Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-06
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.


dence in scheme she read about in the
| newspapers. Sometime ago she came across
piece which purported to give the TO
nance of a wedding cake superstition. 1t
appeared that a certain young lady gave
| a certain young man a piece of wedding
cake, together with seven neatly folded
slips of paper. She told him to place the
Wedding cake and the slips under his pill
low, and when he awoke in the morning to
take out one of the slips and read what
| II contained She further informed him
mat each OF six OF the slips would bear the
| Fame OF some young lady, but that the
! seventh would be blank IL the slim he
opened on the seventh day contained q
srIs name Ii would be that of his future
wite out II II was the blank he was doomed
10 pachelorhood. The young man took the
cake and the slips and followed rhe charm
er directions perfectly. Next morning
Mneh ne opened slip he found IL con-
tanned the name of the very girl who had
given him the instructions He was pretty
bSdiy disappointed. She was the only girl
OF ms acquaintance that he had ever even
.nS on IN connection with matrimony,
ana ne had frequently kicked himself for
ms want OF courage in letting her know 1t
| 80 ne concluded that the other slips
wooldnt interest him enough 10 sleep on
tneh -or SIX more nights, and procees.ed
to open them all and read their names be-
I0re throwing them away. Evening seemed
ten years on when he found that the girl
OF his heart had written her our name on
every one of them, thus CONVEYING a hint
broad enough to get any amount OF en-
gagement rings on. Evening did corre
however ana everything was settled IN The
most approved manner That was he
story the West End girl read. md she
made up her mind to try the same .rystern
upon the young man she most admired, but
who displayed singular fndispcsition 10
question her upon a momcatous subject
One of her friends was married recently
and she carried on a large hunk Of tie
wedding cake in triumph and hope. The
4 Ia = ma
see her she entertained him sweetly, and
as he was going she brought out her we'd
ding cake and the slips containing her
autograph. She gave the swain his in
structions about dreaming and opening the
slips, and all the rest OF il, and her con-
ste'nation may be imagined when he re-
marked pleasantly:
oh, yes! / read that story myself.
Pretty good scheme, wasn't it,
And she hasn't seen him since!
Grip car 10 rolled out OF the barn at At.
Pleasant early the other morning and the
big CHEEKY engineer of it's brakes hitched it
on to closed car No. 165. The air was
cool and it carried the sound of the clang-
ing bell away out the 18th street road and
made the sleepy team attached to home
going milk cart start into a trot
All aboard" shouted the conductor and
a iat Old colored woman, with prodigloUs
clothes basket, pulled hard as she put on
Folks nebber halter run deyseNes ter
DEF ketchin de hess cyars" she calculated,
with an indignant sniff as she climbed
into seat, and the trim started OF with
a jerk, while the grtpman winlzed merrily.
An dey didn' get de BRET knocked outea
EN- wen de boss cyars useter start mud
der" she continued. searching for rum
pied car ticket in the knotted ends of a
ragged handkerchief.
But hits de same wiz ebcryt'ing," she
went on, with an evident desire 20 let the
conductor hear her. Just hurry an git
up, an git up an hurry, fun mawpin' ter
night Pears ter me like foxes dream fas-
Ser, too. nowerdays den dey useter did. /
dunno whut de WORT is comm ter. dat
don't. wild all desc hyar rapid COINS on
At Columbia road three more passengers
got aboard, and by the time L street was
reached the car was crowded and the grip
seats pre-empted.
Pretty cool this morning" seid rosy
checked man, with gray hair peeping over
his ears. Must "a had hail up in the
mountains Reminds me of q spell We had
In May. 90. Had a storm up in my county
In Pennsylyania.Berks county, y know
and the hail fell big as
Elephantsr' piped a voice up in the cor
ner.
Yes. elephants. Eleven hundred and
forty of 'em I'm one bunch. and that was
only a part of 'em. Why. the English in
India have thousands of 'enl, and
When the President shot into them, I
heard Commander Evans say. he dropped
the left" There is no telling what sporting
secrets of the administration the import
ant-looking little man would have impaired
TO the crowd had not a hoarse voice bawled
out:
Say, conductor, 1 told you 20 let me Of
at street and here we are at P Dog
gone IL, this road wants to start kinder
garten for its employees, that's what il
wants. Reckon il 1 was coming the other
way and wanted 10 get of at F street
you'd carry me clean out to And So Forth
avenue. I'm going to-
But by this time he had disembsrked, and
his further grumblinS was lost as the train
whirred merr1ly onward
''Porr Mrs. Jones'" tvitted q sweet-faced
little woman, compasslonately. she does
have such a time. with her help. She's now
trying her eleventh cook since last Thanks
giving day. and l understand she has had
seventeen chsmbernaids. I can't under
stand these servants at all. and Phil and
have determined TO continue boarding Until
the evil lessons. I'd really ike 10 know
why servants become SO quickly dsssatis-
fed. They come and stay a little while
"Leave?' exclaimed a round-headed. short
necked colored man, whose higher education
was evident In his language and well-ssmu-
lated fashionable intonation, 'of course I
left. Do you think / was going TO remain
in place where was required to wash the
area windows and the front steps in broad
daylight? l wouldn't sacrifice my self-re-
spect for any eighteen dollars a MONTH
1 m going to Atlantic City. where IN have
some rights and where 1 ought to get"
Corporal punishment, sir" said the big
man across the aisle to his COMPANION
There is nothing more eficacious for the
treatment of chronic minor offenders / tell
you, rawhide well laid on is a specific for
the cure OF the disease You speak Of
Men are only children of larger growth
and you know how easy II is to make even
a baby"
With no neck at all, but Just a mass Of
insertion, piped an animated little crea-
ture The shoulders were regular balloons,
ana altogether IL was the dearest, loveliest,
most exquisite thing, 1 never saw
such prices!' walled the woman with
the market basket. Sure, / believe well
all have to begin living on peanuts, like the
Dutch soldiers, poor things. IL things go
much higher. Think of peas at twenty
cents peck and strawberries at a dime a
quart at this time OF year, Deed / don't
Know what's going to become OF the poor
people. They'll have to"
Look out, therei You'll get run overr'
yelled the grfpman a preoccupied individ-
ual nearly walked into the train at 9TH
street.
"One can hear many funny things in q
street car, suggested the Congressman who
got aboard at Corcoran street 10 the re-
porter. And they dropped off together at
the Peace monument and climbed I'D TO
near great many funnier things in the
big white building.