Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 21

AROUND THE CITY By Nannie Lancaster: ADAME, will you walk [ with me?” The way leads southeast to the outer edge of nowhere. When we get to where we are going thero will be a beloved hostess and a dinner that no cafe could dream of, much less achleve. There is backyard of brown earth that Is ing to be grass and flowers pre soon, and naturally you have to look at that first thing, because the small owner of the big yard wants you to know exactly how many holly and sunflowers it will take to hide the weather-beat- en gray fence that divides her from her nlc <h- bor's one side and the church on the other. And when you have had so much—too much— of the dinner that vou can only nib- ble at a slice of pineapple on a lettuce leaf, lis- ten — there ' goes the door bell! A school official and his wife have come to take the hostess for a S day spin, and thelr hearts be roomy as their machine, you, m: are tucked in, and the walk b a ride It begins with a b water, with houseboats sun, and up and up ar that looks like rolling is just every-day D. C. e over silver leep in the phalt road country but Sometimes v | country hom | wheet catch its invisible nearness in brown | there are panoramic distances that take in flelds and more fields, with ‘way-off, misty blue trees for a neck- lace, and then comes a sudden out- break of villas with electric standards at corners and rural mail boxes in a zigzag row; then another long breath of deep country, with glimpses of weather - beaten ~ farmhou nostly are, with carts under trees and plow horses taking And by that time vou e in with more rashes of vill homes and frame churches and brick schoolhouse, and once In a while a freshly-painted “inn,” where cars are anchored and sporty city folks play out on the lit- tle green or sit around on the porch walting for dusk and supper, and, maybe, ukuleles. But no matter what the scene may be, you have a sense of some pres- ence other than the official at the or any of his riders. You fields just beginning to show timid touches of green; trees that would be bare except that the limbs are bumpy with tight-fisted buds; and in browsing cows that switch their tails with the slow rhythm that means content. But it Isn't until you come up with a chicken-run that the scratching hens and one rambunc- tious rooster, swaggering around, let you into the secret that the hiding s | figure Is Spring. On the Bowen road the official pauses before a wide gateway with a sign on one side that says ort Dupont”—one of the nest of fortifica- tions that Mother Columbia set up to keep out our brothers we were mad at that 'way-back time in the Civil War, and now a Government tree ——— LT To Complete T ike | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 15, 1925—PART T. nursery with a big white villa built on earthen ramparts that cannon used to guard. The official pauses to inform his cargo that— The superintendent of trees and “Oh, yes! Cliff Lanham. Splendid fellow! I've known him for years.” (Your small hostess—madam—whose knovledge of folks scoops In the whole town.) “Can’t we go in?" A question that sets you to won- dering, off-hand, why an American thoroughbred, like the official's wife, should look like a beauty of old Spain. “We'll stop by a minute on the way back.” And at that the official steps on the gas and we go whizzing along the Marlborough pike. When the time comes to look in on the superintendent the car curls around a loopy road and comes to a -hind a blue machine that has o right of way Out comes a slender, boyish man with a friendly sparkle in his eyes, a hearty handshake and a hat of tan felt set at a rakish angle. Also a batch welcoming dogs. And, though the official has a date ahead, of | we stay long enough to soak in the beauty of all outdoors, streaked with a pungency that you guess must be sappy, srowing tree twigs, but which vou know is only your unharnessed imagination. Pretty soon you are back at the white house with green where you started. dusk comes along and then a moon shines out and you must bbgin the long and pleasant journey to where you started ney, that! adam, will you walk with me?" “All of which is just to answer a [l shutters, | And after a while | Such a pleasant jour-| query from a writer out of the friendly unknown: £ “What do you do with yourself on Sunday afternoons?” * % % ¥ THE general delivery window of a post office is a place of raw emo- tions, most of them repressed, for the reason that we must keep our foxes under our jackets while the world looks on, but sometimes there are glimpses like this: A young woman and two boys stood in the corridor of the post office next the Union Station. One little fellow was tall enough to reach a hand up to the woman's shoulder. The other had an arm around her waist. The mother was reading a letter, and you could tell without hearing a word that the letter was from “father.” There was an apologetic something in the voice that suggested that the mother was making the best of every word, and there was another something in the eyes of both boys that showed a man was being welghed in the blance— And found wanting! * * k *® ¢ HE came of a family that always had waffles and sweetbreads for breakfast Sunday mornings, and here she was reduced to griddle cakes, curly shreds of bacon over a fried egg, and coffee—in a cafe. 1t was a right nice little cafe, with near-palm foliage neatly dusted and a truly rubber plant in a tub inside the door. The window added decora- tive value in the shape of a tinpan of water, so laced around with vigor- ously-growing sea hyacinth as to glive it the right to call itself a pool. The definition was helped out by a of a miniature plank and a couple of tiny goldfish that seemed to devote their entire time to swimming out of each other's way. Not forgetting a e P ing the Landlord The Small Apartment NO don’t do without the smuggle in a Davenport Bed. NEED to pay a big rent fo get an extra room when a small apartment can be ar- ranged just as comfortably. Really you room, you merely PRpeae . Here at Mayet’s you'll find a delightful assortment of good-looking Davenport Beds—some of Karpen’s and Pullman’s newest styles. Gate-Leg Table Size 35248 A good size Table that doubles its usefulness in serving as a dining and living room table. $19.75 Windsor Chair Brighten ' the n:,:m with this Windsor and use | it as a diner. B $1350 Lifetime A Davenport Bed Is Cheaper Than a Larger Apartment Karpen Overstuffed Dav- enport Bed, in beaver velour, with mattress ...... $190 Cane Panel Style Davenport Bed; loose, reversible cushions in velour mohair with mattress........ Overstuffed Karpen Dav- enport Bed in tapestry with mattress.. §$160 Drawets You'll find plenty of use for this Wal- nut Finish Chest of Drawers. $29.75 Three-piece Group, with Mahogany-finish Pullman Davenpert Bed, genu- ine leather and $95 mattress Three - piece Davenport Bed Group, in velour and good mat- tress . Roomy Wing Chair, taupe mohair, damask seat tops and mattress.... Karpen Overstuffed Dav- enport Bed, in velour with tapestry seat cushion and mattress.. §]168 tops Furniture Is Bove T han MAYER & CO. Seventh Street et 0 p Overstuffed Pullman Davenport Bed Group, three pieces in taupe velour, and mat- tress ......... $375 A Name Between D & E FURNITUps bunch of paper the counter. Moreover, there was the clean freshness of a new day and the si- lence of early ‘Sunday morning—ex- cept for one customer, who might have been a dumb god of Israel, for all she had to say. The relic of de- parted splendor, however, belng so- cially {nclined, seated herself by the customer, and, having given her or- der to a waiter in white duck, asked her fellow-guest If she was golng to take u train. The fellow-guest shook her head for answer. “Well, I don't see how you could &6t up at this unearthly hour for any other reason. I'm going to Philadel- phia. That waiter's mighty poky bringing my breakfast along.” HEF Tomplaint was choked off by the arrival of her order, and when it was set before her she sighed: “I think you must have a patient disposition, the way you eat. Unfor- tunately for me, I come of a family that always had waffles and sweet- breads for breakfast Sunday morn- ings, and I can't reconcile myself to the change.” She made a mistake about the pa- tience of the customer across, who was entlrely satisfled with her orange, oatmeal and a silvery slab of mack- erel, with coffee and toast on the side. She said as much. “That is the advantage of not hav- ing the memory of a lavish past. Once you get the habits of luxury, it is impossible to forget. And I did so love waffles and sweetbreads for Sun- day breakfast! I have a fine position under the Government, but, even so, can never forget a past that meant—- She undoubtedly intended to say waffles and sweetbreads, except that jonqulls on small terrapin asleep on the dry end ! splashy Interruption prevented. The terrapin had flopped into the water, which supplied the mere customer with a remark: “Speaking of come-downs, look at O poor little Brother Te: the Potomac Into a bowl, and never saying a word about it!” And that was the last of it, except that when the mere customer was on her way she said to herself, having no one else handy: “I wish I had played up to that old girl's vanity. I might have got a paragraph out of her. Waffles and sweetbreads for Sundays! Huh! And 1 used to be used to waffles and fried chicken any old morning in the year!” Which shows the sameness of hu- man nature, whether you are going to take a train or have just come home from church. P. S.—Personal: To the writer who asked about the old lady who was robbed 1 have to own up that I lost your address and don’t know how to get word to you that I have found some one who might fill the place, as requested. If you answer, it will at least give me a chance to apologize on a nice card—by hand. 1 Many Christians in Tokio. There are 200 Christian churches in Tokio, all with Japaness pastors, ac- cording to Rev. Willlam Axling of Jupan, in a report to the American Foreign Missions’ Conference. Tokio boasts also of 250 Christian Sunday schools, with an attendance of 25,000 Christian youths. He reported that the dreamy tranquillity af Toklo, more heard of in fiction than seen in recent years, is rapldly passing, due to the increasing American activity which is following the work of the Chris- tian churches. When Peru recently bought 150 pure- bred sheep from Scotland to improve local strains the sheep were accom- panied by a Scottish shepherd and five ampion Scottish sheepdogs. i 21 MEDALS TO LIFE-SAVERS. Service Records Rewarded by American Red Cross. Service medals for more than 200 hours of life-saving duty were awarded by the American Red Cross yesterday to three residents of the District. The presentation was made at Red Cross headquarters by Com- modore W. E. Longfellow, chairman of the life-saving committee of the District chapter. The recipients were: Over 200 hours, Mary Asenath John- son, 3521 New Hampshire avenue; over 400 hours, Elizabeth C. Brown, physical director at Gunston Hall; over 300 hours, John E. O'Brien, stu- dent at Georgetown University. All three are rated as examiners in life-saving and Miss Brown's medal covered more than four years of serv- ice and contained two service bars in addition, covering more than 400 | hours of voluntary duty. Bison Called Tame ;{ow, W. L. Lillie, popularly known as “Pawnee BIIL” in appealing to the Interstate Commerce Commission for | a lower frelght rate on buffalo, said | it was a mistake to classify bison ak wild animals, like tigers and ele- phants, and place them all under the same classification as to freight rates. He maintalned the remaining bison are as tamed as many mllk cows. He argued that the propagating of buffalo would be impeded if the old wild-ani- | mal rate continued to prevail. The George Heroit education trust, founded by the court jeweler to Jam VI at Edinburgh, now has an annu income of $446,000 and assets of more than $5,000,000. | POLICE JUDGE McMAHON IS FETED IN COURTROOM Bench Is Bower of Blooms as Vet. eran Magistrate Again Takes Oath of Office. Judge John P. McMahcn was offi- cially sworn in to succeed himself as senlor judge of the Police Court of the District of Columbia, the mony taking noon at 3:30 courtroom bede sent by friends and adm clate Justice Wendell the District Supreme Court istered the oath. The term will be for six years. Bailiff Richard Hughes acted as master of ceremonies and proceeded Justice Stafford and Judge McMahon into the courtroom after the latter ha signed the oath in his off tice Stafford, with flowing cended the be and Judge Mahon took hi: tion in front a suming for th the part of a lawyer maki plea A reception was held, lasting nearly two hours, followed. Judge McMahon was felicit by the e uded many ing merchants of the cit the lezd- Hot-Water Fish Found. 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