Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29


which we earnestly hoped would eventuate.'
Say, OATS a Willie-dear of a void, dat
eventuate. If I'd knowed dat kiddie was
expected to eventuate I'm not dead sure I'd
| let him go to de school, even wit his way
| paid for. De boss teacher goes on in his
| letter:
while 1 rejoice that there is nothing
| vicious in his conduct to complain of, there
are, nevertheless, instances of behavior
calculated to disturb decorum, and SUBJ
versfve of those strict rules of discipline
upon whose obServanceS the high character
| Of our academy rests"
P'chee! when Duchess reads dis, she not
being so gay and easy wit de English lang
wudge as me, she truns fit and she says,
Mon Dfeu!' says she, Mon Due, what 1t
is dat Penfant has got-dis eventuate? 1t
must be woise dan de measles.
'Woise?" l says. "On your way, wo-
mani 1t is as bad as double smallpox. II
kiddie don't get 1t out of his system before
he grows up dere is no telling what may
happen to him. He may write poetry or
rob a stage. Noting but chains will hold
him If de poor lad gets dat eventuate good
and bad. I'll write to him meself, and find
out If we must send him to sea for cure,
or If dere is hope for de poor yout on cart"
So l writes to ktddle and tells him to tell
de trute, no matter how bad 1t was, and
put his Borrowing parents wise de nor
rible eventuates dat he had caught. / told
| him to tell de trute, or I'd send for him and
| show him anodder use for hitching strap
besides tying a horse wit 1t. Riddle an
| SW6TS ME TO once, ana mere Is his very let
| ter, which you can copy, so dat you can see
| how boy wit de eventuates writes:
Dear Dad: I have read your letter
which the fzzical culture teecher read for
| strong game. But the fizzical culture
| teecher is a dandy besides a boxer. He
| sends his regards to you, and says that
am sure to make the base ball team next
| spring as sure made the foot ball team
this fall. The trouble the He'd Teacher
wrote to you about wasn't me, but another
boy, which I'll try to lick as soon as my
| last troubles are forgot. The He'd Teacher
mostly forgets my bad marks when he gets
| paid prompt by Mr.. Paul, which he always
| does. This was the trouble. The teecher
of the seeyner class in political economy he
said that the school would be an election,
and one Big boy would be a Standpat and
one Big boy would be a Newdeal.
'"They was to make speeches, and then
the whole school was to vote to see which
had made the smartest campane. Dear
really, dear dad, you never did. The boy
what was the Standpat spoke a piece and
he said will We give up our priceless de-
spondencies in the far east. Never! and
everybody said huray. Then the Newdeal
boy he spoke a piece and he hollored the
right of self-govement is the most preschus
gift of the human soul. And everybody
said huray. No boy was making any votes
he could count on, and both was in great
sorrow, for they wanted to win to beat
the band, for politics is strong on the seen
yer mind. 1t was bad politics, dear dad, It
really was bum, / went to the Newdeal
boy because he is on the foot ball team and
so 1 wanted him to win, and / said to him
why did he not stop making noise and be-
gin making votes. He said what was troub-
ling me- and said my dear dad was a pol
ticker when he was a kid himself, and he
told me how 1t was done.
"He was glad | came to him, for he
wanted to win because his father, who is
a mugwump, told him he would give 50 aud
a half if he won. Easy Mike, said. With
two and a half l can make the other side
think there was no election. Give me two
dollars and you keep fifty cents and we will
beet them to a fragile. So dear dad he Dor
Keyed the Doodle from the Housekeener and
give me my share and got busy l. was
too easy. First l went to the boys who
things like that and promised all the New
deal votes to them if they would all
vote and make all the boys they could
vote for our ticket They said yes sure,
and trying to get votes for the other side,
and they got into line like mice Then,
dear dad, l promised five cents each to
twenty little boys that didn't want office
solid for us all right. Then all had eft
was one dollar and one black eye which
one of the boys licked give me, and so l
had to play fine politics, for l want
ed enough votes to be sure the other
side wouldn't have votes enough TO make
a kick about.
strongest Standpats to a blowout in the
grove back of right field for the day of
election. took so cents worth of pie and
80 cents of pop and showed the pie and
pop and said we would have II at O'Clock.
That would give them no chance of voting
If they ct the pie and pop. and they would
not missed the pie and pop for their sweet
lives. All went well, as the story books
say until Just before 1t was time for the
polls to stop voting. and then the Standpat
candy date who was hunting for kids what