Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 29

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‘'WOMAN'S PAGE.” THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TULSDAY, JANUARY %, 1978 ‘PEATURES,” e = 29 The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. There is one. nay, more than one, retty box office girl in Washington Ko theater manager strictly attentive to the best interests of his house would engage & young woman lacking, at the Jeast, & modicum of pulchritude. 1t she possesses a sense and humor and infinite patience, she is even better equipped for her trade or profession or whatever ticket selling is. Of course, ticket selling has become Jargely a matter of making change and operating an automatic ticket contrap- tion. Particularly is this true of the movie houses. Fortunately, or unfortunately, chines cannot answer questions. If you will take a position near the booth occupied by the pretty young thing and remain there for a few min- utes, you will hear some interesting ma- snatches of conver- sation. (If you are & man, you will re- main until the doorman _becomes suspicious.) Come two ladies, one elderly. The younger of the twa advances to the window and says, *1 would like two tickets.” “In what part of { the house?” in- quires the young woman in the box office. “Oh, what have you got>” “Orchestra, loge. mezzanine or balcony.” “Well, my mother's eyes are poor. Do vou think close up or far back |Will please her most. would be best for her? | “I should thing halfway back would be best.” | u mean in the orchestra or bal- her would be good.” (In the mean- 5 time a line is forming.) “Well, then. I'll take two in the bal- eony. Oh. by the way, have vou a | telephone in the theater? I forgot to there's a_public you go in.” me change for can get a nickel Thank you” They | phone to your right “Then will pass on. Three or four patrons purchase ticl ets hurriedly, and then another lady approaches the window. | *“Is the picture really good this week?" | fnquires the potential patron. i “Oh. very good. You know it's ‘The Back Yards of Paris. 1 “Well, I heard it wasn" | I just wondered.” 8 | walks up to the window. “What time do you show the feature | are?™ asks. replies the pretty young | ‘What time is it now?” f *Just 3:56.” i “Well, do you think I will have time | possible gifts. to run down the block and get some ribbon and be back in time for the pic- tures?” “I couldn’t promise “All right, then, now.” The foregoing are just a few of the incidents that confront the bobbed- haired beauty in the ticket booth. P Td better go in In the matter of dining, ladies are far more fastidious in their selections than men. The manager of a large and popular downtown cafeteria savs | that many of his female patrons will | inquire carefully concerning what is | but the men—oo-la-la! Here comes a man. “Gimme plate- asoupstewspudsacoffapie!” For one thing, the women are not | so sensitive as men when it comes to making inquiries or asking questions. | The average man is afraid of boing {taken for & dumbbell, and that is why he would so often rather get lost than go into detail with one who may be trying to direct him. Men are like that. * X ok X We don't believe this one, but then, |again, who can tell> A local merchant {and a raconteur among his friends says | that a middle-aged man came into his |store recently accompanied by & | young woman’ evidently his daughter. {They were looking for something to |give to the wife and mother for a | birthday present Easy chairs and sewing tables, rugs |and china were examined minutely as Finally the young lady I know just what A bridge lamp.” Turning to his companion, the male person said _disdainfully, “Now, you know dad-blamed well that you're mother can't play bridge.” *x ok % Much humor has been expressed at cxclaimed, “T know. everything from cod . A man who lives near the District line was in immediate need, he says, of some ordinary car- pet tacks the other night. The only stores near his home are a drug store and a chain He was [ that he purchase tacks at the gro- cery, but was cer- tain that the drug- gist had some. 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To right and left one could see nothing but the sails turning about in the wind =bo¥e the pines, and long | strings of little donkeys laden with bags | ©f grain climbing the hills to the mills. | :znneundnew people feli in | of sending their grain to them | poor windmills were left . One by one their sails turning, and they were deserted | torn down. | there was one old Miller who| ent on turning | te of the steam | had lived for | t the village, col- ison the flour | ils. He listened to him. | a towering rage, the old himself up in his mill and | like a wild beast. He ‘wouldn't even keep with him his grand- daughter, Vivette, a beautiful damsel of 15, who since the death of her parents | ndfather in the mill and make people think that a windmill was still making fiour. Poor mill! Poor Miller! Long ago the steam-mills had robbed both mill and Miller of their last customer. Though the windmill's sails still turned, the mill ground nothing. . The children told me their story in tears.” In a jiffy I had told my neighbors and together we determined to take every available sack of grain in our houses to the old mill. The mill was wide open mill and found out his sad secret. “Poor m~!" he sobbed. *“Now I can only die. The mill is dishonored.” Just then we arrived and shouted as of old. The Miller stared with all his eyes. He took up some grain in the hollow of his old hand. and sald. laughing and weeping at once: “It is grain! Real grain! Leave me —let me gaze at it!"” Then he turned to us and sald: “I knew you'd all come back to me We pronosed to carry him in triumph to the village. “No.” he said, “first I must give the mill something to eat. between its teeth!™ It brought tears to the eves of all of us to see the old Miller rushing 2bout, emptying sacks. looking atter the milistones. while the grain was crushed and the fine wheaten dust rose to the celling. 1 must do our people justice. Prom 3| that day we never allowed the old est. | Miller to lack work—until he died. For donkey loaded with fat bags of flour. “Is ‘business sull good?” they would ask him. | He would say yes, and tell them he ! was working for export. No one could | get anything more than that out of him. | As for putting one's nose inside his mill, it wasn't U be thought of. Even little | Vivette herself never went in there. When people passed in front of the | mill they always found the door closed, | the huge salls moving, the donkey browsing on the platform, and a gre thin cat taking a sun bath on the win- | Gow #iil, and glaring &t them with & wicked expression All this smelled of mystery and made people talk & great deal. Naturally. +very one had his own explanation of the Miller's secret, but the general opin- wn was that the old mill contained bags of silver more than bags of grain Then my son and Vivette fell in Jove with each other. 1 was not displeased, for the name of the old Miller was heid in honor among every one, and it would Uckle me o have Vivette, preuy littie bird that she was, Lrotting merrily about the house. B0, being anxious U get it settied. 1 went 1 ser the old Miller But it wes impossivle for me W get him w open the door of his mill. 1 ex- pisined my reasons, afler a fashion, through the keyhole, and all the tme 1 was wiking there was that villain of & cat snorting like some devil over my hesd on the window sill The oid Miller wid me most im- politely that if 1 wanted W find vife for my boy 1 oould ook for w| grl st the swemm-mill. This sough | talk sent the biowd W my hesd, and 1 Jeft the oid 1o0) in bis mdl Then ] wid my chidren what Vivelte's wandfather Lsd said. They decided poor Junbs, W gu W the mill U~ lver 1 owulan't reluse Uem, o Lhey went Just ws they rewched the mill the old Miller bad gone oul The duor was securely Jocked, but the old tel Jow, when he went away, had left his Jsader outside. snd suddenly o curred W the youngsters W go in by Ui window and see what there migii e inside of the famous mill Tey tound the main 10um of the mply! Nol & suck nol w pet icle of grein, uot tie slightest U of four on the welle or on e spider webe They coulon't even smell the plewsant, warm odor of ground wheat et makee e s of & mill o fragrant. 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