The Washington herald., 1906-10-14


Those peoples overhead.
They always let the plumbing leak
They bang the steam pipes. They
VIII shake their rugs from windows TIL
oW window sllis are gray
They start their p;anola of
5qst Ehen yo1 want . sleep. ,-.,s.
All sorts Of hours they keep
And when you're worn 70 death by what
The folk above you do.
These cranky people in the nat
Below complain of you.
One can forgive ones enemies
And them that hate one, love.
Who hare the nat above
ITS all right to ask me to love my enc
miles," says the young lawyers wife. ''but
it's beyond reason 20 expect me to have
anything but undylng hatred for the
woman who's moving out Of the fat I'm
going to move into, and The woman who's
going To move into the fat I'm moving
out or This year. the moving out woman
really isn't 50 bad. She's having the Zee
box properly secured and the doors al
on. and she'd have been out two days
ahead OF time IL her baby hadn't been ill;
but the woman who's going TO take my
fiat is a whole hOme-stretch beyond the
limit. She engaged the fiat month ago,
and she's been 10 see IL on an average OF
three times a week ever since. Day be
fore yesterday the hall boy brought up
the cards Of two unknown women, I WAS
taking things of the top shelves Of the
closets, but flew into some clothes and
said To see my visitors. I'm bad about
remembering names. and I supposed they
were women I really ought 10 see VINO
do you think they were? They were
friends of my successor, and they said
they just happened TO be I'm the neighbor-
hood and thought they'd run in and see
what kind of a fiat she was going to have.
Fancy They said she told them they
might. Anyway. I let them know what
the rent is. and she'd told them it was
half as much again. But that's not all
Yesterday she wrote 20 ask me IL I'd
mind her asking two friends TO luncheon
in my fat mind you. with my table. She
said she'd send up some silver and
dishes-she's been sending things for two
weeks-and I might-yes. ma'am, she said
might lunch out and send the bill 10 her
She said she'd expected to be moved and
settled by this time, but her friends would
understand how IL was. 1 just guess they
won't though. I sent her word that they
could eat in the kitchen If they wanted
10. but l intended 20 use the dining room
till I moved out. I'm awfully glad now
didn't tell her about tie range not bak-
ing well, and how mean the janitor is
Next time l 6et ready 20 give a fat up
I'm Gcing TO nail a scarlet fever sign on
the door 50 that / can pack Up and move
in peace"
l heard q story yesterday about an es-
teemed fellOW-citizen whose house on CO.
nous generals widow. He has been con
nected with the theatrical profession for
many years, and in justice 10 him must
say that az no time has he declared
himself an authority on ornithOioEy
Once upon a time his family was asked
down into the country 10 visit the gen
erals widow At dusk, as the house party
sat on the gallery, the whippooTWills
calling broke the stiffness.
What bird is that?" somebody asked
"A whippoorwilI, somebody replied.
What sweet note it has" said the
theatrical man. Doesn't IL sometimes
say Bob White also?"
The lady Who has been everywhere
come 20 the clearinghouse on Thurs
day, and by Friday afternoon the Batten-
berg Club had given Up trying to tell her
things Only the lady who went 20 the
! ei!oWsto0e last summer stT0ve feebly /
O" squeeze In - word c3sewIse now ana
iEs@- Tho lady who mas been every
" ucre was ree!irg of Baedecker at about
"a thousand revolutions a minute Md
way OF a description of the way they
charge you FOR candles I'm Paris she
paused TO bite of a length Of embroidery
silk. The lady who went TO the Yellow
stone last summer hurled herself against
the bGtt!ements thus left unguarded.
The hrst time [ saw a geyser-- she
began.
My, YES; ain'J they funny?" said the
LADY who has been everywhere II near
" froze my feet on one when I was in
Switzerland
There's small shop out our way
where they sell thread and tacks and
stove polish. and lot 81 other things
that are not just what you don't want
when you haven't time 10 90 clear down
town. / went in the other day 20 buy
shoe laCes. and because ! wanted 10 look
"a little smarter than one can at a time
OF the year when it's too late 70 buy an
other summer hat and too early to invest
IN fall one. asked for the wide, snap
py looking kind The man who Keeps the /
an air, / assure you.
Are these silk?' I asked.
He shcOk his head
No said he. they're the mismerized
kind.
Once upon time in this same town, I !
told a story as IL was told me. and be-
,ause l neglected 10 write that useful 1t |
lie Latin word "stet" over a certain word. |
an intelligent compositor set I'D the anec- |
tote IN the way he thought il ought TO go. !
Il cheers me 10 think that he has prob |
ibly been boiled in oil since but the IN /
timely tate Of that story has darkened a /
sreat many otherwise happy hours for /
ne 1t was about little girl the daugh- |
er or prominent woman physician. and 1
newspaperman who is now the editor Of |
Boston daily. The child went TO visit her /
STandmother-or maybe il was an aunt |
and while there she learned a number |
u things which used 20 be included in the 4
Of every child. Especially. she /
earned prayer which modern educators
lave discarded, and she learned the old
ashiOned addition to IT, When she came
home she said the PRAYER at her mothers
Inee' with the tag. ] wrote the Tag lust
IS heard II. The COmpOsitor. quite Of
lis own accord. inserted a ''b'' where he
hought a b belonged. but what the
hild said. repeating the words as they
ounded to her was:
Goddess mother. and Goddess father.
nd make Miriam a good girl
There's a new cat at the Rrocer's on
at corner, and its a cat Of a kind you
+n see every day. wasn't sure what
ia. .t misht be. so 7 asked the grocer.
se t-fW-r-l uC with Crflr-
tlai "a pure tuTQuuise.' re Said.
A EsrF pretty ei-i sar In front of me az
matinee tae other day, and she was
caring hlt that must have given