Evening star., 1896-12-26

ne cooett: now What do you think? II
you think there are 80 cents worth of pic
lures in there, we'll go in, but for my part
you are all the picture l want to look at
just now -.-.-
''oh. you must not say that, or every
body will know We were just married last
Monday" she expostulated, with frmer
grip on his right arm, ''but
think that whispering gallery that have
heard about up at the Capitol would be
a great deal more fun; so they started for
the other end of the avenue, where they
might whisper their love to their hearts
content.
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At the hostess own" luncheon last week
| the conversation, after having thoroughly
sifted the mode of preparation Of each
course, turned with the ices on man and
the kinds of girls that man liked.
Il have heard it said,'' remarked the
young hostess. that men prefer a wife
who understands the ins and out of house
keeping, but you all know that last year
Moltie Randolph's luncheons were the
worst We went to, and see what an ador-
ing husband she has. If the cook Is sick
Harry gets up in the morning and sees
about breakfast. If they are going to give
any Find Of an affair, Harry looks after
everything, even to ordering the supper"
That's true assented the blonde mem
Der. daintily tasting her pistache cream.
but then Mollie has just the soft kittenish
ways that men love, and when she holds
out those tiny hands of hers SO beautifully
manicured, no man with a heart In his
body could bear the idea of her using
those finger-tips for anything but playing
the mandolin under pink-shaded lamp
'Mollie's all right" chimed in the tailor
made girl, ''she has studied her Harry
to the dot. ard while she knows that he
is perfectly willing to make the fires, cook
the meals, wait on the table and make
the beds, in fact do general housework
there is one thing that he draws the line
at and that is cross, Sullen looks, so MOllie
smiles and dlmpleS at his efforts and all
goes well. Just for a contrast, look at
Amy Goodloe we all went to school with.
She was perfect model in the way Of
housekeeping, but she was as cross as two
sticks If her husband dropped ashes from
his pipe on the parlor floor, or ran the
window curtains up at different heights,
and tie consequence is they are both try
ing for divorce
But congeniality don't seem to make any
difference in mating, "opined the changeable
silk waist; musicians, that is amateurs,
never care to marry musical persons and
artists instead of falling in love with pos
ing, artistic girls, generally go in for the
most up-to-date girl they know.
There must be something in love after
all. sighed the sentimental one, that un-
explainable mutual attraction that defies
the obstacles of bad housekeeping, lack of
congeniality and general unsuitableness
and mixes us up worse than guessing what
useless presents we are going to get at
Christmas.
Ii was chimney pot hat, don't you
knew. and it stood on the coping of the
diplomatic gallery, right over the Senate
door. Pouf! a breath of air. and over 1t
would have toppled on the think tank of
some grave and reverend senator. Its
owner had two charming ladies and mon
icle to manage, and naturally hoG to have
both hands free.
The attendant of the gallery eyed the
topper ominously, and started down 20
warn its owner that he was smashing
Senate rule to smithereens, then he lost
heart and went back. Three times he start
ed, and the fourth landed his game. He
picked up the hat. much to the surprise of
its owner. wao reached for it. The at
tendant made signs that it must not lie
there on the coping, and one of the ladies
catching on, took the tile and slowed Il
away on d seat beside her. The man with
the monicle snrugged his shoulders and
went on talking. Thus were the rules of
the august body vindicared and another
foreign complication avoided.
X X ::
kansas Is all right" said Mr. Kirkpat-
rick, whose boyish laugh is not a whit less
CHEEKY because he isn't coming back next
session. "She kicks over the traces once
in while. but she gets sorry for it soon
after. She's sorry enough right now. Kan
sas keeps all the other states hustling to
stay alongside of her. Why. down in
Sedge wick county a sheep was sheared that
beat the worlds record on weight of fleece
fifty-two pounds. If you please. Can you
beat that? Smugger, the horse that once
startled the world with his gait, was a
Kansas product, and few weeks ago an
other Kansas horse, John r. Gentry sold
in New York city for 19,9OU. Oh, we raise
a few things in Kansas besides pops and
Mary Ellen Leases adm onitlon.
x X X
Senator Marion Butler Is cultivating a
head of hair that would do credit to the
leader of a foot ball team or the big chief
of the Cheyennes. 1t is most long enough
now to catch back with a bow at the nape
of the neck. In another week he can do
1t in Lcndon bag fashion, and roll 1t
back pompadour, la Duchess of Marl-
borough style.