Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1921, Page 18

HERE is-a bunch of leaves in the crotch of a tree near a car stop on Capitol Hill. One of a flock of clerks waiting for a car noticed the bunch and the man with her explained that It was a spar- row’s nest. A woman on the other side begged his pardon, but it was the nest of a blackbird; she had seen so many in the Capitol grounds. A boy with & grin that showed tush-teeth introduced himself into’ the incident by asking, with genial intimacy: “Don’t you folks know what sort of & nest that is?” The man repeated that it was @ sparrow’s nest. The woman insisted, without asking any pardons, that it was the nest of a blackbird. The boy gave his mother an impish wink and voiced knowledge: “Why, that's a mare's nest.” The mother told him he ought to be ashamed of himself—with a return wink. When the sparrow man and the blackbird woman had boarded a Georgetown car, a woman—plain enough to ask questions—said to an equally plain man who had been in the talk zone: “Isn't that a squirrel's mest™" man told her it was. Also. he “It's just such foolish ignorance ol large scale that makes an arms parley necessary. One nation swears that a certain thing is a sparrow’s nest and another nation puts a chip om its Shoulder to prove that it is the nest of a blackbird, and between them they | make it as_the little fellow says. a mare’'s nest.” The small audience was amused at the outcome, and that was all there was to it, except that it proves that there is one wise boy growing up on Capitol Hill. * k% H{E was @ shining mark, and death [ $o% SR OEE ebin' By, loved him. To most people who knew him he was a kindly and right successful man who left a pretty penny to odds and ends of heirs, but just a trifle eccentric, don’t you know. For one evidence, a relative shook her head indulgently over a cabinet of pebbles, each labeled and placed neatly in rows. “Nothing in the world but worthless stones picked up on his vacations— but the way he used to put them in water ‘to bring out the colors'!” But he wasn't eccentric: just dif- ferent. A friend who loved him was to spoil your inspiration merely to correct a ‘misspelled word. And a most ordinary word, at that. * k x x OSC!-: on a time in the country, when Gamp days came around, a brown man would sit in a barn and strip tobacco. And as he worked he sang a something that sounded like a hymn tune streaked with jazz. There were other songs, of course, Lut always and always thers came a turn for his church-organ voice to take on a quality we call spiritual, and his body to sway to its rhythmi “Stay home, little sheep, stay home. Theh's a wolf in de open, don’t roam. Stay home, little sheep, stay— h-0-m-e—" He was such a young brown man that his one child was a chocolate drop of a boy, but—the years creep slowly by, Lorena, and at last the son came to Washington, was a driver for a senator who landed him into a government job, married sen- sibly, now owns his own home and sends his children to high school. The brown man who used to be young is as wrinkled as any to- bacco leaf he ever cured—and you know what it is to have a “misery in yo' jints”! Aunt Ann Liza is just as “bad off, ‘so: The son, who is a good son, flivvered down to the coun- try, sold off mule Maria, and the cow that had just had a calf; rented the four acres to ole Tawm Tawmps'n and brought his parents up here and put them in a nice warm room, with lace curtains and a cushioned rocker for each. But they were not happy. They said so to a woman who used to know them in the days that were once on a time: “Too many funels in this place, honey, to suit me an’ my ole woman, so we gwine back home whar we cum fum. Down yander we has a def after a long time, but you dies ev'y day up heah. Dese husses is allus a “Oh, my good Lawd in heb'n’ inter- rupting refrain from Ann Liza. f we stays we gwine be daid our . me an' muh ole man wants n home whar we's cumf'ble— 2 n riz our own craps.” “We's had a mouty fine visit, but we's aimin' to staht down yander i', befo’ the winter nips us. n 'stay with Tawmps'n an’ take oney, and Ann Liza in' domineckers. An’ it_a_passler jobs fum :;‘lling a woman about him the other | The dear chap had the soul of an| ist, but for some reason he couldn’t draw’a line. Once when he showed me his specimens—most of them cloudy pinks or blues or faint yellows—he told me they were like himself—un- ablo to express the color life imprisoned within.” The friend finished and went his | way and the woman stopped Degging at her lawful work to think it over, like this: “When the great Admiral took him voyaging over that uncharted sea 1 wonder if he landed him on tke heavenly shore along with other pas- | sengers who merely had plain good- end them. or if he said r, “This man loved work." 1If it was me, | 1 would start him on the seasons, so | that he would learn how colors get | into flowers. and trees. and grass, | and stones. nd I'd show him how to | tint the m set on e every pr was on land o teach him to .00k this word can't make it out That's the way things go in this | world! You can't even try to make | heaven extra nice for a man who de- | serves it but reader has | vas, and the way to he light that never a, and after that I'd | el r over, please. 1| | that no painter can ever | 5 NEW YORK and Return Including War Tax SUNDAY DECEMBER 4 Lv. Arrive in New York in Early Morning RETURNING: Leave New York from C. R. R. of N. J. Terminals, West 23d Street (uptown), 5:47 P. M. Liberty Street (downtown). 6:00 P. M., same dsy, Tickets on Sale Friday and Sat- urday Preceding Excursion See Flyers. Consult Ticket Agents Baltimore & Ohio Wedon't w your pay --- just ant much of 75 these suits be a good investm. many.” Plenty of hard- in the suits. in the overcoats. ‘Alterations a The .Tasn 15th & G Next to Keith's U. 8. Treasury MANHATTAN SHIR' IN SUIT & OVEPCOAT SALE HE $28.75 you draw out of your pay to put into one of The Sale is just a case of “too ‘And you’ll be $6.25 to $16.25 “to the good” on these suits. And $6.25 to $11.25 on the overcoats—for they sold for that much more! Every popular model A Special Tuxedo Suit at $40 ROCHESTER TAILORED CLOTHRES TS—STETSON HATS I TER W, N HOSE . DUOFOLD UNDERWEAR or overcoats will ent. finished worsted§ t actual cost / de Cunnel to buy me a couple shoats anna cow—" “Anna gawbler anna hen turkey.” “Suttinly, Mammy, but fus’ ting we ne git of dat sheep piece I uster sing? I fuhgits de wuds an’ de tune, but it sho was a mouty fine little sump'n of a song.” 5 So the woman helped him out, and | he quavered his old standby in a'for him, th _—_— wHE KVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, volc thet used to be like a church i beautiful spot on earth is home. And \'ow they are safe with Tawm | Bepecially, if you lose i Tawmp#'n—and the good son, to set N. himself right with the woman, went over his efforts to please thé old folks: “My wifle and I were glad to have them and the children tried thelr best. 1 can’t understand. And he n home' fore these husses —— us. Honey, I'm benner thinkin' AP 00000 Pay Day the Best Day Start Saving That $1,000 $l LIFE INSURANCE combined with a ) monthly savings fplan to 'accumulate a $1.000. Here's a double opportunity to exercise your thrift intentions through this arrangement co-operatively conducted by our bank and the Continental Assurance Company. Immediately upon your acceptance under the rules of the com- pany the $1,000 insurance is in force, though you live to make but one month's deposit. At the average age, your deposit would be 8.20. After 120 of these small monthly deposits you receive $1,000 cash. Remember this, too: If you do not live, $1.000 plus all to your credit in the savings account balance goes to whomever you designate in your insurance certificate. " The Commercial National’s INSURED SAVINGS PLAN completes your payments for you if you become ‘permanently dis- abled. $1,000 Life Insurance from the start—$1,000°Cash at the end. Make your first deposit at once. Bank open until 5:30 today to fully answer your inquiries. OFFICERS R. Golden Donaldson. Chairman of the Board. *resident. ..Vice President. 144h al G James B. Reynolds.Vice President. James H. Baden..Cashicr. James A. Cahill. ion %Ghop Lorena, and he learns that the most it ANNIE LANCASTER. El Dorado means in Spanish “the golden”- and was the name bestowed on a fabulous city believed to exist 3 in the interior of South America. Many frultless expeditions set out in rer will undc =nd until, vesrs cree(slowly by, search of it > NOVEMBER 30, 1921. . Opposite Page for Other Advt. A Remarkable Purchase of Englander Felt Mattresses at Close to Half Price! lander” Mattresses, we are able to offer. Washington houscwives the money-saving opportunity of the kind known for y The nam g lander” in connection with mattresses stands for the best in material and work- manship. Just realize the savings you can make in this sale of nationally known mattresses— $32.50 Englander Mattresses (All Sizes) $20.60 Englander Mattresses (Single Size Only) o E Constructed with scrupulous care of clean, white cotton feit, with imperial rolled 8 edge. Stitching, tufting and sewing done with utmost skill, thus ing the avoid- E ance of all lumping or sagging. Covered in linen finish or art ticking of beautiful designs and colors. The Mattresses at $18.75 are mostly in double-bed size. a jfew are in 4-ft.. 3.6-ft. and 3-it. . The Mattresses at $11.00 are all in single-bad size. Goldenberg’s Furniture Store—Across the Street.” Our Bright, Cheery Toyland Ready to Serve You! of all kinds which Santa g are a few suggestions thi Follow Greater assortments than ever—toys and pl Claus has brought here for little boys and girls. of what you'll find"in Toyland: | | | | | " iT PAYS TO No Better Christmas Gift for a Clever, Thrifty Woman—No Better Opportunity to Buy Than in This Sale of Sewing Machines Buy her a Sewing Machine—a gift that will be appreciated for a lifetime. Make your selection now. We offer the following well known makes at much below es- tablished prices, making this an op- portune time to buy a good ma- chine at a saving. . "Lessing Auto-Lift $35.00 ‘The Celebrated Singer, White, Lessing i 3 and Standard Sewing Machines. Choice. . Sewing machines whose names have become household words throughout the land are offered. in this sale at the remarkably low price of $35.00. Some are slightly used, but have been me- chanically inspected by our experts and are guatanteed to be in first-class sewing condition, Domestic Colonial Cabinet Sl s May be Purchased on Weekly or Monthly Terms. ~ We .Will Deliver Now or Store Your Purchase For Holi- day Delivery. omes ic : “Sit-Rite” Easy. - running and built for lasting service. '$55 The prices are unusually low in this sale, and, in addition, our liberal terms of deferred pay- ments make buying a new ma- chine of your choice exception- ally easy. We are the exclusive Washington agents for the famous” Domestic Rotary, Vibrator, Electric “Sit-Rite” Machines, . S [Willard Cabinet A dependable machine at a moderate price, Used Machine—Mechani- cally Inspected and in Good Just a few “traded-In” machines at gelly Inspected = very low figures. Some as low as $5.00. Howing Machine Department—Fourth Flosr. Janensille Ball - bearing Conster Wagons, wooden spoke wheels | No. 1 Size at $10.98 | | | e Children's Toy A utomobilex, | blue enamel finish; good size Folding Go-Carts. Size nt ¥9.98 Size at, 898 tired wh Choo-Choo Cars, with |t mard oo child's de- ght: plain | Doll's Metal Sulkies. painted | brignt red: long bundic 8/ ' o004 Reller =5 imes, _ naturai i g Iron Toy Fire Engines. or hook | Dolls’ Trunks, 14- | Sarmien faieh, at el ! Ripdrd i Sl conds | B é painted m brisht’ §f 75 . 3 Mission-finish Fold- | hie ing Tables. i Iron Toy * lce with horse; highiy colored T mom‘ @ T T on substantially m ey .It $3‘49 m:-‘\ sl i.@.r platform . AR s and instructi‘e toy, Goldenbers” Galvanized €249 Heavy Tin $lso univa- Japanned Bread Iron Coal Copper Bottom niged Irom Gar- Hods, No. 16 Wash Boifers, with bage Cn Boxes, ol o tun i co'd wood handles ith lock cov- style; good size— 1z large No. 8 size— full size. $1.98 Sheet Iron Dou- ble Roqsting Pans, 12x18-inch size— lremning Boards, on fold- ing stands; se- lected lumber— $1.98 Extra Quality Five- string Corn Brooms— 980 _Galvanized Iron ‘Wash Tubs, large 24-inch size, drop bandles.