The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Y roTHING llko playing the beaches"
M vaudoylliana who can get booidnl
= the Coneys and Tie Atlantic TOW
lations during tho silly season by ylrtu
power.
Tho combination Of work and play, o
and pay, is naturally much to be desi
favored "acts" Aud among such mu
Papriqua, the nifty blmbo wtth the body
tigrcss. tho temperament of a wildcat
big sister
ldlcncss made hcr nervous She era
had to express hor poroonality oyery
mode Of expression was IN the dance.
summer days and nights she spcclali2
for Spanish dancing looks fiery and We
not wearing and registers Kick witho
Therefore paprqua wes working Br
somc money that wasn't hard 10 take or
refreshing briny all morning, going IN
matinee every afternoon. pulling sios
by with her dance every evening, and 81,
Just and the content every night
Nothing troubled her-much. She
fancy, with neither attachments nor u
liked all men and loved none. She wa
chummy. She was booked solid" and 81
Washers and forward birds who mad,
each thinking that his own approach wa
annoyed her not particularly, since she
was quito accustomed 20 II, ns she was
TO mosquitoes, rain or any other of the
recurrent manifestations OF nature.
She wasn't one Of the umbrella-swlng.
ing feminists who viewed gentlemen
with exaggerated flirting Instincts in.
dignantly. II nows boy offered her
paper that she didn't want she
passed right on without cussing at him
or even arguing with him; and she
took the same tactics toward men who
offered Establishments that sho didn't
want.
Now and then one was more than
conventlonally persistent or aggres.
slve, and she handled the occasion and
the man as the individual circum
stances suggested. She never wrote
feature articles on how TO route
mashers with hatpins or with jIu.jitsu.
She never used either
At Brighton there was one man,
however, who WAS beginning to got
the fair Paprlqua's Angora. He had
sldled up TO her at the waters edge,
ha haA F,iAuuaA h.r
the lobby OF the hotel, he had ogled
and coughed and passed ahead and
dropped behind and stood as she
breezed by-he went through all tho,
manual OF arms. eye, ear, nose and
throat
He had actually addressed her two
or three times, and on the last she had
answered him. The man stood ready
to smirk or Jump. Papriqua said;
"You will do me considerable
favor, mister II you'll please quit
bothering mo. For your own informa.
tion, you are on a dead one. I'm not
peeyed. I'm quite friendly. SO am
tipping you, since you look TO me liko
a cuckoo who is wearing out a two
weeks vacation, trying to crowd into
II all the hectic excitement you miss
all the other fifty weeks, that you viii
probably have more 10 tell tho rest
OF the boys about through the long
Winter TO come II youll Just save tho
timo you shoot away giving me tho
run.around and devote II TO charming
Ittg1a 10 -.
register romance. WIN you please do
that for yourself as well as for me?
| hate to see hard working lad make
bust out OF his vacation. Au revoir."
But Jerome Hammersmlth, the man,
was not so easily put off. One would
wager that after such a complete and
comprehensive rundown he would
have enough pride. II not good sense
and manlness, 10 accept the sad sea
air 40 freely and abundantly offered
him. But--not Jerome. Some wise
cracker had whispered to him that a
pretty woman's no usually meant yes.
and that they loved t., whether they
admitted II or not. And so he sent
her n note as follows:
Dear Miss Paprilua
II found out whom you were yester-
day. ! am the man you told TO 80 and
get me a cutie. You're sadly mistaken
II you think am on n twoweek vaca.
tlon. | have three weeks, andlthls is
only the FIRST. | understand you are
playing around here only this week.
so | would ask you to accept my at
will try and take your kind advice a
week
81 could show you good time
sition with a wholesale grocery hous
Nov. will you please meet me TO
hotel after the show, and will ha
for spin and talk It over and hx