| Show He Passed Washington Post The young women are now ornamenting ornament-ing their combedup back hair with bejeweled be-jeweled clasp pins The effect is not the I less pretty if the pins are for the most part manifestly of the 4Scent department I depart-ment store variety The quick transition transi-tion from the imitation amethyst or turquoise pin to the realistic bug pin for this purpose was Inevitable and It has already come to pass A beautiful young thing in a pink shirt waist supplementary sup-plementary pf course to other articles of raiment fitting to the season boarded board-ed an uptown Fourteenth street open car the other afternoon Clutching the center strands of the cascade of burnished bur-nished bronze hair on the back of her head was a bug pina greenwinged beetle wrought very true to the real thing A big redfaced man who looked to be equally in need of a shave and about a pailful of bromide climbed aboard the car a couple of squares further fur-ther down and fell Into a seat directly behind the young woman with the Zaza locks He closed his eyes and fell into seeming meditation upon the world the I flesh and the devil for a distance When his eyes opened again owing to a jolt caused by the car rounding a curve they fell for the first time upon the greenwinged beetle in the young wo mans back hair An expression of grave surprise and then of active alarm overspread his features He shifted around in his seat and looked again There still nestled the green bug He bent over and examined the bug at close range He rubbed his eyes and sized it up again Then he put his right hand over his right eye and gazed at the bug some more The final inspection inspec-tion decided him ton Shay Bill he said leaning over to the young man seated on his left give t t me shtraight dye see anything Where inquired the young manS man-S On that girlsh hair bugsh or anything any-thing muttered the unshorn man seri iously IouslyWhy Why no said the young man blandly theres nothing on her hair Shtop your klddln aint zhat a green bug said the big man now breathing heavily and pointing to the beetle with an unsteady forefinger I tell you what old man said the young chap youd better cut it out The pink zebras are after you all right Theres no green or blue or red or yellow I yel-low or any other kind of bug in that young ladys hair The big man regarded the young fellow fel-low solemnly as he spoke Then he touched the button i I pashr he said I aint no hog Zhis ish zhe finish When I commensh t shee green bugsh where there aint no bugsh t all zhen I pash and you hear me When the car stopped he lumbered off and disappeared into a corner drugstore |
