Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-26
A Raincoat Brought His

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t Moment to last until got one. Week af
week passed without my being a
to find regular employment. | picked up lit
work here and there, not quite enough to keep
persistently shrinking. / had come from my no
town full of ambition, radiating self confden
positive l could make good wherever got an opp
tunity. The trouble was had not been able to
the pportunity. Repeated refusals to repeated
plications for employment were beginning to
have their effect. | was fast becoming en-
tirely disheartened.
"One drizzly, gloomy day was walking
umbrella nor raincoat, and knew that could
not afford to buy either. In store window
happened to notice just the kind of raincoat
l should have liked to buy. | went in and
asked the price. It was twenty two dollars,
nearly twice much all the money l had
in the world. l tried one of them on. 1t fitted
perfectly. Taking it off, / thanked the clerk
for his trouble. explaining that had no in
leave the store Just then the proprietor who
happened to be standing near, said:
80 Young man, do you want that coat?'
81 do 1 replied; but cannot afford it
just now
'''Take it along, he said, and stop in am
pay for it when you can
81 took it. 1t was the happiest moment of
my life AS went out of the store with that
raincoat on had risen from the depths of de-
spair to the heights of self confidence Never
has any greater happiness come to me-and
have had many happy moments since-than
that which came with the knowledge that in
the big heartless city that Knocked my
billions, that refused my services, that thwarted
all my efforts to become useful part of it,
there was at least who had
confidence in me, who believed that l would
make good"
Scorn from Proud Father
THE Proud Young Father smiled scornfully
on the Successful Author You call that
your happiest moment he said condescend-
ingly. "You have never married. You have
children. You never will know what happin
means until your first son is born. Why, man. tn
ism t moment in all life that compares with that tT
"A great, great primeval JOY sweeps through y
You want to shout aloud. You want to yell to so
one, to everyone, the glorious news that you hs
son; but sudden sense OF new responsible
comes over you. The dignity of fatherhood is you
Inebriated though you are from very JOY, you
strain your tendency to shout aloud. Everyth
must be very quiet for Her sake and the Boys; /
you are glad, glad glad, to the depths of your SO
Then the nurse comes out For just second you
permitted to glimpse the precious bundle she is c
rying SO carefully. Perhaps for just one blessed
slant she lets you take into your arms the little
the world-your first born son-your and He
It's little eyes-blue eyes like Hers-look up at "
There never was there never will be- any happ
moment in any mans life than that!"
Cheese Brought 1t to This One
HUMPH!" shifted Well Known Humorist
IL either of you fellows had ever tasted that che
at Rileyville, you'd know what the happiest NONE
was
when was about eighteen my cousin and b
rowed an old mule from my father and started off
a lake twenty-five miles away-and that's long d
lance by old Kentucky mule-for weeks DIT
shooting AS we were fording stream near
lake, all our provisions, even to the salt slipped
the back of the blackboard; but had our G,
and ammunition safe we decided to keep on. WI
we got there we found the old shack in which we
expected to sleep had been burned down and we