Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-13

3ctel nut, hasheesh, poppy, manor ds"' d
or other drowsy strip of the orange east
For that reason alone. then the uh-
deIsigned always has been almost UNI
..aturally ''leary.' to put IT thus coiio-
dtlially when il came to believing any
part of the contents OF any story
whatever contained in the pictorial parts
OF the insectivorous supplements OF the
New York Sunday papers.
III this as a premise to the statement
that he didn't believe the story when it
first popped. about New York women OF
fashion carrying dolies That one
seemed just /, leetle too much like the
musical comedy stuff.
True, I'd seen women of fashion car.
rvins chameleons around with them
selves attached to teenchy linked goid
chains. and brightly plumaged para
keets. and in the 9TH avenue vehicular
parade, a year SO ago. IL was no I'M
common thing to sec foolish-looklng 1T
tie fuzzy-wuzzy bears propped up on
automobile seats alongside foolish-faced
women loaded down with furs and
weight of ennui that shone DULY on
their peevish features.
But when read and heard that wom-
en- "of fashion were totinc dolls about
with them. said ! TO myself Really.
really. | am not going TO permit even
my engaging friends. the fellows who
wrote this stuff, to tell me anything just
exactly or even anything quite like this
really. really,
But il true About the women carry
ing dolls. l mean. Perfectly true. l have
seen il with these very eyes. No other
evidence would or could have convinced
me. No later than yesterday did | see
il. And at no other place. dear me SUI
than the Piaza-at the perfumed and de-
hrious hour of tea at the Plaza. did |
see that same.
In the Plaza tearoom I counted just
fourteen women. bediked. bedizened and
bedaubed within an inch of their lives
who were carrying dolls. And they car
ried them with all OF the insouciaace.
the unrecking -froid, with which you
or ] would pack home "A pound and
quarter Of pork chops from the Riggs
Market Saturday night for the Sun
day dinner festivity.
II there happened to be a vacant chair
AT the table the woman with the doll
would plump the dolikin into said vacant
scat Dropping II up real pretty and turl-
fly, y'know. and smoothing down its lit
tie expensive clothes. including the real
lase kind of clothes that stuck out under
meath, and arranging IT'S front hair and
it's back puffs with deft fingers: just for
AL the world, you sec, as if the dollikin
were a live, sentient and breathing young
human creature that should look it's pref
TEST and best I'm the presence and under
the gaze OF all the folks.
Ii, however. there happened TO be no
vacant seat at the table. why. the cher
isher OF the dollikin would hold IL low
ingly. not TO say rapturously, In the COM
Portable embrasure of the left arm, and
attend TO her absorption of tea and
things with her right. stopping quite
casionally to gaze at the uncannily I'M
needing doll baby with eyes really filmed,
ono thought, with maternal devotion, and
TO murmur baby talk to and at 1t.
IL was. IL YOU desire to believe u.s. one
OF the. strangest sights that we ever be-
held on any island or continent, how
ever remote or isolate. and frequently we
caught ourselves tentatively pinching our
arm or something for the purpose of
ascertaining by physical evidence whether