Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1935, Page 14

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. “RACK READER.” BULGING matron, complete with dog on leash, stood on a | corner of F strect. Bending | robbery and that police would sus- pect the tag owner. So last De- cember he locked them in the truni on his car. While traveling THE EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, . D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935. turn you away.” Then she suggested & particular one, - ‘The beggar shook his head gloomily. “Yes, lady, I can get something to eat there—but I'm sick to death of carrots.” * * ok % MONEY IN THE STREET. The sale of street sweepings is authorized by law in Washington. The revenues from such. sales are to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of Yhe United States and of the District of Columbia propriations for such flscal year are paid from the 'y of the United States and the r of the District of Columbia. * ok x x ROOMMATES. TWO Dartmouth roommates, Ken- neth Stearns and John Merle, friends of Earl W. Farr, jr, of this city, had completed two years of col- lege and were anxiously awaiting the arrival of their parents, who were invited to attend the annual home- ng affair, dads get along together as well as we do.” Just then the door opened and two happy gentlemen, locked arm in arm, nolsily entered the room. It so happened that the two fathers had also been bunk-pals at Dart- mouth many years before and had since remained lifelong buddies, but Ken and John hadn't known it after rooming together two years. * % % % IT'S ALL IN FUN, any more, although in the past he has been known to perpetrate a few on his own account, His meat shop window was adorned with huge white porcelain letters: “Fresh Meat.” The letters were stuck to the out- side of the glass, but the s and h slipped off and broke on the side- walk. The butcher hadn't had time to replace them. Some time Saturday night the joker obtained some chalk whitewash and painted the letter “e” at the end of two words, in still larger letters, he added the word “Monday.” The butcher was surprised to find about a score of his colored cus- tomers wajting to gei in the store on Monday morning. Innkeeper Retaliates. Unable to erase inscriptions written on his inn windows at night, reading “Away with the fat swine,” a corpu- lent anti-Nazi innkeeper in Danzig BURGLARY LIST 241 Police statistics show there were 241 burglaries reported here during July, 110 of which were in residences, while 131 were in business houses. Reports of burglaries in business places included 15 grocery stores, 16 lunch rooms, 3 jewelry stores, 6 chain stores, 8 clothing stores, 14 garages, 8 freight cars, 3 drug stores, 4 ice cream parlors, 3 office bulldings and 3 A over, as best she could, she scanned » newspaper which she had A GEORGETOWN meat cutter pasted underneath a photograph o(!gu stations, Four schools also were doesn't care for practical jokes in the Blue Ridge Mountains re- Gen. Goering. ! robbed. cently he thréw them into a barn in the woods. He figured they would be safe there. *x k% % FUGITIVE. "PLEASE. lady, won't you give me a | little change. I'm hungry. Hon- | est Tam.” Thus did a stray mendicant appeal to a woman walking along Connecti- cut avenue the other day. The woman was one who tries to dispense her charities with discretion, for she re- in the same proportions as ap- “Gee,” said Ken, “I sure hope our the remaining “fre” and below the ~ & partly pulled from the rack. Along | came a newsboy. “Madam,” he said, like to buy a paper?” Feigning abstraction, she pulled a little harder, read a little further. The newsboy grimaced and shuf- fled from foot to foot Finally, apparently through with her story, she reigned in her dog, was handed into a waiting limousine by a liveried chauffeur, swept off down the street. “would you { ¥ ok X % BUG-EATING PLANT One of the latest additions to the collection of rare plants at the Botanic Garden is the insect-de- vouring “pitcher” plant of Indo- China. At the end of tapering leaves a small blossom resembling a pitcher is formed with a lid which lifts to invite insects inside and closes again After ome nourishing insect is absorbed, the trap opens for an- other. | “Why don't you go to some of the | | charitable institutions? If vou are really hungry, I'm sure they won't * ok ok ¥ A. .M C AF’TER his soup, the old gentleman looked over the menu with a keen eye, but found nothing to his liking. 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