Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-12

Just don't come better than him. Not.
baby? Don't be ashamed to say SO to
mama
Il amt, mama! And, honest, his
his whole family is just that way.
Sweet-like and generous. Wait till you
| see the way his sister and brother-in-
| law will treat us at the hotel tomor-
| row. And-and Leo, too"
II always say the day what Meyer
Vetsburg, when he was only a clerk in
| the firm, answered my furnished-room
advertisement was the luckiest day in
my life"
you ought to heard. ma. was
| teasing him the other day, telling him
| that he ought to live at the Savoy, now
| that he's two-thirds member of the
| firm"
RUBY"
II was only teasing. ma. You just
ought to seen his face. Any day he'd
leave us!'
Mrs. kaufman placed a warm, insin-
uating arm around her daughters slim
waist drawing her around the chair-side
and to her. There's only one way.
me and make me happy when he leaves"
Ma, what you meanT
"You know, baby. without mama COM
| ing right out in words.
ma. honest don't What?
"You see it coming. just like do.
Don't fool mama, BABY: ,.,u. p.,,...
The slender lines Of Miss Kaufman's
waist stiffened, and she half slipped
Nov. now, baby, is it wrong a
mother should talk to her own baby
about what Is closest in both their
.i-i-mama, IL don't know"
How he's here in this room every
night lately, Ruby. since you-you're a
Young lady. How right away he fol-
lows Us upstairs. How lately he In
yited you every month down at Atlantic
city. Baby, you amt blind, are your
.;Why, mama-why mama. what is
he's got gray hair, ma he-hes get
ting bald. Why. he-he don't know I'm
~ "a rth. He-hes-"
W "You mean, baby. he don't know any
body else is on earth What's, nova
DAYS, baby. a man forty! Wny-why,
81" inst say yourself for sisters they
~ know, ma, but he-he- Why, he's
got an accent, ma, just like old man
Katx and-and all Of 'em. He says
.too-sand' for thousand. He" ~, ;.
ustss any diference how good man
taiks?, She reached out. drawing her
SoM1hter by the wrists down into her
ian you're q bad little fiirt. baby.
what pretends she don't know what a
hind man can see."
Miss Kaufman's eyes widsned, dark
ened. and she tugged for the freedom
~ her wrists. ma, quit soaring met"
Soaring you! That such q rising
nav like vetsburg, with q business he
worked himself into spresident from
c,erk looks every day more like he's
falling In love with you, should scare
youw ..,o+ h,r,,"
Tn reply she fell to stroking the
smooth black plaits. wound coronet
Fashion about Miss Kaufman's small
head. Large, hot tears sprang to her
eyes. Baby. when you talk like that
it's you that scares mama!
"Why, you think, Ruby. been max
ing out Of myself servant like you
call It all these years except for your
future? For myself a smaller house
without such q show and maybe Ave
or six roomers without meals, you
For what, baby, you think I always
want you should have extravagances
maybe I can't afford and should keep
up with the fine girls what you meet
down by Atlantic City II 1t amt that
q man like Meyer Yetsburg can be
proud to choose you from the best?"
Mama! mama!
Don't think, R0py, Wnen the Gay
comes what I can give UP this white
elephant house that 1t won't be
happy one for me. Every night when
I hear from upstairs how Mrs. Katz
and all Of them hollers down towels
and ice water to me like III was
their slave; don't think, baby. won't
be happtest woman in this world the
day what can slam the door, bang,
right on the words"
MAMA, mama, and you pretending
all these years you didn't mind!"
az don't baby. Not one minute