The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-01

ute, with the light on the side there
like that-say-say, didn't you ever
buy goods from Benson & Sons
Cloaks and Suits-East Broadway
He dipped his first uneven stroke
and regarded her With MS gray eyes
frankly wide.
!. Say, sister, you amt Anna Eva Fay
doing the Middle West incog, are ycu7
I've bought misses cloaks and ladies'
cloth skirts from Benson's since be-
fore they moved up from East
Eleventh street. Paw before me bought
from old man Benson long before my
time, when they started up with Two
sewing machines and a one-window
cut a line of Benson's goods since
can remember"
81 knew I'd seen you somewheres
your face was as familiar to me as
my board BILL"
You amt"
mo, but I used to be-Benson's is
the first firm / ever worked for-I
started in when / was fourteen dom
misses models for him"
"Well, whatta you know To think
Of my ever havin' bought listers for
the Red Trunk offn you-a little pink
Benson's."
You used to come In with the early
September buyers. l remember seem
you more'n once in the little back
salesroom, with old man Benson offer
iGg you cigar every time you yanked
me to the daylight to see how green
the lot II black listers were"
And look at you now, living like
a little 1ady-vacatfon and all"
Il may be a head lady at Rentley's
now, but take IL from me, Mr.. Proxies.
it's a long and crooked lane from
Benson'S and six a week to four times
six and green velvet floors on the Ave
nue."
'Rentley's is one of them dead
lookin' places, amt it7-with no sign
out and no show windows or nothin'
except butler with leather calves and
white boomers and a ribbon rosette
on the side of his high hat for door
display
Something like a morgue, yes. |
says to Maisie the other day, says
From East Broadway to that part of
Fifth avenue where they quit sellin'
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 a three-year stOpoff in a Sixth
avenue cloak department and a four
year side-track in Thirty-fourth
street novelty shop, it's going some.
Old-gold light lay on them and
sparkled in the tir3 crinkles of cur
rent they created; the ghostly sail of
a pleasure boat moved across the
horizon; wOman's voice, thin and
full of plant, came from its direction
and died on the water as smoke dies
in air. The far-off hotel windows
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"
Il can show you story-and-a-half
cottage in Miami, with awnings to
keep the sun out and back yard with
props under the trees to keep the fruit
from breaking the limbs, that would
make the swell velvet furniture in
your second-story front and running
water raise it's nap for shame at TAX
ing your money. Say, amt that pretty?
bet that's the little lady from Duluth
singing for the sailing party"
Swell"
Listen"
Sweet and nc low. sweet and low.
Blow, blow, breeZeS blow,
Wind of the western sea-
Come on, let's join in, Miss Fink"
Il don't know that"
Gee, l was raised on that lullaby"
Il know a swell lullaby song. It's a
swell trot, too"
When they play that rag-time lullaby
Lull-a-by-yy-
LuH-a-by-y-y.
Say, l could die trotting that"
Lay still, there, sister"
Amt you tired padding, Mr..
PrOl-eS?''
Tired I've padded twelve hours
traght up the Miami, and not In such
good company neither. At the last
contention at Bear Lake padded for
the Kansas City lodge cup, and won
it,"
You're sure some big frog in these
puddIes out herer
He swung lightly about for the
homeward cut. Through the mist of
ate evening the string of village lights
vas without luster like a giant lady's