Evening star., 1920-11-21

70 VII 70 oauux nsfS
thumb. the ritual which : dog is sup.
posed to consoles. trNtesnAl greeting. But
Rover didn't bu6SA He wAs absorbed
In til study Of lft
10 Ignoring q the Invitation must
che. too called With whssdlins intimacy:
."rum along. pttty.slng--eun along." !"
But spitty.oinY' had no intention
whatever Of sQtns. what Il wanted
wAa to b let AloNo % watch that dog.
30 the couple WoAt thar way. and that
what Dc you suppose was going on
behind that sma,l aeg's AArs under its
Il W could know I thing Ike that
for certAin--we humans would be a
whole lot wiser than we are today
wouldn't W.
Answer 10 yeA
Z + 4 4
MAN 10 . riddle not to be solved
AVA this side Of the wedding ring,
but you know how women talk.
One young person with baby that
implied mAtrimony Wa telling an
other person--not young. and no
eaby--thAt if girls could know before
hand just what man really was
there wouldn't be % many divorced
women going around.
1.-THE earth isn't good enough for
you to walk on before they get you,
but afterward It's cook. clean up
nat, 60 70 market. wear cotton stock
lnge--And then comes . baby and
don't tell met"
The other psrson--.ths one who
wasn't young Ana had no baby--ob-
viously had no objections to giving a
cafe audience her own strictly aca-
demic views Of man.
call cras. to get married, but, honest
II could buy . pattern husband like
you buy q pattern for q rag doll. stun
him with good habits. galvanize him
into earning 4 fat pay envelope and
ns 9ve - al 9ys1 sis % CID az eronies and come
home to help out with the supper
dishes, don't know but what
Having created q Frankinstein that
room to. the lady turned to her grid
die cakes and syrup, which. Incl
dentally. she seemed to know more
about.
"Yes, but they don't come home
Ny husband stayed out regular. one
and my baby home by ourselves--And
while I'm willing to give it to him
that he was good provider and KEEP,
up his insurance and tho payments
into the building association. still
never could tell what he did with the
rest of his waEes-and a wife ough,
to keep = mans money. My mother
says So
Having. between them, denatured
| man OF about every individuality thai
hood. the two ordered second por.
| ton Of griddle cakes. entirely salts.
| fed that each was worthy of cloyine
| perfcction-And that was all there
was to that.
THE popular idea Of an angel Of
mercy is beautiful young WON.
an with eyes like 4 saint-in pictures
But there are others. AS q happy
fact. there Is whole big lot Of others
with this gnat OF an incident for
proof:
Somewhere in this town there Is q
room filled with cots. And the cots
are never empty. The sisters call It
| a free ward for children. but, also.
No matter what science and tender.
est nursing may do for a child. 1t 10
sure to get tired Of splints ana han
daess ana the aches that 30 with
them-so: whenever visitor passes
the rows Of little beds TO leave 4 toy
or picture card or = smile, the doctors
cali that visitor an angel OF mercy.
And very likely the Greatest Of All
Hsalers lets the definition stand.
One Of these visitors was Z young
man who bres4ed in with q regular
santa's pack that held . plsytnins
were not cheap gimcracks that break
II you look at them, but real toys that
cost money Of q SiSe known outside
Of the arithmetic ~ big"
Just why q young man should buy
happiness for poor kiddies instead of
pastime We cali seeing q good time"
10. OF course, his, own affair. but
Il shows, anyhow, that angels OF
mercy are not necessarily cut BY the
same pattern. The styles are, what
the renowned Mr.. Venus would de-
scribe as ''warius."
roNcERNrNG that millennium:
over ut the museum q couple Of
tourist women were si1ine up q dino
saur--the one in the middle Of every
thing.
III was to so home and tell the
folks that I had seen . skeleton as
long as our front lawn they wouldn't
nslisy;:. 1.H.ss;.. me on oath don't believe it
But. jimmie, animals grew big like
this before the food"
"The fiood was in the Bible, but this
ID the city OF Washington--ossides.
you never read OF any creature as big
as this when they went in the ark.
"Well, maybe they were too big to
get inside, and Noah had to leave
them out and that's why they were
drowned. Excuse me, nam, bat are
these bones real or handmadeT
The visitor who was ma'am gave as
surance that the bones were of real
animals that had been found in diff
ferent parts of the country.
mot where came FROM" clipped in
the woman VINO knew too much to
seek Information. Il live in Iowa, and
stands to reason that would have,
because my father has one OF the
tafIest ranches in that section, ana
besides, II wild animals were this
big 10 begin with, they would have
grown larter. the way the farmers
And that is one reason. neighbofs.
dsar-about the only one-why the
millennium takes its own good time
In arriving. Once let Ignorance scat
out Of the world. ana then
You just watch Ana see.
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A + 4 car stop corner up Capitol Hill
way there 10 . clunp Of bushes.
ana under the bushes the other morn
ing lay a small bottle with its label
peeping from beneath the leaves:
''vAnilla Extract"
/. A. 1t isn't customary for housewives
to carry empty extract viAlB to Z city
reservation, when back gate cans are
more convenient, how do you suppose
that bOttlA got there?