Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 48

AROUND THE CITY NNIE F you say “bal- moral” to your great- grandmother, she will tell wou about the one She had when a girl. If you have no great-grandir Y 3 | convenient, why-—~ N ‘ ancient sou from T and was | hs, into | most | " zht these days of shim- es, but it must have to old bones, and wha 8 kely, and old | 1 of long-burfed duds that were treasure to the iment colo and somehow len the | soul's wa vhow: It wa to see that self no was ous glances w course, but she was such a_cheerf sturdy old lady that no one felt called upon to treat her free show, until two girls came toward her. As they approached, they giggled in her When they had passed her, they giggled behind her 3 Never having known that Queen Victoria :d on balmorals and tus everybody wore them in that idy day, when all the great-grandmothe were girls—hefore the poor tnings had |; s of youth to take on the girls just gig- nd gigeled. ok who's escaped her eage!” This remark was the airy work of the young pel n, pretty bunch of dais but with a squeak to her voice that a little petti- coat of her own would have remedie The other, being of an exploring turn, had darted back to the ancient soul and asked her where she got her new style and would she give her the name of her dressmaker? With the honesty that comes easler with one's decades, the ancient one was glad to explain: “A friend was breaking up house- and had to sell a lot of old and as I alway wanted a balmoral n they were in fashion, I paid her $2 for the suit and $1 for 4 muff as good as new, except in one little spot you can hide. She gave me a baby's rocker like I used to have—gray wood with a pink rose on the back, and I paid her a half dol- lar for a safe with a tin door with lit- tle holes stuck in it the shape of a bird. Don't vou think it was a bargain?” ‘And she gave a little whirl to the wide ekirts that showed the balmoral stripes to great ad beyond all un- girls expressed at the cheap- noral and sent the old soul on her way beaming. Whereupon that thing we call hunch said to a woman who had been listening in: “I told vou it was an old trunk. Don't you see how right I always am u a tip?” n said to the hunch: “But it wasn't death. It was just a moving— Then she stopped, because the hunch had vanished: the old woman was on her way and the two_giris had danced into the square above, which, of course, ended the situation. * % % ¥ H told the lady of the house that he had called to see his father on . and was he home The lady of the house, having asked the name of the father, who had a room in her house, replied that he had gone out. The answer brought lines between the son's eves, and his volce was grim: “I'm sorry, because I want to see him on business.” The lady v touched by the desperate disappointment, and asked in the nice way that most women have “How old are you, son? And what 1s your busine I might tell him when he comes in." “I.am 4 years old and go to school “Kindergarte: s little as you ar The visitor strajghtened up and Bave his cap a hitch “Naw. Reglar school. First grade =1 come to tell my father that if he don’t pay my board, I won't have no home, because the old lady won't have no money to keep me. “I certainly am sorry he is outy But it you have to leave your home, honey, you speak to a policeman—-" “I will. Il tell him I been flun® out because the old lady hadn’t no money to keep me, because my father dtdn't p Then he turned to an older boy—say 10—who must have towed the younger to the right address—"Come on. We kad all our walk for nothin.” All of which would be too trifiing to mentlon, except that: What becomes of the world-wide theory that childhood is happily free of the cares of age? * % ¥ % IF you travel and travel, you will come to a wonder city where there are no streets nor trees, and wh you are to spend a week In a palace that has ard because, instead of green grass, there is only green water —which means vou will be in Venice— & fairyland come true. If you get there at dusk, s will scramble out of an all- and through a station, with no loftier longing than supper and sieep, but At first sight of the glory of water starred with gay lights—of black boats that would be black blots except for swaying lanterns, the tinkling of mu- sic and the unstudied laughter of youth, you forget everything you have ever read or heard tell of “the Queen 0f the Adratic”—Sceing things makes a difference—and you move along in rhapsodic rment while your hotel gondolier s you on a_comfy cushion, and a bit later hands you over to porter waiting for you on the top of a flicht of marble steps— the others are 1 And there you ar 4 splen- diferous hotel—a thousand years old, maybe, but dolled up with every lux- ury by some foreign hotel king, whose electric- studded name clashes against the Iridescent atmosphere like the smash of hammer on crystal. You have a five-course dinner in a vast place of marble and ferns and foun- tatns, where, instead of our pink crepe paper shades, the clectric bulbs glow under wide-branching chandeliers, wall sconces and great standards of glas bouquets in nature colors. Then yo g0 to sleep in a room of pink veivet and creamy stone, under a canopy of lace—in case of mosquitoes—blown in by the Adriatic. And of which there | jacketed waiter to wour vour coffee v lert in the sun; the one man with his LANCASTER. scoop in the universe, regardless of or cial condition, just to body have a share in your en- Joyment. It isn't tpat romantic emo- tion that calls for the time, the place and the girl, but just the outbreaking of something inside of you that wants | to divide & sure that may never come ag: > same way you feel | at some and on top of nigh ! hills and way, way out on the ocean at night, provided the water is smooth ) to let the moon make a_soldy- afraid and fear is always selfish fear that may have been herited from some piratical a who had to walk a plank—or be just common nerves, but anyhow: You wanted y t alms grow cned by Howering ® little table with _pos a scalloped mat to match your napkin, snowy- 1 milk together in your cup, and ve you your choice between orange iarmalade and deep crimson plum jam. The rest of the menu will be half-moon rolls. And while you are so rateful for your sunbeam that you h your your grace for 1o third time, u our balus- le and watch the sondolas Ko by— iness men on their way to banks 1 shops and factores; tourists, goi coming trainward; 1 mainland, cargoed with_ fruits zetables and poul- try for the feeding of Venice for the day-—every boat as clean as a bride's flat—when a bride keeps a clean flat— rd from first to last as dry as a des- one oar keeps his gondola going so ling free of the crabs that ama- teur oars catch now and then that no drop of water ever shows either inside his boat or on its outer sides. Nobody ever stumbles getting in or out, and, though every one likes exciting news, there was never the first hint of any ident ever happening any day— h, it must be admitted, is hard on whose dispositions call for tragedies—provided they don’t happen to themselves. Having no universe for breakfast you leave your fairy plaza for wide marble corridor which passes the side entrance where vou landed and leads thro another imposing portal to—land! It begins with a huge near, occupied an ancient *h, enriched with sculpture and mosaics, and with dim_shadows that fit in with prayers—and then—then a street of shops—Jjewel boc embrof- derfes, lace, mantillas, fans—everything —only you can’t stop, because you want to get to St. Mark’s In_time to see the glant bronze men in the clock tower hammer out the hour, and which tourists flock to in apparent thousands. After that you might take a turn with the countless pizeons, but being used to pigeons in your home town, vou go in the cathedral that was first started in 828 and rebuilt a number of times, each structure more splendid than the one before. That seems quite a way back, counting by the calendar, but Venice had already celebrated a couple of hundred birthday anniversaries, hav- ing fled from the world’s champion tyrant, Attila the Hun, and elected her first doge in 697. The first church of St. Mark’s shel- tered the relics of St. Mark, which had been brought from Alexandria, when the Moslems plundered the city, and the body of th: int now rests be- neath the high altar. In the matter of £old and jewels, the altar is admitted to be one of the greatest treasures in all the world, but, somehow, when vou kneel there, it is only St. Mark that counts. You know, within yourself, that the next time you come to the cathedral you will want to see mo- saics and sculptures and world-famed ontributions that have made a literal museum of the church, but, having made yvour pilgrimage to St. Paul, who lies under an altar on the site where he was beheaded—in the eternal city—you feel, somehow, that vou owe a personal vigil to the writer who stands next to Matthew of the four who wrote the gospels. And while you are kneeling, a voung voice laughs out in comic confidence to the other girl along “I'm as honest as the next, but it I could lay my hands on these dia- monds and rubies without being caught—I'd go home loaded.” Stop eavying Diunerany) étudéba,ker! UPSET STOMACH, GAS, INDIGESTION Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, —Stomach Feels Fine! So pleasant, so inexpensive, so quick to settle an upset stomach. The moment “Pape’s Diapepsin” reaches the stomach all pain and dis- tress from indigestion or a sour, gassy were no signs. 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