Evening star., 1908-01-26

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And then the
Bradys, who lives
opposite, has to spring their blow out. They'd been
their boys was in the Fire Department. and Lizzie
Brady was workin in Sixth-ave. hair dressin'
parlor, they'd call to flash such bluff. frosted
cake from the baker, with the date done in pink
candy, candles burnin on the mantelpieCe whole
of St. Louis the front fire escape, and the
district boss drivin' around in of Connelys
funeral hacks Who was the Bradys that they should
have weddin celebrations when the billions had none?
Kate, the lady sales person, handed out that
ow Sat the ae to She
Dillon can do like it ought to be done. So they We
no sooner had the gas and water turned on at the
new fiat than she draws up plans for a weddin' an
niversary that'll make the Brady performance look
like pan of beans beside standing rib roast.
She knows what's what, the lady Kate does.
at homes in Harlem The billions will be at
home Sunday the nineteenth, from half after four
until eight, and the Bradys can wag their tongues
off, for all she It'll be in honor of the fortieth
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs Lawrence
Dillon, and all the family connections, and all
friends of the same, is to have bid
WELL that's the limit" says l. Did you tell
the girl they'd better be layin in groceries, instead
of givin an imitation tear
Certainly not' says Sadie. why shouldn't
they enjoy themselves in their own way?"
"Eh?" says l. oh take it all back. But
what was the eye swabbin' for, them"
By degrees l gets the enactng clause The
arrangements for the party goin on lovely
Larry havin the buttons sewed onto the long
tailed coat he married in, the shifter had
got the loan of some stage props to decorate the
front room, there was to be ice cream and fancy
cakes and ladies' punch, Father Kelley had prom
ised to drop in, and all was runnin smooth, when
Mother Dillon breaks loose.
And what do you guess is the matter with her?
She wants her Loyshy. If there to be any
family convention and weddin celebration, why
couldn't she have her little Aloysus to it? She
didn't care a split spud how he'd behaved or if
him and his father had had words; he was her
youngest by, and she thought of him than
all the rest put together, and she wouldn't have
hand in any doin's that Loyshy was barred from
comm to.
AS Nora puts it. when the old lady speaks her
mind. you got to listen or 60 mad from her. She
don't talk of anything else, and when she amt
takin' she's cryin' her eyes out. Old Larry swore
himself out of breath, the lady Kate argued, and
Maggie had done her best; but there nothin'
doin'. They'd got to find Aloysius and ask him to
the party or call it Oft.
the army long ago He want in any of the fifteen
cent lodgin houses. The police didn't have any
record of him. He didn't figure in the hospital
lists The nearest anyone came to locat1n him
was handbook man the shifter knew, who
said he'd heard of 'Loyshy hangin' around the
was no use ookin for him there at this time Of
year. 1t want until theyd promised to advertise
for Aoysius in the papers that Mother Dillon quit
takin' on and agreed to wear the green silk she'd
had made for Nora's christenin.
Yes and what them" says l.
Why" says Sadie, "Noras afraid that if Alloy
sius doesn't turn up, her mother will spoil the
party with another crying spell; and she knows If
he does her father will throw him out
She has happy way of lookin' at things.