Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23

The following reasonable dialogue has
been reported by the teeny little fillilloo
bird with the eavesdropping and rubbering
habit:
;Her-And you figuring that I'll need a
new ceat this year? / don't believe you
have given the matter thought. And
this is just the time to buy furs They're
just giving them away at this season. This
afternoon l saw the cutest seal jacket,
with high collar and big reveres, and 1t
was only s17o. And
Him--Gittout, is that SO? Well, on my
way home this evening I saw the loveliest
melton cloth close-waisted split-tail autumn
overcoat, and the price tagged to, 1t
showed that they were just chueking It
away. 1t was only sos. However. hagged
it.
Her-Thats 1t: try to turn everything l
ask you into what you consider joke.
Now. didn't you just as much as ten
me. when you bought me that common old
coat for $37 last winter. that you'd De sure
to get me seal jacket this year!
Him-Well 1 may have been smoking a
little last year, at that. l promised myseil
a hull lot O. things at the same time, put
they still look to be about as Iar away
as one-sixtieth of a grain or strychnlhs
on the White Lot gazed at with the naked
eye from the top of the Washington mon
ument.
HeT-NOW, wait a l<ooA az 49,
You don't expect me to wear tnat common
old SGT coat again this winter, do you!
Him. haven't got any expects coming,
except that l sure expect to ink up ina.
old ulster of mine again and swash AROUND
In it when the raw weather drifts along.
Her-Mrs. kergrab, whose husband eels
only sixteen hundred. is going to nave
seal jacket this year: shes got !. az az
picked out. and she's Dragging apoul A. I"
me something awful.
Him-Uh-huh. Mrs. kergrab meets her-
grab In the disbursing office on pay Gays;
knocks him down and out with a eha ..,'a
club takes his pay envelope from ni1n'
and when Kergrab wants to get his SHOES
half soled he has to beg her for the Sixty
Ave cents for a week ..,,
Her-WeH, 1 think she does perfectly
right the miserable, drinking thing she
has for husband, and
Him-She hasn't left Kergrab the price
of hooter of Swampoodle gin for SIX
months to my dead sure knowledge.
Her-Wel, it's a good thing she hasn't.
so there now! Look at the good use she
puts the money that she saves to-she
going to have sealskin jacket!
Him-Yep and Kergrab will be slouching
and sinking down the back streets In a
bum Paisley shawl, as like as not
Her-And il you weren't so selhsn as 10
spend every penny that you can rake ana
scrape on cigars and
Him-Stogies, six for hve
Her-And clothes .
Him-Las. suit made to measure in April.
1898
Her-And drinks
Him-One beer for lunch. one on my way
home from office. ten skents
Her-And poker
Him-Why, fury and shucks; didn't win
65 cents the last time l played. four months
ago?
Her-And betting on nasty old race horses
Him-Haven't made bet in three months.
then it was one ace, and ! came near win
ming at that. Horse only got beat four
DAYS and three hours.
Her-And thinking of nobody but your
self
HMM thinking of having my russell
low shoes dyed black SOS l can get the
winter out of EN-.
Her-And here it will soon be chilly
weather, and l only need few little things
that seal jacket. that's just dirt cheap for
$175, and a winter polo hat-l saw a perfect
dear yesterday for $3O-and l have been
wanting one OF those gold chatelaine bags
Mrs Kergrab has had one for ever 80 long.
and they're only 500 now-and l saw an tml-
tation diamond swan the other day that
was only S27, and you couldn't tell 1t from
genuine to save your soul. and what In the
wide world I'm going to do for new tailor
suit / don't know, and
Him-Hey, hold up! You've forgot to
mention that Panhard devil-wagon. only
sls.5OO that you need SO bad
Her-And you get eighteen hundred a
year now. and that's plenty for me to dress
nice on, and
Hm-Just about.
IIer-But you don't want to get me a sin
gle. solitary thing, so l can look decent and
hold my head up and not have the life
shamed out of me every time l put my foot
out of the house and meet my friends, and
oo-hoo-why didn't l marry man that
was somebody. as 1 had SO many chances
to- instead Of an unambitious g-g-g-govern-
ment c-c-cle-k who doesn't
Him (clapping on haD-Well there she
goes! Twenty-three for nine-skiddoo!