Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25
THEN SHE WOKE UP

This mans wife has a habit of falling to
sleep while he is talking to her.
By the time he gets through reading the
newspapers after dinner it is almost bed
time.
Then he has to have a fipal quiet smoke
the while he meditates upon the jobs he has
lodged during the day and. that must be
taken up on the morrow.
BY this time his wife begins to nod over
the woes of the hapless maiden who stays
hapless until the last two pages of the
3S9-page book, when she marries the Wis
count and proceeds to make things sizzle
for the viscounts mother-his wife begins
to yawn and nod, and to indicate by
sleepily pulling the hair pins and side
combs out of her hair that she is about
ready to call 1t a day.
BY this time he just begins to get clipper
and lively and laxative.
He hasn't had much to say to her since
dinner, having that bundle of papers to
read, but he has, nevertheless, consider
able line of conversation that he Is DESTROYS
of working off on her when he gets around
to it.
He talks all during the preparations for
bed, and after the light Is out, and right on
until her steady breathing rouses him, and
then he mutters, "Dogged If l don't believe
the woman Is asleep"
The other night he concluded that he
would try and see If he couldn't wake her
up after this happened.
II was talking today" he said, as. with
his fingers upon the gas key, he mapped
out an unobstructed bee-line for the bed,
with one of those newspaper fellows who s
been in ST. Petersburg during the past year
hes just back-and he certainly did give
me new line on the tyranny and brutality
of the ruling bunch over in Russia
"Um- humph,' said his wife from her side
of the bed.
And he said" went on the husband.
IN hi
country about ST. Petersburg being such a
gay capital, and all that sort of thing, are
nothing but pipe-dreams. Says ST. Peters,
burg is the gloomiest hole of a place he
ever had to anchor in in his life, and that
he wouldn't have stayed there ten minutes
If he hadn't been obliged to-
I'm ukl-l-er-um," replied his wife from
her pillow.
And, say pursued the man with the
line of unreeIed conversation. Il also met
up today an army officer just back from
the Philippines, old pal of mine, and
y'ought to've heard him knock the whole
game down there"
''Umum, was the mans WlteS parely
audible reply.
Said that there isn't anything in the
whole bunch of Philippine Islands fit for a
white man to eat, and he says that he
hasn't done thing since he quit the trans
port at San Francisco but just eat and eat
and eat trying to get hunk for the two
years of an eatlesS existence that he's spent
down in the Philippines"
"Er-uhoom-um," replied his wife, just
above her breath
''He said that he didn't dare to make any
such cracks in his capacity as an officer OF
the army, but he told me, cOnf1dentlally, as
a friend that in his opinion he Wouldnt
give sixty-five cents for the whole Pmllp-
pine group, and he thought the best thing
the United States could do would De TO
skiddoo away from the islands at the ear
lest possible minute, and let the punch
down there take care of themselves as pest
they might
Just at this point he pulled up suddenly.
The steady and somewhat sterterous
breathing of his spouse informed MIN THAI
she was asleep.
well" he went on, in the same even
tone he had been employing since the De-
ginning of the conversation, she was one
of the prettiest women I've seen in a month
of Thursdays-sort o wavy chestnut hair,
YOU know. and deep violet eyes, and sim
uous, graceful figure. She was dressed IN
q golden brown velvet suit, with nat 10
match. 1 wasn't paying the least attention
to her, of course, but-Well say, the way
that woman gave me the eye was certainly
a sin and a shame, and, of course, Wheh
She accidentally dropped her pocketbook,
WHY. what else could l do but pick 1t up
for her? And as she bent over for IL at the
same instant, why, that fluffy mass Oh
wavy chestnut hair of hers brushed against
my cheek, and She ,,.
John Gumshoe," the mans wife called
ont in as wide-awake a tone as she had ever
used in her life, dye mean to lie there ana
tell me that you started up a deliberate
Irritation with creature who
sOh turn over and stop dreaming, salo
he. but, all the same, 1t TOOK MN d s1 ,.e
quarter of an hour to explain away ms NJ
tIe scheme and it wasn't any certainty
when he had finished his explanation thdt
he had really squared himself,