Evening star., 1937-06-21
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
FEUD.
FEUD.
TINE Martins and the Coys, those
feudin' mountain boys, have

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TINE Martins and the Coys, those
feudin' mountain boys, have
nothing on a couple of sisters
4 out in Chevy Chase. The girls
are a-feudin' with a neighbor, and
the air, according to reports from one
of our spies, is filled with musical
notes and dirty looks.
The controversy is the outgroWth
of the girls intention not to waste
the Summer merely because there Is
no school to go to. Promptly upon
the close Of the years term in Mont
gomery County, they took up their
music twice as seriously.
The very first morning. the quiet
OF 6 am. was rent by the noise OF
piano and violin. 1t was rent further
a couple Of minutes later by the foot
steps Of q policeman, called by an
irate neighbor.
You can't do that" said the DO
liceman. The neighbors don't like it.
Discretion looking like the better
part Of valor at the moment, the girls
ceased firing, folded up their fiddle
and piano and went into huddle.
FEUD'S END.
THE next morning, at am, the
air was filled anew with what
some day will be music If they keep
on practicing. This time there was
no policeman. just as the girls knew
there would not be.
Being the daughters of a lawyer,
they had obtained legal advice, found
out they could start playing at 7
o'clock and were ready to carry the
thing to the Supreme Court II neces-
sary.
The one playing the violin lust
stuck out her tongue and continued
playing when she caught the dirty look
the neighbor woman shot out her
bed room window.
BLAST.
A man who al,cays has regarded
himself as Christianly considerate
tor not bloUing his horn in the
quiet zone near Emergency Hos
pitdl does not k1ow so much about
that today. He was nearly bounced
out OF his car passing there re-
Gently Uhen the doornldn, uantino
a tart. turned out a blast on his
1Dhistle that mould haze made
Benny Goodman enpious.
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SHELF.
A WOMAN who knew the Federal
Government when moEey ran
through its hands like water is con-
WINGED today that economy has set In.
The woman. an employe OF one Of
the departments, recently wanted a
little shelf on which to put her tele-
phone.
Il want little shelf" she said to
the man in charge Of little shelves, sort
Of expecting him to get up and say
But, my dear, wouldn't you rather
have two?"
She was mighty surprised when, in
stead OF doing that, he frowned like
the Bureau Of the Budget, handed her
five different colored requisitions, told
her to fill them out. and indicated
that ii everything was in proper order
she might eventually get her little
shelf
Eventually she did, but not before
1t was made clear that the Govern
ment has changed since the old days.
when its slogan was "A little shelf for
every one"
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CROW.
The De Courcey twins. John and
Harold. who used to make this COL
umn regularly, are about to make 1t
again.
Among their other virtues the twins
nave a generous streak q yard wide.
Anything they have is approximately
yours for the asking. Not even their
pet crow Is an exception.
Seems a neighbor woman, marvel
ing at the virtues Of the crow, told
the twins recently that her husband
always had wanted pet crow.
The words were scarcely out Of her
mouth before the twins assured her
that he finally was going to have his
pet crow.
Her misgivings, as those of women
usually are, were strong and instan-
taneous, but not one of her rea-
sons for not taking over the crow
were half so strong as the twins de-
sire to surrender it.
The woman's husband now has a
pet crow, with all the whims and
dlficulties that pet crows bring into
family life in suburbia.
KINKAJOU.
It's mistake to caN a kinkajou
honey bear" especially the one
at the Zoo. This bright-eyed fur
~ little tellotO has sweet and
innocent look. Children call him
cute, cunning" ETC., and try to
pet him.
The kinkajou seems to encourage
this. He comes near the bars in
his netD quarters at the mammal
house and thrusts pau through,
as ii asking for a caress.
But let youngsters beware.
III that kinkajou can get his
teeth at tetD fingers" said
keeper. they'll soon quit calling
him honey bear around herew
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CLIMAX
THE Hon. Harold Knutson, member
of Congress from Minnesota, was
the principal speaker at the grad
uation exercises at Mount Rainier
High School not long ago.
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