The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-08-28
Loulou of the East Side ssMOvies" Tells
How Sailed Fish Broke Up q Home
BY Mary Boyle o'Reilly

nE WIN NV, aug. zo.--MiSs
Loulou Golden, who works In the
movies on Clinton street, came In
to call between her turns.
We'll, I'm here since you
pressed me So" announced Miss
Loulou Golden as IL apology were
necessary. Say, amt seen you
not since Rubie Bamber was
married. Say, that was-one swell
wedding. all right, all right. But
int 1t fierce what's happened"
"What?" asked I, for details OF
marital unhappiness are vague
In Madison street.
Miss Loulou Golden regis
tered extreme establishment with
the precision of the movie hero
inc she Is.
Don't tell me you haven
heard!" she protested. "Well,
then, cumberland, me an Ru-
bic has been confidential friends
since we was kids at school. My,
how we hated it-school. / mean!
On the level, they never learned
US nothing-that is, for keeps. So
the minute we could we got a
job Kimonas. Four dollars q
week.
And THAT never learned us
nothing, neither, except to talk
about clothes
Then Rubie met Louie. Now,
there amt. no harm In Louie.
Only he never got fed up to real
work. / don't call that knocking.
Even dull man has his good
points. Was 1t nacheral two
softies get stuck on each other ?
Sure. A girl must have some fun,
and flirting is the cheapest there
Is. But marriage! Gee! Them
two just tripped over their own
bluff. oh. well, most of us know
when to stop-after it's too late.
why, Rubie was that stuck
on being married she wore all
her new dresses the first week!
But I'll say this fer her. That
wedding was something swell. A
white satin train most three
yards long Is going some! Sup
pose they did begin housekeeping
on the stale cake? They'd made
Madison street sit up and take
notice all right, all right.
We've hired a flat on De.
lancy street, Rubie told every
body. mo boarding round fer
met Now THAT sounded sensi.
BILE.
only who was to guess that
trouble would come because
dearie didn't know how to cook?
mot mel
'fBut, honest, patience isn't a
virtue-it's necessity. Before a
months rent was due on the fur
niture Louie got peeved! And
poor Rubie made up to him with
petting!
"PETTING!
Most girls believe everything
their husbands says till they're
married at least three weeks.
when / caught on how things
were 1t was time to pass .dearie
hint. 'Girlie,' says. don't look
up to a man. It only encourages
him to look down on you'll
would a bride take It? Nay,
nay, Pauline. We never see our
selves as we see others.
why. 1t was a play-act, how
them two slipped to the smash.
Louie wouldn't listen to reason.
Your weak-minded man is mostly
headstrong. 1t was Wednesday
night when Mrs. Bernstein ran
round to the movies fer me.
Come she gasps; come
quick! Something awful Is over
in Rubie's house already
so I ran. My, 1t was q shame
Louie was in such q rage he'd
smashed almost a dozen dishes.
They were paid-for dishes, too!
Grille bought them on Grand
street. And dearie lay on the
bed crying herself sick. 1t seem
ed she had forgotten to soak the
salt fish. No one ever told her
you had to!
And l took my cue!
Louie Jawlowski,' says, "a
man that doesn't get what's
coming to him is born lucky. You
wasn't. How dared yau ask a
dear, sweet girl like Rubie to
take you for worse? Sure. she
done 1t, because-weIl, because
she's stuck on you for fair. Sup
pose she don't know how to cook
Do YOU know how to work I?
Nix! Take 1t from me. you'd bet
ter make up before 1t Is too late.
with that l lit out. A third
party is in the way when two Is
getting reconciliated!
"Only now, that it's over, I'll
say this - the best OF girls viii
marry when they get the chance.
Well, then, why don't the schools
learn 'em how to make the best
Of 1t - COOKING an sewing an
like that-something that's good