Evening star., 1928-11-18

a as oount9y Z sHay GE2R garden, m s.: ~
and the other a
woman not worth
describing. She had merely paused oe-
cause of the look of acute disappomt-
hhp vounpster caught the expression,
she answered to it, with the buoyant
frankness that Is one of youths charms
"I was sure that chap was going 10
fall. but nothing ever happens When
I'm around. Did you ever see ANYBODY
killed." -,
yes. Way back when was a girl,
saw a man fall while he was fixing
the wires of a telegraph pole-and i
didn't see him fall either, for as the
cole swayed 70 the ground / turned
away in horror" :,
what for? should have wanted
% see the crash"
"Oh, no, YOU wouldn't have looked
for the world dream OF 1t even
now"
MY goodness. that's funny! / don't
say l want things to happen on my
account, you know, but Ia love 10 oe
around when somebody gets killed. I've
never even seen anybody get run over
bv a car. and the papers are always
telling about accidentS-I look and look
and never see even an accident
We'll, if that's your aim, don't get
AascouYased. All you have to do is TO
keen an eye on automobiles, or take a
tpv ride"
The girl answered with laugh that
was as fresh as a Summer breeze:
Il guess you don't know much about
rirls-all of US want sensations, but
they are scarce, these days. We can
get any ordinary amusement, IKE
dances. movies and so on, but thrills
come few and far between-"
Then the woman understood. She
was listening to perfectly good, amla-
BILE girl who liked to hear herself tax.
And who knew no more ABOUT the
reality of what she was saying than
child knows about the fire it kndles
with a match.
A WOMAN on her way to her desk
"A in a Government Office paused at
an open door long enough to say TO
another woman pegging away at
typewriter:
Election suit you?"
A snake of the head, SOLDERING of
smile lines and a dissenting snrug tes-
tified to ppointment-which was all
there was TO JnaI.
Time passed-as you may have OBJ
served time is in the habit OF doing
and the desk woman, having forgotten
all about the excitement of choosing a
new President. was a bit surprised when
the friend she had questioned poked
her head inside to say-with smile
hubbiing in her business-tired eyes:
Just want you to know it is all right!
I'm standing by the countrys choice,
because he Is my President as well as
yours, and as g. good Democrat / have
got to be loyal--that's what the gov
ernor said over the wire last night
and hope for success four years from
now"
The explanation wound up with ar
invitation to go out lunching, and tl1at
ended that-which meant the whole ILL.,
cident. except that the little yarn
serves to show the force Of good ex-
ample, and to back up the two-cen-
tury-old wise man that:
1t is life's little things that count.
* X X %
THIS happened quite little time
ago.. so it isn't news; but, any,
how
A party of men went on a picnic, and
there wasn't shoe-box lunch in the
crowd. You don't catch the masculine
gender Juggling sandwiches and lemon
sde-makings down the river. Not when
there's a colored John Henry genius to
do things with clans. And what John
Henry did on that particular trip was a
caution!
First off, somebody had dug a hole
as long and narrow as Barbara Allen S
grave, and John Henry lined it with
stones-red hot. Then he put in layers
Of clans and corn ears and chicken,
with a spread of hard crabs on top.
After that he covered the whole busi-
ness with white oilcloth, piled lot of
earth on top of that to keep the heat
in. and told the excursion party to run
on and play until he rang for them Ito
come back for dindin" And when that
feast was ready-cooked to juicy done
ness and fragrant with the fiavors of
corn, chicken, clans and crabs-boy!
One man Dragged SO much about that
feast that his wife, who is daring
enough to try anything once. told him
a bit ago that she would show him that
John Henry wasn't the only cook along
that ine-and she was going to show
him. Just watch her.
There is a good-sized back yard to
their place out Chevy Chase way-bis
enough for four trees and a row Of
bushes, with small grape arb7r be-
ginning to take notice. And she en-
gagged an odd-job man to dig her a
right sort of hole. Then she invited a
bunch Of friends. Then she went to
market and bought clans and crabs and
chicken and ears of corn and had the
odd-job man hunt up stones for heat
ing-red hoti
The stones were laid inside, and
when the time came for cooking
the hostess put on sports suit tol
atmosphere, along with a bib apron
for protection. and waded in. With a
correctness equal to any John Henry
you might mention, she put in LAYERS
OF clans and corn ears and chickens
with a spread of hard crabs on TOP
Then she covered the whole business
with white oil cloth. piled a lot of earth
on top and told the friends who had
come out to watch her to go inside and
play bridge until she rang a bell tc
come to dindin,
You know how hungry you get when
there isn't s1oe-box lunch in q
croWd-at least We women knows
after they had played and played. the
party broke away from the tables to &c
out and see how the feast was comm:
on. There would be, at least a chicken
apiece-~the men had two-and all thu
clans and corn and crabs the hun.
griest lady could ask for-and by the
time all of them were under a tree
the odd-job man began TO shovel oa
the earth.
Then he whipped of the oil cloth.
Then the crabs crawled out
Then-but only a famisFed crow
that had saved up appetites for III,
novel party could properly. and, maybe
not so properly. at that, tell what hap
pened when it discovered that the din
1er was as raw as If it had been packe;
in an ice box instead of an oven. Fo
the odd job man had forgotten to hea
the bricks and the hostess had not re-
membered to notice--though. of course
things might have hee11 vorSel For n,