Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1927, Page 34

AROUND BY NANNIE IGH up in the air--make it eight stories—there is a vast space where many Mergen thalers turn world news into type. Every machine means a printer. "And a printer it a man made in the likeness of, God—winnow the earth over and you won't find a better, but anyhow: The other day u nive young printer man sent a bit of note to a floor helow, to & woman at a desk. And the note went like return den- tist. T observed an Incident which you may be able to 754 fashion into a story for ‘Around the City’—I board- ed an east-bound Avenue car just as iwo other men got on. One of them held an umbrella with a folding han- dle which refused to fold. Getting on the car at Fifteenth street was an elderly lady with a youthful face. whom many of us know as the news lady who stands at Thirteenth and the Avenue, and at the Munsey Build- ing entrance every night. She took a side-seat opposite me. up by the motorman, and watched the man who was trying to make his umbrella han- dle slip into the rod. And failing. After a final effort to make the stick snap into position, he gave up. re. marking either to himself. his. friend or maybe the umbrella—— “‘It can't be done! “The sweet-faced newslady had smilingly- watched the operation nd1 responded to the man's exclamation “Never say “can't’! 1 had twe umbrellas Jike that. One was given to me and the other I won as a prize. 1 gave both away: still. I know how to make them behave: Push the han dle—that's it." the handle snapped into position and the incident—iikewise the umbrella— was_closed. Which gnat of a varn shows that there were two worthwhile peopie in ‘that car: The woman who helped, and the young man who appreciated her enough to pass on her kindliness. Lt Once in awhile something -spiendid happens: for a car to come along. 'They were | . | herders go Insane! ® train. There are bits of white cur- | {1 “And with the instruction given. Two men were waiting in the slush | “Dang THE CITY dear hot-water mountain, how 1 wish | T cduld have brought you along. State ¢ filled with ofl stoves and homesick women—giant trees and raw shingled f sap. The men { cabine that smeil {chop trees all 2 and burn the stumps at night 1t is too silent, &0 stupendous for the women. More end less miles of bix (rees, cabins and green allence—alw the primeval I mreen of forests -1 know now why | “Happy exeeption: There's a happy | voung thing In a blue-print frock with I» baby in her arms, and heside her a | leather-hrown 1 waving_ at the Itafns at the window and door, and a | glant stump serving for supper table has for centerpiece i bottle holding a fern. ‘There is twilight and honest love —oh. youngsters, take the ‘word of a homeless woman, there is no place like home. 3 | Canada in sight. 1 was right about | that chip. The small woman wants to | | resent the English fag. Call her chip | Patriotism. Get out to salute the Union Jack, | my protector for the next four days. Sure. Wasn't T British before Amer: | ica got on the map? Mount Stephen: Here overnigh | silver mine 2,000 feet up Stephen rock sides. : Adopted by weather-beaten man's | {party. They are P’a and Ma and | | Bunice and Eldorado. Pa has grubbed his millions out of mines, and shows ! for the work it cost him, | Ma is taking the family to Europe fo |'a duke or two—Eldorado ¢ ridicule Ma’s ambition, being engaged to a_ voung doctor at Tona- pah. Eunice seems receptive. Dukes for one. You have to like these peo ple, they are so frankly glad 1o be i Stop over at Banfl: Went to a won- der place—Indian gulde. Am afraid of cigar store Indians, but had to join the party. Proprietor says guide used | to be on the warpath and owned a | waistline of scalps—sold them to tour- | sts. Never harmed brown-haired peo- | ple—cause why: * Indian’s sick wife | was saved by & missioner priest who | had brown hair. Small Woman took a flight of fan and wished she was an eagle. o ths she could bulld an eyrie on the moun- tain top. I'd tather be the mountain. Thousands of cattle on ranch: All browsing or wallowing in the grass, | wading in a stream or lowing at calves | on other side of the wires. One big, | black fellow, penned near the track, w a board on its horns that says Vicious!” Who made him vicious? He has no soul, therefore | prosperous looking, and the one who did the talking had on a diamond ring. “Yes, sir,” he was saving, loud there is no devil to tempt him to he | pad. Having no future, it doesn't seem fair that he should have to be | enough for anybody around to hear,|setapart and deprived of the comforts | “that chap used to be a.$2.000 clerk|of his only life—no theolog in the same office ‘with me—and now | he’s cleaning off snow.” Everybody In hearing looked at t oldish ‘laborer, who was helping to elean the slush away e | Falls, which m old dear. | Stopped off for thé night, so that Ma could chaperon Pa up to Bow t a climb, a ride on a burro and a long pull by water. The old chap knows beautiful thin “Drink?” inquired the other man. |about mountains and deser ““Sober as a judge! Big family. forget his stooped shoulders and the | Wife always sick and daughters ex- One son went to the bad lasted so long that he lost his job. Pretty bad spell, I reckon, seeing he has limped ever since.” “I suppose his fellow clerks helped him out”” inquired the other man. The people around looked at the diamond-ring man for his answe; “Never heard about it, if they did. Much as we can do to hoe our own Tows. And by that time _the car had reached the platform and the people waiting got on-—all except the man who had asked question If he had| planned to keep with h the platform long enough to write | something on a card. Then he doubled | it over a greenback, wrapped the two | in a bit of paper he tore from a letter, | hailed a newsboy, gave him a coin and | & message, and stood to watch that g:; package was delivered to the man 0 was sweeping snow. Th | a walting passenger on the platform who had watched the pro- ©eeding eaid to herself: ‘Ot such is the Kingdom of Heaven * X % % HEN youth is dead and all our idols are broken crockery most of us grow a wholesome wisdom, like the pips on an Autumn rosebush after the blossom has faded away. We allow for all the sins as well all the evils that flesh is heir to and | Rt 1 e s Companion. | I GIRL SCOUTS. l poor mutilated,hand that was crushed by a falling bowlder. You listen to the | wise things and the glance of his! eyes—like a glimpse at an immortal soul. Ma is all right, too. 5 ways grateful to people who like me, though I can't say- much fer their taste. Engraving man does wonder things on snowshoes, and lets me try them. There's something heroic about the fall of Eve, but me? " I tumble to my neck in a drift with more snow showering me like a wedding cake. Never again, not me. And all the time it is hot August, with my vac: tion so far gone that there will be time only to report at headquarters as soon | a= the cars can take me home, | [ | | | At the last meeting of Troop 26, a | special investure ceremony was held when Elizabeth Frangoni was present- | ed with her fiist-class badge. Jessie | Harden received a second-class badge | and Nadine Thomas, Dorothy Smith, | Ruth Lowe and Louise Davis were | invested as tenderfoot Scouts. Doro- | | thy Stubbs took ch: February 18 and cla pathfinder and first-class and judging. | Troop 24 reviewed the work to be | done for the economist badge &t its | last meeting. After opening cere- | monies and patrol corners the Scouts | signaling | . | sympathize honestly with every | divided into three groups, working on | et tatee T Yoo acoe ‘E:"a:‘l“‘n’f | tenderfoot test, second-class test and | though, like everything in life, there are always exceptions to the rule, with this for a sampl A well dressed, clean-scrubbed man moralizing thing we call a bump when we have it ourselves, but which other- wise is heartlessly known as & boil. Two women seated behind—theater, | matinee—must especially have relished the tragedy, for at every stiff move- ment of his head they looked at each other and giggled, and—well, of ocourse, anybody is liable to go into a nervous gust of laughter. Still, there is always a tims to stop. But the women didn't stop. They kept on giggling. If the sufférer heard and under 8tood, he made no sign of resentment. You may have observed how cow: ‘we are under an afftiction that carries ridicule, and ridicule goes with boils. But with the man was a companion who was obviously not of the mold of which saints are made, b{ no manner of means. To look at, he was a big jointed E Pluribus Unum eagle sort of fellow, and, having let the women at the back go just so far with their giggles, and, oh, such funny remarks, he turned around, and, facing them uarely, these cruel words he did | | had on the back of his neck that de. | \N§ Next Saturday, | | | [ “Will you be kind enough to lower your voices? My friend doesn't care, but to me the laughter of women over 40 always puts my teeth on edge. The women. who honestly didn't ‘look & day ov 5. made no answer. What could they say? And after the ourtain went down on the first act they went to seats elsewhere * ok K ¥ F a doctor’ man has put you on a diet to drive away a queer. new iffness in one of your deay legs, and vou have to stay at home instead of fishing “around the city” for r regular net of small-fry stuff, you nat urally have to make the most of what. | ever raw material you have on hand— to the extent of your official column 50: A notebook of your last Summer’s “two weeks' vacation” will have to serve, on the principle that a half loaf in better than no bread—and asking everybody's pardon Algonquin: engers who catch my interest Jdish, weather- beaten man, with « gorgeous wife with two chins and a couple of young daughters who look like angels but talk like boys. Will like them. A quiet, middle-aged man in gray, who looks like a steel engraving. Think he lives with his head in the clouds. Small woman ith nose glasses, who has already had two squabbles with the porter, and one_ with the blue-and-brass conductor. Wonder if she carries a chip on her shoulder”? Curious couple—the man, big, gray- haired and rich looking. The woman, oung, gowned as if she were at a LJI—‘don'l believe I shall care for shooting star | belpg the plainest woman in the cro! Take it philosophically. Am alwgys the plainest, and in this in- the mowrnful distinction of | merit badges. After the registration ceremony a | group of four games was played by Troop 53. Instead Gf the usual meet- it was planned to | attend the play of ' Alice in Wonder- land.” A poem was read by Capt. | Miller. The Girl Scouts of Troop 47 met at | the Chevy Chase fichosl February 18, Formation was held and then some of the girls worked on their tes the second-class Scouts wo merit badges. - At the last meeting of Troop ‘15 Dorothy Seaton and Hilda Zwillinger were elected (o represent the troop at the exercises held at Washington Cir- | | ele. “After working on second-class [tests, the girls ~ dramatiZed two | sketches of fire prevention and prac- | ticed the fiveman’s 1ift and drag | Troop 2 opened its riceting w Lnaling and second-class work. [trol corners followed. Upon the sug- | sestion of Capt. Palmer the gitls will {make a scrapbook to be given to the | children in Some hospital. Josephine | cbo taught several songs and after Taps” a court of honor was held. At the last meeling of Troop 61 a | surprise birthday narty was held for | Ruth Ellis and Margaret Hutchinson, | At Capt. Shure’s home an observation contest was held, which was won by | the Dogwood Patrol. - Tavo girls of this {patrol also passed their _tenderfoot itest. Vera Sherdell and Nancy Ma- | |thews, while Bernice Hendricks and [ Verna Royle became second-class | Beouts A - | Katherine Perry writes that Troop 11 met February 16. After inspection | which wax won b g trol, the troop tried a new formation } Cone Patrol won a point for |guessing the grea‘est number of months, and the Cardinal Patrol | |8ained a point for the best demonstra- | jtions. Afier a game of progressive | |dodge. the second neutenants showed | { first @id to the second-class Scou while the tenderfoor scouts had Knot. aking with Capt. Serry. After u i short talk on “Habit a_ Chinese | | story was read by the captain. | Troop 7 opened its meeting Febru. | 1 under the supervision of the 1ox :;‘au:n’ Alter the opening a short business meeting held and two members were :I"n‘;ls:v:‘“: [ representative the Washington | birthday Poli’s Theater. At the Lincoln Momorial exercises | 2. Margaret Baldwin, lead- le Patrol, was sel | one of the color guard e | Troop 42 met Monday in |Chase” Presbyterian. Churel wich 5y |Scouts and 2 officers present. Liewt Spear took charge in the absence of | pt. Young. Much uf the afternoon | was spent in practicing signaling. the Swastika Pa- | ophilus LA Mk, ark) e, NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE Phone North 89. 515 U St. N.W. ) stance doubtless the cleanest—oh, you | Washington seems to be THE _SUNDAY A Sensai;on An unusurpas value jor the three days! 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