Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1928, Page 47

MELP AND SITUATIONS 47 By NICHOLAS ALFONSKY THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1928 The Sidewalks of Washington FAMOUS LOVE ROMANCES. CLEOPATRA (1) BY THORNTON FISHER. With 1927 safely tucked away in the | ter endeavored to induce the manager archives of the past, your correspond: | to sign Pardello for a hout with one ent desires to extend to the readers|of the local strangle-and-toe-hold av- of this column his best wishes for the | tist. He was, however, unable to months to come. convince the obdurate manager that LR a sufficient purse could be ohtained In the world as broad and boundless | fOr & contest in the theater. Finally, and good-humored, too, as ours, it js|in desperation, the owner said, “Why, not singular that many of us receive | Would vou believe it, Henry Irving . | drew §4,000 one night in my place. AT Lo e O rcan: siteaty | The manager's eves suddenly bright- “Billy and he exclaime e A Il vight, go sign Irving up, and ry" should not| 11l bet our end of the purse that Par- cause conjecture | dello throws that guy.’ —but _they so fre- o R quently do. Per-| Ap frate chap savs that he is off haps the reader | pyplic phone booths for life. On one has received such | of Jast week's rainy days he stepped remembrances|into a booth and called up a man and has spent with whom he had hours trying to business of an ex- solve the mystery tremely personal of the senders' nature. In the names. The ta midst of his con- is the more versation he no- tressing when one ticed two ladies wonders it he, or | waiting for him overlooked to finish. The particular two ladies, it sender in the new seems, were as year's shuffle. close to the door A Washington man who is known as they could get for his devotion to the wife and kid without actually dies, and whose activities are gov entering. v a strict sense of integrity Moreover, hopes that the next time had their eves a certain person by the name of Eve- fixed upon him Iyn sends him a New Year card, the | steadily, an_oper- said person will use discretion. It ation which, to fsn’t surprising that friend wife gave | put it mildly, is the name a dirty look, and her hus- | considerably disconcerting to the ob- band the merry runaround, when the | ject of attention. He stood it for a greeting card turned up among scores | few minutes. and then shouted over of others, the phone. “Iardon me a second until Tt must be confessed that even the | I open this door. The people outside husband was nonplussed when his|can’t hear me very well.” trembling digits picked up the source o o of a two-day freeze-out on th Not long ago, a young fellow was of wife. Everything is : ’ now, for “Evelyn” proved to be a big, | brousht before a judge in Washing- ton Police Court, charged by his wife two-fisted friend of English birth, ! Svelyn himself was summoned as a h having violated his parole. The witness for the defense, and peace | lady dec ared that her husband had once again prevails in the household, | been imbibing too freely, with the e result that he became a bit rough at A local man has just returned from | ' several months spent in the West in search of health. When he left the city few thought he would evet re. turn. His neck protruded from his collar like a broom handle and he weighed 125 pounds. Today his com. plexion is ruddy, there is a buoyancy 1o his stride, and there is an obvious crowding process in the region of his neck and collar. One of the boys nquired what he Fad ! done to cause such rejuvenation. said he, “T simply went on )y x . L e SRSy Cleopatra; one of history’s most famous women, T portrayed in a sympathetio light by modern biographers. She was ambitious, they admit, but she was l"llly in love with the two great Roman ar and Mark Antony, whom she and her union with both was consid itimate in her Egyptian home. She was born 68 or 8. C. Her father dlod when she was about 18, leaving her ani younger brother Ptolemy joint rulers of lnypt, with the understanding that they should marry— a conventional arrangement according to Egyptian law. But Ptolemy seized the throne and drove his elster into exile in Syria, There she gathered her throne. At that time J Egypt to look after his interests there, and CIu- patra, hearing of this, decided to get him to help her. 8he had herself wrapped in a bundle of rugs and, at night, taken ashore at Alexandria to Caesar's co. Cleopatra was a fascinating woman. small, probably a brunett Macedonian Gi of her early biographers, “w, But she had great charm. Her voice wi ductive and mu One can imagine' C delight at the strange contents of the bundle of rugs. By GENE BYRNES “THEY CANT) Her beauty,” not incemparable. REG’LAR FELLERS—The Acid Test. they WELL IF IT TAINT x GoT . STULK CAUSE SPAvg CENTS FOR IT! FIFTY T's SOLID CAN You PROVE 172 YeANT FooL ME! THAT RING AINT SOLID GOLD® he judge was inclined to be leni- ent with the accused, especially as he worked steadily and provided for his family. The unfortunate fellow de- clared that he was home every night and often prepared his own meals. He said, however, that he was always greeted with an argument from the wife. In .other words he was “picked on” continually. The judge, wise in his experience, called the lady before him. “Is it true, madam,” he asked, “that yvou argue with your husband when he comes home?" “I do not,” emphatically replied the militant woman, “and what's more ™ BE éc—e— “Tyznes BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. nt i'vmrd a dm. “What sort of diet?” was the next question. RENTICES for_shampooinead sealp lr-.lmflm nominal pay while learning. Ap- liesday morning. Harper Method. 1714 AMATEURS—Singers. a6 protesional taient. dio. K11 Lith n.w._ HOOK KE] dancers. mus: Apply the Fox PASTRY LUN a busy Dl Derien d, with references, “A very strange one,” replied the former invalid. “For breakfast I ate brick cheese, for lunch I ate marble cake, and for dinner I drank milk punch. Now I'm a hard gu And he looks it. judge. Does he have to get his own meals?" ‘Just a minute,” suggested the “simply answer my questions, He does not,” was the hcated re- “and 1If any one says “I'm not saying anything. I'm just asking vou if——" said the judge kindly, but knowingly. “Well, I won't have—" broke in the woman, So you don't argue with him, s that it?” said the gentleman on the bench. “Of course, I don't, thing- shouted spouse. “That's enough,” said the judge, “you're arguing with me now. I'm going to give this poor fellow another chance. Now go home and cook him a fine big steak.” This time there was no reply, and the hostile-minded lady stalked from the courtroom. . e e “You wouldn't believe it,” said a @owntown barber to this correspond- ent, “but my idea of a safe player is a man who brings his own scissors when he comes here for a hair cut. Personally I think he is a nut on bygiene.” and another “wohog the accused A Washington sportsman was dis- cussing the good old days the other evening, and told a story of the man- ager of one Pardello, an Italian wres- tler. The owner of a Jersey City thea- I wish my feebls Lessons in English character BY W. L. GORDON. were built — For as it is Il Freeze ~ll ni {Before Il seek an extra ‘Words often misused—Do not say “‘every one of the 30 men were ques- tione Say “was questioned.” Often mispronounced — Coadjutor. Pronounced koa-jutor and accent third syllable, not the second. Often misspelled — Embarrass; two | r's, two #'s. Synonyms—Educational, academic, ;mmmsuc, instructive, didactic. Word study—"Use a word three |times and it is yours.” Let us in- |crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word; timidate; to make afraid; frighten our threats cannot intimidate me. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1927.) ] dEE &N Across. . Period of tima, Be in del Hewing wol. Thrust. . Behold. . Indefinite article Conjunction. Hebrew letter. Mountain in Crete Garment Awerican general, Cheer, ht 2416, Cresten foear Note of the scele Tsone Laune Towerd le of food, Befure, Fonrlike urgen. City in Oklshoma. . Help. Finh. . Getn up, . Hush forward, Tried out. Note, Italian river, Ourmelven Printer's measure. Mala loved by Zeus . Mineral spring, Consumed Greels letter, exative . Artificinl lunguage Pomnerses, Mother, 1 Afternoon (abbr.). Pronoun Lefore, Within, Hubbub, Fluor covering Down Qut of, Laike Biberian guif, Wing of & house Conjunction, Als, Constellation, “av. Viklone, PE| Tor tntor Call after 6 pm. or Sunday: Pot. 2590, CLOSING HOURS FOR CLASSIFIED R—Experienced _doub retail business: must be typist: refere an to ability, character, handwriting. Addre ADVERTISEMENTS 11 p.m. day before publication. For Sunday. 6:30 p.m. Satur :XPERIENCED REAL ESTATE SALESMAN Wanted at once, by one of the largest and oldest “"I“D 1 At the Branch Agencies. one Bour earlier. botb for daily and o ane Aldrens Box 13- ATE or teach: (Protestant) m ? GRADU earnest Christian husiness opportunity. _Addreas_Box 5-V. fully Star o GIRI eral office. MARKERS and _assorters. Laundry. 1101 Raum st. ne. with_high trai for fce work. Address Box 253-R. 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MOrrow you ‘(r to work again at that same ‘old Job, drawing the same small pay and, if you are lucky, you may get %e of :.‘m. & week before the year is out. Nul a very Vieasant roapect : NOW FOR BIG PAY IN 1929. . Just give us three or vetween now and ember and_wo will wm you YEAR. ang sets aro 501 ‘Cham s the day Tor raw bar and wr realize 1t worke Avply * Hall'e . 7th & K sts. s.w., alter 5 pm. 'ruo. [ wning Pusiiiess. exceviional will ln(' b | sion. muul and ’h\.ndu TR Awly M 'x‘.., Eu&‘ - full ume ver r " Nrmandy ~ 90 12 wm Wi : NG ing. mah;_mnt know iow'to ate wikes desired. Address YOUNG MAN with ciosed car part “of 'the world. - Some .,1 A | Nousewives for mant NOW IS THE TIME to register for the new laes In life Inmurance salesmanehip. th wrts the 3rd of January: send apnlicatic immediately, Address Box 33 office. SALESLAD for ready-to-wear —dent e A petienced. 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