Evening star., 1922-05-21
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purple .nnerself was.
Two fat ladies across the room
were discussing the latest scandal in
their Bohemian set, each 6eciaiming
that she thought it was perfectly
awful for the authorities to attempt
to interfere with the right of free
speech and that the theories advanced
by NJ Poppinoff were not anarchistic
at all. but were merely advanced
ideas. ideas that sooner or later
would cause all to live on the same
high and intellectual plane. :
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WHILE cousin E. e. was fitting
w around from table to table the
man next to yours truly leaned over
and said: How. did you come to be
here? You don't look like one of
these nuts, Seeing that he was sort
Of an everyday looking person, re-
ply was made that cousin E. E. want
ed to see Bohemia. whereupon the
strange man said:
Hop to it. I run this place. and
being a Bohemian, that Is the kind
am. 1t is an easy way to grab on the
coin. The head priestess here is my
wife. and before we dropped on to
this game. we used to be on the
Big Wheel. The Big Wheel. you
know. was the old-time burlesque
circuit, and Maize picked up lot OF
this high brow stuff going to these
foolish foundries all over the country
When we retired from the stage, we
came to Washington and opened ur
this place.
ITS great game. and say, II you
think actors like to talk about them
selves, you ought to listen to this
bunch. With them their first name
is T. the middle name Is me- and the
last name is T. gather that the
cousin person Of yours has been BIT
ten by this bug, and I lay you odds
Of five to one that before you get out
of here tonight she will get up on
the middle Of the floor and tell Of the
wonders Of some new ism or 'ology
that she has been dabbling in lately
And really the man was correct, fol
about 10 o'clock Ethelind Elisabeth
undulated out to the middle of the
floor and commenced her little
speech. 1t wasn't three minutes before
she was, going at full steam ahead
head up, nostrils distended and arms
going like a pinwheel.
You talk about Nine. Blavatsky
James Owen OConner. G. Bernard
NH oil 81 hAv
put together and framed into a com
posite human being couldn't have
touched our little cousin from the
middle west. She juggled auras, rip.
ped up completes, disturbed plans
and trifed with reactions until she
had that whole bunch gasping fol
breath and hanging on the ropes.
She started in with Adam and Eve
to say nothing of the serpent ant
Cain and Abel. and she described theil
mental insides with a fiuency thai
would have made Diogenes think thai
he had remained tongue-tied from the
time Of birth. She galloped down the
passageway Of time taking q right
swing at Ptolemy, singing an upper
cut at julius Caesar, and by way Of
good measure gave a kidney punch te
Napoleon. What she said about Glad
stone and Lloyd George. to say moth.
ing OF our own Secretary OF State
would not be permitted even in the
handbooks of q non-partisan party
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ITO the unsophisticated onlooker II
appeared that she had reached
her climax and was about to blow
up, but such was far from being the
case, because then she lit into moderr
day civilization and you could JUS
hear the social fabric rip. Where yo,
and I and the rest of us used to thinl
we were some sort of pumpkins wher
1t came to a matter of education, sht
just naturally placed US in the below
Why, II you men today are as ig'
norant Of the higher things as Cousin
Ethelind Elizabeth says you are, DR.
Eliot will have to change his FIVE
foot book shelf and make it extenf
a distance equal to that from here Il
the north star. Why, il any Of ths
Washington base ball pitchers had q
delivery near as good as that Of E
E., the capital would have the pen.
nant cinched, as it would need only
one run to capture the bunting.
But while she deplored the down.
ward trend Of civilization, in her
closing words she came forward with
q little cure-a1l-namely, membership
in the cult Of which she was the high
priestess. Believe 1t or believe 1,
not, every last one of those dyed-in-
the-wooi- -Bohemians rose and, with
a salvo Of "Bravos," cried for an in
itiation blank. II either Of the great
parties to be. locked in a death strug-
gle this fall can grab or Cousin E.
e. and syndicate her throughout the
doubtful states, the one that gets her
will need q flock Of adding machines
to count up the majority.
wanted to take a taxi, as felt
that after her strenuous night she
must be rather fatigued, but what
20 you think she said? Twas thus:
VAfter quiet little evening like
this, I would like to walk through
ono 'of your parks, ~ the night air
always inspires me With thoughts of
the greater coming. IT'S at this time
that the moon and stars cast great
or influence for elevation and rid one
Of axotic hazes." Would you believe
IL that the fair exponent Of higher
things, that searcher. for Bohemia,
galloped me around the park for an
hour or more until the point was al