous outcropping of that HUI
man nature drawback we know as
sin.
IF your life journey includes a
i daily street-car ride to business
and back, you have doubtless no.
ticed the give-and take atmosphere
that prevails on occasions when a
car is packed and jammed:
The other day, for one time, a
woman, as aggressive looking as a
war tank, stood by seat occupied
by a gentle faced old man. With her
hand gripped to the brass loop and
her eyes fixed on the man, she stood
for about a minute, when he got up
nervously and let her sit down. Any
body noticing her would have been
pretty sure that she had selected
that one man because he seemed
more like the polite men of old. who
could never be seated while lady
stood.
AS soon as the woman was in
the seat she stretched an arm in
front of the passenger by the win
dow and jerked down the shade.
Then she hunched her shoulders
around to see if she could find a
better berth.
The woman beside the window
must have had her fair share of
humor. for she said. to the invader: