Evening star., 1918-08-25
w YHEN Father Time was boy
NM In rOmpers there lived In
Washington girl all In
npcanra and lan,nn ,,

hair.
She went to her first party in sea
green tulle and water lilies, and the
mermaidishness OF the combine in
spired some reportorial pencil to
paragraph her as "Undine."
1t was lovely compliment, and
the girl dressed up to 1t all that sea-
son in dewdrop tariatans, with drippy
grasses trailing around the low neck
OF her infant waist and with sleeve
loops Of corals and shells. and her hair
crimped and let flow.
Had she kept to her role she would
undoubtedly have retained the dull
blessedness of those women who have
10 history, but there's no telling what
an ancestor Is going to hand down
to you, especially when one of them
happens to have been minuet-dan
ing dame who only escaped being a
vampire for the reason that Kipling
had yet to write her into existence. SO:
The girl developed a flirtatious tai
ent, regardless of other women's cher
ished possessions. which at last led
one temperamental fiance to bang a
bullet into his brain, leaving note
for "0irce.'
white paint of her girlishness. and
she went abroad to get the death
sound out of her ears. Over there
she married a diplomat who wore
epaulettes and who gave her clothes
that meant the finest fabrics loom
could weave. with first water KIM
berleys to match. The results were
so sartorially stunning that Epau-
lettes engaged an artist to paint her
full length. but when the portrait was
hung In foreign gallery-a glamor-
GUS Cleopatra" In revealing gauzes.
-he objected to the expression In the
eyes of his painted lady and-never
mind details-took to himself di-
vorce.
Then Cleopatra married some more.
and while achieving names to suit her
denly occurred to her that her merry
go-round was taking on the heavi-
ness Of treadmill and that the lemon
IN her hair had turned sleeps woolly
to keep pace with Father Time. who
was growing long gray beard.
the identical yesterday which means
Tuesday Of this week-when the
woman was leaving Washington after
few days stay. She had meant to
buy the cheapest little bungalow she
could flnd. but-you know what Mem
OTy Will w WuCH BIG Keeps company
with Remorse-she said she couldn't
live In this town II you gave her
everything In it-so she started west
Another woman saw her off-you
notice that no matter how hard Fate
tussles a woman around there Is
can hang on to-which Is one OF the
things which make women worth
while. And. as they were passing
through the station gate. the one who
had been Undine- -Circe Cleopatra ct
al. dropped her cane and would have
fallen except that the other woman
caught her.
The almost accident appealed to a
sympathetic bystander without rag
OF tact, who gasped out to her COM
panion, loud enough for the whole
Concourse to hear:
"Oh, the poor old thing!'
If 1t be true that suffering atones
for sin. 1t may be that One more pow
erful than an ancestral vampire per-
mitted the woman to realize what
she had come to; that the stab, in
finding the scarlet OF her shortcom-
ings. might wash them whittier than
snow, but all she said to her COM
panion was:
Goodbye. my dear. and some
times give a kindly thought to this
poor old thing"
All of which serves to show what a
nerve tnat man Romeo nau TO tell
his girl that there was nothing in a
name.
A REAL estate agent was showing a
house-six rooms and bath: so
much down and the balance in month
ly installments forever after to a
customer who was looking over the
premises with his wife. On his shoul-
der was perched a baby who had
reached the age Of sitting, alone"
Both dubbed over with happin sss
at the idea of owning q home of their
own, and after he had picked out his
den and she had located the nursery
they went outside to consider tho
place from the front. The deal was
satisfactory from every angle until 1t
came to the point where the husband,
in q gust Of loving thought. happened
to mention to the agent that he would
mako the house over to his wife. But
the wife objected:
why. Bert, I'm surprised at you
to saddle me with responsibility like
that! I'm famishsd for q home Of our
very own. but II I've got to be tied
down to-"
Say. old girl. climb down to COM
mon sense. 1t is only that 1 want 1t
in your name in case anything should
happen to me-"
mo. sir. I may be foolish when It
much for that. You've got to do all
tho i'm tuU rA III In