Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-10
The
Rambler
Dumb Animals
Abound in D. c.
BY JACK JONAS


There has been a vague
hint that a marble statue of
a bear and her two cubs soon
will grace the Monument
grounds, adding another bit
to Washington's menagerie in
sculpture.
The sculptors have depicted
seagulls, buffaloes, an ant
eater, a stork, fish, frogs,
turtles, a faun, eagles, ele-
plants, a cat and countless
horses and lions.
The stork, one of the more
controversial bits of sculp-
ture in town, stands astride
a fish in the Temperance
Monument at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
The cat appears to be sun
ming itself on a ledge high
above the street on Massachu-
sets avenue near Twenty-first
street, and the seagulls seem
to fly above the LIST Marine
Division Memorial.
The elephants are on Massa-
chusetts avenue, too, in front
of the Indian Embassy.
The most noticeable-and
most UNI S-are the
horses and lions. There are
many animal statues at the
Zoo, among them the anteater
and a pair of wrestling bear
cubs. There are eagles on
many buildings.
A pair of buffaloes guard
the @ street bridge. The Lady
With a Faun" is in Judiciary
Square.
The frogs and turtles frolic
in the big fountain below the
steps of the Library of Con-
gress.
Anybody know of any more?
Grain
The Department of Agri-
culture had better start Sec
tioning off for a soil bank
program.
The other day a reader
told us about stalks of wheat
growing around the base of
a tree in front of an L street
parking lot, and produced
a stalk as proof. And now
another comes along to re-
port that wheat or barley"
grows in a pOstage-Stamp
bit of earth in front of the
Raleigh Hotel.
Logic?
A lady we know adopted that
here-we-go-again tone when
she explained the psychology
of convertibleS.
She'd been reading the item
in this column about the man
who rolled up the windows of
his parked convertible, got out,
carefully locked the doors, and
walked away leaving the top
down.
I've been doing that for
years." she said.
Everybody thinks I'm crazy.
I used to park across from the
police station, and the police
men would watch me, and
guffaw.
But ! still say it's the thing
to do, without having to
struggle with the top every
time you park. For one thing,
it's not as inviting to thieves
if the doors are locked. They
can reach over the top of the
windows and unlock the doors,
but it's harder that way.
And it keeps kids from
climbing in to play car
Helpful
Hank Leader says a friend
just back from a trip on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike
swears this story is true:
The friend was trying the
mettle of his new car, and
had it up to lis miles an
hour, when he heard the in
evitable wall of a siren.
you were going pretty
fast, fellow" the officer said.
The driver said he didn't
really realize he was speed
ing. The policeman asked
for the toll ticket, looked at
it, then at his watch.
According to this" the
officer said, indicating the
ticket, "yOu've been averag-
ing IS miles an hour ever
since you got on the turn
pike"
"Oh, no, that's impOs-
sible," the drivers wife
Joined the conversation in
protest. I'VE couldn't have
gone that fast all the time.
We stopped for breakfast
this morning."
Street Scene
A flock of pigeons in front
of a Twenty-third street
church, cleaning up the rice