Evening star., 1918-02-24
AROUND. THE CITY

She was . swsse. psain little thing
with busAsl of money. He vas In the
Greek god clasa. but poor.
Rhe took him Abroad for tbs honey
neon, and after that they sst mp what
. Greek gud would eall their faFes and
peaa4ss In q house which was pGBks
GIT to the brida. The peer but beam
tiful husband frettsa Over o. dun me-
noeony Of domestic AaiR - they ersks
up and teok . safts IN . hotel 1Asa
something went vseag WIN paVks
money and he peer fellow: :&smplsA -
and died.
rhe Newspaper woman vhe wrote up
the wedding fifteen yeax1 ago saw tho
couple yesterday in q cafe It was .
clean little place with no frtns, where
you get an ordinary din-dfn Tor 20
much, with SO much extra Tor turkey
ing. To be exactly right. the man went
the full limit, but the woman's order
was for soup and tea. She took 2 sifce
of bread from her husbands portion to
piece out her crackers. and when he
had showed his meat dish aside she
sopped the gravy he had left
The years since 'Lohengrin" had been
brutally unkind. Time had dug trench
showed that trouble had scared them
on her heart. Her hat was one OF
those narrowing things that are Tor
ever marked down to 98 cents for this
had its valenciennes pinched to make
it look like laundered ruming-Whtch
it didn't Tho sight of that couar-And
that suit-put choke In the throat
of the newspaper woman-RemsmoeT,,
ing that other going-away gown. AL
satiny cloth and cut steel. and pinkest
cheeks and blowy naxen hair
The man was as fiourishinE as the
particular green bay that SO accommo-
datingly lends itself for comparative
purposes. His Absolomish locks were
dramatically silvered at the temples
and he had . gold tooth on the side
that showed like a collar button on
parade
The two were in some discussion IN
which the man was the pleader At the
bar. but as he had one Of those nan.
sound, ali you could make q It was
a m-m-m- But the woenan's words
were sharp with foriern disttDesness:
TT isn't that ct an You kno. Il
as for me-. II would bs bad for both
y. .sat. sa dear hear. y.a ae.'e sesk It st
| In the right-m-m-m-m-
! woman knew BY the hobelessness with
which the poor thing passed over the
money for the man to pay the CASH
ier, that he was going to have his way.
| Which seems to show. brothers all.
that "A rag. \ bono and q hank Of
hair" may have it's masculine gender.
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A crinkly Grape old lady eat on q stool
at counter sorting over = box Of odds
and ends. She didn't paw oyer the rem
nants IKE a bargain bandit who wants
something for nothing. She picked up
each edge carefully and studied 1t with
| . serious enjoyment that made the
process . rite. She was 50 quietly re-
mote from the business rush-the box
/ being at the counters far end-end so
lineerfngiy slow in her study of ham
burg. cluny. mechlin or whatever the
length happened to be that one OBJ
| servant customer felt called upon to
| ask why 30 old and shabby q person
should be SO hard to please. The clerk
| accommodated her with full particu-
| lars:
"oh, she's pleased. all right She
| isn't buying. She's just looking. II
| you stood behind this counter day in
and out. you'd nnd that many old danes
come here to look over remnants Of en-
old-fashiohed real pearl ones that used
to button mems shirts when they wore
| pleated bosoms. One old lady told me
| all about those shirts: used to make
| at time. No gentleman would wear
| extra cuffs in her husbands. time. Lor'
knows what the laundry bill must have
been. Oh, 1 forgot. there was slaves
| You ought to have heard hef handin'
out black mammies and body servants
| and things like that. and It wasn't hot
| air. either. That old dame was as
seen her since I was took on the but
tons. Gone to heaven. guess. Uster
tell me how she longed to join her hus-
band, and how young an handsome he
shade. Amt it funny how old folks
| go on?
This one? Oh. she just drops in
every % SO often to lock, leek ovsr @ edges: edges;
wore. and likes to hunt up trimmings
like what she edged 'em with. I got
! SO now that when we collect = lot of
short ends put 'em in a box and set It
there out of the crowd so that the old
| ladies can come in an hold little So
ciai reunion with their young times. I
guess they bought a 1otter goods here
once-and, anyhow. old folks don't have
And the clerk who was wise enough
to get this angle-glimpse into the
| hearts of women who have reached the
| sans everything Of life was q bIossomy
| just stepped out of one OF the March
fashion plates over at the pattern ceun-
ter. And 80 pretty that you could know
| without telling that she has her dates
for every night in the week
Which helps to prove that the mil
| lennfum has already arrived and II w.
| ing around in loose bits-f only we
could put the jig-saw pieces together. :
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| Everything stops once in a while, tho
same as clocks and heartbeats
Which is just to explain why . GER
tain person around the city, sat under
a shiny glass lamp-genuine Kerosene
/ the other evening, to be entertained BY
an old friend-name Of MacauIey-in-
stead Of pegging at stuff like this.
He is an exceedingly wise man, and
| he was telling everything he knew.
| which means everything anybody could
possibly know, about the way England
used to behave3until, all at once, he
flew or into prophecy and the person
had to jerk him up:
~ hate to hurt your feelings, Edward,
honey, but I always thought you were
foolish to say thing like that-and
now I know it."
you are wrong. dear lady. I. took
every precaution to insure the impos-
sibility of anything going astray with
| my forecast. You will note that went
to the other end OF the world for q ma
tive, and put him on London bridge
an utterly ridiculous combination-"
(which nroveS that Won don't get the