Evening star., 1924-10-12
AROUND THE CITY
-By Mamie Lancaster

} LUlC0SteT
owns a nice little farm out there at
Great Falls and expects to keep right
along raising her beans and eggs ana
doing her washes. THE Lords cert n
been good to her, and II anypody
wants to find woman happier than
what she is, they would have to traNei
a right smart of a ways"
Which gives another cheerful PROOF
that happiness may be the cheapest
thing in life-for all it is precious
something that money cannot buy.
x X x x
0Ak is always oak, whether 1t De
~ growing in a forest or corded up
for the hearth. And by that same
token, a gentleman is gentleman
no matter where you find him
though it isn't often you come across
him selling papers on the street.
His averagely good clothes were
we'll brushed, the shine of his shoes
was assertive, and on his face
1t was the grim repression of 1t
that made passing woman pause 10
buy d paper, though she had just
finished her own small share in its
making. Then she stood back where
he couldn't see her. to find out
You see, you can't afford to miss a
chance for helping out an obviously
last stand" case, because of the re-
morse you would feel if you woke VI
next morning and read of tragedy
you might have helped to avert And
did not.
But it was all right. People were
buying and buying-which sent her
on her way with d fresh luster in her
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good world--excepting sometimes
and that sthe millennium that cynics
have their doubts about is already
lying around everywhere, like the
misfit pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, ii
only we could shape it into perfect
whole.
One has to consider, of course, the
injustice to friend newsie, who was
that much out financially because OF
an older competitor. That is the mis-
fortune of not being able yet to fit
the jig-saw pieces together.
But, anyhow, this isn't about news
boys. 1t is just to tell of one middle
aged mana gentlenan-with a
sensitive face and grim eyes, who, for
some reason, which is entirely his
own affair, was selling papers on the
street And making good, Lord love
him!
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TIME is money. We found that
out when we left off pot hooks
and began a real writing in copybook
No. 4. Also, the adage man says so
though there be times when we have
to take his dictums with ii pinch of
salt But here is real proof:
A woman who has won medals in
the game of life has decided to step
a fr-n ff1H @f ~
road and follow a blossomy trail that
leads to a little home where she
means to live happy ever after
BY way of d beginning, she is hav-
ing her place Of dreams painted and
enameled and papered and scrubbed
and poliShed-and being rigidly hon.
est in her handling of business prob
lems-and also addicted to budget"
keepings-She breezed into the shop
of wise man. who was also a busy
man. to know how much extra he
would charge for papering the inside
of a clothes closet?
The wise man took time from his
work to explain that there would be
nothing eXtra-regular price, 81.
But the plaster is loosening here
and there. How much do you charg e
for pointing the walls?'
"Dcpends on the amount of fresh
plaster needed and the length of time
required. Plaster costs money and
Workmen have to be paid
OF cours-Well-ther are three
closets-dollar, each? That's all right
and you can't tell just what the
pointing will be-"
AT this stage Of the monologue the
wise man, who is also an old friend
besides being the best paperhanger
eyer-stopped long enough to point
a bit of moral with a twinkIing smile
attached:
You remind me of Ben Franklin 8
saying. one time when a man came
in his stationery shop and wanted TO
know the price of a certain book.
Franklin told him it was s shillings.
The customer heSitated - loitered
around to look at other books
Franklin having to wait until he
came TO a decision-and after dilly-
dallying over the matter, finally de-
cided:
"1ll take it Eight shulings, you
say%
BY rights, I ought to charge you
10 shillings for wasting my time says
Franklin
The woman enjoyed the little dig
at her expense, and in telling another
woman about it. wound up with:
Cant you make a little paragraph
about it?"
like the classic COW. the other
woman considered"
All right, seeing it's you-and be-
:hance to tell the world that: Time