Evening star., 1918-08-18

ping at the back entry steps.
"A lovely old homie Is all right. hut
IL ever have one there won't be any
door bell"
u II
1--WE was mad with Adam. When he
- spoke she answered with that
little grunt all of us make when we get
ready, but no one on earth could spell.
Occasionally she would turn from Tho
window to look that other thing we
call "dasgers" at him and then turn
her back OH him again, as II she was
through with him forever in this
world, and, OF course. tho next. But
Adam was patient-which shows
what experience will do.
They got up Mt 7th street. and. as
they stood up in the nislo to wait
their turn to string out she hooked
her hand into his coat sleeve and
remarked. with. an engaging MP
could come from such silent,
grumpy woman:
alright, hon. Consider yourself
forgiven. Fve thought up all the
swear words know and chewed
every nail to the quick--besides'
The two went Off as jolly as sand
plpers-allowing sand pipcrs to he as
jolly as the adage makes them out TO
be-and that's all, only
II all Adams and Ewes fussed and
made up. like that, what would the poor
divorce lawyers do for automobiles?
II II
THIS Ia about a Jack % -lantern
journey which boy took one
starless night.
IL you have lived in the country
where Jack flickers his sinister
CLEANS oyer the marsh. you will know
exactly how 1t happened that the
boy. lost in the dark and mistaking
the light for candle in a cabin
window, followed on and on until the
squashly mud under. the cat-tails
would have mired him. except that
Adaline heard him call
Also. II you had known how the
virtuous neighborhood treated Ada
cause of--but that is her own af-
fnir--you might have wondered why she
should have risked her life. but some
hoy was saved, but when the baby
came to earth with withered feet that
could pever walk II and back that
could never uncrumple. the people
around said it was Gods Judgment
as IL they personally knew.
So Adaline came here and worked
her poor splendid best until the
baby's soap box became cradle and
then a cot, and after that wheel
chair and after that casket-white,
with shiny handles and fringe,
You may have known Adaline pro-
fessionally. because her baskets of
wash went into the very best fami-
retired from business permanently.
And now she isn't going to do any
thing in this world but sleep beside
the crumpled-up boy in gfeen place
Which III, :, one glad for. Adallne
that there Is another world for her to
20 where she will have learned by
Greater love hath no man thai he.
lay down his life for friehd.-
A MAN in front of store divided
something in his scooped hands
between two rag. tag boys.
The delighted, grins Of the 'kiddies
caught the interest Of q woman who
loitered close enough to see what was
going on. Exceptionally she was ig-
norant OF. the profit value of souvenir
charms of. red and gilt tags, but one
who asks humbly may always learn:
Fhe tiny tads were saving the tags
to sell. and the man saved them for
them fright along"
And that was all there. was to- it.
unless one, cares to consider, Incl
dentally, that;
A man who will bother to pocket a
tag every time he buys cigar merely
to please couple of small street kid.
dies puts that coronet-N6rman pat
tern-on the well known dump.
NANN1E LANCASTER