Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21
Of her own. was sure she'd make a dandy

coach.
"A summer season in the country is an
awful thing to contemplate she went on.
at isn't like winter in town, where customs
are regulated. house party in the country
is usually stupid. People are tagged out
from the winter and lack initiative: They
must be amused, manipulated. Now, can
hire singers. or bridge players, or golf ex-
perts; but if | had singer | might need
bridge player, and if | had bridge player
might need golfer. and so on. You can't
talk bridge to golf ficnd. nor automobile to "a
bridge fiend anyhow. if hired such people,
they would be stiff and uncompronisng and
not at all what | wanted. So. when | saw
Your advertisement it really was the way
you put it. my dear. | knew | wanted
young, we'll bred we'll educated, well read,
tactful girl, speaking French, bridge, foot
ball. baseball automobile. and golf, to settle
down in the bosom of my family and help
me hold the horses.
| sat there and held onto my chair Won
dering if | hadn't bitten off more than l
could chew. when up went her hand sud
denly, and felt like the moment in the play
when you're afraid it won't go on and you
know ii WILL
"And now have come to the part that's
intricate and unusual
los eyebrows took on an aStonished slant,
and my mouth indignantly dropped open
again. | snapped it shut and propped my
fist under it.
"My son has started out to settle his mat
rimonial future, and OF course he has started
out wrong. My daughter although she has
been on the market officially only a very
short time. has started out the same way.
She is all eyes and ears for bucolic gentle
man who runs a farm and dabbles in ltera-
aturc on the sidc-although it may be the
other way round. She really doesn't know
what she wants. and she's such a butterfly
its in the blood, gueSs-that life with the
bucolic gentleman would spell disaster in
SIX months. Now | want YOU for a sort of
social D acemakcr for her." ~Pacemaker' l
mentally added to the list And you may
be sure she won't be blind to the eligibles
when she sees them fluttering around can
die set directly under her nose
"Ohi' | exclaimed, as if someone had
jabbed me suddenly with a pin. | kept
thinking about the baseball. too. We
seemed never to be coming to that. and
he SOM asked.
Hes in love. or thinks he is, with girl
six wears older than himself and totally I'M
suited to him. And the trouble is she's about
to be in love with him; for he's a persistent
lover Perhaps opposites attract; but they
don't keep out of the divorce courts. She's
languid, ethereal. believe it is considered;
anyhow, she hasn't enough energy to brush
away mosquito. She doesn't get up until
noon. has her coffee and rolls in bed; and
that's not the kind of wife want for my
son. l poured the coffee for my husband
every morning of his life, and | want to see
my daughter do it for her husband, and
my sons wife do it for him. Moreover, she
doesn't know a baseball from football, or a
football from tennis ball, or golfball from
any of them, and has no desire to learn.
Now, you've heard of Hap?'
l nodded. Yes had heard of Hap, and
all those athletic honors he brought out of
Harvard.
"Why, he'd be neglecting her before the
year was QUIT she almost moaned.
$50 YOU want me- began.
Il want you to put Hap on the right
track
looked at JOS back. 1t had grown rigid,
like Mrs Fishes does when the horrible mo-
ment comes, and l was wondering where
Mrs. Maria Crowninshield Hazard would be
when the cyclone struck
$50 you want me deliberately began
again.
ayes. my dear Mrs. Maria Crownin-
shield Hazard smiled as | paused a bit
shocked, I'm afraid that's what l do
want"
1But what shall do with him when get
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