Cissie's new parlor stove is a
monster, made seemingly of nothing but pure nickel and isinglass. Mary
went over to look at it and when she come home and took another look at
her old thing she just sat down and cried. She cried till she was too
tired to care and then went to Jessup's for some stove polish. On the
way she met Judy Parks who told her that Dick had a new kind of polish
that gave a beautiful shine without hardly any work. So Mary got that
and it proved to be all Judy said it was and in no time at all Mary
turned that old stove of hers into a shining glory. And just as she
was standing back admiring her work in comes Cissie, wringing her
hands. The baby had poked out every last one of those isinglass
windows while Cissie was in the kitchen warming up his milk. And there
you are. And there's people that say there is no God and no justice in
this world.
"Josephine Rand's starting in on her rugs and begging rags from friends
and enemies. She's going a little easy though since last week. She
cut up what Ted says was a perfectly good pair of his pants. He had
them hanging up in the basement and was hoping Josephine would wash and
press them some day. He kept them down in the basement because he knew
that if he left them in his closet she'd give them away to a hobo on
account of her always feeling so sorry for tramps and believing
everything they tell her.
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