The Washington herald., 1918-05-05

band or . beau she thinks the
world Of. ..Ia
Because-she is going to spend
six months in Jail for him.
Ruth went shopping Friday af-
ternoon with two other women.
In one of the big department
stores she saw q 50 silk shirt which
was tust the size and color for
someone she loved.
I She didn't have the 81 She stood
looking at the shirt . minute and
then tucked It under her coat
A hoor-walker saw her. (These
birds are always around when you
don't want 'em.)
He followed her out OF the store
and UP Eleventh street
Seeing that the game was up Ruth
threw the shirt In q vestibule.
The noor-walker saw that, too.
And then he caught up with Ruth
and told her to come back to the
store.
At nrst she denied ever having
the shirt But the fioor-waIker de-
mandsd to know how she could
throw away something she never
had.
This stumped the poor woman.
She didn't know what to do-but
go along to the lookup.
All this summer. when IL IL as
hot as can be, Ruth will be work.
ing down on Mr.. Fosters farm at
Occoquan.
True Love Don't Run Smooth.
Never play with . woman's heart.
II Bruce Mankin hadn't. he would
be richer today.
Bruce had q date with EstelIe-
last Wednesday night to take her
to the movies.
And Estelle had broken another
engagement to allow Bruce to es-
cort her there.
Wednesday night came and no
Bruce showed up. Neither did he
send any word explaining his alb
sence.
Estelle got hot in the collar. Her
one thought was for revenge.
At least this Is how Bruce ex-
plains things. Estelle wasn't in
court
Along about midnight the girl
was loking for a cop and found
one.
Ten minutes later Bruce and four
other boys were caught redhanded
shooting craps.
In some mysterious manner Is
telle had found out that Bruce
has slighted her for the crap game
and she spilled the beans.
No amount OF explanation and
apologies from Bruce could smooth
things over with her.
Bruce is mighty sore too. It Is
doubtful IL they ever make up
again.
He must have won some money
in the crap game because he hand
ed over a brand-new SO bill to pay
his fine.
Sic EN-, Ida.
ledge. jes' cause All hangs q ser
vice nag in nah winder. desc people
gifts sore at me en- make ondecent
remarks.
Nah husband is in de dram. Dat
woman settin' dere says he amt mai
husband. She tells it aroun' dat he:
some odder woman's husband"
That is enough to make any WON
an mad-and Ida Wells got mad-sC
mad that she almost put Elsie Craig
in the hospital.
Ida has, as she said. a one-star ser
vice nag in her window. II is the
only one In that block.
Her husband Is, or rather was, ir
Camp Meade-and he may be ir
France for all We know.
For several days, Ida said. Elsi,
has been making sarcastic and ''on
decent remarks about the flag.
Ida got peeved at q particularly bad
remark and hit Elsie In the jaw, send
ing her to the land Of dreams.
In one sense OF the word she hat
a right to do this-and yet on tho
other hand she did not
And because there was some justi
fcation for her act, the court fineC
her the lowest fne-s5
Just Like q Man.
"Jedge, All has been washin' clos
for dat man for ten yeahs. He ain't
nebber paid me a cent. De odder day
he snook in nah house en- tooken mah
las dollah awayfen me-"
OF all the base ingratitude we evel
heard of. this takes the cake-provid.
ed the story that Rosie Kingman tell.
Is true.
For ten long years she washed ant
ironed for Claude jackson.
He never paid her a red cent for DO.
ing all this work.
And here last Thursday evening
while she was gossiping with q neigh.
Dor, he sneaked in the house ano
pounced on her last dollar.
Claude says she gave him the dol.
lar. But Rosie says not-she wouldn't
trust him with a dollar.
He brought in a couple Of cheractel
witnesses in court, and what they
said about him made everybody
laugh.
1t would have been better fol-
Claude to have plead guilty and taker