Evening star., 1911-06-04

4 FTER all, folks amt worse. It's simple
~ proposition to state; but holdn tight grip
= - belief like that seven days in the week, ncudln
blue Mondays and gray Fridays, is strain | amt al
ways equal to.
Strikes me the way get at it best, though, is to
begin by admttin that the pick of US has our punk
that something like that; but what he means
when he quotes it I've figured out: As for me
wei, amt peadin' not guilty, and | hope amt
boas,in either
Maybe you'll get me clearer if | come down to brass
tacks and tell you about the Hckses. For lvin out
the hoopskirts the way we do there's always neigh
bors to use horrible examples. That's where wev
got it the apartment people in town. They only
pick up little hints about the folks that lives overhead
underneath on the other side of the wall from en-
They can tell you about how one family has squain
baby and another couple IS always scrappn down the
dumb waiter with the janitor, that the
the way is cultivatin screechy soprano voice that
ought to be suppressed by law. And that's as far
they go.
But out here in Rockyhurst the Sound, thrty-two
minutes from 42d-st. when you re lucky,-why,
get to know the people for mile around well that
anyone of could give you all the personal and private
hstry past, present and future Of any of the rest.
You don't have to go nosn after 1t, either. 1t just
to you, and there's no dodgln.
Nov we want specially excited when it
y nounced that the Hickses about to arrive in
midst. Never heard of EN- before, you know, and
besides their place down the shore road out of
our beat entirely. Course, couldn't help nocin the
new house as drove past for the white gate
posts was some imposin' much gateposts
there house, somebody said. Then, when they
laid of them Italian gardens and built pergoa,
and stuck a sunmerhouSe, and added cement stable,
all halfacre plot-well maybe you know how COM
muters will talk such things
When the Hickses themselves arrived, though, all
that Josh dropped. Someway other they seemed
to fit the house, and the house seemed fit them. He
sort of bulky, loud dressed gent who'd probly
been of these pretty boys before he eshed up
much but he'd acquired heavy chops along with his
forty-cigh belt measure and his complexion had gone
bad and the result the of abby white vered,
pie faced party that don't take much stock in rule.
Not that l told him first time met, went
around knockn him in private. might have remarked
casual home Hicks? Oh he amt exactly my style
And expect Hicks would have said the same o me if
Didn't take long for us to get acquainted, going in
and coming the trains; for Hicks the
kind who knew everybody after the first week He
had of these loud hearty, heehaw voices and was
addicted to sappn people on the back and lnquirln
how things comm. You know the noisy mixer
brand?
Mornns he wa mt apt to be quite 50 genial and that
laugh of his seemed little STACY; but he always made
a bluff at the good fellow game. Afternoons he
diff rent, specially if he had stopped at three four
cafes his way to the station. don't mean ever
him what you might call picked; but he told his
funniest yarns and talked louder in the snokn car,
and knew the conductor better at night.
One of the bunch down at the Produce Exchange,
Hicks Dealt in flour something by the trainload
lot and simply scoopn' in commissions with net,
days front,-coachman in iv'ry to meet him every
night with yellow wheeled dogcart, and all that sort
Of thing.
RUT it was Mrs Z. Crosby Hicks that was the real
- traveln advertisement Of prosperity We've had
few classy dressers out way before but that
come quite near knockn eye out she did.
Got up her styles, the ladies had it. and if she
did she a wonder, for some of them costumes
she sprung certainly ingenious. | didn't the
jupes eulotes they said she to
Mrs Somebody S tea; but Sadie
ported that if that really
harem skirt she had on, she didn't