Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

maybe 1t isn't quite millOn--is bound to
make the we-hope-it-is- Cloisonne cup shed
sort of an opaline glow, indicating thin
ness, you see.
CloisOnne cups and saucers, believing of
course, as We buy 1t, that we're going TO
have the highly ornamental black leather.
satin-lined case in which the cups and
saucers are shown by the auctioneer.
In this we are mistaken.
The highly ornamental case doesn't go
with EN- at all. Whereupon We repine.
Our repinings are assuaged somewhat by
the belief that we have obtained bar
gain. We paid only $3.50 for the bee-yu-
ti-ful set of are-they-sure-enough Clois-
onne cups and saucers. Only $3.50.
However. today We meet a miserable
specimen of humanity-Washingto per-
son. at that-whO tells us that only yes
terday at the same auction rOom-when
business was Stacker and suckers fewer
he got pree-cisely the same kind of a set
or cups and saucers for $3.50
Seven large metallic bucks or bones
tossed idiotically into the saline sea. or
just as good as tossed therein! We rage,
We gurgle. We foam. but there's no help
ing it, There is no Gileadean balm for
the Stung.
However, we declare never again for
those Nipponese auction rooms.
1t is vain declaration We shall be
In those auction rooms again this after
noon, wiStfully examining more almost
Cloisonne. The red flag in front pulls
us in. The persuasive sound of the auc-
tioneer's voice drags US from our Board
walk saunter
Oily boys. those auctioneers in the Jap
art places.
Flattering chaps too They tell US that
they are surprised at us for not bidding,
because il ever folks looked as If they
had money to burn. why. we look that
way to them.
We endeavor to look. then, as if We are
not swelling up. but We are. all the same.
1t is agreeable to have even a Boardwalk
auctioneer inform us that We look the
part TO him. even if we know perfectly
we'll down in the crypt of our subcon-
seriousness that he Is merely spreading
on the salve. SO to speak.
Then he becomes supplicatory Suppli-
catory. l believe. has something or other
to do with imploring or pleading. He
pleads with us. Tells us that. really. we
owe it TO ourselves. to our children, to
our grandchildren. to our great-grandchil-
dren-carry it along as far as you like
TO purchase-and now-some of this gal
lorius Satsuma and Cloisonne, not to
mention the singularly unhefty teakwood
furniture and the bulgy bronZes of fee
rocious dragons and SIGH. and the dinner
Songs and so on. Thus. after a Bit he
sort of convinces us that in buying those
things-and buying them now-well be
sort of installing ourselves with our re-
mote progeny as art lovers and all like
that.
IT'S a quaint idea. fiattering. as / say.
to our sense of fitness. And SO We fall
again Auction-room falling Is the neat
est thing We do in Atlantic City. We're
peerless as Nipponese auction room fall
ers. Worse than that we're Nipponese
auction room grovelers, nothing less.
Guilty. conscious that already we have
four sets of those five-in-a-row gongs-
in storage-we fall again and buy an
other set. We pay $50 for this set. Then
a hoarse. SNUG Philadelphia Of our ac-
quaintance-the scoundrel.-informs us.
before we get out of the door with our
bargain. that yesterday afternoon he