Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-08


Yes, and he's queerer than he looksi"
The woman wanted to turn and glare angrily
and say violent things. She sat still instead
and strained her ears to hear more.
80 That wouldn't matter if he any
count; but he's just machine politician"
said third voice.
That night she told her husband. He
laughed; but there was no mirth in it.
=" He must have. been the fellow | beat last
time, he SAID grlmly as he looked in his shaw
ing glass and wondered what part of him looked
queer.
Getting New Ideas
SHE'S too young to appear at the table;
- she's not out of school yet" objected her
mother.
But the Representative had grown up in the
West and was sure that it helped girls to be
thrown with older people. She'll get new
ideas" he said.
And she got them At dinner she sat next
an army officer who had lived quickly if not
long.
DO YOU see that woman across the table,
with the naughty stare!" he asked.
The one with pearls in her hair?" asked the
Yes. She's my mother in law
OH" said the girl She wondered if the
liked her
She doesn't like me-
oh, l guess she does said the girl
politely.
She does not; she dislikes me intensely"
said the army man.
The girl was embarrassed. The converse
ton was too confidential, she thought.
Are you shocked?'
Il don't know" she said; but feeling very
&" It's hard luck to have to sit where she can
watch me-"
Why should she do that?'' asked the
girl
"She wants to see if I'm making love to you"
The girls face turned very red and she felt
queer. She didn't know there was anybody in
the world who could talk as this man was talk
ing; -,
The girl wasn't sure.
MY mother in law thinks right now that I'm
planning to elope What luck do you think
I'd have?" he whispered.
And this was the beginning of other ideas
for the girl.
importance of Figure
TT admittedly the most exclusive club
in Washington. Everyone longed for the
sacred right of membership. Its bylaws
were draconian in their social rigidity: but
no one had ever disregarded them. Its code
perfect, its list of candidates so care
fully scrutinized, that no smallest misunder-
standing or Encouragement or scandal had
attached to it. That no member had ever
been dropped was matter of special pride to
the directors, since it evidenced the particu-
larity of the units of the club. For some occult
reason QlpIOHdtS were eXCluOcQ. ana vet q
properly accredited representative of really
truly country has for years been a daily fire.
quenter of the club.
This is how it happened: A member sent
him card, intended to give him. for five days
the privileges of the club. But the secretary
by unintentionay emitting the figure 5, fixed
no limit to the privileges extended. When the
consequences of the mistake were fully realized,
the club membership was incensed; but there
being no convenient head for decapitation they
tried to hush up the matter. Of course they
couldn't, and everybody knows it, except per
haps the diplomat. If he suspects the situa-
ton, he has remained automatically silent for
ten years. An outsider remarked that no one
cared anything about it. anyway.
The Way to Give Dinner
THE dinner table gowed softly with old sill
Through the perfectly heated rooms
breathed the fragrance of roses. Immaculate
in black and white, ready for the contest stood
the mattresses. The hour for the arrival of the
guests approached swiftly. On the kitchen
foor lay the cook, writing with acute indiges-
ton. And the menu was special with national
Spanish dishes.
Call it off" said the Congressman.
TOO late!' groaned his wife.
well have to order cabs and take them to
a hotel"
What Betray nv friends at the last mo-
ment with a hotel dinner Not much!'
So she eXDIained weeDinplV over the tele-