Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-29
UNDER DISCUSSION.

the woman with the carroty hair and
the wedge countenance and the san
culinary wart on the left cheekbone and
the sibilantly raucous voice. She was
saying things, before curtain raise, and
between Curtains, to her ladifren, WHO
appeared to enjoy it.
We'll, well" she said, did you read
in the papers that Mrs. Foarfioosh-you
know the giddy, namby pamby, moody
naddy creature-she lives near me up
in Mount Pleasant-that she was robbed
of $4,000 worth of diamonds while trav-
cling in sleeping car on her way to
Ohio to see her folks? Wouldn't that
make plaster-of paris image die "a
laughing? | certainly thought / should
expire when / read that. ! thought die
| would Because. my dear. you know
that If Mrs. Foarfloosh ever had $4,000
worth of diamonds, all at one time, she'd
get water on the knee, she'd be so ex-
cited. Deed she would.
You know, she had few ordinary
diamond rings, just like anybody else's,
and a pair of old fashioned diamond
earrings, mounted, in fact, like my
grandmother's cameo earrings used to
look; and that's ALL The papers said
that her emerald and diamond brooch
that was stolen was worth $1o0o-la,
la, lai
IF she was robbed at all, I'll bet the
robber felt cheap when he looked the
stuff over. But I don't believe she was
robbed at ALL Sh-sh Now, you
needn't mention this, but she's always
playing poker and bridge with the
har- pIa, al fysx- - 4 L.
bills, and I'd be willing to bet ANYTHING
that she got into a tight fix that way
and couldn't get out any other way. and
that she pawned or sold the few real
things she had, and then fixed up that
fairy tale about having her things stol-
en- from beneath her pillow in sleep
ing car on her way west to see her
people.
when read about it / told my hus-
band what | thought, and, hoity -toity,
you should have heard the mani My
dear, you don't know what ! suffer at
my husbands hands lately. He is be-
coming perfectly intolerabe. for he ups
and defends every living, breathing
creature that / so much as open my
mouth about, until | am all but dis
tracted | wouldn't mind it so much if
he wasn't so stingy in defending me
when he
4That reminds talking about
stingy folk--I knew l had something to
tell youl | always knew those Gitbye
folks who have the fiat below ours were
almost mean enough to take in their
own washing, but, lawsy me! | never
expected to hear what the janitor's wife
told me this very morning-the janitor's
wife does our washing, you know. Well,
she told me that she caught Mrs. Git
bye yesterday evening in the very act
of cutting Mr.. Gitbye's hair! Did You
ever hear OF anything more deliciously
ridiculous in all our born days? The
ianitor's wife walked into the Gitbye's
fiat without ringing--the Gitbyes are
too neasly to keep a maid for any
length of time, you know, and so the
ianitor's wife washes the dinner dishes
for them most of the time-and as she
passed the bedroom there was Gitbye,
sitting in chair near the window, with
a towel around his neck and Mrs. Git
| bye lowering around him with the
shears was telling my husband about
| ii before he went to the office this
morning, but, of course. he had some
| kind of a pat defense all ready, as he
always has lately. My dear, you will
never know in this wide world what |
| suffer. Actually, there are times when
nv husband seems to take positive de-
| light in treating me like an old shoe
! "Gracious sakes alive, talking about
shoes, | knew there was something else
| | had to tell you'll You remember how
that Tightly, giggly Mrs. Wahmbabe,
that you met at our fat a few times,
| always brags about what small foot
she has. and how she is sticking her
feet out from beneath her skirt all the
time when the men folks are around, so
that they'll remark about her feet. and
how she is always claiming that she has
| to get her shoes made to order because
they don't make ready made shoes
small enough TO fit her feet2
''Well, l dropped into Fittem's shoe
store on Seventh street yesterday aft
ernoon to price some russets l saw in
the window, and who should / see there
getting a pair of shoes fitted on but
that braggy Mrs. Wahmbabel
This pair is three and a half |
heard the clerk say to her as he showed
her pair of shoes-and after all her
Dragging that she always had her shoes
made to order and that they always cost
her IS a pair! She tried her best to
keep her face turned sort of sideways,
but wasn't going to let her get out of
it that easy, deed / wasn't: and so
sat down right beside her, and you ought
to'se seen the different colors of red she
took on under her enameli She tried
to tell roe that she was only trying to
find pair of rough walking boots fer
long rambles out in the country. and
all that: but / saw the clerk looking
queerly at her when she said that. |
think if she could have murdered me
then without anybody finding it ont
she'd have done it without minutes
hesitation; and me-oh my, how / did
enjoy it. la, la!
"'This is a 3D. the clerk went on.
and l think it'll Just fit you-it's the
same size as you've been wearing' And
she'd been telling everybody. maybe you
remember, about how her shoe size was
&c. She was so venomous about if that
she demanded the clerk TO put on her