Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16
THE ROAD TO GLORY
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We'll not always Anna. dear, because, you
see I'm not very often rugged up like a horse.
It's only when | make formal call like this
that | wear my good clothes. Besides
9 saw picture of you interrupted Miss
Wilson, in a sable coat that dragged on the
ground; Don't tell us you don't own that
either"
I'm afraid not" and the actress smiled
and shook her head I'VE borrowed that from
furrier Isn't it awful"
And the all lace dress" questioned Miss
Cregar obviously where you sitting by
the fireplace in your own parlor serving tear"
months to get that dress You see. that's for
when I'm asked out to supper at night. It's
fine-l'll show it to you sometime
The faces of the circle frightened consider
ably.
But don't you always go out to supper
after the play" came from the outlying
chairs.
mo. I'm not always asked.-that is. by
people | want to 60 out wIth.-and then, you
see in the profession you We got to rest lot.
You can't very well go out every night and
do your work
60 Those silk stockings you've got on now"
suggested Miss Bowles from her vantage point
on the floor, are awful thin
Miss Lorelle glanced down at the transparent
silk and smiled They are thin, aren't they
They're old ones used to wear on the stage"
Miss Bowles continued. "Do you have to
buy your own stockngs?"
Yes, indeed" said Miss Loree,-" my
own stockings and shoes and gloves and-oh
SO many things! It's terribly expensive. l
don't really know how I'm going to pay my
board and the wash bill sometimes. Managers
are not very generous
But don't you get big salary"
Pretty big; but then, you see, | have to
keep up show for it. And when my salary
goes up if it ever does, my position will get
better too, and that means that | must use
cabs and keep maid and live in a hotel
Do you live in hotel now" asked the
wide eyed Miss Wilson.
Indeed | don't" said the actress. I'm
back in my old room at Miss Burns's. where l
lived when | was working here. It's fine to
be back again. You remember Miss Burns
she still mothers all the boarders. and the old
place is as clean and sweet as it used to be.
Just wait until you go on the road and live
in railroad trains and cheap, stuffy hotels,
and you'll be glad to be back in your old home
on West 1oth-st. too Anna You still live
there, don't you, with the folks?"
Sure" said the girl. blushing and plucking
consciously on her tightly drawn skirt
Why, Anna" said Miss Lorelle, Il really
believe you are thinking of new home. Who
is he?"
The answer was a chorus of giggles from the
other SIX young women and increased con-
fusion on the part of Mss Wilson
The hilarty of the occasion was for the mo-
ment restored. Since the first enthusiastic
greeting of the entirely unchanged and ex-
tremely affable Miss Lorelle, the attitude of
the seven young women toward her had be-
come more and more that of earthly friends,
and there was less of the adulation due a
patron saint The lack of the automobile and
the diamonds and the sable coat that swept
the ground had stolen away little of the Joy
BUSINESS of the occasion. Indeed, if it had not
been for the direct evidence of the salmon
pink dress and the white gloves and the black
picture hat, the meeting would surely have
developed at once into a repetition of an old
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