Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

They look as if
you had brown curls on one side OF
your head and a yellow bob on the
other"
well. of ell thingsl The idea of
Bob letting me go without noticing
+ declare it's enough to discourage
any girl to live with a man she can't
trust, hope you have better luck
with yours"
5 The a ain SOUL, having caught the
two, fu1. tails together with black
headed pin of her own providing,
made humble confession:
Haven't any. Single"
The genus chicken wheeled into the
subject with honest commisseration
in, voice and eyes:
seYou don't tell me! Why, my good
ness, If it wasn't for that blue pin
you would look exactly like widow
honest
1t was a. prodgious reward for so
trifiing "a service-provided the plain
soul hankered for the .laurels rs well
as the weeds of wiClowhood, but-Eou
can't. ever tell. Maybe she didn't
X x
THERE is one very good woman in
this town-name unknown--who
considers herself personally bereaved
hvsthe wise gentlemen who have been
giving headline notices to the pubic
that hades is a myth. NO place OF
failure punishment means no Ten Com
mandments to have to keep. .
..sWhen l think Of all the 5000
times I've wasted keeping them com
mandments." she voiced her wall 10
anothe,4 very good woman, the two of
them stopping for bit or tax out
side the market after baskets were
filed.
haven't no souls and don't get to
heaven il lets us out OF the other
place anyhow"
"1'm not worrying: I'm just mad
though I must say it's kinder re.
lief to feel l haven't got to be bound
down. or ANYTHING, when l go home
and so to bed without havin 70 kneeI
down and say my prayers. Still, and
an I'd miss the comman dments
somethin' awful, and don't believe ia
ever get used to keepin from chufcn
of a Sunday"
"f,m that way myself And. any
how. as my husban' says. the men VINO
stirred up all that stun apoue p *,lns.
no bad place didn't know what they
were talkin. about Jim's right smart
on the Bible
That's what I said TO Tom. I'm
a-gofng to hang on to them command
rnents. because I've been used TO them
AL my life and I'm too old TO change.
In fact, Name. I've took such fresh
interest that I'm going to look the
commandments over 10 see what's
really in EN-
That's a good idea, LIZ. Course
I live up to 'em right along. too. but
couldn't say right offhand what's
in 'egn TO save me,
#* X *s
A YOUNG man had denied himself
"a every small luxury--magazines,
movies and the like--to buy car SO
that he could travel from city TO city
in the interest, of a small invention
that he. hopes will bring him future
some day.
In the same office with him works
another man whose wife is III a hos
pttaI. leaving two children I'm the care
of an old woman nurse. The house he
lives in is 1T to change hands,
and a chance Is given him TO buy it
at bargain rates-of1ly, he can't do 1t,
because he has no money to pay down
and what is he going to do, with
no shelter for his children and no
place to bring his wife and the new
baby? Such a bully good chance. too.
that would put him on his feet for
life.
The Young man who was saving for
other man paid it down on the house.
And that would be all there was to 1t
kindness being such a general thing
except that
Hasn't the law been making a lot of
fuss lately because a very rich man
loaned a friend a big bunch of money
to buy himself a home? The law,
being the law. refuses to accept such
money as a free. unbiased gift. But
the law, being also human, is liable
To make a mistake. II you doubt it,
consider the man who was saving for
a car.
A WASHINGTON man who spent
n some months in rooming house
In New York brought home a small
warm to a woman who tabled them
down:
I'm the house where I put up / was
IN a room that had just been vacated
bv an old Englishman, who had lived
IN IT for years. His income was so
small that after settling for his rent
and laundry he had 90 cents a day for
food.
Nobody guessed It, because he was
go diEnif1ed and proper proud. One
dnv he brought home another old gen.
fler1an and they shared the 20 cents
was taken i'll. Illness calls for doctors,
SO the old Englishman brought to the
room a man who came In a car, and
when he went away carried some
books for which he had paid $4,000.
when the excited landlady wanted
to know why, for goodness sake, he
hadn't sold the books before, the old
gentleman told her that he would have
suffered any personal privation rather
than part with his handed-down treas
1ires. but with a sick friend 1t was
different.
"And when you figure it out that
mis- friend was just poor old fellow
he had picked off a park bench be-
cause he had no better home, you can
understand how proud / was 10 in.
harit his room
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THE other day there died a man
l. who once had a handsome wife.
He was a plain man, as to birth and
education, and quite old. but his little
ahor made money enough to buy
,,refty clothes for his more youthful
,,artner. and 1t pleased him nightly
that he could keep her like that other
iadv in tingle-land. who lived on straw.
herrfes and cream and sat in corner
"a sew q fine seam. though probably
he had never heard tell Of her. The
f1ne seam meant fancywork, and as
FAucxyxwork calls for dainty hands one
must never think OF washing dishes.
so they rnealed around in restaurants
v,ntff the wife decided to take her din
nnrs with a friend at the far end Of
Spwu--rwfich was more expensive. not
counting carfares and lingering at
~shIe 10 talk TO other boarders she met
there. The man had to eat alone I'M
III horn of thrifty blood, he found 1t