The Washington herald., 1907-10-13

And the hgass knobs OF the maids bed2
can't tell Just wlsre theyr at
But the bed has one leg broken,
So / shan't fret over that.
TWasnt / who put the fat irons
IN the same box with the books
See ms hrand-new set Of Shakespeare!
Twasn't my fault how it looks
1t can't be the parlor carpet
To a rag like that has slrunk;
But I think you Il find the anGirons
Somewhere IN the china trunk.
Where's the beddingg Where's the toWes3
They'll be found some time, doubt.
For few days. till ind them.
Wen just have 70 do without.
Anyway we've moved. What matter
II each thing We own is wTsckcdr
FIVE would insist moving,
What Oh earth could expectI
One Of the new apartment houses has
the most imposing entrance it is pos
slble to imagine, and an elevator boy so
imposing that he simply can't be mag
ined al all I don't know where the en-
trance came from, but from the softness
of the elevator boys accent I think he
must have strayed here from the West
Indian Islands. He uses his accent very
little. a woman 1 know lives in the
apartment house which he glorihes by
his presence, and when she came down
in the elevator the other day she ad-
dressed him.
IF a sewing woman comes TO see me
while I'm gone. said she. will you
kindly ask her to wait TIL come baclS?'
The elevator boy neither moved a
muscle nor made a sign that he heard
The woman know repeated her remark
stn1 no sign from the elevator boy.
Did you hear what I said?" she de-
manded.
He turned a witherng eye on her.
When doesn't hear" he said, I al
ways says 'What?'
I went to see two women yesterday
The first lives in a large house. and
found her almost too discouraged TO live.
She has two daughters. aged, respective
". eight and ten. and she was almost
TOO exhausted 10 speak.
II don't know how I'm going TO get
through the winter" she said. Here I've
been getting along fairly well with only
Two maids. Last year had a gOverness
for the children but this year their father
insists that they must be sent to school
I've got to get another maid TO take
them 10 school and bring them home, and
cook says that If she has anybody else
TO wait on, she'll leave. My husband says
We cant keep up the motor car and send
the children 10 an expensive school, and
I'm on the verge of nervous prostratlon
worrying about it all It's so perfectly
ghastly to be as poor as We are, and l
don't see where I'm going 10 get the
strength to keep up.
After I had sympathized with her for
half an hour her tailor has turned out TO
be incompetent, too. I went to see the
other woman. She is living with her hus-
band and daughter In a fiat that has
three rooms and a kitchenette.
Were crowded, she said, but since
my little girl has 10 go to the oculists so
often. 1 felt that we couldn't afford a
larger fat and a maid The box couch
in the sitting room makes very. COM
Portable bed for her and 1 ind We can
buy ever so many things at the delica-
lessen, so that the cooking is really moth
ing but play I'm going TO put the wash
ing out. and well get on very nicely, but
I don't see how people who are really
poor ever manage to live at all.
Everything's comparative. suppose.
Wasn't it Mr.. Rockefeller who complain
ed last winter that oysters were SO high
he couldn't afford them?
Speaking about vocalists reminds me Of
a friend of mine who has always brag-
ged about her perfect eyesight, without
taking the sensible precauuon Of rub
bing wood when she did it. Last week
or the week before, she went with a
friend whose eyes had been troubling
her 10 see one of the eye men. She
could read all the letters on The card
across the room.
MY eyes are perfect" she said. I
can see everything And with one eye
shut I see just half as well as I do with
both eyes"
So much trouble comes from talking
when you might as well keep still. The
oculist gave just one look at her.
"Then you certainly need glasses bad
"" he said. And she's wearing them
now
But yesterday I stumbled upon a most
important discussion among a party OF
young folk who have learned everything
there is to know and We're graduated
from. college last June
7 maintain that fmmaterial with me-
Is the correct expression said the young
woman in gray.
I'm sure you're wrong. insisted the
young man in black. "The derivation OF
the word would imply the aceusative OF
direction toward which. Certainly in
that case you could say nothing but i'm
material TO me.
Both of them turned suddenly to a mild
little woman who never having been 10
college at az, had maintained careful
silence.
Which do you think is right?" they
demanded.
The little woman flushed painfully
'eWen" she said slowly. 7 think
iridescent is just as good a word as i'm
material, anyway"
I've heard Of all sorts Of reasons for
not wanting to live in New York-ano
they're ali good when you can just as vel
live in Washington-but Mrs BIS cook
has advanced an entirely new one Mrs.
B. is going to remove TO New York, and
she begged Lucinda to so there with her.
Lucinda refused fatty, and for a long
time declined to give her reason. Finally
after repeated urgings, she spoke
mo, indeed, Miss Laura, she. said
You don't git me 10 go TO New York
New York's an island. and If I was to
90 out after dark Ia never know how