Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1926, Page 45

AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. MMY JANE of near-Washing- ton, sailed Saturday for Lon- don with a contract that means oodles of money a week. She already owns a fittle house down in her neck of the woods, but when she gets back she tmeans to treat herself to something handsome that £y will® cost real money—not _ that €he prefers Wash-.«¥" | 3t ngton, but you — L% @ee her mother lived here when &% ghe was a girl and - .48 buried here— which is a real ood reason, see- ng that you can- not ask for any- thing more real than death. Withonut being certain, it may be that you have been told about Emmy Jane be- fore this, but, any- how, she is worth going over twice, because Her story, though a little one, ‘would Be hard to match. After her mother's death Emmy June became a sort of little orphan Annie, whicn means that she worked without wages In the country until four yvears ugo at partridge hunting time. Then, as she would tell you, she went to neaven in an automobile —though, ot course, it wasn't heaven but Baltimore, which is some different. To which was added a hospital with & white robed angel giving her some- thing icy in a spoon. And it all came to pass beeause Mother Nature, in freak of praunkishness, gave a poor country child a genius for making foney as casy as falling off a log. For Emmy Jane had a wonder-voice hat could do everything but sing here wasn't a creature on the farm that gruntea, or mooed, or chirped, or g:llz?d, or whistled that she couldn’t \itate equai to real. That is why she was hiding In the bushes, that partridge-hunting. time; trying to drum up a vcovey of birds she had flushed ‘n an upper fleld. And a big, iddle-nged: sportsman. from the city - Baltimore—took a shot and sniped Emmy Jane. He whizzed her up to the hospitat and when she was well enough she told the nurse and the @octor how 1t happened. You see, he thought I was a par- tridge bec e this is the way a artridge drums—and Bob White calls ke this—and hcre is the catbird— &nd this is old Blossom lowing for ber calf. Now I'm an old sow—and now I'm her litter of pigs—and this §s the way the trees rustle in the wind—and here’s how the rain comes down on the roof and against the window panes.’” Just to show how things can hap- cen in this world, the doctor man rought in a patient to be amused at Emmy Jane's goings on, and the pa- tient, being a bi k in vaudeville, made her go through her stunts, un- knowing. In a little while he had #tarted ber on the road In her own lit- tle single act, which went so big that the West kept her out therc long enough to earn u little cottuge for the old lady she d lived with—a nice, tight little place, where draught couldn’t get in nor windows rattle like at that gone-to-seed ‘vld farm- house that had heen built in y one. And now she has gone (o show Europe what she can do. * ok K ¥ ‘HIS world has come 1 pass—with pork choj You"d and apples as me oes. a pretty 0 cents a y as pota- The lady who pronounced this dic- tum had for aundience a batch of work-tired men and women waiting on a loading platform for a car to whiz along. She had just come from Baturday afternoom market—-with a cord bag to prove it. Through its meshes bulged paper packages of vari- ous browns, vellow bumps that were yutabagas, some long salks of friz- gled-tipped celery and a tin can of coffee, which, though she may not know it, is gong to give her a time when she tries .to pry the top off. If<you have genius and a penknife pou can manage it, but 'if you go at & ld with your kitchen shears you have to béar the br i & Christia y butcher, ‘I can re- ‘when pork was 8 gents a pound,’ and he ‘Yes'm. That was when we pai r drivers $10 a week; now they are getting near five times that ount.” “What do you think of that? Me getting only fifteen a week and have to pay big money for pork just so a @river man can own a home and run &n automoblle in his off hours—isn't that the truth, Eliza?" » Eliza obviously 8 not of the opin- *:’n that the mightiness of truth must proclaimed. She answered the query with a little admonitory frown that tried its best to stem the talk, but—people will have their say. When I lived “1 says to th member,’ says ‘And look at apples! home in the country apples had juice in 'em—regular apples that kept the doctor away. But what do they taste like now? Dry and mealy like, as if prohibition had taken all the juice out of ‘em for fear it would turn into cider. And you used to could get pig feet for nothin’ if you were a regular customer, and all the liver you wanted for the cat—unless, of coyrse, it was lamb instead of cow. The good old times have gone to pot, and Lor' knows what's goin' to happen after we are dead an’ burfed!” Strangers around listened affably and cut eyes at each other, and one oldish man put himself -into the monologue: “I used to live in the country, too, 2 long time ago, but I don’t seem to vecall street cars. If we couldn't ride because the hdrses were at the plough we had to walk miles to get anywhere, ~r stay at home—isn’t that so, friend? The bag was lugged to the other v and the relief may have had a soothing effect, for the purveyor for aste~ to come smilrd with a heart- iness that brought a buried dimple to a somewhat pulpy cheek. “Indeed, you are right! Many’s the ‘ime I've had to stay home because the team was working and the roads were mud.” “And while prices are high, we l_ll seem to get along pretty well, don’t you think?” He had struck a snag: - . “No, _Sirree! I'm only gettin’ fitteen dollars a week. You see, my husband away all day, and while his job is a pretty soft one at good pay. I feel like I might as well be helpin a little—especially, as my two daugh- ters are in office. ‘“‘But, all the same, if T had to depend on that little old fifteen, how could I buy pork chops at fifty cents a- 2 Then the car stopped.and every- body scrimmaged aboard except one woman who had to wait for the next. And when she got to her apartment and had turned on the lights in her three rooms, and put fresh flowers at her shrine, and got into a kimono and blue slippers, and told the dear lonely place how she loved every inch of it, she got out a pad and pencil and tabbed down the woman—Ilike this. . * Ok ok X TO the dullard who can see noth- ing extra in a primrose, the col- lection of uniforms over at the museum means so many historic gar- ments and nothing more. To_ the lucky possessor of a mind's eye, how- ever, each musty old dud bears wit- ness to the personality of a wearer whose name is immortal and whose body is dust. It is a great show and as you linger among the almost living reminder of a past that can never die, something makes you realize how men dare to follow wherever a flag leads the way. All of which is to introduce a some- what withered lady in the neatest black you ever saw, who stood before a case of uniforms that bespoke a valor that was not victory in every thread of Confederate gray. + “They don’t look tidy, do they?" And the woman standing alongside knew by the primly proper attitude of the withered lady’s steel specs and carefully furled gloria, that every- thing in that great and silent place, flags, uniforms and battle-tarnished swords would be all the better for a HEADACHE FROM A COLD? 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NOVEMBER One man— workman variety — did pause Iong enough to say to the (presumably) wife with him: “If that chap aidm’t look like he offhed a car and had money in bank, I should say he was starving and I'd take him in and stake him to a feed.” “‘Come on,-you old foolish thing.” The woman gave him a little push that meant affection streaked with fun, and the man came on. 2. Then a boy— teeth-shedding age, big white tushes between gaps—plant- ed himself at the window and looked at the man and then at the ples. After he had looked at the ples he concentrated on the man again. And ' 1926—PART 1. Cy for the fiest time, the man took no- GOV, WHITEFIELD FACES AMPUTATION OF LIMB Mississippi Executive Said to Be| g, Suffering From Bone Disease Following Injury at Tennis. tice: “Like pies, son?"” The boy gave entirely satisfactory assent, “Good. I'm glad to hear it. 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