Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

mother, recently widowed, and the two
still smaller children he supports al
most unaided.
How resultant to board street cars
are the girls who are arrayed in beau
ttful and expensive fur coats. They
have pinched and saved nightly for
these coats and they treasure hungrtly
every admiring glance they evoke How
they do love to stroll along the down.
town streets admiring their own re-
f1ectionS In every shop window they pass
How comfortable people look sitting
IN their closed cars. wish had one.
How things have changed since I was
boy, then We sort of expected hard
ships in Winter Trips to town were
made In an open sleigh with the usual
laprobe to keep tucked around us and
the SoapStone at our feet. Often we
aWoke in chilly homes because the fire
had burned low during the night. In
varlably there used to be a great debate
to see who would be the first to rise
and make the fire in the kitchen. It
was in the kitchen that informally we
dressed. And oh! How good those pan
cakes and sausages tasted that mother
used to bake on those chill Winter
mornings. What glorious trip to
school later We usually would be late
because we had interspersed the Journey
with several SNOWFALL battles with the
children from over the other side of
the railroad
Nov people awake in steam-heated
homes or have oil burners automati-
ca!ly controlled. When they have
gulped their coffee, produced from cleo
TIC percolatorS, they go downstairs to
their cars which are in the basement
garage, already nicely warmed, COM
pietely inclosed while they drive, etc.
HornbIowers Prove firing.
"A great many motorists don't seem
Ra1eel so good early In the morning.
Hmey feel dreary or something. When
tney get up in the morning they are
facing a long day at the Office and
shop: Then, too, lot of the family
are In bed so early in the morning.
The children's happy voices are still
sGbdued by Morpheus. But when eve
nlng rolls around and they are through
work Tor the day, when they have
pointed their cars homeward, then. in
DEED, the world looks bright and fair.
Maybe they are planning to attend that
New York show which Is in town, or
maybe after the children are to bed,
jim and his wife are coming over to play
a hand or two of bridge. Or he is
gong to meet his wife downtown,
wnere she has been shopping for a new
mouse dress, and attend a movie before
they go home, or maybe he intends to
get the bunch and go out to inspect
that new model home. The fellow
next door has been talking continually
ABOUT that new kind of home exercising
contrlvance they have in the basement,
and he thinks of the increase there has
been in his waist line lately. Or, best
OF All, perhaps, he is planning to spend
nice quiet evening at home with the
Kids. And, when they are in bed, read
that new book he has been trying to
get around to. Yes, there are all sorts
OF Things to make them feel happier
In the evenings.
Gee. wish had whole lot of SUI
pernatural power-I'd wish a wish to
make about 20 of the 'hard-boiledest'
cops l could select, suddenly become
invisible, then I would station them
along the street back of me at varying
intervals and would hold up traffic
LOT while (maybe little extra long to
Tempt them, and when those ill-na-
tured, 'don't-give damn for the other
fellows rights kind Of people start
blowing their horns, would wish all
my policemen to become visible and
each to pounce on the 'hornblower'
nearest him and pull him out Of his car
and form them in a column of 'twos'
and march them all to the station
mouse. I also would have an old-fash-
1oneo town crier march at the head Of
the column to announce in Stentorian
tones that there went bunch of horn
blowers. And then, when we had
them all nicely locked up at the sta
tlon house, we would make the world
= better and quieter place to live in.
Envies Poor Rich Children.
How wistful those children look that
one sees riding past in sumptuouS cars
driven by liveried chauffeurs. They
always are kneeling or standing on the
rear seat, peering out. They love to
wave at the cop on the corner. Poor
kids, sure don't envy them-watcfed
and guarded by servants constantly. It
should be a child's heritage to romp and
play as much as they please-to get
gioriously dirty-play Indians-and rob-
berS in cave. ! can still remember
the time I came home from school
with great big, beautiful black eye
my first one Mother almost tainted and
by turns scolded and conSoled me.
Father looked very stern, but he was
a good and true Irishman, and I still
remember that it was the very next
day that he bought me the new sled
had been begging for SO long.
"One OF the most noticeable things
about directing traffic early in the
morning Is the large number of cars
that have a man and woman In them.
guess a lot of husbands and wives
both work. u seams to be q poor
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