Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29

telling me how little he was understood
at home.
There is nothing sadder in life than to
be encircling a large quantity of mineral
water whilst in the company OF woozy-
mateys who are wrapping themselves
about equal quantities of the other stun,
Whilst they catch the feecy. begilded
image in mdair and become blobby
about it in the region of the neckband.
why you stand there taut and rigid. Won
dering If by any chance you yourself ever
become quite so inconsequent and revela-
tory and mushified after you've hurled In
a few.
You want to get ay-way-oh. any place,
so il is anyway! You feel that you are A
deaths head at the feast You know that
for that nonce you don't belong.
My companion, informing me that he q
always liked me against every tempta-
ton to the contrary. leaned comfortapis
against the counter with his pack ana
told me I was making an awful mistake
not to write plays. Then he told me
quite a long and occasionally incoherent
story about how near he came TO making
So eco on a real estate deal last TUESDAY
a week ago. After that he became SAD
and sweet, and he told me how he'd
blown his wife to seven-hundred-
and fifty-dolar piano nearly SIX months
ago and that, bling. he couldn't get
her to even touch the keys for him.
after long, hard days work and
he was crazy over. music, and she
had Paderewski 1ookin' like member OF
"a rock-drillng gang when II came 10
ticklin' the ivories, on'y ne coulont get
her to play for him, durn II all!
All of which was highly unimportant.
| was setting myself for one of those
aying leaps to the door when my of wing
was gripped by another member of the
bunch
How be ye shipnate," says this one.
"Dredge into one with me. That goes for
the both o. you." holding at my first
companion. whom he. of course. knew.
You fellows have one, l suggested.
i've already sunk my fangs into three
pannikins of mineral water. and my lee
scupners are a-wash. You two go ahead
and leave me out.
law. nuthin' transpirin'." pronounced
the just-arrived member OF the punch.
"'Avereglarball."
But" / protested, working fast, the
family and l are going to have one OF
her aged aunts for dinner, and the aged
aunt owns about four-sevenths of the
state of Nebraska and she hates that
rum thing worse than garter snakes, ana
she always stakes me to a buss on the
chops when she meets me. and IL she
whfffs any of that alcohol bird on my ex-
halation she'll
Tell that to the traffic SQUAD cut In
the new member of the bunch Averes-
larball."
can L. SdlO IltIl -MuSth !. "oai
He viewed me with profound dsdain.
"Whatcha tryin' tub do, put one over on
me- he asked me, resentfully.
He gaZed at me almost derisively.
"Aw you're goin' back he pronounced.
Used to be a regular Teller; now you're
goin' back"
Il meekly. not to say faccidly. gave
in and said that I'd have some more
mineral water.
The two members of the bunch hemmed
me in at the counter and began cross
fire delivery between themselves to
whe her Snod rass really had meant TO
spike Baker or not. From that they drift
ed to a discussion of schedule X OF the
tariff and the Presidents trip in the west
Thence they proceeded to talk about the
decline Of the American sta II was al
intensely significant conversation.
seemed to be living right in the geo
eraphical center Of the land of Bromidia.
But each time. taking advantage or
o her, | essayed to 7ouirm and sink
away they'd surround me and pin me
still closer to the onyx-railed counter.
When their glasses had been tiptilted.
OF course. in conformity with the rules
and regulations and bylaws OF the
American treating habit. i was up to me
to ask them to have another. / did SO.
/ wanted to be far. oh, SO far. uh-way
from there! / resolved that. having con-
formed to the exaction OF the treating
system, I'd make a flying leap and blow
as soon as the check was dished out TO
me. 1 was just gathering myself into