The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-30

~uuHsm- ME seldom thinks of Coney Island in the winter time, and if he does 1t is
 ' with a shiver for the idea of the bit ter Atlantic gales searching out the G1&4lkAE crannies in the himsy structures S$5fI$S18 which compose the City of Fun IS
 anything but a warming one. Yet .,..-, ,,,. hosrse invitations of the barkers the rrrnble of the scenic railways and the snrleKs oi .,. ,.m.Ie messengers arc stiIled; though the .oent of popcorn and stale beer no longer rsss on the air life in Coney b not extinct even in Februszy. Hfgenrefners is open all the year.
 On the co1dest nights couples scurry down Sur1 .-.nu. mast the great plaster goddess who. with .h. .c.ntiest of draperfes her through the winter mounts guard a& the entrance to Mor> ps,eus Land and around the corner into the dark Bovery whore the loosened planks spring under foot and tho wind plays hob with tho remains of feet .uunerv decorations. Midway this de serted boardwalk . single building rays light from sve~y aperture. It is "H1genrefner's Dancing pe,.rst" xte destination of the huzry1ng couples
 Tn. oHeaxhty twins (born Easter Sunday ,in>tam years ago, and in honor or the oay chr&stensd Gala and Li1y) 3ourneyed to Hilgen- r.snsr. every saturday night. They liked the ns.ce bscsuse 1t was respectable" they told eacn other: and respectable 1t in the full sense or inc word as applied in Coney Island; but 1t was stronger attraction than that which drew the twins and other youngsters 90 far In tho sum mer HilgenreaneTs. like all the surrounding re- sorts, was given to tho indiscriminate mos hut in the winter 1t possessed character quite it's own; in other place was So much gayeV consistent with such undoubted responsibility Among the decorstions at Hilgenreiner's was large china doh which hung suspended in swing under the smoky ceiling. It might have been Ikened to the Spirit of Youth smiling down at the brighteyed rednpped youths and maidens. so frankly pleased with themselves and with one an other.
 None ofsthe boys had ever asked Gala or Lily to dance. In fact. though they were far from suspecting it. the twins sort of joke at H1l- senreiner's. They little, grave, SC comical1y alike: they wore such elaborate, old fashioned little and hats (which they con- struoted thsmselves). In asking them to dance the boys suspected they would become laughing stocks Moreover. in way their botanical names had become known and were the 1nsp1ra- ton of many Hngenreinsr joke. So poor little Gala and Lily, like two dolls out of the same batch. always waltzed and twostspped together, followed by smiles. They both wore. for pro- peietys sake an expression of forbidding indifrer- eucs, Q that no one ever knew how their hearts haxan to beat every time they approached the paacs where the young men waited for partners, aud sunk as they passed by and signal was g1vsn.
 Duxtnx the week, sitting side by side at the txnls whsrs they filed cards, Calla and Lily pianned. in whispers for Saturday night and what thsy should wear. In the evenings they sewed. Al . reUult the twins possessed . wardrobe which. as thsy often told each other rivaed in size many . lady-s who rode in her carriage. They had Imbtbed from their mother strong ideas the propriefy of dress which wers not to be lightly Bhaken by the passing vaEaries of fashion. They quite looked down the store clothes of the other iris 1t Hngenrensr's. They possessed . single soul hdlved in two bodies; since their birth they he'd not been parted for day, and now that their parents were dead they sufhced to each other. And yet they did want young man. They had spirited discussions abous the youths they .rom afxr at Hi1gsnreiners. for whom they had Invented names to suit themselves. They always thought of young between them; one apieoe would have suggested untmaginabe di- vision of their interests
 One Saturday night, clad in stheir latest effort of dressmaking which they referred to as "our red" Gala and Lily were sitting at little table by the rail which surrounds the dancing floor at Hngenreiner's drinking pear cider," their invari- able tpple. They did not in the least enjoy pear cider. but it a custom of the place to which they deferred. They made two glasses apiece last cut the evening which, with five cents to the wait CT. constituted their expenses. They had not as yet experienced the sensation of having else pay for their drinks. The evening was half over and so far their fred" had not been any more successful than It's predecessors in making con- quest of the swains The twins hid their disap- pontment well; promptly upon the sounding of the first note for each dance they took the floor with . businesslike air and danced right through as if there was no such thing young man.
 Suddenly they conscious that some one had stopped in the aisle beside their table and was looking at them Instantly they stffened into and looked stonily ahead Their hearts began to beat with quickeneds strokes
 Good evening, ladies'" said mans voice.
 The twins turned their heads simultaneously