Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-13

aQV1Ce, ShOrtyf says he.
Il did, says l.
Religious, or otherwise?' says he "But
it makes no difference; I'm yours to COM
mand.'
:" don't ask you to go beyond your depth"
says /. S Just case of order1n fancy
grub. I'm due to blow lady friend of mine
to the SWEETEST kind of supper that grows in
the borough; no two-dollar tabble-doty I'M
derstand; but special real-lace eighteen
carat feed with nothing the bill of fare that
amt spelled in French.
Ali says he, something like Barqnettes
BOrdeilafse ponIet casserole, fraises an cham
payne and SO on, eh?'
a. was just about to mention them very
things, says l. But my memory's on the
blink Couldn't YOU write EN- down. with a
diagram of how they look and whether you
spear 'en with fork, or take EN- in through
a straw"
Why to be sure says he So he did, and
it looked something like this
"Consomnrf az famet d'estaragon Chicken
soup-big spoon)
"Barqnehes Bordellaise (marrow on toast,
with mushrooms-fork only).
"F0nds dGrtichauts Monegosqae (hearts of
artichokes in cream sauce-fork and bread
sticks).
There was lot more to it, and it wound up
with some kind of cheese with a name that
sounded like breakin' pane of glass.
threw up my hands at that. It's no 60"
says |. Il couldn't learn to say all that in a
waiter that program and tell him to follow
copy"
Where's your phone?"
Pretty soon he gets some one on the wire
that he calls Felix, and they has heart-to-
heart talk in French for about ten minutes
It's all arranged" says he. You are to
hand my card to the man at the door as you
go in, and Felix will do the rest Eleven
fifteen is the hour But | m surprised at you,
hnrtIv LODI xrra1f L., ~,
spring the young mans fancy gently turns"
"Ah, say!" says |. There amt no call
for any funny cracks about this. You know
me, and you can guess I'm WIlie-boy.
When get soft spot in my head, and try to
win queen, it'll be done on the dead quiet,
and you won't hear call for help. But this
is different proposition. This is a real lady,
who's been locked out by the society trust,
and who takes an invite from me just because
we happened to know each other when we was
kids"
"Oh-ho!' says Pinckney, snappin' them
black eyes the way he does when he gets real
walked up. That sounds quite romantic"
1t amt" says l It's just as reg'lar as
takn' your aunt to a sacred concert"
He seemed to want to know the details
though; so | told him all about Sadie and how
she'd been ruled out of her class by lot of
stlffs who wa mt one-two-sixteen with her,
either for looks or lucre.
And it's a crooked decision" saws l.
Maybe Sadie wasn't brought UP by a Swedish
maid and French governess from Chelsea
Mass. but she's velvet now, and she's d
real hand-picked pippin, too What's more
she's nice little lady, with nothin' behind her
that you couldn't print in a Sunday-schoo
weekly. All she aims to do is to travel with
the money-burners and be sociable. And say
that's natural amt it,
Its quite human" says Pinckney, and
what you've told me about her is very inter
esting. hope the little supper goes off all
right. Ta-ta, Shorty"
Well, it began frosty enough; for when it
came to Pilotin' lady into that swell mob,
had the worst case of stage-fright you ever
saw. Say, them walters is a haughty-lookin'
lot, amt they' But after we'd found Felix,
and I'd passed him a ten-spot, and he'd bowed
and scraped and towed us across the room like
he thought we held a mortgage on the place,
didn't feel quite so much as if I'd got into the
wrong fiat
| did have something of a chill when l caught
sight of a sheepish-ookng cuss in the glass.
He looked sort of familiar, and was wondering
what he'd done to be ashamed Of when l sees
it was Then l squints around at the other
guys; and say, more'n half of EN- wore the
same kind of look. 1t was only the women
that seemed right to home. There wasn't one
in sight that didn't have her chin up and her
shoulders back, and carrying all the dog the
law allows They treated them stiff-necbed
food-slingers like they was lot of wooden
Indians. You'd see 'em piln' their wraps on