The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-05
white yet. Tho lottcr'll como to-mor.

white yet. The lottcr'll come to-mor.
row."
"You mean to say YOU haven't boon
asked yet, and you're going?"
ooh, don't fret yourself about that
I'll be asked. Yesterday thought I'd
like little change-getting quite dusty
and wilted here in town. Decided New
port would about suit, and that Mulligan's
blue-room-one on the corner looking
toward Brenton's Reef--was the most
comfortable sparo-room know up there.
So-says l, to myscli-says l.; Jack,
you'll spend ,lcxt Sunday at Newport in
ola man Mniligan's bluc-room, looking
toward lrcnton's Reef Ard then
wrote letter to Ma NInlligan, said
was corning up to Newport next Sunday,
ana nad no place to stay. Hoped
wo'Ald SEQ hor and her beauteous and
accomplished daughters. Dashed in a
salient bit about the view of the sea
from the blue sparc-room. Said some
thing about dropping in to see them
and next Saturday 1 will do the drop
act chez uu0igan, and not drop out again
till Monday morning."
"And suppose they expect You to do
the dropping actan hour after you've
uone the dropplng-ln act?"
"Oh, they won'tl 1 know my Multi
gans-bless their hearts and their blue
spare bedrooms! Haven't l brought
them up in the way they should go?
engineered two germans last year for
them and arranged one toboggan party
and four dinners. DO you think my no
blc-heartcd Mulligans take mo for a
Helot? IL tam ricre. work for them;
they've got to pay mo. My proud spirit
forbids that l should take that filthy
dross for which l am now and always
will be in such sore need. But will
take their invitations, and that one will
be waiting for re when got homo this
evening know as well as that there's
not Mulligan born ON to this earth
who can arrange 4 dance Or IL dinner
without me-
And that's Tho way YOU manage it?n
That's my little way They can t
any of them got another man in town to
take the trouble and the time that do
to mako their entertainments go off
we'll. And then am Il pcrsonablo
youth, and they like me. It's my style,
as I've said before When I'm up there
with them | make myself swcctor than
HoHNJ' LAZY viz ildll lOr INC winter =
work then. just dash in a few high
colored remarks about entertaining as
an art, and casually allude to german
or two led by me, and the great
ness begins to beam from my
brow Next week I'm divided be-
tween another visit to the Mont
Igomery-Jenlls at Squdnecll or the Van
lSpooners at New London I'll inditc
one OF my artlessly persuasive 6iUcts to
one or other of them, and got an answer
on lrish-linen paper with u gold crest,
and every other word interlincd: Dear
Mr.. Brown II You are coming to Squid-
neck next Saturday can not zee have the
pleasure of your company until you are
obliged to return" etc"
What colossal brassr'
That's it-you'vc said it, Your finito
mind has scared up to it. It's my brass
that does it. My brass is my fortune.
Other mems fortunes have lain in their
brains, their beauty, their biceps, their
barney; mine lies in my brass. And
may say that I've done more with nv
brass than many Other men have done
with skullful of genius. Without it
Id he cipher, an oflicc-boy in q West
crn shoe factory; with it-just look at
me! And it doesn't entirely como nat
ural to me. was inclined to be brazcn
IN the beginning, of course; but whom I
came to this metropolis [ realized that
what fcllow--who hadn't money, good
looks nor brilliancy-ncedcd to get on
was brass. SO worked mino up. and
here l am-of on Saturday for three
days in Newport in old Mulligan's blue
spare-bcdroom. You go here? Wen. SO
lonG-bye- byc."-Thc Argonaut.