The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
just n Love Tap.

Every time it rains it costs someone
money. Folks spend their coin fol
umbrellas and overshoes.
Thursday night Mabel Harkins was
to go out and collect 40 cents which
| Eugenia Robson had been owing hel
since the Fourth of July.
Rather than get her feet wet, she
| stayed home. Tom, her husband, eX'
pecting to see her go out. was very
much chagrined to note that she was
not to venture outdoors. He asked
, the reason.
He needed that N cents, and he was
! too lazy to go after it himself. In
the first place his wife wouldn't have
trusted him.
They argued about the matter fol-
an hour or so, and Mabel was stub.
born enough to insist that she wasn't
going after the money.
Tom dropped his newspaper and
poked her in the right eye. She
couldn't see why with the other eye,
Just why he did such a mean thing.
The court certainly hates to see a
woman get all marked up, but as
the first of the month is near and
the rent will have to be paid, 1t lei
Tom out on bonds 10 keep his hands
off his wife.
Poor Little Joey.
Away up on Sixth street Wednes'
day night two boys were sitting or
the curbstone. Along came third
one. little Joe Moran, jr.
Joe was dressed up. The two boys
on the curb were rather raggedy
| They made fun of Joe and called him
a girl. He cried and went home.
He told his father about it. Father
put on his hat and went down tc
where the father of one OF the Other
| boys lived Harsh words were spoken
They did no good.
Joe Moran, sr., got real mad anC
| picked up an installment chair anc
! hit Peter Carter over the head will
it. The chair was completely de
| molished.
A warrant came for Joe, sr. HI
didn't care a darn for the warrant
He had to protect his offspring at al
hazards.
The court says that parents hav'
no right to mix in their children''
troubles and fned Joe Moran, sr..
SO bill.
That's Gratitude.
For sixteen years Josie Graham
lived in the same mouse witt
Robert Emory and his family. The!
all ate at the same table. JOSH
was just like one of the family.
| Roberts wife had taken her from
a cousin when she was but 2 year
old and raised her.
| When she reached the age of /
Josie started out in the world t.
find the pot of gold at the end o
the rainbow.
She found a husband instead. Ant
this man refused to be mixed VI
with her friends or relatives. H
soon got Josie to feeling the sam
way.
Things went on until Josie wa
actually saying mean things abou
her benefactors. Gratitude was en-
tirely absent in her makeup.
| Wednesday afternoon Josie me
Irene, her foster sister. Irene asket
what all the gossip was about. JOSH
smacked her. Such a change from
] chewing the same piece' of gum a
they used to do years ago.
Irene was hurt all around, botl
] her feelings and her jaw.
| Josie was arrested Her hubb,
swore she was innocent, but h
wasn't anywhere around. The cour
fined Josie $40.
So Early in the Morn.
| ledge, All Gums roun to di
womuns house and axes her 70 T.
call Jim Thompson cause he owe,
me some room rent, en- sne thowe,
a pitcher at me en- broke it"
But what did you stand out ther
and cuss her for" the court asKe,
Alberta Coats, charged with assault
ing Malvina Washington.
| "She made me mad en- called m
a liar. en- out whar I Gums from
they shoot niggers 70 less dan dat,
answered Alberta.
Jim Thompson, it seemed, had lef
Roberta in the lurch with the nous
rent and went over to live with
Mrs. Washington.
| OF course this wasn't Malyina'
fault. Alberta had come around a
1 o'clock at night, awakened Nal
vina and read the riot act to her 70
sheltering a debtor.
! Malvina had nothing TO do witt
Jim's shortcomings as fong as sh
got her room rent. But Albert
couldn't see it that way.
However, the next time anythin,
like this happens, Alberta will b
more careful, as the court fine,
her $40.
+, Joe Takes Back Seat.
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