Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
Woodward s. LOthrop.
AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.
POINTING TO A LACK.
BY WALT MASON.

I've just been reading a splendid ar
ticle in the Beldames' Budget" said
Mrs. Jamesworthy. with enthusiasm. 1T
says:
You don't need TO tell me what it
says interrupted Jamesworthy. Il don't
profess TO be a mind reader or a clair
voyant but l know what you have been
reading just as we'll as though 1 had
been looking over your shoulder. That
fool papers always full of articles tell
ing women how 10 blow in their hus-
bands hard-earned savings. If the edi-
tor had occasional lucid interval and
would print a ringing editorial urging
wives to economize in four languages.
he'd be a public benefactor, and the next
time l saw him d give him a bull moose
watch fob. but he hasn't a lick of sense,
Mrs. Jamesworthy. He thinks with his
whiskers. He has the asthma, and
thinks it genius. He has bunions, and
considers them the artistic temperament.
He's doing more harm in this country
every day than any other man now be-
fore the public, for he has the ear of
about 100000 married women, and he's
always telling them how to burn up the
doubloons.
What this country needs is a safe and
duce the sisters to get down TO brass
tacks and realize the value of their hus
bands hard-earned pieces of eight.
picked up the Beldames' Budget the
other evening just TO what sort OF
anarchist doctrine it breaches, and was
appalled,. asJounded. No wonder that the
roads are being worn smooth by married
men on their way to the poor farm when
a paper OF that character has a general
circulation.
1.-The first article / read called atten-
ton 10 the alleged fact that much bar
barous house painting is done in this
country. Our homes. the paper said. do
not harmonic with the landscape and
II is the moral duty of every taxpayer TO
see that his home harmonizes with the
landscape One of these days you'll be
limiting around that our house doesn't
match the frog pond down in the hollow
and you'll insist that hire about a thou
sand painters. and have them paint the
house delicate mauve with lilac trim
mings. but you'll get left, Mrs James,
worthy. Not a louis d or do | spend with
the painters for at least five Years
The next article went on to explain
! that tanbark makes the finest garden
walks in the world. The man who
doesn't have tanbark walks in his gar
den Is disgrace to our civilization, ac-
cording to the writer of that article.
have been expecting you to bring up the
subject OF tanbark every day for a week.
and l know you'll get around to IL before
long. but ] hereby give notice, in the
county and state aforesaid. that / draw
the line at tsnbark. L have spent many
sesterces fixing up our walks with gravel.
Honest gravel was good enough for my
sainted father. and It's good enough for
me
THE whole mag azine was full of such
stuff There were a dozen articles tell
| ing women how to spend money foolish
~. but not one word urging them to
pickle such Desetas as come their way.
IL does beat me that women will read
such stuff. Here we have a magnificent
| subject of tanbark every day for a week,
and you never look at them. In Wonder
| bookcase are the complete works of
Bertha NJ. Clay, hanked by the master
pieces of Nicholas Carter. On yonder
] five-foot shelf are dozen OF the annual