Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-03
AROUND THE CITY

A barefooted boy waylaid a woman early
Wednesday morning. He thrust at her
bunch of field daisies that he had packed
SO tightly together and held so long that
their white petals had wilted and were
turning gray. He said his mother was
dead and he wanted to go to the cemetery
to put flowers on her grave. but hadn't
the 10 cents for carfare and would the
lady please buy the daisies so he could go?
No held-up lady could withstand such a
plea, so she handed him dime and told
him to keep the daisies for his mother. This
touched the boy to tears, and he was de-
parting with his knuckle to his eyes, when
another youngster who had watched the
transaction from start 10 finish yelled out
with derisiVe sympathy:
'Hullo, Tony! Hows your map"
The listener could not have been at all a
proper sort of woman, for, Tony van
ished, she grinned.
a woman was lingering lot of old photo
graphs heaped in a basket outside the door
of a junk shop. On the table with the bas-
ket were a pile of muSty novels, a couple OF
widowed prints in hy-specked francs and
pile OF tattered music. AS another wom-
an stopped TO investigate the books the
first. recognizing a kindred spirit, held out
a faded picture. 1t was the likeness of a
young lady with flowing ringletS, a plaid
silk frock and hoopskirts.
Il suppose these old cards have been
taken from some album" said the woman
at the basket. III | was TO come across
tho picture OF anybody belonging to me in
place Ike this | don't know what l should
do. Here's somebody's mother"
The second picture was that of a faded
gentlewomau wearing a black silk fas
tened at the throat with a cameo pin and
with lace mantle draped about her Shout
ders.
Its a right hard world. isn't it?" re-
marked the first woman as she turned from
the basket to go away.
Yes. And it's a right good world, too
answered the other as she left the books
and began to root in the basket. Besides
the old fanny photographs there were pic
lures, more or less damaged, of soldiers
and statesmen OF the civil and such
actresses as must have appealed to the
owner o. the album from which they had
been evicted One was of Clara Louise Kel-
iogg. I'm the flush of her gtrlish charm; an
other OF Ada Isaac Mcnkin. as Mazeppa;
under the face OF a bushy-bearded man
was pencied Yours truly, Wigfall;" and a
handsome young soldier In a gay uniform
was labeled: Ellsworth the first soldier
killed in the war OF the rebellion"
Each of these photographs. according to
pasteboard announcement. could be had
for Il cent apiece" and the woman having
gathered the lot from a mess of old Christ
mas cards and other trash, went in the
store and handed the proprietor a quarter
and two pennies.
Making collection?" he asked. In a
voice indicative of regret that he hadn't
No" answered the woman Il am going
10 burn them"
Two women were sitting in an open car
behind a northumberland girl. She was
such a fresh. pretty girl in her all-white
dress. hat and long gloves. her bronze hair,
crisply knOtted. that one of the women be-
hind stared at her back with the pathetic
admiration that wholesome middle age AL
ways pays to everything alive that is young
and happy.
The other woman was also staring at the
girl before her. Finally she whispered TO
her companion:
Just look at the carelessness of that
young woman. l can hardly keep my
hands of her neck"
why. l was just thinking how sweet
she looked What's wrong with her necks
You must be needing new specs, Don't
you see she has fastened that pin so that
the woman on II Is standing on her head
II makes me nervous to have to look al
It."
II was true. The spotiess embroidered