Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-01-12

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Il bet you look swell in red. Miss
Sadie. But girl like you looks swell
In anything
Reds my color. Dee Dee says my
mama was gay one, too, when 1t
came to color. Gimme red every time.
Dee Dee's the one that's always kick
Ing against red; she says / sot too
fiashy taste"
Say, If she keeps bossing and boss
Ing at you, what do you keep on living
with her for?"
Wouldn't you live with your own
mothers sister if she raised you from
kid? What am | goieg to do, put
her In cold storage. now thac her eyes
are going back on her? Up in the rib
bons she can't hardly keep her colors
graduated no more, that's how blind
she's getting What am l going to
do?"
Honest, Miss Sadie, didn't know
that she was your aunt and that her
eyes was bad. just thought she was
some old girl up in the ribbons you
was living with for company Hon
est, / didn't know she had bad eyes.
Geep'
No, they amt bad. Only she's so
blind she reads her paper upside down
and gets sore If you tell her about it"
And me thinking she was nothing
but a near-sighted old crouch with a
name like a sparrow"
Miss Barnet laughed with an up
ward tril
Dee Dee amt her real name. When
was kid and she took me to raise,
that's the way / used to pronounce
Aunt Edith Gee! you don't think Dee
Dee was the name they sprinkled on
her when they christened her, did
you"
Max Meltzer leaned to the breath Of
lungs with it.
Gee! but you're cute little lady
when you laugh like that"
Say, and amt you a freshie! Just
because you're going to be promoted TO
buyer for your department won't get
your picture in the Sunday supple
ment. No white-goods buyer l know
Of ever had to build white marble IL
braries or present bread-line to the
city to get rid of his pin-money.
Say. amt it hot? With the Open
ing on Monday, they better get the fans
working. Last year three girls keeled.
Honest, sometimes / think I'd rather
spend the summer under the daisies
out on the Hill than down here in this
basement"
Don't | wish | had all auto to take
you spinning in tonight y
you ought to see the flyer friend
Of mine has got. A Mercury Six with
limousine top like grand-opera
box"
"Your-your-frien II guess IL
sou got swell friends like that, a boat
excursion down the river amt got
much of sound for YOU"
HE says he's got launch in sum
mer-"
Honest, Miss Sadie, IL just been
trying for the better part of two weeks
to ask permission if I could come and
call on you some evening. Miss Sadie
but"
"Whoops. amt he the daredevil !"
The first boat of the season, Miss
Sadie, swell new one they call the
White Gull, goes down to Coney to-
night, and, it being real springtime
and you feeling kind Of full of it,
thought maybe, it being the first boat
of the season, maybe YOU would take
river ride this grand April night.
Miss Sadie"
Her glance s'anted toward him, full
Of quirks.
my Aunt Dee Dee, Mr. Meltzer,
she's right strict with me. She don't
think l ought to keep company with
any boys that don't come to see me
first at my house"
II know it, Miss Sadie; that's the
right way to do it, but think l can
get around her all right. Wasn't she
down here in the basement the first
day l heard about my promotion, and
didn't she give me the glad hand and
seem right friendly to meW
Anyways, If her eyes amt too bad,
Mr.. Meltzer, / got date with my
friend II his car is out Of the shop
from having the limousine top taken
off. We-we're going for little
spin"
A quick red belied her insouciance
and she made little foray into the
bin Of mill-ends.
Gee II I've made three sales this
livelong day don't know nothing
about two Of them"
Max Meltzer met her dancing gaze,
pinioning 1t with his own quiet eyes.
you're right to pick out the lucky
fellow who can buy good time. A
little girl like you ought to have every
enjoyment there is. II ! could give 1t
to you, do you think / would let the
other fellows beat me to 1t? The best
amt none too good for little lady
like you"
Jaw, Mr.. Meltzer!" Her bosom filed
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