Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03

cape valve WhereWltn TO steam those eight
Cne-cent stamps loose from the envelope
of his property letter.
The car ticket beggars are becoming more
and more numerous, and there are many
types of them, from the Paisley-shawled
elderly white woman with the distillery
breath to the midtle-aged colored woman
with the huge empty clothes basket. This
car ticket game. however, is another good
one, and it is confidently recommended to
persons of plausible methods combined with
chronic impecuniosity.
How This Game is Worked.
The Paisleyshawled elderly white woman
after the car ticket or the price Of a car
ride generally rings the bell after night
fall.
Il want t get to me sick darter's, up on
the HILL" she says to whoever opens the
door, land sorra the ticket or the nickel
have / got, and me a poor cd woman past
sixty; and it's a long walk. sure 1t is, and
me darter's dying by inches. so she is,
and
Well. what is the household going to do
in case like that? Careful as the Pals
ley-shawled old woman appears to be to
keep her breath behind her, thus to put it,
in order that the breath may not take the
witness stand against her, the permeative-
ness of the aroma of old new rye is
not to be held down, and in nine cases out
of ten the householder is involuntarily made
aware that the app icant for interurban
transportation has been taking something
for the upbuildng of her nerves. How
ever it is worth car ticket or the price
of one to buy off the old woman from mar
rating in detail the purely imaginary his-
tory of her daughter illness, and this is the
view the householder nearly always takes
of the situation Ia delivering the goods. AS
often or not the car ticket beggar gets
nickel in place of a ticket, but car tickets
are easily convertible into all sorts Of nee
essaries, liquid and solid, in Washington
A Familiar Figure.
The colored woman with the empty
clothes basket who applies for the means
of transportation to her distant home way
out near Chevy Chase somewhere or in
the vicinage of 18th street southeast is
inevitably guileless. bland and as honest
looking as the day is long, whatever that
may mean There is no alcoholic trace to
her breath and When the door opens in re-
Spouse to her ring She hangs on to the rail-
ing and looks Ready Ito drop from sheer
exhaustion Whether, the, householder who
opens the door be man or woman, the
weary-looking c6lored woman always be-
gins something like this: - ~ t.
''Honey, All s Jes' TOO tired tub go an.
uthuh step, aftuheuh-trapsn' in 'heah wifi
dis big basketfu o. clo'es I'm way out at
de aimed o de cab line. an All jes happen
tub think dat All might fin some cha uht' BIZ
cab ticket until de mex time All comes
uhroun' dis heah way, an de good Lawdll
bless yo' all fo-"
A bit of talk like this almost always
fetches the ticket the nickel, and the
nanny departs, murmuring benedictons,
casting back furtive glances. however. in
order to see whether she is being watched
in case she sees another house not far re-
moved that looks easy 1t wouldn't
really be supposed that stout, fat-nosed,
thoroughly reliable-looking colored women
of the type of the woman with the empty
basket could skilfully carry on game of