Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24

combinaton either Why we got steps of our own that
the rest haven't thought of"
"Yee-es?" says l.
"Oh l know says she, shruggin her shoulders.
"Maybe don't look it; but, say, we've got the
goods
"Case Of undiscovered genius eh?' saws l.
Mile 1ushes little that; but bites her lips to
keep back the hot retort. Bright lookin girl, Mile
and if she hadn't been cosumed so vivid she wouldn
have been such bad locker But in that tight striped
dress with the sashed skirt and that foolish lid with the
two skinny pink feathers curlin' the blackwell
believe me, she was some zippy!
Say, femme tell you how it happened, won't you?'
says she.
"If it amt too long, says l.
TIL make it sketchy' says she an the first place,
when landed here in New York about year and
half ago, I'd made up my mind to connect with big
money. didn't know exactly how; the stage, maybe.
Anyway knew the coin was here, and that 1t WASH
in Saskatoon
"Sass-which?' says l.
Saskatoon says She. ats the map, up in Sas-
katchewan, you know. No, | wasn't born there.
Hardly anybody It's too l went there with
Mother and Brother Phil when the Northwest boom
first started 1t was all right for Philip. He could do
surveying and then he got to dipping into real estate
But there chance for me; SO started for the
white lights While looking around here took
anything that would furnish meal ticket Oh. you
can't starve Mlie | did fancy ronin' in hand laun-
dry, window demonstration for an electric vibrator
concern did turn as dress model, and sold soda
checks in drugstore. They don't load you down on
payday in any of them Places but that didn't worry
was sizing up the good things and d about de-
when what did have to 60 and do but get soft on Inn
here!7
Tim bushes embarrassed and scrapes his hoof.
Enough to wreck most any career, WASH TT! goes
Mile. "Think of it! Me, who come down to New
York with my head SO full of ambitions there wasn't
any room to catch cold, and then in little over
wear to go and marry the first goodnatured lr1Shman
that asked me! You see I'm only half Irish myself,
mother Argentine Spanish,-which makes me
different from Tim Look at him! Would you
dream he had bit of sense? But he's-oh, he's
Tim that's ALL And not many of EN- come better
Driving motor truck, he was, and satisfied at that
1t was up at Terrace Garden dance got &C
quainted. No music at all in his head but in his
eet-say he just naturally has to let his toes follow
the tune, and if ragtime hadn't been invented he'd
have walked slow all his life. And me? Well,
ought to dance, with Father born fiddler, and
Mother brought up with castanets in her hands
We danced twelve Of the fourteen numbers together
that night and | noticed he had red
hair. I'd been dying to dance for months. Some
partner Tim was too. That began it. We joined a
class and started learning the new steps And al,
most before | knew it | was Mrs. Moran. We'd
been married nearly month before | woke up to
what fool thing I'd done. There was trying to
feed and clothe two people, besides payin the rent
and furniture instruments, all on sixteen per- got
job cashier in quick lunch place next day.
Tim didn't like it bit; did you, Tim?'
MIR. Moran grlns good natured.
"That's the way he storrned around at home,
says Mile. @But had scheme. We'd seen some
of this dancing done the stage, not much better
than could do ourselves. Tim dear, says |,
we've been dancing for the fun Of it. It's the best
thing you do. Now lets make it pay He thought
l was crazy. l believe he had idea he was born
to drive gasolene truck, and that it would be
wicked to try anything else But do the heavy
thinking for the Moran family. nearly starved
him until I'd saved out tenspot. Then | went to
the best tango professor could find and took an
hour lesson. Next taught Tim. We cleared out
our little dining and had our meals off the
gas range. My next splurge music machine
and some dance records. One Saturday Tim brought
home two dollars for overtime and that night
watched Maurice from the second balcony. Then
we really began practising. Why, some nights kept
him at it for four hours a stretch. He weighed
one hundred and eighty at the start now he's down
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