Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-16
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
CAFE CONVERSATION.

Name Ain ne got lHe gan S"'
voice? | met him last week. and he
seems 20 be perfect gemmin-'
Gert-"Deariey- take your auntie's
bunch and lay off them warblers.
Most of them is perfect ladies. an all
that, an they looks prosperous after
the lights is turned on, blu. they ain
much good in a pinch
Mame-"Why he tor me Mr.. Froh-
man offered him a fine position with
one of his big companies when the
season started. but he cuddent take L
because he had been signed up for
purity near the whole year in vauder-
Vile"
Gert-"The closest that chap ever
got to Frohman was his picture
dearie Better singers than him is
shouting for a bowl of soup in New
York this very night. Them acters is
false alarms, an it's me what knows
it. | fell for one of 'em wunst, an he
looked more like a real man than that
bon bon eater you is getting all fused
up about, too
Mame-'Wuz he a singer or jest
plain acter?'
Gert-"Me an "A party of friends
wuz having some chop suey one night
when one of my friens introduced this
acter. 1t wus in the winter. He had
fur coat, an a horse fer a watch
charm, and SIGH beautiful hair. He
took a shine to me, an he tole me all
about hisself. He said that he wuz
laying off fer a week because the lead
in lady of his company was sick. l
think he said he wuz doin' heavies in
The Fatal Wedding That was
gran piece. Ever see lit? l did, but
not with my acter in it."
Mame-'Wuzzent the company play
ing in town that season? Err wuz he
jest down right faker?"
Gert-"No. he wuz a acter all right,
but / found out afterward that he wuz
with Tom show and that he had
two parts. He played the tuba in the
parade an on the stage he took the
part of the second blood hound. In
the summer the show WIZ given in a
tent an in winter it made the tank
towns where they had a hall. That
wuZzent the worst of it, dearie, but
year after I runs :across him up in
Michigan waitin' on table. He never
reckinized me. If he did 1 would have
stuck my nose up at him. OF course
they is some fine acters, but they is a
scarce animal"
Mame-"But l cant see no harm in
being friens with a singer like my
frien. He has got some fine sen lofts |
from the papers lin cities where he
has sang"
Gert-"Yes. they all carry them. |
When they starts pullin' pieces from /
the home paper beware, dearie. The |
home paper in mos cases plays up |
talent like him to get him off the |
streets"
Mame-"But he's workin' all the
time, he says. He says he is booked |
fer a solid month after he'gets through
here"
Ger:-'Let us hope. But the point
I'm tryin' TO make with you, dearie,
is that they is no kind of chaps fer a
girl to lose her nut over. They lives
in a suit case the year around, an
they're should be a law against their
marryin', for onny occasionally you
fnds one what is able 10 support a
wife
Mame-"But, dearie, wuzzent
thinkin' NV fallin' in love with him"
Gert-"Maybe not, but he's got you
IN the fence right now, an my advice
S that you turn your tin ear on him
f he starts singin' any of his soft
songs on you while he's here. Them
'ellahs is great stuff when all the
lights is on, but they is bad rainy day
company, remember them words what
am tellin' you, dearie.''
OUTSIDERS were always told that
llgin was one of the cleanest cities in
he state, yet we note where one of
is pioneers. who has just checked in.
eft the bulk of his estate, valued at
5000, for public baths.
RUMORS that Abe Attell had re-
ired from the ring appear to have been
nfounded. Just now he is fighting
is wife's divorce suit.
THAT Chicago judge who invited
Hiss Christabel Pankhurst to sit be-
ide him on the bench to view the
rind of an American court will be re-
arded il Lcndon as a man of more
han ordinary courage.
THOSE 20 submarines on which /,
Ir. Schwab had begun work may not
o to the junk pile after all. Your
-ncle Samuel may take them off his
ands.
Fictionist's Responsibility. ,
Toledo BladeD ,
IF you know what sort of literature
girl reads in her romantic days you
an make a pretty fair guess what ,
ind of names her children will have ,
lrust upon them. I