Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22

it as gift. unless ] could rip NJ tEoae
two windows and take out that ;P'<
brick. Every time | go by l try Ia
figure out what To do about that
brick: whether to paint it the color
of the others. or pry il out. or-whlt
By that time the two had swung ly
the house and another woman who
was following. wished the girl had
kept her criticisms to herself. for:
Never again would she pass the beau
tiful house on the corner without Sec
irg two dummy windows and single.
solitary pink brick in a whole houSeful
OF red ones.
A horse drawing light wagon had an
experience yesterday on d corner below
The Star office. He must have been think
ing of green fields and pastures new, for
he raced over the asphalt with the JOY
BUSINESS of colt and was rounding the
corner when one of his up-tiunS hoofs
caught in the harness and he found him
self hopping on three legs, with the
wagon wheel on the curb.
The driver jumped out, the crowd
swarmed, and sensible man began IL
unbuckle the shafts. And while lie was
doing it one of the two women who were
standing on the outskirts OF the COM
motion began to moan in sympathy:
"Oh. the poor horse, the poor horse
"Hou better be thinking about poor
Sam. reminded the other. IF You don't
look sharp he'll miss his lunch
Il got to wait to see if his poor legs
broke-oh, the poor horse
You Sarah Blank. come along this
minute with that basket, before YOU miss
Sans car. What you got for nm, any
how-something good?
.Oh, he don't care what he gets. so it's
grub. | got cold rasher and hard boiled
eggs and a bottle OF cold coffee
Ought to be hot. Eggs nice and fresh?
'Of course, you can't get stale eggs any
in a
IF ! was in your place / bet d make
out, somehow. to give him a hot lunch
as good a provider as Sam IS
Yes. but you amt in my place. Sam
wouldn't look at the likes OF you. lie
loves blond hair
Il amt saying I want him. especially.
mean any husband i had-ald' anyhow,
/ reckon I could bleach my hair same
you, If that's all Sam needs. Come on
woman.
Sarah refused to come on. She preferred
TO remain and wall out sympathy for the
poor horse. When the horse was released
and pranced on, she seemed TO ieei' SOME
how as if her walls had gone TO waste
as if a tragedy was what she had eN-
uected and a tragedy was what she
wanted to get The horse had taken up
her time for nothing.
AS to Sans time-that is another sloGy,
as Homer said before kipling.
PA, I do wish you would come on:
The old man. who was lolterlIlS pelliiiu
hatch of excursonists, gave a last WlStIui
look at a hay wagon creeping along
leaf-strewn street r..
That's the interestingest thmS I've
seen vet :" he remarked to his middie-aged
daughter. as she caught him by the arm.
in the way a mother lays hold of re-
fractory child.
..You didn't come to Washington TO see
hay'' she said. crisply and materially.
you've got years crop piled up in the
harm to look at. If you keep daWdllllS
like this we won't get 10 the top or the
Monument before train time
I'D rather be on top that nay ioau,
Next time 1 go visitin' I'm goin' to
leave YOU to home" threatened the
daughter. who probably mothered her
parent because she had no children or her
own.
you bet you will" he Endorsed, heart
lily.
II could told you how il was goln' 10
be before we started" volunteered an
other woman-a spry woman with set red
cheeks and greenish gray hair skeWered
in hard knot under a fiower-packed
sailor That's why left William nome.
| brought William up TO Mckinley's first
'paugurat ton an he was homesick the in
durin' two days; wouldn't eat nothn' at
the RESTRAINTS but hog meat and cabbage
that he lived on year in an out at nome
an shamin' me to death askin Tor pot
liquor
well. I've had my lesson interrupted
the daughter looking at her pa with rue
FIJI hut honest affection. And pa returned
the look with his answer:
Yes honey, an I've had mine.