South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-08

she. VIII you come and live with
me- I'll show 'em whether l can
spend money or not she says.
We'll, Man. what would you have
done2 OF course, / fell to IL. And.
TO tell you the truth, / began TO like
old Maggie. IL wasn't all on account
of the 40 millions and what she could
do for me. / was kind Of lonesome
IN the world, too. Everybody's got
TO have somebody they can explain
10 about the pain in their left
shoulder and how fast patent
leather shoes wear out when they
begin TO crack. And you can't talk
about such things TO men you meet
In hotels-they'r looking for lust
such openings
SO / gave up my job in the hotel
and went with Mrs. Brown. l GER
talnly seemed 10 have a mash on
her Shed look at me for half an
hour at a time when / was sitting.
reading. or looking at the magazines.
one time 1 says to her: DO re-
mind YOU of some deceased relative
or friend of your childhood, Mrs.
Brown I've noticed you give me a
pretty good optical inspection from
time 10 time
You have face she saws. 'ex-
actly like a dear friend of mine
the best friend 1 ever had. But I
like you for yourself. child. too she
says.
Then we moved TO where do YOU
think2-nO; guess again-that's right
the Hotel Benton. We had a six
room apartment; and ii cost 800 a
day. / saw the bill. / began to
love that old lady.
Then Aunt Maggie says she is
going to give me "A coming-out ban
quet in the Benton thatu make
moving Vans of all the old Dutch
families on Fifth av.
I've been out before. Aunt Mag
gle says l. But I'll come out
again. But you know says 1. that
this is one of the SWEETEST hotels in
the city And YOU know-pardon me
that it's hard to get a bunch Of
notables together unless you've
trained for it
Don't fret about that. child,
says Aunt Maggie I don't send out
invitations issue orders. I'll have
80 guests here that couldn't be
brought together again at any recep-
ton unless il were given by King
Edward or William Travers Jerome.
They are men. of course. and all of
EN- either owe me money or intend
TO. Some Of their wives won't come,
but good many will
well. ! wish you could have seen
that banquet. The dinner service
was an gold and cut glass. There
were about 40 men and eight ladies
present besides Aunt Maggie and I.
You'd never have known the third
richest woman in the world. She
had ON a new black silk dress with
So much paSsementeria on il that il
sounded exactly like a hailstorm I
heard once when ] was staying all
night with a girl that lived in a top
floor studio.
ION the left of me was something
that talked like a banker. and on
my right was a young fellow VINO
said he was a newspaper artist. He
was the only-well, I was going TO
tell you.
After the dinner was over Mrs.
Brown and I went up TO the apart
ment. We had TO squeeze our way
through a mob of reporters all the
way through the halls. That's one
Of the things money does for you.
say. do YOU happen 70 know a
newspaper artist named LathTOp-a
tall man with nice eyes and an easy
way of talking No, I don't remem-
Der what paper he works on. Well,
all right.
When We got upstairs Mrs.
Brown telephones for the bill right
away. II came. and it was $500.
saw the bill. Aunt Maggie tainted.