Evening star., 1921-03-20

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singeing her palm.r
..The nearest fye. ever been to this
is rowin' in Bronx Park. Gee am I
this quiet? I feelrlike 1 was listenin'
to Maisie recite1 The Rosary to
music
The dipping of the paddle. the
rustic of water against the delicate
sides of the canoe, the string of VII
| lage lights. the yellow windows OF the
hotel neutrality-suspicious..
| Life amt much after all. Miss
| Fink, except water and air and light
| and plenty of them-and the smell OF
pine. and a nibble on your line. and
I sunrise on wet treetops and COO ana
love in your heart: a fireside or steam
| radiator o winter, and a pretty girl
| with moonlight caught in her hair for
| August and the heated spell
You sound like the salvation Army
| gone into musical comedy.
| Lay still there. sister - a canoe
like a nervous horse if you tickle IT'S
ribs. Anyway. when YOU lay there
| like that YOU look like a calendar we
| got hanging in the kitchen caileo
| Comfort in kitche enoff Folding
| Canoe.
| say. Mr.. Proxies
| Yes. sister
| Keep your face that way minute.
with the light on the SIDE there IKE
| that-say--say. didn't You ever BUY
goods from BENSON & Sons cioaks ana
/ suits. East Broadway
| He dipped his first uneven stroke
and regarded her with his gray eyes.
| frankly wide.
Say. sister. you amt Anna Eva
| Fay doing the middle west incog. are
| YOU" I've bought misses cloaks ana
| ladies' cloth skirts from Benson's
| since before they moved up from
| East 11th street. Paw before me
bought from Old Man Benson long be-
| fore my time, when they started up
l,tT al -
window loft The Red Trunk amt
been without line of Benson's goods
, since / can remember.
| Il knew I'd seen you somewhere
! your face was as familiar to me as
my board bill
1 You amt
| NO, but I used to be-Bensons is
! the first firm | ever worked for-i
started in when l was fourteen. doin'
misses model for him..
! Misses model?
Il bet I've tried on more than one
| or two or six misses ulsters for you
! to pick from. Gawd, that was seven
| years ago. but even now. when L sell
a three-quarter. double breasted, re :
versible yachting coat them them -1inat 1in,as
| coats with the cotton stitching ana
sweatshop buttonholes, come back
and scratch the back of my neck, just
| like they used to do.
We'll. whatta you know. TO think
| Of my ever havin' bought uisters Tor
the Red Trunk offn you--a little PINK
and white flower like you, rsproutin in
| Bensons.
You used to come 10 with the early
September buyers. | remember seem
J salesroom. with Old Man Benson Of
fering you a cigar every time you
yanked me to the daylight, to see how
| green the lot q black ulsters Were '
And look at you now, living IKE
| a little lady-vacation and all.
II may be head lady at Rentley's $
now. but take it from me. Mr. Proxies.
| it's long and crooked lane from
| Benson's and six weak to four tunes
six and green velvetslhoors on the
avenue"
"Rentley's is one Of, them dead
lookin' places, amt it?-with no sign
out and no show windows or nothin
except a butler with leather calves
and white boomers and a ribbon
rosette on the side of his high hat for
a door display
| Something like a morgue, yes.
says to Maisie the other day. / says:
From East Broadway to that part OF
5th avenue where they, quit sellln,
F. dresses and begin to sell gowns only
. amt so far if you cover it in your
limousine, but when you get there by
| way of three-year stop-on in 6th
avenue cloak department and four
year Sldetrdck In ofln street hoNt Guy
shop it's going some.
Poor little sister,
Your painting like chorus after
the third encore by the time you
reach the imported Gowns-Only
and can afford secondstory front
! with running water and two tailor
made suits a year if you save it on
lunch and take room within walk
ing distance
| Old gold light lay on them and
\ -
rent they created: the ghostly sail of
| a pleasure boat moved across the
| horizon: womans voice. thin and
full of plant. came from It's direction
! and died on the water as smoke dies
| in air. The far-off hotel windows
blinked out one by one-the moon was
directly above them, higher, whittier,
| smaller.
You and Gilly got the wrong idea,
| Miss Fink; rushing through life like
! you do in subway trains don't give
you much time to see the scenery.
| does it,"
| NO. or to hear singin' voices over
the water
I Il can show you a story and "a half
| cottage in Miami. with awnings to
keep the sun out and a back yard with
props under the trees to keep the
fruit from breaking the limbs. that
would make the swell velvet furni-
ture in your second-story front and
1
at taking your money. Say. amt that
pretty. l bet that's the little lady
from Duluth singing for the sailing
party"
swell"
"Listenw
Sweet and low. sweet and low,
Wind Of the western sea;
Blow, blow. breezes blow,
| Wind Of the western sea-
| "Come on cts join in Miss Fink "
'I don't know that"
Gee, I was raised on that lullaby"
II know a swell lullaby song. It's a
swell trot. too"
When they play that ragtime lullaby
| Lul1-a-by-y-y-
Lull-a-by-y-y.
'say. could die trotting to that"
| LAY still there. sister"
"Ain't you tired padding, Mr.
Prokes?'
"Tired. I've padded twelve, hours
straight up the Miami. and not in such
good company neither. At the last con-
ventfon at. Bear lake l padded for
the Kansas City Lodge cup. and won
), You're sure some big frog in these
He swung lightly about for the
homeward cut. Through the mist OF
late evening, the string of village
lights was without luster. like a
giant lady's necklace seen through
the blur Of her giant tears.
, Il amt much of ladys man
/ you; but. gee, this has been great
], padding you out here in the moon
/ light
Z Say. I bet you're the champion
! lady-killer of Miami"
: Il amt called on a girl in Six