El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-08
Girl Alone In New York
She Relates Another Chapter OF Her
Existence in n Great City:
She writes Home.
Lillian Lauferty.
By Lillian Lauterty

II ITTY, My Own am about to
leave the fStoneholm" and find
Il me real home-a boarding
house. maybe. And all because L have
had a raise Sounds inconsistent
doesn't it, Well, the point is that 1
have now determined TO stay, for on
what I am about to get 1 can live
and living means finding a place where
1 viii have a comfortable room and
three meals a day. instead of going
or in this palace Of glitter, where my
room is a very small Joke and my
food is tiny. and my one home-tie is
Mrs. Wilkins. fourteen floors away.
Now ] Will 90 back TO the begin
ming and tell YOU all about the pleas
ant suddenuess with which / got the
raise W as marching SODerly down
sober little square OF whose eNls-
tcnce I am sure the average New ork-
eE has never became aware. when
vaguely familiar voice came floating
after me- Miss Royce: On. Miss Mar
jOrie Royce. won't you please watt
That voice belonged TO Crosby Booth.
surely YOU remember him, when Cousin
Janet came down from Chicago to
spend the summer with US back in
1910, the brilliant young poet of the
Press came down to have several week
ends in the light Of Janets smile. I
l. be the handsOmest man 1 had ever
Seen-and the fact that he was so daz-
lied by Janet that he couldn't see me
for the sun-glare in his eyes hurt my
feelings more than 1 would have been
willing for your Is year old perkiness
to guess
And three years after date, Crosby
Booth. the cOming-cOming-
comic opera librettist of America halls
my retreating form as I go grubbing
about New York
Little Marji, all grown up" said
he. NM 1 was ls that summer of ia
netting
That is a way We have in old Home
town." said I.
But you did it so politely he laughed
VI course, ] told him about my work
and how much 1 knew about and ad-
mired his wonderful plots and songs
UpShOt? 1 asked him If I couldn't in
terview him for the Planet. No, not
for the Planet-fOr you" said the
Coming Liberittist.
That is a regular New York line
o. conversation, but the Planet and I
VIII share our blessings returned
impudent Marjorie.
Ny child. Crosby Booth. is a beat
scoop, or whatever you choose to
call it He has positively refused to
be interviewed all during these two
years Of his succeSs-and I got" him
and that interview came off at the
very tOpmost exclusive hotel in all
Of New York Over the teacUps,"
talk best. and like best to talk. and
We Will get in a nice, sOciabIe little
social visit as well as our Planetary
gyrations"
So I went TO tea with a celebrity,
and got a fine interview for my pa
per. and a raise for Sister Maggie.
and now I am going to have a new
spring suit and a home, instead of a
top-flOOr bedroom in a palace of gilt
ter and no delight Don't think I am
eNtrava giant about that suit-hOnest-
ly, III need il as my Indiana product
is not suitable for interviewing cele-
brities or teaing with them in our ex-
elusive hOtelsi
Hasn't this been a nice day?
Your happily excited.
Madge.
P. s. Honestly, now wasn't Janet
a pig TO dazzle Crosby Booth with
brilliance that was about to become
the proud possession of Lawrence
Jennings and his two million dollars.
I wonder If he ever sees Janet. now
that she is a widow. Madge-
-P--S- My dear kitten, prepare for
the shock Of your life. Hark We.
Perfectly nice-that is. perfectly nice
" dressed women-no, gorgeousIy
rather than nicely" dressed-sat in
the tearOOm of that hotel and smoked
cigarets. This is a wonderful world.
sister mine-Of that 1 am sure.
Madge