Evening star., 1928-03-11
AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

CHE Is woman you wouldn't look at
twice. And any lady mannequin
| would call her trump One authority,
| whose life, sartorially, Is a succession
OF satins, crepes and fancy headings,
tells her she should dress more artisti-
cally and live in better style; that she
can afford 1t and that she owes 1t to
her position, and so OH
And in debating this good advice the
| trump framed up an answer about like
| this:
when you have walked the Great
Road with your Father Time long
enough to look like, say. bush that
has shed ITS last rose Of Summer, what
good will fancy togs do you? No living
soul would care hang. and the dead
are not interested / buy four re-
spectacle frocks a year, with an
emergency best" for "affairs"-and
wherefore should I want a better home
than this plain little apartment with its
sunshiny rooms and good little kitchen
and BATH"
| This small protest failed to satisfy
one really good-natured colleague, who
called on the trump the other evening
to give her tip on lovely apartment
In new building-imposing marble
affair OF course. she would need new
Old pictures unless she bought new
frames.
Il reckon that's what / should do.
honey. only-it would leave me nothing
TO help out others In case / should want
to-and 1t would dig into the golden egg
| saved for that sure-to-come night when
each OF us will have to wait with folded
hands for the everlasting dawn. i
reckon the secondhand man would
allow me s298 for my belongings. and
then want to haggle me down, but--I'm
not selling, glory be! These old tar
nished framed paintings mean the touch
OF vanished hand-and a memory
goes with every stick Of beloved Junk
especially that table over there with
tn; lamp in the middle and mags
piled all around. That table isn't fur
niture. 1t is my friend and you
couldn't ask anything more sociablc
than table you have to live with
especially If you live alone.
/ could buy brass-clawed mahogany as
well as the next, but let me tell YOU
something: One long day back, when
fate first pitched me out of prosperity
and took to flinging troubles at me like
boys stone frogs, there came time
when played party on that table with
what looked to be my last piece of
bread, and afterward 1t helped me To
celebrate the big victory that / called
my career, though. OF course, it was
only my good little job.
And let me tell you something else.
That dear. commonplace bureau in the
back room marks my first buying event
after my downing of old Goliath Pov-
erty. when l was only a callow She
David with the tiniest sort of pebble in
my sling I'll admit its legs wobble
something scandalous. and that I had
TO put photograph over a blur in the
glass, but. honey, If you reckon on the
races 1t has visioneo for me-first the
two of us-and then only nv own
growing Older with the years-you will
agree with me there is nothing made
at Grand Rapids that could take its
place"
Shut up. for goodness sake, II YOU
take that apartment I'll help you select
and fix up-1 do quite bit Of in
terror decorating. you know-and do
buy shorter dresses with some style to
them. And instead of using talcum.
get real powder and a box OF rouge.
l insist upon 1t because am your
friend-wny. I spent a thousand on
my iast move. and you can do the
same, ! bet
So If we should hear that a certain
frumpy colleague has moved into the
white magnificence Of a new apartment
house and that she has laid in a mess
OF Spring fashions. We will know that
the friends style-cruSade was a success.
but. on the other hand, If the gladsoms
rumor fails TO broadcast. don't let's be
surprised for what says Buddha:
II thou hast memories and visions
OF good things paSsed-hold them ~
thy heart" And the trump may pos
sibly agree with Buddha.