Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 73

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—DECEMBER 30. 1928 NEIGHBORS LY NS By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1928, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The growing girl. A few years ago if vou asked : et s ‘A The interested neighbors. “You watch the front Sl e JOITE e Wl PRIE G Gen diee ] - B 'Y door and I'll watch the back door,” says Mrs. Fred reply, “I'm Poppa's girl" She’s 4 big ‘g1r1>n0\\' and £ i )t = ” Doughy to her daughter. Carrie and her ma are Sl e W i i O EE g Ly b ‘ driven to a white heat of neighborly interest when- Rena loves to go on errands for her mamma to the 5% S e al bindleantuaknowiicallery a tramiednurte lending library, which takes her past the high school k H or a Western Union boy appears at a neighbor's about closing time. Sr»mctunc\:hc gets to the 3 | 4 i B doorstep. Neighbors are apt to be close-mouthed library and sometimes she doesn't. The neighbors g . 4 and secretive in a suburb and very often Carrie and get awiully upset about May Rena. Somec think her darling ma have a terrible time ferreting out she's just a growing girl and some say she's her ; neighborhood clews. mamma all over again. The idea being that what < used to be sauce for the goose is duck soup for the gosling. Land conscious. On the slightest provoca- tion Mrs. Kate McMitt will rush from her front door crying, “Be careful of our hedge,” then she will get a yardstick and measure to make sure that the load of coal for next door is not encroaching over her boundary line. “I'm sure they meant to drive right over our hedge if I hadn’t been there to watch,” Mrs. McMitt will confide to a friend later. 7 ) % . ! : “Hey, Fred, come over and see how this stuff hits The party line. A party line is a great convenience among T o you!” These cellar friendships among home-brewing neighbors in a small town. Suppose, for instance, that Mrs. Brophy ¥ k' neighbors are increasing in suburban localities. wants to call up her butcher about the calves’ brains at the very v i moment Miss Elsie Snellgrove decides to ask a girl friend if she cares to go sce Clara Bow that afternoon. The line being in use Mrs. Brophy and Miss Snellgrove can have a perfectly swell time listening to a conversation about themselves hetween Mrs. Wooley and Miss Limp. The sensitive neighbor. Tona is always having her feclings hurt. When a neighbor either says some- thing or does something or doesn't invite her to something. When this happens lona will go up to her bedroom and brood and brood. Then she will rush over to whichever neighbor she is on speaking terms with. “I want you to hear my side TIona will say, “before Ethel tells you hers.” The early resident. Old Pop Grumbacher settled on upper Front street in the halcyon days when a mansard roof and a stained glass window in the hall were considered pret hotsy totsy. It's a restricted residential tion, “and by heck, it will stay restricted,” s Mr. Grumbacher, about to petition the common council for a couple of writs and a few injunc tions against a gas station that wants to be a The excitable neighbor. Mr. Jenks is making a terrible rov near neighbor. all because Margo, the Smiths' Peke, being a friendly little thing, is playing on the Jenks' lawn. Mr. Jenks has a lot to say about neighbors who let their pets roam The neighbor's child. Dorothy sees all, hears all, and tells all. She has a sixth sense about neighbor- hood news and is almost prophetic. Dorothy knew the O'Learys’ cook was leaving three days before Mrs. O'Leary got wind of it. L ——— "~ O\ Y