Evening star., 1909-09-11

tant, too, for there's seven other 18th ave-
'nues in the city besides eight 11th streets;
seems as the new part O. the city is laid
out that way SO as to make it simple 10
them as knows where they live anyhow.
WELL Mrs. Macy says she put on her
bonnet as happy as any one looks to be
afore they know they're going to be the
first to have a new invention tried on 'em.
She says she never was great on new
inventions, for she's lived under light
min rod for nigh on to forty years an
never come anywhere nigh to be struck
once yet. but she says she has now learned
to her sorrow as bein' fooled by light
min rod man forty years ago amt nothin'
to bein' fooled forty years ahead. for she
says she'll lose her guess If this foolin'
don't last full as long as the lightnin' rod
and make her wear her felt slippers all
the forty years. too
well, she says 1t was the minister-an'
she says after that donation party to fix
him out with new shirts last week she
looked to be spared any further inf1iction
for one while. She says the idea as the
congregation is expected to shirt the min
lister Is surely most new to her, but she
says she come to the fore an was one to
help make him the six when she see as it
was expected to be her duty as a Chris
tian. but she says she surely hoped when
she hemmed the tail O. the last one as
she'd seen the last o. him for a good
breathin' spell.
But no. Mrs. Lathrop, seems 1t wasn't
to be. an SO she learned to her keen an
pinchin' sorrow yesterday mornin for she
wasn't more'n fairly on her way to town
when she run square up to him on the
bridge, an as a result was just in time to
be the first for him to try his new men,
ory system on, an she told Gran'ma Null
Inns an me with tears in her eyes an her
felt slippers solemnly crossed on top d
each other, as she cannot see why it had
to be her of all people. an her shoes of all
things, for she says-an' / certainly felt TO
agree. Mrs. Lathrop-as il there's any
thing on the wide earth as you don't want
to apply memory system to it's your
shoes, for shoes is somethin' as nobody
wants to remember-shoes is things as is
happiest forgot
"Well, Mrs. Lathrop, seems as this new
memory system o. the minister's is thing
as he got out of Sunday school magazine
for workin' out a puzzle. Seems you guess
big cities till their capital letters spell
y
an dollar for postage an packin' an
then they send you the memory system
complete in one book for nothin at all.
Or you can put in a two-cent stamp an not
guess nothin', but the minister guessed
cause he felt as in his circumstances he
hadn't ought to waste even centsi Seems
as they had a most awful time afore they
found Upsilanti for the Y. an for a while
they was most afraid they'd have to be
reckless with 2 cents, but they got it in
the end an sent 'en off, an the book
come back with injunction forbiddin' it
to be lent stamped on every page. Seems
it come back day before yesterday, an the
minister sat up most o. the night COM
, memoratin' the theory, an then Mrs.
Macy says he just got 1t into him in time
for fate to let him go an be flung at her
right on the bridge. She says she wasn't
no more mistrustin' trouble than any one
does when they meet loose minister, an
she says she can't well see how any wom-
an meetin' man across bridge can be
blamed for not KNOWN as he's just
grasped a new principle an is dyin' to
apply it to the first thing handy.
.'She says he asked her where she was
goin'. an she told him frank an open as
she was goin' to the city to buy some
shoes as was warranted not to pinch. She
says he asked her what kind of shoes
they was. an she opened her little bag an
got out the paper an read him as they