Evening star., 1921-06-05
AROUND THE CITY

to buy and the generosity to lend
their treasures to an educational
showing of rare webs that the ma
jority of us have no chance other
wise to see.
Into the dreaniness of this big and
skipped descriptive labels, but appar-
emily reveled in the names of the
society women. which they mostly
mispronounced, until one of them
the one whose white silk feet Tapped
oyer her white pumps like dough
that had raised and run over the
sides-pointed a finger that matched the
feet to a length of time yellowed rose
point: :
"The carpet warp got yesterday is
just the color of this! I'm making a
bureau scarf: it's grand pattern.
wheels and ladders-and don't take
no time-why. l did a whole half
yard yest'y afternoon and last night
1t looks just like this. only deeper,
richer yeller.
The other woman had not tried
carpet warp yet. but she had made
summer sweaters and caps for a
coupla friends that had got married
and now she had started on a crochet
yoke for M'rie's hope chest. Yes. in
deedy. M'rie had a real nice Young
feller: nothin' serious. of course, be-
cause her poppa wouldn't hear OF
sucher thing till she got through
school, but as l tell him you can't
rule children now like they useter
when we was CROWN up-its q
lovely stitch. with roses made sep
arate and sewed on the
Supreme satisfaction in ones own
achievements must be a most COM
placent state of mind. but
Oh. neighbors. just think of hav-
ing to live in the same house with it!
CHE looked as il her name might be
~ Mrs Crouch. but her bundles were
heavy. SO a passenger offered her seat
in the car. 1t is venturesome, OF
course. to tender such a courtesy to a
sister in your own age zone-every
woman knows why-but nothing is
ever an entire failure in this world
praise be! 4%
Indeed. and I will. for I'm half
ready to drop. I never look for man
to gimme a seat any more-gentmen
seem to have died out at tho roots. !
benner runnin' on my two feet since
, breakfus and now it's dinner time
and amt bad no time for lunch
have you got corns?
The woman who had anchored to q
strap next admitted her lack.
We'll, that's one thing you got to
be thankful for! Married."
Her tone implied that corns and
The strap hanger again owned up
to deficiency.
MY; but you are one lucky wom-
enough for one woman ! would like
to know what's what"
She presumably meant husbands or
it might have been corns--
get a suit like they used to wear
before these here war workers got
to hikin' up skirts-I don't like
'em. for one thing. and, besides, I
amt got the knees for 'em. That's
sos goHa ,fa ,sr suit i,4ine ySH gss on. What do
None of us are addicted to shout.
ing our affairs on housetops, but the
strap hanger owned up. for q reason.
"Well, say. you must have q head
on. you. but you better be careful.
1 had . cousin once who canvassed
the Life of Gen. Sherman and caught
her death Of cold! Must you be GO
ingr'
= *k
~DEAR AROUND THE CITY: dom.
know whether this is part of the
song asked for. but when was lit
tie my brother had to speak two
piecss at school. and was all the time
pract1cing around the house. One
began with:
Gone was her beauty. gone was her
bloom,
false was the knight Of the raven black
plume"
"And the other was about girl who
deserted her lover for q lord and came
back a broken down woman:
+" The Assyrian came down like q wolf on
the fold,
And hi. cohorts were cleaning with purple
All of us are on intimate terms
wits the well known Assyrian, but
il looks pretty black for the k. r. b. D.
MAMIE LANCASTER.