Evening star., 1927-10-16

aver at a stock of magazines. Schoo
accessories, one radio set ana Iaf
Mheel-and back of everything :
string tackled across to show-eaef
fastened by a clip-a line of unframed
colored prints: war scenes, ships or
Eobbly oceans, a thatched cottage
with foreign peasa nts grouped under
d tree, and one of white-robed ngure
with a crown of twisted thorns ana
cross bearing down His shoulders
The picture that had caught and. com
PEELED the eyes of the down-and-ou'
man. Others passed on. but the man
hunched against the brick wall of the
store, with hands dug in patheticallS
hmpty-looking pockets, had eyes only
for the picture
A couple of women. who chanced tc
stand near him, shifted repugnance
and moved They looked like womer
Who expect to go to heaven when they
die-and most likely will, on the pass
that admits the general public, but
all the same the one who had stood
next voiced properest Indignation:
eff l had my way, I'd have that
man chased off the street.-the boot
beg smell of him-and the dirt.
+ And her companion shifted back In
siorsement.
The man could not have heard. He
had attention only for the white-robed
Hgure, clipped to the line of thread.
: And to one paSserby who had
paused-and lingered-it seemed as II
chat Figure, ignobly crowned and
blood d-spattered-was looking. sorrow
fully, into the eyes of the man who
smelled of bootleg and dirt.
T And that was all there was to it,
unless you stop to consider that. per.
haps. just perhaps. mind, when we
have achieved entrance through that
wall that divides this world from that
place we know as heaven, and through
which man has never found peep
hole, we may behold, to our astonish
nent, that a man who Ought to be
chased off the streets" will be per.
fectly at home on those other streets
that are supposed to be paved with
gold. Heaven may be that way
Maybe.
"A young man with friendly eyes
stopped short in his swinging
stride along the Avenue, to greet a
plainish woman old enough to be his
ma. Having shaken hands, as If they
meant all the good fellowship a hand
shake stands for, and compHmented
each other on their looks-being a
first meeting in seven years--they
started a talk-fest with the freedom
of kindly association-the woman
throwing first ball:
what have you been doing with
yourself all this time, lad? i hope
you have found the best wife, ever >
: "No, lovely. Still stick to my hob
hies. Everybody ought to have a
hobby, you know" 80
E"It used to be dogs.
You bet.- I still have q small ken
mel, but / also have gone in for an.
0ther."
"a hobby is all right, but you are
too fine chap not to marry and
settle down."
( Marriage is generally matter of
settling up
You can't fool me with cheap
cynicism like that--and while hobby
Be- fine"
E"I ought to give it up, eh, and be a
hubby? Not much, My income isn't
IN the limousine class, you know, and
even in the Spring my fancy doesn't
run to bobs and kneecaps, though
Keep up a tremendous liking for my
woman friends. understand. Besides
dogs, I've gone in lately for shells. A
Shell gives a live interest in the water
Il comes from. I began collecting in
France-oh, yes, shells of another sort
over there, but when we had our BIZ
DC travel after the war, / went to the
aquarium at Naples-and that started
me-did a couple of years abroad In
the last five years. mainly hunting for
specimens-and am going to spend
the Winter on the South American
sRacoast. Ever study the colors of a
Eiaell and its ripples and traceries and
Zines that only some inscrutable
master can draw? Just TO give YOU
an idea. I've got a"-and so on.
: Which is just one answer to the
feminine Questionnaire:
8 Why bachelors?