The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21

Mrs. vaninnR, she calls herself, trying TO
make people believe she's got a Knicker-
booker strain in her, or that her husband
has, which n the same thing? Well, she
was taken out OF her fiat TO a hospital to-
day, and the doctor that came here to get
her was cautious to give il out that she
was going to have an operation performed
for appendicitis, but what do you suppose
the janitor's wife told me?
why, when the janitor's wife went up to
straightsn out the fat after the quarrel
some cid thing had been taken to the hos
pitsl. she found one whole closet just filed
up to the top with bottles-beer and whiskey
and gin anu rum and wine and all kinds OF
bottles; just thousands of hotties, the jani-
tors wife told me, n she had to spend the
whole afternoon picking them up and send
ing them down in the dumb waiter!
$50 it's pretty certain that Mrs. Vanjunk
was taken to the hospital for something
else than an operation for appendicitis.
She had Just a plain case Of the iimjams.
verify believe, 30 I do, and always thought
she was q drinking woman, she acted so
crazy sometimes, and her nose was mighty
red and"
whats that you say? That my nose is
AVNf WV aIA Nlhb NlCIClOIC 4 AhF
in secret MYSELF How dare you? You
know very well that the very sill light rednees
OF my nose-and nobody else ever notices it
and make. mean comments on II but you
Is due to deficient circulation, caused by
the fact that ! have to stick in this fiat
all the livelong time and never go anywhere
except to the theatre two or three times a
week.
Whats that3 I'm too eager to accuse
other people Of doing things like drinking
and carousing2 Oh, so you're taking up
for another one OF them. then. are you?
How long nave you been on chummy terms
with that withered up old V~anjunk woman,
I'd like to know?
Never saw her but once in your life, Ell,
and then she looked like a nice clean.
honest, respectable person. with not a
sign or symptom Of drink on her. and you
don't believe that she ever tayted liquor
in her life and you think she really is going
to he operated oil for appendicitis Just be-
cause her doctor says so, eh?"
well, you're like all the rest Of the men
just great, big, hulking, pig headed SIM
pletOns. That's all I've got to say. As II
a womA would AVE millions upon millions
Of bottles in a closet and never drink
anything that the bottles contained.
-Oh, by the way, o know that Reelting
girl up on the sixth floor that's pounding
that piano all the time and driving the folks
on that floor crazy with her humping?
Well, you know, she's always telling every
body she knows that she has her tailor
gowns made by Gougerinesky. the Fifth
avenue tailor who gets anything he pleases
for every bit OF work that he turns out.
What do you suppose the janitOr's wife
told me this afternoon? She was cleaning
up in the Reelting fat this morning while
they were all out up there, and in sweeping
up in the clothes closets she saw the tags
sewed in those dresses Of the Reelting girl
that she brags 80 much about, and, would
you believe it, eSery blessed one OF her
dresses IL ready made and she buys 'em all
down on Fourteenth street.
Greatest joke on that nonsensically
uppish creature ] ever heard Of in all my
born days. and the very irst time ! meet
her in the hall I'm going to drop some little
hint about Fourteenth street Just To see
her Wither and shrivel up. and II She
"Bless my soul and body. II the man isn't
sound asleep and snoring in his chart OF
all the ~impudence. Going To sleep right
" hil4 I'm talking to him. Oh,these incon-
\ sideTate, brutal men"