The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05

the man S Eeau, wearing HeE CfllAl very
high. He was past middle age. rather
handsome. To me he seemed person
of some distinction. He had prepared
to bow, but accepted the situation with
eQuanimity. Ny companion offered no
explanation. and I asked none but kept
slipping more and more life to the four
wings under Us, until she lost her nerve
and cried;
ooh, sweetheart, that's enough!
You'll have me saying my Hail, Marys'
in a momentl Whee-l'
When we reached her home she said
do you want to do something for
me?"
"What?'
call me Vangie"
No one guessed as we entered Muir
rays that the little person in the prin-
cess coral Grape gown, black Gains
gloves, who froufrOued between the
tables with an air Of such cool elegance,
had followed a sleepless night with six
hours hard rehearsal. The mysterious
rose and ivory Of her cheeks had been
retOuched, her hair rewaved. She might
have but now risen from her beauty
sleep and come straight from the hands
of her maid. so pretty she was, so
serenely alive TO the eyes that followed
her as mice the Piper. She might al
most have been a lady, except
Now 1 cannot at once put my pen,
which does not pretend to morals nor
psychology, on the exception. We sat
down, and while she ordered things in
chatting dishes, things on pIanks and
things IN coolers. giving me no choice
except that peremptOry little "h'm?" Of
hers, 7 studied her in the soft light Of
the huge blue globes and the Pom
peiian lamps, and I had to admit that
she was Of an elusive gamin pTettiness
that penetrated and charmed. There
was a cOaxing, fiexuOus sOftness about
her whole personality that bewitChed.
A little exotic flower, native to the
Fairgrounds Of a great city, her busi-
ness in life was to catch the eye, to
please the senses rather than the mind;
and in taking the line of least resist
ance which was her sex, the means to
an end had become habit.
In ordering the dinner she took It for
granted that I liked everything she
liked, and full portions at that.
might have suggested that was Unac-
customed TO eating more than half a
domestic duck at one sitting, even
when pressed, but Vangie assured the
astOnished waiter that we required
two. Her only comment was. when
that course in the professional march
and countermarCh Of food arrived;
"Oh. didn't he bring a lot Of duck I
wish they'd play Violets.'
Mostly Vangle ordered Just to see
what they tasted like" and I comfort
ed myself with the hope OF getting a
hat out Of the possible hundred dollars
anyway. 7 had had, though I do say it
who shouldn't, more than squash pie
T1r
chewing gum; and while 1 fatter my
self that I put up a good fight, L was
counted out comparatively early in the
game.
'Dearie, you're not eating a thing"
She gabled her eyebrows inquiringly,
her nOstrils played like the nose Of a
white mouse. say, but you're the
canary bird with food! Is there any
thing you'd like better?"
COnhdentiaIly: 'FrankfUrteTs and
sauerkTaut!"
Vangie was amazed. Here? Now?
After ali that?"
1 did my best to preserve a sober
cOuntenance, but the disillusion that
crept into her face, with doubt sus-
piciOn. disdain, lowering behind, was
too much for me, and I succumbed.
"Oh, you" she exclaimed, painting
"Oh no, you. HO-hO-hO-hO. YOU" each
time louder, as laughter got the upper
hand. She curled her fist in the air
threatening: Der will be a zOrrOwful
happenings near here sometime vet
soon. Ach, HimmeIl Freckheit!-
But that reminds me" she rippIed on.
when her shoulders had stopped flick
ering, Il used to like hot dogs myself
One night 1 was standing in the wings
eating a frankfurter sandwich when
Z n ---rA H. .
co with it. I had no pocket and ]
couldn't trust it to the other girls be
cause-Oh, but We were the hungry
| bunch. So I tucked it down here" She
spread her hand like a silvery starfish
on her bosom. well. of course. when
/ began danCing-you know how it is
my clothes got loose aud-pOpI-Out
jumped the frankfurter on the stage
l The gallery got wise TO it. The leading
man went dippy. Gee, it was fercel
They had to ring down the curtain
and little Nangie lost her joblets."
'I suppose there are lots or little
jealousies in the chOrus?" I continued
like a reporter.
'Jealousies-oh, Ia, la remember q
ballet dancer who had it i'm for me be-
cause I didn't wear symmetrica1s and
she had to, though she never admitted
it. 'Symmetricalsi' shee'd say, and put
her nose up this way-see ?-this way
1 don't even have to wear gartersu
And. my very. only dear, 7 wish
YOU could have seen them-like Christ
mas tree stockings; YOU couldn't tel
which were oranges and which knees
Well. anyway, she had a beautiful fig
ure from the front and there was a
fellow in love with her. Oh. he was the
sickest thing My word Trembled SO
ne couldn't light a cigarette, and got
all sObbed Up whenever she spoke tC
him. A prizetighter think. One night
she and me were coming out of the the
atre together and he met us and she
as usual gave him her bundle to carry
Just as We got into the light at the
corner it dropped and smashed open on
the cement. And here. right in plain
/ sight. like somebody who had fallen
/ thirty-fve stories and had oil her bones
broken, were the symmetricaIs.
Good gracious. kiddO,' he says
whut's them?'
That's what you're in love with
| says 7.
Wei, sir. he twenty-threed it across
| the street without even saying night
| highland she's passed me the mitt
/ ever since. Sort of a catty thing to do
wasn't it? But she deserved it. Oh. ]
could tell you some
The waiter brought the bill and my
/ heart sanl1-S23 even. 1 f1atter myself
/ shat l paid that bill with as much SANG
froid as that with which Vangie the
| while powdered her nose. 1 tossed a So
nOte-tossed it!-on the plate and went
on talking. 1t is true 1 don't know
what I said, but I'm sure I talked. ]