Evening star., 1923-10-07
. HIS Is a bark back to the
ducks Of Aiaddin's oave--with
synopsis OF the nrst chap
ter In accordance with serial

!" His is a bark back to the
ducks Of Aiaddin's oave--with
q synopsis OF the arst chap
ter In accordance with serial
rule:.
A woman yearnsa for two gay lit
tie china ducks In show window.
She did not buy them because no
longtime traveller on the great road
ought to humor SO childish q whtm.
All the same, she giimpsed them
several mornings In passing until one
day when she was Mt her desk. up. to
her brains In work. In comes = mes.
ssngef with Q box. And In the boz
were the two ducks--packsd like
show who sent them. The donor
haA failed to reckon On the fast that
Anonymous gifts Sometimes lose their
SAVIOR. It took from the woman the
little bubbis Of JOY shs sight OF the
ducks had tiven her--tecGuse OF An
old. old memory that no one would
care 70 know About--ao 9hS slowed
sssH sos Dsss IS m ss os1 ssh ssns!s sn: sySss S
mystery TO date.
The other day another woman,
having learned OF the Offering, asked
70 Bee tho ducks. The owner brought
n: back nss. srnn Sx a. to .1s. nss ets &:
rosA--And 40 there 10 no lock, ana the
miilsnnium has not yet come down
hunter opened Q drawer, ferrettsd
under Z layer Of books c n.cssd HE
isSnss Of xlSddin's cave have van.
iShAd back into the mystery whence
All Of us love to be advised and
preached at. It soothss our self
you rub Its fur the wrong way.
Therefore, It seems advisable 10 tack
on q moral like this;
A. present is. beautiful thing to
be treasured as a token Of friend
ship between the one who siyss IAN, ana
not be nAmeless like Z relief con-
tributtoA marked Anonymous" II
the duck donor had gone the right
way in the doing Of her really bsauti-
ful Kindness those. beloved Quacks
a relocated King Georgs toby
pitcher and a greenish gold teapot
from that section of China where
teapots have neither handles nor
spouts-for. once homed In their
niche. never would. the eorgeossly
journey back to the house by the
side OF the road.
As It II. the woman had her
whimper over the loss-never mind
road--and the one who sent the gift
would be sorry If she knew about
it. But both Of them, patterning
after the bishop and his old candle
sticks, will have to say OF the hunter
"Hs dId not swipe those ducks. We
gave them to- him."
~ A4A
A N old gentleman went away last
"A week to q place, a soldier calls
west. But he Is coming back. He
said 20, and he ought to know. see
ing this last life Of his was the tenth
time that he has returned. to earth
which beats the cat. by one. It might
have been more times, of course, but
he couldn't swear to II. as the first
thing he could really remember was
when he and another slave rescued
little Moses from the bullrushes.
Even at that. his experiences
countsd--judged by the relish with
which he related his reincarnatfons
one time to a prophecies. who can
foreteli q whole lot more than Is
likely to happen. but whose memory
refuses to 70 back .of the centennial
which, confidentially. 1t can, only
ft doesn't. seeing that q spinstery
lady has just natcheily got to keep on
being young. until she dies OF old
age--But that doesn't prevent her
from foraging into the pasts Of other
people. 90 she asked the dear old
gentleman II he always came back
man.
US robbers stole the rubies from the
Temple OF Isis and got stabbed. I had
to take my punishment ~ . woman.
You remembers Tarpia, who SOLD her
city for Jewels? That was ne. This