Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28

something that rustles I've back number
caSt-Offs for twenty-five years; I'm ready for
the other kind I've been travelling so far behind
the procession couldn't tell which way it was going
Now I'm going to give the drum major view of my
back hair. The sort of costumes want the kind
that are designed this afternoon for day after to-
morrow If it's checks I'll take two to the piece;
if it's stripes want to make circus zebra look like
clipped mule. And want change for every day
in the week.
But, my dear girl says Sadie, "can you afford
You bet 1 CAM says Maize. MY share of
Uncle Hens pile is forty-five hundred dollars and
while it lasts I'm going to have the lilies of the field
looking like the flowers you on attic wall paper.
l don't care what l have to eat, where l stay;
But say, guess it's time getting back to
our boarding house. Wake up Phemey!''
WELL, pilots 'em out to Fifth-ave.. slows EN-
w into motor stage, and heads 'em down town
"Whew! !" says Sadie, when gets back. Il sup
pose that is a sample of Western breezinesS"
her finish though Inside of three months all she'll
have left to show for her wad will be trunk full of
fancy regaa and board bill Then it will be
Maize hunting job in some beanery.
'Oh, shall talk her out of that nonsense" says
Sadie. What she ought to do is to take a course
in stenography and shorthand"
Yes, laid out a full program for Maizie and
had her earnin' her little twenty week, with
Phemey keepin house for both of em in nice little
four-room fiat. And in the mornin helps her salt
the certified check and then turns the pair over to
Sadie for assault on the department stores, with
call at business college finish for the day.
we'd planned
When l gets home that night 1 finds Sadie all
tagged out and drnkin bromo seltzer for headache
Whats wrong?" says l.:
Nothing" says Sadie; ''only I've been having
the time of my life
Buying tailor made uniforms for the Misses
Bickens?" says 1.
Tailor made nothing!' says Sadie ." 1t was no
use, Shorty, had to give in. Maize wanted the
other things so badly. And then Euphemia declared
she must have the same kind. So spent the whole
day fitting them out
Got 'em something sudden and noisy, eh?"
says 1.
Just wait until you see them, says Sadie.
But what the idea?" says l. How long do
they think they can keep up that pace? And when
they've blown themselves short of breath, what
them"
Heaven knows!" says Sadie. But Maize has
college, she just laughed, and said if she couldn't do
something better than pound typewriter, she'd go
back to Dobe.''
"Huh" says l. Sentiments like that has got
And yet" says Sadie, Maizies nice girl, in her
way. Well see how she comes out.
W/E did, too 1t was couple of weeks before we
w heard word from either of EN-, and then the
other day Sadie gets call over the phone from
perfect stranger. She says she's Mrs. Herman
Zorn, of West End lave and that she's givin little
roof garden theater party that evenin in honor of
used to know when she lived in St. Paul and spent
her summers Dobe. Also she understood
friends of Miss Dickens too, and she'd be
pleased to have Join.
West End-aVe.!" says l. Gee! but it looks
like Maize had been able to butt in. Do go,
Sadie?"
Il said we'd be charmed says she. I'm dying
to see how Maize will look.
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