Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
MAY HAPPEN TO YOU

Besides mothers-in-law, there are also
sisters-in-law.
This veracious narrative concerneth
sister-in-law.
A couple of weeks ago a young married
Washingtonian's medical man peremptorfly
ordered him to go to the seashore for rest
and recreation.
The young married man hurried home and
ordered his wife to pack up-they would
take the train that afternoon for Atlantic
City.
Whereupon his wife shook her head with
great positveness. She wasn't ready TO
go to any seashore. She hadn't expected
that their summer outing was going to be-
gin for full month yet, and she WASH I
ready-hadn't a single, solitary stitch or rag
to her back. in fact. The husband Desseo
and pleaded. Said he didn't care to go
hiking off to the beach by himself; knew "
would be too lonesome. ASKED nus VIZ 20. =.
she couldn't carry along the duds she nao
for starter, and have the things IN prey
aration shipped on to her. And so on:
His wife told him that he talked IKE
night Waterman, or words to that eneo.,
and said that all of his Suggestions "eLe
wholly impossible. She told MIN " ~
right on down to the beach himsel1 anu
she would follow him in fortnight, or JUS.
as soon as she could get slnsie' soAieAA'
stitch to her back made.
So the young married man went Oh oo"' -
to Atlantic City all by himself. 49,.
He found it pretty blue going. ne ISL
q hirtatious individual. having only oee
married three or four years. or soLAe SUI
matter and so he prowled around the no'e.
and the boardwalk by himself, wfltins mus 10.
extraordinarily lonesome love letlels " ~,
wife in Washington, and wondering WY s W.
earth it should be necessary, anyno", ~.
women to have solitary, single stl.ch ~
their backs when that foolish necessity
hampered their movements SO CONS e.
Rut three days after his arriFai d. 'ie
Atlantic CITY hotel his Pittsburs aunt. .,
varv wealthy widow and a very beautlIui
woman and sumptuouS dresser arriESu az
the same hotel for the season. ms -
burg aunt is only few years oiuIi LEI
he Is. and she doesn't look as old oy nVe
years. ,s
The Young married Washingtonlan was
tickled to have his Pittsburg aunt, ms
mothers youngest sister, at tne A.iahl,S
City hotel with him, and ne laiu nihsel .
OUT to pay all sorts of attention TO ner.
He had no Interior motive Whatever III
view, but he liked his clever aunt, anu
he was lonesome for his wife, ana tne
aunt was good talker and gooo pal
and so her arrival at the holel vas q eo"
send to him.
The second day after her arrival ne
took her out for a rolling chair airing on
the boardwalk. When they got pack 10
the hotel from the airing for luhcneoh
and were just about stepping out OF the
rolling chair the young married man
from Washington was surprised 10 see
seated on rocker on the hotel Veranua
New York sister-in-laW OF his with
whom he hasn't been on speaking terms
for several years. The details OF the scrap
that had caused the breach between him
and his wife's sister need not De given
here.
The sister-in-law had an extremely aus
tere expression on her countenan0e when
she saw her brother-in-law. with whom
she wasn't on terms. stepping out OF a
rolling chaif with a swagger-lookin
woman not his wife. The Sister-in-law
had never seen the Pittsburg aunt. That's
the reason she Jumped to conclusions and
things.
The sister-in law bowed with exceed
ing stiffness to1her brOther-in-law as he
mounted the hotel steps with his fine
looking Pittsburg aunt. The sister-tn-
law probably wouldn't have bowed at all
except that she wanted her brother-in-
law to see that she had seen him-had
sort of caught him in the act of roller
chairing with woman not his wife, in
fact.
The young married Washirs tonian saw 1t
all at a glance. and when he got into the
dining room with his aunt he told her
about 1t.
Let's start something" he said to his
aunt. She has got her eye on US for sure,
that sster-in-laW of mine. Consequently,
from now on I'm going to just smother you
with attentions. I'm going to lean on every
word you say. and we'll fairly coo, eh? AS
long she has got all fixed up in her
own mind why what's the matter with
letting theEIittle comedy go through until
she has the great white light break upon
her?"
So the Pittsburg aunt and her Washing
ton nephew went about that hotel from
that moment on like any bride and groom.
They paraded the sun parlors and palm
rooms hand-in-hand; they lolled on the
sand together; they went in bathing to-
gether; they roller-chaired together a lot
more; they were irseparable.
And all the time the siSter-in-law was re-
garding him with an expression of severity
that all but caused him to break into I'm
comfortable laughter on several occasions,
only he didn't want to spoil the fun.
On the day of his Pittsburg aunt's ar
rival the young married Washlngtonian
had written about it to his wife. telling the
wife also of the arrival at the hotel of her
New York sister of the sisters twisted
idea of his attentions bestowed upon his
aunt, and, in general, informing his wife or
the entire situation.
wager YOU the SWEETEST new hat hat you
can buy for money that in the course of
two days you'll be in receipt of a frantic
and caustic letter from your sister down
here telling you of how your husband Is
carrying on down here at this hotel with
a bold-Iooking woman, and SO on
The young married Washingtonian Will
not have to buy his wife that hat. HIS VIE
did get such letter from her sister IN AL
by return of post. with many humorous
comments in her own accompanying letter
The young married Washngtonian's wife
arrived at the Atlantic City hotel few
DAYS ago. She met her husband and her
husbands Pittsburg aunt first. and she
greeted the aunt with all of the affection
that she really felt FOR her, for they are
nearly of the same age, and have been
great friends for years
Then she went over to another corner or
the veranda and greeted her sister, who,
however, drew away from her sourly.
my dear" said the New York sister Sc
puIchrally, "are you altogether lost to rea-
son? Do you mean to stand there and tell
me deliberately that you condone the way
your husband has been carrying on with
that woman, and that you"
However, the rest of it was lost in the
peal of laughter to which the Washington
wife couldn't help but give vent.
When she had tired of laughing, she put
the situation correctly before her New
York sister, who, however, continued to
look both sour and doubtful She didn't
appear to be in the least willing to believe
that her brother-in-laws aunt from Pitts
burg was really his aunt. She remarked.
in fact, that, while it might be to his in
terest to claim that she was his aunt, she.
the sister-in-Iaw had ideas of her own on