Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-14

and the like and then again those who
have taken a husbands name and given
1t lasting notoriety like Mrs. Frank
Leslie, Mrs. Fike and Mrs. 1 Leslie
Carter. / do not suppose half dozen
people in the United States know that
"Ouida" among her friends and on hotel
registers is Louise De La Hamee, that
violet Fame Is Lady Currie and Marie
Corelh is Eva Mary Mackay.
mans name when he is married is
only half his own when he succeeds and
all his own when he fails. That ex-
plains why women are sometimes called
the unfair sex. Nobody in this day and
age denies a good wOmen's part in her
husbands glory, although some men
have climbed to higher ~rungs on the
ladder in spite of their wives. That is
why some men see red when they observe
counterfeit Lucy Stones running around,
writing pieces for the papers about them
selves and never once ringing the bell"
either in the home whose name faint
they affect to seOrn nor the World of
workers in which they are ciphkrs.
Sunday the sun shone brightly and the
warm and balmy zephyrs filed Fifth
avenue with ladies in their spring gowns
and hats Not a sign of snow under
foot. 5not a suggestion of it upon the
blue vault overhead, and, curiously
enough, Sunday was the thirty fourth
anniversary Of the great blizzard" Bar
NUNS Circus was scheduled to open In
Madison Square Garden that very eve
ming in 1888, but when the time came for
the fanfare Of trumpets only half aNdozen
reporters were there, the New Workers
being unable to leave their homes be-
cause of the snow. Barnum was urged to
abandon the performance, Lut he re-
fused, declaring that the newspaper men
We're his guests-the greatest gain in ad-
vertising ever made through what on
the surface appeared to be a colossal
waste of talent.
Barnum was on every first pags next
morning.
P1ace-Front porch of small-town
home; occasion, the return from New
York Of the only son after three
months absorption Of Broadway. Time
After the arrival of the Is local.
Father-"Tell Us all about the big city,
my lad?"
Only son-"It's the cats paiamas, dad
if YOU have the boffos What's boffOs
Why, the berries, the Jack, the kale. OF
course, if you are a dudd they give you
the air. Get me- mether?"
Mother-"I cannot say that I do, my
SON."
bush apes. Cannot speak the language
was q sap myself until l booked the
big time. mingled with few hot dogs,
wlsened up, and learned to squirrel my
boffos. Now l can woof-woof at any of
the Broadway bundusters and dumb
bells"
Mother-"Dumbbells? You must mean
the Y NJ. c. A. gymnasium"
Only Son-"Out Of the pictures wrin-
kles. By dumbbell I means a dumb
bunny. One Of those guys out Of luck.
49, you find my talk? A dumb
bell is a fellow who amt the darbs. not
an Isl z, but just what l says, a dumbbell.
Oh what's he use? Say Dad, I'm one
wqv kid and I want to make some rural
Princess Mary on this trip home. Guess
Ill go down to the store and look EN- over.
IN going back 10 broadway chained
None Of those citys weeds for me. I'm
after a nifty necker from the sticks"
Exit only son down the steps of the
front porch.
Father-"Whatever is that boy talking
about?"
Mother-"I think he wants to get mar
ried and settle down"