The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-08-13
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Would come out into the Wilderness
and give the Rummies a Touch OF
High Life.
II was the first time Madeleine
had spread her Wings and hit the
rarefied Strata. For a Beginner she
was there with the Spread. She made
the American, Eagle look like All Eng
lish SparrcN
As Etor "a she arrived back IN
Sleepy Hoil"~ she began to turn the
Old Family Residence upside down
and get 1t stocked up. just like a Club
for the Hot Babies from the Metrop
oils.
To Real Things arrived on a Spe
clal Car with their Hats down over
their Ears and were more or less OBJ.
scured by Dogs and English Help and
Cigarette Smoke. As they rode w
Main Street there was a Pale Face a,
every Window. Just as the Parade
passed the High School. the tall
Smoke.Stack over at the Hominy
Mills fell with "a Loud Crash.
heN EhAN'A " NhNlo was a. EIIfll
OF Moth Balls In many a Refined
Home. for all who had learned TO take
Soup from the side OF the Spoon were
under Royal Command 20 come up
and get a private Peek at the import.
ed Gentry.
II was to be a Dinner followed by a
Small Dance. II II had been n full.
sized Afair. no doubt r er would
now be working by the Day.
Instead OF the customary 3 Carna.
tons and l Maiden.Iiair Fern gracIng
the center OF the Board. the terrified
Guests saw n Wagon.Load OF tropical
Bloom which pleased them very Much
ms soon as each had secreted a new
kind OF Cocktail. served In n Goblet,
with a Stick OF Dynamite substituted
for the Olive.
The Orchestra did a lot OF those
oh! Oh" Rags while strange Foods
kept descending 10 the Table and a
Special Corps OF Walters tried to give
an Imitation OF the Johnstown Flood.
Conversation became epidemic and
many Local Characters who had re.
NAMED in Obscurity for Years came
out OF their Pods and began 10 hop
about and sing in the Sunlight.
Members Of the Married women's
Safety League were hanging out Signs
OF Distress and trying TO give Warn.
Ing Signals but Madeleine would not
permit them 10 crab her Little Party.
She wanted TO show the Boobs Just
how these Recherche Functions are
stage'managed in Upper Circles.
Accordingly they all 1elt their Way
TO the Front Room, where they Found
awaiting them a Bowl OF Artillery
Punch about the size OF Lake Erie,
M no more Harm in a full Bumper
than there is in a Rattle. Snake.
Madeleine headed on n Two.Step
and told Friends and Neighbors to sit
bach close TO the Wall with n Piece
OF Ice in each Hand and get Wise to
the latest 1914 Stun.
Then She and her Friends pinned
up their Garments and put Resin on
their Hands and cut loose. They did
the Argentine Tango and the Make
and the Twinkle and the Ta.Tao and
the One Step and the Castle Walk and
the Hesitation and the Rye Waltz,
etc, etc.
The Fire Department began carry.
ing out Bodies at ~: 30 a. m. Some
OF the Survivors vera hurrying Home
through the Alleys. wondering II they
could fix up Alibis. At Daybreak
many Prominent Citizens were found
Miles from their Homes wandering
aimlessly in R~oadways and shouting
Take 1t away"
Next afternoon tho Male Parent OF
Madeleine crawled out from under
the Wreckage and said TO his Only
Daughter: You are too Progressive
for us Farmers. Take your Trained
Troupe OF Society Acrobats and get
out OF Town. The White Caps are
now gathering In the Outskirts"
Madeleine simply retorted that tho
Dances were being done In the most
Exclusive Homes.
An Exclusive Home Is one from
which the Police are Excluded.
or course she never dared TO return
TO her Birthplace after this Scandal.
Gus Performance.
She had TO remain In tho Cruel City
as the free and unrestricted wife OF
a Cotillon Leader with an Income OF
$1,000 a Minute.
MORAL: The Pioneer must ever