The evening world., 1908-12-16
|MANY WOES OF
OSCAR TOLD IN
AFFINITY NOTES
A Rebellious Stomach and a
ToothleSs Chorus Director
Cause Trouble.
NO ONE TO KICK HIM.
Hammerstein Planned to Do
Own Cooking and Wrote
Miss Lee All About II.
NO ONE TO KICK HIM.

In another batch Of oscar Ham
Ntrstein's lore letters TO Miss
Frances Lee, his "Teras Pdfti,"
toAo Is suing him for 100000
damages for alleged failure to
make good his promises to place
her IN opera, the impreSario shows
hoso he planned to conUcrt his
. room in the Victoria Theatre.
tchich he calls rat hole. and
-n,oTgue," into a bachelor dining
room, kitchen and bedroom. 1t
tpaS at THIS time that oscar be-
came Sourcd at restaurants, and
he compares the joys Of cooking
Votr oicH eggs TO the misery Of
eating cafe breakfasts.
AT least oscar, the dear old fellow,
Will have to admit this much--that
saved him from woman, or rather
saved woman from him-e!ther way"
said Miss Lee to-day. He says that
no woman In life shall have any more
OF his devout attentions"
Miss Lee explained that the name
ton of the name Bruce. He called her
Brucie, but being unable to pronounce
the 'r" distinctly. changed the name
Into the pet term 'Boosie-"
Oscar as Poet,
Before describing his emotions Oscar
often took on a poetic flight, as
My Dearest Lovely Bruce:
When 1 clean my glasses think OF you.
When write music 1 sing OF you.
And when ! come from dinner
Instead of fatter I grow thinner,
And all because l don't see you.
YOUR OSCAR"
This particular week proved to be a
one, as shown by the itnprs-
sarios threats TO do all kinds of things
to his stomach and abode.
July 2s. 1908
my Dearest, Dearest Bruce:
Your letter breathes so much discon-
tent and dissatisfaction. What can I
DO? thought Of you and think of you
as always do. I want TO see you
happy and feel happy. You are morose
and unhappy or happy without me. You
are and have been for ten years the
only woman in my mind aud heart.
ENy rooms now overlook; the Olympia.
Il saw you coming in rs you did ~hen
|you first met me; saw you on the stage,
hn the old ofIlce-everywhere. l thought
Iof all the misfortune I have had, and
now I love and still love you. l had
but one letter from you in six days. The
hook at the Olympia began TO annoy me
b moved way back TO the moTgue lin
lths yictoria), from where l couldn't
bee the accursed building. And think
iof you every minute OF the day and
Ievery minute of the night in the rotten
Iold room here where two years ago
Expected to die in.
II love you al the time, and never
can 1--we or be with anybody else. ar
worried. Your OSCAR
To Try "Home Cooking"
I Next day oscar felt little bit better
land wrote:
"July ~, 1908
my Dearest Bruoe-I think I have
been a little peevish and norose. wisf
II could DO Jolly, but l am almost ner
jvous wreck from all the labor and anx
siety about the opera, I must see It ou
or die am UP. at Z in the morning anC
at II set In the lonely, dreary room
read and smoke for an hour and ther
TRY TO sleep. Enjoy yourself. Bruce, ant
Iget rosy cheeks. You: ever loving
OSCAR"
Meantime Miss Lee had returned from
loamp-meetink in the mountains. ant
oscar wrote;
July q. 1908
my Dearest, Bestest Bruce-I am glat
lyou are back from tho camp, 50 tina
lfhR rnoHnnitOeA loft sOmetlinR for me