Evening star., 1925-05-10
Titles Don't Interest Them
Glorious Time Telling
Theirs Experience in Meeting Their LordS Saveu
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Noah & Daniel. the Webster
~ boys who wrote the words anc
~ music Of the Dictionary Blues
1 a used to sing in their yaude
Vile act, who tied the car
on liking English Titles?" And as
s;s remarking to George, that's my
husband. not long ago, amt it the
truth. in this country we set no more
use for a title before Of our ordinary
name then we have for a question
mark after our good one.
The subject come up the other eve
ming around six w. II. meaning 'wel
come home" when I showed Geo. a
invitation from Mrs. Freddy Freenash
asking In so many words would we
come into town and meet her boy
friend, Lord Saveus, at a reception
she was giving for him.
1t seems this feller was the English
Primmer, or something. and the min
ute I read that note I begun to feel
that even II he looked at me through
Windshield in one eye, it was up to
me to accept and go in and show him
where 1 wasn't afraid Of any for.
eigners.
Well anyways. showed the invite
to Geo. and he says for the love of
Lucy, he says, I amt going to put
on no soup and fish and drag myself
into town to wiring the mitt of that
Teller. Nix, he says, I certainly do
despise titles. why should 1 worry over
them remembering the family I come
from?
And 1 says come from is correct.
they didn't keep you any longer then
they was obliged to, I guess.
And Geo. says we'll lookit here, Jen-
ME, he says, probably you don't
realize it, but my family is one of
the A no. 1 families Of this country.
OF course it means absolutely nothing
10 me, don't care about them things,
but as a matter of fact 1 am myself
personally descended from Count Ten
on my Stepmother's side of the house,
and my uncle by marriage comes from
one of the oldest families in Greece.
And I says sure, descended from
the Queen of the Kitchen, I bet.
Count Spoons, who used to work in
the Cafe Noir, was his brother,
wasn't he?
Well, Geo. give me a look which
could Of been improved with a vacuum
cleaner, and he says say Jennie, you
know 1 merely mentioned a few facts
about my family. that's ALL but If
you insist upon goin' in town to meet
this gink. why of course don't wan
ner spoil your pleasure, I guess I
better get me a new vest and a blue
bow tie, I see where the Prince of
Wales is wearing them, not, he says,
that I give a whoop and a couple of
hurrahs about meeting any feller with
q title unless it is to q good piece
Of American real estate.
Well Geo., says. I must say I
don't care nothing about these for
eign titles, but at the same time I
believe ! will get me a new dress to
wear, I amt got a thing that can be
seen in public.
And Geo. says that's the way with
evening gowns nowadays, there amt
enough Of them to be seen, the most
visible part of them is the please re-
nit notices from the dressmaker. But
go ahead, buy the dress, only don't
charge up more than five beeds and
sash, that's all you need and all can
stand on this mons. salary.
Well, Hot BoZo. OF course agreed
with Geo. on that. I didn't care what
Lord Saveus thought about me per.
sonally, but for the honor of my coun-
try I wanted he should be able to go
back home and tell his wife where the
Am. women was the best dressed in
the world, If not the most heavily. So
! got me a thoroughly abbreviated
after 2 pm. creation, with trimmings
And then the day Of the party, who
would call up on the phone only
Mabel Bush. the one which is married
to that Joe Bush Of the Hawthorne
Club.
Say dearie she says, how about a
little bridge tonight? And I says, why
Mabel we would of adOred to only