Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-07-15
The Anyways
Call
nut Not when They were Expected.

break In one respect, cOmplainou tho
young married man. What I'm talk
ing about is this: Whenever anybody
or anybodies drop in Of an evening to
see us the wife and I look hke-well,
like tramps.
"Now, don't know why 1t Is, but In
New York it's hard to get folks to
name an exact evening for calling
upon you. You invite 'em to drop In
and see you on such and such an even
ing, but they always flag you 20 TAR
as any particular evening IL con-
cerned.
"'Oh, well look In on you some
evening next week. IL the way you
get It.
"And then, Of course. in your state
Of uncertainty during all Of the even
ings Of next week you've got to stand
by with your wife to greet visitors.
That's the way It works out with
us. Every evening this week we've
both been looking a. pretty a. the
dickens after dinner-until last even
ing.
ION Monday evening last, to begin
with, by way Of illustrating a lot OF
weeks we've passed through, said to
the wife:
"By the way, I met Jim Annyday
on Saturday. and he said he and Mrs.
Annyday'll be digging US up some
evening this week. So ! guess wed
better not get into the easy toys for
q while tonight, eh?'
"Of course she agreed with me. Now,
our easy toys, worn when were not
expecting anybody, are nothing short
Of disreputable. Well, when one or
the other Of US sounds the warning
that maybe there'll be visitors OF an
evening Of course we don't put on
this delightfully."- Slouchy makeup OF
ours.
1--WE fixed up and sat around on
Monday evening last In expectation OF
the Annydaya. The Annydays are q
swagger sort Of couple-thOugh I've
no doubt that In their hours Of relax
atinn they look just as bum as we do
and Of course we didn't dare to lake
q Akance on having them SAIL IN on u
and md US looking like q pair Of out
casts.
Tuesday evening, the same. But
the Anyways didn't show up Tuesday
evening either. The wife and sal
and yawned in each others faces and
read sort of abstractedly and felt sort
! Of stitf and sewed up and each had
q sneaking sort of longing for the
punkerinO old toys that permit Of SC
much Jolly comfort, but Of course We
couldn't switch 30 long as there wal
q chance for the Anyways to drop in
Same goes for Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. We sat around
stiG and wretched and yet in fear that
| II We permitted ourselves to get com
Portable the Notwithstanding tc
the dope we've kept on this thing, az
say, ever since we were married.
would happen again.
Last evening after dinner / fell
dog tired. It was hot, and I'd had Q
skewgee day at the once, and didn't
feel q little bit like sitting around In
company clothes.
Elm going to take chance, sayI
] to the wife. Those Annyday people
won't come out on a night Ike this
rain threatening and all that-even Il
they're even meaning to come. I'm
going to shed this gear and get into
the old stun. Might as well gamble
on their not coming tonight as any
other old night
"put wouldn't It be awful II they
were to come? said the wife. I really
am afraid myself to put on
"Oh, you've got to change into the
old STUFF II ! do, my DEAR said to her
IT wouldn't do q particle Of good Il
you were all fused up II they came
and caught me looking like a tramp
What's the difference? It'd be . give
away anyhow. So come on.
(Which we did. The wife removed
the nine or ten pounds Of suppOsiti
tious hair that abe packs around on
her head and climbed into the easy
stun, and me aimilar. We'd lust ga
rigged that way, and were spraddlet
out comfortably in the sitting room
me reading the baseball junk and thC
wife pulling on some best seller
when
But you know the rest Yes, Il
was the Anyways, logged to within
an inch Of their lives. The maid had
gone OF course, and ] had to answer
the bell. Ny wife hadn't time to make
her visit to her room to tidy up hatOFt
the visitors were IN the apartment
And there We we're. the pair Of VI
fairly caught!
Eve tried to square It. Of course
With q lot Of cheap wttticisms and