Evening star., 1908-01-26
AROUND THE CITY
The ancient and honorable ballad that


begins:
| ''Wili you walk into my parlor:''
was dramatiZed Friday morning, with an
energetic young woman in the role OF
| spider and an admiral OF the navy as
| the captured fy.
| The web was spun in the corner of a
| depa RI ment store and took the form of "A
small f1ag-draped table on which stood Il
I jar containing bills and silver.
! The admiral. tall. spare and alert was
passing the web when the energetic young
woman darted out and held him up in the
aisle
''Oh admiral. YOU have come to con-
! tribute to the Junior Republic boys.
haven't you? How lovely of your!
The hero of more than one naval Vie
| tory looked as il he were rather sur
| prised at his own lovaliness. but faced the
| situation as hero should
! Anything you like, admiral. from a
| car fare to on, thank you.
And the energetic young woman had
succeeded where the Spaniards had failed
( She made the admiral surrender.
| Two gum chewing young women were
| discussing a third. One of them must
| have been a Partisan. accustomed TO the
court language of France. for when II
came her turn TO express her convictions
she remarked:
Sne am gong 10 De HdppA- It " do
| only marriage de Ia convenience.
/ Three women at cafe table in a de
| partment store We're discussing the du-
| ties. if any, that a successful business
| woman owes to her less fortunate sister.
/ The one i'll green cloth, trimmed with as
! trakhan, defined her position and then re-
! tired tom the argument. No one had
| botherc 10 help her when she started
/ out III her struggle for work, and now
| that she haze climbed unassisted to the
! top of The ladGer she meant 10 let others
| do as she bad done.
THAT isn't the view I take" differed
! the woman in tailored. blue cloth and
mink. Il believe in helping any woman
| who can appreciate Your kindness. Don t
| you, old sirl:
| The Old girl was a plain woman in a
brown dress of which the least said the
| better.
| II believe in helping, whether YOU get
| thanks or not. Some people lack the gift
/ OF expressing their emotions and others
| rattle them off with the s,ibness o. an
| auctioneer You've got To lend helpin &
! hand regardless of results, because-be-
| cause the strong must always help the
! weak.
oh. well. that's what | guess We ought
! to do. but. maybe you wouldn't talk that
| way if YOU had had my luck. Why, the
| last woman l tried TO hep-a Young girl
| just ont OF school-wrote me an insulting
note because the place | got her paid
81 week, while other clerks in the office
werc getting 81. She didn't stop TO cor
sdar that the others had earned their way
! up. ! worried d lot to get work for that
! girl. but it didn't do her ii bit of good.
| But ii good thing for you, WASH 1
| it? 1t is always a good thing 10 bring
| out the best that is in U.s.
| We'll ! suppose So admitted the
| woman in tailored blue. with shrug and
the lifted eyebrows that always go LII
il. Suppose YOU give us your latest eX-
perience. 1t must have been gratifying.
to put YOU in such a lofty way of think
| ing"
| The plain woman hesitated and then
| lifted her gilt trimmed cup.
They make fine coffee here. don't
| they? 1t is SO strong and 50 hot and 50
| wet"
] "You are lodging. Give US that last