Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30

elevator boy mail that little note to their
tailor''-the poor lonesome, unhappy,
miserable, slinky Wretches,
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OF all the fictions that have gained
supposititiously comic currency during
the past quarter of century, that one
which tries to get away with the idea
that the husband with the out-of-town
wife has a dooce of time during every
minute Of her absence is the weakest
and wabblingest. Not that the ruffians
don't really believe. before putting the
little woman on the train. that they're
going to have a lid-off wallop at the
old game. They all think it. But it
doesn't eventuate. 1t doesn't come off.
After about four days and nights of
deep, dark, dank gloom and lonesome
ness. the unfortunate beings begin to
cast sneaky eyes at the calendar and to
dope out how long she's going to stay,
and some Of them even fall to the
loathly depth of inventing imaginary
ailments (getting plant doctor fellows
of their acquaintance to go through
the dodge TO help 'eml, in order to
mandatorily summon their spouses
home to take care of them, and some
of them even become so shameless as
to hustle right off to the place where
the WIG is ana tel hcr ttldt. seeing
rs how business is dun, why. they just
thought they might well. etc. etc.
It's the hardest job in the world to
get "A crack at the iong-diStancc tele-
phone booths in downtown New York
these summer nights Answer: The
booths are stuffed and cIuttered with
married mon long distance phoning 10
their absent wives. All OF the telephone
girls in the hotels verify this. The
moor lubherS come out of the hot booths
and UiiteI. of WlltE-
looking around the eyes. and they dig
up their large paper-money tolls with
every evidence OF satisfaction and hap
piness
F,heu, One shouldn't blame 'em,
After all. the little old dinky fiat does
look sort - bare and dismal. and does
sound echo-ey and hollow and deserted
when II feller teven If lie IL trying to
make himself think he is having such
- gorgeous tmcl creeps into II along
toward midnight. 1T doesn't look the
same. II looks unreal. unnatural. no
matter how bravely the ianitor's wife
may have tidied it up. The man thus
coming in somehow feels that he
wouldn't even mind being asked COW
dared he be coming home IN such
condition at such a scandaious hour OF
the night if only he could see and
Tut, no, they shouldn't be blamed. AMI
they're not here blamed. l. IN only tell
ing about EN-, not poking fun or any
thing else at EN-
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A BOUT three months ago Washington
"A woman, who for many years con-
Quoted wonderfully well managed
boarding house in Washington, came over
to New York and started a wonderfully
we'll manage. boarding house in New
York l spent evening there recently.
! had the time of my life. l couldn't
make myself believe that | wasn't within
gunshot of the little old roily Potomac
There were exactly twenty-seVen Wash
ingtou folks in the house, eighteen of
whom ] had known for periods ranging
from five years TO twenty-five years.
Most of them were over here for little
visit OF whirl, but several of them are
Washington people who, removing to New
York TO live. were tipped off about the
boarding house conducted by the Wash
ington woman and hustled to get quarters
there.
This woman is making money now and
is going to make great deal of money.
She has very large double house. with
a great many bedrooms. The place is
between Broadway and West End avenue,
and only = block and a half from beauti-
fui Riverside Drive. She gets very COOL