The Washington herald., 1907-10-06

really must manage Il
To 50 some time next year.
''Im busy new, bat soon III be
So wholly at my ease
That csn give my business up
And do Just what / please.
''Thsu III go up the Monument
vent thers ono8, but, tut!
II happened I somewhat late,
The Monument was shut
7 went another time. but. shawl
There were 30 many stairs.
They said the elevator then
Vas shut down for repairs.
Ny country cousins an have BEEN
And it is great, they say.
know Il Is, and 50 ] mean
To visit It. some day.
''some people say the winter tins
Is best for the ascent
But maybe 10 the spring things lock
Best IRON the Monument,
''I'n going on some fine, bright day,
Beneath & cloudless SKY
They say that such DAYS you can sec
The ocean. pretty nigh
TN going up the monument
He always used to say.
I'll age and sickness OTercame
And carried him away
I wonder whether when too late.
He did delay TepentJ
We're all like him, So few Of US
Go Up Monument
i've always been wanting to tell my
smuggling story" says a Georgetown girl,
but I've never dared. because one never
knows just how long the customs people
may be lurking to snatch one up q
had a cousin who brought a sealskin
cape in from Winnipeg. hidden under
the seat in a sleeping car, and Just be
cause she wanted 10 look at it an hour
or so after she'd crossed the border.
horrId officer took it away from her and
made a lot OF trOuble) Last spring an
aunt I'd never seen wrote me that she
was coming home from abroad. and
was 20 meet her in New York. She came
by a line that sails from Glasgow, and
she told me she'd carry a bunch of
heather in her hand so I couldn't possibly
mistake her. ! was on the pier hours be-
fore the steamer got IN, and almost the
first person down the gang plank was
middIe-aged woman, Who certainly did
q plaid on her arm and piece OF
heather IN her hand, but as she passed
me she put out the hand under IL and
gave me a small box. Then she hurried
on and I could see that she didn't want
her recognition of me to attract any at
tention. Presently another elderly wo-
man, armed with q photograph and the
heather and one Of my letters came
along, and proved herself indisputably 10
be my unknown aunt I was so worked
UP that 7 didn't think again Of the first
conner till I remembered the box.
1T had a CaiTnEOrm brooch in Il. never
saw the woman who gave il TO me again.
though we looked all over the pier for
her. Maybe she mistook me for a kins-
woman and was afraid TO look for me
after she found out her mistake. She's
probably somewhere In the United States
right now and what names she calls ne
for defrauding her OF that brooch I don't
know. have 1t yet. and it looks as II It
might be an heirloom, but then a woman
who'd hand a thing out as she did, with
out inquiry. doesn't deserve TO have heir
looms"
met young physician yesterday
whose wife went abroad early in the sum
mer.
Which way did she go?' asked him.
Via New York" he answered.
which way IS she coming back,?" I
asked.
He looked at me gloomily and theG
glanced drearily over at a bank wherein,
he useG TO have q comfortable account
Via Ellis Island, I think" he said.
ssID11-r. g+C~fr- l.v-, -rr~F,
vantage over the rest Of u.s." says the
taIkative girl Just yesterday brought
a friend Of mine over from Baltimore,
and as we stepped off the cars 7 said,
Wei. I'm glad to set foot on terra Gotta
again.
You mean terra frma, don't YOU? said
she.
Now I'd tried TO say terra Gotta so It
would sound as If it had quotation marks
around it. but how can you emphasize
a thing or mOdulate your voice so that
words VIII sound quoted? ! can't very
well say quote and close quote as papa
does when he dictates to his stenOgrapher.
People in stories don't have TO bother
about II. Your most refined heroine can
throw in a bit Of slang, and everybody
knows she's just quoting u I do It, they
think I'm naturally slangy- We really do
need some sort Of oral quotation marks
and l wish somebody'd think them up
A very serious little girl Of twelve has
been visiting here from Iowa, and before
she went away she showed me her col
lection Of Washington souvenirs
Sister Fans bought lot Of photo
graphs OF places" she told me, but
photographs aren't anything We can get
them out home just as well as here. I've
collected real, sure-enough things that
people VIII be glad to see. I've got a little
piece that crumbled off the Washington
Monument and an ivy leaf from the
Capitol, and a little piece Of stone from
the new station. and I've got my Presi-
dent stick"
I looked at It. for beforetime I had
heard the word stick mentioned IN con-
necuOn with our Chief Executive. Her
treasure wasn't a big stick Il was a
twig, perhaps six inches long.
'FhatH be something for my children
10 keep" she said proudly. 1T was in
the White House drive, the day we saw
the President It's o stick the President
drove right over in his carriage, and I
Just guess it's worth more than any old
photograph"
Speaking OF souvenirs reminds me Of
dark passage in my career. My Cousin
Lucy and 7 used 90 be taken to visit
Cousin Jane. whom we loathed Jane was
one OF those competent irreproachabIe,
starchy children whom no normal child
can look upon without feeling murderous.
And Jane was praised far and near be-
cause she had made a collection. 1t was
all in small pill boxes and each box con-