Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05

\ and that was only being taken up ana
down the world by the railroad man
daughter because the canine had been 50
highly priced by her mother.
At length, however, the railroad man
and his daughter We're given rooms, dnd
the wheeZy little old dog was taken down
TO the basement by the daughter ana
tied to Sanction where he promptly
WheeZed off to sleep and torgctfulneSS
On the following morning the railroad
man was passing through the baSenent
on his way to the barber shop when ne
saw d bellboy, WHO lad been liberaiiS
tipped for the purpose ny the dansntet'
untyinS the more or less morIbund hltle
old dog to take him out for bit OF
stroll. The belIboy, leading the dog by
a leash, had just reached the door "heh
the proprietor came stoIlhIhS do"ii Tue
steps from the Office.
Here. YOU. what do you mean by fool
ing away your timc-the time that | pay
YOU for-witi. that mutt the proprietor
his leftover Crouch" still possessing
him. storlned at the bellboy.
Then the grouchy hotel proprietor made
a very great mistake indeed. He raised
his foot and lifted" the wheezy little old
dog into the air on the toe thereof
The railroad man. remembering what
stood frozen with anger. But he said not
word He assembled to his rooms, had
his daughter pack up. and within a han
hour they were installed at another hos
telry- an inferior place, at the w lScoilSiil
mineral springs resort.
Within fortnight the railroad man had
acquired d large parcel of fine ground
the property of the hotel pro-
prietor who INDUCED In freauent
'erouches" And Immediately upon his
acquisition of the site the railroad man
started the building of u magnificent up
to- the-minute hotel on the site. 1t was
finished for the next seasons business 1T
made the other hotel look like the side
- ,c 81 hr
hotel proprietor with the crouch habit
worried through virtually guestless
summer season. for the larger and 1ncom-
parably finer hotel charged the same rates
and got all of the business But the hotel
man with the Crouch habit had to put
I'D the shutters during Tire next surpmer.
and the railroad man bought his estah-
liehment with all Of its contents, at auc-
ton for what is called "a song.
This NAV have h"en rather Sev"re nun
fer 'tgrouch'' that found its
most unfortunate manifestation in the
Quick t emp cred kicking of a dog. Rut fate
sounds no warnings. It hapDened to be
the wrong dog. Therefore the hotel man.
by Il CROUCH went broke.
multiply. as the campaign
srelibinders say.
| know a man in Philadelphia who spent
twenty weary. schening years trying to
get himself made a member of certain
famous austere Philadelphia club: one of
those clubs on the candidates list of
which the father enters his sons name
for future membership on the day the son
This Philadelphian comes Of fairish
stock and is rich. He is first-rate all
arc und citizen. and. when ne forgets his
periodical CROUCH a devoted husband
and father
At length after his two decades of con-
triving and planning, involving, pre-
.umably, not "a little distasteful syco-
phancy and soft-soaping. he was about to
be rewarded His plans had at length
worked out. His name was about to
.on,e up for mem bershp, and there was
no doubt of his election.
Three nights before his little plan was
ia go through on creased skids, and one
If his life's ambitions thus seemed GER
ain to he realized, this Phi'adelphan at
ended the thea er with his wife. Per-
mars on that night. his dinner had not
sat we'll Maybe it a touch of
liver" Perhaps his business lay too
heavily upon his mind
AT any rate. when he took his wife TO
he theafer on that night he had a
CROUCH and the crouch grew and
grew. His good wife. seeking to soothe
lm out of his i'll humor, made some in
accent. inconsequent remark to him
after the curtain had fallen on the first
act He rounded upon her He spoke to
Ter with a peevish intensity. He did not
KNOW that he was raising his voice; but
Ie was. 'Sh-sh,' said his wife. II
won't sh-sh," said he. and he went on
saying things to her that he didn't mean,
,ut that he shouldn't have said. never
heless.
1t happened that two Of the most in