Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08

AX R of us? And now I'm wiser about Miss
SW1k1N Phoebe Van Klipp than was. Think OF
M~I that! Me and Miss Phoebe! [ don't de-
RASXY serve it, of course bein' mentioned in
&NoA the same breath. l expect after you've
@&oS said McCabe you ought to rinse with
peroxd, exhale deep, and chew up
cardamom seed before you murmur Van Klipp If you
don't believe it, ask Miss Phoebe.
1t nervy enough of DARN to live IN the same
town with her. But then, when l camped down IN
Rockhurst on the Sound three or four years ago, |
didn't know about her. It was sometime before heard
too for she amt of the kind that hangs around the
depot and beats the real estate agents to the arvn
stranger. In fact. hardly believe now that We
really met Miss Van Kpp. Sadie and I'd given up all
hopes of that long ago.
by; seen her and held our breath while she passed.
And we'd been posted on the Van klipp family hstry,
from the time they owned farm just north OF 4thst
down date when Miss Phoebe the last wthered prune
the tree, lived all alone in the moldy old manson
down the Shore Road with three or four hobby old
servants.
We'd heard how old Polls Van Klipp had out
about 1900 and bought the whole of the Neck for two
featherbeds and handful of silver shilns how Major
Van Klipp had entertained the Prince of Wales for
overnight the big house. and how Miss Phoebe herself
had once come mighty near BEN the wife OF secretary
of State We'd had gmpses through the high iron fence
of the famous Van Kpp garden, where roses had
been CROWN for over hundred years the spot,
and we listened to tales about the Van kpp silver m
cludn' the tea that held three gallons and the
Sheffield service tray that took two maids to lug
And then to see this rickety old brougham, with the
varnish all bstered and both hind wheels dished and
old Tohn in moth livery drvin fat old plug that
hadn't felt the clippers for two back with Miss
Phoebe behind, sittn up straight as hltchn post,
her little let bonnet tied under her chin with black vel
strings and hodin up dinky little sunshade about
the size of saucer-wel, always snapped grin at
that, Sadie and me.
For week so every spring, though, Sade's grin
kind of forced. That would be about the time OF
Miss Phobe's garden party, when every. woman IN
RockhurSt chatterln about who was and who wa
invited Course, it silly, anybody gettln excited
such freak affar,-croquet on the lawn an arch
cry contest and with mullins and jam, all presided
over by dowdy, frumpy little old maid like Miss
Phebe- but she gets away with it. Look how tckled
Mrs PurdyPell when she got her first invite only
last year!
@There!7 says Sadie. "Now you'll see the inside of
among those gorgeous I'm green with envy.
"But I'm only trial this time you know says
Mrs Purdy-Pell. "My very first remark may make
Miss Phoebe enemy for life"
"Pooh!" says Sadie. "Do you know, can't believe
she's such Tatar they say"
l couldn't either, although they told great tales.
Course knew she gen rally had scrap on with some
one and that she'd had some kind of ru-ln with
my old friend the Blshop-and anyone who can get HIM
goin' you bet must have crosscut disposition.
But them she's such inoensve lookn old girl that
60 when this affair about the tennis courts up
don't take it very serious Seems the club grounds
want wide enough for all the diff rent things they
wanted to put EN-; so when it come to layn out
the tennis courts they had to sop over the line hoggn
twenty thirty feet of marshy land without botherin
who held the title
It's been in couple of seasons too with no kick
comm until here few weeks ago, as m drlvln down