Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-18
0CTSTRETCE1ED PALMS A NECESSARY EVIL.
Nina Wilcox Putnam Substitute Palm Beach,

crossed the delaware lHdI
~ time. with an the ice in it
4 Y and everything, IT'S all right
I'm the summertime, in the
sssrrnertime It's lovely"
And that is how I sometimes feel
about these sturdy, invigorating
northern winters which we get every
annum. This is one of the feelings 1
and George, that's my husband, have
in common, and when 1 was talk
ing about 1t on the telephone with
Mrs. Joe Bush the other day,
found out she felt the same, too.
My, ain't 1t awful cold, says she,
after we had run out of every other
tropic of conversation such as our
friends, the servants, and what have
you been doing, my dear, and etc,
but 1t was still much too soon to
hang up. Amt this weather terrible,
she says, are you pretty near froze?
And l says, yes, amt 1t awful,
don't you feel it a lot? And she says
yes, and I'll bet it will get even cold
er. And just then 1 got the idea Mrs.
Goofnah was listening in on the line
She is a terrible nosey woman.
she spreads anything she hears, so
! says to Mrs. Bush, well, it's SO aw-
full cold I and George have been
thinking about going down to Palm
Beach.
And Mrs. Bush says my, that would
be lovely, and about then I heard
Junior coming in from school, so I
says well, good bye dear. I'll let you
know further, and l hung up and
could hear Mrs. Goofnah do the same.
So L thought well, I got the sat
fsfaction of giving that woman some
thing worth listening to anyways.
And even so I had told Mabel Bush
the truth, l and George certainly had
been thinking a lot about going to
Palm Beach. We had read about it.
and seen the photos of society wom-
en- watching each other and the bath
ing down there, and pictures of
yachts and etc. in the Sunday papers,
and we certainly had thought a lot
about going.
Thinking, however was about as far
as we expected to get, but that was
nobody's business only our own. But
there is other spotlight spots in win
ter besides down South, and It was
only that very night that I and
George got into one of them.
x = Y x
IT seems that Doctor Salary, a
Il Teller that has recent moved into
town, called Geo. up at the office and
he says hey George, why not go out
dancing tonight, he says, you take
your wife and I will get Miss De-
meanor, my fiancee, and we will go
out dancing, Ell?
Well, 1 guess Geo. would OF got
out of it somehow only in the mean
time Miss Demeanor, she's that bottle
blond. had called me up, and natural
ly l had said yes, and so when Geo.
called me from the office and told me
didn't think I really cared to go,
why, had it all fixed, and so I says
dear, do let's, why we are getting to
be regular coupla dead ones, why
not go, a little stepping will do the
both of us good?
And so Geo. says oh dear, all right,
for the luvva tripe 1 should think you
would be fed up with that kind of
thing at your age. And so that was
all nicely settled, and he hung up.
and 1 went to the closet to see had
I any clothes to wear which Miss De-
rneanor hadn't seen them yet.
Well. it sure was cold that night.
and / Will admit our living room
didn't look so bad to me as it some
times does, but Geo. got out the fiiv-
YER and we started. It seems the
Doc knew a dandy place out at
Wreckem Bluffs, called Cash Inn, a
regular knockout OF a place and he
and Miss Demeanor was to meet US
there. But they didn't meet US on our
arrival.
However, we was received, all right.
AS soon as we found the place, which
would Of been hard to miss, on &C
count it was all lit up like a green