The Washington herald., 1907-01-20

saw how deeply the attempt to tamper
with the integrity Of sworn juror ~
/ fected him.
Terrible thing 20 DO. wasn't Il he
said "stiN. IL isn't 30 bad as II he'd
really succeeded in his wicked attempt
4 wasn't thinking about that" said
| Mr.. Trude, somewhat absently. What I
was thinking about was how any man
In my Office could ever be so BANKED
clumsy"
| 1t Is very welcome news to all wash
lngton that Mr. Charles Thompson IS
coming back to America TO FIJI the place
/ in the Associated Press that Mr. Charles
/ Boynton has resigned Mrs. Thompson.
I IN her years Of residence IA Paris. has
made name for herself as foreign cor
respondent One may take her as au-
thority on French customs and the
sartorial art, but to most readers the
articles signed Flora Macdonald ThomD-
son are not so interesting as the delight
ful scTeeds Mrs. Thompson used 10 give
us when she signed herself Pauline Pry.''
In an earlier day she was without ques-
ton the most brilliant woman writer in
the Northwest Everybody in four States
knew her poems and short stories and
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fame that it quite overshadowed every
| body else on the staff OF the st. Paul
Globe. On one occasion the dignity OF
the managing editor was hurt when he
| found among his mail a letter addressed:
Editor Of Miss Flora MacDonald's
paper"
And as IL that weren't enough os a
crown Of fame for anybody. Mrs. Thomp-
sons father once received a letter with
this on il.
TO the. Father Of Her Who Was Flora
Macdonald"
Perhaps Mrs Thompson's boys have
taken on French veneer, but I can't help
thinking that at heart they must be the
same patriotic American youngsters
whose sayings people used TO repeat. It
was the eldest boy who developed a sud
den curiosity several years ago and asked
who made things God. was the
answer
Did He make you and me-" asked
the boy.
Yes" answered his father.
And everything
YES"
Evidently there was limit beyond
which the boys belief in the Creator
could not go.
But who made the Marine Bandg' he
asked.
I do think it's most fnconsiderate Of
ones friends TO go and get married in
January" says a girl 1 know. Il always
overdraw my allowance for Christmas.
and fathers adamant. don't even have
carfare till February. Last year one OF
my school chums was so heartless as to
set her wedding day for the middle Of
January I had to send her a present.
and ] simply hadn't the money TO buy
II with. so I did a wicked thing that viii
be on my conscience till 7 die I put an
/ advertisement in the Lost and Found
column. 1 offered reward for a parcel
containing silver lost in the street. and I
signed my initials with my address. OF
course all my friends read IT, The bride
asked me about IT, and I 'fessed I'D that
II was the present I'd intended for her
mat I'd lost Ny idea vas that By the
time she came back from her wedding
/ journey I'd have my next months al
ioWance, and I'd buy her present and
make her believe the lost treasure had
been restored TO me. II seemed TO nv
degenerate mind rather a clever idea.
! Maybe It was, but 10 be a successful
criminal you have to have 4 great deal
better memory than I was ever blessed
with. When I got my February allowance
/ forgot that I'd said silver. and bought
her piece Of cut glass. Yes. I did. and
sent II with note saying the lost parcel
had been found Do you think ANYBODY
believed me? She didn't, at any rate. She
SAID once that ii was a miracle / hadn't
/ broken the glass when I dropped it in
the street. and what she said wasn't
anything at all 20 the way she said il"