Evening star., 1919-11-30

hind her in n cross-section car.
I'm going to give jamie wrist
watch; she's crazy for one. and I've
decided on "A blue silk for Cert. Poor
dear. she has never had n real even
Ing gown in her life and she will
look perfectly lovely in light blue
I'd get chiffon except that the un-
dersiip would be so expensive. I've
settled on fur piece for mamma.
You know how mothers are giving
everything to the girls, but I'm 60
ing to tell her she has just got to
wear that fur--and a silk umbrella
for Aunt Maggie-''
The fellow clerk wcdged In sug-
gestion:
won't that be cutting rather. deep
into your finances? Those things will
COST"
cutting? I'll be tearing 'em UP
by the roots. but that's all right.
Christmas only comes once a year.
and anyhow, you don't have to pay 1t
all down. cash. How I'd love to be
there when they open their bundles"
The passengers jammed around
listened and looked with the smile
one gives to a cute baby in a car
that inward smile Of the soul. which
idealizes the piainest man or woman
and which no vampire lady from
Circe to Theda has ever carried in
stock-to say nothing Of Lothario
ct al
And. though the Christmas girl
wore a rakishly shabby hat and
too-thin jacket. to every smile was
added pathetic envy
She was SO irresponsibly joyous
and. oh! so gloriously young!
A WOMAN tainted at q matinee.
People around were kindly help
full. but there are always others.
One fat woman in striped silk
blouse that bulged her out like an
awning stood UP after the pattern of
Sister Anne In the watch tower and
kept tab on the incident for the bene-
At Of that portion Of the audience who
could see nothing because she was in
the way:
Don't see what q healthy looking
woman wants to carry on like that
for! One thing, she's either putting
on or her face Is painted. Well. they
took their time bringing her water.
II ! was that woman with her I'd be
shamed to death. There they come
she's going to be load to carry It's
a good thing they got two men.
Wouldn't want any strange men lug
ging my feet around like that. Peo-
pie who have fits got no right coming
to q theater and disturbing folks who
want to see the play"
Then came punishment in a mans
voice:
Madam. will you please sit down
and let me see the stage?"
And the awning lowered into a chair.
X X X X
A WOMAN waited her turn at a
- glove counter.
On one of those mahogany toad
stools that revolve exactly as toad
stools don't do, sat another customer,
whose throat-velvet was fastened at
the back with a breastpin that used
to be all the fashion when Queen
Solomon was girl.
To the eyes Of youth not yet trained
to memory-visions. the pin was mere
ly bit Of hair braided into a bow
knot and pressed under gold-framed
glass. but
The woman's imagination, Cuvier-
like, built up from the tress long
ago girl, who was beautiful as all who
are dust are beautiful She was young
with eternal youthfulness. and in her
wistful eyes was tenderness for
this earth descendant who was cher
fishing the only link between her spirit
world and the place she had held in
bygone days when she had lived and
loved and
BY that time the revolving ma
hogany tbadstool had turned the
wearer OF the pin face forward and
the vision vanished. like mist on the
mountain, like dew on the-and all
that.
The earth descendant was chewing
gum.
ONE night between acts, at the
~ community opera an old lady
was telling younger woman about
the first great performance of her own
youth:
president Grant was in box with