Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04
4 SUNDAE ROMANCE
Miss HobbIe Skirt Tells Pretty
Little Story.
BEGINNING IS IN TEXAS
But Scene Soon Shifts From Lone
Star State to Capital.


| every one who saw her said she was q
"pippin." She was all there with tan
hobble skirt and a hat that could be
| justly described as a millfner's dream Of
chromatic prosperity. Her shoes peeped
out under that tan hobble with a now
you-see-me-and-now-yo u-don't sort Of
way that just set 'em all crazy. And
| she had the bulliest little story! Just the
buiuest ever. Which, when every one had
got through taking ABOUT this fair wis.,
| tor, some one sat down to tell. And
here it Is:
She said that A. p. Joachim. who is
aged twenty-five years. and right good
looking young druggist at that, had the
biggest joke played on him by a lady
ton July 8. Oh, 1t was a dandy joke
and she said 1t was a fine story and
ought to get a good headline. Well,
Miss Hobb.e Skirt had q clipping from a
Texas paper. and the headline in sort
into Drug Clerks Heart
Fascinated 'tFair Texan"
She said that young Mr.. Joachim had
Fascinated fair Texan.'-those were
her very words, treasurer and true. He
was mixing panhandle sundae for Miss
! Pearl Barmore, aged eighteen years,
and a sure enough beauty. when Cupid
| twanged the bow. and after that it
| was all off. They twain were made
one. to quote Laura Jean Libbey & Co.
| And secretly at that. which always
! makes good newspaper story.
But now comes the Joke She said
did Miss Hobble Skirt-that right away
after that sec.et wedding young Mr..
Joachim disappeared from Texas. Why?
Why? Quien sabe?-which is Texas bor-
der talk for ''Who could say why?" Any
how, let's all give thanks, for In leaving
Texas Mr.. Joachim started Fate toward
setting Miss Hobble Skirt out q press
agenting.
Mr.. Joachim really left Texas because
and consent OF his bride. But why
bring business into the realm Of romance.
Where Joke Comes In.
Yes, here comes the joke. When A. P.
Joachim left his wife and the Lone Star
state he came right here to Washington,
to the store of McChesney & Joachim,
I'd and E streets northeast, and was
busily engaged as q bright. conscientious
and businesslike young fellow would
naturally do in q drug store until one
pocket and his mother picked 1t up and
evidently read 1t.
For. gazing at young Joachim with
mingled feelings, she said something to
this effect:
"How about WHEY I'm Texas? (And
honest. you should have heard Miss
Hobble Skirt laugh when she told
about it,
Young Mr. Joachim. he turned sort
Of white and green and sick looking.
He had a smile that froze on his face
and had nothing but the framework
Of JOY upon it. He gulped hard and
turned it off.
But that was not all. Oh, no; Young
xuo h,ySv in the store the
afternoon Of November 30 when his
brother, one OF the proprtetors, said:
"Aloysius, some one wants you on the
phone-I think" Slowly sit is la-a-a-
a-dy"
Goes to the Telephone.
.Whereupon young Mr. Joachim went to
the phone and, assuming that odd. and
perfectly unnatural expression used only
in telephone conversations, remarked. not
with much originality, Hello"
The answer was: Us that you, AL
oysius, dear?"
'Uh-hum.
who this is?''
"Surest thing you know. VINO c0uio
it be?'
And he is said to have actually winked
"Well. sa-a-a.ay. Whatever goin' to
do this EVENING""
And then MI. Joachim turned full into
the phone and bawied out:
I'm going right home after the store
closes and I'm going to study. Hard.
too Which, as it happened, was just
the right thing to say.
Whereupon he turned around, put his
hand over the receiver, and said to no
one in particular:
"Hoiy smoke, wonder who this is!'
Well little later the Sweet-voiced one
announced that she had come all the way
from Texas and that she was none other
than Mrs. Joachim. And she was at
Union station. Why. she telephoned just
as s-o-o-on as she got to town, said Miss
Hobble Skirt.
Married All Over Again.
And now comes a sweet hiatus Of sew
eral days. What these two birds Of
paradise were doing in that interval Miss
Hobble Skirt could not tell, but rumor
has 1t that Mrs. Joachim ate sundaes
most Of the time. But on the following
Friday, Miss Hobble Skirt says. they
were married all over again by Rev.
Father r. A. B. Wunnenberg Of st.
Marys Church.
was Protestant and the groom a Catho-
lie, and the first wedding was Justice
Of the peace affair. And after that 1t
was all as happy as wedding bell, OF
course. Thefe were fetaNVeS present
and refreshments at the home Of young
Mr.. Joachim's parents. TO 9th street
northwest. Which, of course. goes per-.
fectly with the statement that there are
no parental objections.
And now the story is ended, and the
world will know that Romance is not
yet dead in the drug business. And as
long as Romance has Miss Hobbie Skirt
for an advance agent 1t will never be a
dead one. All! she was q real live press
agent, was Miss Hobble Skirt. for the
last thing she said ere leaving was,
"Don't fail to put a good headline on
the story"
in gaining the city they would find many
roady tn iOfn them