Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22

over her oldest to where we vas set
TIM. an introduces me to him. 'Yon.
Miss Hendy" Well to save my soul !
couldn't UP an tell i'm right there in
front O the whole boat that | was
Missis. Thinks I, I'll tell i'm later.
He was real polite an got me some
something fierce-an'-''
"A good thing. too" muttered Mrs.
F'rlZz with a sinister air.
"How's that?" asked Mrs. Hendy.
"Nothin'? Well, the lady she makes me
about me. an my hair comm in like it
did. an me havin' the elegant job as I'd
told her before. He KEEP lookin' at me
pretty close, an begun to act real flirty
did you speak?
Il must say he was a nice fellow"
Mrs. Hendy proceeded consciously. again
taking up the white celluloid comb and
making a few delicate passes through
her flowing hair.
well. Miss Frizz. you may well say
I'm a guilty woman. An I'm that
ashamed. / didn't encourage i'm none.
be 1t far from me! But when that band
begun to play an they was dancin.' 1
give you my word, I couldn't a-kep' my
boat tied to each of them. I don't s'pose
We danced more'n eight times. an then
1 begun to git kinda nervous thinkin'
what me, a decent married woman was
utes. it come over me how the lady
would be THROWN a tits if she knew.
Well. I had to laugh. I got SO giggly
an hystericy over it that the boy he
grand time, an begins to git fresher'n
paint.
'What-do you wear them veils-'"
Huh" snorted Mrs. Frizz.
''--for?' he says, an says, To keep
me peaches an cream complexion from
the freckles'-just like that! I had to
laugh. Ever since I fell down them
steps out there-you'd added to see me
it give me the rheumatism. an dane
in SO much I begun to feel 1T In my
feet.
~ guess I'll set down an rest a
while, I says to him. You go an git
some other lady to spiel with you now.
Mercy to goodness, Miss Frizz. If he
didn't up an say he didn't want no other
lady but me-bolder'n brass.
He talked real Swedey-I wisht
could initiate how he done it. twas that
funny An ! begun to git scared. He
was fer SEEM my face all the time, an
1 had to keep actin kinda kitteny SOS
to you If any woman wouldn't be tickled
some to be thought twenty years
younger'n what she is-not but some
t tries hard d ;. enough to fool folks into
Del1eN1n IL.
Mrs. Frzz groaned dismally ''Of all
the bold pieces she sighed under
her breath "Twenty.-thirty"
FINALLY I sends him to git me a drink
O. water. an while he was gone I
slipped away an hid in the crowd Well,
when he come BACK he was just like n
wild Indian runnin' round loose huntin'
fer me. An if you'll believe it he
tracked me right down in no time.
pulls out my card-his mother give it to
hin,-an' begins to jabber Sarah, Sarah.
Sarah till I could a-sunk right through
that deck with shame-I could. indeed.
Gimme that card says I, off-hand.
L want to see f l give you the right
one When got it back I could a-cried
with the relief. l fused around with it
we was right by the rail--an' the first
thing it dropped overboard-tooK by the
wind" Mrs. Hendy winked knowingly
at Mrs FrizZ, who nodded somberly. Il
says. TO think it's the only one l got"
He was madder'n a push-cart man when
he see it so. How ! know where you
live" he says-just like that. I'll write