Evening star., 1909-05-16
Around the CITY

| an old-time cake and candy shop with
rear space filled with small tables. Yes
| terday noon the tables were filled with
women, one lone man and a sprinkle Of
children. The women were shoppers, the
man was reading and the children were
in the way; at least one of them was.
| He was restless, skinny child, who
was indulging In the process of shedding
his teeth. His face was spotty with
freckles and his hair was Billiken's red.
And he had bad manners. His mother
told him so. And he told her that she
was another.
You, Dudley Don't let me have to
speak to you again. Eat your lunch
and keep quiet
Il wisht you'd keep your spoon outer
my ice GREEN. mommer. You done ct
|uH more'n half
Shut up this minute. sir!''
You have SO. N you only gimme
sangwich n coffee
You. Dudley! Will I have to speak
to you again?"
Dudley became ominously quiet. and his
mother-scrawny, peevish and pompa-
doured-resumed her conversation with
| another woman:
| We'll. I've never went to Europe, my
self, but I've known quite a few English
men, and they don't seem to be no diff
| ferent from our men as ! can see, ex-
| cept in the way some OF 'em pronounce
our language wrong; but I read in the
papers this morning that some woman
or another-what was that woman's
name?-but. anyhow, it don't make no
dinerence-said that our husbands are
grandmothers-"
Then Dudley made an observation
Yes, n all our mothers is old maids"
| And he meant 1t from the bottom of
| his heart.
To overhear private conversations for
| the deliberate purpose of making money
out of them. may not be lofty occupa-
! tion. but-one must wear dfamonds-so be
ienient you who live on the heights of
| honor. and listen.
man on an open car was talking to
another man, and this Is part Of what he
said:
| The south Is facing more disastrous
| crisis than her war with the north. That
SIMPLY meant honorable defeat, which she
| is turning into commercial victory.
But the proposed settling in her ter
ritory of Italian colonies endangers the
| home OF the south and will bring about
a social condition which will permit the
man and the negro. I'll tell you how:
Say an Italian and his family settle
In the far south. There Is a young
daughter. beautiful and good also a
marries the ghl, and that is all right.
Then the son falls In love with some
good looking mulatto girl. He has no
race prejudice and she is no darker than
marriage makes the white planter brother
in-law to a man with negro wife, and
their children blood kin. Multiply that
| case by others. and you'll agree with me
that it's time for the south to take
notice."
Two women in a cafe-the plain one
listening over her coffee; the pretty one
too excited to eat.
I've caught on to a new graft! You
know that fiat Of mine is larger than we
| need. SO 1 concluded to rent the front
room. Well. l put an ad in the papers,
and the people began to come. / reckon
| they're ringing the bell this minute. Just
to show you what I've been going
through I'll give you yesterdays expert
ence for a sample:
"A woman was quite sure she wanted
the room, it was so sweet and clean and
cool, but she would have to think 1t over
and meanwhile she would like to show me
new corset steel. And honey, she took
strating right there
after she left really nice-looking,
dignified man looked the room over and
admired things all around. He was ap-
parently considering whether to take it
or not, when he broke off his meditation
to inform me that he kept livery stable
and that as his rates were SO moderate
perhaps I or my friends would call on
him. And when he went away 1 had his
card in my hand.
1.-The next woman barely glanced around
before introducing her line. She was a
manicurist, and would like my trade.
Then caught on.
You see. they don't allow agents and
peddlers in our apartment house, and
that's the way they get in
There was more of it, but enough's
enough.
A tall. nervous.-face youth. with ap-
| IT.
bones. was walking through Franklin
park with an oldish, jocund man. who
listened with a whimsical indulgence that
gave evidence that he remembered his
own period of knowing more than the
rest of the world. and allowed for it in
his boy. The boy was doing the talk
ing:
That's the trouble with you men.
dad. You will insist upon your ruts.
None of you strikes out into new fields.
All Of you want to make your fortunes
in the same old cut and dried way. II
don't know what I'm going to do with
why, the world is full of treasures that
| men let go, just because they're hidden
| a bit out of their road
For instance suggested the dad
man.
well. sir, consider the millions in fruit
that falls to the ground to decay. Look
at the flowers that bloom by the acre.
unseen. Look at the wild berries, and
the growing herbs, and at the oyster
| beds that never tonged. and the
| mineral waters that are never bottled,
| and at the mountains choked with gold
| and good fallen trees. and
Yes, son. But how are you going to
get at them?"
Hunt for them. sir. Find them and
| put them on the market. Oh, there
are thousands of things full of money
| and they're no harder to do than the
humdrum things. They're just differ
ent."
The dad-man laid his arm across the
| lads shoulder, but he did not laugh at
| him. And as they curved into another
| behind said to herself, having no one
| else to say 1t to:
| Col. Mulberry Sellers. tr.'