Evening star., 1914-12-20

shoes. Everything was strictly first
class unless some grammar fan might
object to the turning of footwear into
4 human pronoun-
The man who wore the shoes stood
on car platform crowded inside
when the soup got On To be severely
sensible two women boarded the car
Both carried bulgy something's wrap
ped in holIy-wreathed paper nap
kins. and ono of them held china
pitcher-the soup. YOU understand.
The man moved aside politely to give
the women a chance to wedge inside
The one ahead was lucky enough to
anchor herself against GibraItarish
man who didn't mind. but the other
Voman--oh. the poor woman-She
stumbled and her pitcher teli smash
on the russet shoes-oh, the poor, poor
man,
The so;Ip beloved over both insteps
and some of it fouUtained up IN tomato
red sprays over the mans ever-such-a-
nice rain coat, but the rest OF him es-
capped
While the man was trying 10 stamp his
feet lree Of the mess he Kept assuring
rhe mortified to-death woman that IL
didn't matter. reallv-t;.d love him for
the fb, And the conductor. inspired by
so fine an example. told her she needh
wcrrN. because th. car l4std 10 ne tieeHeu
anyhow soon as il reached the bafn
But that made no difference Anybody
could see that the woman was so asharn-
ed she didn't know what 10 do
The friend. comfortably piastered
against her human rock. fumbled in
bag-ccr.i, stuffed to the handies-and
got out another holly wreathed napkin.
which she passed To the rusSet shoes
man With :, social ma'ter-oi -g"urseness e. r,+S
Y ltcA would have been Il credit to Mrs.
his. herself. You remember, OF
=. ,.rse how that dear soul and Mrs
y.-<hine banded SauSases to each other
- they bubbed around in life preservers
IL the Pacific ocean. They say that good
OH Frank Stockton has sent word from
tie spirit weird where he lives now that
he is writing another story about Mrs.
Lccks but that has nothing in this
World TO do wiki the soup on the mans
He did the best he could by the nap
kin. and when that was used w he did
die same thing by copy OF The star
which Il man came across with. And
that about ended the incident. except
that one passenger who had enjoyed
strap-vjew of the accident purred 10
The pitcher womanS friend:
Was il vegetable soup"
The friend woman might have told
her that il was 4 sprinkle of next
Years snow. or something smart like
that. but she didn't. She just purred
back:
No. madam. il was not vegetable
soup 1t was beef soup with veg
etables in it Aud that ended that.
if Won take The IroubIe TO runmage
,roi1nd for il though the man didn't
80 10 b,,nt -Ti,s woman SobheJ the
cause OF the disaster at him as freely
as she had bestowed her soup She
and her friend had been to charity
on accouni Of tte rain they Thought
they would help out by taking home
4ba r.,I,l[irs Sbe didn.1 need 1o To-
,ste ~. sem,
,rLa - i.,si,-d III ox-.r tba, I've
aidn,, ,1i,1d . 1r,f,e ill., rniped shoes
- = .r.,Is.enII++a raincoa; Ind
sbs+ - III ,b.r.. ,,,.,e ro mt o,,1y>-
Does anvr,,,ir Know Mai viii take
soup stains OUT oi ! i'sse' si'oe
.rA. ,... n, r.. ,,,,r;.,,,,.s
gifts
The pudsy one ~ seaishln coat mat
was pIusb h;td chuckiec over the cute
ness OF her III saving enough 1ron the
house money To buy Toms bath robe
without his citehins on They had TO
shave close to the wind these days,
with the children growing up and living
She seemed to think she had given a
most satisfactory eNplanati ton as To sift-
was a really superior person who
scOrned domestic cribbinss
II wouldn't think of buying my hus-
band d present out of his, own money
I've earned every cent I'm going to
spend on him this Christmas making
,rcpe de chine blouses for the Blank
girls
And 4 man who was walking behind
said IN his ,oruranic,-
III | mad a wife like rh.t I'd frame
her
Tne other man had Il different view.
IN. VII Nv |i5 Girl rhe.,1s me o,I, ~ 81