Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09

You should have written it on the
upper lefthand corner" said the clerk.
Dear me, I didn't know that made
any difference. I put it on the nap
because it's the fashion. Well. there
you are, and you will have to excuse
the blot The ink is awfuuy slngy
1.-TWO cents, please an
under the window The clerk, with
repressed sigh that suggested a cuss
word. pulled open draw and made
out the change When the young
woman had gathered up her handbag,
an onyX-knobbed umbrella, scarf and
white kid gloves that she probably
wouldn't think of wearing in such
humid weather, and was going away,
the clerk reminded her that she had
forgotten her receipt. The young woman
turned and took up the slip with an
air that was playfully coquettish;
It know you wouldn't cheat me
and besides, always lose my receipts,
anyhow"
The clerk looked as responsive as a
stone god in museum, and the near
happer gave way to man who was
waiting behind.
His letter must have been properly
sealed and addressed, for the clerk, aft
er hunting UP the post office direction
In catalogue of foreign Offices, showed
o slip under the window and received
the exact change.
Then the man tipped off silently on
soft-soled Cinese shoes; his yellow face
inscrutably bland, and, what you seldom
see in these enlightened days, a long
queue dangling over his blue cambria
shoulders.
X X X X
A WASHINGTON man, while in
"a Chicago the other day, CHANGED to
enter a regulation torSorial parlor with
out noticing the sign, conductor by
lady BARRIERS It was first experience,
and he didn't take kindly to it, but you
know how most of us make the best OF
things, as they come along-and real
~, it want bad.
The little foreign Voman understood
her business, and, being a barber, ma
turally, among other things, wanted to
know if he lived in Chicago and whom
vas he going to vote for?
. he customer told her he lived in
knother city, and then she wanted to
know what State it was in, and was
he for Smith or Hoover?
He told her he didn't come from any
State. He belonged in the District OF
Columbia, where the people had no
vote.
The lady barber paused in her work,
looked at him with the bewilderment of
one who is greatly shocked and disap-
pointed-and ceased rubbing his head
with red stuff out Of a gilt bottle with
Q painted dancer on the side.
ME, vote for President as a citizen
of this Chicago. Not an alien any
more, since got my papers. My poor
man, what make you live in place
like that, when you could come here
and get your freedom? Do any other
American people live there?"
Which small incident seems to point
out to the Americalaization movement
that Chicago would be a good little
place to work in.
NOV that the Southern Railway
y building has been sold to the
assigned to Atlanta, one departing clerk.
taking time by the forelock, as the
adage tells, us to do, inserted an ad-
vertisement for a noon in an Atlanta
paper. He received II answers, one
If which informed him:
Can let you have a very pleasant
room and, bath on the car line"
And the thoughtful clerk wrote back
for details:
IF should be taking a bath and
car comes along, what am I to do?"
X x X
ONE Thanksgiving Day plan has al
~ ready gone to smash.
It was the brain product of a woman
manager of an apartment house. who
thought lit would be characteristic of
the day IF every family in the house
would tax its members Is cents each.