Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24
AROUND THE CITY

ANoOlND IL NJ I
| A shrill-voiced boy. who probably called
| himself Snowman. stood in a muddy lot
! between two high brick walls Behind
him tapped a luridly daubed canvas. and
| behind the canvas were movable bulges
| of something alive and kicking. APP
| parently every boy in the neighborhood
| who could raise a cent had seen the NOV
able bulge, and a batch OF less fortunate
! youngsters stood around outside to gloat
| over the showman's wild yarn. BY way
of sex variety. little ragtas girl leaned
| against one of the brick walls, with her
| face hidden by her arms and her bare
| toes burrowed in the mud. And the little
| girl was crying.
7 One of the boys in the batch yelled out
| to her to quit her noise or he'd come
over there and knock her lid off, and an
other young Bayard SHE'D muddy chip
at her and missed. The little girl was too
abject to show fight. She just kept on
crying.
along the soppy pavement must have
been of a sympathetic nature, for she
| paused to say in a nice voice:
mere, Hltle kIIi, uoI cry So
The little girl wasn't wanting sympa-
1 thy, for she fairly shreked at the nice
| woman:
You femme lone. you BANKED old
| smart cake. you-"
/ The nice woman let her alone in such
a hurry that she must have splashed her
nice shoes in the puddles between the
| bricks.
| Another woman who probably wasn't
4 nice also Stnnned n slider the
/ tag little girl:
| Hello sis What's the show about"
| Perhaps the small thing had cried out
her stock of tears: perhaps. again. she
wanted to talk for change
! It's a sx-footed cat. an Jimmy he
knocked me down an stole me cent an
| went in Stedder me-"
| The recital was too much for her and
! the child ended with a paroxysm of sobs
| that was sorrowful to hear-provided you
/ know about sorrow.
a mean little copper cent makes an in
| significant showing In purse when con-
! trasted with more imposing coins of the
J realm. but To a ragtag little girl whose
whole tempestuous being calls out for the
hidden glories of six-footed cat
| The woman treated. Jimmy made no
/ further onslaught and the Snowman with
an air of tremendous mystery lifted a
! flap and let the little girl pass under the
| lurid daub. For instant, anyhow
she was perfectly happy.
| And even cents worth OF happiness is
a splendid thing
! A pallid- faced man who showed that ne
/ was on i'll terms with his inner being
stood on a street corner moralzng to an
! other man
The other man was Of the earth. earthly
! type that enjoys life without bothering
over problems. and he defending
himself from the moralizinss between
pufrs of an exceedingly fragrant cigar.
IF You folks could have your way my
folks would starved Why. man. thou
have to e" I" the poorhouse II you took
away their tobacco crops ~ you'd
smoke a good cigar now and then you'd
| feel different about il. Try this"
As the earth. earthly man extended one
!, of the exceedingly fragrant cigars the
psliid faced man bristled with shocked
! establishment
Smoke. sro 1 smoke. / give you to
understand that ! have never smoked
sir. and that l never shall"
/ GO slow. old chap. You haven't
smoked In this world. but you don't know
| what you'll do I'm the next"
/ 1t wasn't A dignifed interruption. and
/ the implied doubt to the palld mans
i the earth. earthly man a chance to laugh
| And his laugh was good to hear
Say. lady. do you know whut time de
| jan dNdianre gWlne come Ov.
/ Lady otherwise plain white woman.
in plain black frock-paused long
enough 10 tell the old colored woman
who asked that she didn't know at what
time the Jail ambulance was expected.
"Wellum, sIttinly Is daid tired waitin'.
I been .,an'in' on my laigs ever since
sunup, an dis bunnle amt light to tote.
nufher''
She looked down at her wreck of
pastehnard box with such manifest desire
/ IN oil
asked her why she didn't put II on the
pavement and rest her arms
No. indeed. honey. I druther keep
holdin il. fob when nah husb'n comes
out wants to be ready to han 1t to him
fore he chimes into de avalance. boun
he'll lay kin make pies dis mawnin'. I
| boun' ne will"
Didn't he think so last night" in
CURED the white woman.
Nome. FL he had he wouldn' be land
ed now behin< bahs back dar somewhat
in dis pleece cote. He come home to sup
. pah and when ! tole him he had to wait
! I'll de pies was done he lowed oughter
buy EN- al de sto an not waste money
spi!in' dough. ! don't low no man tell
me ! dono how to make pies. so when he
hollered hollered, an when he mt mt
back, an fust he know de pleece done
broke in an tote him to de lookup SUIT
tinly ! kin make pies. an ! boun he
gwine lay can make pies when he sets
his teef in dis one"
Serves him right. doesn't it?' observed
| the white woman, whose whole aim ap-
| paren,ly was to offer tribute to the maker
of pies.
Nome. it don't suv him right nuther
Whut right the pleece got to come in an
take nah husbn an have him sont to
la! whar he CANT earn his wages an de
rent comm due? I got a good hush'n. l
has. All he said was sto' pies is hes an
I reckon dey is. case deys got SO many
seasonn's in em dat amt got no money
to buy Co'ss sto' pies Is bes'."
And the white woman, after saying the
thing that she hoped would brighten the
old soul left her waiting on the curb.
| 1t wasn't much Of story. Just the HIS.
| tory OF her sex from Eve 70 the last
woman who will walk the world!