The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-18
Miss Knox Laughed at
Mrs. Eastlake's Charge
She Was Playing Vamp

tunes. doing the wicked vamp" to
your neglected wife?" And with
Roger as the star performer, too.
Poor Roger, who adores his home,
and who does not even know when q
woman IL trying to flirt with him
as per Irene. Do you know how
incredulous and mad he was when
we told him she was making eyes ut
him.
He is the last man / should sus-
pect of filtration. for he does not
know the rules of the game and
lacks all Of the little Chevalier aux
Danes ways of doing things.
Denies Suicide Threat.
You say I threatened to commit
suicide. had an awful attack and
don't know what I said. Roger
came In and the pain got 30 bad !
could hardly keep from shrieking.
Roger accused me of being dramatic.
/ shall never forget IL or quite for
give 1t. either. You must realize
Roger was not afraid I would kill
myself. g he went off to bed coolly.
leaving me with my revolver. and
all the deadly medicines with which
could have finished myself in two
jerks.
II It 10 of any comfort to you, I
will assure you am not thinking Of
Fastening my 'lamented demise'-
though few days ago they thought
was a goner sure and had the
death slip made out. A waste OF
good paper. All the people where
] was knew Roger had taken the
plant for his aunt. and people even
in Ocean City and Colonial Beach
are not likely to gossip about man
and his aunt.
have ignored all the insults. I
stand ready to do a sisters part by
you and an aunty's toward the
babies. The rest is all flumdiddle
and unworthy Of you or me. As
ever 9. X.
Denies She's Vamp.
Writing to Dear Roger" from
Baltimore on February 81 last.
Miss Knox disclaimed she was q
''vamp." This missive follows. In
part:
Feel sick. a. I have discovered
have left nearly all my money.
quite q large sum. $35 or more.
under my mattress In Colonial
Beach. I do not know what
shall do IL this money IL lost.
In regard to Margaret saying
SOtOul6t ASO0Sh 8oocApcl ADOot yoo
and me, II must be q nice. pleasant
place, almost az sensible and clean
minded as Ocean City. I never
considered you a. the gay Lothario
type. Yet understand I have
fallen q victim to your fatal fasci-
nation, or you to mine. am not
sure which you must be. Maybe
you are particularly dangerous to
the aged female. You ask Marie
to walk on the beach with you and
she falls on your neck.
What q mercy 1t was Mason and
not you who took q room In the
old ladies' home. You would never
have escaped alive from the
enamoured populace.
1t had not occurred to me that
canvas gymnasium suit was q fas-
cinating dress. but maybe 1t IL.
am not up ON vamping. Hereafter
when want to attract q man shall
rush gladly at him and land a.
heavy one as possible on his solar
plexus, or something sentimental
like that.
1t reminds me Of q nurse know
who asked q recently married doc
tor for a deodorant from cancer.
and he replied in a letter OBJ
viously suspected by his wife, that
he could have no confidential
friends but his wife. The nurse said
1t had not occurred to her that her
inquiry was confidential or cancer
was sentimental subject, but II
jiu titsu is. why not cancer?
I do hope the little woman il
better. Please send word about my
money.
(sisned) Atty. AUNTY.
Calls Him ''Yoger."
Here is another letter from Mis-.
Knox to Eastlake:
BALTIMORE, Feb. 20, 1921.
Dear Yoger Miss Knox's japanese
name for Roger: Seems to me I am
always being forced to write to you,
and II makes me feel 80 uncomfy
and as II were tagging you, az
Margaret says. I have q patient,
eighty-two. She won't live long. Be-
sides her, have her husband in the
same room. He Is a nice old chap
of eighty-five. He usually sleeps like
q log. But tonight he il wakeful and
most sociable. Are you jealous7 You
know he IL not sick.
am in the glooms on the finan-
cial score. Am awfully afraid I will
never see the cash left in Colonial
Beach.
Yours to the usual limit.
(signedD SPONGE.
Patient May Die.
Postscript: II this old lady dies,
what shall do with the old man7
There is only one bed, and he is in
that. Shall lay her out beside him
and bundle him into someone else's
room? / told the doctor IL she got
worse either he or she must he
moved into another room on this ac-
count, but IL she up and dies To-
night? Maybe she will get well AMI
fool us, as l said to the people n
couple of weeks ago when they had
my death slips" all made OUT
"nicey' and then got better, and
all the "booful" death slips Were
wasted. :sGt
Was not II mean of me? I reck-
oned, though, 1t cost less time to
a,ake the slips unnecessarily than it
would have to do me up" as the
technical expression is for laying
out a dead body.
Have just taken the adhesive off
my side, and II feels so queer. Had
1t on in Colonial Beach to check
the pain.