Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-20
A DREAMLAND AFFINITY.

gathering up her tumbling hair. sWell,
of all the easy marks, she's It'll Didn't
l tell you, honest? Well, then
WED Just got paid and Anna says
to me, Come along, Rosy, let's go down
| to Coney island. | feel flush and it's
so hot here | can't Breathe I wasn't
feeling so flush, so | said to her if she'd
90 by the stores with me first to get
some stockings and things and | had
money enough left, I'd 90 with her. Her
rooms near the factory so we got an
early start.
How about that summer suit you
was going to get when things was
marked down at Slegle's?' l says.
oh, she says, tossing her head,
money don't burn my fingers
| We'll, you'd better not carry it in
your stockings anyway told her You
know it was in the papers about a
woman having hers cut out when she
was getting on a street car.
"Oh. girls The weather just seemed
to know we was out for time and the
day was elegant. can remember Anna
said, when we got out of the trolley
down at the island, Amt this grand
day.! And | felt so good | could have
screamed
''The first thing we did was to drop
pennies into a slot machine for cards
with our fortunes on them. Mine said
was to marry before the end of two
years. Here Rosy stopped to puff her
hair which demanded all her attention
| for the time being, and the girls, some
with wet towels in their hands, some
with their rats" out, waiting for the
/ LraF n ba
closer interestedly.
Say, those men can look right in
here at us putting our rats in,' sud
denly cried Rosy, and marching over to
| the window, she pulled the curtain
down, much to the regret CT the foundry
hands across the air shaft Then pat
ting an enormous 'pomp," complacently,
she resumed:
"Anna's card said she was to meet her
fortune that nighT. She made believe
she didn't lay no store by what those
cards said but | noticed she kept her
hands up to her hair most of the time
pulling at her puffs, and she never
seemed to see nobody, but just prance,'
along with her head up in the air like
1920 racer You know she's swell
anyway, when she's dressed up and her
|
crowds kept getting bigger and rougher
and we began to get bumped on every
side. Finally a fellow pinched me and
| landed him one square in the jaw and
said Take that from your affinity!'
He never stopped to get my photograph,
| either, | can tell you. BY the time we
had got through Dreamland and had
stopped once or twice to hear the songs
! IN, In holl ha
awful hungry, so we bought some bo-
logna sandwiches and sneaked down to
the beach and eat them While we was
there in the dark, we heard two fellers
walking along and one said, Let's go to
Happy hail. There's dance on and lots
of peaches!' That give us tip and we
made for the ball. Say, girls. they were
playing the Merry Widow when we
arrived and you bet Anna and Rosy Just
naturally fell to and went swaying away
with that Donald Brian swing when sud
denly somebody took hold of my arm
and voice behind me said, while Anna
smirked at something over my shoulder.
This will never do. Allow me-
| "Of course, | couldn't funk when we
was out for time, so | let 60 and Anna
went floating away on the summer seas,
|
beach. | was kinder mad but | wasn't
to meet my fate until later and /
thought to myself that maybe Anna had
hers grabbed. But when / got good
| look at the guy / had my suspicious!
| He was all tuckered out in brown tie,
tan vest and light -colored pants, with
hint of tan about them, too, and a
swell fitting coat, | don't know what
nd ha ho II
was better than iced watermelon in July
| just to look on, so imagine what was
| happening to Annai
"He gave me one or two dances. but
even when he was going around with
me he was looking at her. He guessed
she hadn't been over long. by her brogt4c
or her complexion. and he Just poured
| Jolly into her-tott. her she was like a
beautiful wild rose and a lot of slush
| like that.
He suggested abort s O'Clock that
we'd go have something TO eat, said he
was as hungry as a wolf, hadn't eaten
anything for his dinner, but a little
consomme and an ice! We said we
hadn't either and giggled / love soft
she'll crabs and figured on them and some
pineapple cream cooling me off" and
| Rosy gave a suggestive pat before fas-
tening final pin in the aggressive pom
padour. But in our promenade to the
restaurant, he stops suddenly as though
he just remembered something.
Upon my life, l do believe / left nv
pocketbook in my other clothes
Did you walk to Coney islandY saws
| quick as lightning, smelling a rat. but
Anna looked daggers at me for treading
on her affinity, so l didn't press the re-
mark
Do either of you girls happen to
have any change with YOU he asked.
kind of annoyed by his forgetfuIness.
I will give you my check and Won can
cash it at any of the city banks,
Never mind said, were not so
terrible hungry. rs we had q late lnnnh