The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-12

lAlH~b hGS cAL N9COi d ita y tGAs
! "Oh, I don't know" said Lillian indif-
ferently. probably a cotton handker.
chief or somebody's other glove
Lillian is one Of the girls who could
not find anything If they would. Posi-
bly, that Is the reason she assumes the
manner Of one who wouldn't if she
could.
Meta gave q whitening glance at the
scoffer. Then she removed her Lady
smith hat and extracted from it's crown
roll Of money which she spread upon
her lap. a $50, a $50 and a $40 bill
stared out,
/ Counterfeit" gasped Lillian.
mo, sir, Uncle Mac says they're as
good as any ever made
you didn't find them, Meta, you re
Joking" protested Georgia.
/ mo joke about it. l was walking
down Wabash avenue, and stacks OF
people were passing both directions,
! too, but suddenly there was an open
place about a yard square directly in
front of me, and straight in the mid
die of 1t lay this money, all rolled up,
1t just seemed as though the crowd
parted and everybody looked the 9TH
er way on purpose to let me havs II"
well / never!" sung the chorus.
What are you going to use it for
Meta?" somebody asked, but Lillian,
whose interest had revived wonderfully,
didn't give her time to answer
use for it?" she cried. do you
s'poee Meta would spend that money!
Think of the poor woman who lost
it,"
Woman, indeed!' retorted Meta.
Uncle Mac doesn't think that he
says there's little pocket just inside
the waistbsnd Of his trousers "here
he keeps wad Of bills-WheneVer De
has one-and that it's the easiest thlhs
In the world to slip the money IN PACK
Of the pocket instead OF into 1t. ana l
asked him IL that ever happened TO MIN
You ought to have seen now suiity ne
looked when he said 'once-out uon
tell Ellen! mats my aunt you KNOW.
Wen, we think-unele mac ana l-thae
come rich club fellow lost IT. anu Thai
he'd put 1t to some extraVasaHt USE
even II he had 1t again.
"Bub can't help thinking apoul
some poor old WasherWomah "ho
hadn't another cent IN the Wor1o' illu'-
INJURED the blue-eyed innocent.
"WasherWoman without announcer cenV
are SO likely to go streWins s0o roiis
arouno'' SAID Meta
More likely twas schooi teSenei
with her months salary-ano teachlhs
Is such nervous WORK! sussesteu LII
Ian.
Or raggeo-out woman cierh' auo
ed Georgia
We'll, l wouldn't take IL from Wo-
man any sooner than you would ue-
clared Meta. Oh course L Wouiuh
mind so much II 1t belonged 10 man
But intend to advertise It, anyway
certainty exclaimed Lillian as i
she'd been thinking OF that all the
time That's the proper thlns TO uo,
and biue-eyed innocent auueu'
should use that money Tor auVer',s'ns
every day In every paper uhth tnele
wasn't cent lett
Meta purssd her lips Wei M YAK
Ing Uncle MACS ADVICE ABOUT tihsi
she SAID. HE says TO STUDY the PApels
day or two and see II the loser al
vertises Then, after that ne says 70
advertise: 'Found-Sum OF money ue
such place, at such time MOI
word to give false claimant any ieip
In identifying the bills, you see bue
he doesn't think I'll ever ma the own
er, and say girls, II ne shoulaht TURN
up, what do you say TO a lhke tfip 10
eether or some KIM or a regular spree
with this money!
Il couldn't enjoy IT, SAID pHe rlspt-
eous Lillian.>
Not unless you gave ha1 TO nos
pital,' amended another
Oh, l uvi hho"'
ga 1 tnihS my coilsc,eiioe "0uiA '''+>e
III UP 10 machlnac
euou lor you' fepiieo A, o. wa ~
she roileo up her Weaith aio ~ ~
NAT we II speho IL an ioi sun, - W.
want 10, Georgia, anu we "oh 'i"'
thenl' either IL we oo'
Ihey uiun see nFr AGAIN ~ " ee
weeks ana then she caihe hSu's nv
luncheoh AT Lillian win looh IN i'sl
eyes as II sned JUST laiien heir "
mlllton IN eoiu'
We haa the loVeilest eNpeileiice III
the worm! sre ahiiouNceu w
member thHe money Louhu wen,
waited rev Gays as ohcle Mac e9iI''
ana no one adNeftlseu the loss' 30 i Put
one III hySen' lolu tnelh W auu' ''s
n, the newspaper oi'lce' you hiloW
way they 40. NeNt mornllls went
Gown To get the returns. "e7