The Washington times., 1919-09-18

THE poor little rich girI ran
away the other night
= Her mother and father were
having q lovely time downstairs
They had q dinner paFty-oh, lots
Of people, in smart clothes and the
women IA dresses that look just Ike
the pictures you see IN the fasnton
rnagazines, not much TO them. but
skifts and q Fuffle or 50, and the
men were all very smazt5 tOo-and
after dinner, of course. Ehey eouldn'e
20 upstairs, even &C they did have q
beautiful apartment with q private
sitting room OF their own
Oh, no-nothing 50 stupid as thatl
So they stayed downstairs and
danced and danced and danced and
az I O'Clock, when All the guests
were gone, mother and father went
upstairs and found the poor little
rich girls room empty. She hadn't
been 70 bed at all and her hat was
gone and her little coat, and her
best shoes and q funny little en-
broidered purse she had, and she
ala not come back All night
And her mother cried, and the
father stOPmed, and they telephoned
TO the chief OF police and to all the
receiving hospitais-and about
o'clock In the morning in walked
the poor little rich girl, smiling and
quite happy.
She said she had been for q walk
She got tired OF hearing the music
from downstairs and she wanted to
have some one 90 play with, and 50
she went out And, she said, she
met a woman and the woman took
her home and kept her all night.
and IN the morning she took q
ferryboak and a train and q street
car. and came back to the big ho-
tel where her mother and father
were staying.
And the belIboys and the elevator
men and the walters were delighted
to see heF-they had all been
awfuliy worried about her, they
said. and the chsmbermaids gath
cred I'm knots and talked about It
And the reporters cane ard photaS-
raphers, and the papers had big
headlines, and all Marna's friends
telephoned and PapS's friends teie-
phoned, too-and altogether, II was
quite exciting for the poor little
rich girl.
And that's what she does love-
excitement. And she doesn't get
very much Of il. How can She
when nothing excites her very
much-not even the thri1iest movie
or the most blood-and-thunder
hook? She's read them all and seen
ther, all, and she can dance the
dance OF the seven wells. and do the
hest campfire faint and the sweetest
"sveeheart" smile-but she doesn't
IKE the sweetheart very much, or
any OF her plays. THERE too milk
and-watery. she says
she likes 70 read about murders
and suicides, and elopemepts and
divorces, and she loves to sit up In
bed and eat candy and have the
door ajar so she can hear Mama
and her friends talking and ind out
Just who is who had Fhat isn't
ChiI6rcn: She doesn't care much
for children. She doesn't know
msuy. when you come to that. Chill
dren don't live in hotels for very
long at a time, you know-not real
children.
Doa't Tou Think sOP
They get too bored and too lonely,
and too pale and too much like poor
little talking dolls 30 their mothers
take them out into the country to
Aunt Mary's. or send them away 70
boarding school So the poor little
rich girl just knows actors and
actresses. and travelling men and
promoters, and chambermaids, and
walters and beilboys--she's very
much interested in the walters and
can tell you just how many tips
good waiter expects on n good DAY.
and what happens when you dont
give the heiihoy something for a
pitcher % Ice water.
Oh. shes very vice. lnfosd O thn
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