Evening star., 1927-11-27

ried as she said 10 him: Henry, come
home at once and take the children
away. They are not to weep at my
grave"
The man knew there was no teIe-
phone at the forester's lodge, and al
though he WAS certain IL was his
Wifes voice. he imagined that some
one was playing trick on him. lie
rang up the exchange and was in
. formed that no connection had been
made with his house. Early in the
morning an auto drove up and the
chauffeur said he had come to take
the husband tn the lodSe where the
woman had died in the night. Real
izng that she was dying she said she
thought of her children CRYING at her
grave and wished she could speak to
her husband on the telephone. Hex
wish could not he complied with. as
the nearest telephone was eight miles
ava N-So:
W hen the woman asked the man
successful young fellow with a good
paying job at the CapitoI--if he didn I
! think 1t was an odd story, he added
to his shruCGing and Chuckling by
saNinC-in that superior way that
goes with positive opinions:
Il only believe what | see. hear, and
| understand--horse sense is my limit"
And when YOU realize that you can
be walking along, without giving your
/ feet a thought; be listening to a com.
panion while YOU think of something
| else, with your eyes looking ahead
and your ears taking in all the noises
of the street-and with some in
scrutable power in control to see that
YOU are acting conventionally-yo,l
know how childish it is to limit your
brain to horse sense!
Still. it takes all sorts of people to
make up a world-which IS doubtless.
why this is such a nice eiting place
to live in.
| FILTERS from famous people are
h00ns to he properly thankful for.
but, contldentially. none of them are
so interestingly chummy as this small
screcd from Tinker Bell. Tinker, YOU
may recall. is of the family of Mrs.
/ Toots. who lives with a woman writer
| "f dozen successful books. some
where up in Maine. And this is the
letter:
Dear Miss Mamie:
II am little silvery gray Maltese
Kitten and my mistress read me your
letter-ard my mother said we should
he very proud to be mentioned in a
Washington newspaper. Then she
cuffed me To make sure | understood.
There are only two of us now, my
mother and |. Mistress SAYS that
mother is to he called Susan now,
because Toots is not dignfied enough
| and she needs all her dignity to deal
with me. | am sure | do not know
what dignity is. hut | suppose it is
what makes mother boss me around.
''TWeedeldum is a coon kitten and
| has gone to live with two little girls
! over the way. The other day Eva
| Cobbs little white dog came to call,
! and one little girl hucGed the kitten
! tight and the other spanked the dog
| with a shngle. Deedee. my little gray
| sister, has gone to live on the Furlong
! farm and | heard Mr.. Furlong tell
my Mistress that she had had a fight
| with bat down cellar and slept on
| the foot of his bed-Mr. FurlonG's |
| mean-and he would not take any.
| thing for her. / was very lonesome
after she went, and ! guess Mistress
| knew it. for when I meWed she would
| pick me up and pet me until l began
| to purr.
Mother brings in mice for me to
| learn to catch them. but when they
are alive Mistress takes the broom
| and sweeps us all out into the kitchen
| and shuts the door. | guess Mistress
! does not like mice much. | am getting
! so big | can rush at mother and tip
| her right over and it surprises her a
| good deal Your kitten admirer
| Tinker Bell" with a paw-mark to
make it OFFICIALLY.