Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-21

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ought to fix it up. Who to look out two back
yards, of ashbarrels and lot of skvscrapers? If
they took my advice theyd pull down all these vines
and put up of those pergola effects. You know
what | mean fake sky, with stars in it above and
punches of glass grapes hanging down through the
beams. That would give it a lot of class. Langudly
she slipped the last drop of her benedictne well,
goodnight, she said.
Sorry can't see YOU home" Tieney said apollo
getcaly; "but you see I've got appointment here.
Meet you next Saturday, though
Cnbid's mouth had gradually lost its smile, his eyes
their SPARKLE His rery sciugs began 10 droob He sighed
Ds6OnSOdfely he put the back into his qniCer He
apandered ont into the street.
W Billy Jones asked the following Saturday night.
Richards said Ticrney, "Estelle Richards She'll
be at table on the piazza to the right Big blond
peach! Plenty of class her an nifty dresser. Now,
don't give it away that it another girl will YOU Billy!
Say I'm sick. Put up the best excuse you can.
With pair of military brushes Billy went over his
red hair until his head shone sleek as copper kettle.
An instant later all the cowlcks brised upright again
He ugly that for long time you wondered how
he could possibly be attractive. Then you discov-
cred that he had the mouth OF poet and the eye OF
bucanccr.
"Sure, III fix it all right Billy answered jauntily.
"Shc wants to find Bohemia does she? She's looking
for adventures she? Why adventures born every
minute! The trouble is with her cyesght, not with New
York. III her myopia! III correct her strabismus!
Ill show her peck of adventures IN the course OF a
single block! Goodnight, Tern
M HAKDS was the COld cream from
W her Grcek-coin profile "Now, Mary, if he shows
up, be to say that you left at home with sick
headache, She abjured her roommate. Don't let him
get wise that it's another man, will you? He'll be at
the end table to the right on the piazza.
Mary placing black patch at the corner of her
mouth. Hes the one that wants something to happen
to him like Ivanhoe, The Coister and the Hearth,
and The Three Guardsmen.
"Um-um answered Estelle abscnty sitting powder
where the cold cream had been
"All right, said Mary I'll have that young man
cured OF his toollslnesS IN fifteen minutes! III show
him that the nineteenth century has all the Others
stung to fragile on this adventure proposition
Mary Smith little, slender, sinuous and
ctable her friend big, massive, queenly, and
phegmatic No feature went with any. other; but
the piquancy and pcturesqueness of the combination
demands line of descriptive adJectives Black
haired, she had the eyes of blond; they shone like
lamps hung etty fog Gray eyed she had the lashes
of brunette; they glinted if they had been sprinked
with coaitst The light of a sulphurc spirit shone
through her swarthy skin and turned it gold. She
twisted scarlet ribbon about her hair and set big
black velvet hat top of it. She looked like edition.
delicatey feminine of an Algerian pirate.
Again Cupid stood in the doorway of the Griffin Man
haitian had treated him badly An the light and sparkle
and ripple had gone ont of his cts They cling to his
head dank serless froscsy One 1cing dyoobed
broken From the other he had lost many feathers. He
sbdtered ach mud. He scratched and bruised
lie s1poen and discoored. He smelled of gasoene
The arroac still remained in his quiper lie mored
srM odd STEP half file, half limp, from table TO
table. He listened to conversation then another; but
days ch gro1ving sadness. In the end he Invariably
shook his head and mOTed He thus by slo1u
degrees to the biassa-to the end table at the right.
WELL Mary Smith was saying a don't know
W that it makes anv difference that neither of us is
to take Estelle's word via Mr.. Tierney that I'm
spectacle III take Mr.. Tierney word via Estee that
you're respectable And Dutch treating ourselves
let us eat"
Bly'S the cOlOrful effect Of Algerian