Evening star., 1919-05-11
AROUND THE CITY.
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than tears. The honesty of a hunsry-
looking woman is not joyous thing to
see
AND when the finder of the money had
shipped away In the dusk the one who
mad dropped 1t said to herself-there be-
Ing no one to say 1t to, and women
must talk or die:
On well. 1t isn't my first lie and
reckon 1t won't be my last"
X X X X
THERE is tiny shop downtown
appeals to the passerhy. A mus
lin-curtained window. with a pot of
daisies on the sill. conveys a fem
mime touch, but this is contradicted
oy prints Of the International Big
-Four tackled on the bricks outside the
door, Magazines that range from
household hints to big game add to
the sex puzzle but 1t is the green
bench that settles the problem. Any
business man can set bench outside
ms shop door, but only a woman can
give it social air. Many people
rest a bit on it in the course Of a
day-one of them. for instance, being
an Old woman, who settled herself for
good long stay. Customers came
and went. but she kept her seat, and
after while the shopowner came to
the door and offered her a news
paper.
You may like to read while you
rest il you have your glasses with
YOU"
The old woman bristled up like a
porcupine with it's quilts in a state of
spread:
Glasses Thank you. ma'am rye
never used glasses in my life. aAd
my teeth are my own, even il / am
over eighty"
The woman in the door had 0ye-
glasses dangling from a tiny gold
chain.
you are luckier than most Of US.
1t seems to me that half the people
know use glasses, old and young"
Maybe they do in this town, but
I'm from Connecticut state--I came
down by myself to see the sights"
The other woman made some friend.
ly little ejaculation to show interest.
and again the old woman fared up.
Huh! Don't you think I'm old
enough to travel without nurse?"
well, since you ask me. l should
say you are old enough to need one"
That's all you know about it, I'm
as able to take care of myself as
ever l was. I've got eleven nephews
and nieces, all of them well fixed
and most Of them acting as II they
meant well by me. but you can't tell
what relations are going to do. AS
long as l can come and go and at
tend to myself, and my little money
holds out, we get along all right,
but don't know what they would
do IL had to be dressed and fed
and taken out for an airing. Like
as NOT. I'll end up at the poorhouse"
"Oh, the nephews and nieces would
never allow that
You don't know anything about
them. Didn't 1 just tell you that you
cant count on relations? I've already
made my provisions. so that's settled
and out OF the way. | thought I'd
like to know how our poorhouse is
run in case have to go to live there.
80 l went out one day and took ~
look around. There was two things
that didn't suit me, 80 ! comp,a ined
TO the legislature. and when the menu
bers found ! was fixing my plans
they promised everything should be
done the way | wanted it by tho
time | was ready to So-if l had to-"
Nothing like taking time by the
fore,ock." the woman in the e-f1oorway
said 1t with a cheerful smile as she
pAl -, .aif "a
And the old woman gave herself a
comfortable huuch. which implied
fresh lease on the bench.
MAMIE LANCASTER