Evening journal., 1898-02-03
WHY HE WEARS ODDS.


price of which was 49,
After he got home, so the Wayfarer
is Informed, he discovered that the
shoes were both rights
He rushed back to the shoe store and
said:
Both shoes are rights. l want you
TO take one of them back and give me
q left for it.
"They must have got mixed in taxi
ing them down TO get shoe that would
fit you properly" answered the shoe
dealer "I'l find the other snoe and
give it to YOU
He went to the shelves and hunted
industriously through the boxes, but
failed to find the left shoe. Finally he
found left shoe OF different pattern
and price and gave it to the customer
who went home none the wiser.
He wore the two shoes contentedly
until some friend called his attention 10
the difference In pattern, and then ne
almost kicked himself for his stupidity
But he had worn the shoes several
times and could not ask the dealer to
take them back, hence there was MOTH
ing for him to do but TO wear them
out. That he is accomplishing. lie
takes long and lonely walks over the
IO0knthI IOdlht UNA AAN AiiA'Ar+ANN -
pattern is still plainly apparent and
constitutes a machine-sewed and black
leather joke among his intimates.
CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
The Wayfarer learns Of an amusing
incident which occurred In a Delaware
avenue home last evening. Among the
treasures of the housewife are a pair
OF Indian moccasins, done beautifully
i'm beadwork by an Indian girl whom
she had befriended earlier in life, and
a bead bag of beautiful design. contain
ing many thousands of beads worked
in the form Of a landscape, a relic OF
the skill of her great grandmother. IL
Is one OF the delights of her life to
show these two artistic relics to call
ers
Yesterday one Of her friends came
to spend the afternoon and. after sun
dry topics had been discussed, the mis-
tress Of the house said:
Did / ever show you those beauti-
ful pieces Of beadwork that | have?'
NO. do let me see them, said the
caller who had a natural desire to see
anything skilafully executed with the
needle
Come over to the cabinet said her
hostess.
The moccasins and bag were hang
ing on the side OF the ornament.
Aren't they too lovely for any
thing?' exclaimed the visitor. Where
in the world did you get them?H
"rhe moccasns were made by an
indian gifl who played with me when
was "a child she said, "and my
great-grandmother made the bag when
chQ xVaQ Unitp "a Npffup oirl -
The visitor caught the first
part of the statement, but was 50 in
terested in the character of the work
which the relics showed that she en-
tirely lost the last part of the story.
Picking up the bag and examining il
carefully she turned to her hostess and
said.
1T is difficult to imagine that a mere
untutored savage reared in the back
woods amid squalCr and filth, could do
such artistic work as that
The hostess gave expression to a
painful exclamation OF "Oh" but it
went unheeded
After the visitor had departed the
hostess said TO herself:
THE hateful thing, The very idea
of characterizing my great-grandmo-
ther as "a mare untutored savage.
reared in the backwoods, amid sQualor
and filth. ] wish her to distinctly un-
derstand that my ancestry is Just as
good as hers, If not a great deal bet
ter. II was a shameful and gratuitous
insult
On the way home the caller solilo-
quized as follows.
Il wonder if I said anything to an
ger Mrs Blank? II / did. I am sure
| don't know what it was | admired
her beadwork, and every topic we
touched on was of pleasant character
But noticed That she was very cold
when she saw me TO the door
No doubt the two are still endeavor.
ing to figure out what the other meant
by her action, and this statement maN
lead to a better understanding be
tween them.
WHERE NEGOTIATIONS STOPPED
There is, in Wilmington. a profes
sional man and Republican politician
OF prominence Of the Wayfarer's ac
Q quaintance whose father now de
ceased, was one of the most prOminen
minister's in Delaware. Not only that
but he was also a lifelong and con
sistent Democrat. How the son cam
10 leave the political faith of his fathe
to follow after the false gods ant
teachings Of Frederick r. Bach and II
Il. Billany is another story. Let it suf
fice to say that he did so. and that a
has been an active factor in Republi
can politics ever since. In early man