Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

alone, do WEI?
Notice any emptiness of that kind yester-
day; or were they runnin the subway
trains as usual? Well, we'll! You'd thought
to hear the talk of that bunch that New
York. with them away, would grow up to
weeds. But they're entertainin lot OF
time destroyers Sure, l promises Sadie
I'll come down Saturday afternoon.
"Chee!" says Swiftly Joe when he hears
where I'm headed for You'll have the
swell time, hey? What do they do down
there?"
dollar pieces at the goldfish and hunt dia,
mond backed terrapins with squirt guns
"Ahr chee!" says he. I'm fru1ty one
amt 1? Straight goods now what KIND OF
Joy do they hand out most!
See? Swiftly has an idea these big house
parties is something of a cross between
clambake and free circus, with a new
event on the program for every half-hour.
and the folks that's gvin' it circulatin'
round askin' if everyone is happy; How -
was gon to explain to him that it 60 II
as-you please and that you gets just the IN
sort of fun you digs out for yourself. Why, Il NJ
time playn' solitaire in their rooms, while \sW
others will go to place just to write let
ters or because they like the cook1n.
TAKE Norry Newell that / runs into
1 almost as soon as lands. 1t was the
stables brought him down to Windymere.
You give him half dozen OF them high stePPln
horses to drive, and crowd of passengers behind
him on top of the talyho, and he perfectly happy.
He'll do it all day long, from Monday morning to
Sunday night.
Nice boy Norry When he has double handful
of rens and whip he looks most intelligent as the
average cabman; and when he's got himself into
eyenin Clothes and has seventeen kinds of food to
eat and nineteen kinds of things drink he sit
around starry eyed and give as hne an exhb1t1on OF
a human sausage you'd want to see. Did say
sausage? Make it blood puddin' it fits better with
Hello Norry!" says l. How're they runnin'?''
HUH he grunts Green leaders and lame
wheeler! Lost thirty minutes on the Short Hills trip
hat i.
SO valuabe!
It's lot of satisfaction, joshin' Norry. When
YOU spring real good one, maybe he'll blink twice.
He never moves an eyelid this time; but waddes off
to the snokin' room. l pushes through the gang,
findin' some that l know, and finally comes across
Sadie and Mrs. Purdy-Pell haVln conndentlal
Couldn't do this at home, suppose?" says I.
"Is it anything you talk about before me?
0H Shortly says Sadie, givin' me the fyin tackle.
- You've got here at last: have you? Well,
something perfectly horrid has happened! -,
You've introduced somebody to his ex-wife?"
says l. ''Or has some of your young couples mated
up wrong?,
It want anything of the kind It's case of
missin' property. Mrs. Purdy-Pell had shed her
gold purse somewheres around the shop,-the one
with the amethysts in the top and the diamond
crown on the side,-and they'd hunted tor two hours
she thought she d left it on her dressn' table while
she ran down the corridor to get Sadies advice on
what regalia she should wear to lunch, and when
she got back there gold purse IN sight.
"Ah-ha!" says l, lookin' wise. Some OF the help
has mad love to it. Ell? Called in the seuths yet?
oh, dislike to send for detectives says Mrs.
Pel, land yet"
Il know" says Much in it,?
Only six eight ty-dollar bills says she.
"Oh, pooh!" says l. Pooh two or three times!
What's little matter of three four hundred to
'That'll do from YOU Shorty" says Sadie, cuttin
in sarcastic. You don't happen to know that the
purse itself is worth four five times as much as
that. Of course something must be done about
finding it. The question IS What!
Maybe you think answered that offhand Well,
I didn't The hest I could do was to let on to Mrs.