Evening star., 1919-03-02

crash In at just that particular time,
and, of course. ii was him that came
You see, i was entertainin ex-
Corp. Buck Kinney. It's got to be
Kind of Saturday night habit of
mine. Must have begun couple of
months ago when finds Buck waitin'
patient out in the lee of the garage
with his old trench coat collar turned
up around his ears and his overseas
cap pulled down inside of that I dis
covers that he's got a date with
Helma for a dance or something down
at the village, and Is stickin' around
while she does up the dinner dishes
and gets herself ready. Known that
Helma is about as swift as Port
chester local with sleet on the tracks,
and that it'll probably be well after
before she finishes gettin' all that
taffy- -colorea hair puffed over her
ears, asks Buck In where it's warm.
And on second thought / tows him in
by the livin' room fireplace, wishes
a gilt banded cigar on him and makes
him feel like a reg'lar person.
Why not9 Amt he Rockhursts
star war hero. winner of the d. S. NJ
and all that? And by workin' up to it
easy, putin in a fool question now
and then, I've found you can really
pump more or less details out of him
as to how we licked the Huns. You
got to go at 1t Just right, though, or
he'll close up like a clam But grad
ually I've been colleCtin' pretty fair
hist'ry of the great war, as fought by
certain machine gun comp'ny whose
han.
mentionin'. even at this late date.
Well, on this special evenin' l had
Bucky nicely started tellin about a
little sideshow he attended at place
he'd found for me on the map, but
neither of us could pronounce, and
he's right in the middle of the most
thrillin' part when Sadie breaks in on
us sort of excited and whispers to
me that this Mr. Sherwood is in the
lib'ry.
scription volume OF President Will
sons speeches and tell him to read
himself to sleep
But he---he seems to want to see
you at once" says she.
"Eh?" says |, Edgar Plus does?"
''Sh sh. shorty" warns Sadie.
He'll hear YOU"
do the poor prune good IL he did"
says |, Cant you shunt him some
way"
NO, l CdH 4 says SHUle, ueCiueu
And what's more. Shorty McCabe,
YOU ought to be ashamed to talk that
way about Mr.. Sherwood You know
he's such a nice man"
That was just it, / did know that
Edgar was a perfectly nice man. Any
way. I'd heard 1t said times enough.
Mainly by women Uhhuh. Sadie
had even gone so far as to say that
he was a regular dear. Mrs. Purdy
Pell, who is about as rough critic of
the safety razor sex as you'll find,
never handed him anything but kind
words. AS for Mrs. Boomer Day she
cooed and gushed over him almost as
II he was a pet Pekinese. Why, even
Helma couldn't show Edgar in the
front door without workin' up a
mushy grin
Mind you. 7 ain't sayin' that Edgar
don't deserve it all suspect he
does. Nor l don't mean. either, that
Edgar is one of these regulation
wrist slappin' parlor- hounds. SO far
as looks go he has all the marks of
perfectly good he-man. Even to the
whiskers. Oh, yes. his dark chestnut
Vandyke is about the richest crop OF
facial herbage our cute little suburb
can produce. And the way he keeps it
trimmed is the last word in tonsoriai
art. A tall. well built party, Edgar is.
too. Looks like he could step into
the ring and go ten rounds any time.
I amt sure but he could, at that. He
plays BOlI some, noluS plS silver
cup to prove that he's our local ten
mis- champ. and is said to be quite
fencer. Also, while It's true he did
marry q bunch of money when he
picked out that meek little Miss Par
sons as wife. nobody can accuse
him Of livin' on her income. Course,
he's only a four-eyed expert. but 1
understand he's the big noise in one
of the, SWEETEST Arms of opticians on
9Th avenue: one of these exclusive
joints where you lug in S26 oculist's
prescription and they set you back
twice as much for n new set of panes.
Any way. he pulls In the coin. You
can tell that just by glancin' at the
size of the establishment he keeps up.
Admittin' all that. though, I've
never been very strong for Edgar.
For one thing he always has that air
of being so blamed sure he's all right.
Not Just chesty or cocly. Nothing so
common as that. But he has calm.
quiet way of sizin' you up, sort of
cold and superior, that makes me
want to muss him every time he
comes near.
/ expect it's due to the way he's
been brought up. being the only boy
In n family of four girls, and having
"A mother who's always petted him.
And now that he's married. with his
own mother and wifie's mother both
living with him, it's just the same,
only more so. Oh, I've seen 'em at 1t.
When dear Edgar comes In they all
rush around trying to do things for