New-York tribune., 1909-12-12

idea how light AMI ~
frivolous / can con
when | try real
hard. 1t don't take
me long, though. to ~
ind / amt maxim
any hrSt night hit. IN
After one glance up TO Suly.
see who 1t is. AttiSOD
drops his chin again
without favOrin' me
with a single remark IL want what vou might
call a bOlSterOUS welcome.
" Huh grunts. Maybe you think I a-ltlei
over here 10 indulge IN merry mOnOlogue. Saw Mr.
AttlSOn, l don't know what Your partic Jar crouch
IS and blamed If / care hOot; but this is Christmas
Eve and m prepared 70 overlook lot,
i beg pardon. SAYS he. rOusin' uD "bu--but
have Just had a severe blow. "A dreadful thing
has happened. Mr.. McCabe." Then / notices the
sheet OF nOtepaPer he's hOldin limp in his hand
What! says |. The cook amt handed her
resignation, has she:"
He sighs and shakes his head. Tits per-
sonal matter. Mr.. McCabe" says he. something
onei It's about Mrs. Attison. Shes-sae has
gOne!"
En-" says l. Skipped off on a visit
No, no! he groans, putin his hands ur 90 his
face and rockn back and forth She h-s-has
LETT me fOr-fOrever."
Whee-ewl" says 1. That Is some of a iot
amt it,"
/ ENPECT there was other words that might have
= htted the case better but l couldn think of en-.
And II $ such surprise. too Whv. whenever I've
seen the AttsOns together anywhere IT'S been
nothin but swappin' oh dearv dar1ns and
Yes, sweetheart, or Honey pet" I've walked
behind N clear up from the station watchiu EN-
swing hands all the way and go TO a Romeo clinCh
the minute they got inside their gate
m Now me and Sadie get along more OF less smooth.
We don heave the breakfast crOCkery at each other
or chuck the sarcastic harpOOn across the Inner
table but we don't feel called on 10 give any mushy
exhibitions public. That's been the AttiSOnS
speciality. though; so this sudden bulletin alout a
clean break-away leaves up in the air.
Course, my hrst thought is that he am such
heavy loser, after all; but something seemed tel
me that wouldn't be such SOOthin' reflection -1 put
out Just then. And yet, somehow, / COuldu get
wildly sympathetic don't know how Ia behave
II such a proposition was batted up 20 me, uut II
don't strike me Id sit very long with my head IN
my hands, lettIn out the grOanS Either I'll want
10 celebrate the event proper. else I'd fee, Ike
ruShln out and qualtyln some one for the accccnt
ward. But Allison, he acts Just soft as he looks
and the best | can do is give him an openin
hearSe the details of the tragedy.
Is it one of them thrillin redhelitary. Robert
Ch3moerS souSe scandals, says /. 'oT '"st a
casual family riot,
IL don't know" saws he We have been
drifting apart for months. Cur interests are no
longer common ones. She is very intellectual. YOU
know"
You don't sayl" says L. Il never would have
er-that is, she's a highbrow. eh,'
She has gone from thing 10 another. he
trails AT first it was New Thought then The
oSophy. then Buddhism; but she's been worse than
ever since she became one of the Souls of Light
Souls of Light" says l. That's a new one on
me. Branch of the Edison General Electric
MY guess want among the also-rans. Accordn
70 AttSOn this was collection of free and fancy
thinkers that had the Sunrise Club looking Ike a
Mothers congress. The things them Souls OF Light
erS didn't believe IN left the Ten Commandments as
full of holes as a Swiss cheese and what they did
believe would have raised blush on a brass monkey,
Seems that Mrs AttiSOn had got IN with some
nutty female that had tOwed her INTO this agge