Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-20

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" soft for us, living here in
this swell apartment house.
with real palms In the foyer
and q doorman dressed like a real
admiral. and Inez's rich uncle to sign
checks for everything. Course, in
sist on paying the same board I did
at Miss Wellby's, but that's a good
deal Of q fancy gesture. AS a matter
OF fact what I turn in doesn't help
monthly total,/whatever 1t is.
But Uncle Nels seems satisfied. He
says it's worth 1t to have US with
him. and once he limited that ! mad
more'n saved all we both cost him by
keeping him out of the hands of slick
grafters. I'll admit he's right, too
! guess I've told you of two or three
cases where he'd have been nicked
good and plenty II Trilby May Dodge
moment to show up a crooked game
So l should worry. Besides. be must
have an income that runs into husky
figures.
But. as try to make Inez under
seeing that Uncle Nels is more or less
entertained, Is to keep track of him
and see that he doesn't get into mis-
chief. And I'll say that's no cinch.
You wouldn't mistrust, though, to
look at this dried-up little old shrimp
with the skim milk blue eyes and the
slumped shoulders, that he would ever
start anything on his own hook. AL
though we've succeeded In getting
him to wear fairly decent clothes
there's no disgusting the fact that
he's a hick dressed up. You can tell
that just by his shuffiing, aimless
walk. and he. will continue to go
gawping about as if he'd just drifted
in from the rutabaga fields. So of
course he's an easy mark. He might
Just as we'll wear q sign.
1t isn't SO easy, either, to find things
that will interest him. When we
discovered him here. you remember.
toy boats in three bathtubs he'd had
hooked up in the living room. But
he soon got tired of that as an indoor
sport and we induced him to have the
tubs taken out. For awhile. there.
too, Ines thought she'd made a movie
fan out Of him. but somehow think
II was having to see a wild west star
three times in one week-he kind of
soured on the movies, and Inez had
to fall back on Annette. our near
Uncle Nels seemed to prefer wander
ing around through the streets and
the park by himself.
II he liked to read. or to play
solitaire. or join in a two-handed
YOU'D Be difrerens But ABOUT ouae ali the re
reading Uncle Nels does Is in a
Swedish paper that comes once a
week by mail, and he's never learned
to play any kind of games at all.
isn't much of sitter. either. Rest
less old boy. And when he does camp
down quiet he seems to put himself
into sort of coma. staring at MOTH
ing at all, and, so far as I can dis
cover, not even thinking.
! co he's more or less of a puzzle
AS for Inez. she's no help at all
She will sit directly opposite him for
an hour at time without opening
her head and perfectly contented to
yank away on her gum. She's one of
just as lively and animated as cold
boiled potato. Anything in the world
might be going on-big strikes. more
wars threatened. kings and presi-
dents blown to bits by bombs-but if
nothing joggled her elbow she'd take
That's why I'm so desperate at
times to find things for 'em to do
One Of my experiments was taking
them to a professional matinee. I
knew II was gong TO De KIND or
weird play and probably something
they wouldn't be crazy over, but
Ames Hunt had given me these four
free tickets and I hated to waste
'em. Besides, Barry Plat had offered
to take us. down in his car
The piece was weird, all right No
wonder the producer wanted to open
in the afternoon with a lot of his
friends present and the house well
papered. My guess is that it will run
about a week before it joins the
other dramatic discards of the season.
1nez yawned through the whole four
acts and Uncle Nels hypnotized him