Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
NC SPLASHED BY DORIS
Drawings by F. Vaux Wilson
~1HO'D ever thought that my gettin
w int 'rested in a chap like Spencer
" would have led me into such session

as 1 had with Doris? Course, couldn't help r.
liking Spencer from the start, for he's one -
meanin youngsters. such always do get
along with first rate. So when he begins
droppin' into the studio regar him and me
gets more or less chunmy. And it's natural
l should notice any change in him, specially
when he takes glum look around the
mouth corners and acts like he wasn't
joyn life as he ought. In my own fool way =.
hands him jolly on it.
lis it case of reluctant liver" says |. "or
don't she want to be your Filipino BELIEF"
At that Spencer gets up little glow worm
gmmer on his cheekbones, and them solemn, :
deep set. gray eyes of his has kind Of far
away look knows b s5t be tb gt kind
of trouble. eh. Spencer? Well, don't you
care. You open your eyes wide next time
This only brings sigh out of Spencer. He
shoves his hands into his coat pockets and
drops his chin his collar. One of these
dark straight nosed serious faced young
chaps, Spencer is, and now he looks sad as
if he was listenin' to the benediction. was
expectin' him to come back with weak not
guilty" but instead of that he acts like it
was sort of relief to get confidential with
Il know" says he: "but I'm afraid mine
is serious IL haven't mentioned
it to anyone yet
"Not even to aunty?" says l.
YOU see Spencer's been brought up by an
old hawk of an aunt that's got all kinds
of money same as he has. he amt overloaded
with family advice such things He says aunty
has been too much occupied with her troubles
to notice his. and that she's still on the outside.
This gives him openin' to tell me about Doris.
and before he quits I'm posted on all the harrowin
details.
Seems he met her down to Avonhurst, or some
such place as that, above below Long Branch,
where aunty insists on spendin the summer instead
Of gong to ten1x or with the rest OF ner
up at one of them big front hotels, where they
harvest their fresh veg tables with opener,
and give you gas when you Pay your board bill
endures couple of weeks of it every season; but
it want till this last trip that he away with
sunburned shoulder blades and his heart in
sling:
This Doris was queen of the board walk chr"
She's beautiful girl" says Spencer Say,
Shorty wish you could her once"
with my susceptible nature, says l, maybe
it's just we'll didn't. What avenue does Doris
register FROM"
does it make where she's FROM"
"Gee!" says l. lis it as bad all that? Come,
is her home in Grand Rapids or Council Bluffs"
Spencer shakes his head, Now don't laugh
says he She's from Newark
Honest" saysI. DO you mean it? Oh, prunes!
Newark! Well. we'll! No. couldn't laugh at that,
Spencer you're too good snd OF a This
Newark! All, let's cheer up! 1t might have been
Paterson. But go on. What had Doris done to
deserve such fate?"
Spencer thinks she must have been born there
But there's and worse. Her last name is Cub
bngs
ANY relation to Cubbngs of the Peerless
1t comes out hard; but Spencer admits that Papa
Cubbngs is the that has his face printed on the
labels and painted on the signboards. He's the
But what of it," says Spencer With that he
sets his jaw hard and proceeds to state that he
wouldn't care if brother ran brewery and uncle
pawnshop; it wouldn't change his opinion of Doris.
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