The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-24

void for the week end; but Friday
night when m let off at the seventh
floor of the Perzazzer-and say, no
matter how many flights up home is,
there 5 no place like it-who should 1
see but Sadie, just takin' off her hat.
Across by the window is one of the
chambermaids, leanin' up against the
easing and snifin' into the expensive
draperies.
well, WELT" says 7. els this
rehearsal for a Hank Ibsen sprinkler
scene, or is it a ease of missin jewels2"
cts nothing of the sort, Shorty"
says Sadie, giving me the shut-off sig
nal Then she turns to the girl with
There, there, Moral Everything win
be all right. And I will be around
Sunday afternoon. Run along now, and
don t worry" With that she leads
Nora out to the door and sends her
away with shoulder pat.
"Who S been getting friendly with
the help now, Ell, Sadie9" says I. "And
: what's the woe about7'
Course, she begins at the wrong end
and throws in lot of details that only
numbers up the record; but after she g
been talkin for half an hour-and
Sadie can separate herself from lot
of language in that time-I gets a good
workin outline of this domestic TRACE
dy that has left damp spots on our
window curtains.
It amt near so harrowin' though, as
YOU might suspect. Seems that Nora
has the weepin habit. That's how
Sadie come to remember havin seen
shiftin so often. Folks like Mrs Pur.
-dy Pell and the Twombley- Cranes can t
keep a girl around that s liable to weep
into the soup or on the card tray. If
it wa n t for that, Nora d been all
right; for she's a neat lookin' girl
handy and willin one of these slim,
rosy-eheeked, black haired, North of
Ireland kind, that can get big wages.
Wen, she d changed around until she
lands here in the fresh linen depart,
ment, workin' reg Tar twelve-hour
shifts, one afternoon off week, and a
four-bysix room up under the copper
roof, with all the chance in the world
to weep and no one to pay any atten,
tion to her, until Sadie catches her at
it. Trust Sadiei
Asks for the Awful Facts
When she finds Nora leakin' her
trOuoies out over an armful of clean
towels she drags her in here and asks
for the awful facts. Then comes the
fam 'ly history of the billions, begin
min on the old rent at Ballyshann0n
and endin in a fve-room fat on Double
Fifth avenue. When she comes to men
tionin Larry Dillon L pricks up my
ears
What Not the old flannel mouth
that's chopped tickets at the Thirty
third street station ever since the L was
built7n says I.
He's been discharged, says Sadie.
Did You know HING
Did | know Larry2 Could any one
1--we In this burg as long as | have with,
out gettin acquainted with that old
country face, or learnin' by heart his
Ha-a-a ar lent hr-r-rainl Ha-a-a-ar,
lem >? There s other old-timers that
has the brogpe, but never one could
touch Larry A purplefaced, grumpy
Old pirate, with a disposition as cheer
ful as a man waitin his turn at the
dentist s, and heart as big as a ham
he couldn t speak a civil word if he
tried; but he was always ready to hand
over half his lunch to any whimperin
newsy that come along, and he 5 lent
out more niekels than ell ever see
again.
But aboute-the other billions. I got
my first news from Sadie. There wa.
four of 'e.a, besides Nora. One wa:
Tom, who had a fine steady job. drivin
coal cart for the Consolidated
credit to the family, Tom was; havin
wife and six kids of his own, besid,
votin the straight Tammany t;eke
since he was 10. Next there was Mag
gle, whose man was on the stage
shlftin scenery. Then there was Kate
the lady sales person, who lived will
the old folks. And last there wa
Aloysius, the stray; and wherever h,
was, Heaven help him. for he was n,
use ~hataver
<sI take it that 'Loyshy's' tn
brunette Southdown of the DiIlol
fock.N says l. ''What particular bran,
of eussedness does he make a speeialt,
Off"
Sadie says that Nora hadn t gon
much into particulars. exeert that whel
last heard of he'd joined the Saliva
tionists, which had left old LAIR,
frothin at the mouth He'd threat
ened to break Alovsius into two piece
on sight, and he put the ban OF
speakin his name around the house.
Following the Tambourine.
'Followin the tamhqurine.t saws I
<'That 5 a queer stunt for Dillon. Tn
weeps was for him. then9''
They wa mt. Loyshy' 5 disappearin
act had been done two or three year
back. The tears was all on account O.
the fortieth weddin' anniversary of tn
billions. fallin as it did Just a weel
after Larry had the spell of rheumatism
which got him laid off for cood II