Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-19

the audience Instead of going home i'm
ruediately after the performance. as most
husbands of the stage do. Mr.. Clifford was
In the habit OF tarryfng about town until
the early morning hours. principally, as
ne explained 1t to his better and heavier
half, that he might bring home the first
editions OF the morning papers to show her
the criticisms of their act 1t made no
difference to Miss HUH that her husband
invariably brought home with him a cold,
unattractive lot of fried oysters as a peace
Offering, for 1t is a well-known fact in gas
tronomic circles that even the best fnten-
TONED oyster fry collection ceases to re-
tain Its chief merits after being held under
a comedians arm for upward of three
hours of cold winters night. So when
the CLIFFORD habit of remaining out became
fully fixed and showed no promise of altera-
ton, Miss HUH brought into requisition
those mysterious faculties that have won
circle of people who regard her with I'M
affected admiration for her cleverness as
mcnologuist and singer of coon songs 1t
became necessary for Miss HUH to go
into a trance every night after she had
gone through the ordeal of rubbing the
grease paint from her rosy cheeks and had
waited some few hours for her side partner
in life's walk and the fields of vaudeville
to get home with the light lunch he started
after. After projecting herself into the
henceness 1t was comparatively easy mat
ter for such well-schooled medium as Miss
Huth to discern her husband seated at
four other husbands who were out looking
! for place to get oyster fry, too. T he
| husbands were extremely busy gazing long
| and intently at small cards they held in
| their hands and which pictured some of the
| foremost rulers of the world on their faces.
Almost could Miss HUH hear her smaller
| sized hubby say, That's good" and. I'll
/ take five" and Come in there for ten,"
| and similar other exclama tons the like of
| which he never uttered in the .seclusion of
| his own fireside. Early in their married
| life Miss HUH confesses she was innocent
| of the doings of the world and believed inn
plicitly every word her husband told her
| as to his inability to find oyster bay
Lexcept after three or four hours long,
T weary Aand tedious search, buts soVn after
she commenced to develop her mediumis-
| tic powers she got wise" as she herself
| explains the matter. and it was thereafter
/ a mighty dark night when the male por-
| ton of the team of Clifford and HUH was
| able to elude the spiritualistic eye of his
| trusting wife. In the court room during
| the progress of the suit for separation en-
| te1ed by Miss HUH she gave testimony
| that proved her claim to some unknown
| power by which she was able to keep
| tabs" on her truant husband, and even
| without being compelled to leave the secur-
| ity of her own coZy fiat. Any number of
/ her close friends, who themselves possessed
Husbands who thought that a. dila pidated
| lot of fried oysters would SQUARE AN all
| night session, applied to Miss Huth, for her
valuable secret, but her only reply is re-
| puted to have been: II wouldn't tell for
| the world; besides, you must sbe spirit
! uaiist like me-"