The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-11

know. my dear, and II you get that strained
look In them from trying TO drive your car
yourself, why-well. you know that per-
fectly brainless woman, Mrs. Ootitteezy,
don't you? Well. she had prominent cyes
to begin with, but you ought Just TO see
them now. since she began to drive her car!
-0h. Ivy tho way. in talking about the
women who will insist upon getting up on
the chimney tops and telling everybody
or earth that they have got a motor ceE.
I forgot to mention that stodgy, fatnecked
Mrs. Kickinsky. You know that her hus-
band married her down on the East Side.
don't your Deed he didi Her father was
the driver Of n crosstown street car, though
I think that | am the only woman that
knows that--my brother, Mr.. Knockerino.
told me about II. So please don't mention
IL.
We'll, about ten minutes after she'd got
her car last summer-it couldn't have been
more than ten minutes-she came rearing
and ramping down here TO let me know
she had IL. And I committed such an
annoying inadvertence. my dear, and
would nave felt quite chagrined II the
woman wasn't so perfectly impossible.
you see, I meant to ask her If her car
was a gasolene car, but | was thinking
about her father being. or having been. a
street car driver. and so. instead OF gssolene
asked her. My dear. is IL a crosstown car?
Pity sakes alive. o really should have
seen the foolish creature flush up. as II II
wasn't the most natural little slip In the
world for me to makel
Don't you And II an immense advantage.
in going about In . car. to have 80 little hair
as you have, my dear? / SEQ you've dis
pensed with all Of the little pieces OF hair
and they were charmingly matched. too.
my dear that o generally wear. and
quite right, too. for your Wells hid every
thing. and 80 there isn't any chance for
your hair TO be blown about In that blowsy
way.
Don't think me inquisitive. dear, but
was it typhoid or something that left your
hair so scant2 My. IL is the merest wisp.
isn't il. and I should think you'd have
your scalp massaged or something before
you become quite bald, darling!
Aren't there a lot Of terrible automobile
accidents lately? And ! wonder why 1t is
that so many Of the victims are women?
One cant pick up a paper without reading
OF women being MANNED and mangled in
motoring accidents and really, it seems
as IL there are more accidents Of this sort
to women in the cities than there are out
on the country roads. don't you thinkf
"A friend OF ours, n Miss Einlung. was
killed in a motoring accident out in Colo
RADIO only the other day, but the poor dear
was suffering from tuberculosis. so really
perhaps it was a blessing after all, or
would nave been il her death hadn't been
80 terrible. The details Of the way she
was crushed all to pieces made me abso-
lutely i'll, and I couldn't finish reading them.
so I do hope you will be very careful.
precious. especially il o u chauffeur
mercy me, doesn't he bear q striking re-
semblance to that gawky son Of the janitor
Of your hat!-if your chauffeur doesn't
thoroughly understand his business. and il
I were you I'd
oh, well. you are eager to be Oh in your
machine again. aren't you. honey. and 30
I won't keep you. Good-byl Don't make
yourself such a stranger. but come to see
me often. Good-byi
AFTER visitor departs:l
We'll. I guess maybe ! didn't present
her with a few miniature silver loving
knives. and I s'pose perhaps they weren't
a-coming to her. the sallow trump. coming
around here and showing Oh in a motor
car when every time we go downtown
together she sponges on me for carfare and
Iunchesi"