Evening star., 1901-09-28
MILDRED'S WlNSOME WAY

MlLDREDS WINSOME WAY
'The next time take. any of my sisters
young ones out to air 'em." pensiveiy re-
marked the young uncle of q large brood
of nephews and nieces II won't forget to
| have gags of proper strength and effective
ness along with me. Last Sunday morning
| dropped in upon my married sister. who
| lives on the HILL She had just got through
| dressing her little angel che-ild No. 3,
| Mildred. seven years old. The young one
| looked so cute and nice that concluded to
| take her out for a car ride over to the house
! of my other married sister, who lives in the
| northwest. Mildred had heap to say on
| all sorts of subjects from the minute that
| we started for the car, but when we got on
| the car she seemed to be wound up like a
| Strasburg clock, and the way that young
| one caused the hot fushes to crowd them
selves over my shy, unobtrusive frame was
i something sinful. The first person of whom
| she took notice on the car masculine
looking woman, sitting across the aisle
whose upper lip was provided with sufhcfent
| hirsute to make a very youthful man envf-
| Gus. Little Mildred sized this woman up
| carefully for about half a minute, and then
she turned to me and remarked in an awful
| whisper, with her hand at her mouth:
| "' Uncle Dave, just look at that lady s
| mus-tashp
The other passengers grinned, of course,
| but the woman with the unnecessarily
| adorned upper lip scowled at me in man
| ner that caused me to feel for my physical
safety. muttered few little things in
| my niece's ear as to the propriety of young
| ones keeping under cover, but she was too
| busy looking out of the window to pay much
| attention to me. About three squares fur
| ther down very large, muscular-looklng
| black man got on the car and took a seat
| directly opposite US. His eyes, to say the
| least, were strangely independent of each
| other. Mildred looked him over solemnly
| for short space, and then she prodded me
gently and let out another one OF those nor
| rbly audible asides of hers.
"tUm-m-m, Unkie,' she said, noddlng in
| the direction of the black man. but amt he
| cross-eyed thought
| THE black man tried hard to get focus
| on my face with his twisted eyes without
| actually succeeding, but he looked like a
| real mad Nubian giant, all the same, and
| l expected for minute or so that ne q
| come al me with a razor Again l told my
| little angel niece that she was becoming
| entirely too conversational for her years,
but she's had me down for a good thing
| since her birth and she never pays much
| attention to what l say.
! "As the car was rounding into Indiana
| avenue a very plain-looking fat woman
| opened her mouth to ask the conductor to
| stop the car. Opening her mouth. she re-
| veaied singular upper front tooth-a molar
| that looked grotesque and uncanny, II only
| for it's lonesomeness. That tooth instantly
| seized upon Mildred's imagination.
] Dut Whdt taSh! sAS SPShSo
to me in a tone that was all the more au-
| dible because the car was near the stop
| ping point The woman with the solitary
| front tooth bestowed glare of the utmost
| iI,-feeling upon me, and no doubt She
| would have stopped to haul me over the
Goals had she had time before getting Off.
| 1 leaned over to little Mildred and told her
| that she stood only about one chance in a
million of ever being taken out again by
me, but Mildred was too much immersed
| just then in studying the figure of young
woman who had just boarded the car to
| take ary note of my threat. This new pas
senger was assureGly very slender young
person-one Of these naturally emaciated
young women who can't get even reason
| ably stout no matter how hard they try.
| Her entire absence of figure was, of course,
| the young womans misfortune, and it was,
| Of course so regarded by all of the pas
sengers in the car-except Mildred. Mildred
| studied her as she looked up and down the
| car for a seat, and finally sat down, and
! then this lovable little niece Of mine looked
up at me archly and remarked with win
| some distinctness:
| Dear me, but isn't that poor lady
| SKINNY
''Well, we were yet too far from our des-
| tinatton to leave the and walk, yet I
| began to think that at this rate I stood
| good even money chance to get myself
mobbed. Consequently 1 took up a plead
| ing tone with little Mildred and implored
| her for my sake, If not for her own, to
| pipe down, or words to that general effect.
| and inquired what was the matter, and for
| a while she was very good and quiet. Then
| there entered the car a big young man.
| logged out in clothes that were obviously
| his Sunday best, with one of these cro-
! cheted four-in-hand ties, and all that sort
| of thing. He was plainly horny handed
| son of toll rigged out for the Sabbath, and
he sat down across the way from us and
| looked very much dressed up indeed.
Mildred fidgeted about in a seat for
awhile and then she got to looking at this
| spendiferously arrayed artisan. His huge
| red hands seemed to make an especial hit
| with her. She looked at them steadily for
| about three minutes, and then she gazed
| up at me mirthfully.
".'Unkie, did you ever see such freckles
| on mans hands in your life? she asked
me, sweetly.
| We'll. the plumber, or piano mover, or
whatever he was, across the way heard it.
| to get sore or not. He flushed and looked
| down at his hands. and then he grinned
| at the child and at me. 1 knew then that
it was all right so far as he was concerned
| but wouldn't have had the poor fellows
| feelings hurt like that for a mint How
| ever, there was nothing to be done, and
| SO l grinned back at him sheepishly, and
| had to let it go at that We were nearing
our destination and l figured 1t out thai
| perhaps Mildred had executed her last
| stunt. But was mistaken. We were only
| two squares from our getting-off place.
| when wef-dressed man with a fine conn
! tenance and friendly eyes got aboard His
amiable and well-molded face was sadly
marred. but decidedly not spoiled, by the
| fact that 1t was badly pock-marked
He must have suffered awful. eh
unkie? remarked my delightful little niece
| to me Just as l signaled the conductor to
| stop the car. The man with the pock-
marked face heard the childs remark
| leaned over and smilingly chucked her un,
| der the chin, saying. Indeed I did. little
one but his nice way of taking it didn't
| help me out any.
| i blew In dollar to take little Mildred
! nome In an automobile that afternoon.
| She's charming little girl and all that
| and am mighty fond of my sisters voune
ones, but hereafter I'm going to enjoy little
Mndreds bright. winsome sayings when
hunting for trouble -.o'
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