Arizona republican., 1899-09-12
BROKc UP AN "AT HONE"
Enthusiastically Act of Nan who Was
Driven 10 Desperation.

The meanest man on Capitol hill
is bosom chum of mine, said the
man in the lunch room to the story
teller. Being en- Urcle Sans wage
LIST in the 81, 40C-a-year class, he isn't
exactly able to see where he and his'n
break into the pink tea bunch-that
is, he hasn't enough social aspirations
to induce him to step paying grocery
bills, or to cause him to stay awake
nights wondering how he's going to
bag or bride pin-headed legation at
tache to lend him distinction by hon
crirg his Roof, or tic incita him to in
trigue for an Invitation to progress
sive euchre party at a sassiety board
ing house, where all the ladies WHO
assist tOg themselves sui in their one
pink china silk waist and throw the
high handshake. He doesn't see where
this kind OF a lay is at all necessary
to his happiness or peace OF mind.
''Well, this mean mans wife, during
the last six mcnths-since my friend
the mean man, got his pay raised from
S1.2G0 to $1,4G0-has been four-lushing
around on the outskirts of TIE pink
waist bunch, trying to wriggle in
through the medium CT fsam0yar' tea
served in S139 sst of Dresden. The
afternoon a couple cf months ago
when she managed to rope in the wife
of wayback congressman to hit up
one of these afternoon layouts marked
such an epoch in her career that she
had to announce right off the especial
day when she'd be found at home
Now my chum. the mean man. puts in
a pretty fair days work for his gov
eminent wages, and when he gets
home from work he likes to sit down
to a proper meal of victuals, with his
family around the beard, and the cat
washing herself before the basement
latrobe
When his wife got her at home'
afternoon into commission, however,
he got his instructions to sneak into
his home by the basement route and to
keep himself stcwed there until such
time as she, upstairs in her reception
room they pay $50. so a mcnth rent
got through talking about brushes
and the high and nobler thought and
other haEky-pankS like that with the
bunch CT society peeresses who drove
up on those afternoons in 50-cent-an-
hcur barouches that locked like they
ware suffering with the phyll0xera or
tuberculcsis-the barouches. | mean
1t was up to my pal, the mean man,
to sit down there in the basement,
then, chewing On his nails and tight
ening up his belt, and longing for
grub, until the last Of tbs. at-homers
had let up on the samovar tea and the
and gl-le home tc dig up
the cold pork chop in the refrigerator
to make dinnerLfor at
hOm5rs never sit down to a square,
hot meal! v see
We'll. Jim-thars my chum, the
mean man-stoCd for this end Of it
until last week. and then sedition and
bbcOd-red revolt took possession OF
him He could not see where tell he |
cut in on that proposition and the |
going on upstairs about the !
true, the good, and the beautiful on |
Eis wife's afternoon at home while he, |
hungry to the soul of him, had to
hang around the basement. reading |
the lest and found ads until about /
o'clock, when his wife nd release the /
S8-a-mOrth maid from upstairs duty /
and let her take off her MAIDS cap and |
slope below to preparsz something 10 |
8at-as / say, this is what got Jim t
going. He made up his mind that he |
vas going to be it-and he has made |
it stick-and that's the reason he's the |
man on Capitol hill.
Jim got home IN time: 15-on
Wednesday afternoon last-his wife's
at home day. He had some bundles
lnder his arm. In one of the brown
packages was a big tenderlcin steak,
and in another were about a dozen or
SO nice. juicy Bermuda onions. Jim
-aked the kitchen fire over as soon as
le get in, took off his coat, set the COT
fee pot on the stove and started in
10 cook his own dinner Within fen |
minutes he had about as nice a look
ng mess-he tells me-0f beefsteak
and onions under way in a pan as he