Evening star., 1925-10-25
"People Who Do Things and the Thrill
That Comes When They Appear in Public
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

4 S William Shakespeare, the boy
~ who put Bacon on the literary
~ menu, often used to say to the
n newspaper reporters, Il owe
much of my success to the
Nomen's Club of America, and YOU
may quote me as saying So.''
And how true that is of any author
come clearly to my mind about this
limo last year when our Ladies Thurs
day Club elected me to be the one to
entertain the guest of the month. You
see at our club we got quite Il num-
Der of original ideas. and one is to
entertain some celebrity each month
SOS 10 keep in actual touch with the
bigger and better things in life. And
70 date we have had, for a sample,
i'rot. Goulash. the Hungarian cham
pion beef stew singer: Calliope Dia-
l'hram, the water coloratoro contralto;
Jessie Cheesecloth. the Greek dancer
from Athens, Georgia, and etc.
But this time the invite had been
sent out by Miss Demeanor. that bot
tie blond who is engaged to DIR. Salary
She had invited Miss Athea Hedge.
he authOresS, to come and talk to us
about her art, and it was my turn to
nave the affair at my house. and | will
say L felt honored. on account l just
love TO meet people who really do
things,
MISS littSt Was al Ol llIdl, SIZE
having written the sweetest poem
rdiled mo mother had guyed her" all
without the aid of q net. and got ii
published in the BIa City Gazette
right next IL the cheese factory ad.
Miss Demeanor understood where
Miss Althea Hedge was working on a
z moving picture scenario. but could be
persuaded to come on If the club paid
ther expenses. Naturally we ladies
was all delighted at the idea, especially
as Booth Harrington had just sent
word he was sorry he could not ac-
cept our gracious invitation. and we
was up against it.
Well. when 1 got home that night
j commenced to wonder what / would
do 10 entertain Miss Hedge in the way
she was accustomed, but | didn't
really know what authors was acCus-
toned to, If anything. SO | told
George, that's my husband, as much
of what was on my mind as l felt
It healthy for him TO know and Geo.
had al good idea. Why, he says, that'll
he on the afternoon of Halloween.
won't it. Why dont-cha have it
Halloween party?
1 says fine, 1 can get all the favors
and etc. at the five and dime, l will
have real original tea, with pumpkin
lanterns and witches and black cats
ON the paper napkins, and I'll get
rome orange crepe paper and cut il all
up into little ribbons and hang 'em
from the chandelier and all like that.
gimme two dollars, please, dear, this
Tea is already running into money but
t'len we don't often get the chanst to
entertain a author. And Geo. SAYS, all
right, here's the two, but for the luvva
tripe, 1 don't haf to come to this
affair do |? And l says certainly not,
we ladies intend to exercise our in
81. Il II y i D..
no husbands around, Cramping our
style.
X y !;
4 ND then a idea come over me, and
l says, say dear. what is hallow-
cen, anyways? And Geo. says why er
lemme see, it amt a holiday exactly
except for the fellers that makes the
halloween favors like you spoke about.
And a holiday for garden gates,
swinging signs and good manners
among small boys.
Well. l says, I betcher It means
something else besides, I'm conner
look II UP in the dictionary and l did.
Well, Mr.. Webster had it where II was
the day before All Saints day. Hot
Bozo! I says, when 1 read this, be-
lieve you me, all the rest of our
Ladies Thursday Club may be saints
the day after one of our entertain
fn6'fsS out not lEe hostess 1t seems
to ere I heard someplace where Hal
1or.sn was the day when all the hob
Eob..rs and cats and evil spirits was
let loose, that's n terrible thing, Geo.
especially when I'm entertaining.
And Geo. says well, l understand
there are entirely too many evil spirits
loose every day, in spite of prohibi-
lion. but | don't see how that will
affect your party, with only ladies
present. Well, l says, the catpart
will. especially if that Mrs. Freddie
F'reenash comes, but I'm goner give
them as little as possible to meow
about. You just watch EN- hob COB
lin up my eats. And Geo. says thank
goodness you said I didn't hafto,
Well, the last October number of
The Womans Weakly had just come,
and so l at onCt looked in the cookery
dept to see did they have any suitable
receipts for stuff l could serve at my