Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
Around the City

Two women stood before shop window
! considering clearance sale bargains. :
batiste princess, frilly with lace. appealed
to the mercerized blond. who plainly
knew thing or two about sewing.
Gee, l don't call five-fifty no bargain
for that gown-those lounseree dresses are
awful sells-and it never in his world
was worth thirty ninety-eisht, Why, /
could make one like ii for four dollars
easy. And be better stuff at that, I've
got lovely remnant of null. but I'm
not going to stick scissors in it until ]
can buy me some good val TO so with it.
You don't catch me foolin with that. lace
You get by the bolt for twenty cents the
dozen yards-crocks up and splits if you
look at it
I've got some grand lace" announced
the other woman. whose hair was Mary
Garden at the back Nine. de Pompa-
dour in front and Crazy Jane all over,
! three yards insert'n and four yards edge
real cluny, made by hand, and awful
classy pattern.
The other woman clipped back with d
laugh:
Il see that real lace, right now-cluny-
huh, You've got no real lace, hon; you're
dreamin-
Il have SO. then. / took it for room
rent from old Mrs. Blank when she lost
her office-with bracelet that had one of
them old cameo sets TO it. and a gold
chain. Solid--Seven full yardS-real cluny.
Gee. Why don't you sell it,
Il will when | can get my price. It's
worth every cent of a dollar a yard. Mrs.
of course it's yellowed some now, and III
be satisfied with dollar yard for
secondhand
''Oh. go to school and learn somethin'.
i I hr-x ha elm I f0, &c
a yard. an cheaper'n that in remnants.
| might exchange with YOU
You've. got nothing that l want.
never did see anybody like you, Name.
for shopping your things away
Name interrupted with good. honest
laugh at her own expense. 1t was such
jolly laugh that the red leaped from be
meath her Dutch collar. flowed over her
| face and eddied into the dark roots Of her
hair where the merceriZe didn't take.
We'll. say. Maggie, you've got one on
me this time. ! certainly have got the
exchange habt-fierce. Sometimes my
husband laughs at me and then he gets
hoIpin mad: says I'll be exchangin him
first thing he knows. Course, / wouldn't.
Still. you've got no husband, and Id like
mighty well to have that lace"
The way those two women laughed
over their nonsense was really worth
hearing. Even the woman who over
heard was chuckling to herself until
say
What do you suppose has become of
poor old Mrs. Blank?
\ cheerful. practical woman who
makes the best of her troubles was
swinging breezily down the street.
How could one tell she was all that
just by seeing her? Easy.
She had come from shopping, and being
unable to carry her package had stuck
il in the cleft of her crutch.
That's why.
/ conductor was taking advantage OF
. slack run TO discuss of his emo
i tons with blue-iiannel colleague who
was having JOY ride on the platform
+ marked lii.
/ Yes. sir: | consider I've got more cour-
age than the average j We never been 10
war. but reckon / could carry dispatch
! under tire or protect the flag as we'll as
! the next. ! can go through graveyard
alone at any old time i'll the night. and
I I've slept III haunted house and come MP
/ smiling next morning. But there are TWO
j things III this world that make one wilt
/ III the spine. one is a coon on coal care
/ and the other IS a woman running an au-
tomobile by her lonesome.
The dai.ky, being always asleep, never
knows in which direction he's going. and
those irresponsiby reckless women try to
go IN all directions at once. Both OF them
+ get me scared-becausa they are dangers
4 no man can protect himself from.
! ITS a wise man who knows his own
! weakness. Most people don't.
! A force of laborers was lowering time
, eaten telegraph pole TO replace il with
1 another so fresh from the woods that its
| raw. bark-stripped surface still bied sap,
! like living thing that suffered.
Among the dozen or two men who had
paused IN passing TO help boss the job
| that wasn't theirs. has been man :
Wa from Adam. stood one Woman n.
/ There was nothing about her to attract
notice, except that she seemed to be
about the last sort of person one would
expect to find in such a crowd. Her law
| at-grandchildren clamoring around, or
| a sleepy-hollow chair before the hearth.
with her dear old hands folded and her
age-dim,ned eyes reading pictures in the
/ flaming coals--neyer mind about it's being
/ August,
i When the old pole was being lowered
| the woman watched every motion. When
IL lunged, if about to fall and do
/ things to the men who were holding it.
one tremulouS old hand reached out as
il in warning or help.
/ The incongruity of her actions and APP
pearance appealed 10 second woman
who must have had more than her fair
share of Inconsistencies. for She stopped
beside the other and started conversation
/ with the informal friendliness of one vino
knows that her piainness proves her to
be genteel.
! Il have foolish notions about trees. Do
YOU suppose that poor pole is con
scious of the tragedy that has happened
10 it,"
The dear old person answered as IL she
! had known and loved tie other woman all
| her life.
Why. OF course not my child. Wood