Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-03


asked. you mustn't mind her. She's little He
tapped his forehead Miss Binney had said he would
tap it. But she means all right No harm in her.
"She did not annoy me-" said the girl. "She seems
very-kind."
world; only her ideas are-well they twisted. That
little woman has been riding this train, off and
for years. and the only thought she has is to be kind.
Cure sore mnds-that what she wants to do But, OF
course when her mind not just right 1t is sort of
foolish amt it Now did she tell you about the nine Of
clubs"
"Yes" said the girl.
"Ill tell you what she didn't tell you about it, said
the conductor "She used to be afraid of it. that nine of
clubs She says she used to be about the buest ind
vdual that lived; sort of right down melancholy
You see her mother went crazy and her grandmother
went crazy 1t sort of runs in the family, guess 1t
don't show until Just about what you might cali the
nine of clubs place in their lives, make
out They live along enough through the hearts
and spades and through the clubs up to the nlne and
cards So that's why she used to be blue all the time
She all the time looking forward to the time when
that nine of clubs would come into the game. She
knowed she couldn't play the game out, you under
stand9'
a see,' said the girl "Poor little woman!'
well, day, so she told me, she just light.
What's the USE she says to herself having mind
before the time when that old nine of clubs
up? person has got but one life to live she says and
it can't be snapped If that old nine of clubs in the
pack-why forget it, So that's what she up to all
the time She's playing the game far as it goes and
she knows it can't go beyond the nine of clubs; she
is making the best of what she can play. l call that
good nerve"
"Poor little woman!' said the girl again.
Sand as near can make OUT said the conductor,
"that is all there is to her for minds. It's
sort of If you can't have what you want, don't
it. She says, may say, Don't fret if your pack of
cards is short card two play the game with what
left Like if say you had spoiled card; she says
them All right get all the good out of the of them
And it amt bad idee is it,"
at is good dea ;" said the girl suddenly. For some
reason she felt that she must defend Miss Bnney The
derstood SO much better She had her nine of
clubs!
a suppose said the conductor "she spoke about
her Home-her Home for Curables?"
"She said something" said the girl.
@Thats a sort of Joke said the conductor. @She's
got the home all right, and it is fine place It's her
old family home. She's worth a million, guess
that little woman is And she's got idea that she
takes minded young girls up there and makes
their minds well. The fact is guess, she likes
pany. Company keeps her cheerful and she is of
afraid to be alone She gets her girl up there. and
then she gets herself busy she forgets herself And
when her company goes here she comes back to my
train looking for She seemed to be talking a lot
to you; SO thought ought to tell you about her"
"Thank you" said the girl. at was kind
TITLE Miss Binney. her face beaming in its setting
- of little pink roses, up the aisle She nodded
and smiled at the conductor and slid into the seat be-
side the girl again.
sHe ate two whole bananas!" she exclaimed happily
at is not often they eat two. Isn't strange how
reach minds through the mouth. at that age?
suppose it is because youth is documentary. Wouldn't
it be fine, my dear. she said laying her hand the
girls arm, @if could your mind by giving you
appe?r
For the first time the girl smiled. "Perhaps you cam"
she said.
Miss Binney looked up into her face with puzzled
expression for moment then she smiled too Il know
what you mean." she said. dts symbolic, isn't it,
You that all minds are because we
want something cannot have don't youo That
think and think about the hunger until nothing else
seems to matter? But, you know, there some hun
gers that have apple that will just satate them
And then"
"And them" queried the girl.
"Why, then" said Miss Binney cheerfuly eve have