Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1926, Page 32

EOPLE seldom mean harm; they just do it—which is the only excuse to be made for the hu- man hive that swarmed around a man the other afternoon. The man was sprawled on the bricks— don't ask where he got it—and a crutch lying alongside attested to the Juability of wo 10 adapt itsell to the intricacies of the grapevine tavist. There was a dis- torted foot. that sbvlously added to the humor of the situation. Every ime the man tried to seramble up and failed. the crowd made up of four decent-looking citi- 7ens, a sport suit or two, feminine mender, and ra tags of the usual run— snickered in hilarious unison and when the poor in aimless r ous combu he whimpered out well, sir. it And when, at last, that he wanted his wife was as good as a cireus It didn’t seem to pecur to anybody around that the ave fought against tempta re it laid him low-a weak i with n i stone in his sling. 1t was downright funny, don't vou know! world: And on this re. ves n policenman « atter another bit a patrol wa whizzed up to the curl The law is not hun leeman to uote one looker-on didn’t even crack ile us he lifted the cripple to his and lumbered him into the wagon. He actually treated were & human being ok % % ous. The po him ax if he 7OU know that branze History posed at the bas Garfield statue A sort of magnetism in his toes. can tell. Splendid bare toes, they are, that ovi and stretch out invitingly to every tiny child that comes along. And so general i8 the | spted that in street playing seasons you are liable at most any time to catch some toddler adventuring over the green sew of grass o where it pipe out This little ) This little pig For harbinger of thi; —one must have harbi went o market pring sport vs, like the first robin, and that very firstest lit-| tle white wind flower that bobs up un- der the protection of the piney woods —and in this case, the child-herald combined the two. For her cheeks were red as a robin's breast climed to be. but isn't. and blossom could be more snow-white than ermine, with the black tails left out and trimmed all around with swansdown She was toddiing around the field curve, hand in hand, girlish mother, who had strapped over her other sight of the Inviting toes she gu joy and dragged mamma over o the Classic figure of History. intent on his tablet Iy intent. the child tickled the and then pectancy to History made no response, but mamma bubbled iaughter, and baby went on with her play s ‘itty pig wenta marky, 'is ‘itty is ity is it pig stay home. ‘itty pig do. mom- plg—what did is ma?” Mamma. gloriousiy voung enough for comradeship, took a hand in the game and not only piloted the pig who hed roast beef, but also the littlest pig that cried wee. wee, all the way home. And it was lovely to watch the two. Then mamma backed away a bit, un- strapped the camera and made a snap of the harbinger. It will, doubtless, develop satisfactorily— ask any photographer—amateur—who takes ‘a chance on a curve—and, of course, the baby child will forget all about it—unti One of these days. way ahead in the future, & woman, with her illusions of life faded in the wash of tears that flow into the lives of most women. may look back in memory to that fig- ure of History, as a pilgrim remem- bers a shrine—because of the child she used to be, and of a mother who had helped her to play a childish game and who was forever gone. And the memory will help her must. Because, doesn’t the basso in “The Bohemian Girl” sing it for that “memory is the only friend that grief can call its ow And did you ever come across any one who could contradict him? 2 HE had on frivolous black with lace fixings—with a big bunch of silk violets pinned on the collar of [ g v h V| Would ® | him can veach up and | 1 us | THE CITY LANCASTER. w fur coat—seal that was muskrat. And she was telling another woman that she had decided to marry agsin. She had been so lonely’ since her husband’s death — “with Mazie too wrapped up in her family to need her mamma any more, and the boy dead —vou may remember I lost him in the war. Of course, my daughter ob- jects, but she has no right to. It's true Donald is a little younger than 1 am, but, as he says, what difference does that’ make? And, my dear, he loves the very ground I walk on! Just as full of fun as a boy, and sing—I h you could hear him sing!—Just mple little wedding, you Lnow-— and be sure and come and see me; 1 want vou to hear Donald sing—I was ppointed that neither of my en sang. Some wag, 1 could never get interested in my son's work. crazy over art, you may re member. Dear boy, he and his father | seem like fading dreams. Don't for- get, now--we'll be gone about two months. 1 insisted on treating to a | little trip to Bermuda and Panama.’ The other woman looked as pleas- {ant as any photographer could ask of a sitter, but what she thought was S | w little something like this—folks in | Bermuda and Panama won't see the paper It two mature people who have lost the loves of their youth and are lonely, Join partnership, it means comrade- | Ship without disloyalty to the past And comradeship is a most wonderful thing, but—— vou—would you exchange | the memory of a good and manly hus- band for a tenor “full of fun,” who would keep you forever keyed up to an agonizing pitch, trying to be as youn he is, knowing of that ever- | uecpening something in your face | that only time can put there? And | the son, whose art, the mother never caved for The woman's memory went back to | the day he said good-bye to his fellow | workers—as white as a snowball In { his ensign uniform, before sailing for who knows where? And as he spoke with gallant un- | concern of what might be coming to ft was noted—by the woman on | the side— that into the face and man- Iner of each colleague had come a touch of that awed something we feel for people who walk in the shadow of death. They didn’t know it, but it was there. And when the little gust of fare- well friendliness was over and the last prophet to predict a distinguished return was rushing his drawing board to make up for lost time the woman { stopped her own work long enough to | wonder—in case the boy was called on to voyage over that uncharted sea that man may travel but once— if the Great Admiral of all navies would land him on an eternal shore | to wing the ways of light with other | huloed beings, or if he would say to | the harbor master boy: loved art. Let him learn ar [ “If T was that harbor master”— the woman said it to herself, for nat. urally no sensible worker in busi- | ness "hours would bother to listen to | such foolishness—"if I was that har- bor master I would put him to work on the seasons, so that he could learn how colors get into flowers, and to find out—at last—how many greens vou have to use for fields and break- | ers and trees. And I'd show him how | to tint the mists that no painter hds | ever been able to get on canvas, and the way to make every prism of the ght that was never on land or sea. And when he was through with that 1'd teach him how to—" “Look this word over, please. 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Strause, representing the minority stockholders of the De- troit, Toledo and Ironton, filed the petition and requested a reopening of the case. —— The Department Council of Admin- istration met recently at department headquarters, 921 Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast, with Department Reports by Senoir Vice Comdr. No- Reports by Senior Vive Comdr. No- lan, on the sick, and Junior Vice Comdr, Michaud, on employment and veterans’ joint committee, were re- ceived. The good and welfare com- mittee was Instructed to arrange for a banquet to be given in the name of the department to Commander-in- Chief Carmai Thompson on a date convenient to him. Acting Inspector Willlam 1. Jen- kins of Harden Camp was elected to Metal Bed, Layer-Felt Mattress and Spring-—all for $2475 The entire outfit is absolutely guaranteed D. €, MARCH fill the vacancy in that office, caused by resignation of Past Comdr. Davis. The legislative committee, through Past Department Comdr. 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