The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-03

mean. and she said the fish sauce was cold
and clammy. though really it was 80 hot
that il burned my mouth. He tried to get
her to drink "a glass Of wine or two. hoping
maybe that the wine might warm her out
of her temper. but she wouldn't touch a
dro D.. though she Just loves anything TO
drink doves il too much, nut don't you
tell anybody | said sol.
We'll. wasn't saying "A world never
in terfere with tOiks-tDl James figured
hat IL was time for him to get busy with
his so othiDg stuff. H. was none of his az
fair. not in the least, Of course, and l GER
tainly was rot going To permit that. And
don't you think I didn't tell him 80. I
todd him plainly then and there, that IL
would be- a good thing if he'd learn to min
his own business. aud Mrs. Scrapple mp
and said ,he thought So TOO.
We'll. what 10 you suppose nappenedp
You know. when two men get together
and any little kind of n fuss happens they
get up to all kinds of devilment and they
always back each other up. and James
had the audaCity 10 tell me that he CON-
sidered himself capable Of regulating his
own tongue in all contingencies.
Then James and I had 1t hot and heavy.
az you may imagine. 7 told him that he
needn't think he could adopt that tone
with me just because he happened to be
away from his own fircside. Wen, / was
never more surprised in my life. when
right then and there Scrapple and James
before the dinner was hall over rose right
up from their seats and both of them putting
on the most RIDICULOUS air of dignity. James
had the towering impotence To say in that
measiey, quiet way Of his that he thought
he could be better employed than sitting
nrntnnH NJ n hlnnRr fahIR in n nuhltN rRafun-
rant listening to the peevish nagginR and
animadVersions Che will use those big
words when he gets dignifed) of a couple
Of s%crapping, women. n then ScrapPle.
talSine~ exactly the same high and lofty
tone (it's astonishing how much alike these
men folks can be in some circurnstances)-
Scrapple said that he'd meant that we
should all have a pleasant little evening
together, but that he saw II was going
TO he impossible to get along with a pair
Of women who seemed determined to create
a %r1Iction. and
We'll put you in a cab. ladies' put in
James right there. to my amaZement,
and just as much to my keen modification.
Or ar automobile or whatever they like.
80 that they a their gracious presences
home put in ~Scrapple. the hateful BEAST
my James would never in this wide world
have dared TO &C. 40 il Scrapple hadn't
been alOng-and. would you believe 10,
before we knew h we were doing. why,
Mrs. S~orapple and l were permitting
SCrapple and james 10 lead uB from the
restaurant to the~s street. and before either
Of us could IA much az say Jack Robinson
they shuffied us into a hanson cab and
told the driver TO carry Ills home.
And it's just as crazy on a woman'5 part
to let her husband know that she's jealous
Of him IA il is for her 10 fight with him
about anything in public, but whenR woman
shows her jealousy and gets tightly over
it at the saIne time, lal there's no hope for
her. That's what happened a couple Of
weeks ago when James and / vent TO the
theatre with the Looksters, who nave one
Of the main floor apartments. Lookster,
you know, IL one IF those big. clomping,
lubberly kind of men that the women all
consider just az handsome AZ can be. but I
never thought so-he's too pinky-winky
and healthy looking and rugged and all
that to be THAT I'd call good looking.
We'll, anyway. Mrs. Lookster In just too
| ridiculOusly jealous OF Lookstsr for any
use in this wide world, and she makes a
perfect simpleton OF herself by showing Il.