The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-05
WANTS TO MARRY
Mother, NOT Her

NEW YORK. Special.-Wooing ff-
teen minutes worth of sIeep. Miss
fieien Burns, petite former member
or The Whirl of Society at the Win
ter Garden, reposed her classic figure
i,uAurlously upon her divan in her
nome, at 3O1 West Ninety-seventh
street Wednesday afternoon.
Inc Ily-white lids were about to
cover her beautiful brown ewes. she
says, when a brutal cobbIestone
crashed through the window and, con-
tinuing its journey, made a merry
little mess of the chandelier.
U-u-h,' she yawned from the
character of the visiting card l opine
John is without"
Making certain her mixed gray and
SoIu oandeau permitted no more than
SIN WlSpS OF her wonderful brown hair
10 Grape down over her alabaster fore
mead, she stepped dramatically down
STAIRS, opened the door and posed
ianguidly over the stoop rail
House Wrccl<ing Not Polite.
John, she alleges she said to a
young man abaft the curbstone. II
thouSht l had made 1t clear to you
mat persons in our set are not going
IN for house-wrecking this season"
And yet in the face of this. saws
Sarah Bernhardts only rival. the
young man bounced another coaeme
lateu group of mineral matter through
the glass in the front door.
Policeman Leis, of the West One
Hundredth Street Station, was re-
quested by the footlight's favorite to
assemble the young man and parade
him to the station house. This was
unquesuonably done and the prisoner.
making his entrance into the palace
OF the green lamps, said he was John
Gregor, thirty-seven, of 131 West
Nlnety-siXth Street; his occupation be-
ing that of night superintendent of
the j. Hood Wright Hospital. Re-
markably near his name was placed
the charge of disorderly conduct
Now for the New Scene.
= is the Night Court, where Magistrate
go Sonnor is acting as stage manager.
This man has been annoying me for
NWHo years. He wants to marry me
=. do you get that? 1 says to him,
says say /, John. III have none of you
Judge, Your Honor, 1t goes right over
mat mat guys head. Does he give up?
you can just interpOlate the negative
between them questions"
And pray what has Mr.. Gregor to
remark?' asked the court
It's the bunk, that stuff" answered
the person addressed: II don't love
her l am in love with her mother, and
wed get hooked up if it wasn't for this
young woman and her sister Anna, who
also adorns the stage. They don't
want me to marry Mrs Burns, and |
can't see why. Say. when those sisters
were out on the road last season, drag
glng down quarter-centuries each, they
apiece each week
Good to Mamma, He Says.
And on the other tWenty-one each
they didn't have to do anything but
look after themselves. Day after day
used to come around to see the mother
ana the money she got wasn't more
than enough to stall the rent man. So
used to go out and buy the mother
a can of SOUP"
''RaRRiDer Vanr eosa
Burns. but you're all mixed up in YOUR
English. / didn't want mother to
marry you because she'd have to sup |
port you"
The magistrate thought much of |
Gregor's explanation and he told Helen |
to bring her mother to court as soon as |
possible. He gave the tragedienne a |
summons for Mrs. Burns. Between the |
acts Gregor is held in 800 bail