The sun., 1906-12-23

and showing off, as she always is, and
lot she has to show Off about, too! She
came in a-purpose to show me a pair OF
slippers that she had bought for her own
Christmas gift to herself as she put it,
They were foolish looking high heeled
evening slippers, with big French gilt
buckles on them, and she was shameless
enough to tell me that she had paid sl6
for them-nOt that they didn't cost that,
1 mean, for | saw pair just like them
marked s16. But the very idea Of her hav-
ing the face TO tell me that she had paid
sl6 for a pair of slippers when her little
girl is actually in need of pair OF everyday
shoes to go 10 school in!
That Gitmine creature pretends to look
down upon poor little Mrs. Slouchsky,
who has the little four room apartment on
the fifth floor back, and she declares that
Mrs. Slouchsky used to run a little deli
catessen store in Eighth avenue, and all
that, but l notice that Mrs. Slouchsky's
little girls are not going to school with their
feet on the ground in the depth Of winter,
and Mrs. Slouchsky isn't going around
shamelessly showing folks sl6 slippers,
either, delicatessen or no delicatessen,
and besides--
aHow's thatp Mrs. Slouchsky would
look like joke in a pair of high heeled
evening slippers with French gilt buckles?
Well she wouldn't look any more like a
Joke in EN- than that fiashy, bold eyed
Gitmine person does and she d have every bit
as muCn T1EnL TO wear CHI, bOOl Dnt NDIl 4
send her children out into the streets naked,
that's one blessed thing. And, by the
way, there You go flying up in defence OF
the Gitmine woman, too. Er-perhaps
You are simple enough to be fooled by the
eyes that that one makes at you tooH l
noticed her purring over you when we
were down at the Gitmines card party the
other evening-the time when she pre-
tended TO be showing you that book of
views, ! mean. Oh, I'm as foolish as a
fox. and didn't see just as plain as could
be that she was trying to make a perfect
old fool of your That's the way she purrs
and buzzes around and cudsles up TO every
blessed man that gets near enough TO her
to hand her a peach, and it's wonder
to me that that chinless, backboneless
husband of hers doesn't notice the out
rageous way she carries on.
THAT settles our visits to the Gitmines'
fiat, Mister Man. | can stand some things,
but cannot and will not stand everything.
Don't You dare try to argue with me!
guess I'm not entirely blind yet. Any
one legged woman with a glass eye could
strikeup a Irritation with You, James Rub
berino, and well you know IL, although of
course don't expect You to admit It.
Il came up in the elevator with that
frivolous. simpering, brainless Hotyn-e
woman this afternoon, and she had her
little case OF the holiday brags with her,
too, like all the rest OF them. She took a
ticket out of her pockethook. and showed
il to me. II showed that her hush and had
reserved n table at Wherry's for New
Years eve. or all earthly things |
suppose it, cost that pin headed Hotyme
about $40 or $40 just to reserve that table
at Wherry 8 for New Year 3 eve, not COUNT
ing what he'll have TO spend when they sit
down at the table, and all done for pure
show, and nothing else-tust 10 give them
selves something TO brag about! ! suppose
Mrs. Hotyme Yiltdig UP every human being
on earth that she knows or has even a
slight acquaintance with and show 'efn ali
that ticket emitting them TO sit at a table
in a restaurant on New Years eve, as il
that was something big and grand to blow
about She was so proud and excited and
nabbergasted with Joy when she showed
il 10 me that her hands trembled and she
Just painted. They look fine sitting at a
tai le at Wherry's, on New Years eve or
any other old eve, when everybody in this
fiat knows that the Hotymes hardly ever
have n solitary thing at their own tatle
that's fit to eat They spend everything
that comes in making a show. Ii you
could sec the pork chops that come up on the
dumbwait er for the hotymes-pork chops
all the time, and hardly ever anything else
It's a wonder to me they don't turn into
pork themselves.
-0h, you like pork chops yourself, do
you, and wish I'd put them on the table
oftener? There you go once more! ! sup
pose you II be telling me now that NJ rs.
Hotyme is a brilliant and beautiful woman.
No7 Well, it's a wonder that you don't
try to tell me some such thing as that
Pork chops have nothing TO do with femirtr o