The Washington herald., 1908-04-26

When We we're little children. playing
The Horld-old chdren's games AZ school,
In ali Of thegn there used to be saying
We held inyiolate above al rule.
When Lucys shoe-lace needed tying.
or when her ribbon fretted loose.
She'd make a pause % set It neatly. CRYING
To all her breathless playmates Kings excuse.
Until she called ont Kings ex over,
We might not chase nor tag nor SPY.
She stood beneath child honoF's sacred coyer,
And chase and tag and spying passed her by
To let US rest in lifes swift hurry.
Forget a while the things that yex.
How good fwoud be in al the pain and worry
If We groWn-ups too might have our Kings ex.
To rest and let the game go by US.
To set our souls in order for new use.
To gain fresh strength for all the things that tTy US
All. if We pown-ups could have Kings exeisel
Just Like a Man.
once upon a time there was man OF
our town who moved over into Virginia
to live the simple life. This is a story
about how inadvisable it is for a man 70
be deceitful unless ne is deaf and dumb
and paralyzed In both hands) OF course
he and bis wife decided to raise chickens
for II IS generally known that persons
who have spent all their lives in the city
and have seen live chickens in crates
know enough about poultry TO go right
out into the country and clear A,e0 II
the first six months They started mod
estly enough with two hens. OF the set
ting variety. The man bought TWO
fiocks, or sets, or outfits. or what
ever It is you call them. of fine
eggs and put one set under the hen hf
fondly called his own, His wife took tht
other set and applied her hen to them
and husband and wife made a wager. II
his set Of eggs Matched out first, she was
to buy him a suit Of clothes. If her;
Matched first, he was TO buy her a new
silk gown Now, however much a mar
may talk about the intellectual superb
ority OF his sex, he is never quite sure Z
woman isa't going 70 get ahead Of him
which is probably why he talks so much
This man, fearing that HIS wife nigh
have some understanding with her hen L
get the best OF him. went about secretly
when she was away from home. boiled
the eggs that had been adopted by be
hen, ana replaced them in the nest. II
due time the new suit and nine infan
/ poultry specimens were his, and he deftll
removed the boiled eggs from the scen'
of action.
And His Sins Found Him Out.
Now, a little later that vainglorioui
man went TO a banquet in Philadelphia
ana there told of his misdeed. for Their
/ breathes no man who doesn't at one tim
or another brag Of his sins. There wa!
another man at the banquet whose VIII,
spends her summers at Cape May. an,
that year the egg-boiIing mans wife wen
/ 20 the same place. She came home II
! September with no outward change In ap
/ pearanee, but with a CLEAN IN her eye
| Her husband visits New York as we'll a
Washington frequently on business. ant
as he Is really a kind-hearted man
doesn't mind buying things for all IN
/ neighbOrs If samples are given him ant
/ he is told whether you want a thing OF
/ the bias or not On about his third tril
/ to New York that fall his wife gave hin
/ sample Of black silk and a scrap of lac
and jet trimming 10 carry 20 the shop
and match. He asked her whether TIA
| neighbors we're sure to pay UP prompt,
/ for purchases Of such value, and she as
sured him they always had been. A fort
night after that she went to church wit
/ him in a new silk gown that suggested
anything in the world but the simple life
| Her splendor impressed him.
/ ''Where'd you get that new gown h
/ asked. CMen talk sometimes as If the.
fancied new gowns came down the chin
/ ney or you found them out behind tn
/ barn)
My husband bought il for M" she an
swered. 1T cost him one setting Of har'
boiled eggs
II a man wouldn't brag q his sins