Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-02

his company. She never starred
in part but she quiet and sensible and as
near to being my daughter as an orphan could.
Peetie and | were very fond of her.
"One morning when she frizzing her front
hair over my alcohol lamp said to her. 'Molie,
why don't you get married and leave the stage"
And she said, DO you know, I've often thought of
it-but I never found the man to suit me- And
said, Why there are men that would suit you just
hanging around loose You don't keep your eyes
open. There's John Sparrow, for instance She
Screached at that for she'd never passed two words
with the fellow.
Now liked John: he had such nice close ears.
I read about ears in the paper once and since then
I've not been friendly with the kind that flap; you
can't trust them. The only thing against John was
his bald head Young girls like Mollie take to men
with hair, but I've known some men that made real
good hearted husbands when they hadn't but few
spears to pet. Mrs. Crewes youngster used to
pray for John every night, God bless Mr.. Sparrow
and make his hair grow, but the Lord seemed to
will otherwise.
John came up in my sitting room that very day,
and what do Won think he asked me? What kind
of a girl is that Mollie? Do you know | believe
she's taken with me; she looked strange when
| passed her just now. I said to him real serious
John you ought to get married. Do it while your
eyesights young enough to pick good looking
girl And told him how nice and sensible Molle
was, and l could see that it worried him.
We'll they began to notice one another after
that, but they awful slow about it. hated
to see those two nice young people laundering for
someone but not having nerve enough to get
together. And John growing balder all the time
Then had an idea! Johns birthday came the
next week. and I said to him, John, Moe and
are going to bring you a birthday supper, up to
your rooms after the play He seemed real
pleased. Mollie appeared to like the plan too only
she didn't say much. But | caught her putting
bows on her white netdress and she did her hair
up in hair pins the night before. The marks OF
the pins were all over her head, poor girl she did
them so tight. But she a person who didn't
mind suffering if she looked nice in the end. And
she did look lovely in her white dress and her hair
frzzled like cloud. I could that she sur
prised John.
"The supper very nice one, with lots OF
chicken salad. That's my favorite-chicken.
Struggled in a few bottles of champagne just to
give the party real birthday look. Mollie and
John were tmid with each other at first; both of
them talked to me and they'd say, Now, Mrs.
Peete have another olive or, You're very light
with the salad Mrs. Petite. But this feeling of
shyness wore off, and after awhile I'd get up
between courses to look at Johns things round the
room so as to give them chance to thaw.
"They kept getting friendlier and friendlier and
we spoke toasts and snapped stories and mad a
real nice party. Well, | won't say how much after
three it was when John put us in our cab He
handed me in first, and could tell that he took
mighty long time to fix Mollie. l kind of looked
out of the window and talked, so that they
wouldn't feel | in the way or wanted to
hurry them. But all the time 1 was saying to
myself, Aha Mrs Peetie! I wonder how long
For I could judge from Johns eyes, in the
dark, that ring was on the way | wondered how
big it would be. John could afford a good sized
one and | heard Mollie say that she didn't enjoy
the sniveling little kind.
"Well you know, it wasn't week later when