Show I THE BOSTON OUGHT < Ought is a favorite word In Boston and her wonderful tributary Suburbs that Ho Hko Jeweled spokes about the Hub Peoeple say ought when they mean ought and alsolwlien they should say should to use their own ro 1 11 of collecting themselves Puritan habits ofspeech andthought do not erprevall among the fashionable fashion-able golfing hunting yachting riding country clubbing hundreds but they are Ineradicable among the goodly rounding thousands One Saturday a Western author who < was lingering near Boston until his book proof did appear from a leisurely publishing house wanted to get one page of typewriting done lie was seven miles from the glided dome of the Statehouse In whose beaconing shadow was the office ot his usual copyist So slt was a hot day and j he was lazy ho went into a diug store In the suburb where he was lingering and asked If anybody about the square had a typewriter Yes there was a machine In Mr So andsos real estate office He mounted the stairs to the office and found an earnestlooking middleaged Woman engaged In reading a vplume on the Ethics of Nursing Heasked her Ifs If-s lH would kindly copy his manuscilpt page and let him pay her double price J She put down the bObk Into which she was dipping with a possible eye to a change of profession and her face flushed She replied that she never did any outside copying as she was regularly employed by Mr Soandso The Westerner urged that she did not seem very busy that it was hot that he did not wish to go all the way Into Boston for one page of copy She pushed away her book hei flush deepening and anstveied IL cannot help that I could not think ot doing your work I ought not to do It 1 am In Mr Soandsos employ and I should not feel Justified The tempter turned and went sadly down into tho hot square where he stood and Canned himself with his straw hat and waited for an electric ear bound for Boston Justification and radcmptlon seemed to him too laigo I topics Across the square stood the town hall old cool of stone with pillared porch He crossed and entered TWO vcrv pretty girls were at woik at their typewriters behind a lalllngin the central cen-tral office He doffed his hat to the prettiest Could she would she copy one page of manuscript for him 7t ILL 116 needed It was a vtiiy warm day vaiy much He would pay her double price She nodded quietly asked him to KO and sit down and began the work In the middle It she came to him with a troubled face I ought not to do this she said Plense finish its begged the tempter tempt-er uJL wont take you five minutes and Ill give you four times the pricei IL dont care for the pennies she said haughtily and went and finished tho work Hoc face was scarlet and her eyes glistening when the author took up his page and put down his silver sil-ver beside her machine Please never bring me any moro wOrlcHhe said firmly M ought not i o have done this for you I only did It because you looked so tlica Nol oh dont leave that money T shall make UD the time to the town after hours today She returned resolutely to hor machine ma-chine again and us the Westerner leaving the untouched silver carried Off his hardwon page of ropy the ke > s ecmrd to click after him She ought Sho oucht not She ought She ought not tHe t-He felt ao he went back to hlo easy unswcpt heart as if elbowed out by alien friends and he camped at auf ferance on the stoop and pbndercd r I only there are no stoops In old New England At sunset he remarked Confound nice glils and went In to his dinner Theie wan no dinner There never is in the suburbs of Boston on Saturday Satur-day night These was absolutely nothing noth-ing but baked beans and brown bread and plenty of Ice water |