Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08
THE BOTTLE WAS STILL SCOUTING.

wildly man never knows how to pick out
Number Two. A wildly woman never
makes a mistake wit Number Two, for
she loins de marriage game by experience
it's de only ting she does loin by experience.
Men loin everything else by experience ex-
cept how to pick out wife. 1t is not right
for parents to marry witout de consent or
DER daughters. 1t should be so in de law.
De minister should say, Have you de con-
sent of your daughter to wed dis woman?
If de wildly man cannot show consent he
should be sent to de Gerry Society for to be
examined for his insanity. Parents are
trouble enough to DER children witout rush
ing into marriage at an age when dey
should know de meaning Of for better and
for woise.'"
Sometimes when Duchess explains ting
she only does what me fren does to a cock
tail-mixes it. But, as I was telling you,
Wildly is wit us now and me and her is
great pals, for she tips liberal and frequent,
and tings is doing when she takes a bunk
in our shack. Dis time she had amatoor
teeatricals for de benefit of de neighbor-
hood orphans. It's her favorite charity, be-
cause de only orphan down our way Is al
lowed ten thousand year by de divoice
court, and spends half its time wit its
modder and half wit it's ladder, and trust
company is its guardian. It's dat kind of
an orphan dat owns all de stock and bonds
when a nannychist wants to tax anything.
Miss Fannie asks Wildly why she gives a
benefit for de orphans what dere amt
any. Because" says Wildly. cit is so
distressing to hear of distress 1t would rob
Anefit of all its pleasure to be playing
for real orphan"
Well. Wildly got a play called las You
Like IT, by mug named Mr.. Shake
speare. Say. it has "A Trip to Chinatown"
beat to a fragile! 1t would even put Cite
Fitch on de blink If Shakespeare had give
a song and dance to de leading loidy.
It's like dis: district leader. duke, has
been trun out of his jub by a mug called
Frederick who wants to run de organiza-
fOr q do
to de woods for de duke, and some of his
gang go wit him, and dey has picnics, but
no patronage. Whiskers was duke. De
dukes daughter, Rosalind gets dotty on a
Orlando comes from up de state somewhere
and his close don't fit him, but he is de
champeen amatoor wrestler, and has a
bout wit a professional named Charles
Wildly was to be Rosalind see? Mr.. Paul
was to be Orlando, and I was drafted into
de game to do de stunt Of de profesh who
got trun by Orlando. Dat was easy.
Den dere is goil named Celia, daughter
of de mug what had captured de district or
ganization, and Miss Fannie was her. Dere
il more folks in de play, but dey not
much, except a lad named Jacques, who
chews de rag wit comic speeches about it
being cold day when you are out of Office
He says dat tingS is no good from de time
when you is an infant In de noisSe's arms
when you charge up San Juan Hill, or when
you are rasSed over to de pension agent.
He names seven times, but forget de cd
ders.
De principal ting about de play Is dat
Rosa wears pants. Not just like our pants,
but a sort of backwoods style men wore
before de Brooklin bridge was built. when
de omnibusses ran on Broadway. Wildly
could do 1t. Rosalind and Celia get sent
out beyond Harlem, because Frederick is
leary dat Rosalind might get some of her
ladders strong-arm men togedder and
rough house de primaries. So Freddy says
to her: You to de tai grass Celia, being
Rosalind's side partner. skips wit her. so
Rosalind wears pants to brighten tramps
what was plenty in dose parts. Orlando, he
goes out as a hobo, and p'chee! de whole
push lands in de same neck of woods where
dc duke and his precinct captains are. It's
lucky dey all nit de same pike. for If dey
hadn't came togedder at a place named de