Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
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alone, ana your fanny away, INbidi hSN
the austere-lookng old gentleman to his
seatmate as he got off the car.
YES It's too bad about me and my lone
liness." said the young man addressed to
the fellow who remained beside him. Il
think it's plumb dreadful. this thing of
wives going away for the summer and leav-
ing a fellow all alone Now, just see how
the day pans out. When 1 get through
work. instead of going home l can drop
around to Georges and get a highbaH. III
be sure to meet some of the boys there and
we will go over to Eddie's and get another.
Then all of us old summer widowers hike
out to the base ball game and root for the
home team.
Then comes the question of dinner, and
It's lot of fun to decide where to go and
what to eat. Something different every
night. Dinner is good until $50 or o CLOCK
anyhow, what with the stories to be to!o
and the cigars to be smoked. Then we snip
I'D to the club and play billiards until bed
time. and don't have to watch the CLOCK,
either, or worry about an indignant VIE al
the head OF the stairs.
why to one of US erstwhile sports, VINO
has married and settled down. the most de-
lightful season of the whole year is this III,
tie summertime intermission In marital
bliss when we can get back into the dear
old lawless timeless irresponsible ways OF
our sweet and naughty youth. and go nome
in a night-liner after the cars have stop
ped"
X
There is an athletic young father out on
Mt Pleasant who Is bringing up his only
son. a healthy youngster of nearly six. to
follow the strenuous life. The other day
the young hopeful returned to the house
after an afternoon of play with his face
pretty generally pulled up and one eye IN
mourning
Tommy Jones'" he explained to his dad.
said you drank like a fish because his papa
said so, and 1 punched him.
That's right, my SON. said the proud
and strenuous father, who was a pretty
swift proposition once, but who is trying TO
live II down. That's right. my son. When
ever you hear any of your boy friends say
Ing anything about me, it doesn't matter
what It is, punch him good for me. That
will teach their parents not to say such
things
About week later the young hopeful
came home to dinner in worse plight than
before. Just like the other time" he ex-
plained to his dad, only it was Johnny
Smith this time"
What did he say?' asked the strenuous
parent
why he said you had settled down and
was a credit to the city because his mother
told him So replied the Six-year-old.
And what did you do?" asked the strenu-
Gus parent, with sudden sinking feeling.
the nose" replied the boy proudly.
And he wondered all that evening how 1t
was he just managed to escape a licking
through his mothers interference
*
There is a young man in Washington who
has to do great deal of work in his Office.
at night. He is happily married youth, or
he was at any rate. Frequently his wife
comes down to the office at night, watches
her husband toll and then they get late
bite to eat and go home together.
Now 1t happened few weeks ago that
the young married man was absent for
about a month from the office and during
that time his desk used by gay young
bachelor in the same department. That was
all right too. But here Is where there APP
peared a small cloud on the horizon The
bachelor has more girls than cat has lives.
and one of his latest additions to his col
lection of feminine photographs was a
kodak picture of very sweet and winsome
maiden in bathing suit posed on the beach
at Atlantic city or some OF the other coast
resorts.
When he got through using the desk and
moved back to his own corner of the room,
he inadvertently or otherwise, left the pic
-ture sticking in back corner of his office
mates desk. Neither of them noticed the
picture. A few nights ago the wife of the
man who owns the desk dropped In to walt
for her husband and incidentally to rum
mage around women will in his belong
ings the desk. The first thing he knew,
while he was busy at work in another part
OF the room, he was greeted by the inquiry
from his better half:
BY the way how is Grace?"
Now this innocent young man don't know
anybody by the name of Grace. At least
II he did he could not recall II at the mo-
ment. and he looked up puzzled to find his
wife with the discriminating photograph IN
her hand and worst of all to find that there
rft on ba hapH Of a m a.
ly: with love from Grace
What was the use in trying to make any
explanation under the circumstances? There
was no use and the man In question was
wise enough not to attempt 1t. But when
that other fellow gets back from his vaca-
tlon he is going to be invited over to supper
at the other mans house and he VIII have
TO do some explaining or suffer the conse-
quences.
Il X x X
The week enders were OFF for their two
days in the country. In the party was q
dear little lady of twenty or so. 1t Just
happened that the lady missed her luncheon
in town and chased off for the train, car
rying with her the pangs of hunger. The
moss grown village which boosted of this
attractive miss as a summer resident lies
snugly in the shade of the Blue Ridge,
quite a journey from the hot and noise
some city.
The lady's hunger increased as Washing
ton disappeared In the dim distance. Then
she had an idea.
Mr. Conductor" she called, lis there
any station along the road where / might
get a sandwich or something's
The conductor guessed there was, and
II treat to see the smile which i'm
bedded itself in the dear ladys face. She
watched the time table for the station with
the lunch room and when the train ap-
preached 1t she was all excitement.
Hurrying to the platform she touched
the ground the moment the train stopped.
There was the lunch room, and the lady
entered
Have you any sandwiches" she In
in chair behind the counter. The sleepy
gent acknowledged that he had a sand
witch for sale
We'll. let me have one please" said the
lady. The proprietor rolled his eyes up