The Washington herald., 1917-01-15
Tabloid Tales
BY THE OBSERVER.

They sat In the third row-of the or
chestra and somehow he gave the i'm
preston that this was a fiesta- But come
to think of It, when chap takes his
One Best Bet to the theatey and she is
all frocked up to emulate the sweet un-
derclad debutanfe, he must buy the best
seats (which means 50 and to do things
right, there's supper (which means "A
more). and cab fare and maybe a posey
and-well, all that's left of a SO bill Is a
memory. All very well for an occasional
Jollincation, but much to be discouraged
as regular weekly institution
As soon as the lights went up for the
leaves of her program.
Ooh look" she gurgled, "LAurette
| Taylor's coming next week. I just
adore her, don't your
Pretty fair. About that job I was
telling you'll can land that and"
DO you remember her in Peg o. Ny
HeartT went to see her three times.
l was SO crazy about her"
Sure, it was great. But about this
! job
Don't you. just adore her voice. 80
deep and throaty! I guess I'll have to
come to the matinee. Wednesday. but
matinees are SO stupid, don't you think
They never seem to play so well. Per-
haps mother"
He swallowed-hard.
'Why-I-couidn't you come with me-
er-some evening"
1000 Jack, I'd perfectly adore to-
what>I said-why, 1t sounded just as
though / was limiting"
And then the lights went out, leaving
Jack feeling in his pockets.
Two women had called on a third and
the hostess proffered a box of sweets,
depleted, but still brave in its lace paper
frilling. The callers partook generously.
Il do love candy" declared the one,
contentedly munching a Russian paste
tidbt. These are fne-so much better
than Blanks. can't bear their cholo-
lates."
"oh. Blanks canty travels on its
name" put in the other. selecting a glace
nut. TITS, too full of mixtures. You
never know when you bite 1t, whether
you're going to break tooth or have
cherry filling running down your chin
And / don't think their chocolates ara
fresh at an-always taste stale to me-"
And expensive-my dear" picking out
a nougat. why, the price of a pound
of Blanks will buy three pounds of some
body's else ever SO much better"
A'"Their nuts are always rancid" select
ing two chocolate almonds, II got awful
This Is wonderful, Ann, where did you
get it?"
ut waa sent to me-from a distance -
| modestly admitted Ann.
We'll, We must run along" sighed the
visitors with a regretful glance at the
bonbons.
Take some with you" generously Of
/ fered Ann and filled two handbags with
the sweets.
The callers had gone in the elevator
! before she searched for the lid to the
candy box and found 1t upside down be-
hind the library lamp.
BLANK & Co-High-class Confection-
ers." covered the top in fierce black in.
''Oh. well. what's in a name?" asked
the master mind of Avon fully three CEN
turtles ago.
Christmas stories are no longer apro-
pos. They belong to the cIas. OF last
winters snow and last June's brides, and
last years champions. But
1t was during the evening rush hour
when the car was creeping along up the
Avenue through the congested trafao
They sat on the longish seat at the rear
and they were having a good old-fash-
ioned domestic squabble.
He was big and bulldoggy, and she was
little and wispish-but scrappy-so bets
were about even among the highly-di-
verted passengers who just know they
were Quarreling about giving Mabel such
an expensive doll and depriving poor
Johnny of a mechanical railroad. They
were so comfortable and domestic-look-
ing and any observer could tell that Ma
bel was mothers best bet and father
was favoring Johnny shamefully.
Finally the little womans voice began
to wabble and she made surreptitious
dabs at her face with a wad Of a hand
kerchief
Jaw. cut It. Everybody'll see you"
I 81 d-d-doon't c-care."
And then the car struck a switch and
the lights mercifully went out for three
whole minutes.
All signs of the storm had passed when
the car got under way again The COM
batants were dignifedly erect and nom
communicative in their respective cor
ners. but Just before they alighted at
Thomas Circle the Eve instinct con-
quered:
You just let me catch her calling you
/ Harold and she'll get her nose pinched!"