The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-07
Shorty Does a ParIor Stunt

They've had one grand smashup: she's
sent back the ring and the letters; and
| it looks like a certain Count Frizetti
had a clear field down the home stretch.
And there isn't another place where
We can get them to meet that the
Count won't be under foot all the
time" says Sadie; $50 Gertie simply
must have a party"
suppose one of your pair of trace
jumpers balks at gettin' into such close
range with the other?" says /.
"GooseT' says Sadie. do you think
we're going to tell them?"
| Gee, Sadieg' says l. why not
! sandbsg EN-? It's simpler"
I But my little side remarks on such
|. things don't carry any more weight
with her than minority report at a
/ packed caucus. She only let's loose a
J laugh and chucks q sofa pillow at me:
I and by the time we've righted the
chairs and Strengthened out the rugs,
and Sadie's got over her merry fit, I've
| forgot what it was all about
But I'm reminded of it a few days
later, when Ssdie's had the steamer
/ trunk tied on the back of the tourin'
car, and is about to start for Sound
/ mere. 'Oh. by the way" says she
/ you're to come up Friday night for
over Sunday, you know"
MeF' says l. All quit your kid
| din, Sadie! What's the use lugsin'
I me into this hearts-asunder business ?
I'd only get my feet tangled in the
boWknots and have Cupid calm for
I help. You play this as a lone hand"
I shall send Pinckney down after
you in the car, then" says she, and
off she goes.
Well, l puts in a couple of busy DAYS
at the studio, and eats a couple of lone
some dinners at the hotel, and when
| Pinckney does show up I'm Just in the
act of THROWN my patent leather shoes
into the grip on top of my dress shirt.
and am as ready to go out to Sound
mere as If these backward spring house
parties was what lived for.
Hope they've fixed up that awful
Madge and Reggie tragedy before this,
though" says I, as We climbs in on
the leather seats and gives Henri the
word to turn on the third speed.
Pinckney chUckles. They haven't -
says he, 'aud what is more, they're in
the loveliest tangle you ever saw. Sa-
die doesn't know which way to turn.
and Mrs. Purdy-Peil is fairly grinding
her teeth. she's so vexed"
DON'T says J. 4 can't stand these
sudden shocks. Is it a case of Marie
and Reggie still stickin' their tongues
out at each other?''
Not at all" says Pinckney; but
they're too much interested in Gussie
and the Widow Bill"
The widow! Say, Pinckney," SAYS
/. come across with that last once
more, and say it slower"
Beg pardon, old man., SAYS he:
but thought you had heard of VII
helmina- We call her the Widow Bill
for short, you know"
Seems that she was a kind of stem
cousin of Mrs. Purdy-Pelrs. and she'd
come up from her place down on Long
Island for a visit, Just in time SOS
they couldn't dodge countin' her in ON
the party. But they didn't look for
any trouble from her, she bein' one
of the kind that's perfectly satisfied II
she has horse to ride and a couple
OF setter dogs for comP'ny, She's a
real sod widow. with no past and
blamed little future.
But this Gussie ='T; who's she2"
says ].
"She?' says Pincknev. why. that's
Augustus Van Pelt Rhiue.anderl"
On, that real ladylike little chan
pie with the rosebud mouth and the
albino hair?" says I. What kind of
collection have YOU got I'D there.
yway.SPinekney?
He explains that Gussie was invited
because he's so handy at decoratin'
and thinkin' up stunts. About q 5 harm
less as a white rabbit, Gussie is. so 7
asks how it was he'd been interferin'
And what do you think? Marjorie and
Reginald, while bein' as polite to each
other as you please, no sooner finds
themselves corralled under the same
roof, than they pairs off with these
two freaks. Marjorie pretendin' to be
awful chummy with the widow. and
Reggie strikin' up a sudden liking for
Augustus. followfn' him around like a
mastiff guardin a pet spaniel OF
course its just a bluff. Pinckney saws:
for a big. husky chap like Reginald
can't get any real joy out of the So
ciety of such a mollycoddle as Gus
sic: and the Widow Bill amt Marjorie's
style at all.
But it prevents Sadie and Mrs
Purdy-Pell from working their little
scheme; don't you seq" says Pinck-
ney. And the whole situation. is per-
feetly killing to watch