Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-16
BOSBYSHELLS AT
HOME AT LAST
FRIENDS PURSUE THEM IN RE-
LENTLESS FASHION
MAKE THE NIGHT HIDEOUs WITH
cEAsELEsS DIN
Nothing Capable of Less Noise Than a
Wash Boiler or a Dishpan ALI
lowed to Contribute to STAR
light Harmony

BILLY" Bosbyshell is home, and with
him came the bride. If there had been
no bride. then there would have been
far less merriment along gasoline row,
and "Billy's" return might have re-
quired less conspicuous announcement.
To the announcement of the Rosby-
shells return might be added the other
fact that the newly married couple nave
been holding open house ever since.
Not, perhaps because of their blind de-
votion to sociability, but rather because
their friends and neighbors invited
themselves in, even after the more "
less dazed young couple had endeaVoreu
to lock the doors. Had Billy not
been of that auburn complexion that
guarantees good nature, even though It
may be associated with an effervescent
temper of short duration, and had not
he been able within the brief days OF
their married life to have induced his
wife to look up to him in Difference
and with respect when matters of grave
moment were at stake, it is not beyond
the bounds of possibilities that more
serious finale might have been written
to the really scandalous methods en-
ployed by the friends of the Bosbyshells
during their joyous honeymoon.
These friends were not content with
having plastered the cozy Bosbyshell
bungalow with lurid streamers an
nouncing in no uncertain terms that
the Bosbyshells were really married
and were to occupy that particular
dwelling on their return and then with
having advertised their heartless work
to the sordid curiosity of gaping
strangers, but they went so much
further as to make one wonder just
what sort or brand of philosophy actu-
ates the minds and hearts of this truly
patient couple.
Thursday night the word in some tel
epathic manner went hastily the rounds
announcing the return of the Bosby-
shells on that particularly bright and
slInshiny afternoon. One word seemed
to be enough. Had more words been
said the end might not yet have been,
With the gathering of the shadows
came the gathering of the denizens OF
the neighborhood and those from other
neighborhoods. Everyone showed per-
feet preparedness, as if in training.
Those that did not possess washboiler,
at least had a fog horn or dishpan,
which only required a stick of cord
wood to convert it into a musical in
strument of doubtful harmony but OF
unquestioned volume.
A few things like locks, bolts and
barricades were of but passing obstacle
to the bowling mob. The lights within
were turned out almost before they
We're turned on, and whether billy
viewed the destruction to lawn, flower
beds and lattices from a safe position
beneath the bed, while his wife stood
guard at the keyhole, or whether he
was kept busy in preventing her from
discharging the contents of the family
blunderbuss into the crowd it was diff
ficult to ascertain.
Neither has Mrs. Bosbyshell made
any strenuous efforts to return these
whole-souled neighborhood calls dur
ing the days that have followed.
From midnight on the din grew grad
ually less, as the younger generations
of the Bosbyshell enVirons We're forced
to seek their cots, but by. o'clock in
the morning only "Billy's" partner, L.
r. Carpenter; his close friend, George
Book, and a few other close friends
were left to occasionally remind him
from that hour till daylight that the
house was well guarded and no fears
of burglars need be apprehended from
within.