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

l wouldn't he jealous of the Apollo Beivi-
dame (Belvidere, you say? oh, we'll, 1t
doesn't make any ~difference)-I wouldn't
be Jealous of any man that ever wore shoe
leather, but il l should he 40 idiotic, l GER
tainly would not permit the lummOx to
know l was jealous, would you?
Well. at the theatre hat night what does
thatypoor little dried up creature of a Mrs.
LoOkster get into nor head but the crazy
idea that Lookster was flirting with an over
dressed. overbearing looking thing in one
of the boxes near where we were sitting in
the orchestra. h declared that she'd
caught Look-ter exchanging looks with the
woman in the box and that the woman was
smiling back at him, but the truth of the
matter was that the woman in the box had
a cast in her eye or something else like that,
so that you uld tell, sitting a little dis
tanCe from her, which way she was looking;
and Lookstar tried to tell Mrs. LOOkster
that, but she asked him how he knew that
she had q cast in her eve. and she swOre
that he'd met the woman before somewhere,
and when he wanted to go out with James
between the first and W cond acts for a
smoke she wouldn't let him.
-She had no ground whatever to stand
upon, but, a little later in the evening,
I certainly did. Right here In front OF
where James sat beside me there was one
of these ~nambypamby. lackadsisical. grinny
women with touched up reddish hair that
men are SO Gravy and an enamelled
face that made her look CHASTITY except
on her ~cheekbones, where she was all
daubed up with rouge n I'D caught her
twisting about IN her seat as II to look
at the rear Of The house, but really to cast
those s~ickenlng grins at James, and so
when she deliberately ioosened the comb
In her back hair so that IL would fall out
in order TO get James to pick IL up for her
and, m~aybe-hOw could l ~knowp-pass
him her card or a note or something, why,
right then, my dear. 1 got busy.
Il permitted James TO pick tho comb up
anA huk,A Il 80 49, hv.k -. -
] was watching that there was no fOolishness
between them, and then l told him, without
any mincing OF words, what / thought OF
a man that would deliberately strike up a
dlsrepueSoie Funny business With another
right alongside Of his wife. and l never
saw him look so abashed in my life. I
caught him right With the. goods. my dear,
much as hate such hOrrid slangy phrases.
but a Expresses II, and he didn't nave a
chance in the world 3 o wriggle out Of IL.
and | didn't care TO sic through any more
OF that u performance with that mop
haired, chessy catty thing sitting IN front
there, and so 1 brought James right out
Of there, and the Looksters came along.
Would You believe IL. those two men
tried their level best to shake ms. But
We wouldn't have the wool pulled over
our eyes that way. and we made them take
US to a restaurant n feed US. and the way
those two ridiculous men sulked and
gloOmed around during the meal was
something just too silly Tor words.
Must you go, dearest? Well, be sure
and remember me TO that perfect dear Of a
big, good looking husband Of yOurs-myl
but didn'th ne a n i have the most outrageous
little Irritation the last time We met aE that
car paTtyi And dOn you dare to tell
him that | said so. my precious, but really
he has the most beautiful eyes that ever
were set in a human beings head. hasn't
he? Good-by."
after callers departure):
aHuhl Well. I guess a few OF those little
shots hit the bullseye with that creature
right enough She's the jealOusest lend
Of a spithre in everything that concerns
her husband that ever l saw in all my born
days. and he doesn't care a bent pin for
her. and she's always scrappihg with him
in public because she knows that he doesn't
care a rap for her. only for the little money
she has. and she just hates TO hear other
women praise his good looks and, deary
me. maybe she isn't just hating me- in her
heart at his prasent minutel'