Evening star., 1921-09-11
a NICE man and woman-you
~ could tell they were nice
~ found arhaAdbak on the south
side :of the, Avenue at a juncl

(7f found srhahdusk on '.he south
side OF the, ,.AXenne at a. June
tior about two weeks ago. 1t was
a neat bag. and the couple halted
quite a bit. each keeping a lookout,
to see II the owner would show up.
She did not Then they searched in
side to find if there was any means of
! Identification. There was not. You
couldn't expect people, no matter how
nice they are. to stand at a junction
and keep on nursing bag that didn't
belong to them, so the man went over
to the traffic policeman and gave it
into his keeping. And that ended their
share Of the incident
An unlocking man who had wit
messed the finding Of the bag and was
curious enough to follow develop
ments inquired OF the policeman q
few days later if it had been claimed.
The officer was genially commune
cative:
'Oh, yes, q woman came along an
hour later and said she had lost a bag,
so handed it over. but she wasn't
satisfied; said there ought to be a
dime in it: but there wasn't a cent
inside when 1 got it," And that let
him out.
Now, then, first class in human ma
ture. stand up and explain:
Did the claimant really own the
bag. or had she. like the Unlocking
man and a bushel of others. seen its
finding and prigged it on the strength
of tho ada pe that what helon on IN mo-.
body belongs to anybody?
Or: Did she really own the bag and
simply make a mistake as to the
| dime? Was she Of the sensational
type that s1 enjoys Joys ruetionsg an,h3n
coin on the principle that ''ffndin's is
keepin's." or-what?
Also. just to prove that the sensa-
tionaA type dearly loves its ructions.
/ while the inQuiring man was inter-
but neither fat nor fair. rampaged up
| with an appeal for protection from a
! man who was trying to f1irt with her.
The policeman soothed over the
charge and told her in real kindly
fashion to go on and that she would not
be bothered further, and after register
ling complaint that she couldn't 60 down
| the street in broad daylight without
| some man wanting to pick up ac-
Quaintance, she went of apparently
| relieved.
= The inquiring man observed that
she didn't look like woman who
would be bothered by admirers. to
which the policeman may have agreed,
but all he said was:
'She comes at me with the same
story every time she passes. 1t seems
to do her some sort Of good and as
it doesn't interfere with anybody
let 1t go for what 1t is worth"
The inQuiring man appreciated the
philosophy Of the thing. but all the
same, being a man, when he told his
medieval aunt about 1t he stoned the
woman with derisive adjectives, which
| she may have deserved, and yet:
Any class in human nature could
such a thing as diseased loneliness
that may lead woman, or man, to
play pretend" at company and ad-
miration, jugk as q forlorn child plays
! party with picked-up bits of china
for tea s4t and broken doll for
Age is supposed to harness imasina-
to desI, solid thought, there are so
many people In this world that we
cant expect all Of them to be letter.
perfect-like ourselves.
- k*
| A MAN who works at night and ID
"A on afternoons while the rest Of
his world 10 pegging At day Jobs
gets pretty lonesome once in q
while nnless, of course, he owns a
family-or that Klasnorous sub
stttute. = girl
h. Whsn one young fsllow-to tell
lthe truth. he - forty. only he doesn't