The Washington herald., 1908-03-01

nights. 1 don't see that Il does me
much good. How does your head feel.
dear. know that that grips an awful
thing. but I'd hoped everybody was
most over il, but there are you laid up,
sUd Mr.. Loeb. the Presidents Secre-
tdry's got II. too. told you you was
wrong when you came home here and
left of your OvercOat on account OF the
signs Of spring you'd seen. You said
that you'd noticed the small boys on
the sidewalks spinning tops, and that
you'd seen a blackbird with d red head
in Lafayette Park. and so you knew II
was spring coming. You insisted the
bird was a sap-sucker, and I kinder
suspicioned all the time II was some
parrot OF another escaped from the
fashionable district Here's the Weather
Bureau warning US that there's an
other cold wave coming. and we're
likely 20 have six weeks more Of win
ter And you told me I might sell your
winter overcoat 10 the old clothes man,
Sobtnski.
I'm not going 10 sell him any more
N4ON-Ato CT All nc 4cSL time I SOLO MN
a dress of little Emilys that cost me
Y cents a yard, and me and Aunt Simp-
son spent two weeks making il I'D. and
ii was trimmed with real lace. and that
man only allowed me a new spice box FOR
the kitchen in exchange. He gave me a
set Of six kitchen sp0ons-aIl thin
exchange Tor three pairs Of little Ha-
ley's pantaloons. and the spoons ali bent
the first time I went TO use EN- Luck
iiy, SObinski didn't notice the holes I'd
patched up in the clothes
Il Wish I had some Of the funny pa
pers here. JOB; they do say now that
the best cure for the grip is a good
Joke; though If that's so. can't quite see
where Mr.. Loeb gets it. Are you feel
ing better dear? You've just had nice
nap. even II you did snore. and While
you was silent I read al the papers and
wished you were awake SOS you could
explain things 10 me. see pretty near
every day there's somthing about this
Black Hand thing; what IS it, l saw a
play BY that name once. and I've been
wondering whether that had anything
to do with IL. Ny cousin. Mut, who
lives at Connersville. he played in II for
time; got his first experience on the
stage that way. and not only learned
how 10 act, but got lessons IN how to
wear silk hat properly. He played the
villain in the piece, and so. OF course.
he had 20 wear q silk hat He writes
me now that he's playing IN a stock
company IN Terre Haute I don't quite
know what stock company is. but I
guess it's something ike these rural
dramas that have whole lots OF stock
in 'em-cows and real sheep and a pig
or two, besides a quartet O. farm
hands and other stock. Real interest
ing, I call EN-.
"Oh. Job. what do you think! Here's
an account cf where prominent plum
Der has gone bankrupt or course. II
seems hard 10 believe. doesn't Il? In
the first place. can't quite see how q
plumber can be really prominent. and II
he was prominent-why. who ever heard
or plumber going bankrupt Any
way. Job. I don't seem 10 understand
this bankruptcy business. anyway. Does
il just mean that Il you get into a lot
OF debt and can't pay. you're bank
rupt2 If that's the case. we've been
bankrupt most ever since we've been
married. for Ior' knows. that I never
suspicioned that you'd bought the par
Tor furniture on credit. and wasn't
going TO be able 70 pay for the carpet
in the front parlOr until our children
had got old enough 70 kick holes in #.
Let's Us get bankrupt. Job. You tend
10 II as soon as you get well II a
plumber can go bankrupt and get square
with the world that way, I don't SEQ
why We can't get this load on our
minds in the same way. Seems To me
that wouldn't really mind having 10
rub your chest with neats-foot oil If I
was free from debt,
Hasn't 1t been interesting 10 watch
the progress of our feet along the
many-colored. Rand -McNauy coasts OF
the world? ] see now that the papers
say that the fleets on its last legs. And
no wonder, after going all those thou
sands Of miles But. say, If It Is on its
last legs ] don't see what's the use Of
ever hoping TO use It to fight japan
with. If we're going 10 get tired before
We get on 10 the fighting ground well
be whipped sure.
Say, Job, you've done a lot OF queer
things in your life, but I've always up
held you. and yet, if what a man in
New York says IS right. YOU are not a
gentleman, No. sir; and you needn't
get mad about IT, This man saws that
no gentleman can live on less than
$4,000 a year Well. II that's so. it's
plain, isn't it, either that you are no
gentleman OF that you're a dead one.
You We're getting 81. .fo0 when I married
you and you get $500 now-thats a
long way from so 900. and yet-even II
we aren't bankrupts. we've managed 10
get along.
There's a whole lot OF people in this
world that manages 10 get along on
less than We get and even IL we can't
wear fine clothes or travel in automo-
biles we always get enough to eat The
trouble is that all the laws seem made
for the rich people. Here's Mr.. August
Belmont kicking because his gas meter
has been working overtime-if it had
been a poor mans meter we'd never
have heard o, IT, I've heard ours down
in the cellar ticking like a Waterbury
watch and We burning nothing in the
house but kerosene And now I notice
that out in Oklahoma they're passing a
law making Il a crime for people to
eat snakes. There's justice for you. Not
Origin OF PawnbrOker'S Signs.
From the Pathfinder.