Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-30
A NOVEL IN REAL LIFE

quite a few years ago." said the leather
medal wearer of the Homey Mems Club,
q homely but hustling young man of this
lovely capital decided to make the break to
see if the girl of his choice would have
him. So he asked her right out loud, with
out any beating about the bush whatever.
" I've got a pretty good start said he.
without any undue initiation of the chest,
but as man who knew just where he
Stood and 1 think I'll do pretty we'll when
1t comes to taking care of you. 1 know I'm
not pretty, but l think you'll find me
square enough when it comes to question
of treating you right. 1 am likewise per-
fectly honest when l add that you are the
only girl in the world for me. How about
it,?
THE only girl In the world for him said
No She had been devoting a consider
atle share of her time to the perusal of one
of Ouda's story books, wherein, it seems.
much is set down concerning fascinating
male persons of the general type of beauty
of Greek gods. The homely but hustling
young man, being unable to conform in MS
own person to such standards of masculine
loneliness, unfortunately did not appeal to
the artistic side of the girl of his choice.
Moreover, 1t appeared, from some remarks
which she let fall, that she entertained
sundry and divers ideals with respect to
what is called the higher and nobler, which
she feared lne nOnlely out nuSllltlS young
man would be quite unable to assist her in
realizing. With the conventional remark
that while she liked and respected him, it
could never be, she dismissed him, and re-
turned to the perusal of the story books of
Ouida, while her elderly mother set the
bread for raising on the kitchen table.
while the homely but hustling yourg
man felt pretty sore over the way he had
been dished. he did not swallow pulverized
glass nor did he insert any leaden capsules
into his frame. On the contrary, he went
to work with all the energy of a beach
comber stripping wreck, so that within
few years after his dismissal by the girl of
his choice his name figured quite extern
sively in the newspapers in connection with
large real estate transactions, profitable
paving contracts, heavy deals in sewer
pipes and such like. and at the end of one
oiympiad after the girl of his choice had
thought to put him up in the air by declin-
ing to consider his suit, the homely but
hustlng young man found that he was in
possession of more money than he actually
knew what to do with
Meanwhile. the girl of his choice, who
had refused to entertain his matter-of-fact
matrimonial beseechments, had met the
Greek god whom she had been longing to
have come into her life, and married him.
The Greek god had been enabled to take a
degree at university through the over
time eNertions of his sister, who was a
dressmaker, and when he returned to his
sisters humble home after taking his de-
gree he permitted her to continue her over
time exertons to the end that he might
be furnished high-grade raiment and plenty
of cigarette money without the necessity
on his part of toiling and moiling for the
same. Although there was never any ques-
ton as to his personal beauty, the Greek
god who married the girl of the homely
but hustlng young mans choice was unde-
EIably regarded every where a mutt of
the purest ray serene. The one more
blackened eyes which his wife generally
tried to cover over with heavy veil We're
popularity attributed to the prowess of her
Greek god husband (3lthpupb 10 al
claimed that she had fallen down stairs, or
something like thaD, and the frayed and
worn garments with which she appareled
herself and her two children We're accepted
side lights on the character of the Greek
god, who looked rummier and rummier as
time sped on.
About year ago the Greek god was
corralled by the mighty hand of the law
and incontnently dumped into a reforma-
tory institution for term of two years and
eleven months for attaching other names
than his own to numerous pieces of paper
and realizing upon the same divers punches
of coin wherewith to purchase alcohol in
various forms. His wife. who had been
taking in plain sewing, thereupon seized
the opportunity to obtain a divorce from
her Greek god. A few weeks after the
granting of the same the homely but hus-
Ting young man-need | say that he is
member in excellent standing of this club
drove up to the door of her humble home
in a swell trap with red running gear,
hitched to which was pair of matched
blacks that had cost 1.500 frigid plunks,
and said he to the girl Of his choice. now a
saddened and sobered woman, with the
Ouda end of it cut out atogether-said he:
Do you remember the remarks 1 made
to you on the last night We talked to-
gether, several years ago?'
Yes, jim, said she, quietly.
Well, they still 60, said the homely but
hustlng young man.
"Whereupon it came to pass that they
We're quietly married in Baltimore on the
day after Christ mas, and the next day they
might have been observed driving around
Washington in an open barouche, with a
pair of mated blacks attached to the same,
pan of milk.
Which is true story I have told in Illus
tration of motto No. 1 of this club, namely
viz, that handsome is as handsome makes
good