Evening star., 1923-08-05

n woods of Maryland has been
visiting progressive relatives
here. They tried their best 10 make
her welcome, but, as she explained to
a white woman who has her own
memory of piney woods:
Il can't take comfort from water
you get out of wall by turnin'
handle-I want Ry spring with a
Ira"g IN IT to keep il clear-an'
futhermo' ] wants a real fab to
cook by, stedder them little blue
beads bobin' up under a pan. Gin
an good, seasoned logs and Gavin
cobs, if YOU gotten handy"
The white woman knew in her
heart that she was listening TO wis
dom; but suggested that it must be
hard for one using crutches to chop
wood. The old woman derided the
idea
'Crutches amt no sign. I'm perky
enough to sling a AK with the best
CONAN goin'-all'S the matter with
blanes | got de night my 'usbn took
his last sickness am l hadder go out
TO pick chips TO waFm him up a dose.
Man, that was one cold night-with
ev'thing frizzed solid. Old dawg
Ponto was too stiff in his laigs TO
cum FUN under de poach steps, but /
could tell by his rnoanin's he knew
def had come to take has marster
away-and a ole hoet owl that roosts
nigh TO de chicken coop looked like
he was cold to de hone. with all the
fevvers he's got. AM"
When the blessed old body was
through with her tribulationS and
had hobbled out of the incident. there
other owl that for all his feathers
was a-cOid :"
And she wondered at the inscru-
table kinship between poet who
lives in literature's hall of fame and
little old body with frostbitten
Maryland pines.
1t may be-just may be. mind-that
the difference between genius and
the common herd is no more than
and get paid for 1.-THE muted
emotions Of the everyday crowd.
A SHORE dinner isn't the only lure
n that features a day at the
beach. II you were lucky
enough to be on the excursion that
day it didn't rain you doubtless at
tended the freak show that included
Chief Eagle Eye, who could read
your inmost soul like a book"
From the spikes of light hair
showing at the back Of his war bon
net a depraved fancy might sus-
picion the noble red man of being a
raleface-but you have to overlook
trifles of that sort at a beach show,
Also, any pessimist around might
have distrusted the sensational hor-
rors revealed by a subject at the
public reading of his lnIaultous IN
sides, merely for the reason that he
was a member of the show. though
the occasion seemed free Of doubt
ers. Judging by the enthusiasm or the
crowd representing about 1orty-
eleven women, a bunch OF long leg
ged girls and a couple or men that
didn't count
Having hypnotized a lady in pearl
beads. Incidentally another mem Der
of the show. into extotling the cnleI
as the greatest reader OF SOUS nov
going; the great 1a nroasssed Gases ds to P read
uaper descriptive Of wonder SOAP
recine. given him by chemist VINO
rad passed on-and which ne war
ranted to free a lady OF INES INES d snd
fIrckles and give her the PINK ana
cresm complexion OF a baby-l0 cents
cake. three for a quarter:
And the crowd bought and bought
and bought. And it was stili Scram
bling for more ana NOR nor Hbn wme had
iust splashed out of natures own
mystery that no one seemed 10 De
hnthering about, wheeled himseif
over the sand into the swarm, listen
oead;nps and then let out der1slve
yell: -,. .ve what
,i5as Won have to put on specs TO
read by-huh" ~ .tten-
.nd the warning went unheeded
NV the crowd. Naturally. no LADY is
9o;np TO listen to anything so COM
nr sos 90 horse sense when she is buy
ing the unattainable at bargain
rates-ten cents a cake tn,ee hcu, .o
auarter so the ooS went =