The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-27
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~ way tney 1Ound III out was by
reading a bit of memoranda she
left in the street car. They were not
curious people, but they were making
Il study of comparative brain force
and mental balance in man and wo-
man and thus the treasure trove was
of interest. They didn't regard it as
Il mark OF under breeding to read the
| little penciled lines, nor u breach OF
confidence to tell of their observations.
1t was all for the benefit of the race
| and the woman was only Type. That
is what they said. ut least. People
who prowl over your bureau drawers
and read letters and kilograms meant
for your eyes alone, usually find
equally pleasant excuses for their
| deeds.
But that memoranda. well. 1t
wasn't any gorgeous address book
bound in Persian embroidery, shipped
! from some rich old altar cloth in a
| foreign land, and fitted up with silver
lettering and a dainty gold pencil
! Nothing so fine and luxurious. That
| is the sort You keep on top of your
desk in conspicuous place and never
have any engagement quite important
enough to be worth sullying the pur-
your memory-jogs on stray bits of
paper and the backs of envelopes.
This woman had a resplendent en-
sagement book just like that. 1t was
! one of her treasures and always re-
minded her sweetly of the giver. Thus
she never wrote anything between its
sloritled cOvers-because she never
wanted the little book to remind her
ha lnI Iu
whose gift it was. So she wrote the
notes of things she meant to do, and
to get. ana to see. and to hear on
anything that came handy. Sometimes
it was blank page in a letter. She
had so many letters from friends who
wrote here and there, in the most be-
nishted fashion and skipped merrily
from the first to the last. page and
then somewhere else unexpectedly. and
the blank spaces made convenient tab
lets for memoranda. Sometimes SHE
used the laundry lists and at others
wrote on the blank slips in vogue at
the public library.
This time the scrap of paper hap
rened to be the back of yellow
check thing which the clerk had put
in parcel Of dry-goodS from IL de-
rartment store. One would think that
blank paper was extremely scarce in
my ladys neighborhood.
This is what they read, minus GER
tain authorizations:
Telephone TO Mrs. y. about the linen fol the
hospital
stop at the drcssnakors' with that silk.
Mcm.--Iuv tack hammer.
ASK d. y. ii he wont make poor Mrs. h. q
subject o prayer Wednesday night 1t will
please the old soul 50 much.
Order the meat and peck of potatoes
Get some hair clotl and Philadclphia cream
Cheese.
Stop at y. ". G. \. aud tell them about
Mabel.
Order some more dog biscuit
Get that hair prescription filled.
Go t" Reading Club at 1880
stop at library for that Russian history.
Bring home loaf o; brown bread from the
Exchange
Mcm.-Tell George about kitchen sink
Help daughter with music lessons.
order the other things for auntir
one of those who read this list--he
had a great deal of ievity in his make
up-gaVe way to mirth
''Thlnlt of mixing up hair-cloth and |
cream cheese he shouted. Nobody |
but a woman would do that: and, bv |
Jove. look ut the sandwich she makes |
of The preachers prayers between a |
tack hammer and a peck of potatoes, |
Oh, my; oh, my Anyway" he added, |
rchectivcly, chat memoranda is an |
other argument in favor of being, born |
man. 1t makes n fellows brain reel |
to think of having all those things |
on your mind; although, on second |
thought, she didn't have them on her |
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