Evening star., 1917-10-14
AROUND THE CITY,

Her face was about n sociable-iook-
ing as a hatchet, but her bundle wa
! heavy. 30 another woman IN the car
who knows weariness when she see II
got UP and offered her seat. 1t 10 ven-
turesome, OF course. to tender such .
courtesy to a sister In your own ago zone
every woman knows why-but nothing
| Is ever an a1l-round failure in this world
| Praise bel
"Thanky, ma'am. I'm half ready "a
drop. I never look for q man to give ma
q seat any more-I don't know how It 10.
but gentlemen seems to be petering out
I've benner runnin' roun' on my two
feet ever since sun UP. Have you got
corns?''
Tho woman who had anchored to Q strap
admitted her lack to the other woman.
| who was developing a sociability nc
| hatchet could ever hope to achieve.
We'll. that's one thing you got to be
thankful forl Married?"
Her tone OF inquiry implied that cornn
and matrimony were in the same clasa.
The etrap-hanger owned to spinstership.
MY. you are a lucky woman! Muster
been born with q silver spoon in your
mouth"
1t was prodigious news to the strap
hanger. but she accepted 1t without obvi-
Gus shock.
Two had two. Each worse than the
| other-and if that amt trouble enough
for one woman I'd like to know what
you'd call It,"
She presumably meant two husbands. OF
| maybe it was corns.
Il like that suit you got on. Ought &c
last you years for best. What do you
The woman is not addicted to confid.
| ing her affairs to the housetops, but she
| owned up. Possibly there was a reason
My. you must have q head on you
had cousin once by marriage tina.
| wrote for Blankses' we'll known pills
but she died sudden. They said It wal
natchrel causes, but always laid It te
her overdosin' herself because she waa
paid In pills. Must you be goin'?'
Which IL just to show. women dear
| that no matter how many rebuffs come
our way Il is always worth while to Dc
the helpful thing for tho occasional re-
| wards we get. generally in the conscious
moss Of a kindly action done. and once ir
| a while in thread OF yam-lil<e this
+ \
You never can tell exactly why thing
happen in this world. which 10 Just .,
we'll. seeing that ignorance is bliss. Ex
cept when It isn't.
Take. say, the Blanks: They honestl.
believe they were brought together
again by the illness OF their Nttl,
daughter. You couldn't persuade then
though. OF course, little daughte
knows better. She told woman al
about it-and as only poet coul'
voice the fevered fancy Of a child. an,
even he would make q mess OF i'll
will have to be chopped out prosaicall!
like this:
| A hard-working Irish fairy boy emf
grated to the kingdom Of the American
| eagle. People who are not as smar
| as we are call It Washington.
| His name was Tinker. and as he trav
eled he mended troubles and patched VI
friendships almost equal to new. AM
one time he came to nursery where
| little child was i'll.
| Being the first time she had ever lsi,
eyes on truly fairy dressed in shil
lalah leaves trimmed with shamrock
she naturally mistook him for q walk
Ing doll like you see in the shops.
| The visitor corrected the impression
with 4 brogue that came from his hav
| ing lived in ireland before Ireland wa
born.
Sure, an I come from fairyland. Wher
I am homo dance around rings. and l.
I want to, can fiy up to the moon"
The child's cry of astonished rapture
made the man who Was bending ovel
her take hef IN his arms. And o woman
came from out Of the shadows with
something in a spoon.
Let me 60. papa: I want to see thu
old witch sweep tho cobwebs from thu
sky
"Sure. an you got that nonsense from
old Lady Goose. It's the Sky Boy tha
does the worruk. darlint got it dlree
from the man in the moon, who CAV.
him the job. Take your dose. an I'll tel
you all about 1t.
THE Sky Boy was Welsh fairy boy il
good standing when he fell in love will
4 moonbeam. And when the little spal
peen had followed UP and up to the
silver gates. where they wouldn't lei