New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Delilah
"A jter the painting by Louzs Baadcr.

with the velvet and arrange ror the wedding
oells. She's the original sweet dream, and |
want to cop her before the alarm clock goes
Oft and wakes her up!"
Who Is she?" asked his father, hanging
up the telephone, and telling the stenopra-
pher to come back after lunch
She and her folks live over in Tmnath, 4"
said Samson, dropping into chair and
sticking his feet up on the desk
"rheyve got all the cash thew can use
and have two automobiles, so you needn't lie
awake nights about their bank-rol
But she sure is some fash-light. all right,
ohes got me sitting on the ragged edge
with my feet hanging over"
HERE was some parental objection
but since Samson had been brought
up to believe that whenever he wanted
anything "all he had to do was to press a
button to get it" it wasn't possible to hold
out consistently. In vain his father ar
gued that there's Jennie Smith, or Judge
BROWNS daughter, or what's the matter
with the little Roberts girl?"-to whom. it
developed, Samson had been engaged ali
the previous summer. Samson would have
no one but the maiden of Timnath. AS q
matter of fact
Samson found himself in his element down
at Timnath
When he put on his pinch back toga
ana strolled down the Rialto, stopping at
every THIRST garage the way he was the
real goods-in the eyes of the crowd.
They would wait outside the saloon while
ne went inside to put another crimp in the
visible supply Of bonded wabble-juce and
eseiy ''me ne came out he wearing his
cnest few inches further out in the front
Samson was only human.
lie thought he was hitting on all +welvo
cylinders all the time
But his carburetor needed attention
And he was eating up gas instead of mile
age.
lie soon began taking all the jazz of Flash
Alley home with him and trying it on his
plano-and thinking how nice it sounded.
Samson's first courtship at Timnath was all
to the merry.
The girl he had fallen for was one of those
dizzy blondes with the gasoene gaze and the
come Hlther smile that are imported espe-
clally for the benefit of the wise guv who
knows the world
And Samson thought he knew everything
in the world
lie thought he had the telephone number
Oh every lily in the garden of love-
THE mean time Samson didn't let his
wooing interfere with his press-agcnting
of himself.
He was the worlds original strong-arm ,r,v
and he wanted folks to know it,
One day when he was beating it over to
that particular town where his particular
Fluffy Rutfles received her mail with box
of chocolates under his arm and a bunch of
orchids in his mitt, he met lon
1t 50 happened that this lion hadn't been
reading the newspapers lately, and didn't
know Samson it stood in the middle of
the road and began to roar
1t had never been told that roaring was
Samson's own star stunt and he believed in
the centre of the stage and a one-man act
Pm working this side of the street." said
Samson to the lion. "Run away and peddle
your war extras before you make me peevedo
But the poor, foolish animal hadn't been
tipped off that Samson was the biggest lion
in Philistia and it stood it's ground
Samson set his box of chocolates and his
bunch of orchids down and took off his coat
and rolled back his cuffs Then he walked
over to the lion and pulled open its jaws
to see if it had adenoids enlarged tonsils
He ended up by yanking the said lion in
two, as light morning exercise, after which
he kicked it into the bushes and continued
his way, whstling OTIS Long Way to Tippe
rary"
1t thus that Samson trumphed over
the unimportant things of life
He could throw lion or he could throw
the bull, but when it came to the things that
really counted he wasn't there
Samson hit the real spots on the day of his
wedding.
He was doing things with high hand
about this time, to show the town that he
didn't have to work for living and that he
was getting money from home regularly, and
he put up for weeks party.
1t wasn't any ice cream lawn social affair.
either.
THE succeeding events of the story are
treated in the irresistible Sunday
fashion-the episode of the riddle. the
prodigious feats of arms ("He made the
Battle of Bull Run look like an ice cream
social!") which eliminated in his installa-
ton on the Supreme Bench. Everybody
assured him he made 1.-The strongest-look-
ing judge Israel had ever had"
But not even the fact that he now wore
ermine and was supposed to be old enough
and dignited enough to know better could
break Samson of the habits of lifetime
When he was off the bench and not work
ing he began to long again for the white
lights and the cabarets, and ended up by de-
Gliding to spend his vacation over in the city
Of GAIA, in Philistia, where he could forget
all about his raputation and his ioh and