Evening star., 1937-06-26


thin. He told the new man to put
the feed to them bit stronger This
had no effect Furthermore. the
voting fosls were 10 man-shy it was
almost impossible to catch them and
give them the handling that every
young colt needs.
Situation grew worse day by day.
Finally the owner accused his trainer
of not keeping order around the sta
bles-letting the employees stay up
late, drink. make noises that were
disturbing the mares and making
them nervous
Why, l walked into q stall the
other night and = mare that's as
gentle as a kitten was standing there
all broken out In cold sweat he
beloved.
The trainer denied everything, sug-
gested maybe q special watchman
should be assigned to the brood mare
barn. He was.
The very first night, after all the
boys had gone to their quarters and
peace had settled down upon the
pastures, the watchman saw 4 tiny
figure scurrying along in the shadows
of the barn. 1t swung easily over =
stall door, and a few seconds later
there was terrified stamping inside.
The watchman hurried to the stall
and sneaked 4 look inside He saw
the monkey, crouched on the back
OF mare, whipping" like mad with
his right arm as he rode her around
and around the stalls. while the foal
| scooted from one corner to another
After good rousing ride. the monkey
hopped over the dividing wall be-
tween stalls, mounted another mare,
and again began his homemade race.
1t was his last. you may be sure.
- Et
ENNUI.
As executive officer Of the United
States Secret Service, it is the duty
OF Julian Baber to read oil repor.s
| from agents in the feld, but he
contessed the other day that he
had neper read detective story
| fiction type-Intil induced to do 30
by Frank Wilson, chief OF the serp-
ics. Says ae pCnldnt hops read
that one e1cept that it Dds not
printed, just type,Oritten. like de-
tecttpe's report on q criminal case
Mr.. Baber reads about is or 20
OF those every day. most OF them
ddrned good yarns. il you could
get hold OF them.
4 4
TEA.
OUR dont-know- what can BE- done
about-it department Offers. this
week, . special little drama entitled
Camp Lfe in the Automat, or What
Price Lsmon?"
It u based upon 4 true story about
= lady in one Of the Government de-
partments who purchases a cup Of
tea each Monday morning. and the
rest OF the week brings along the
same old tea ball, gets 4 free cup Of
hot water, lemon and sugar, and has
her tea.
That 10 ALL eiisens.
KNOCKOUT.
A T A neighborhood theater Tues
day night the customers were
watching 4 poignant drammy about
a poor lad whose brute OF 4 father
attacked kindly old gentleman who
had befriended the lad. The brute
drew back his cudgel. brought it down
with q smack. and the poor old gen.
tleman fell dead.
At that moment the picture ma
chine operator flashed on the screen:
Louis wins"
NO SNAP.
A T A recent meeting OF the Ameri-
can Society Of Archivists IN the
Archives Building. where An archiver
Is supposed to be able to find every
thing that is used in modern archiv-
ing, an archivist dug up a terrific
item when he found there wasn't q
rubber band In the building
He went rushing into the ONCE Of
James Preston. who should be in
! touch with matters on the rubber
band front. and cried Justify for q
rubber band.
We said Mr.. Preston, do not
use rubber bands"
| "Archivists, and don't use rubber
bands"
Right" said Mr.. P.
We'll. I'll be -" said the gen.
tleman and departed.
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| VISITOR.