Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
VERY NEW YORKISH "

There was q characteristic New York
| marriage. with an after-part, pulled off,
| over there in the impossible town. a short
| time ago." said the man who looked re-
lieved because he had escaped from the i'm
possible town. Part Of the incident came
| within M purview. l saw the beginning
| and the end. The beginning and the end
| were all compressed within a space Of
thirty hours. Very New Yorkish affair.
ut has local end, because the party Of
| the second part-the man In these affairs is
OF course, always the party Of the second
| part-used to live in Washington. Nobody
| ever quite knew what he did for living in
Washington. Nobody quite knows what he
does for living in New York. But he was
very well-dressed here, as he is in New
York He had had two or three wives In
washington at various times, but hao lost
them, or they had lost him, or something
saw couple Of them engaging in Christ
mas shopping the other day The man is
big. somewhere around forty, partly edu-
! Gated, witty with the wit of q partly edu-
Gated man, and master Of the art COMO
logical in dealing with the dainter sex.
| THE woman-the one figuring in the
| present incident, l mean-has a face that
! everybody in America has seen. You re-
| member that pro.-le view of the face Of a
dark, oriental-looking woman. with big gold
hoop earrings in her ears, that is painted on
| the sides of walls In advertising brand
| OF cigarettes? Well, this woman posed for
that profile She is New York artists
model. She poses for book illustrators and
| such like. She was and is very beautiful
| She lived with her mother in a furnished
| fiat, and got her meals out. She-however-
| "She was taking luncheon in one of the
| blazey Tenderloin restaurants one after
| noon few weeks ago enjoying the adulta-
ton of the folks who. dropping in and out,
| stopped to say a word to her and her mother
| a to nf fHn oil mad 70
| know her. and they all called her by her
| first name. Tine men, passing by, stopped
| to tell her. openly and in a most matter-of-
| fact tone. that they adored her, whereupon
! she looked pleased. as did her mother. They
all told her that they would lay down their
! lives for her. and asked her in t-le same
breath II she was workin' very hard, for
| she seemed q bit pale to them.
| Presently the ex-Washingtonion came
in with another man. He hadn't got more
| than three feet past the door before he saw
| the oriental-looking girl.
| Dream!' he said to the man with him.
! 'Mango! Pomegranate! Who is she?'
"'Come on over and I'll stake you to a
knockdown.' said the other man. who knew
| the artists model, and they went over.
| The ex-Washingtonian was introduced to
the daughter anu her mother, and, with
his COMPANION was invited to sit at their
| table. The invitation of course, let the
| men in to pay the general check.
THE two men sat down. The ex-Wash-
| ingtonian, with the bunch of forgotten
| wives, was ever a DuSy worker. presently
he was breathing very tender vapor into
! the ear of the delighted artists model. A
| very little later he was squeezing her hand
| under the table. He was immensely i'm
| mother gently guyed the two. So did the
| companion of the ex-Washingtonian. But
| they didn't care. Weren't they in lover
Madly., desperately, hopelessly. despairing-
| ly in lover Sure they were! Impression
able folks, you know. Artistic tempera-
ment, and all that. Yeh, they were enor-
| mously in love-.
| Pm going to take little Brighteyes driv-
ing. suddenly announced the large ex-
| Washingtonian, rising from the table.
| GO as far as you like replied the
| mother, but m goin, too
&" Nix. said the x-Washingtonian, grace
| fully. Nix. on that. mamma. Just two
little Ravenlocks and me. Only going
around the block or So Ta-ta,' and they
for the amount of the check at the desk.
The mother didn't look greatly chagrined
| over her daughters desertion. at that. She
had somebody to talk to, somebody who
| would freely buy, and what more would
anybody want-in New York?
The Washingtonian and the artists
model hoped into hanson cab and just
drove and drove and drove They went to
| the park, and drove there for a long time.
He told her that there was use in talk
| ing, he sure did worship and idolize her.
No mistake about it. He was there with it.
She had him wnging, he said Never was
his heart Shed taken him right off his
props. He hadn't felt SO funny since the
ALL How about it.
"Oh. it was all right. she told him.. Sure
| she'd be his'n. What would be the differ
| ence. She'd as lief be married as not.
"Whereupon he gulped Bit and said
All right. I'm tor that right now. I'll
I dig up an alderman.
'This was done. The alderman was dug
| up-a friend of the prospective groom. They
| married about D o'clock In the after
| noon
''Then thy drove to the furnished fiat of
the artists model to tell nav Nav a
| little to the bad after an unduly long sit
ting at the Tenderloin restaurant, but 1t
| was all right. Nav was game. So they
| were married. Fine! Go far you
| like! Then nav collapsed. being very tired.
ION the following morning the enormous
| ly in love couple started out to find a fur
nshed flat for themselves. They found the
fiat something easy, and moved right in be-
| fore noon.
| well, that evening the couple went to
| one Of the Broadway restaurants to dine.
| Many congratulations. All hands stopped
| at their table and gave them the large m. t.
| Fine business. Hoped they'd live thou
sand years to celebrate their radium ami
| versary.
| LAS the meal progressed the bride began
| to sort of glance around at the new ones.
! She liked to be admired, and had habit of
| preening herself. She caught lot of ad-
| miring glances from various chaps at the
|
| that matter. And so she glanced around,
| very amiably.
| Her new husband didn't like that very
| much Not at all, in fact.
| 'Er-just-er-sort O. flag that, won t
| your he said to her Just can that rubber
| ing around gag. heyT
"She looked very much annoyed over this
| remark. Very much put out, indeed. She
| said so. He said things back.
| "fVery-well, said she, going to
leave you and go back to my mother to-
| morrow morning.
".No you're not said he, with the great
| est promptness.
| "'Why amt ~ said she, with lingual
| carelessness.
| Because said he, with admirable cool
ness, you're going home to your mother
| tonight.
| THAT'S all. He put her right into cab.
| alone, and sent her to the furnished fiat.
| 1t was all over. He hasn't seen her since.
| He will probably never see her again, ex-
| cep. casually, you know, at restaurant,
| or somewhere.
| Its all right for him, though. He can
| get married again If he wants to, without
| getting a divorce. He found out, three or
| four days after putting her into the cab.
| that she already had husband somewhere
| out west that she had quite forgotten
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