Evening star., 1925-01-04
AROUND THE CITY
-By Mamie Lancaster.

, crazy, wasn't she?., Always racing to
wherever she could see anybody who
| was cut or had sore toe, and where
| there were funerals"
She's dead, too; but she wasn't
! crazy. Her father was a doctor, you
| know, and she inherited his calling.
! Became a trained nurse, went to the
| war, headed a hospital and was kill
| ed in France when they shelled it"
| We'll, well, we'll" -.....
| And as the old timer said ii he held
| his hat in his hands.
| x X y x..........
CHE is a designer with an essuranc e
- of contracts that pays for an Of
| fee in the business belt, an apart
ment on the heights and bank ac-
count in five figures. -..-...' ..' '
He is a clerk in a tremendously
important corporation, at a salary
| that you could either call enough to
swear by or at-according to your
ideas of finance-and he had paused
! at her open door to wish her a happy
New Year
NO such thing as a happy year
for me, new or old" The woman said
! it with a philosophy that included a
smile. but the man. shocked at such
inglatitude. came in to make protest.
You like your profession, don't
you?"
Wouldn't change it for any other
why?" -,.....
And you seem to be healthy"
Haven't lost a day through sick
ness in 20 years"
Worried about debts or some
thing?" 49,. ~.
Not me. When you get as old
as | am YOU will have learned the
value of bank deposit box. But
why the questionnaire?N
Just to find out what you have to
complain about. Why lady, YOU are
the most fortunate person / know.
Now, suppose you were like me
buying house, with the interest
trying to get strangle hold on me-
! can't sleep nights for worrying over
it-and coal and table bills-and two
kids forever wanting new shoes"
We'll, old boy, you don't show for
1t; seem to be healthy and all
that
"Tip-top, as far as that goes We
are healthy bunch, all around"
And your little wife seems to be
a prize"
You bet-hasn't her equal that I
can see. Just couldn't get along
without her"
"And the children must be JOY"
Il should say. Why, you ought to
have seen them Christmas morning.
regular blue ribboners, both of them.
Why. the third degree?"
Just playing your own game
and to let you see how ungrateful you
are to complain, with a family you
love, and a home to grow old to-
gether in. and with a job as sure as
tomorrow. What do you know about
loneliness"
Nothing. but 1 guess it isn't so
much of much"
1T is everything" said the woman.
Which shows that everything de-
pends upon the point of view, as
Disraeli said. and Homer-and doubt
less Adam, first of all.
x X x
4 lady citizen stepped out of her
house Tuesday into a morning
of sunshine and cloudless blue. on
her way down town she went into
a shoe store to buy d pair of rubbers.
The clerk told her they had just
sold out. and expressed surprise at
the unusual rush on so fair a day.
The woman said that she was out
of rubbers and didn't want to be
caught without them. Then she went
TO another store and asked for
rubbers.
The clerk raised whimsical eyes
to the sunny world outside, and then
made a remark:
TT is very curious. When the
Weather Bureau predicted snow we
laid in a large stock of rubbers, but
did very little throughout the days
we were expecting wet weather but
here today-in beautiful weather like
this-we have sold $40 worth, mostly
to ladies. 1 can't help wondering
why
AS the woman seated herself to be
fitted. she repeated her reason: She
needed rubbers and didn't want to
be caught without them
So she bought the rubbers, and that
afternoon 1t started in to rain.
Which shows the value of hunch.