Fair play., 1903-07-25
NUMBER II.

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Mrs. HI don't believe I'll go now.
after you're being so mean TO me. I'll
stay at home and cry my eyes OUT
probably.
Mr.. H Don't talk such nonscnse.
I'll stop IN for you when I'm ready.
He walks out.
Mrs. M.-Now tell me all about IL.
dear
Mrs. II. (picking up the pass which
Mr. II. left behind and handing IL to
the Sympathetic Friend) There,
that's what caused the whole trouble.
You look it over while ] fix my hair
and batbc my eyes. But I'm not
going out with him unless he ex-
plains everything, and is nice about
It.
Mrs. NJ (rcading aloud)-On &C.
count of Kit. Who is this Kitty?
Mrs, II. (triumphantly) That's
| just what ! wanted to know. First
| ne told me it was one Of Held's cho-
ru, girls, then, when he saw how !
took it, he tried to turn it off as
/ joke.
! Mrs. M don't believe ii was
! joke. Edith. You know he did use
10 carry on dreadfully before you
married him.
Mrs. H. (bcginning to weep AGAIN.
lie said he never knew any chorus
girls.
Mrs. M.-The old hypocrite! That''
/ what his father took him out of Har.
ward for He used to chum with
Aldy Armand, whose uncle ran the
fremont. and both the boys were
behind the scenes three or four times
a week. Mrs. Armand told Mrs
barnes
Mrs II. ChurriedlyD Don't. Emily
can't bear il. To think we've been
married only a year and half. and
Jack said to-day that he'd rather
have me go home to mother than TO
have her come here.
Mrs NJ. (sympathetically)-Th.
brutel
Mrs. H.-N-no, Jack isn't exactly
"a bru--bru-brute, but he doesn't IN.
dcrstand wom-wom- women.
Mrs. Nj wouldn't let my hus
band say anything like that to me
Why, its outrageous. l. wonder what
She looks like. She's probably
drugstore blonde.
Mrs. II. (hysterically) know
what she'd look like if had her here
now I'm not going out with him to-
night. anyway. viii you stay and
comfort me this evening, Emily?
Mrs. M.-Of course | will you poor,
abused dear.
(The Highly-Strung Woman rests
her head on the Sympathetic Friends
shoulder and weeps copiously. Th.
Average Man knocks lightly on tn,
door and enters, attrcd in a dress
suit.)
MIR. II. Caftcr an awkward pause)--
Well, Edith, haven't YOU come to
your senses yet?
Mrs. limo. and Pm not com
ing to--I mean I'm not going to see
any OF your old college friends.
Mr.. II. (aside, in great dsgust)'
What foolishncss! CAloud) Come
dear, don't make such spectacle ot
yourself. Your nose is getting all
rad and blotched.
Mrs. NJ (under her breath h)-Wba,
n monster!
Mr.. II. Clearing the remarl,) Mrs,
Mcdlar, think perhaps had better
make an explanation. since YOU have
succeeded in bringing this little mis-.
understanding TO such n climax. II
all began by the wording Of that
pass. which I see YOU have appro-
priated. Merely in fun | said that
it was given me by a chorus girl ]
used 10 know. Now, common sense
ought to teach any woman that IL
such had been, the case | wouldn't
have told my wife. The Kit on that
card is the abbrevation for Frank
Ktson, press representative for the
Hollis. You know him. Mrs. Medlar
and YOU also know that he and have
been friends for years. Now. don't
want to bc inhoSpitable but | THAI
Edith and ! can settle this better
if we are alone for few minutes.
Mrs. NJ. ChiGhly indignantly Mr.
, Hornuug. You win never have the up
portunity to insult me in this nat
again. | will tell my husband what
e. you have said this very night. Good
by, Edith, dear.
Crhc sympathetic Friend stalks out
Of the room The Highly-Struns
Woman throws her arms around the
Average Man in a moist but affection,
ate embraced
Mrs. H,Nou were right. dear. il
was all her fault. She stirred me up
as She always does, and she is mad
ding old thing But You ought 10
have told me in he first place that
Xii wasn't a Kitty. Oh. Heavens!
Catching sight of her face in
glass my nose is a sight. But wait
a minute until | fix It, (Shc runs e.
the chifIonicr and manipulates a it,
tie puffy white thing for few min.
utcs, then puts on her hat and come
back 10 HIM, I'm all right now
Jackets; kiss me and tcll me where
we're going for dinner, I'm halt
starved. Crying always makes me
hungry.
Curtain -!
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