Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03
I'VE All Fall

I'VE All Fall
The sign advertised a feature in a win
dow display And, as if to verify the
title. the window itself was wreck
There had been a fire, and conquerlng
hose had drenched the confectionery stock
until the floor was tiled with bloated
maccaroons and blobs of colors that be-
fore the deluge had b.en candies on glass
stands.
Curious people-and all of US are curious
If we own up to it-paused to comment on
the blaze and went on-except three boys
They were tiny boys, one of them col
ored. The white Riddles were comfort
ably coated and had an air OF casual
pennies, but the other was ragged mite
as black as a minstrel, and with snowy
tushes that fairly watered for the blobs
and maccaroons.
WET canny amt no good. | wunner
willy sellem cheap, Jimmy?
The smaller white boy asked as If ne
might possibly become Il customer under
such favorable conditions, but Jimmy
blasted his hope.
Course not. l tell you what they'll do
They'll buy lot of new cake and candy
and mix il up and sell it same price.
Jimmy didn't look like born-thief boy.
He was merely expressing an opinion
based on personal observation. AS 10
brand is altogether another story, as
Homer said-before kiplns.
"Dey won't give it way to pc pussons!
In the colored mites eyes and voice
was the hope born of longing, but jimmy,
the bIaster. knew thing two.
Yes they will-nit, Comlong Sniff
Sniff skipped off with his leader but the
colored boy hung on, say. like Tantalus-
My, that's lot of spoiled candy, ism
it, little boy?'
Tantalus looked up hungrily at the
woman who had put in the remark.
''Yessum. l reckon dat po' man done
lost lotter money. Cause TO SlnSly
chocolate draps is cent, an you has to
pay whole cent for two dem maccal looms
with ice cream in EN- Maccaloons is too
little for all dat money, cause you KIN
git a big cake with scollOps all roun II
for cent. De sugar cakes has got
hole in de middle. but de ginger cakes
holds de mostest cause dey amt nair hole
IN de middle of ginger cake-cept n
some
so you buy ginger cakes, do you?'
Nome. / don't buy none. cause | amt
cot pennies. But I'm goin' to nave q
Whole heap after while when | gifts big
NUT TO work. l jes' waitin' here. DE man
mout come along an gimmy some dat
andy an dem maccaloons. He mout.
..Or Santa Claus might come by
Tantalus was shocked at the woman
ignorance.
Hes Chrism's man. Don't you know
dat lady? He amt never come here dis
Under time. Dis is Gawge Washntn
me to come roun-
little boy, he told me to come here,
special and take you in the store next
door and buy you whole pound OF candy
for 10 cents, and a bag of maccaloons.
Truth is desirable, of course, but no
comes in right handy once in awhile.
If you happen to be spinster person,
say, with no young thing belonging 10
you-and there's dime or two left over
aIpf mo- nd
pay envelope is sure pop-and you be-
lieve in little children-and sunbeams-
and-things-why, err.
You can tell a fib as easy as kiss your
hand!
Three women were lunch1ng in de-
partment store cafe.
The eldest was a small shy-faced.
widowy looking person in black, with
sparse white hair and a voice that
sounded like a Durr-almost.
Yes, / like to visit the city, but l
tell Jennie I'll be glad to get back home
this time. The People where she boards
now are $3.50 queer"
Jennie, buXom and middle aged, laughed
with an abandon that showed good. vigor-
GUS teeth. with gold one on the side.
.Grandma's shocked because my sew
enty-year-old landlady fiirts with two
fossils at table, and because Mrs. Blank
reads her love letters aloud
Il won't sit and listen to them,'' inter-
rupted grandma, her soft old face prim
with Fighteouness. Aged people don't
the country. We know when our court
ing days are over
Yes. sparkling is regular epidemic
at our house, went OH Jennie. who was
pouring cream in the old lady's tea Il
frequently get firtatious myself, and
there are times when I'm SO afraid of
graRdma's catching the symptoms that
if you weren't going home tomorrow, old
CT Won
neck
And grandma's outraged flush, pink
and beautifully girlish, was worth going
a mile to see-if one were fond of walk
ing.
A buoyantly smiling young woman
tripped along + street in the rain and
her stormcoat was fashions latest wrin-
kle. which meant no wrinkle at all. Her
sandals sheathed correct boots, and the
hat under her goid-handled umbrella
nared at the angle known sartoriaEy as
chic. Be careful how you pronounce
It.
1t doesn't read spectacular. of course,
created would have done credit to a cir
Gus parade. People who approached her
looked puzzled. and when they had pass
ed her turned and smiled. When two
passersby We're together they said things
about her and chuckled. But the young
person didn't mind. She just tripped
along smilingly if the soppy tagging
were a meadow in May.
1T wasn't her face that attracted such
demonstrative attention, for 1t possessed
merely the elusive prettiness of youth.
Her shadow-checked raincoat was prop
er enough to have been worn by wax
lady in window, and her hat
IT was the hat.
1t was big and black. and around the
crown was twirled scarf of marabou
with long tails that gave her the appear
ance of possessing luxuriant fall of
dark curlS about her shoulders.
And her front hair was palest gold.
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Way way up Pennsy lvana avenue
there is little shop that is-different. Its