Evening star., 1914-05-17

as doting as Tommys; and Daddy gay youth had
seen all the ladies of all the nations of the earth That
was what he was getting at. And straightway Daddy
Gladdin bald and shiny, and rubbing his pate, fell into
of recollection that quickly waited him all the
wav from Sandy Hook to Singapore.
He had seen all the ladies in his time and he wanted
young Tommy to know that he had not made up his
mind until he had crcumnavgated the five million (or
however many there his day., and that he had
not made grab in the grab-bag until his eyes
wide open and he knew just what he was doing
NOV, my son, let tell you this, said he, mellow
ing little under the spell of the memory of his
sentimental journeys @There is nothing like waiting
little when you think you have had the divine luck to
stray plump your soul mate without getting off
streetcar l may have been little harsh with you
when put my fist down; and just to show you that
good daddy to you my daddy was to me, LII
take that no back and say instead, Wait! Well rum
mage through the catalogue without prejudice and
if there any possible chance of your having made
mistake.
aOf course said Papa Gladdin 4you could do some
thing foolish as did when youngster, and
away with your sweetheart when your dear old daddy
has his back turned; but know you wouldn't do such
thing as that. Well just put few finishing touches
your education first, and when you come back she'll
think you grander than ever Wen just pack our bags,
and start out together and round EN- up lesurey 1t
may take year or so but what is that to youo You
are only boy yet And think of it, You will have the
advantage of your old pater counselor and friend
And let me tell you young one, his advice such
tiers is worth having! Ha-ha' laughed the old gentle
man he skipped merrily about. AGadzooks! if
wouldn't like to look them again myself
The idea immensely pleasing to the old gentle
man that it seemed to inoculate the young person;
though he grew somewhat pensive when Daddy Glad
din got out the Mercator projection and laid their
course with blue pencil.
And things moved with such hop-skip-and-junp
that before young Thomas could say Jack Robinson he
was standing the saloon deck of the grossest of the
Gross Kaisers in Hoboken, listening to the band play
sThe Star-Spangled Banner and 3Die Wacht
Rhein and wondering what the pier meant by sliding
away from the ship in such manner. In truth, young
Thomas was being kidnapped. The whole affair
managed nicely that the young hopeful was making
twenty knots hour down the bay before he realized
that he actually started his-or his father s
sentimental journey.
Daddy Gaddn felt little small about it that night
as he crept into his berth and thought it over but he
fell asleep with the firm belief that so long as boys
would be boys, there nothing to do but to take
them gently by the and give them change of
scenery
1--WE won't be back for year if I can help it," he
thought, "and goodness knows what can happen in
year to boy when he is eighteen years old,'
Meantime Tommy bemoaning his fate the
hurricane deck and wondering whether or not. it
would be good plan to swim back;
but instead he told his troubles to a sym
pathetic deck steward who in turn told
them to the wireless operator. And in
to the hands of this latter person Tommy
intr,lsted his bleeding heart, with many
injunction as to its safe delivery via
the Hertzian route.