Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 33

AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE T is adage doctrine that every-| thing comes in_ handy once in seven years. Here's a small| proof: | Back in war times, when the | country was appealing to women to| take courses in first ald training, one | <:.iotic little person signed up at a Rospital under a physiclan who later did wonder-things in France, The needs of wounded hu- manity were 1l lustrated by" a skeleton that served as chart. It had been a long time since Adam Eone had walked the earth, but his wired body re- sponded to_every touch with the agllity of a Follies &irl, and the dra- matic uncertainty as to his present whereabouts added no little to the inspiration of the class. His gray and withered arm might have been & leaden pipe, but at the first touch of bandage it took on the “atmosphere of & wounded soldler—an object les- son that no student could forget. When the course was through, and the doctor had awarded to the little | person a certifi bility in | the matter of surg ings and | <o on she kept in training by band-| aging all arms and legs kindly friends | would stand for, until—ju s she was on the alert for a war call—the armistice came along. That was about seven years ago— wnd the doctor, Adam Bone, and the surgical dressings were all stowed away on a back shelf of memory; so much knowledge gone to waste— until, all of a sudden, last week, a direful emergency brought it to the front. A pipe had sprung a lea The small person—a home-loving body with a pretty house of her own— gasped a phone call to her plumber, vou know about plumbgr rushed always you have to wait your turn—and there was that pipe leak- ing, drip, drip, drip— Being a resourceful small person, ehe investigated the pipe, and the leaden look of it suggested Adam Bone. And Adam Bone suggested bandages: so: She turned the water off, got out her plaster, rags and so on, and went to work on the leaden pipe us if it had been Adam’s leaden arm, and— You know how we can work ourselves up into emotional heights —the wounded pipe became a soldler and the leaking water so many drops of blood. And after the treatment was over— the plaster laid on with gentle surety and the sterilized batting and soft strips of linen crossed and recrossed und wound around until the first aid- ing was done to a turn—the same as if it had been leaden Adam Bone In- stead of leaden pipe—the small per- son turned on the water, and, lo, she was able to use that pipe until the plumber took charge—a matter of several days. Which seems to prove—allowing no one objects—that no matter how we discard an apparently useless some- thing in a cobwebby corner of the family attic, or the dusty top shelf| of memory's “has been.” it will be sure to come In handy at the end of seven years. Unless, of course, it doesn't. You really never can tell. * ¥ ox k HAT French lecturer mistaken about human nature having gone out of fashion. It is still in style, good, bad, but never in- different—provided you get the right slant. A man who was smoking at his front door last Sunday as his wife passed out on her way to church called after her in what he doubtless intended to be a humorous vein, but was nothing short of a desire to say something disagreeable for the sake of enjoying his words: “Off to church, huh? What's the use? Doesn't make you any better for going that I can see.” “Church is the place for sinners.” The woman said it with the cheerful philosophy that accepts a brick now @nd then for the sake of an occasional bouquet. *“And don't leave the door open when you go in—it’s right chilly | this morning.” | The husband, conscious of another man—a roomer—in the vestibule on his way out—volced a second pleas- by way of farewell: The way you women race to church gets me—groves were God's first temples—" “But the wife was on her way. The roomer passed out onto the step and the man shook the ashes from his cigar and proffered a word of advice: “Best woman ever lived. When wou get ready to marry, son, be sure and choose a churchgoer. As long as a wife keeps up to her spiritual be- liefs she is all right. I've been mar- ried 10 years, and I know." “But you just told her the groves were—"" The husband grinned, and thel roomer, with the right kind of smile went somewhere for his s And that was all there was to it ex cept that you may have noticed that— People who scorn churchgoing have a chronic habit of telling those | who do go that the groves were God's first temples. This is a beautiful fact, but, also, you must have ob- served that those who advocate ex- clustve worship in nature's cathedrals never go to the woods except when | the weather is just right for picnics. ! If they are what jazzy gents call “classy.” they will clinch their argu- ment by telling vou to look at the Drulds. As most of us are too brain- ful of everyday goings-on to keep | tab on those way-back pagans in | white robes and leaf crowns who | used to ring-around-a-rosy under | mighty oaks and kowtow to fires they | had built on rustic altars, we let it Zo at that, forgetting, usually, to re- mark that to look at Druids when their rites included human sacrifices was not a pleasant sight. Nature must have meant more than cordwood and lumber when she gave us those first temples, and, as we are assured that nothing that has lived | can ever die, it may be—it may be— 1hat after we have fought the battle | we call life, and our leaf-green streets have become for us things ! that were but are not, we may be! le to say with that other dying warrior- ‘Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” But in the meantime: The French lecture man was all wrong_about human nature having Zone bye-bye. For one instance: Consider the Sunday morning man. * ook ok ‘AT the base of the Columbus Mon- ument today a wreath bears tes- timony to the splendid fact that the great mariner was the discoverer of a world we call our own. Clothed in the white majesty of marble, he stands at the prow of his vessel, but in the eyes that look outward, there 3s no reminder of a past that knew him as an adventurer into unknown deeps; his gaze is fixed on the sea of Time, and the remoteness of ex- is entirely Lana LANCASTER. somehow has missed the hardy sea man who was called Columbus in hi time. It is a penalty that stone ex- acts of cl Now a house is thing. It can retain the blood of any departed greatness that ever lived under its roof-tree, and put in_his memory a pulse-beat not to be achieved by any chisel the little stone home in Gen Columbus lived in his youth was only Christopher to flesh and days, the Phone a more canvineing | If you go to | a, where | THE SUNDAY neighbors around, you will see for yourself. Just to stand In front of the an- cient little house is to vision his com- ings and goings; his small pleasures and great aims. The house, stone, of course, is on a street that overlooks the port and blue gulf beyond. Near | by stands a monument which a proud |Genoa has raised in honor of her son. The colossal figure, towering above the street, also looks outward, but in the eyes there is no dream of a vovage that won a world. His e, like that of our own Columbus, is fixed on the sea of Time, and his |body expresses only the beauty of | sculptured tone. 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But at that the build- ers had to economize space, and though there are today lovely parks and grounds for the many palaces and galleries and public institutions, most of the houses are packed to- gether as closely as cards in a deck. There wasn't room in the older parts of the city to spare even for an inch of ground—and as most ot that part of Italy is built on hills of rock, it stands to reason that, having no out- side space to dry their laundry, the women have to string thelr wash outside the windows of their homes. And even worse than that many housekeepers in the older portions of Genoa and other cities are com- pelled to use public washing places; take their baskets of soiled clothing to the nearest one, bring home the wet things, climb their seemingly everlasting stairs, and hang things across balconies, at windows, and any other outside spot convenient, then—do it all over, again and again In the face of all this there are people who will tell you that the Italians are a_shiftless people—and use their wash-hung windows as a proof. They are the same people who, it they had no wash trays in their homes, nor yards, nor hot and OCTOBER 18, 1925—PART 1. cold water, but had to walk squares to a public washing place, tugging their baskets of clothes both ways, and then have to climb and climb up narrow, dark steps—for the ancients were not able to meet modern de- mands in stafrways—would stand | themselves on pla rms and tell the world of the unbearable sacrifices they were called on to endure. Look | at us now, even when we say things | like this: g “I'm only having my washing done every other week now; prices are so outrageous I really can't afford| e “I tell Sam he will have to be care- ful of his shirts because I have no servant, and I'm just not able to let him change so often—-" But every day is wash day in Ttaly —judging by her windows. 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