Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
SHE TALKED TOO MUCH

| The trouble with me, as my husband
says the parrot said. is that / talk too
| much" remarked, upon her recent return
from a flying visit to New York charm
| ing woman of Washington society, who is
not really addicted to superfiuous CONVEX
sat1on and whose graciousness OF manner
is well known. Il had most distressing
| experience on my very first day in New
| York. 1t positively makes me Jingle all
| over to think of it. And yet 1 was only try
| ing to make talk!
| Il was driving about the shopping district
| on the first afternoon of my arrival in the
| horrid big city when / saw, charging along
| with automobile speed, middling young
! newspaper man, who was very intimate
| with my husband when he was in Wash
| ington, and man liked great deal. He
Is now very prominent in newspaper work
over in New York. | had my driver draw
| up to the curb and beckoned to the journal
| list. He came up almost on run, seemed
| very glad to see me. and. almost before
| we had exchanged greetings. he said
| GU must meet my wife. Want you to
| meet her Can't you come now? You've
nothing really important to do right now,
| of course
His wife? I had thought him to be the
| most confirmed bachelor l ever met.
| And how dared you neglect all the nice
girls l submitted to your ungracous con-
| sideration in Washington. only to come
4 ilti' W get Married. asked MN.
- Couldn't help it. honest he said.
Please. Tam. forgive me this time.
| Nait'U you see her though
| And how long have you been married.
| l asked him.
" -Four months he said on my way
home now. Can't you pick me up and
take me along, and then come in and meet
| her, and have bite To eat?'
| Il was really curious to see W hat sort of
| girl he HAD selected to take unto his
| whilom selfish bachelor self and so | ac-
| Cepted his invitation. He lived only a few
| squares away. in 9TH avenue. Lot far from
| Washington square.
| Veil, his wife met us at the door Her
| beauty almost took my breath away-a daz-
! Zling. overwhelming Juno as beautiful as
| any picture, with hair as black as night.
eyes to match, complexion of cream and
| r"ses-fully five feet nine inches in height
| and such figure! Really | don't know
| that / ever more lovely creature or
| more gracious one. Her manners were
| simply delightful, and it was a Joy to re
| ceive so hearty welcome she extended
| to me. in such cold, inhospitable city as
| New York.
I'm less than no time the cutest lunch
| was on the cute dining room table of their
| fat-they have one floor of a big brown
| stone house-and / made to feel thor
oughly comfortable and at home. The
| newspaper mans wife was astoundingIy
| clever on almost any subject that came
| up. although her manner was subdued and
| fascinating to degree After had
| talked at random for a while her husband
| inquired of me:
| Been to any of the thcaters?'
| NO, l said, 1 only arrived in town last
| night and | am aWfully weary of theaters,
| anyhow. There is nothing here that | want
| to see. Same old faces same old manner
| isms same old affectations-how weary |
| am Of theatrical people! Really they seem
| 50 tawdry to me theatrical people OF
| course, there hay be Il few of them who
| lead sane, natural lives but most of them
| q - ha Gn listr incl, ot.tif
| unnatural, fictitious. don't you know? And
| l have met lots of them | added with a
| great show of experience.
| " L guess you re right said my host
| Poor lot, as d rule, Ell, Judith Judith
! wasn't. or isn't, her name. but It ought to
| have been. Judith would have just fitted
| her sumptuous style of beauty.
| she smiled vaguely.
| Many of them are quite too ridiculoUs
yes, she answered. And pretentious too.
| They seem to be unable to leave the life of
| the stage behind them when they depart
| from their dressing rooms.
| We'll, / just took advantage of this con-
| cession on the part of my host and hostess
| and more than 'rOasted'-my husbands
| phrase-the stage and stage people. /
| really don't feel very strongly on that sub
! ject, but ! wanted to he amusing and
| clever, and so L went right on, relating a
| lot Of experiences l and my friends in
| Washington have had in entertaining theat-
| rical folk, and | even mimicked a number
| OF the theatrical women'S off-the-stage man
! ners. | really seemed to be tremendously
| entertaining to my entertainers, and they
| laughed and exchanged many a glance,
| while was hurting on. When | was ready
| to go, the husband said to me:
| BY the way, there is one piece now
| playing here that you really should see
| great you know. And he named the pro-
| duction. I'll just write you order for
| a box. Can't you go tonght-souvcnir
| night"
Il thought for moment, and decided
! that | could. He gave me the order and |
| left, after inviting them to call upon me
| and the friends at whose home | was stay
| ing. On my way back to my friends home
| / tried hard to remember where | had seen
| the newspaper mans wife-her face seemed
| so strangely familiar to me. | concluded
| that she simply reSembed some picture /
had seen-perhaps the spear-casttng picture
| OF Diana the huntress-and that l had
| never really seen her before.
| Il took some of my friends along to the
| performance that night and we had a stage
| box. don't think l was ever quite so
completely fiustered in my life as | was
| when this beautiful Judith who had enter
| tanned me during the afternoon. and into
| whose ears | had poured the most foolish
| mimicry of stage women as they appeared
| in everyday life, appeared suddenly in the
midst of the great opening scene of the
| play and brought down the house by her
| very appearance. | was simply stunned. L
! don't know what my friends in the box
| could have thought of me, my responses to
| NhtIi itibdl ms HiliSl nave DGen so lnCODer-
| ent. random and generally idiotic | was
| almost afraid to look at the beautiful crea-
| ture on the stage. but finally | did muster
| up enough courage and | caught her look
| ing directly at me, with the most mis-
| chleVous smile in the world lurking in her
| eyes. don't really remember much OF the
| pay, | was so conjummuxed, as my black
| NIFTY says.
Il was ar md at their house with nv
| thousand and one apologies very early the
| next afternoon, and the merry, joyous
| prolonged laugh they had on me! The hlis-
| band took advantage of our old acuuaint-
| anceshp to guy me merciessly but his
| WIFE was very kind and considerable and
| she saved me from him as much as she
| could But l decided then and there that
| henceforth | would find out whom I ad-
| dressed before launching into diatribes.
| sect class" 'e'
| ENJOYING 4 VACATION
| An outing for the White Housa
| Orange and Lemon Trees
The lemon and orange trees of the White