Evening star., 1927-11-27

/ the other drawn back TO give the el-
feet of running--aS if she were trying
to catch up with her famous art sis
ter. Flying Vcnus-the one without
a head.
The bit Of sculpture was probably
placed in the window as an art exhibit,
but the women included it as some
prize contest award-thouSh they
couldn't decide just what:
II suppose somebody won that tiSSer
ornament in I race---'
More like tango contest, to me.
Got her hands fun of prizes. | think
flower prizes is thrown money away.
myself. II | was to win ANYTHING
I'd want it To be snmethin' useful.
"That's right, Ju,e, Flowers Wlther
before YOU get good look ut EN-. |
think n thing like that ought I" be
able TO keep. Molie won a sugar
spoon at progressive euchre last
| Winter and it's as good today As it
was when she cot 1t, though, of course.
| she only uses it when company comes.
! Id sooner have a rug than statcher
like that, wouldn't your
You bet | would-or an easy chair
! for the livin' room--thouch | wouldn't
mind winning that clock"
Yes. that's pretty clock, but !
bet it doesn't keep good time: fancy
clocks never do. Give me rug every
time"
\ palm leaf. symbolic of memorial
greatness, OF a laurel chaplet TO crown
the flushed brow OF victory, meant
nothing tn those good. honest, un.
knowing daughters of the common
place. Which was entirely all right, if
| they wanted it that way, PROVIDED
! Provided we who buy white hya-
cinths instead Of bread don't have to
live With them.
TT was the last hot day when sum
L mer came back to kiss Autumn Il
! final good.by-a day that filled one
suburban car with shoe-boX lunches,
fishing poles, tennis rackets. girls in
| knickers, boys in any old thing, ana
mostly woman passengers loaded with
cord bags and market baskets, with q
few men switched in between.
And as the car whizzed over TO
green hills not so far away. everybody
n it was d-humored enough to move
ND and make room for others-eXcept
one man, who weighed about 200
pounds and every pound jag. lie
| was a noisy man and he wanted to
| fight. He was SO set for A Scrimmage
that the conductor finally accommo-
| dated him 10 the extend of putting
| him off the car.
Before the motorman could start
| things going the jagsy man was on
the track in front, daring any motor
| man in creation 10 run him down.
And, as you can't keep car standing
all day, naturally the 200 pounds got
| aboard again. The conductor, with
| the assistance of the motorman. put
the iag-man off that car four distinct
times. And for four distinct and
dramatic times he stood himself on
the track in front and did the Ajax
defy.
The thing got to he so exciting at
last that a man who had been reading
newspaper, and apparently paving
no notice whatever, took hand in
The game. lie was as heavy AS the
| jaeger. but as sober IS that judge we
do our comparings by.
ITS all: right motorman. This
scalawag is a family affiiction of mine.
I'll settle him for you right now"
And you bet he did. Before the ex-
panaton was well out of his mouth
he had dragged Ajax to the side of
the track, sprawled him on the ground
and was sitting astride him like
| temperance Gambrinus stradding an
intoxicated cask.
I've got him where he can't cut
up more didoes for this time. Start
your car, old man.
The motorman accepted the invita-
ton and the car with its men, women
and joy-hunters went WhizZing toward
the green hills of Virginia that We're
really not so far away-after Gam
brinus had helped out the situat ton.
* * X X
THERE is man in this town who
takes no stock whatever in things
supernatural. And when woman
told him this bit of story he shrugged
his shoulders and chucked. She had
read it in the Bangkok Times. pub
lished in the Far East. from its cor
respondent in Berlin. the story itself
having taken place in Russian Pola nd
A land owner who had to go away
on business, sent his wife and chill
dren to forester's lodge. On one of
J the last nights Of his stay he was
| awakened by a sharp and continuous
ring at his telephone. And when he
answered, his wife's voice was hur-
| NLM