The Washington herald., 1907-07-28
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
WHAT SHE HEARS AND SEES
WHAT SHE HEARS AND SEES.

the word came out port believe that
happens more often than is generally be-
lieved. I'm confident that many an acci-
dent at sea happens because the skip
per's brain wires don't transmit his mes
sage as he starts it. and not because he
doesn't know and think the right thing
TO do"
Women are queer. aren't they?" said
the young husband. with an air Of an
nouncing an original discovery. There's
my wife. now. She hates TO mend things
Just naturally loathes it-and half the
time I cant find sock that hasn't a hole
in IT, Il 1 mention It to her. she's all
cOntrition. and declares she'll put In all
day tomorrow mending. Then she for
gets. But I've studied out plan 70 keep
my socks in repair. go into her room
and I, say:
Where's the waste basketg
"of course. she always asks what I
want Of the waste basket before she tells
me where it is
q Oh say. these socks are worn out.
and want to throw them away
Does she point me to the waste basket?
Not she. She says:
Let me look al them.
Il hand them over and she examines
them
Why. these socks need only a little
mending.' she says The idea Of throwing
them away just because there's a little
hole in the heel, never knew such an
extravagant man
And then she flies to work 10 mend
them. They might be in the drawer for
weeks and she'd overlook them, but Just
let me threaten to throw them away and
she's Mamie on the job with a needle be-
fore you can blink. Funny things, women,
aren't they?'
They have a brutal way about them in
New York that makes gentle Washing
ton blood run cold Just the other day
picked up a New York paper and glanced
at the advertisements One Of the hos
pitais desired 10 employ "manglers and
body ironers." II does seem 10 me that
they might have put il more deiicately.
The last line advised me that the man
glers and body froners were wanted in tho
fuge. II l have 70 go 10 a hospital III
steer clear of New York I might think
Of a mangler without shuddering but I
couldn't rest for q moment with body
ironer on the place.
IT'S odd how the friendships OF our
youth grow more intimate in the retro
spect. isn't it," says midle-aged
woman. When I recall the young peo-
rle I knew twenty years ago. 1 think OF
taem all by their first names They all
seem to have been chums OF mine. Just
yesterday a man hadn't saen FOR fifteen
years came to see me. and We talked
about the little town in Ohio where We
went 10 school at the academy. We talked
Of Jennie This and Joe That. and called
him Jim and he called me Sue. We enjoyed
the afternoon immensely. After he had
gone I got out box of old letters. Two
or three were netes from him, and they
began Dear Miss Blank We were very
formal, all OF Us. at the academy 1t was
always Mr.. and Miss Yesterday was
the first time I ever called him jim We
think We used to be great friends. I'm
not sure he doesn't fancy he was once
rather in love with me. but We were sim
ply classmates. I didn't know how old
I'm getting till I realized how we'd en-
jOyed cur talk. should have frozen him
II he'd called me Sue fifteen years ago.
but now it seems mighty nice 10 have
anybody call me by my first name"
He went about with May a good deal
al the Springs" said the woman with the
chop-suey sundae, but be didn't tell ne
much about her. He's very Iaconic."
The woman with the Nesselrode pud.
ding shook her head.
That's the worst kind" she said with
conviction. Mays husband ought TO
went with her. I knew case ike that
once. and they finally eloped. 7 never did
believe in these laconic friendships
I'm not disputing that virtue is its
own reward, says a Colorado man. who
was here last week. Everybody knows
that it is. A man ought 10 be content
with the approval Of his conscience, and
not care If the other fellow did make
the money. I've been trying 10 convince
myself Of that for several years, but
every now and then 1 fall of my ped
estal and my halo chafes my head.
was new TO Colorado in the days Of the
Cripple Creek boom. and 7 got the fever.
like everybody else. Three friends OF
mine and myself went into the mining
business. We didn't get up a company
and sell billion or so shares. No Stree.
We were honest We We're We got a
mining claim. and began 10 dig. We
went in about 200 feet in the side OF a
hill. A perfectly unscrupulous gang own
ed the claim next US. They got out a
prospectus and advertised and sold stock.
and made no end OF money before they
began TO dig ate all. We were above
such things All we wanted was an
honest ten or twenty millions in metal.
As l said, we went 200 feet. and came
UP agajpst wall Of granite and that
ended the thing. All We got for our
money and our trouble was a hole 20l
Ieet long. The gang next US went in
seventy-five feet and struck n hssure
vein They actually made good every
thing they'd promised IN their advertise
ment. It was just case Of A wildcat
mine really getting its claws into the
gold. The stock wasn't worth the paper
II was printed on when they began
but what's the use of talking? They
made money out Of their stoek-selling
and then out of their mine. We didn't
make cent. anyway, we didn't try to
deceive anybody"
Bicycle Coffee Grinder.
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