San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-25
Illustrated by Herbert Matthew

ndows flutter as if to summer
eezes, when jonquils and pussy
IIlows seem to dominate florists
ndows. On such a day almost any
quence of events can be set in mo-
IN, whether the victims of the cos
&c sorcery be young and impetuous,
were Kay and the lineal descendant
kings, or middle-aged and fat-en-
sed, as was he who called himself
n phonse.
"This year." Alphonse assured him
III, Il sell the old flivver and buy me
real car! 1 guess there'n be no
pre snow now anyway
xA-S
EAlphonse was fifty, she who insist
that she be called Kay rather than
katherine, was but twenty. To her
noon Alphonse graciously vouch-
fed sixty minutes for lunch and
|creation. On the former she had
ent ten minutes and fifteen cents,
the latter forty-five minutes and
$rty-five cents.
"You simply must see that picture, "
adys Dineene had assured her.
~You'll simply love it,"
THE girl of the picture had had a
r Of her own-it had landed her
a cell, but she had had lovely
me!
81 wish I had a car" yearned
ay.
Engrossed In her thoughts she
gached fremont Street. The lineal
scendant of kings she never noticed.
was accustomed to being noticed |;
llionaires hung upon his glance, his
ID was as Jove's.
Now, with his eyes everywhere, he
wv Kay. She was pretty enough to
We need Of not a single artificial aid
ID pretty enough to flaunt all the
ring artificialties of the period
thout loss of charm.
but against charm he was proof.
bruptly, peremptorily, be spoke to
r.
"Stay where you are!" he COM
landed, with the added insult Of a
refinger leveled directly at her,
Tes-you-you're the one meant"
This she may have deserved, yet
was not the way for one of his
one Of hers. She sim
v elevated her pretty nose and gave
IN a look. But he merely grinned,
when the traffic ceased from
afficking; she passed him.
Clothed" she quoted sweetly,
in a little brief authority" She
ID seen it on a movie film.
Better that than in a few brief
irts," he retorted.
OF the birth Of hate, instant and
Irresistible, there can be no doubt.
avs eyes still smoldered as stand
z before a long mirror she fluffed
er hair-blue-black, bobbed and
aved. And Gladys came up.
.Didcha see the picture?" che de-
landed. "Ain't it simply grand?"
hen lowered her voice.
"say, grille" she advised, 1take a
b from me and get back from lunch
Eompt. 1t is lucky Alphonse is
3te-s
II would have been on time" Kay
nnounced, ~but that fresh traffic
lp over on the corner held me up,
LIST to be SMART"
@Ths red-headed one?" demanded
YGadys. "Oh, I'm crazy about him
! think he's the cutest thing"
HE thinks so, too" Kay assured
Er..
"He's got reason to! There was a
.ece in the paper about him. Hes
descended from Brian Boru-"
u never heard of an Irishman
hat wasn't-unless they claimed
Preservation. My aunt used to say
lat the Kilkennys lived in Tara's
fall when the Borus were bogtrot-
rs."
And besidcs,r Gladys went on,
when he took the strength tests he
billed out all the machines by the
bots. You wouldn't think to look at
I'm, sort of slender like, that he
as that strong, would your"
swhat I think when 1 look at him
Couldn't be fit to print" Kay assured
er.
There was a rustling activity in
be beauty and hair-dressing parlors
Alphonse, Inc, that bore witness
} the approach Of Alphonse himself.
Alphonse spoke broken English with
hat he believed was a French &C
ent. He was an optimist. His
usiness was good. as is any bust
ess that depends upon a patronage
] heavy middle-aged women dutifully
wing up to their husbands increas-
be incomes.
One of these came in at that mo-