Evening star., 1937-06-07
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.

VI Interesting EVenLS
and Things.
EGGS.
MENUS are rule books from which
employees of an F street food,
drug and bathing cap establishment
do not vary.
Carter Barron, the movie man, found
that out the other day when he
ordered two soft-boiled egg. for break
fast. The counter man WAS sorry, but
Mr.. Barron could not have his eggs
that way. They were not on the menu,
and that was that.
But you have eggs and you have
hot water, so why not soft-boiled
eggs?" Mr.. Barron wanted to know.
The clerk wouldn't say, he said, but
that was the situation. Mr.. Barron
could have eggs fried, scrambled, or
perhaps even nogged, bu, they Just
couldn't be boiled because boiled eggs
were not on the menu.
Mr.. Barron, who is red-haired, elo-
quent and from Georgia. did his best
to break down the resistance of the
clerk to soft boiled eggs. None Of his
arguments worked, so he finally took
eggs fried and went back to the ONCE
boiling. After boiling for "a hours
he went back to the same place and
ordered soft-boiled eggs, but this time
from the management.
He got soft-boiled eggs.
BANANAS.
While on the subject OF food, it
might be good idea to tell the
story OF Jimmy Malloy, uho is 13
years old, lives in Somerset and. at
the moment. has broken arm.
The broken arm has sort OF been
handicap in seueral Wdys, one
OF them being that it interteres
NTH slicino bananas. Jimmy found
it so the other day and in his
dilemma figured out the electric
Jan mould be just the slicer for
Which he mas looking. So he peeled
the banana and thrust it through
the fan from behind. 1t sliced, but
all oDer the ceiling.
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SAILOR BEWARE.
THE Naval Academy closed for the
Summer before We got around to
writing this story, but We are Going to
write it anyway.
Seems that the Ralph L. McCabe
family went over to Annapolis Sunday
week ago to bid adieu to 4 cousin
going away on a Summer cruise. 1t
had neglected to notify the cousin OF
the intended visit and when it arrived
he was out among the 1000 mid
shipmen and 10000 guests sort OF
nautical needle lost in hAystack OF
humanity.
Mr.. McCabe. resourceful parent,
turned to his s-year-old blond
daughter:
Come on, sheila," he said, you're
just the girl to hnd a sailor
She took him literally. departed,
and came back in eight minutes with
the right sailor. And she had only
seen him once before in their two
lives!
JOKES.
WHAT with the way one tale is
leading into another today, |
column production is almost too
easy That one about children re-
with Chevy Chase child whose
father started joke at dinner the
other night, then decided not to nm
ish it.
I've forgotten the point" he apolo-
gised falteringly to his wife.
Go on, daddy piped up his a.
year-old daughter, and then I'll tell
you some Of my really snappy ones"
sPECTACLE.
A SPIDERS web, woven at the bot
tom of bush OF some kind
local blue -blooded
Cocker spaniel into \ carricature of
its lovely self the other day. An
operative Of high veracity reports.
After walking into the web the dog
backed away with \ pair OF spectacles
perfectly outlined in silken strands
around its eyes. There was the
bridge across the nose, the circular
which hold the lenses,
and the pieces (temples, they're
called) which run back to the ears.
Only the dog, the story goes, did not
know how cute 1t looked.
ART.
Milan
Palisades Park Recreation House.
is our authority jor this cotty little
note.
An amateur production OF the
play, "The Cat Came Back" had
been using liDe cat for the last
three weeks OF its rehearsal. The
feline took the play 50 seriously
that after being dutitully returned
to its gunner one recent night, it
travelled over miles of pavement to
return to the ddrkened stage where
it had had its briet moment in
the spotlight.
Or had you already heard that
one, too?
BOOKS.
WHEN attendants at the Public
w Library gather books from the
reference room tables, after students
have completed their research work,
the titles found some times give rise
10 smile. There was the young
lady, for example, who left behind
Life With Father" and 80 You're
Going to Have a Baby"