The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-27

ing man Ito had the sott oi face
that women adored. They Marie
or skinny men with trades and sordld r.
ties, or about to be- married TO them, or u
willing to be married TO them sighed
Mertin, tor he had no profession except
the baser items Of NE we're eliminated
(when they saw himJ. and he only saw,
and loved them and made them love him.
Girls had nung themselves At his
ma,rons had thrown themselves at his r.
And now he Dick Mertiu was IN Low
lie never knew how It happened, whenc
or when u began All that he rcmeml
that he the pursued and ogotistlcal lover
n dull ache In his lnsides He hadn't u
Il at hrst, then the symptoms became
grayated and the diagnosis became cleo
something to do with Fannie Farday. lIC
Fannie Fariday, a model, "vlllagcr"!
Fannie and Dick had been born IN The +
I'm the dull Middle West. far from the romn
Of Broadway and the Cooper.Ilowitts Of II
lie had grnytated to tho stage by way
show, thon road show. thon a stock conf
a bit in n production then the reAlizati
important managers that he drew monel
after he had been featured In one pRrl
after another The Hoosier boy was tea
mon Of nation how TO wear evening cl,
their women how te hate the men.
Fannie was younger than Dick lie rel
her IA freckief faced. pug nosod It'll,
country girl back in Coal City. lie ma
he's for years and would never have M
but in a party (showfolks call Il "on" a
the Magenta MonRoose, one OF those hoku
N Greenwich Village, he had met" !
She knew him frst, when she remlnde
he recalled her They entertained the
assemblage telling tales out of school abol
City. Think OF it-DiCk Mertin and n "
seductive sculptors' manuikln tanning abC
day the Grand Army company had 10
captain out OF the calaboose so he could Ii
parade down the main street on Decoratiu
II Ia not known that Dick invested an
tionablo Significance In the reunion beyor
satisfaction humans almost always exp'
at chance gabbing bee with forgotten e
Dick didn't even ask her phone number,
had never seen Dick act, and forgot to a.
where he was appearing right then.
wouldn't have seemed very decisive /,
to anyone who had overheard AMI
observed everything as II transpired.
Dick didn't get TO feel ndgety over
II himself for several days, He felt
Fannie bobblng into his mind and he
caught himself smiling as he recol.
lected detail after detail associated
with hor adolescence, and he caught
himself knitting hia handsome brow
as he recolleoted dimple after express.
"A. lls.AN al tIn
ISOLATED with the hour or so he had
spent near her at the Magenta Mon
goose A.
II became little bothersome He 4.
decided he'd chuck couple OF en- Y
gagements and some alluring other
prospects for that night after the
show. and would Rmble down to the
Mongoose. why he thought he
would fnd Fannie there he couldn't
have told himself He had been
there at the same time when she
had heen there, and he had nevst
been there before. So anyone seek.
ing him there any other night Just
because he had been there one might,
might as well have looked for
SNOWFALL IN July where II had
wh!Zzed by him in January. But h
went.
Few gentlemen go into Greenwich
Village cafes alone, anyway the
Magenta Mongoose sort which cater
to the summers among the artistic
upllfts, the burrowers after the
heights And when Dick Mertil
entered he was at once spotted by
several OF the mixers as the famed
Broadway light, and those who didn't
know him gave him the east and
10
andsurdcred tea Tho trim waitress
didn't even wink. and brought him
Scotch lie gave her n dollar. which
serves as a mystic and artistic pass.
word In Bohemia, and asked her whethe
seen Miss Fariday--h'm, lately. The girl
who In he'll Ia Miss Fariday?" He look,
and said she was a model. The girl
them models mostly hangs out uptown
cabarette joints. We don get many cloa
people here no more since the plice ma
out the Oriental dancih'."
Dick explained, with suffering, that Mi.
was not commercial clothes horses
sculptors inspiration. Tho Eirl replied, "I
scalpers, they don give us no play no moi
since we sloughed the rough stun You
sell, we gotta 80 easy; II we don SELL W
on live ente tainment Some likes their
some likes their cooch, but we dassel
both"
Dick said no, no--not scalpers, scuIpt
waitress just shook her head II was b.
depth SO Dick sent for the manager
that diRnitary II he had seen Miss Far
lately The manager knew Dick on Sigh
anxious to please. But he was sorry,
know Miss Fouraday not Fouraday
He didn't know her, either Model? ;
did she do for a living?
do you remember the other night vi
in here with a party2" asked Dick.
"Oui, oui; 20 av' Meestaire Merrrrtaf
how we forget"
'@iRs, Now. do you remember a you
who came over from that table over
spoke to me over here?"