Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-23

She executed right wheel Tommy At
kins-wise, and faced the inquirer, who
wasn't beaming any more. And this was
the way of it:
did yez want cookin? ~
WELL yes, we were
An washin' an ironin'?'
Il think that was the
How many O yeZ is there?'
only my wife and myself; but, maybe
later" ~
An does she know annythin' about an
hythin' aroond the house?"
well. guess She
An a-Choosed'y an a-Soondav off nj
preshume?"
Well. didn't ask her
tn kitchen?'
~ don't remember having seen"
An tn gur-r-1 kin resave coomp'ny
amy tonne. Oh preshume?"
Ine man removed his hat and scratched
MS head ref1ectively. Then he leaned over
the desk and whispered hoarsely to the
man behind it,
Hey, there. BILL said he, "set me right
bit; will you? I'm little mixed. Who's
hunting for work in this push-the girl or
me! Because, say, If it's me, l tell YOU
right now that / don't want the iobv' And
be made his escape.
A beautiful, notwithstanding young
th1ne: also newly married. perhaps. came
frou-frou-ing in with the rustic of siken
skirts while later. She beleaguered the
man behind the desk almost before she got
in the door.
One WOmRn'N Way.
Such time as I've been having do de-
clare If 1t isn't enough to drive the calmest
woman in the world staring STAYING mad
and how I've stood it goodness alone knows
stealing everything in the house and spoil
ing everything that she didn't steal and all
tie china broken into teeny bits gracious
me and then the next one yelled in her
sleep so that you could hear a block and
Tom thought it was burglars and came
near shooting us dead door-nalS with
that horrid pistol of his and then going off
all day Saturday because she said her
grandmother was sick and leaving me all
alone the whole blessed hve-long day just
when half a dozen of Toms horrid smoky
friends were coming to dinner and the next
one having all the Dorsey Foultzes in
Washington and everywhere else in the
kitchen at all Eours ofthe day and night and
her going out and getting beer right in the
middle of the day in broad daylight and all
the neighbors with their heads poked out
of the window and then when / found her
in the kitchen she couldn't move saying
it was heart disease and not word of
sympathy have i got from Tom much he
cares how l suffer and only laughing when
the dinner is all spoiled and going down
town to get his dinner and not coming back
until all hours and then with his cheeks as
led as q beet and mercy what I'm to do is
more than / can tell"
Madam said the man behind the desk
"can l serve your
Il don't know whether you can or not
but / suppose I'll have to let you try but
If you can't do any better than the others
mercy me l suppose We'll have to go to
boarding after all and Tom declaring that
he'll live in a cave first but how l am to
help it l do declare but I'm going to make
one more attempt and then gracious only
can tell"
Have you ever tried Swedish grip
No, but within the last three months I've
tried every other kind under the sun white
black yellow and all the colors of the rain
bow and some of them l couldn't under
stand when they talked but l didn't mind
that mercy me no if they'd only
The right forefinger Of the man behind
the desk once again pointed heavenward.
and again all of the furbelowed-n-S Sunday
best array of wall flowers stood to atten-
ton. But the right forefinger had dead
bead upon the bottle-green jacket of girl
with Thelma-like hair of the color and
simmer of molten gold. She had a bovine
eye, q Laplander nose that wouldn't have
touched a spirit level placed against her
forehead and chin, much expression in
her countenance as an Easter Island statue
or an Aztec medallion ana a complexion
of the purest peaches and cream. She adj
vanced 20 the desk with cast-down ewes
and with her huge red hands, aesthetically
draped i'm white lace mitts, clutchins a
reticule before her.
GAY Tank Not"
rs this the Swedish girl well goodness
me she looks as If she wouldn't steal
everything in the house from cellar to gar
ret but how is one ever to tell but I sup
pose she has relatives in this country
and she looks nice and clean too and that's
something gracious knows but then I've
always heard that Swedish girls are so
hard to learn things and obtuse but my
I'd be perfectly willing to work my finger
nails of at first and can you cook and
wash and iron and can you make good cof-
fee because that's one thing that Tom will
have good coffee and never could learn
how to make it to suit him. and can you
dust bric-a-brac without smashing 1t all to
pieces and you don't walk in your sleep do
you or have Nightmares and you don't
make everything you cook horrid and
greasy that everybody almost dies from
dyspepsia and you won't talk to the gro
Gerry boy over the back gate for hours will
you while everything on the stove burns
to crisp and"
The girl from Scandinavia with the Thel-