Evening star., 1919-12-28
Gangway for Sudie Belle.
Continued from Third Pase)

that paint off her face at once"
PAINT" says Ma jerks. "Now,
Dorothy"
She amt such bad lookin' girl, Sis
ter Dorothy, only kind of old maidish
and dowdy dressed. And for all she
let's on to be shocked go much she
can't seem to keep her eyes off Sudie
Belle. While Tn tryin' to think of
the right thing 10 say the two girls
sort of makes it up and the next
thing | know they've disappeared up
stairs together. / was still stallin'
around, half an hour or so later,
when they comes back
"Why, Dorothy" eXclaims Mother.
It's another mild case of transfor-
nation. She's had her hair puffed
over her ears. and her lips touched
up, and a drug store blush added to
her cheeks, and hanged if she don't
look almost as fresh and stunnin' as
Sudie Belle herself.
She just coaXed and 'teased until
let her do it," says Dorothy. Il sup
pose I'm sight"
you're not frumpy old maid any
more, at least" says Sudie Belle
And in two or three days III have
you fixed up SO that on-and-off beau
of yours, Billy Barnes, will either
have to make up his mind whether
he wants to marry you or not. or else
he'll find himself standing in line
SO there
Il must say" admits Mother, after
while. that I've never seen either
of you look $3.50 stylish. Don't they.
Matthew? But I'm sure / don't know
what the neighbors are going to
say"
"Oh. hang the neighbors." explodes
the Hon. Matthew
That's what it amounted to. a regu-
lar hand grenade chucked into the
jerks household.
Matthew" gasps Mother.
Il mean it" says he. And it's about
time i said it. All our lives we've
been living the way we thought would
please the neighbors, because my Job
in the bank depended on it, We've
been pious and respectable and COM
monplace, I've worn a black string
tie. and side whiskers, because a
banker should. And I've listened to
dull sermons, and walked with a stiff
neck, and never done any of the
things I'd like. to do. But why keep
at it any longer? I'm going to get
out of the bank, shave off my whis-
kers. wear golf suit. and smoke
cigars on the street. And my girls
are going to dress the way they want
to. IL they can't do IL here in Tup-
pertown then we'll move somewhere
else. Right into New York, perhaps.
We can IL we wish. So why not:"
Bully for you, Dad" says Sudie
Belle. II always knew you could be
a good sport If you only got a start.
Come along! Let's get out the tour
ing car. You light up a big cigar, and
we1l drive around town and give the
folks treat. En-"
The Hon. Matthew said it was a
trade. or words to that effect. They
took me to the station to catch the
train back and I saw some of the
open-faced expressions that Tupper-
town INDUCED in.
"Well"" says Sadie. when gets
home.
lts all right" says /. "Everythinp
STUN pretty. Only l expect by this
time next week Sudie Belle will
either have corrupted Tuppertown or
given it heart disease. She hadn't
peen home half an hour before she
was usin' her lip stick on the old
maid sister, and shouldn't wonder
VI she'd begun on mother by now
Lucky for the Hon. Matthew he's de
cided 10 NOW his side whiskers su
ole might have insisted on gvin' EN-
henna treatment"
Copyright. 1919, by seweil Ford,
Snobs.