The Washington herald., 1907-02-10

The servant said tLat she vas ont.
Ha turned away. nor did De doubt the thing.
He went hut as he went
He beard her voice in meriment.
To his chacrin ne found her iu,
Nor could he d0abt he'd found her out.
It's a mistake sometimes to be too ready
with ones sympathy. For example, there
is the case of the girl who stood next
to me at the ribbon counter Wednesday.
She had a figure and coat 10 make any
/ body envious, but when she raised her
veil I was glad my fairy godmOther
/ hadn't heard me wish TO change places
with her. On the lobe of her dainty ear
was a pink excrescence as large as my
/ thumbnail looked away instantly.
/ because people are always sensitive about
defOTmities Of that sort. II was such a
( dreadfUlly dishguTing thing to have TO
carry about Il couldn't be concealed.
( I wondered whether she had tried selling
I tive used to sell warts when ] was
Younger why she hadn't stolen the dish
cloth and buried it at the crossroads. I
/ even wondered why she hadn't appealed
/ to a surgeon. No ear at all would be
better than one with a large pink WaTt
/ on il. For full five minutes my heart
ached for that girl. Then she turned her
/ full face in my direction, and I saw
/ well, if were going to wear buttons on
my ears I'd have them Of turquoise Pink
/ coral is so inevitably misunderstood.
!
/ Jim is a very distant connection Of
mine, and somebody asked me the other
/ day to 60 over and see him at the hos
pital. where he has been staying for sew
/ eral weeks. He has been what old Wash
I e.i- a
/ or so he was entirely out Of his mind.
/ His sister told me about it, and she told
me. too. not to mention the matter to
! Jim.
Hes so quiet and polite always" she
said. that I know he'd be dreadfully
mortified If he knew he had made such
an exhibition Of himself"
/ OF course, after that the thumbscrew
and the rack couldn't have made me re-
veal 10 Jim that I knew he had been de-
/ liriDus. merely asked him how he did.
"Oh, I'm all right now he said. But
l was awful bad one while"
/ Weak 1 suppose I VentuTGd TO say.
Jim looked hurt.
Weak he said. Weak, You just
ask the doctors. Another man in the
only two men 20 hold him. II took four
to hold me-" he smiled proudly -four.
mind you, and I smashed everything in
sight. Weak, Well, 1 guess not
After all a mans only an diversified boy.
and nothing pleases a boy more than hav-
ing the worst sore toe in the neighb0r-
hood to show Jim has something to be
proud Of all the rest Of his life
heard something yesterday about the
Duke of Manchester which makes me feel
less discouraged about dukes than I've
been feeling lately. A man who says he
knows-and he ought to know. for he's
kin 20 the duchess-tells me that Man
chester is in America great deal more
than society wOts of. He is said to spend
several months Of every year in learning
from actual experience now the business
of a railway ought 10 be conducted. He
serves. so my informant says, I'm subordi-
nate positions, and. in short. is working
up precisely as if there weren't American
money in the family. II may be a fairy
story, but I like the sound of IT. Il lends
4 great pleasure to travel if one can fancy
that the conductor or the engineer OF
maybe the fireman is a real live duke in
disguise.
7 heard something yesterday. too
which makes me think that perhaps for
eign noblemen aren't the only people or
earth who can give wings TO money. 4
New York man tells me that the last
annual statement of the Racquet Club
a semi-athletic organization which ha.
hfty-odd members, sets forth that il