Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-23
AROUND The CITY.

spike--and Nine. La Fargo knstsing
destinies at the foot of the gufllo-
tine--and the sans culotfe ciamoroueiy
counting of falling heads--and Robes
pierre--and poor Charlotte Corday-
and Sidney Carton and--6
Il knew you couldn't recognise II
It's the lace that was on my black
charIneuse that L wore to rags last
winter--iooks as good as new. doesn't
,it~'
A man was buying a doll.
He had the contour of one who loves
his good dinners and a purse wadded
with yellow bills showed he could AZ
ford them
A foot-hign blond who could powder
duff her hisque nose seemed TO suit his
Idea OF female beauty. and he was
bout to pass her over to the clerk Tor
packing when his interest was caught
by an ecstatic sigh that had come up
from the floor Then the man looked
down into the open mouth and wide
excited eyes of a human crumb. and
chuckied at it with an ofthand friend
illness that somehow made ono think OF
Dickens-God forever bless him.
Looks good to you. does she. kid7
Think she'll suit my young friend?
Kid was sure with her eyes, tongue.
heart and immortal soul. that his young
friend would think Miss Bisque was
grand.
II suppose you've got quite a family
of dolls of your own. huh?"
No The crumb had but ono small
doll with n leg gone and Its hair come
ungiued. Kriss Kringie had never
brought her a big doll, and mamma
couldn't buy her one. But soon as
she was big and could go tn work she
intended to get a doll like that un.
first thing. with pink silk dress an
curls-'Xa city
"Oh. shucks! wouldn't wait that
long Tell you what. Maybe old Kriss
will treat YOU better thi3 yeaf-fil re-
| mind him of it, myself
AS he chaffed. woman standing by
was almost sure that the man would
do the Dickens act and give the little
girl the doll he had bought, because
any beautiful thing is liable to happen
Christmas times-especialiy when there
are layers and layers of yellow bills
but
Nothing happened. The man gave an
. address to the clerk pocketed the
change and went his way And the
child looked after him with the rhap-
sodic faith which Is childhood's most
beautiful asset-snd the one it loses
first.
Then the woman stepped into the sit
uation:
Lovely doll. wasn't It? But 7 don't
know. II is too big to play with, and
too fine for every day. Have you seen
these lovely ffty-cent ones over in this
Look at this one. all blue and silver
with sweater in case of cold"
He is going 10 tell kriss kringfe to
bring one exactly like his.
You simply cam; stand for thing like
that-if you have ever known what it
was. your own self. to long and long
and long for something you didn't get
which all of us have
still, you would like this one until
the other comes, wouldn't you? It's got
two lovely legs, and its hair hasn't
come unglued"
SO the two went into the merits of
blue and silver as against green and
gold, both with sweaters, and when
1.-The selection was made the woman paid
for it with a bill that wasn't yellow.
| The child kissed it. but she didn't say
| it was grand-and you know what that
meant.
She was comparing poor Blue and
Silver with the foot-high blonde she
wasn't going to get-and that is life,
nay de&rs.
| The man bad right to his money, of
course. but he. had such lot of it.
and you could tell by the whole
plenty more where that came from
why - being Christmas and - every
| thing
! And besides that. he missed his SPLEEN
! did chance that maybe-just maybe
was given him purposely by One who
walked the earth a long time ago. The
/ One who loved little children and who
| told US men and women of all time:
That which ye do unto my little ones
we do it unto Me-
MAMIE, LANCASTER