Show bill nie I 1 have not written ritten 4 much for publication in the grout great moulder of opinion lately because I 1 did not feet eel well I 1 was fatigued gued I 1 look a ride on oil the cars hsiu last aci eek lc and it shook alpe me up a good deal tho the train irain was crowded somes somewhat hat and so I 1 sat iu in the sent with n 1 I ecman who got aboard at 3 linkins siding I 1 noticed as wo VC pulled out ot of min kius kills biding abidin 1 that this woman raised the window so that site she could bid adieu to a man in a dyed moustache I 1 do not know whether Lettier It lie was her dolce far niente or her grandson ly by her second husband I 1 know now that it lie he had been a relative of mine liine how OW ever I 1 would have cheerfully concealed the he fact she wali wa ed cd a little ng handkerchief 46 out of the window said good bye allowed a fresh zephyr f from rom cape sabine babinc to come 1 I in 11 and play a xylophone interlude on oil my any spinal column and then burst into a paroxysm of damp hot tears I 1 had to go into another car tor for a moment an and d when I 1 returned a pugilist from chicago had bad my seat scat when mien I 1 travel I 1 am uniformly courteous especially to pugilists A pugilist who has started out as an obscure boy with no money no friends and no one to practice on but his wife or his hij mother with no capital aside from his bare barc hands a man who las has land had to fight his wily way through life as it were find and yet who lias has come out of obscurity and attracted the attention of the authorities and won the good will of those with willi whom lie he came in contact will always find me cordial and pacific so I 1 allowed this self made man with the broad high sho shoulder older blades to sit in my seat scat with liis his feet on oil ray new and expensive traveling 0 bag m while I 1 sat with tale apar bed ewed memento from It AI inkins linkins siding she sobbed several more times then bove a sigh 0 that rattled tit alio II 11 windows I 1 in in the car and sat sal up LIP I 1 asked ller her if I 1 might sit by her side for a few aniles and share her great sorrow she looked at TOO me ar nik kance anac I 1 did not lescot it site allowed tile me to take I 1 the lie seat scat ond and I 1 looked hooked at a paper for 1 a I few moments so that site she could look me over through 0 ii tile corners of her eyes I 1 also sc scrutinized lier her lin ilia camenos some sho she was dressed up tip considerably anti and when 1 a I woman drebes up to ride in ili a railway train she advertises the fact that her intellect is beginning to totter on its throne people who clow hive more thin than one suit of clothes lies should not pick out fine raiment for traveling purposes this person IN was as not handsomely dress dressed aed but she hc had the kind of clothes that look is s though 0 they had tried to the appearance of nil luence and had 1111 failed to do so this leads mo me to say in kit all seriousness otis ress that there is nothing so sad as tile si sight tit 0 of a 1 I man mail or woman who would scorn to tell a wron wrong story but who will persist in iscar wearing iliff bogus 11 MIS dollies clothes laid and bogus jewelry eliat fool anybody my beat male wore a cloak that had started out to bamboozle the american people with the idea that it was worth but it mislead lily any one who might be nearer than half a mile I 1 also discovered that it had an all air about it that vici would tild indicate that hint she wore it while site she cooked the pancakes estand and fried the doughnuts it hardly seems possible that slie would do this but bait tile garment I 1 say bad that air air about it she seemed to want to converse after awhile land a as slie began begaii on oil the subject of literature picking up tip 1 a I volume that had been left ili in tier seat by the train boy entitled sh shadowed to Skow began slid and ba back k L or the child fiend 0 price 82 we drifted on oil pleasantly into the broad domain of letters idlers incidentally I 1 asked her mint authors slie site read mostly oil oh I 1 dont remember the authors so much as I 1 do the books said site she 1 I nm ata a great reader if I 1 should tell you how 0 much I 1 lind had read you believe it I 1 said I 1 certa certainly luly would R I 1 had frequently been called lipon ippoli to believe C things that would make inake the ordinary rooster quail it if slie site discovered the true atward of this an anglo lo american jew despret dc de sprit shere slie refrained from froin saying anything about it 1 I rend read a good deal she continued and it keeps me all strung up I 1 weep oil oh so easily just then she aie ligi lightly aly laid her hand on oil my iby arm and I 1 could see sec that tears tean it were ere rising hung to her eyes I 1 felt like like asking her it if she had tried running herself through 1 a clothes wringer every a I 1 did feel that some one ought to chit cheik k her up so I 1 asked her it if she remembered the advice of the llie editor who received a letter front from a young aoun 7 lady troubled the same way she stated slated that she couldn coulden t t explain it but every little while without any apparent cause she would shed tears on and d the editor asked her why inlay she lock up the shed lye e conversed tor for a long time about literature but every I 1 little while blie bile would get we inc into deep water hy by quoting some author or wot k that tha I 1 had never r read ead I 1 never realized what a hopeless hopel ces ignoramus I 1 was till I 1 heard about tile scores of books that had bad made lier her shed the scalding 0 slid and yet that I 1 had bad never never read when mien site she looked at late inc with that far anway expression in her eyel eve and with her hand band testing resting lightly oiny onlay irin in ill such sich a way as 19 to give ti the 0 gorgeous two carat athine flonc etolle from froin P I 1 full play and d told luchow such works is as the file ica new made grave or rhe twin rvin ders had cost tier her many a opi ous lora I 1 told her bec I 1 was wai glad aind of it it if it lie he it i blessed tc the hie siluid bents of such stich books to weep neep at houle home and work bork up their honest holiest perspiration spira tiou into scalding tears far be it from ine ice to grudge that poor biou I 1 T hope that altu all u ho WAY read thebe linci lilies I 1 antl and who may feel that like pores pore I 1 of their skin are arc getting torpid and ovil owing to loan an inherited antipathy physical exir lion and who feel would work up their perspiration into woe und and lied it in ill tile himpe of common red eyed weep wi will I 1 keep the themselves lasel I 1 ell t to this ali n poor boon people have II 11 different ifo ferent ways of enjoying thein themselves selves and I 1 hope no one will hesitate about ace accepting this thib or any other poor al AI L tj A A |