Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

shivers. One man paid all the bills and we were t
tie with him later. The part had to settle was f
dollars and sxty-fve cents. l don't know how h
ured and l asked no questions. 1t was too man
me, and went back to my seven-dollar biddies.
I've cut them all out now except one who has becC
necessity to me. She's the finest ever and she
have to ask me for the money when she wants to
house and lot either"
THAT rings like real luxury" sighed the older
as her mother widow"
Although this was profoundly serious, several
bers of the crowd laughed. The older man had b
bachelor so long that he should have been used t
disadvantages.
SHOULDN'T care to say positively that women
luxury, at least all women, ventured modest
ing man who has not yet developed his plume, tn
his plnfeatherS have SprOuted; but that may be d
other causes than those previously presented here.
or most of the girls happen to know of the al
class,-writers, painters, actorlnes, and that
sort,-and they, you know, are such creatures
of temperament that any old material thing
is fairy dream to them if it is put before
them properly; that is, with temperament.
Now, l live with artist chap, and we give
small feaSts at our studio with half dozen
more congenial spirits at the board, and I'm
sure not a girl in the bunch doesn't enjoy
them more than if we had on our exhibition rags
at swell restaurant. Two or three dollars
pays the bill for all, and, here he hesitated
moment "wel if he doesn't sell something or |
Two or three dollars is not great deal of money,
except when you don't have it. But girls
good fellows, and they ask US to their studios
quite as often as invite them to ours. 1t is
an exchange of luxuries, to say. Sometimes
the girls will do the work, and the men will sup
ply the materials which is a cheerful kind of
economic association. Free tickets for theaters
come way pretty often, and we enjoy them
fully, even though they may not always call for
the best seats in the house. Sometimes, de-
pending on our luck, we go to plain restaurant
after the play and have dollars worth of dis
play food; but oftener we dig up bite in some
friendly studio. Luxury being relative, suppose
/ might say that sometimes girls are luxury
and sometimes they not. Whatever they
are, hope Ill never be SO rich or so poor that
| won't want to see them around"
The bank clerk and the insurance solicitor
asked the writing man if he wouldn't be kind
enough to introduce them to few OF his "lady
friends; but their overtures were not met with
enthusiasm. Banking and insurance are not in
the temperamental zone
7 THINK" said the older man who had as
sumed the position of benignant adviser to
the entire table, shat if the girls not in the tenn
peramental class would pattern little more
after those who are, they would have more men
at their disposal, if that is what they want;
which it is, fancy, because there is always more
or less complaint by women of the scarcity of
men socially. Reciprocity counts for something
as drawing card, and proper consideration is
a valuable asset"
"Some of them don't 'recip for cent, and
consider at all, asserted thousand dollar clerk
city department. Il know girls who will let a f
spend every cent in his clothes and that he car
pothecate his salary for and never a finger of re
STRANGE at his extravaganza. More than that,
will encourage him to blow himself to tatters. n
of them are that way; but what there is is pl
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