Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24
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/ got aunty to go to some doings in Grand Detour
and mention it. l said if they wanted anything
from pair of shoeStrngs to a grand piano, should
get it for them.
The book illustrator here at Hagadorn Hall said
she wanted little glass pendent to hang in her VIM
dow where the morning would catch 1T and ma Ike
a prism her floor. She's lonely, white haired
thing who lives the fourth floor in room a bout
nine by twelve. There ism t room in it for anything
but a prism 1t seemed an awfuly cheap way of
cheering oneself up didn't it? l don't know what
there about it all, but something made me kiss
the book illustrator and do you know, two big tears
came in her eyes | brushed them away.
There are your prisms for you, Miss Carryl'
Dear Miss Crotchett said she, I've had too
many of that sort!
Well tried the iewery shops and the art shops
the opticians and the Japanese stores, and not
prism could l find. Then l bethought me, and
hunted round in old junk shop till found one OF
there was my patent prism aker! l strung it on a
dainty little chain. and fastened the thing in quite
a workmanlike way to the lower sash of the book
illustrators window. where it will get per-
severing ray of sunshine which comes down a long
court if making for the person that needs it most
My SOUL but she's got the oldest pictures in her
room, She says they reproductions of master
pieces; but they dark you can't tell whether
they are or sheep. half the time. There is one
face that appears like an overlooked potato.
l blurted right out Why do you have that hang
ing on the WALL"
NV dear she said in an awfuly patient tone
that is reproduction of one of the worlds greatest
. No it won't, not if know myself said l. II
anything like that had grown me should have
given up the first day looked in glass
She's queer little creature and she laughed and
laughed Sometimes you make me cry and some
times you make laugh" she said; but l like
YOU anyway.
MY dear, you are not to worry about me any more
IVA l could see by your last letter that you are
worrying. Everything comes my way. Answers are
coming to my advertisements right along, and m
not going to have any trouble about being a UNI
versa Provider. People want the queerest things,
truck for them. begin in the morning at ship
chandlery, and end up in old china shop.
already know three paWnbrokers, one old Yldd1sh
junkshop woman, fortune teller woman
inventor and funny Russian countess with
frizZled gray hair who is ma Jor domoess IN
tenth story fitting room OF department store.
Each of these persons is very odd, and
each and everyone is nice. Now you'll think
I'm easily taken in! But my dear, l am not
I'm just like the witches in Macbeth; except.
Of course, in personal appearance. When
anybody really bad is around me, know it
and say:
BY the pricking of my thumbs
Something evil this way comes
But there's evil among the people I'm
telling you about. They don't know their occu-
pations drol that they themselves
pathetic ridiculous or anything. They think they
just like me,-they think they all right, all
right. And look them straight in the eye and tell
them who / am and what doing and what
want. And then l get it.
1t seems to the secret of success is to know
what you want and to ask for it. OF course have