New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
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I got a117tv to 90 10 some dcngs in Grand Detour
and mention it. | said If they wanted anything
from a pair OF shoestriugs grand piano should
The book illustrator here at Hagadorn Hall said
she wanted little glass pendent to hang III her WIN
dow where the morning would catch 1t a nd ma
q prism on her floor She's lonely, white haired
thing, who lives the fourth floor IN room about
nine bv twelve. There ism room IN it tor anything
but a prism It seemed aWfully cheap way OF
cheering oneself up, didn it: don know what
there was about it all but something made me kiss
the book illustrator and do YOU know. two big tears
came in her ewes | brushed them away.
There are Your prisns for YOU, Miss Carryl-
:" Dear Miss Crotchett, said She, Il We had too
MANY of that sort,
Well. tried the jewelry shops and the art shops,
the opticians and the Japanese stores and not .
prism could | find. Then | bethought me, and |
hunted round in an old Junk shop till found one Of
those ancient chandeliers with dingle bangles. And
there my patent prism ma ker. strung 1t on d
dainty little chain and fastened the thing IN quite
worknanllke way to the lower sash OF the bo"k
illustrator's one window. where it VIII get a per
severing ray of sunshine which comes down long
court as If ma king for the person that needs II most
Nv soul but She got the oddest pictures IN her
room, She says they reproductions OF master
pieces: hut they - dark YOU can tell whether
thev are men or sheep half the time There IS one
face that appears like a overlooked potato
| blurted right out Why DO YOU have that hang
ing on the wall:
Ny dear she said in awtully patient tone.
that is a reproduction of one OF the world greatest
pictures. II is face that will grow on You IN time
q" No ii won t not If ! know myself said l. " Ii
ANYTHING like that had grown me should have
gwen up the first da Y looked in glass.
She queer little creature, and she laughed ana
laughed Sometimes ma Ike Cry. and some
times YOU make me laugh, She said; but like
You, anyway.
MY dear You not to worry about me any more
1V1 | could see by Your last letter that YOU are
Worrying EVERYTHING comes nv way. Answers are
coming to advertisements right along. ana 1 m
not going to have trouble about being a nj
versal Provider People want the queerest things
and am going to have endless fun hunting out the
truck for them. | begin III the morning at ship
chandlerV, and end up in an old CHINA shop.
already know three pawnbrokcrs. one old Itdd1sh
il1nkshop woman, a fortune teller, woman
inventor and a funny Russian countess with
frzzed gray hair who is major domoess III q 7
tenth story fitting room OF a department store
Each Of these persons is very odd. and
each and everyone IS Now YOU II think
! m easily taken in But my dear. | am not.
/ m lust like the witches IN Macbeth; except,
Of course personal appearance. When
anybody really bad Is around me, | know 1t
and say:
Bv prickng OF my thumbs
Something evil this Wa
But there's evil among the people I'm
telling YOU about They don't know their ocCu-
1ations are drol that they themselves
pathetic or ridiculous anything They think they
iust like me,-thev think they all right all
night. And look them straight IN the eye and tell
them who am and what | doing and what |
want And then | get it.
1t seems to me the secret Of success is to know
What YOU want and TO ask for it. OF course | have