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

harrassed parents who never #
quite know what their young IN
sters are going to say in pub N
lie, it doesn't seem like 1t will. rs
Children have a disturbing rs
sympathy for the logical, mat Is
ter-of-fact approach to what n
ever they're doing, disturbing n
especially to their Illogical, Is
dreaming parents. .
Take, for example, the
Christmas pageant the other
evening at st. Johns.
The playlet was coming on
in great shape, and then came
the part where the Holy Fam
lily applies for lodgings in
Bethlehem
"We have no room at the
inn" the child playing land
lord said, "but We can let you
stay in the manger."
And the other, as If this
were everyday experience 4
for the weary traveller, replied
logically: |.
"Okay, We'll take it," Is
Or as another example, B
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 Is
air of concern: IS
MY, but we're fat, aren't Is
WEI" Is
lmpish
man we know was in b
structed by his wife, as .
routine household chore, to
buy an ironing board cover,
but not to spend much
money it. He approached
motherly- looking clerk in
downtown store. She
showed him cover, but
he turned it down, asking n
for the cheapest in the store
When she brought it out
the customer said:
"Fine Wrap it 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 c
face, he says, will long live Il
in his memory. h
SqueIched
At a recent party WASH t
ington socialite was explain- +
ing the proper conduct for
maintaining social position. Up
1t Is highly important, he ex- y
pounded, to be absolutely GER
tain to whom you are speak =
ing before you speak at all. $
The woman to whom he was Il
explaining the social ritual 10
lady originally from Maine "a
told him she had never been 5
confronted with such prob T.
lem.
"Our family has been here =
so long" she said, that we =
can afford to speak to any d
one" It
Illustration r
street tObaccOnist-
who specializes in having
available for his customers .
both the we'll known and
the of-beat-says he Is
weary of those who drop in
to buy specific brands and
open their requests by say
ing: :
"You don't have :"
He wouldn't be in business Is
long as a speciality shop il a
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," y
His WEAKNESS is eased only la
somewhat by the fact that
some of his friends who also
run specially shops have the
same almost daily expert
ence with the negative APP
pr0ach. :
Street Scenes -.
A shopper telling a COM S
panion, "Its certainly not like Il
last year." and the companion
replying, "No, and next year
1t won't be like this year"
pushcart filled with holly, |,
standing on the sidewalk I'M
attended and for no apparent Ii
reason on Pennsylvania Ave- s
nue. just above Thirteenth
street NV. -.
Davy Crockett cake, COM
plete with ballad inscribed,
in Connecticut avenue bak-
cry window. 80.
passenger pulling at a |,
handkerchief to mop his brow h
In a well-heated bus while {
those on the street shiver II
rabbi getting an affection I
ate greeting at the entrance
to German restaurant
I.o,y li1ao Ia