Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 48

AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE HE Easter invasion of Mount Ver- non is usually referred to as & pilgrimage, though it could more truthfully be called a social visit, so alive is the old*manor house with the presence of the Martha and Nelie who made up the home life of ‘Washington, and whose elegancies have been perpetuated by the D. A. R. Voices are subdued, of course, to the key of museum-like si- lence that prevails, 4. and people tip-toe =~ from one room to \nnother. lingering |g'4. at each barred por- tal to view the treasures therein. But human nature being always on tap, there are smothered ejacula- tions' and little chuckles that re- fuse to be choked at sight of furnish- ings and adorn- ments that are now as extinct as the dodo—allowing the dodo to be dead. On one occasion there were two chummy women, conventional as to dress and manner, utb who amused themselves by “picking and choosing™ just as children doy. They must have eben fair-minded women, for they di- vided their colonial treasures with nice impartiality, until the slim one tried to induce the one who was a bit chubby to exchange her clock on th: stairway for the Nellie Custis spinet by the music Toom door. “You see, my apartment hasn’t room for the spinet and your house could | hold a dozen—besides, I have always | wanted a grandfather clock—the ticks are 5o nice and loud.” ut this clock of mine doesn’t go.” “Neither does my spinet—so, maybe, ve better let them stay where they are. here’s what I want—that blue china.” “That’s what you won't get! I picked that china out first. You can have the dining table, with the coffee urn on top of it.” “You can't certainly want all of it. I must have a few blue dishes, anyhow.” “Nothing doing. It would break my g et. Having settled the matter, they kept on with their pickings and choosings until they came to adjoining rooms on the second floor. The thin one pounced on her choice before the other could put in a claim: ( “When we come to spend a night here T'll take the river room and you can have the one Lafayette slept in.” But the chubby one also preferred the river room. She wanted to see the Potomac at dawn. “Why, woman, where is your patri- sm? Consider Lafayette.” And they shuttlecocked their discus- sion in humorous undercurrent fussi- fiess, until another woman, a plain body in a plain frock, unexpectedly wedged herself into the argument with a sug- estion that turned out to be pleasing to th: “Why not spend two nights and change around?” It was such a helpful idea that the three had a chuckle all the more enjoy- ®ble because it had to be choked. “Aren't we two silly old kids?” the 4t:1hubby one said it, by way of explana- on. And the plain-body woman, whose pickings and choosings have embraced every known thing in the universe— from stars to tombstones—commented with another suggestion: “Make it three.” * kK ox L CORRESPONDENT sends this bit of incident concerning the “horse sense” of an old gray, attached to & milk delivery wagon, whose driver had | left him in an alley across from her home: “Some boys—mere babies—began throwing pebbles at this horse, the stones growing larger.as they threw. ‘The old horse solemnly watched them as he stcod patiently waiting for his boss. I feared the bables might get hurt, as one of them went quite close to the gray’s nose and threw qyite a large stone. It mace the old fellow jump a trifie, but he steadied and watched as before. Finally, the fusillade was too strong for the victim, so he carefully stepped forward. The little boys ran and the horse, slowly and sedately, walked out into the open road and stood across it, blocking all traffic that might come dashing along. “One gentleman came walking by and noticed the stone-throwing, but made no sffort to stop it. He looked, but went Mis way. Being an invalid and quite un- dressed for the street I could only sit at my window, hoping the children would tire of their sport and get out of harm’s way, but, fortunately, a friendly looking man, who was the driver, came up, took the reins, patted old Gray on the shoulder and drove away."—Mrs. Which, happily, is the end of most stories. There are so many kind men in the world. And women, of course. * ok ANOTHEE correspondent, in com- menting on a bit about horses in this column a Sunday or two back, was kind enough to commend it as a story, but _considered that “exaggerated senti- ymm%mmm@xm Apple Blossom Festival at WINCHESTER, VA. 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When she got tired of our riding she would lower her long old head to graze a clover and slide us all off. Agnes represents this unit's only “stable,” but readings of many horses and the writing of some may familiarize one with the general history of horses —not fiction. Why, my goodness, Mr. Man, look what" the horse has done: It “was Caesar's bay charger that helped to put bay leaves on Caesar’s brow; it was Norman Williams' war horse that alded him in his conquering, and if it had not been for Bucephalus how do you suppose Alexander could have made himsel! a present of the world? The Maid of Domremy did great things for France. Joan was burned at the stake and her horse was killed in battle, but they come down the ages together. Take a look at them out Meridian Park way. And glimpse Bavieaca? That horse lived a thousand years ago, and he will keep on living as long as his master, the Cid. Which means forever. Don’t you remember that time the 37 Moorish kings besieged Valencia just as St. Peter had warned the Cid that he must die, and how he ordered that his dead body be strapped on Bavieaca's back so that the Moors would think him alive, and how the kings with their 37 armies were driven into the sea at sight of the mighty Spaniard? Look at that “milk-dappled” steed that carried Lady Godiva through the streets of Coventry. And could Don Quixote have given literature the fun of seeing him charge windmills if it had not been for Rosinante? Bless her old bones! It was Paul Revere's horse that helped to fire that shot that was heard around the world, and if Sheri- dan’s mount had not been handy he would have kept on being “20 miles away.” And just give an eye to the Valkyrie's eight-legged horse, name of Sleipnir, that belonged to the battle maidens of Norse mythology, though that may not | be history. 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