Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 38

AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE swipe from Marcus 7 Aurelius, and D up Plato as our own—maybe —but when it comes to cribbing from Bob Inger soll, before an ancient gentleman who | Lised to know him—Cave Canum! | The Bob-man was rone of a & bunch — coterie—in a small room of wu bigZ - hotel, attending Jecture by “th most remurkable speaker ever heard’ o sense, Wi Next to the Bob. man sat @ she . who in_her A | of { adopte as an_elder brother, and Plato s her literary | Pa Gtherwise, | she didn't count | The remarkuble van along | Yeautifully, skimming ideas from | elassic originals and adopting them his own—until he got to @ high plic where he felt A on to eritici that Architect of whom we believe all | things and know nothing. He, him-| self, could have made i better| world “old and Had 1 ereated this world, 1 piade health catehir Al death are mistakes. instend _ of | with an} halted by the him in the| sver before | used doin | broke | the | Bob-man bolted in ruption, which wits -hermit, who Jabbed And ns she had . he naturadly v e wi nch: e and nder liure Py, cautiol wa w0 wy . Jatd for e it. th out in a protest wis huried “Let him be h Ir he Ingersoll’s foolish th “It is a splendid idea my friend. Ingersoll. said, health : this world would | h—" i It would make miserable that vou and T and every- body would be crving out to Pather Time to hurry up with his scythe. How do you suppose we would be able to turn around or raise crops if no- body died? As it is, a big lot of us Jive too long to suit young folks hankering for our shoes. This world is all right. And when the time comes, we will find that the Power| that knaw enough to build it is quali- | fied to make a better one. But, when | it comes to Ingersoll, I could beat his | plan all to smash.” The Bob-mun took commendable pleasantry and as for details—but it isn't polite to t while a lecture is going on, so the she hermit subsided, to consider s fith herself—you know how < have to live and live—alone: If T had td make a world. I would Jet my humans grow to half the Bible limit, and then turn them ward until they died of choleri infantum. There would be no loneliness or heart- | breaks of old age, and none of the terrors of death—just childhood and vigorous middle-uge, with the experi- ences of the first half of the journey -to help out in the round trip to the | nursery——." “Look at the women, will you' My wife is one of them: lathering com plimenrts on that fake—steal his | thunder from my friend. Ingersoll. It | would serve him deuced right if T was to show him up before the iwhole erowd.” | But he didn't. of course. seeing that o man or woman outside the cad class ever humiliates a fellow being before those who believe in hini. And the Bobman was not that kind. Nelither was the hermit. CHURCH is a 1 the father | s my dear lady. | us so the b silent place on a weekday, but one woman, who ilent places. went through an | ever-open door and slipped into a pew | far down the aisle. People came in, | Knelt a few moments, and went again, but one man remained enough to concentrate attention. His face was old and brown pr ful. And his hands were a little child is taught to pray. When you are in a big. silent church | on a weekd vou think ecurlous things. To the woman, it seemed that | though her own earth-earthy eyes | could see but a light glowing | erimson before a 1 altar, it might | be—it might he al rigidly upright fizure was one of the | Wise Kings, come a and that | once more he had followed Star, of course, he couldn't e king, because When she saw him outside, he was | just a peanut peddler with a pusheart. | 1 | Hkes 1t but | been | HIS is about a man with a prob- lem. There was another man on the side, but he didn't count, except for scenic detail. And, if vou are gifted with second sight, vou might | have noticed ¢ figure in the | background—in white. With wings! The problem took the shape of a sil- ver quarter. And the man who owned | 1t held it on an extend=d palm, as he soliloquized his indecis. ther to spend it on a shive, or a 1 of that something that the whole country seems to be buving, under cover- both of which he needed. “How about a couple of near heer: It was a o suggestion, but the man on the side might as well have | confided it to the electric standard | which was serving him just then, as| the Duke of Argyle's post served his shepherds. The other man kept shi -quarter so that the sunshine | into a spotlight. And on his face was the complacency of him who the power to obtain at least one of the boons of life. The man on the s might have posed as a life-size image of Envy. And the shadowy figure stepped unexpectedly into the fore- ground as if to take a hand in the! same i “At the worst, I can shave at home, but if I hunt up a little gin, my wite will be 0 “Please, sir, bu sold one, and I'm most starved.” She looked it. Furthermore, she| was a pathetically old and genteel sym ed being of all ing his a pencil. 1 haven't So the man forked over his quarter. And he will probably never give the incident another thought until—some time—some where—u voice Will say 0 him: [ “I was hungry. And vou fed Me.” | % k& AMSTERDAM —founded o 90 islands, guttered by miles of Hquid streets, and spanned by over 300 is called the Venice of the | But it is only the Kinship of | You respect the Dutch. but | you just Gearly love the Queen of the Adriatic. She is poetry and romance, | and there is about her the glamour of a gorgeous sunset—while the Dutch are plodding workers, with their noon- day yet to come. In Venice you hear singing on the moonlit water. In Hol- | land, where eternal vigilance is the price of existence, the tired fisherman is too fagged to sing. He just smokes and smokes and— When you have seen the sights of Amsterdam. paid tribute to bronze Rembrandt near the house he lived in, and gone into artistic_conniption fits over his “Night Watch"—the star can- vas in 2 museum packed with works of art—and had your peep at a ghetto section that is sordidly picturesque, you naturally take a trip to the waterland, which includes Volendam, Edam, and odd little Island of i | would like to have you send ould have lever and ever if you could I | the sen all around—and wear a white { thrill ! a man of | L. | The meeting is open to the public. | voung_women. | Spitzer, 915 Shepherd si |arts are in progress. i Walton, who leaves shortly for Cen- ! are among the a | The program h: LANCASTER. Marken that is merely a bump on the uyder Zee. ou start in a barge boat, gay with flags, and you duck your head when vou come to bridges. Then you lund omewhere and take a car ride to Vo- lendam. where the whole town seems dressed for a masquerade—the women in skirts over many ruffled petticoats, wooden shoes, high-necked, long- sleeved, basque-tight waists, and snowy caps with stiff-starched wings. The men are different to this extent When they are going to sea they wear blue yarn socks over thelr wooden shoes, for warmth, but, whether diked for land or water, their baggy bloom- give them a potty outline, though. ‘tually, most of them are lankily thin. The children—quaintest things s ever saw—Tfollow tourists, hand in hund, with a special eye for those who carry cameras. The guide leads a way along a brick path set in the meadow-green, and after you have trotted your little mile or more there you are at kEdam, where the cheeses come from.” You e the making of “pineapple” and “red apple” patterns and wish and wish vou could remember the address of some one in the United States who «a_couple Zand you drink a big glass of fresh- made buttermilk, and wish again that vou could treat every soul you ever knew. And for your own self, you feel that you would be perfectly happy for e in one of all over roses, the pretty wood hof nd with flower boxes in the windows with starched wings—and two rows of beads around your neck, and, maybe, Keep @ souvenir stand filled with white china pitchers, with blue ships on the side—and sell them touri ¢ you pay for them he 1t is a brief longing, squelched by the sight of baggy are zlad to get in & motor ship and be swished over to the little Island of Marken. It is a wonderplace for for each of these maidens of . it was told us, will marry only cap the s THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, SPANISH WAR VETERANS At the last meeting of Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, the following were mustered: Willlam A. Alrey Company K, 5th Maryland Volunteer: Harry Johnson, Company IE, 12th United States Infantr: Willlam H. Childs, Company G. 5th Maryland Volunteers; Louis B. Grenig, Compuny B. 47th New York Volunteer Infan- try; Wilhelm Fennel. Company C, 4th United States Artillery; H. G. Gar. rison, U. S. 8. Dorothea, and Ric C. Tiffey. 1st Virginia Volunt eral applications were rec the recruits will be mustered next meeting. At the meeting to be held March 2, the department com mander and staff will pay Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, an official visit A contribution was made to national headquarters toward the fund for placing a_tablet on a monument at Havana, Cuba, tomorrow. Department Comdr. Clarence A. Belknap an dhis staff paid an official visit to Col. John Jacob Astor Camp, No. 6, February 1. In his speech be- fore the camp the department com- mander stressed the necessity of newed activity to increase the mem- bership of the organization. New members were elected in Astor Camp. as follows: Henry Mayers Charles William_Derwin, Benjamin nd Floyd B Daughert Camp Comdr. ¢ - Feld: ser presided. At the last meeting of Richard J Harden Camp the following were mus- tered into active membership: Samuecl R. Highson, Company D, 3d Virginia Volunteers; Urban E. Goerner, Bat- K. 5th Artillery, and Jumes K. Lawson, Company E, 21st Kansans Past Department Comdr. Lee Harris, chairman of the Maine memorial committee, announced the completion of the program, and that extra- busses would leave the District of Columbia side of the Key Brid @ 6 p.m. P F. Marsha Meyers No. 15, of Montana, count of condition in the of Lawton Camp of Baltim. spoke of the zrowth and prosperi the camp. Past Department Comdr Samuel Mawson gave a talk on the beginning of the organization. Comdr. arken, and as a result there is a family resemblance that makes the whole island kin. They live in funny little houses, blue or brown, and you cannot wonder that they like to be themselves, when the guide lets vou know that Marken was once part of the mainland, but during a furlous storm it was roughly separated and tossed to itself in the sea. This catas- trophe made its few survivors the property of monks who owned most of the castaway land. but they sold the island in 1346 and never returned, and from that on the poor little place was nd ransacked by that when at last ame they huddled together for tion and united unanimously to fight for safety from the sea. And when you get back to your ho- tel at Amstesdam you are overloaded with souvenirs — queerly decorated plates, lttle ships, wooden shoes— just one pair—long-tailed edges of cro- chet and a blue china cow, which, deep down in your heart you feel that you are going to keep for your own e away next day. N ance committee will meet to- morrow noon at 614 I street. Mrs. A. Schaaff, chairman, will preside. Ida Winston rvay, who con- ed the recent building campaign for the Washington Y. W. C. A., will have returned from Roanoke and will meet with this committee. The Booklovers' Club, under the di- rection of Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, will meet Tuesday, 8 p.m., in the audi- torium of Mount Pleasant branch of the Public Library, Sixteenth and La mont streets. orite Paintings of samous People” will be the subject. The world fellowship committee will meet Tuesday, 2:30 p.am., at 614 E street. During the next two months the Young Women's Christian Asso. clations throughout the United States will make a special study of the prob- lems in China as they affect girls and Under the chairman- ship of Mrs. William Adams Slade the world fellowship committee of the lo- cal association will conduct its study. Recent communications _from Mi Margaret Breenecke, a Y. W. C. A. secretary in Chengtu, China, who is supported by the Washington associa- tion. will facilitate this project. The Princeton Chapter of the Y. W. €. A. will hold its next regular meet- ing at the residence of Mrs. S. F. reet, Nonday, p.m. The Dupont Chapter will meet Mon- day at 3 p.m. at the home of Mrs. H. L. Davis, 1241 Girard street. Miss Minnie andberg, secretary ¢ religious education, will open a se- ries of Lenten meditations this week at the Y. W. C. A. staff meeting, which occurs every Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. The subject will be: “Personal Reli- gion of Jesu The Golden Book class has begun its second semester study of the monthly periodical Golden Book under the direction of Miss Marian R. Miller. Familiarity of modern authors, as well work on the standard au- 15 8 se. Mem- bership to this class is open at any time. A nominal fee includes a vear's subscription to the magazine. Day and evening classes in practical Two new teach- ers have been added to the staff of the education department. Mrs. Sigred H. Stephenson, a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology and Teachers’ College, Columbia University, will teach the day and evening classes in dressmaking. The classes are limited to eight students so that each student i may receive individual instruction. Mrs. Raymond W. Bell, a graduate of Cornell University, will instruct day and evening cookery classes. This course appeals to many brides, but is adapted to the needs of both bachelor girls and home women. Miss Ruth A. Walton of the depart- ment of education will spend next week at her home in Philadelphia vis- iting her parents and_brother, Oscar tral China as a mission: During Miss Walton's absence Miss Dorothy Lyne of Philadelphia will take charge of the swimming classes and dips. The swimming pool at 614 E street will be closed on George Washingto: anniversary; the cafeterias at 614 F street and Twentieth and B streets will also be closed on February The reading rooms and parlors at the Administration Building will be open to the public all day. * A Girl Reserve rally for all grade schoolgirls in the southwestern sec- tion of the city will be held Wednes- day, "3:30 p.m., at the Marvin Baptist Church, Tenth and B streets south- west The Bon Secour Club will give a mu- sical Friday, 8 p.m., at the Girl Re- serve clubrogins, 1100 M street. Miss Helen Williams, pianist, and Priscilla Lane, cellist, members of the club, tists on the program. been planned by the club's adsisor, Miss Emily White. The proceeds will go toward the Girl Re- serves' pledge of $1,000 to the recent building campaign = 19,374_ Hawks Killed in 1925. Special Dispatch to The Star. ELKTON, Md., February 13.—Dis- trict Deputy Game Warden John An- derson reports that the State Game Department paid a bounty of 50 cents each on 19,374 hawks killed dur- James G. Yeadon of Lawton Camp | mentioned the increase in recruits | made by his camp Gen. M. Emmett Urell Auxiliary will give a valentine party February 17 at their hall. Meetings this week are: Monday, Col. John Jucob Astor Camp; Wednes day, Gen. M, Emmett Urell Camp Thursd Lfeut. Richard J. Harden Camp; Friday t. Georze Berry Camp: Monday, Dewey Auxiliary Wednesday, U Thurs day, Astor Auxiliary. STATE OFFICIAL CLEARED. | Bank Commissioner Acquitted in Parole Conspiracy. 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