Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-03
WILL SHE FORGIVE HIM.
The ChOp-Suey Young Man Appeals tt
His Best Girl.


The chop-suey young man poured enough
drinks into him to float a model warship
in the navy yard tank, given him by the
neux-handwriting- digits Of the
swell barkeep
He unbosomed himself thus:
I'VE both had been looking forward to
this dance for a month, she especially. 1
carried my dress suit to the cleaners and,
that there might be no mistake, wrote the
address on a slip of paper myself and
handed it to the lady clerk, she promising
faithfully to have it at the house by the
next evening.
"Ah, that eventful night! My suit had
not arrived at dinner hour. Thinking it
would come every minute, 1 went up stairs
and was all dressed by o'clock. except
describe my agoniZed feelings for the next
hour, as / was Que at her house at Q o'clock
sharp. The sum Of my sorrow Is that it
did not come. and. since the cleaner was
closed at o'clock and also the tailors
where 1 might have hired suit, all I could
do was to swear so profanely that the
landlady threatened to eject me, and to
throw myself into the cab, dressed In street
costume, with an adjuration to the driver
to drive to her house on Vermont avenue
as if the evil one pursued him.
II live on the HILL We arrived at 10
O'Clock. just as the only girl out of forty-
nine really love was helped into another
cab by my despised rival, who lives next
door to her. He grinned. She saw every
thing else but me. And 1? Well, 1 drove
down town and got on a good the-Lord-
have-mercy- on-you drunk That was all
| a gentleman could do after such freeze
out.
THE following morning I was sober
enough to be at the cleaners by noon The
lady clerk smiled pleasantly and sobered
me up still more by telling me that I did
| not live at my own house. She had. she
| said. sent my suit up at o'clock. but the
delivery boy he'd been Informed that I did
not reside there. Would look at the bum
die? l could have killed her!
She had transposed the last two numbers
of my house address with the two numbers
of my street.
No: there was nothing more to say. I
have been full ever since. Did I cali the
next afternoon and the next evening and
twice again the day following? 1 did. If
she lived there the servant had suffered
paralysis of the brain since she had for
Inerly admitted me.
Have l written her nine notes, five with
disguised handwriting on the envelopes ?
| have, and they have all come back. Did
/ entreat friend to intercede? 1 did. and
when he mentioned my name, she told him
sharply that she had never recovered fully
scarlet fever.
God knows what I will do. for I really
love that girl, even II her heart Is adamant.
| have waited patiently for five fearful,
heartrending days and five long nights of
| tanking up. hoping that she would come
around Having closed all avenues of COM
munication with her. if she doesn't forgive
me after the last resort Of reading how it
happened in The Star, 1 will stay on this
tear until L am overcome by delirium tre-
mems.
Lets have just one more to help drown
out my sorrow!"
His sympathetic hearers helped him to
foat away his troubles. Even the swell
oarkeep. hardened as he is by tales of low
| ers woes, agreed with the others that the
constituting causes Of his precipitous and
doiefui dump from Cupid's wheelbarrow
OF the strength Of his devotion in remain
Ing loaded for five successive days and
nights didn't appeal to her heart he'd bet
naming forty-eight