New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-18

turned in, studyin' crack in the floor and wondein
my back collar button will melt or just explode
"But hcre" she goes on, changln her tone and start
in off on another tack "Perhaps you ought to know
first just why am interested. I'm Mrs Basil Burke
"Gee!' says !, gawpln' at her. "Ihe Mrs. Burke?'
"Oh YES" says she lettin out more rpples, the aw
full Mrs. Burke You've been reading the newspapers
young mani
TUST as though anybody could have skipped all them
big headlines for 50 long Why, as tar back as when
was on the Sunday edition used to run half-page
story about her every few months revieWn all the de-
tails Of how the stunnin' Kentucky girl Queen Of
Blue Grass Beauties" always worked in somewhere
had left her noble young lover wMtln at the church
and clipped with a scvcntyyearold Wall Street pute
how the n y. l. had bucklcd on his deadly dcrrngers
and chased EN- to Europe and all over the map yio-
latin the Interstate Commerce Law and the Concert
Of Nations, until he fnly gets run IN by French cop
that he'd upset in his hurry 70 catch a tram.
But YOU We read all that The young lover had good
press agent on the Job and when he gets back home he
promptly marrics Of the disappointed bridesmaids
and gets himself elected to the Legislature; while the
old plutc ShuiflcS off sudden at Monte Carlo, and the
da,hin' Young widow comes back open up the Fifth
ave house fight the will contest, and break into society
Well after that, YOU remember, she stars m that
bathin suit dinner dance; proceeds to make monkey
out Of that Duke Of Spaghetti, who almost lost DO royal
lob on her account and a finish she's mixed up in
This double divorce suit Of the Willie Van Ccck which
probably got the Newport amony bunch more free ad
vcrtisini than any other event for years
40 wonder she decided TO stay abroad for awhile
then, But it seems her knack Of atractn the p9ght
hadn't been left behind; and while amt letter perfect
on all her giddv dons over there got gcnr idea that
she had at least one other hubby in the discarI before
She blooms out as Mrs Basil Burke. Anyway, her
ucIn the pet officer OF the Royal Lanccrs, and bcn
presented at court when four doube-chnncI Dachccs
said she houdn't-wcll that want missn any tricks
exactly was it, And here this matnmony expert
putin me through the third degree about why Wee
wcarin' my birthday ring!
EXCUSE me, says l. tain' my eyes off my toes, but
II lust where DO you fit in"
"Whcre do ! Oh, see, says she. "Why, Everett
Wcsakc happens to be my nephew.
"Sappy;" says l.
"Now, now says Mrs. Blake, shakin' finger q, me-
"You mustn't speak OF him in that way, you know. It's
not respectful Perhaps you do not know precisely who
Everett is"
Al had hunch says l. that he was the one Aunty
had passed on as all right for Miss Wee
~Ycsvcs Of course says Mrs. Burke; but, asidctrom
that distinction Everett nice well bred young fellow,
with many good qualities and only few bad habits.
True, he may not be very brilliant; but he gentle
man. the Wcstlakc fortune is big one and he Is IN only
SON Also his grcat-great-g grandfather was PATRON
Eth says |.
we will not stop to 60 into that, says she smilin'
condcsccndin but may say that, IN our cru.gy or
gained society the descendants Of those oil Dutch