Show The Salt of the Earth It was a damp day when evil spirits hold high carnival Many things went crosswise under the spell of their witchery but they exercised a particularly particu-larly baleful influence on tho salt which clogged and stuck and In spite of vigorous shaking and pounding refused to sift out of tho boxes All the lunchcrs In a restaurant found themselves handicapped by this aggregation aggre-gation of seasonable particles One woman alone solved the problem of salting her food properly She after repeated attempts to dislodge a few grains drew a steel hairpin from beneath be-neath her hat cleared the perforations In the top of the shaker stirred tho salt to a powder and proceeded to season her vegetables Tho man opposite sat amazed at this truly feminine expedient for running run-ning tho universe Onco ho seemed on tho point of remonstrating but ho thought better of it and went on eating eat-ing in silence In fact everybody remained re-mained silent except a fat man at a nearby table Ho brought his face Into alarming proximity to a plate of steaming soup and gurgled softly Well darneds |