Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
y, Explajns About MIR. Aston.

Pa Explains ABOUT VT. fhStoH.
s. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald
Say Paw
That's what NAV said when paw was
carven the roast lam last mite.
whats rong?" paw asst.
II wisht you'd tell me what's all this russ
about Aston What made him go and git to
be a Ningli5hman?'
"'Cause he'd ruther Be over there Whare
he kin sneak up and peek thru the not
Holes in the Fence around Queen victory
Cassel than run a Hotel in New Y ork, pa"
SAYS. givin the Carven nife extry 1ab ana
maxim greese fly all over the Table cloth.
"And who's agoin to Run the Hotel while
he's away" nav asst.
"Oh. 1 dunno. I guess he gifts the bar
tender to come in and Look after thlhss'
paw says.
MY goodness" NAV told Him. DO they
Have = Saloon in SIGH fine place as that?'
..Ue,l" nav answered. II dunno as you
OF to Saw it That way. They genaliy Have
the Saloon and then Bid the Hotel arouno
II. But Astor he has mummy Besides lie
Don't need to Depend on what they take IN
fer Drinks" 49,
"Ho,v did he make his other MUMMY?
.'By gittin to he the Son Of a man VIVA,
Saved up paw told her. His father f1ad
more mummy than OK teen Could pun
pecos the He'd of the Family Bot Hides fer
a Livin.' WIN,
1 always Herd the Astors was aW1ul Big
aristocrats.' ,
"WeIl they are" raw Told Her. '"They
Don't Haft to rent THAR house and they
keep two Gurls and take ice all winter ana
send their washin out"
"And yit there ansester Bot Hides nav
Sed as if she couldn't Harry Believe It,
Eyes" paw anserd. But you otten't to
Blame Him If he would have knWoed that
Some of His Aristocratick Dissendsnts, was
agon to Be ashamed of 1t I bet you He
woulden't of Done it. Ineted of Coin around
the Country astin the folks if thay had bin
KILN emmy calls Laitly, and gittin the SKINS
fer two sents a Pound less than they asst
He would of probably wrote poetry or kept
a grocery and Bin proud and Reserved. Fie
wouldn't of got much mummy that way.
But he could of kept sayin to Himself when
things wasent Comm his way in process
sions:
"'Never mind. ole man. you're agoin to
have aristocratick d,ssendents Some day,
and Then they won't Have no Cause to
Blush fer Shame when they are out BLOWN
the folks off to Good Time with the Durty
dolers you Saved up
Every man what's pilin up welth to Day
OF to Think about this. You never can tell
who's ansester you mite Happen to BE.
They are only one trubble about working
man Startin out to Be a aristocratick an
sester If he duz that He can't leave nothin
fer his dissendents to Be aristocratick
with
But. paw" nav says, IT red Some place
that the Astors Claim they Come from
proud old Hugonot family"
Yes I no they Claim thay Do" paw Sed
But that's j'st josh sumbuddy probly
Give them when He wanted to Borrow
mummy or Git mites lodgin fer nawthin at
the Hotel They amt no more Hugonot in
the Astors than they are in our pupp. Them
kind of pretenshuns makes me laff. If
would of Bin a Hugonot and that I would
Ever BEGUN the Ancestor of SIGH purson
on account of it ] would Of quit rite thare.
I would of SEED to miself:
willie. it is fur. fur Better not to be a
Hugonot than Have descendants what mite
Bring the Blush Of Shame to your fails
We'll. paw" nav Asst, when she could
git the Chanel, What is a Hugonot, emmy
way?"
Paw he looked at Her kind of Scared fer
a Second, and then He Set Back and pur-
tended He was latin at maw's ignorancy
So he happened to think all of Sudden
that the Carven nife was turrable dull and
He went out in the kitchen to Git the Whet-
ter. and when He Come Back he Scolded
Nav awful about the Way our gas bill is
Coin up. and I didn't feel Like Rein the
Scratch man in sprinten match list then
so Dldent asst Him nothin more about no
HugonotS. GEORGIE