Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
AROUND THE CITY
BY. MAMIE LANCASTER.

| lady. and expect to be treated like
lady"
I'm that case, madame, l must stand
ND again and try to help you on your
way''-which he did, with real galan.
| try, and at some risk Of being jammed
| by other passengers. trying to squeeze
| their way out. before an irate motor
man would hustle on without giving
them chance to pry ABIDE the tubby
one ahead. And when he had wedged
| her to the car step, and steadied her
| out to the platform, and was back
alongside his friend again, he voIun-
| teered a remark which must have been
of personal interest to those who were
| left around:
II had to help her because l am n
| man, and | hope gentleman, but
hanged if / can understand EN-! My
wife gets as mad as a hornet If any.
body calls her a lady; says 1t implies
old-time weakness, and she belongs to
the new woman class-but when l I'M
dertake to call one of them woman,
see what l get for it. Besides, 1t was
yo'. who said it--doggone you"
The other man chuckled until 1t put
his double chin to quivering-a chin
as red as the wattles of turkey--and
a couple of other passengers joined In
socially. Then the judge man snick.
cred and a woman behind-not a lady
-giggled like u boy.
x X * X
"A SUBURBAN organization gave a
benefit outdoor entertainment one
evening, when, by good luck, 1t hap.
pened to be warm. Booths, fortune
teller tent and a virtuous rattle con-
traption, denatured of gambling, We're
included among the old reliable lures
for the enticing of dimes and nickels,
and, for good measure, there was a
somewhat surprising though entirely
safe "trip to the moon" on the side.
The conveyance for transportation
was a pleasure Wheel" a homemade
variation of the official merry-go-
round, with posts flying flags, teddy
bears and the like, instead of the wood
en- animals that have been galloping
around picnics since the days of Fa-
Their Barnum.
A woman who didn't belong to the
organization, or even to the vicinity
of the tree-dotted green where the en-
tertainment was held, but who was
having lovely time-you always can,
you know, at place like that, so long
as there are children who want to
ride a pleasure wheel and nickels
enough in your pocket to keep them
going. Finally, chummy and frank
ly fat woman beamed on her so init.
mately, as If they had been friends for
decades instead Of strangers who had
come together for the first time. that
the woman smiled back and the talk
was on:
You must be rich in nickels. the
way you are treating these kids to
rides. That little boy in the pink
sweater has been around four times
straight hand a-running-I should
think it would make him seasick-
bet you spoil your own children,
don't you?"
The woman who didn't belong, and
who. incidentally, never spells her
children for the simple reason that old
maids don't have them, had a good
sized chuckle out of the surmise, and
asked the woman if she would hop on
and take whirl.
Faith, and did-I've been trying
everything in the show, seeing it's all
for poor children, glory be!-but this
thing? Never again.
why, don't you like it, Mrs. Riley?"
The question was put by a small girl
whose face was flushed by her last