Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 46

'AROUND.THE CITY ~——By Nannie Lancaste: MAN was buyln( a Boy Scout drum, [ A He had the' contour of & man vho loves his good din- ners, end a biilfold padded with yellowbacks sNowed he ' could afford them. Also, he must have en- joyed his early shopping, for he plunked the parchment and did a bit of rat- tat-tatting with the sticks. Also, again, he let his heart out in a bit of reminlscing 8o far as to tell the clerk that used to be some (f drummer when he i was & kid, that never would he forget the Christmas morn- { ing he found a N drum and a pair of red-topped boots on his Christmas tree. “‘Seems omw a little while ago, and now look at me, fat and gray—huh, huh!" As he passed his purchase over for wrapping his interest was caught by an ecstatic sigh—and bhe looked down into the excited eyes and open tooth- shedding mouth of a boy who knew Just what it must feel to find a.drum like that one on a Christmas tree. The man chuckled with an off- hand friendliness that made one think of Dickens arfd Tiny Tim. > “Looks good to you, huh? A nephew of mine is going to get this drum—think he'll like it, huh? The boy, reinforced by two other boys and a long-legged little girl. responded swith their belief, tongue, and heart and immortal soul that the nephew boy would think it grand. “Quite a drummer yoprself, huh?” No. The tooth-shedder had no drum. He mom couldn’t buy him one, and Santa never came anigh last Christmas. ‘But when he got big enough to work he was goin' to buy hisself a drum, | first thing. He drather have a drum than a sled, any day—" “I druther have a doll—like that big one in pink silk.” The interruption came from the long.legged little girl, but the man was too interested in the bey to pay attentlon. “Shucks, T wouldn't wait till I got to work. Maybe Santa will treat you better this year—I'll remember to tell him, mygelf.” As the man chaffed, a customer mlongside was sure he would do the Dickens act and give the boy a drum-—because anything beautiful is liable to_happen at Christmas times, The man took And the but: Nothing happened. his parcel and went away. boy looked after him with the _raphsodic faith that is childhood's most splerdid asset. And the one it loses first. And. as he stood there, blessedly young enough to belleve with all his heart in Father Christmas, the kinder- garten teacher, who was piloting her bunch of kids through the Kingdom of toys. came up and said it was time to go down and buy a bag of jelly beans, all around.” And you could tell she was going to do the treating. met her with a gurgle of anta’s goln’ to bring me a drum, Miss Ella. The gent'man is goin' to tell him to. “And he might bring me a doll— ‘a btg one in a pink silk dress.” This daring hope put sparkles in the eyes of the long-legged girl. And all the _others chuckled ~and dimpled, and looked their envy of the toota-shedder and the long-legged girl. The bare recalling of the man's own Christmas drum might have made him pass- the-happiress on, just for the sake of old~times, but When everything happens .in this ‘world exactly as it ought to,sthen we | will know, without having @nybody to tell us, that-the millennium has come. 2 P JF you lxtite poke, around listening to small goings on you are always finding small chunks of interests that appeal to you persomdlly, but might Le too uneéventful tq pass on—except that wisdom tells @s that the small things of life make up the great big whole. For this one case: A girl who owns & noble old grandfather clock moved into another house the other day and, as the antique was -too large for her room, the lady of the house placed it in the tront hall. One boarder, who can remember farther back than sie likes to own to, was passing up from the dining room bélow when the anclent timepiece, tick-tocking in the dusk, so reminded her of an old song she used to know that she paused to hum the remi- niscent tune, but—such is the van- dalism of time, she ‘got only so far as— “My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf, so—so—" “It stood 90 years on the floor- The assistance came from a kindly gentleman who stepped out from the shadows of the parlor to help a Eood thing along. But he, too, could get only so far—and that was all there was to it, except that, of all the other people in ‘the house, there wasn't one who had ever heard of the song—they were of the younger generation—which shows that songs as well as singers can join the poet fn his fine but gloomy wail: “Are we =0 soon forgot?” And it was such a nice, weepy old song that when the drama’s village quartet used to come on the stage @nd get to the tick-tock ref; ‘where it “stopped short, never to go again, when the old—man—died"—- Why, air, you could see even the men we call hard-bolled today sneak out handkerchiofs—they used: ivory silk for best In thofe times—and mop up furtive tears. Just one song added to the tears and laughter; the happy high Jinks and lonely heartbreaks of - an. un- marked past, of which memory, only, keeps record. And we read the: History of the World, and feel wise. k% JF you have your doubts as ta the | mental abllity of goldfish, It would be wisdom to set up an aqua- rium and grow wisdom < In this same house there is & bowl in. which four tiny fish swim and swim with the aimlessness that only goldfish seem to relfsh. - Let a ralny day come, however, and the fish wiil float sluggishly, when not huddled together on the pebbly bottom. This alarmed the boarder ady of the house had loaned the fish, as a sort of comfort t make up for the loss of & ‘canary that could sing. But it Wai The 1ady explained: T th e -w.nxdnt seem that dun should "lower the -flflu of go but—one learn: Also, at two eert- n houry . -m early forenoon and a ‘ four fish begin to fash Aroi race flestness, and to’ dart in’and out of the arches of a castle of ston They know that mealtime’ has Of the boatder: of 'suy T8, shoot up to the surface and begin nosing around for food. “She says the fish know her. And maybe it is true, for when she talks to them they flock to the side mear- €st to her, a symptom that would in- dicate recognition—and that implies instinct. _The boarder was investing her fish with this valuable quality for the education ol a caller. But the caller was: ritled seeriéd to dmnnfl‘ it wished he had, ‘but his | old book, this afternoon and one’ of those live atoms that I oan't see without glasses skeeted across the page. Juat to ses how much instinot it had I headed its way. with my thumb and it turned tafl and skeeted the other way. When I headed it off a second time and barred its oppo- site way with a peneil it took the middle route—— And if that wasn't inatinct helped out. with common sense, what was it? That is the big mystery, of the uni- ver¥e. What was it? * ok x x MATD MARY.- in the Kitchenette, Wwas pressing a tunic blouse— black lace. Mistress Mary, in the living foom WAth: the ‘door open be- tween, was receiving a caller from the apartment above. Being a new- ‘comer the hostess acted the part of Wwisdoi by discreetly liatening in hope hsthat her visitor might let her in on just ‘what sort of folks she had leased in with. “#he was not disappofnted. ‘es, she’s nice and ail that, but you know you couldn't associate on equal-terms with g, woman whose husband though I 1t you heard fhe baby In the next flat to you crying last night and then stop short, why—I can't say for certain, of course, but it looks to me as if they must glver It something they Gughtn't to—it isn't thelr child, any- how, but a foundling lefs at the Doc's door and they begged him for It having none of their own—oh, yes, they seem to idolize it, but the next time it cries and then stops sudden- ly—I may be mistaken, of course, and no one ever heard me putting WTong constructions on things peo- ple do. but I can’t help seeing through things—I suppose because I'm so psychologic—you are not?—then You must certainly belong to our Psychological - Club—I'm_ going- (o give an address on the ‘Visibility of the Invisible’ Saturday night, and I'll |drop in for you—it's’ something you ought to hear—and only $1 dues “Last week I gave an instructive talk on ‘My Dreams and What Comes of Them.' It was great, because I had just received, through a dream, a sure k to success. It was wonder- ful. Some mystic power Intrusted me 'with the knowledge that If, say, increase of salary is desired, take two apples; scoop oyt a bit of each and transfer to the other.and make a wish—my dreams are always true, like that.’ This statement had its interruption in the smell of scorched lace. Mald Mary had been listening. too keenly to keep her iron moving. Happily, it was only a sieeve and a sleeve can always be shortened, ‘but ’ Mistress Mary knew that the apple experiment was about to be tried at the expense of her purse And why not an apple for luck? Look what apples did for Eve, and for Venus, and for Willlam Tell, and cider! ENGLISH ARTISTS TURN TO U. S. FOR CUSTOMERS Own Country Fails to Absorb Out- put of Paintings and Hard Times Ensue. By the Associated Press. 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