The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-03
THE CHORUS GIRL"

moleSkin muf lis a perfect gentleman.
who can spend his money graceful y.
Harry Trimmer means well. but his work
is all to the sandpaper, out in the lime
light for Harry, and if there isn't a table
vacant by Broadway window Harry
draws his cork out of that vicinity
Louis Zinscheinner is a smoother work
err There is a piano finish to the way
he works that does you good. He knows
just what to ordeT-say. did you ever
eat scollops soute Ia Maryland? Lou
gave Shanleys chef 80 for the recipe, ana
he makes 'em in a ohaang dish. scme-
times, in the fat-thats If there any
alcohol in the house, for-and l wouldn't
say anything that would hurt Amy De
TRANSFORMERS feelings for a minute, hut
alcohol certainly does evaporate quickly
when her mother knows it s around
And when Mamma Branscombe goes
around breathing hard and letting thi gs
fall out Of her hands. poor Amy pretells
fits nervous attack. Once 1 caught
Mamma &c Branscombe drinking my CO.
logne, and she pretended she was only
smelling it. Not that | would say a word
against the De Branscombes, but, Of
course, If you don't come from aristo-
Gratis and well-eiucated people you can't
help them things. And while [ never like
TO brag, / do come from one of the swell
est families of Altoona, and my mamma
has the highest insteps that she always
had to have her shoes made to order,
which kept papa impoverished and drove
him TO drink
Il inherit my mamma'e high instep.
but poor Amy her ankles is that thick
that she lets her skirts drag rain or
shine, and tries to tel me I'm a bold
thing because | want to save my skirt
binding and the bottom OF my silk pet
icoats and hoist EN- high along the Lane
But ] was starting to tell you about
going to Shanleys with the feet the
other night. Say. these are Old Home
Weeks at Shanley's. It's an i'll wind that
blows nobody good. and the fact that the
theatrical business is reduced to 40 has
made it good for the Broadway rcstaur-
ants
1t amt in New York alone that the
dramas on the oinlz Out IN the whisthng
stations and the hrickyard metropolises
Town Hall Tonight looks like a day-aftor-
election peek al the residence of the pros
porous plumber who was the peoples
choice for poundmaster up until the votes
was counted.
'All over the land the Tom troupes
walking back are kicking out the COWS
TO find rom fr a bx-car siesta.
Lady Audreys Secret is that she
hasn't the price of ticket back The
Two Orphans are the first heavy and
the pianist, who are locked in a refrigera-
tor at an isolated siding. The Hidden
Hand is that of the treasurer Of the com
pany, and it IS secreting quarter. ard (
4 Celebrated Case is one dollar that the /
tngenue gets in n letter from home, and /
no one else in the repetoire believes is /
anything else but confederate
''All over the land German comedians /
are going raving mad at the sisht Of I
food, and the very words Ten, Twenty |
and Thirty Cents is a hollow mociIery 10 /
the All Star Stock Companies who don't /
believe there's that much money in the /
world.
We'll, the hard times that comes a
Knocking at the box office has brought
back all the Boradwey bellies. and. as
started to tell you, It's Old Home
Week at shanIey's in consequence
go 4, - g vztaA. Ssf7-s-t-zs .ss5ss
The first ] sees is Della Fortescue and
Maize Mortimer. They was out with The
Mildewed Monarch which only got as
far as Newburg. Fortunately navigation
isn't wholly closed on the Hudson and
they came back on Il cargo Of trap rock,
the captain and crew of the barge treat
ing them with the greatest respect ard /
giving them their street car fare when
they made u landing. TIixia McGnrfs
wa sthere, too. TriSsie was one OF thu
original Florodora' SeXtCt that made s
much money in Wall street. but poor
girl, she was foolish enough TO chance
her broker about two months ago ard .
now she's down and out.
Harry Trimmers was sitting at the
front window with the wine cooler in
prominent position. OF course Harry
Trimmer's father is very rich and makes
him allowance. but he is too ornate
and uneven in the way he blows.
IF the theatres is letting out or If any
body he knows is peeking around the
corner Harry will scream for cab Ike
as IL he took one when he wanted TO cross
the street. but if all is st.n and lont h
says, Here comes our car ard maybe !
he embarrasses you by trying to work off
a time-eXpired transfer o nthe con 5uctOr
Il don't know how the money came into
the Trimmers family but il wasn't by
wholesale For there is something IN
feather importing or cloak making that
rouses the most generous instincts in a
who has a lady out showing
her a good time.
Take Louie Zinsheimer, for instance
lie gets the best table he gets the lest
waiter. he gets the best wine Count
Kessler or Ed Thompson or Tdsar Gibbs
couldn't get better treated than
he does and when he trots with Able
its all the llue ribons for
them.
just as We was ready to so out to din
ner the other night who should butt II
but Dopey Mcknight He cried like a
child when he found We was going out
And il would have moved Your heart to
hear him when a rummace of the ice-box
disclosed nothing but n sticky quarter of
q can Of condensed milk and bunch of
lettuce. II YOU was in dress.
Dopey.' says Louie. for he's just that
I'd take YOU 20 Shaneys with
us All Of Dopeys harness save what
he stands in. is in hook. Of course. tut
Amy digs up an Old dress coat ard vest
of her brother. who. she s2ys. is in c-l-
lege. but once l saw her neither have.
a nervous attack when she got a letter
from her with Elmira Rerormatory' On
the envelope
We'll, rs l was saying. we dus Up an
old dress coat ana vest Tor Dopey. but A..
the pants we could find for him was the
ones he had on. which were bright blue