Evening star., 1924-10-05
AROUND THE CITY
-By Mamie Lancaster

right YOU are-I just didn't know"
Which seems to show that in the
long run ignorance isn't as blissful
as it is cracked up to be.
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| 4 LAWYER fixed up deed for
client who promised to pay him
| next day. He was sorry to have been
| caught without the money. but would
bring it around in the morning by
| 10 o'clock, if he was alive. And he
never came anigh,
The LAWYER was too busy to bother
and at last Time outlawed the debt,
which would have ended the matter,
except for the fun the legal man gets
out of it once in aWhile-Iike the
other day while walking with
friend down Judiciary Court way. He
directed sudden attention to another
man across the street.
There goes a chap who has been
| lead 10 years. Looks natural. doesn't
he?"
Seems lively for corpse. what's
the idea?"
"Lively's the word-but dead as a
door nail all the same-though 1
admit he hasn't the air OF being
buried. That cuSs promised me 10
years ago to pay bill next day, II
he was alive-and as he never showed
up I had to conclude he had passed
away. sudden. Healthy looking ghost
huh
And the chucllle that went with
the yarn showed that the lawyer
mans litts joke was worth the
money he never got.
There are always compenSatlons.
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TWO tiny tadS were trying to doctor
Il red express" wagon that was
suffering from wheel trouble. While
they were tinkering from bad to
worse. tHe good Samaritan stepped
out of Scripture to lend Il helping
band You might not have recognized
him in the nifty young man who was
SprintinG by and. possibly, would
not have considered his deed on a
spiritual par with the biblical per-
Sonage whose good action has won
him undNing praise, but. anyhow:
He was SprntinC by when the tadS
sprawled on the bricks caught his CO.
operative attention. He knew exactly
what was wrong with the wagon.
The W'ecl Wun off an the ScWoo'S
lost" The tadS explained it together.
which showed that they realized dis
aster when il came their way.
The wheel was certainly off and the
screw was obviously gone. but there
is always way. The young man
a ball of twinc, and in less than the
two shakes Of that accommodating
rams tail-reinforced hy a wooden
pin made out of a match and fitted
into the hub Sncket-the wagon WAS
put IN commission and the tiny tads
went flying aWay-n the role of
horses.
Having served his neiGhbor even
unto the Scriptural pennyS worth, the
tor n a
wherever he was going.
All this time woman waiting at
the car stop, wishing she could help
the tads. but not knowing how. was
attacked by bclated and remorse-
full thought:
Il might have treated them to ice
cream cones, anyhow
SO that. by count, both Samaritans
were on hand-the good one and the
other. You may have noticed that
the two nearly always run in couples
one to do a kindly act and the
other to pass by "on the other side" :;
even as the two of Holy Writ.
1t may be-just may be-that good
and bad are intended to be; like sun
and shade. and day and night, and
all that sort of thing. Maybe.
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TWO friends met in suit depart
nent. eacn IN Searcn oil a dress
one woman-vigorous white hair and
a double deck of splendid tceth-hav-
ing selected an orchid crepe lowered
with plum and silver-took a hand
in helping the other decide:
Say, old girl, you don't want plain
black. No use making yourself look
worse than necessary. Get Il color
to match your disposition-any psy-
Chologist will tell you that"
The old girl-not worth describing