The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-01-07

HIS heart rose in his throat.
Il bet you look swell In red, Miss
Sadie. But a girl like you locks swell
I'm anything"
Reds my color. Dee Dee says my
mama was a 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 I got too
fashy taste"
Say, If she keeps bossing and boss
ing at you, what do you keep on living
with her forf'
wouldn't you live with your own
mothers sister If she raised you from
a kid? What am l going to do, put
her In cold storage, now that 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
DOR
Honest, Miss Sadie. 1 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, uluH / kuoW size Hdu Ddu eyes.
Geeln
mo, 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 sparrow"
Miss Barnet laughed with an up
ward trill.
Dee Dee amt her real name. When
/ was a kid and she took me to raise,
that's the way 1 used to pronounce
Aunt Edith. Gee! you don't think Dee
Dee was the name they sprinkled ON
her when they christened her, did
your
Max Meltzer leaned to the breath Of
lungs with it.
Gee! but you're a 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 I know
braries or present a 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 1 think I'd rather
spend the summer under the daisies
out on the hill than down here in this
basement"
Don't wish I had an auto to take
you spinning in tonight"
you ought to see the flyer a friend
of mine has got. A Mercury Six with
q limousine top like a grand-opera
box"
"Your-your-friend II guess IL
you got swell friends like that, boat
excursion down the river amt got
much of a sound for you"
He says he's got launch In sum-
mer-"
Honest, Miss Sadie, II just been
trying for the better part of two weeks
to ask permission if 1 could come and
call on you some evening, Miss Sadie,
but"
"Whoopsl amt he the daredevil"
1.-The first boat Of the season, Miss
White Gull, goes down to Coney to-
night, and, 1t being real springtime,
and you feeling kind Of full of 1t, l
thought maybe, 1t being the first boat
Of the season, maybe you would take
a river ride this grand April night,
Miss Sadie"
Her glance slanted toward him, full
Of quirks.
MY Aunt Dee Dee. Mr.. Meltzer,
she's right strict with me. She don't
think ought to keep company with
any boys that don't come to see me
first at my house"
"I know It, Miss Sadie; that's the
right way to do 1t, but l think 1 can
get around her all right. Wasn't she
down here In the basement the first
day heard about my promotion, and
didn't she give me. the glad hand and
seem right friendly to me?"
Anyways. II her eyes amt too bad,
Mr.. Meltzer, I got a date with my
friend II his car is out Of the shop
from having the limousine top taken
off. We-we're going for a little
spin"
quick red belied her insouciance
and she made a little foray into the
bin of mill-ends.
"Geel If I've made three sales this
lvelong day I 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 a good time. A