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Show HAD HER I DC A OF LIFE. Old Colored Lady Did No Worrying About the Future. A Washington housekeopcr rejoices In tho possession of a washerwoman of tho olden style, and gets much amusement from tho old woman's conversation. con-versation. Ilecoutly, whllo counting over tho clothes, tho housekeeper observed ob-served Aunt Martha gazing at herself In the mirror. "What yo' think of this bonnot, Miss Molly. It's now." It's very becoming," said tho lady more politely than truthfully, "but Aunt Martha, I am afraid you aro got-ting got-ting very extravagant. I am Biiro you aro spending all you make on clothes." "I certainly do that thing," Bald Aunt Martha, seriously, "I cortnlnly do. You see, I saved money onco, and It was stole, and I said then, 'I'll upend ez I go, ex I go,' Jllss Molly, 'and then I gets tho good of It.' ' "But, Martha, surely you aro putting put-ting by a llttlo money. Just to bury you?" "Not much I ain't. I ain't got nono of thet foolishness 'li nit me. I'll en-Joy en-Joy myself while I live, and I guess after I'm dead I can stnnd It above ground Jos' as long at any ono kin Btnnd havln' mo." Lipplncott'B Magazine. |