Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

have a gorgeous time travelling around
and around as if he were top and the
earth was Just place for him to spin
on-and his tags are thrilling, aren't
they? The yellow one is Boston, and
the blue one is New York, and-I can't
make out that other blue one, can you?"
Miss Julie didn't try. Her glasses
were hooked on hillock of black cloth
that was coat, and she had packages in
one hand and a bag handle over her
arm.
1T must be perfectly exciting to get
on car and act so that everybody will
stare at you. mustn't it?"
We'll. if that's your ambition, all you
got to do is to cut some red and blue
labels off a railroad poster and paste
them on suit caSe-your clothes will
do, and the cars are always handy"
Nov, Miss Julie" and the girls
giggle was joyous thing to hear. "Of
course, I'd want to go to places. Oh,
dear me, get so tired of tagging to
Office every day and coming back the
same old road, as if was of no more
account than horse in milk wagon.
Don't you wish this was Pullman and
everybody was going to some far-oH
place instead of to Government Office
or department store? Let's shut our
eyes minute and make believe we are
travelling and travelling and travelling
I'm on my way to Hollywood by way of
the Rockies-won't you join me, Miss
Julie?"
Miss Julie must have had tender
heart for youth hidden in the right
place under her bulky contour, for her
eyes sparkled understanding of its
divine foolishness, and her tongue voiced
happy cooperation:
Sorry, honey, but you will have to
make the trip alone-I'm leaving you
here for Chicago"
And the stout and eminently respect
, able lady got out before the Treasury
Building.
Foolish chatter, of course, but it was
the way woman and girl talked
while riding on street car.
And life, We are assured by certain,
though long-gone, poetical school
teacher, is made up of small things
Little drops of water, little grains of
WHILE Sister Maryland is making up
w her mind to exchange hanging for
lethal gas, such as Nevada has intro
duced, you might take neighborly in
terest in hearing a bit about the way
that State treats her criminals, gen.
orally, from Washington woman who
spent little time at her State Prison,
some years ago.
This prison-like the heavenly man
SionS of Scripture-waS not made by
hands. 1t was originally mountain of
volcanic stone and boiling water, which
had been shaved at the top and quar-
ried out and hewed around into one of
the most impregnable strongholds in
i - ~ 3D. ,xk Sod l.
OF hope hangs over the entrance. Which
puts Nevada one over Dante!
In excavating under 40 feet of stone
q pick found human bone that corre-
sponded in size to gigantic footprints
that track the vast inner court, at dou-
BILE the normal stride. They were
made by a man IL feet tall. The
guard who was showing the woman
through told her so. And he looked as
If he knew.
Scientists from the Smithsonian In
stitution-again quoting the guard
explain that the stratum of petrified
clay was once the bed of stream
which you could see for yourself, be-
cause Of the claw prints of water fowl
and the deep-bedded close together
tread of some mammoth with feet the
size and shape of tub
I'VE consider this guard speaking
"the most humane prison in America
A convict doesn't lose his identity when
he comes here, but keeps his name in
stead of going by NUMBER shame
that eats into a fellows nerve. Our
system encourages the men to make
good records, because when freedom
comes they know Nevada will give them
q fresh chance.
"Out in this country we give a man
credit for redeeming himself, instead of
everlastingly reminding him of his falls
Here is something you never saw be-