The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
AARS. RUBBERTNO
INl HAS suspicious.
Why Shodd Her Husband Defend
the Auto Woman, the Fashion
Woman, the Appendicitis
Woman and the Rest5

after dinner the other evening, while her
husband vainly endea vored to pick some
sense out OF the newspaper he was trying
to read.
We'll, OF all the silly and shoddy snobs
in the world, those Lemmelone people in
the fourth floor front Cat, in the other
house, are the worstl" said Mrs. Rubberino,
ignoring the suggestive cracking Of her
husbands newspaper. They got back
to-day, and the way they did lord it around
over their having been knocking about
Europe for the last four months.
~fheir baggage was all Uttered up with
European labels, till you couldn't see for
looking-I saw the stuff kicking around
out on the sidewalk. It's a wonder TO me
that they didn't ina We labels pasted on them
selves when they came back. 1t would
have been just like them, the upstairs!
And / don't believe one word Of it that
they've been to Europe at all, so I don't!
They might bamboozle other folks with all
of those crazy looking labels on their bag
gage, but they can't fool mel
Europe? The idea! Didn't Lily Git
next tell me that she saw their fox terrier
running aroun the lanes Of Great Neck3
They were probably hiding in some mean
little skinny out OF the way place in Great
Neck all summer long. 1t would be Just
like the Lemmelones to do a thing like
that.
What's that you say7 You met a man
the other day who saw the Lemmelones
somewhere in the Tyrol last August? /
don't believe any such thing, so there now!
You know you Just made that up TO be
contrary.
The idea Of your sitting there and saying
such a thing! Well, II you didn't make
it up just to be scissorsy. then the man who
told you must rave had some purpose OF
his own in working on uch a whopper IN
you. The Tyrol, indeedl They'd look fine
~gallivanting around the Tyrol, l don't
think
We'll. Of all things in this world. what
do you suppose | heard to-day You
know hat tacky looking little frazzled out
blonde who lives all alone in the first floor
back hat7 Oh, don't sit there and try to tell
me you don't know the one l ~mean-didn't
/ see you cycling her when we met her in
the hall only a couple Of evenings ago as
we were coming in?
Now, what in the name Of all that's
l~aughable do you suppose she does for a
living. or pretends tina she does for a
living? Designs costumes for the fashion
papers!
Did you ever near anything funnier in
all your born days? Such a perfect trump
and dowdy designing costumes for fashion
papers! I'd give anything in this world
just to see one Of her costume designs,
deed I would
Il don't believe she could design a Mother
Hubbard for a Filipino girl. hat I don't
And she's the most independent, stuck up
little moocher you ever saw. Never has a
word to say TO anybody but just VOWS TO
folks in that superior, patronizing, hands
on way when she meets EN- in the hall.
That's the kind Of woman-thOee sneaky.
slinky, quiet ones | wouldn't trust
behind a ten cent piece turned edge wise.
deed I wouldn't. And the very idea Of her
pretending to he a designer 81 we'll cos
TUNES!
What's that? You say IL isn't necessary
for a woman h wear Head swell clothes
herself in order 10 be a successful designer
~ costume>-for other women? That's il.
60 ahead and defend her! You're always
just crazy to defend everybody but me!
The least little thing I do or say you
Jump On me for and you're always attribut-
ing the meanest ind Of motives TO me
but Just the minute some catty. washed out
sneaky creature Of a woman comes up for
discussion. why. you just swell up like a
hoptoad in defending her.
-It'a a mighty peculiar thing. anyhow
that you should defend that woman. There's
something in IL that I don't exactly under
stand. II seemed 20 me that there was a
significant exchanges OF glances etBeen you
and that trump when We met her in the hall
the other evening. now that I come TO think
Of II. and here you are getting all purple
in the face taking up for her.
1T may not mean anything hut ] don't
know. Oh. 81 cour.e, you can -ay that You
never exchanged a word With the woman
in youT life. but I've heard you say things
like that before. and you say q good many
thing. besides your prayers.
well, az last that Stoppit WOMAN YOU
know that fat. dumpy thing that lives with
her -noop 81 a huahPnd In the ground hoor
haf overlooking the court AZ last she's
had an automobile rIde. thank Heaven.
shes been going Gus every single day. ever
aimee abe moved IN here. - added M in an
automobile coat and with enough auto vetl-
hIowins around her head 10 wrap Up a hale
81 cotton. blt never did : ~ anybody else
around here $50 her actually riding IN an
AUTOMOBILES TIL to-day.
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pnII~d one 20 the thing alonRside the curb
his afternoon just % I was coming In IN.
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machine. hat. ~ coaF~e. ~ ua- ItI-t q rented
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vated up ~ her really made automobile
thing know che coat'- ready made. 10
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day ant you'd think she va- the oalv
human h~inR on top - tho Eloh~ that hsd
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