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

He only grins aud looks mysterious.
We don t have to hunt for the number
eff the billions fat house, for there :
a gang of kids on the front steps and
more out on the street gawpin up at
the lighted windows. We makes a dive
through them and tackles the four
flight. passin inspection of the tenants
on the way up, every door bein oFen.
fWho s comm nowf'i- sings out a
woman from the second floor back.
"Only a couple of WiIlies from the
stores,' says a gent in his Shirt sleeves,
givin us the stare.
Something Fine and Classy.
From other remarks we heard passed
it was clear the billions had been tootin
this party as something fine and classy,
and that they wa n t making good. The
signs of frost grows palmer as we gets
nearer the scene of the festivities. An
the Dillon family was there, right
enough, from the youngest kid up. Old
Larry has had his face scraped till it
shines like copper stewpan, and him
and Mother Dillon is standin' under
green paper bell hung from a hook In
the ceiling. | could spot Tom, the coal
cart driver, by the ring of dust under
| his eyelashes; and there was no mis-
| takin lady Kate, the sales person, with
the double row of coronet hair rolls
| pinned to the top of her head. Over IN
| the corner, too, was Sadie, talkin to
| Father Kelly. But there wa mt any
great signs of joy.
| The whole party sizes up me and
Pinckney as if they was disappointed.
| / can t say what they was lookin for
| from us; but whatever it was, we didn t
seem TO fill the bill. And just when
the gloom is seftlin down thickest,
Mother Dillon begins to sniffle
:" Now, mother" says Nora, soothin
like. remember there s company.
" All. bad scran to the lot of yez. -
siusa Where is he? VIII We tell me
that2'
'Divvle take such woman.'' says
old Larry.
ut, tutl' SAYS Father Kelly.
'tWiil you look at the Bradys now! >
whispers Maggie. hoarse like.
II wa n t easy guessin which win
dows in the block was theirs, for ev-
cry ledge has a pillow on it, and a
couple of pairs Of elbows on every pill
low; but / took it that the Bradys was
| where they was GRIMM widest. Yon
! could tell, though, that the merry laugh
| was bein' passed up and down, and it
was on the billions.
And then, as I was tryin' to give
Sadie the getaway sign, we hears a
deep honk outside, and [ sees the folks
| across the way stretchin their necks
out. In a minute there s seamperin
in the halls like a stampede at syna.
gogue, and we hears the "Ah-h-hsl' .
| comm up from below We all makes
a rush for the front and rubbers GU,
to see what s happenin'. BY climbin
on a chair and peekin' over the top
of the lady Kate hair puffs, I catches
a glimpse of big yellow and black
bodied car, with footman in a bear,
skin coat holdin open the door.
"O-o-o-ohl Look what s herei''
squeals eight little billions in chorus.
| You couldn't blame 'em, either. for
the hat that was bein' squeezed out
through the door of the ear was one
of these Broadway thrillers, four feet
across. and covered with as ma1v green
ostrich feathers as you could cay IN
a clothes basket What was under tie
feather lid we couldn t see. Folio yin
it out of the machine comes somethin
cute in a butter colored overcoat ans
a brown derby. In a minute more we
gets the report that the procession Is
headed up the stairs, and by the time
we We grouped ourselves around the
room with our mouths open, in they
floats
In the lead. wearin the oleo coat
with yellow silk facin s, was a squiz
zled-up little squirt with rat eyes and
a mean little face about as thick as q
slice of toast, and the same color. Hi:
clothes, though, is a pome in brown:
and yellows, from the champagne tint
ed No. shoes to the tobacco-colored
/. No. hat, leavin' out the necktie
which was shade somewhere between
| a blue store front and bottle OF pur
pie ink.
IF It Amt Shrimp.
Even if I hadn't seen the face !
could have guessed who it was, just by
the get-up. Course. there s been good
many noisy dressers fioatin around the
grIllroom district this winter. B 1t there