Evening star., 1925-04-19

ner he paid his mother his board
After year, the pig that went to
market, as you might say. sent home
for another little mortgage-takeS
time to write really great novel, you
know-and as a second mortgage is
easy, after you learn to make the
first one, the pig in Paris managed
all right for another couple of years,
helped out by intermittent sums that
his mother saved from the home sons
board money. Then came another de-
lay in the book, because youth is
youth, and the genius had married a
movie actress who had a regular Job
that was really enough for two
The home boy, having the support
now of both parents-Pop having had
a stroke that put him off the working
| liSt-had paid off one mortgage and
| taken up the second note; and, in view
| of his latest promotion, had about de-
cided to ask the girl around the cor
| ner to marry him, but you know how
| it is when you have to support two
| families. He had been putting a lot
| of dream stuff into his daily work, but
duty is duty, and so-especially as Pop
| would be needing a car for exercise,
| now that he had no use of his legs
All of which might not be worth the
| telling. except that on Easter Monday
| a neighbor, CHANGING to call while the
| car, congratulated the mother on such
a fine and successful boy-the best son
she ever knew Of
The mother, watching the young
man and the old one at the car at the
curb, smiled admission of the woman s
eulogy, but qualified it. like this:
Yes. indeed, Joe is a dear, re-
liable boy-not gifted like his broth
er, of course, but it would be asking
fn in
| one family-Donald is writing great
| novel, you know"
Hasn't he finished that book yet?
l thought that was what he went
abroad for-seven years ago, isn't 1t?
and look at the money Joe makes
| at writing
Yes. but it is only commercial
writing. you know-there's a great
| difference between advertisements and
| literature. Joe is all that is good to
| his father and me. but, naturally, we
are prouder of Donald. We feel that
| he has fame before him when he
| gets his work before the public
and so on.
And what is better about this story
than that of the original pack mule
| that was always complaining of its
| burden, Joe doesn't seem to give his
| load a thought.
His parents are the best ever, the
| house suits him down to the ground,
| his girl knows a happy time will be
coming along with the next promotion,
and as TO being jealous of his brother
in Paris, he isn't-for why?
He knows that Donald is chump.
| DA, Ma and the two children-a girl
young enough for half-hose and
boy in apparently first long trousers
were going along the Avenue. The
man was sullenly silent, while the
woman nagged at him in suppressed
voice that was off key. The young
Sters, walking behind, Scrapped at
each other as if. it were a regular
thing and they liked It.
1t was not an ideal family party,
| but with all the sullenness and the
nagging and the scrapping there was
a bond of union among them. Each
| of the four was chewing gum.
Nothing to mention, of course, un-
less one might be allowed to inquire:
| What has become of the scientist
| who told the world IN a magazine that
gum chewing produces a sweet dis
| position?
x x
! A GOOD old Democrat owns and
! Thomas Jefferson, which he reveres
next to Scripture. He was showing
| il to a very young man the other
morning and as he unfolded the near
saffron sheet of paper mounted on
reliable leather and inclosed in a
| leather bill fold his eyes beamed with
the joy he was about to bestow.
But you never can tell about youth
not in these days. The youngster
| ISi1 YSr14n -
| lines and then voiced opinion:
'If 1 couldn't write a better hand
than this I'd lose my job and deserve
it. No editor would stand for copy
/ like this and the civil service would
turn him down so quick he wouldn't
know whether he was coming or 60
| ing"
''But consider the character in his
| chirography-
Bunk! Where's any Jefersonian
simplicity, in a Grabbed fist like this?
| He may be all he's cracked up to be,
but when it comes to character my
handwriting beats him all hollow"
| Which seems to show that for one
| young man, anyhow, Americas great
statesman lived in vain.
IF you have ever contracted with
yourself to do a certain thing for
40 certain purpose. and after keeping
| it up until the transaction becomes a
habit, you suddenly play crooked, you
will know by experience that it makes
you feel as cheap to be disloyal to
yourself as though some outsider
were involved. Here's one case to go
by:
In room out southeast way there
| is white bracket fitted into a corner
wall which the owner of the room
calls her shrine. In its triangle of
lace-edged linen is placed a small,
snowy Madonna, with tiny blossom
| filled vases around, and at the feet of
the figure, an always offering of pen
nies-the number varying from a few
red cents on Monday to quite pile
by the time Saturday comes around.
It is understood that the woman shall
never use a cent that she gets in
| change. In case of an emergency