Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-23
CHAPTER THREE


NSNt1tE / mean it! How'd you like
~ to go through life like me, trying
to keep the kink ironed in my hair and
out Of my back or lose my job at the
only kind of work I'm good for. It's
like trying to live with q grin frozen
on your face SO you cant close your
mouth -
II just cau't get over it, Phonzir,
YOU forty You five years older than
me and me afraid thinking all along
il was just the other way"
~ had already shed my milk teeth
before you were born. Madam.
"Wbatta you know about that -
ASK Cert. She's been following me
around from place to place for years,
sticking to me because 7 say there ain 7
q model in the business can show tho
clothes like she eau
"Ies?"
ASK her; she's my ago aud VIC been
ou the Job together for twenty years.
Long before live models wns oven
known in the business, she and me
were showing goods in the Ole Cunning
! ham place on Madison avenue
"Even--cven back there you was dead
set on having good figures around the
place, wasn't you, PhonzieE
II tell you it's economy in the ond.
Madam, to have figures that can show
off the goods TO advantage"
"Oh, I'm not kicking, Phonzic, but !
was Just saying"
II have bccn in the business long
cuough. Madam, 20 learn that the
greatest way in the world TO show gowns
is on live stock. \ dame will fall Tor
any sort of Il rag stuck on a figure
like Gcrt's. aud think the walstiinc and
oil is thrown in with the dress. You
sccu for yourself Van Ness order live
gowns right off Gert's back today
Would she have fallen for then, il we
had shown them in the handE No'
much She forgot all about her own
thirty eight waistlinc when she ordered
that pink organdc. She was seeing
Gcrts twenty two inches"
But honest, Phon2ic, take cir
like Cert. oven with her figure. shc--oh
don't know, there's something about
her."
"Sbc may rub your fur the wroni
way, Madam. but under all her til
ways they don't come no finer thai
Cert.
"No, it amt that. only she don
always got across. Take Upton; sh
won't even let her show her Il gown
she's always calling for Do Do instead
Sometimes / think the trade takes cX
ccptions to girl like Cert. her, al
dcckcd out in diamonds that-show hoy
how fly she must be.
"Gertic Dobrincr' ) the best in th
business just the same, Madam. Sh
amt stuck on her way Of living n
more than ! am, but she s model an
she nin't got enough Of anything els
in her to make the world treat her an
different than a model.
I'm not saying she amt goo
thirty six, Phonze.'
II got to hand it to her. Madam
when it comes to lot of things. Sh
may be IL little skylarkcr, but take
from me-, it amt from choice, an
when she likes you u-God. honest,
think that girl would pawn her sou
for YOU. When was down with pneu
monia
II ain't saying thing against her.
shes no saint. maybe, but the
God knows I'm not. either. and whn
I don know about her private life don
bother me.
"Oh, II know YOU like her a
right" ~, . o au,,,,n.
that girl had memory enough to lear
the words of song or the steps of
dance she could have landed n first
row Job in any musical show on Broad
way. She could do it now for that mat
ter. Cad. did you see her today show
ing of that Queen Louise cloth -ot got
model! Honest. she took my breat
away. and ] been on the floor with he
twenty years.
"Ye- yes.
Keep down your hips aud waist
line. Cert / always say to her, and yo
are good in the business for ten year
"Shc should worry while the crop 0
four -carats is good.
"Yes. but just the same a girl lik
her don't know when her luck may turn
A girl can lose her luck sometimes be
fore she loses her figure.
ANY old times She can lose her luc
with you"
ME :"
"Yes, you"
Madam Moorcs bent over the plcat
in her napkin. Opposite her. his Gig
arctic held 'fastidiously aloft, he re
gardcd her through its haze.
well of all things! So that--that'
what YOU think
I'll know
know WHAT
That she's dead strong for YOU"
"Surc she is. but what's that got t.
do with it? That girls like-well. she
like sister or--or a pal to me. bu
she's got about as much time for
fellow of my pace, except when sh
gets blue, as--as the Queen of Sheb
has. p"
'That's what you think, maybe, bu
everybody else knows she-she's bee
after you for years trying"
Jaw, cut the comedy, Madam. Hon
est, you make me sore. She's nothin
to me off the boor but a darn good pa
] Say, | can treat her to a sixty Gel
; table d'hote twice n week. but don
: you think in the back of my hca
when it comes to Il showdown that
: couldn't even buy silk shoelaces for
, girl of her kind. I amt her pace an
G we both know it. Bosh :"
YOU'D like to be all right if--if 81