Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-28

TMET poor old Negro one day pushing
l wheelbarrow loaded with cooking utensils
and household effects. Seeing me looking
at him curiously, he shook his head and said:
81 can't stand her longer, boss-l Jes'
match ully can't stand her no longer
Whats the matter unCle? l inquired.
well, you see, boss, she amt got no sense
of humor She won't take joke nohow. The
other night l went home,-an been takin' a
little jes' to wa m ma heart,--an' | got to de
fence, an tried to climb it got on de top,
an l couldn't get one way or t'other, Then
a gemen comes along, an | says, Would YOU
mind givin' me push?' He says, Which
way do you want to go?' / says, Either way
don't make no difference, jes SO | git off de
fence TO it's powerful uncomf able up yere!
So he give push an sent me over toad
my side.
"Then went home, an l wanted stump
in to eat, an my ole woman, she wouldn't
joke hit 'er on de had. But would you be-
leve it, she couldn't take joke She tun
aroun', an she sail inter me, sir, sumpn'
scan ous. l couldn do nothin cause | was
feelin' kind O weak jes then, an so made
up ma min l wasn't goin' to stay with 'er no
mo- Dis mawnin she gone out washin', an
jes' move right QUITS no use irwin to
live with a woman who can't take joke,
The Right of Way
L
veritable beasts of burden. coolie with
two bundles of merchandise, two pals or boxes
slung from bamboo pole balanced across his
shoulders, would find great difficulty in wend-
ing his way through the narrow and tortuous
streets of Chinese cities, but for a beautiful
custom that is novel in its courtesy and con-
sideraton.
Everyone must step aside as the coolie
trots bri'kly along, shouting his nasal cry
of warning Even though Governor of
Of hIu *
ing he too must stand back for the worker.
The right of way belongs to the man with the
burden. And the man who laughs gives his
fellow travellers on the road of life their share
of the highway.
A trifling incident of the power of laugh
was my experience on my first visit to the
pyramids. The opportunities of the Arabs
there amount almost to personal violence, and
one is sometimes forced to buy spurious idols
and scarabs, allow himself to be hauled up the
Great Pyramid with danger to life and limb,
or else accept the alternative of having the
clothes practically torn from his back:
Owing to my difficulty in walking, received
permission from the pyramid police to have
my carriage driven directly to these monu-
ments Seeing approaching, the Bedouln
harpies began to gather, until, when we finally
drew up, we were surrounded by seethng
ing something.
youth with basket of little images that
he was willing to perjure his immortal soul
had been dug up under the shadow of the
Sphinx, fixed himself immovably on the car
rage step and began to bully us. He thrust
a horrible little cat headed goddess in my face,
shriekng, You buy-cheap-cheap
Il wouldn't have it at any price" | said
1t doesn't look bit like you
The shout of laughter that the others, who
understood English, set up puzzled and dis
concerted the image vender, and was a sue
cessful protection from any further impor-
tunities of a bullying nature. | finally wen a
complete triumph and the friendly admira-
ton of my audience by few slight of hand
tricks with one of the ugly little images, which
so bewildered the vender that he began to
think it must be real goddess, possessed of
supernatural powers, even though it was
manufactured in Trenton, New Jersey.
A Good Medicine
AUGHTER not only gains friends, but it's a
II good medicine-keeps the eyes bright, the
heart light, and increases the number of red
corpuscles. Perhaps that is the reason one
sees so few fashionable people laughing.
They are cultivating blue blood.
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