Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 31

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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. MARCH 17. 1929-PART T. AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE N _one of the upper corridors of the Police Court stood & red-haired little girl. came out Just as three lady jurors of the courtroom for Junch. the boy let out a sob and tears | One of the and two pairs of—uh huh—and a notice | started down his cheeks. women stopped. “What's the mat- ter. son?” My mother’s dead—run over by & bootlegger.” The other lady chipped in “Where's father?” “Ain't got none Me and Aggie’s hungry. Immediately three purses opened. and & colored man who had come close to the group to listen searched in his pockets and drop- ped a quarter in the boy's grimy paw. Just then a foot of the stairs: “Hey. Red. yer ma says if you don't bring Aggie home right away she’ll tell yer old man.” : Red and Aggie yanished down the stairs leaving three women with open mouths and pocket books—and the kind- hearted colored man grinned sheepish- Iy as he walked out of sight. | This little yarn comes from a friend who was “among those present.” * %k % i HIE, looked like a foreign man, but | his English was glib. And he was| your shrill voice at the patrolling the street across from the | & shower of danc- | Unilon Station under friend rounded ing balloons, when & ihe Columbus fountain and joined him. | “Hello—hello—that _Philadelphia is | a fine city. It bought my suit case full of Easter rabbils. How was the inauguration?” ; The balloon peddler shrugged his shoulders and snapped a finger and | thumb. | “Punk. Didn't sell a balloon.” They were measuring life by their | own yard sticks. Even as you and x ok ok K HER knowledge bubbled over like a | kettle on the boil. He accepted her oracles as befits a fresh, honey- mooning bridegroom. Like that other tourist couple. whose name is legion, they were literally floor- ed by the signs of the zodiac bedded in the tiles of the Library of Congress. Even the bride was unable to account for Pisces, Taurus et al., until she came to the two humanlike brass figures in the circle of symbols. 3 -Oh, I know! See, dear, it's a map of the Garden of Eden—with Adam and Eve.” The man eved the brass-inlaid minia- tures of “Gemini, the Twins,” and was convinced. Certainly. Why not? Aren't Adam and Eve as good as the Gemini folks y day in the year? And where are you going to find anything more at- tractive than a map of the Garden of Eden? There are countless interesting sights for tourists who come to this town, but probably there is nothing more fas- cinatingly mysterious to the Mill's-End yun of visitors than the signs of the zodiac_bedded in the Library's tessel- lated floor. * % % X HERE is our peace pact. And there is ' the beautifully intentioned mother who did not rear her son to be a soldier, but they are both wrong, it you ask little Jimmie, And if you want 1o ask Jimmie, you will have to come across him one of these mild afternoons. by the Smithsonian grounds—under 2 giant tree whfxse branches umbrella the pavement. You will find him a crumb of a kid, uni- formed in some older brother's out- grown scout suit, oR picket duty, with & fence pale for a gun. ‘There pns o other child around, 50 the guard must have felt that his duty demanded extra vigilance. You never know what enemy may be lurking be- hind trees or crawling in the grass and by the rapt tenseness of him you can tell that an order has been given to put no one ‘but Americans on guard tonight! %zre he marches, up and down, in the dusking quiet—left. right; right, left; so many steps forward, then the military twirl; then SO many steps backward. Then do it all over again. And in the soul of him, the valorous something that makes a ‘soldier follow wherever a flag leads the way, 1t was so comically splendid that one asser-by loitered to watch him from a little distance—far enough 1o be out of danger of the lone picket’s challenge— until presently, there came tearing up to him a small girl with grasshopper legs who must h‘::‘e brought him news of a sudden armistice. his fence rail from a gun to a hor‘si, and, having straddled it. galloped wit] cowboy recklessness k; n'posllble supper. * * WHAT‘S in a name? Romeo was of the ‘blank-verse inion that there is nothing in it. but :’fph! had ever been dunned for debts owed by some other Mr. Monague, he would doubtless have had another hunch coming to " There is a whole, big, uncomfortable kid clutching the hand of a rugsedi | LANCASTER. Jused her name- bill after she was married, that was all there was to it—but, not 50 long ago, the woman got a bill that really gave | her athrill. It was a dun for one coat and vest |to the effect that she couldn’t be ac- | commodated with a Spring suit asked | for until previous purchases were paid. | And it ended with “Please remit.” You never can tell how people will take things. The plain woman, a spin- ster, who pays as she goes, should have had a virtuous conniption fit right then and there, but she didn’t Her one emotion was pride—a sur- prised, exhilarating pride that she should have been accused of being that sort of a young man—never mind his carelessness in the matter of bill It nd as she paid the | pairs of—uh huh—but, also, it was gratifying, novel—and, as she answered hope that the store would have to wait until that young man got good and ready. Oh, yes, there's quite a deal in having a name—good and bad. but never what you might call indifferent. Ask the woman. %0y e THE wise and beloved K. T, sends this bit to the column: Page Rip Van Winkle. He is located right here—in a brand- new house set in the grounds of a lead- | Ing suburb of the city. With a sleep record of nearly 40 years, to the original | napper’s 20. For all of that time this | Washington man, for a reason of his |own, withdrew so utterly from all asso- clations of his young manhood that, giving himself over to solitude, he re- fused to see any one who called at the house. A forgotten man, he so remained until, a few months ago, a gift of & radio set to his family, who shared the home, awakened him to life as suddenly T | | the note and read the later apology, | life that had lain dormant for four | in with the fi didn’t pray exactly, but she registered a | decades, o Sl Bl Is Tk progress as revealed by the radio, | ure and face, so that, like that othel‘: reached, somehow, to his once love for | sleeper of classic fame, he no longer fits ‘The 15 PLANES TO BE ADDED TO CANADA AIR FORCE and aroused in him a desire to | only thing aboyt him is that he is an- | venture forth into the world of today, |other Van Winkle who has just awak- | that he might see, for himself, what | ened from a sleep of 40 years! | h;xma]lfmy‘haddbeen’dolnz T R | By the Associated Press. of self-enforced seclusion that had set| Incidentally. u should: be getting | 6 s him apart from his fellow men. | the better of a little spell of your-own, [ OTTAWA. BARIcli10-C CALRGES gkt D R ndors vige toward his| it will help you to get back into the | Ing airoraft will be increased to nir dear, impos- | pursuit planes and six army co-opera- Sketch | ion machines through delivery within mental resurrection was the sale of the | quaint atmosphere of those old homestead and consequent purchase | sible people who live in Irving which | Book”—Rip van Winkle, the Specter that near-ghost of A the next few weeks of seven new craft Five new Siskin and two Atlas all- of another house by the family: meant to him another generation. | Bridegroom and Try it sometime, and . metal aircraft are now under construc- | tion in Great Britain and will be the ‘When Washington Irving's Rip van| Sleepy Hollow. Winkle awoke to life it was to find that see. last word in fighting machines, said a statement issued at Royal Canadian not even his good dog Schneider was . o ARMY PLACES LIMITED. |st: Air Force headquarters. left to recognize his return, but, again, | a point was scored by the Washington | sleeper who, rummaging through his : Sarepully preserved clothing, came across | TH Wer Debar ! announced yes | ' The institution of a peace-time ai: “n anclent black derby that he had | ‘el d&‘xfi ';'3{ Ll o nation of | force, using highly specialized military laid away carefully when he set about | foot i e ot th A ited b ImY | machines took piace last year, when | effacing himself from life. | o iy it e e hg tho | four siskins and & similar number of ‘And now, some day, if you are lucky, | of ¢ rmy b‘e} r“ & ‘;‘ “Lit i Atlas planes were purchased by the de- you may se¢ him strolilng about the city | C4FTent ¥EEF e . vecaioies | PR SloR Nsticnat defense. 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