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

where it's warm. Then they all chips
in for the new Tenth-avenue fat Mag
gle brings her man and the two kids,
the lady Kate sends around her trunks
with the furniture. and Nora promises
TO give mp half of her twenty to keep
things going.
And then the BYadys. who lives OPP
posite. has to spring their blow out.
They d been married forty years, too:
but Just because one of their boys was
in the fire department and Lizzie Brady
was workin in a Sixth-avenue hair
dressin parlor, they d no call to fash
sach a bluff-frosted cake from the
baker, with the date done in pink
candy. candles burnin on the m4rtel
piece. whole ease of St. Louis on the
front fire escape. and the district boss
drivin around in one of Connely' S
! funeral hacks Who are the Bradys
that should have weddin' celebrations
when the billions had none?
Kate, the lady sales person, handed
out that coRundrum. She supplies the
answer. too. She allows that what a
BRADY can make try at, a Dillon can
do like il ought to be done. So they We
no sooner had the gas and water turned
on at the new fiat than she draws up
plans for a weddin anniversary that II
make the Brady performance look like
a pan of beans beside a standing rib
roast
She knows what's what. the lady
Kate does. She's been to the real
things, and they calls 'em sat homes -
in Harlem. The billions viii be at home
Sunday the 10Th, from half after four
until eight. and the BTadys can wag
their tongues off, for all she cares. It III
be in honor. of the fortieth wedding an
| niversarv of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Dillon. and all the family connections,
and all friends of the same, is to have
bid.
ST Gets the Enacting Clause
''Well, that's the limit!'' says I.
FDid you tell the girl they'd better
| be layin in groceries, instead of givin
an imitation tea?'
Certainly mott" says Sadie. "'Why
shouldn t they enjoy themselves in their
own way2'
"Eh9'' SAYS I. ''Oh. I take it all
back. But what was the eye swabbin
| for. then?''
BY degrees I gets the enacting clause.
The arrangements for the party was
goin' on lovely-Larry was havin the
buttons sewed on to the long tailed
coat he was married in. the scene sift.
er had got the loan of some stage props
| to decorate the front room, there was
| to be ice cream and fancy cakes and
/ ladies punch. Father Kelly had prom,
| ised to drop in. and all was runnin ;
1
loose.
| And what do you guess is the matter
with herr She wants her Loyshy. IF
there was TO be any family convention
and weddin celebration why couldn t
she have her little Aloysius to it9 She
didn t care split spud how he a be-
| haved, or if him and his father had had
words; he was her youngest b y. and
she thought more of him than all the
rest put together, and she wouldn Z
have hand in any doin's that 'Loyshy
was barred from comm TO.
As Nora puts it, ''When the old lady
speaks her mind you got to listen or
go mad from her. She don t talk of
anything else, and when she ain t
talkin she's erwin her eyes out. Old
Larry swore himself out of breath, the
lady Kate argued, and Maggie had done
her best; but there was nothin doin !
They d got to find Aloysius and ask
him to the party or call it off.
But fndin 'Loyshy wa n t any cinch.
He'd left the army long ago. He
wa n t in any of the ifteen-cent Iodgin
houses. The police didn t have any
record of him. He didn't figure in
the hospital lists. The nearest any one
came to locatin him was a handbook
man the scene shifter knew. who said
he d heard of 'Loyshy hangin' around
the Gravesend track summer before
last: but there was no use lookin for
him there at this time of year. II
wa n t until they d promised to adver,
tise for Aloysius in the papers that
Mother Dillon quit takin on and agreed
to wear the green silk she d had made
for Nora s christenin'.
eyes, and what then?' says I.
! "Why.' saws Sadie, 90 Nora S afraid
that if Aloysius doesn't turn up he1
mother will spoil the party with. an
other crying spell; and she knows if he
does her father viii throw him cut.
''She has happy way of lookin
at things" says I. ''Was ii for thi;
you cut out going to Roekywold?"
"Of course says Sadie. ''T am tt
pour tea at the billions on Sunday aft
ernoon. You are to come at ., and
bring Pinckney
All. pickles, sadie!'' says 7. eth.
isl
please, shortvl" says she. "I'vt
told Nora you would -
It's Dippy Move.
"In put it up to Pinekney," says
/, I, g and if he's chump enough to LEI
himself loose in Tenth-avenue society
inst to help the billions put it over tht
: Bradgs. / expect III be a mark, too
But it 5 a dippy move. "
Course. I mistrusted how Pinckney
would take it. He thinks he's got ms
on the rollers. and proceeds TO shove
: He hash t heard more n half the tall
before he begins handin me the 1osr
about it s bein' my duty to spread sun
shine wherever I can.
! ''Tt's calcium the billions want. >
, says I. but I hadn' t got TO tellin
you about Aloysius
what s that?'' says he. ''Aloysiu,
, Dillon. did YOU sav?'