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AN ELEGY IN A COUNTRY PRINT
SHOP.
lie's taken thirty of the hook; it's quit
tint: turn for “SI
We'vf I tl afternoon to
read tb r c i h
And find line here it F 1 and 1 :lean, a pi
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But only such a one a I i slip in any
Hi ehere; eket’s Uie Foreman's desk, all
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He had figured tip. fat 1 tnk< ! uid lean, but
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that's the wav
I don't know what s hi , overtime or what
I : - check will 1
I guess he'll strike the qve gc along with
you and me.
He set a measure middling wide—he liked
to set that wav;
His work was mostly solid stuff, and not
much on display;
He ought to lived three-score years, a
friend of yours and mine.
It’s tough to think some worthless chap is
He told quadding nigh out his month line. cool
me a ago, as as
His dunes anything, and pasted mid¬
were rut up—-a
He said dling he’d longish skinned string; the and
guessed never he’d had his Shop,
share
Of overtime and double price, and maybe
some to spare.
ITc set a proof that showed up clean, and
did his work up right.
He never shirked by day so he could
The Makeup’s double-space dumped the night. his in, his
matter
form is dosed, you see:
His galley’s empty on the rack, his slug is
We don’t twenty-three. know' what
the Cashier's desk
has credited to “SlimA
We'll mark a turn rule in the proof, and
say a prayer for him.
For him the dawn is in the East, it’s get¬
And thirty’s ting light taken Uptown. the
off hook, the last
form’s going down!
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r Nobody noticed her especially when
she entered the beauty parlor. She
was not a woman who would attract
notice under the most favorable cir¬
cumstances and in this place, with its
constant crowd of women attired in
the latest modes and with faces show¬
ing the beautifying results of massage
and lotions, she was particularly un¬
attractive. Amid the perfumed, fash¬
ionable rush she stood bewildered
and diffident.
She quailed at (he approach of the
magnificent young woman with the
figure of a wax model and the coiffure
of a fashion journal, Quite humbly
she spoke:
“Can I get my hair washed?” she
asked.
The magnificent young person re¬
garded the woman before her cruelly.
She took in the middle-aged figure,
the tight-fitting black cashmere
basque, the too-short long sleeves and
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"1 think," she said, with her best
accent, “you can have a shampoo. It
can’t be that all the girls are busy,
I’m sure. Just step this way!”
She picked out the least important
of the shampoo artists, Jessie, the
little girl who was learning the trade,
and was consequently nervous and
objected to by the regular customers,
Jessie bustled about importantly.
Just hang your things up here,” she
said, with infantile condescension.
She stood regarding her customer
brightly. It was too exciting, having
some one all to herself without in¬
structors bobbing in and overseeing.
The woman fumbled at the black
headed pins in her small hat with the
faded violets. When she got it off
she displayed brown hair slightly
streaked with gray brushed back
from a part flat and smooth and
twisted into a tight little knob at the
back of her head, the hair dressing
of a country woman who never has
stopped to consider how she looks.
(.. "You'd your" col¬
better unfasten
lar,” prompted Jessie. ’It’ll get
wet.”
The woman turned apologetic eyes
cu her. "All right,” she said. “You
see, I’ve always washed my own hair
down home. We just moved up to
Chicago a while ago. 1 could have
done it here, but my daughter-in-law
was telling me about this place and
said for me to come and try it. It
seems kind of silly at my age.”
"Oh, my, no!” Jessie said conde
sceudingiy. as she deftly extracted
the wire hairpins. "Lots of ladies
much older than you come here reg¬
ular! Ever have a facial?”
"A what?” asked the customer,
blankly.
As Jessie applied the liquid soap
she. explained the facilities of the
beauty parlor. She told of the facial
massage, the manicuring, the
wrinkle remover, the creams and
tions. The worn face of the
looked more pathetic than ever
ner dripping, scanty locks.
"My! ” she said. "Do women do
that ? It. takes a powerful lot of
ble and time.”
Nobody came to interrupt Jessie
her work. As she glanced now
then into the mirror at the face
ner customer something stirrbd at
heart. It was not so long ago
she had come from the country her¬
self.
“Say,” she said, as she finished dry¬
ing the hair, "let me curl your hair
—marcel It, you know—and put In a
jane to puff it out—and do it up real
fashionable."
Tn the mirror the customer's eyes
met Jessie's in panic—and then, with
sudden daring:
“I believe I will," she said. “I no¬
ticed the other women when I came
in—and they did look different! ”
All the while the interested Jessie
was waving and fussing and explain¬
ing the customer sat looking steadily
at the floor. A dim pink had risen
in her cheeks because of the unusual
happening. When at last Jessie
stepped back with a sigh and said
“There!” she raised her eyelids with
difficulty and shyness, but the sight
in the mirror drove panic from her
mind in sheer surprise.
“I never saw such a change as do¬
ing your hair different makes! ” Jessie
murmured in triumph.
The face in the mirror was that of
an interested, rather handsome wom¬
an of delicate features .surmounted
by waves and puffs of soft brown hair
just touched with silver. The per
fectly curved pompadour was at
exactly the right angle, and the
whole effect of the head was that of
an aristocratic, distinguished-looking
woman.
Is—is that—me?” the customer
gasped.
In a daze she put on her old-fash¬
ioned hat and in a daze she went
home. The woman in her, pleased
and excited, yearned to display the
change to the folks at home; and yet
shyness held her. She was afraid of
her own sudden good looks, The
strangeness overpowered her. She
went into dinner in a flurry.
Across the table the elderly man
with the chin whiskers held his knife
and fork in either hand as he stared.
“Geewhillikens! he breathed.
“What has happened to you, mother?
You look queer.”
“Don't you like it?” faltered the
woman.
The man with chin whiskers began
carving the roast. “It’s not you,” he
said. “It ain’t natural. I can't get
used to it. I like the old way best.
“Really?” asked the woman.
it Honest,” said the man with chin
whiskers. You looked just fine that
way.
She met his glance of affection
openly. “I can brush it out, father,”
she told him, comfortingly.
The next day the jane went into the
waste-basket and the old tight knob
reappeared on the back of her head,
"It does seem more natural,” she
said, as she surveyed herself—and
sighed.—Chicago News.
WITCHCRAFT AND RAINFALL.
African Natives Punish Members of
Tribe Who They Rlame For Drought.
Native superstitions which one
would have thought had died out long
ago from among natives coming into
such close contact with Europeans as
natives do nowadays have been re¬
vived lately by the long continued
drought that the country is suffering
under. They are convinced that noth¬
ing less than witchcraft is at the
liottom of it, and they are all on the
lookout for the “abatagati.”
A few weeks ago the natives of
Moamba accused a native named Ma
helembaan of witchcraft and of with¬
holding rain. All his goods were
seized and thrown into the Komatie
River. Mahelembaan fled to the fort
and placed himself under the protec¬
tion of the commandant of the Sabie.
Last week another native named
Bob, living south of the line on the
Sikongene spruit, was accused of
witchcraft by having drawn an invisi¬
ble skin over the skies to prevent rain
from falling. He was seized by a big
crowd of angry natives, tied up and
severely beaten. His wives and chil¬
dren were carried off, his goats killed
and eaten and all his property
was destroyed.—Lourenco Marques
Guardian.
College Daily Newspaper.
A fully equipped daily newspaper
plant with a special telegraph service
and in charge of a competent news¬
paper man is the plan of the Board
of Curators of the Missouri State
University at Columbia, Mo., for the
new department of journalism. The
daily paper will be known as The
University Missourian.
Walter Williams, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Curators, has been appointed Dean of
the new school. The plant will be
on the university grounds. The re¬
quirements will be practically the
same as those for other collegiate de¬
partments.
The French Flag.
The three colors were devised by
Mary Stuart, wife of Francois II. The
white represented the royal house of
France, the blue Scotland and the
red Swfzeriand. in compliment to
the Swiss Guards, whose livery it
was. It is generally understood that
the revolutionists of 17 89 had adopt¬
ed for tlieir flag the two colors, red
and blue, but ■ that Lafayette per¬
suaded them to add the white, to
show that they bore no hostility to
the king.—-New York American.
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HABITATIONS.
I'd like to live in Germany, where dogs
They call are eight ’em quadrupeds, feet long— but that is
man
Yet they’re ifestly wrong.
not oetopi, and this the where¬
fore and the why—
They more than make up for their length
by being one foot nigh.
I’d love to live in Scotland, where the cult
of Celts wear kilts,
Or in Provencal marshes, where the peas¬
ants walk on stilts;
I’d like to live in England, too—but mercy',
what’s the use?
Nobody’d obtuse! understand my jokes—the Angles
are
—Cleveland Leader.
! PLACED.
Knicker—“Was he among those
who also spoke?” v,
Bocker—“No, he was among those
who said in part.”—New York Sun.
THEN THE SWEARS.
j Nan—“What is the first thing you
| have to learn in playing golf?”
; Fan — “The accent.” — Chicago
! Tribune.
PARLOR CYNICISM.
< < Frost has written treatise
a on
j bachelors.”
What does he call it?”
Lives of the Hunted.’ ” Life.
A THOUGHTFUL FAMILY.
Does your father know I love
you?”
No. Papa isn’t very .veil, and
we’ve kept it from him.”—Harper’s
Weekly.
NEW OR NOTHING.
“Burroughs has a happy faculty of
making new friends wherever he
goes. ”
“He has to. He owes all the old
ones.-”—Houston Post.
THINGS BETTER LEFT UNSAID.
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Wife—“It was so thoughtful of
you, my dear John, to make your
will, but as you may go before me,
nobody knows, what do you want to
be written on yqur grave 7”
John—“ ‘Alone at last!’ ”—Ally
Sloper.
UNANSWERABLE.
“Why do Women enjoy weeping at
a matinee?” said he.
“I don’t know,” answered she.
“Why do men enjoy getting angry at
the umpire?”—Washington Star.
HOTTER THAN HADES.
“I beg pardon,” said the new ar¬
rival, “but it seems to me it’s ex¬
cessively warm here.”
"Eh! what?” snorted Satan, “evi¬
dently you forget where your are.
This place is meant to be warm.”
"Quite so, but there’s such a thing
as overdoing it.”—Baltimore Amer¬
ican.
A REAL FIGHT.
Subbubs "My wife and I were dis¬
cussing household affairs the ocher
night, aud we got into a regular
fight.”
Citiman—"Really, you don’t mean
it?”
Subbubs — "Yes, the servant girl
overheard us.”—Catholic Standard
and Times.
NO PLACE TO DIE.
A soldier of the legion lay dying in
Algiers.
A committee of citizens who want¬
ed to boom Algiers as a health resort
waited upon him.
“We want you to change your
headquarters,” announced they.
"You're hurting business here.”—
Pittsburg Post.
RUNNING INTO FLESH.
Coakley—“There's nothing like
plenty of exercise to reduce one's
weight. ”
Joakley—“But. there's Skorcher;
the more exercise he takes the more
he runs into flesh."
Coakley—-“What exercise does he
take?”
Joakley— Motoring.” Philadel
p’fiia Press.
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Macon, Ga;
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