Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08

emphatic because of my keen recollection
of how the bee had been put on me- only
a few months before, by another of the
las good as sellers of goods: this one
being a young lady person with many
puffs at the rear OF her head and great
power of imagined responsiveness.
There's a certain kind Of bath soap
that I've been using since HICKORY jim
was yearlin', 1t may not be the pest
bath soap in the world; L am FAR from
claiming that; there may be. and no DOUBT
are q whole lot of bath soaps that can
run double rings around this particular
kind of bath soap.
It's the kind of bath soap that I like.
that I've been digging into the nankeens
to pay for during most OF my Ire since
adolescence. and from that angie IL SEEM
ed to me. as il seems now, tnat L was
entitled to get it when I asked that be-
puffed Young person at the toilet article
counter of a New York department store
for the same
She regarded me with a sort Of arch
brand of bath soap. Then she reached
down and brought up chunk OF announcer
kind Of bath soap. which she held out 10
me, apparently desiring me to smell H.
if not actually to bite piece OUT or IT,
as if it were conserved ginger or some
thing.
..It is much better than Swabbem's bath
soap. And it Is cents cheaper LID"
Swabbem's."
Well. as I've stated. she was Young
lady person. The cave man in me be-
gan to purl. But you can't let mat cave
man purling purl very violently 'Wheh
you're dickering with young iaay per
son with an engaging smile and a peck
or SO of adventurous store hair masseo
at the rear Of her dome.
However, 1 did politely decline to take
a-hold of the "our make of bath soap
Il NDllfd
it. 1 wouldn't bite airy hunk out OF II.
Y'see. / wanted my kind OF bath SOAP
the kind I'd been pals with all through
the long snowy and sunny years. did
not want her kind OF oath soap;
And the cents difference in price really
did not make such a lot of difference 70
me. When there's only cents difference
i'm the price of the thing l want and the
thing that l don't want. / sure VIII blow
those four additional cents with all the
rackless abandon of lumberjack or of a
Coal Oil Johnnie.
So merely said to her:
yes, that looks quite good. nodding
toward the cake Of soap that she still
want the kind I have named
Well, she felt pretty good that day. and
so she was argumentative about It, Toio
me that the kind of bath soap that
asked for was full Of alkali or something.
that it hurt the eyes and dried up the
human pelt. that 1t had deteriorated tur-
bly in quality of late. that the store
didn't have anything like the same sale
tor n as il ,,seter, and so on. I listened
with a certain air of intent bovineness
which I can assume at will.
X y
Yes said when she had finished.
..but lie Is short at the best. and I must
insist upon getting my own kind OF bath
soap. II may be-no doubt is, If You say
so-iniurious Still, might get run over
nv a taxicab the minute I set foot out OF
this beautiful edifice. Life is all matter
of taking chances. Will you kindly give
me box of the kind of bath soap | have
been asking for for the past five min
utes?''
Ye-eh. she looked miffed deed she did.
She declined to engage in any further