Evening star., 1924-11-30

At sight of his hired mans disap-
pointment the farmer took a hand in
the deal, saying to the city wag:
You pay him that $50 for the Joke
you played on him-and then get out
of the county before the constable
makes you plunk down double the
money-and then try and initiate the
efficiency with which a buzZard runs
his Job"
/ Oh, you bet he is worth his pro-
lection all right-and II you have
known him in childhood you will re-
spect him until you die-seeing that
buzzards never do. ....,.,... ..-
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a WOMAN tainted at a Thanks
- giving movie show. People
around were kindly helpful. but
there are always others.
One fat. critic in a striped blouse
that bulged out like an awning stood
up after the fashion Of Sister Anne
in Bluebeard's tower, and kept tab
on the incident for the benefit of
that portion of the audience that
could see nothing because she was
in the way.
Looks like she's putting on to me.
with the healthy fgger she's got.
Well. they took their time bringing
her water. II ] was the woman with
her I'd be shamed to death. There
they come; she's going to be q load
to carry-good thing they got two
men--wouldn't want any strange men
luggin' me around like that-people
who get fits got no right comm to
a show to disturb folks who want
to see the pictur's."
Then came punishment in a mans
voice:
MADAM. will you please sit down
and ler mo the stage"
And the awning was lowered.
All OF which would be unworthy
Of mention except for the fact that
sudden illnesses and deaths must be
very rare, since with all our goings
to churches, amusements, resorts and
every other place that calls for
crowds. we may live through our
decades without the first glimpse of
a tragic interruption.
To one member Of the audience at
Thursdays fainting spell it brought
pleasant conviction that men and
women generally are healthy lot.
Which, of itself, Is a big thin6 to
be thankful for on a day that. calls
for thanks. .- ..........
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CONSIDER hats. That Is what one
~ man was doing the other day
fine man. who must have been a
spender like Midas - before Midas
himself was coined into gold-and
with such taste that all his wife had
to do was to sit before glass ir
the milliner's studio while he toured
from model to model to select some
thing becoming to her style-entirely
regardless of price tags.
pie can do?
llI- "a al
"A creation actually lying on the
counter instead of pegged on one of
the standards that symbolic class
as if the milliner had failed TO ap
preciate the value OF her own art.
It couldn't have suited wife better
If she had gone to Paris for II. Which
you will have to admit would have
been going some. So the man ordered
it without asking the cost, and the
| clerk was about to box 1t. when-you
know how things happen when you
least expect it? Another clerk hustled
into the deal with the information
that the hat belonged to a customer
who had taken It off to try on a new
one. And that was all there was to
1t. except that
Oh, work-a-day women, dear. sup
pose you had husbands who would
pick out all the hats you wanted
without even looking at price tags
Wouldn't 1t be perfectly-grand?
| And yet-yet-deep down in your
honest heart, wouldn't you rather do
your own choosing?
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CHE was gloriously young and ire
~ sponsible, and her voice made one
| think OF sleigh bells as she strung
out early shopping plans to a pre-
sumable fellow clerk behind her on a
cross-section car.
She was going to give Maudie a
string of coraline beads-real. you
know; and Della was just wild for a
dancing frock-awful to be going to
Christmas party with nothing new
to wear. She had about decided on
fiame-colored chiffon beaded in gold,
but might change her mind. Della
would look so lovely in light blue.
She'd give anything in this world IL
she was only half as pretty as Dell.
| And she had about settled to buy
| Nom a neck fur. You know how
| mothers are-alwayst wanting to give
| everything to the girls. But she's
just got to keep that fur. And Aunt
Martina must have An umbrella with
fancy handle. Aunty always carries
an umbrella either for sun or rain
| cheap ones with plain handles. And
when she sees that silver filagree
| with. her initials .oE-my! And, of
course, she would have to get bushels
| of tree ornaments for little Ben. And.
| oh, If she could only manage radio
set Just fancy. they haven't even
heard one. Country people are dread
fully behindhand in radios
| The fellow clerk wedged in q warn
| ing: .-.-
| Wont all that be cutting deep Into
your finances? You'll only be getting
three more pay days. you know" -!
Cutting? 1t will be tearing me up
by the roots. But, pooh. Christmas
| only comes once q year: and, any
how. I won't have to pay all down
cash. How I'd love to be there when
| they open their bundles. My folks
are the dearest lot"
Passengers, jammed around, lis
! tened and looked with the smile one
gives a cute baby In a car-that In :
| ward smile of the soul which IDEAL
| ICES the plainest man or woman and
| which no vampire lady from Circe
to Theda has ever achieved, to say
nothing of the Lothario boys.
And though this especial Christmas
girl wore a rakishly shabby sports
! coat and tacky little cap, to the
smile Of every passenger was a some-
| thing of pathetic envy. .'.'
1t Is so splendid TO be young.