Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
Around the City.

"I don't Sic ho& hey can make II
30 regular, do your It looks exactly
like print"
Being = srac-spAn bridegroom. It
waa up to the man TO say something
in the way OF rapture. but
he missed his cue.
He Just stared 1t the bulletin ana
frowned. Maybe h1 had = bet Oh. or.
sportsmanlike, wanted to see this cosn-
try win the rIce. Or
Maybe, again-nothing Is impossible
in this world-fhaybe. 1t had struck
him all in q sudden heap that he was
tied forever and ever to q woman.
like that.
4 \ \ X
A MAN and q woman were picking
- their way across torn-up street
where laborers were doing things to
the asphalt with pickAxes. The man
held the woman's arm with an as
surance Of full ownership, and her
matter.of-course acceptance OF his
care showed that the walk WAS mere.
ly n little incident in their journey
through life.
The only thing about either Of them
to attract attention was that both the
man and the woman had their eyes
closed. And this double affliction
caught the sympathy Of two women
who were crossing from an opposite
direction.
gust look at those two. will you;
both OF them blind! Isn't 1t perfectly
wonderful how they can get along
without help like that-poor things"
Awful, isn't 1t? "a rather be any
thing than blind, poor souls"
But their sympathy was merely SO
much valuable material gone to waste.
for the man and woman, having
passed the danger zone OF pickaxes,
opened their eyes. Being sensible
people, they had lowered their lids
to protect themselves from the bits
Of asphalt that few about with every
stroke.
Which shows what circumstantial
evidence counts for
CHE looked like a sensible woman
~ who would be more likely to buy
thread gloves than imitation jewelry.
but she stood at counter and
fingered a sprig of celluloid coral set
in gold wire that was tin. And 1t was
three minutes before she put 1t back
where it belonged. Then she left the
store and bumped into another
woman who was scuddtng around to
7th street to get some advertised ere
tonne. AS they chummed along the
thread glove looking person felt called
upon to put her emotions in words:
=" don't believe I'll ever outgrow
my silly spells! I went into Blanks
just now to buy q veil and was so
taken with a pin that reminded me OF
poor Mary Lou that it was all could
do to keep from buying it-which
would have done II 1t had been q
quarter instead Of SO cents"
why, l remember that coral pin!
Mary Lou wore 1t so constantly that
I felt they ought to have buried 1t
with her. but guess 1t went to
Maude, with the rest Of her things"
While they talked over the friend
who had been dead and gone. Mary
Lou, the women reached the place OF
cretonne, and chance or some imp OF
coincidence led them past jewelry
counter, where the thread-glovs
woman stopped stock-still In sur.
PRISE For there was the Identical
sprig of-near. coral twisted in silt
wire marked down to 2s cents. She
picked the thing up, fingered 1t with
puzzled uncertainty and then laid it
down and walked away. The cretonns
friend followed with = protest:
why don't you buy lit You'll never
get 1t cheaper"
II wouldn't have 1t now as . gift.
The charm has gone, somehow"
well, II you aren't the most curl-
GUS woman that ever livedw
But Mrs. Cretonne was mistaken.
There was previous curious woman.
Her name was EVE.
MAMIE LANCASTER.