Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11
NOTSO DENSE AFTER ALL

'-The old pal with whom went down to
the beach for a few days whirl last week
had always been SO hopelessly shy and
| bashful and retiring and wooden In the
presence of women that felt 1t incumbent
upon me to pass him little chummy advice
on the train going down." said the gay dog
of Columbia Heights bachelor with the
peeled. afterglow proboscis.
Jack 1 said to him, you've got to
smoke up If you expect to keep step at the
place we're going to with your debonair
friend with the winning ways, pointing, OF
course. to my own torso You've got to cut
out the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS doesn't f1t
on male person who has to shave twice
day In order to keep his face looking neat.
Just get a Siwas wiggle on. old man. and
you'll be all right Watch me. Initiate my
curves. Be gay-be gay
Jack grinned his slow grim and replied
that he was afraid he was pretty slow. ana
that he would never get over 1t.
Slow, nothing said to him. 1T 9
only because you're too tired to get a gait
on. Now, you're not such a hopelessly bad
l0oker'-at this point sized him up quite
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS you'd come near pass
ing In that respect in almost any crowd.
provided the crowd was closely packed
dizzy and sangfroidly and things. like me,
see?
Jack said that he'd do the best he could.
but that it always did sort O. scare and
stampede him to be thrown into contact
with women with whom he wasn't ac-
Quainted
We'll, on the evening following our ar
rival at the Seashore hotel my bashful pal
and I were sitting. a bit before dinner. at
one end of the long veranda, when some
mn cffY,a ho rant xr, yoo
tall. willowy young woman in a very
close-ftting black princesse dress. Her
head was surmounted by the most splen-
dfferous crown Of shimmering red hair that
l ever saw on woman She was as grace
fui as lawn. Her face was beautiful and
full OF character. With swish and a frOu
frou she gained the other end Of the veran-
da and sat down In a rocker and began to
make notes in book she carried with her.
She was such a vision that couldn't get
my breath for minute or So
WELL. said to my pal when was able
to talk, I guess maybe that's not Boadicea,
the British queen. come to life again. chr
'F'ine-looking GIRL said my pal, with the
most oIhapd tone had yet heard him en-
ploy. Met her yet?'
Have met her?' said 1. Dye think
Ia be lobster enough to be sitting here
making porch talk of the before-dinner va
riety with You if had met her.?
wen said Jack, rising and sort O.
III make you acquainted with her one of
these old days and then he strolls down
the veranda, raises his cute little cap to
the sumptuous red-haired girl. who smiles
radtantly upon him, and pumps himself
into rocker at her side.
Say. II the hotel had fallen down like a
mouse OF cards l couldn't have been more
amazed than 1 was at that spectacle MY
Old pal. who had always been such an alb
solute Stoughton bottle in Washington
when introduced n
stunt with the queen Of the hotel that
would nave made the most Accomplished
summer boy green with envy
watched him in a state of green-eyed
and then l went in to dinner. He Joined me
presently.
Weir said I. looking him over.
Weir said he. passing me the sassiest
his chart.
Say said I to him after we'd had a.
little more conversation, you're going to
introduce me right after dinner, aren't you,
Jack?
Not on your lffe,' my pal REPLIED with
that new off-hand impudence of his What
for?
After dinner and the smoke on the
veranda got up and said to him that we
might as well be starting for the board
walk
"'You for a little solitary stroll this
evening. If you're not in right for other
SoiHPdHoiiSInp t1du lnlne was his I'M
pertinent reply to my suggestion. I've got
an appointment this evening
That's the way he passed me along to
the boardwalk alone. Half an hour after
reached the boardwalk 1 saw him stroll
Ing onto one of the concert piers. The
Boadicea with the magnificent red hair and
the princesse robe was leaning on his arm
and smiling up into his face.
We'll. didn't see much of my eX-bashful
pal during the remainder of our stay down
there. He was too busy. I kept beseeching
him to present me to Boadicea, but he only
| tossed me off with provoking nothing do
ing grin. He had her in the surf, on the
loop-the-loop, all of the music piers. on
the erry-go-rounds-every old place-and
every time he saw me. from a distance,
| making the preliminary moves toward join
ing them. he'd hustle his footsteps-and
hers-in the opposite direction.
"On the coming away train yesterday
morning l said to him:
Say. far be it from me- ETC., to rubber.
but how the dickens did such a confirmed
crustacean as you ever muster up the nerve
to slam up and get yourself acquainted
with that girl the way you did?'
you're a ham, was his audacious re-
ply Know who that young lady is?
you've told me her name, but that's
ALL said I.
"ewell.' said he. she's the public stenog-
| rapher of the hotel at which we stopped.
/ wanted to dictate a few business letters
en- the night we got in, and so l asked the
clerk at the desk for the stenOgrapher. He
conducted me to the. presence of the
Boadicea. and 1 like to've fallen down when
I saw what I was up against. But she put
me easy quick enough. and on the follow
ing evening, when you saw me go up to
her on the veranda, l knew her real well.
so 1 did. Didn't know she was the hotel
stenographer. you say? Well. say. can't
help it if you're such mOllusk. What you
want to do is to cut out that tdiotic shyness
of yours. If you want to swing along at
my clip you've get to
but I wouldn't listen to any more of
the whelps insults, and grouched out to
the smoker"