Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18


| ment. When 1 raped on the basement
door to get my quarter. a good-looking
young man let me in, and the young woman
who had let me i'm originally was standing
behind him.
- Hey. Bin.' said the young man. smiling.
1 hear the old g,rl laid You Out?
Jack" said his wife, Don't speak 50 OF
mother. She has kindly heart bu; you
know how she hates the very thought OF
liquor
" That's the reason use Il on my hair
Tor hair oil. said the young womans hus-
band' grinntns. SOS She can smell Il and
enjoy IT. VIII YOU have n hall. Bilp'
guess not. sir. I answered him. I'm
doin a sober stunt lately and tryin' 20 cut
out the booze for good
The young man then hoped upstairs
three steps AZ jump. and when h. came
back he had pretty fair Irish friczo ulster
in his arms.
" Better wear this ulster. BilI.' h, said
TO me. or you're liable to freeze. H. NY
No blanket, and l don't need il any
more
Il went out then and plowed my way
along up the street. until ! came To- "a house
with doctors sign outside of st. pretty
little faded woman Of forty or 50 wa sit
llng IN the bow window. I didn't see any
basement door. 50 ] shamhlCd up m, lr.nt
steps. The little woman motisnci 10 mo
mat she'd open the door which she lid
before l got TO the top of The steps. i put
the snow shoNeiinS question 10 her.
More of the same.
W. Nth lH'li AistlA--fI an Altf ff'flEN
ideas in this wide. wide world" size ex-
claimed. Clean off the snow. when yea can
hardly see your hand before your face for
the snow that's stil coming down. Juno!
Oh. JunoT
Juno showed up in half miuut, I'm The
shape Of big black woman.
Have We any spirits left, Juno the lit
tie woman asked Juno.
- y IS IN. de doctuh he dun got nh l,aw
bottle Satuhd'N.' answered Juno.
Come into the hall. then, You poor in
sane young man said the doctors wifi, TO
me. and III give you something To warm
You up. and she poured me out "A drink Of
brandy that-well. it was the biggest five
myers ever got outside of. and il / had
stayed IN that warm hail I'd probably have
oeen talking through my hat in a couple Of
minutes. The doctors wife asked me
though. as soon as gulped down tho drink
If l really thought il would do any good
10 clean OF the walk in front and 1 told
her yes. made terms for a Quarter for tho
jed, ana Went al it. II got me 10 putting
TOO, Tor II was corner house and there
Was plenty of pavement, with siews of
nigh drifts, to be cleared of the SNOW Gy
the time had finished the doctor had driv-
en- up IN his buggy and entered the house
ana he regarded me with curiosity from tho
window. When I had finished the job and
aScondtd the steps he was at IN. 'front.' door
to receive me.
The Doctors Views.
That's good though rather futile, Job
of work he said to me-. I should think
you'd be good, rather than 90 get down 10
doing this sort of thing What ails YOU
dpsomania?
''loull have to come again. doc said L
That words one of EN- that IN have 10
pass up?'
He smiled. and then said:
Here's a half dollar. and consider thar
you re underpaid. at that. | wouldn' tackle
the job you've done for 81 "A minute and IN
l Were YOU Ia take to the footpads or Sec
ond-story mans work. before I'd do this.
Nice moral ideas l advance aren't th.ye
Have drink before you go?'
lie looked considerably surprised wbrl,
declined the drink, but he wouldn't have
accepted from his wife.
The next house / tackled had a sign.
Aftlst, tackled on the bow window [ was
mounting the front steps There b,i,,p ,,,,
basement door in sight when "a ,urIy-b,ir-
ed young duck. with a mean countenancn.
raped on the window and shouted 'ti'Napv
az me L warmed. but mentally deter
mined that I'd keep that artists nam. IN
my memory tablet.
Food for the Hungry
Three or four houses IN trailed da,,a
10 the basement door OF a cozy little n..,y
pressed brick house that had what women
eau cute little Swiss curtains in the front
parlor windows, and rang the bell 4 sur
Pfised-looking young man with Vandyke
beard came to the door. lie had a hath
robe on over his clothes. was smoking a
coilcob pipe with a good deal Of lr,t.s5,.-,t
enjoyment. and looked at me a. if H. fia-
ured l had just come from the place lh,
snow was coming from.
Snow shoveling?' said he when he saw
my shovel oh, what SlfaD' Com. i'm
pere. You're a good thing. that's what 1
call you! Let 'er snow, oh Jessie
Jessie. his wife. plainly showed up At
the top of The basement stairs in :, s-1.,,.'5
or so.
What do YOU think Of this for "a tap
ioca inquired the young man. Thought
you were going TO get me outside the house
on day like this, didn't you? Wei. here's
a man that : been sent down from the
clouds to go on those narkst-slore errand~.
and nary a bulge do l make. Never saw
any lhlng so oDpcrtune in my life
asked him.
40 ne asked me. Do want to own
a steam yacht when | get rich. Aou may
not know II. Jim. or Bub. or Mike. or what
ever your blessed old hobo name NAV ha.
but there isn't so much as a loaf of bread
IN lhis house to eat. ana in about ten min
ules from now il was up TO me to swadIla
UP and make the best of nv way ia the
market store. three blocks away. and Inv
grub TO keep starvation from visiting this
snack You're godsend. that's what you
are. Jessie. tell him what you want him
TO get at the market store
" Jessie handed me "A list and she had
two-dollar bill in her hand, ready 10 giv,. il
10 me. Before doing so. however she look
W iut't.olllIrslA II her husband.
Taking Chances.
" Oh, he's all right said the husband re-
ferring to me, in answer TO his wife's in
curing gaze. Two dollars is nothing 10
hlm. I'm going to take a chance on him
with the two anyhow-any old things
preferable I, going out
Il dug through the snow to the market
store. got the things named on the list
carried them back to the hcme Of the lux
urlous young duck with the Van DYKE
beard. had - cents change left from the
market store purchasing and the Young
man told me to keep that. and dug ali
through his pockets TO find more He
couldn't md any more change though he
said, and told me TO come around again
when the weather happened to be better
and he'd give me Il thousand dollars which
he said | had richly earned by permitting
him TO stay in the house instead Of being
compelled TO risk his life in foragng for
grub.
BY this time the snow was coming down
SO fast and banking up at such a great rate
thilt 1t struck me as rather absurd on nv
part TO go "a ound asking people TO hire ne
10 clean il off when there didn't seem TO Ice
10.