Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-18

would have been Ever Ready Roger; but when it
comes to dom the at home for Far East gent with
handle to his name, he don't know where to begin
You couldn't stagger Todd Maddox for good,
though, unless you dropped safe on him. He's
one of these bull necked boys, with hair in his
and jaw like stone crusher, and he's ready to
tackle anything batted up to him.
Not bein' thick with any of the real articles like
Pinckney, Mr. Purdy Pell, he has to fall back on
the Broadway hotels, and calls them for help.
The best they can do is to agree that slippin the
welcome hail to a Jap sails for a Jap program.
Then they makes few notes from what they
fly and there they leaves him.
Todd takes this for cue and blazes ahead; but
when he starts to work out the details he finds that
he's balasted light, and by the time l gets on the
scene he's mile up in the air.
I've only got twenty-four hours left before the
Baron shows up here says he, and all I've done
IS to order gross of paper lanterns to string around
the lawn. But that's no more than the Ladies Aid
Society would do for an ice cream festival on the
parsonage grounds. I've been scratching my head
for hours, though and can't think of another thing
Are you still stuck on turnin' Soundmoor into
sort of tea garden?" says 1.
It's my only play to jolly the Baron" says he
Then why not ring up decorator and have it
Blamed if I'd thought of that!" says Todd
You see, he hadn't been traveln with the money
burners long enough to get onto their ways of farnn
out such things to experts Once he gets the idea,
though, he pushes it hard BY ten O'Clock next
mornin the place was runnin' with different
SdHSS,-d caterer, d COSIunle1, decorator, ana an
agent from employment bureau,-and the
Maddoxes has worked up program of events that
reads like it had been copied Off tea chest.
THERE" says Todd, stckin' his thumbs under
his suspender buckles and shiftn his cigar to the
other side of his face Il guess that II show him
know how to fix things up for his kind three dozen
Jap flags, flynn and draped paper lanterns and
sunshades everywhere they can be put; twenty
four-course Jap dinner, with the walters rugged out
to match; and Mrs. Maddox wearin' ninety dollar
kimono. If all that don't knock his eye out don't
know what will
1T ought to remind him of home and mother"
says l.
But for all his bein' SO satisfied with the stage
settin', Todd was still nervous. He'd been so busy
collectln the properties that he'd forgot there
lines to speak, and when this breaks on him he be-
gins to feel chs along the spine All the folks he'd
ever had home to dinner before was the kind he
could slap the back and lead out to where the
dry Martins all built but droppin in the olive
Then after dinner the reg lar program for all
hands to step the hall and range themselves
around the green cloth while Todd counted out the
stacks of red, white, and blue AS long the ladies
stayed in it nothn but mild little quarter
limit game; but Mrs. Maddox always made the
break-away about eleven, and from then until
two A NJ or later if next day Sunday, Americas
club rules went-no limit but the roof
Outside of distributin pasteboards, and loadn