Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-21
The
Rambler
The Kids Take 1t
In Their Stride
By JACK JONAS


sympathy for the logical, mat
ter-of-fact approach to what
ever they're doing, disturbing
especially to their illogical,
dreaming parents.
Take. for example, the
Christmas pageant the other
evening at st. Johns.
The playlet was coming of
In great shape, and then came
the part where the Holy Fam
lily applies for lodgings in
Bethlehem.
I'VE have no room at the
inn" the child playing land
lord said, "but we can let you
stay In the manager"
And the other, as If this
were an everyday experience
for the weary traveller, replied
logically:
.Okay, we'll take it,
Or, as another example,
take the 3-year-old who visited
Santa Claus at Woody's.
She approached the old
gentleman, looked him over
carefully, and said with an
air of concern:
"My, but we're fat, aren't
we?"
lmpish
A man we know was in
structed by his wife, as a
routine household chore, to
buy an ironing board cover,
but not to spend much
money on 1t. He approached
q motherly- looking clerk in
= downtown store. She
showed him one cover, but
he turned 1t down, asking
for the cheapest In the store.
When she brought it out,
the customer said:
Fine. Wrap 1t carefully,
please"
When he picked up his
package, he added casually:
"Any wife would be happy
to get this for her Christ
mas present, wouldn't she?"
The shocked and indig-
nant look on the saleslady's
face, he says, win long live
In his memory.
SqueIched
AT a recent party, a Wash
ington socialite was explain
ing the proper conduct for
maintaining social position.
1t is highly important, he ex-
pounded, to be absolutely GER
tain to whom you are speak
ing before you speak at all.
The woman to whom he was
explaining the social ritual
. lady originally from Maine
told him she had never been
confronted with such a prob
lem.
"Our family has been here
so long," she said, that we
can afford to speak to any
one"
Illustration
A X street tobacconist--
who specializes in having
available for his customers
both the well-known and
the off-beat-says he is
weary of those who drop in
to buy specific branA and
open their requests by say
ing:
"YOu don't have -
He wouldn't be in business
long as a speciality shop II
he didn't have most of the
rare as well as the usual, he
says, and sometimes he feels
like replying:
"Of course not! Never
heard of it,"
His WEAKNESS is eaSed only
somewhat by the fact that
some Of his friends who also
run speciality shops have the
same almost daily expert
ence with the negative ap-
proach.
Street Scenes
A shopper telling a COM
panion, TITS certainly not like
last year." and the companion
replying, "No, and next year
1t won't be like this year" {.
A pushcart filled with holly,
standing on the sidewalk I'M
attended and for no apparent
reason on Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. just above Thirteenth
street NV.
A Davy Crockett cake, COM
plete with ballad inscribed,
in a Connecticut avenue bak-
cry window.
A passenger pulling at a
handkerchief to mop his brow
In a well-heated bus, while
those on the street shiver I. .
A rabbi getting an affection
ate greeting at the entrance
to a German restaurant :.
A boy pedaling a bicycle
along Columbia road and
carefully balancing a basket
load of gaily wrapped Christ
mas packages =.