Evening star., 1926-04-18
Despising Money May Enable You to Get
The Luxuries Without Spending Gent
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S that famous yachtsman, Sin
~ bad the Sailor. wrote in his
"A book, "Fishy Statistics Drawn
4 \ to Scale" when sailing along
through life. Just remember
that money is not ,-S~ything-espe.
cially somebody else's money.
and believe you me. he must If
been in deep water when he wrote
that, on account / certainly realized
The truth of it when I and George,
that's my husband, got in out of our
depth the other day. when my artist
cousin Egbert come to pay us a visit
and the visit was all he ever paid
while with US. Economical? Well
that wasn't hardly the word for it,
and with all the howl Geo. had been
setting up lately, a person would of
expected him to admire Egbert more
then he appeared to.
1t seemed almost as If Providence
had sent me Egbert as a relief when
ne showed. On account all / had been
hearing from George lately was words
10 the effect why and the heck can't
you be more economical, for the
luvva tripe where does all my money
go TO. what did you do with the Ave
spot / Shelled out a week ago, say,
do you think ! make my money out
of the air, isn't there anything in the
world that's conner teach you 10 be
respectful towards money?
And while that was a good line in
Its place. q person can even get tired
hearing the moonlight sonata. so l
had got In the way of coming back
with. for heaven sake, George Jules.
can that chatter, money isn't every
thing, or some such conventional
wifely remark. And as per usual,
this would give Geo. a fresh start.
So l was very glad when Cousin Egg
bert come to give us a interruption.
Now Cousin Egbert was quite n
artist. He's been drawing all his
life. drawing the criticism Of the
whole family, and drawing it success
fully, too. lie is also we'll known for
drawing corks, drawing up chairs,
drawing blanks. and, onct in a long
while, drawing a picture. or some
hing which passes for one-that is,
/ mean to say il YOU pass quickly
enough. But he is u artist, all right.
You can tell It just as soon as you
meet him. All you got to do Is look
at his hair.
And II that and his clothes don't
tell you at once that he is n artist,
why he personally himself viii tip you
off to the fact very shortly by throw
ing off g mention of when l was
painting at the White House." or
tell some little instance that occurred
while he was drawing the water at
buckingham Palace, and he don't
mean he was in the plumbing bust.
ness, neither. Nor, when he tells
how he done his famous still-life, "A
Dish of Spaghetti" in oil. he amt
talking about any chef d'oeuvre's.
He's no cook at all Why they call
them paintings still lives" is a mys.
tery to me. anyways, unless they are
so called because artists are allowed
TO paint them and still live, and at
that it's still a mystery.
y K (. y
WELL anyways, Cousin Egbert |
come for this visit, Just at this |
time. like I was telling. and he was |
only to stay the one day. 50 naturally |
he felt he had ought to make the |
most of 1t. So he suggested that we
all go into the big city and see a plate
Of soup and etc, and see n show and
spend the evening. So I and George |
lays that is all right with us, we |
kind of Cousin Egbert to take us out, |
but accidentally we only thought this. |
we didn't happen to mention it.
Well, Hot Bozo. it was some eve |
ming. To commence with we took our |
own f1ivver to the depot and told it |
TO wait and not go off with any |
strange people before we got home. |
Then naturally Geo. had his family |
Communication ticket, SO he wasn't |
conner buy any tickets on the train, |
see. but Cousin Egbert says why |
surely you are not going to take Jen- |
ME here In the day-coach, are you? |
Run over. Ike a good lad. and see |
can't you get three parlor-car seats. |
And Geo. says why my heaven it's |
only Commute ride. She's made it |
before without running her accent, |
but he went and got them. while I /
stood there chatting with Cousin Egg |
bert. thinking to myself ain't 1t de. |
lightful to have a man around who |
thinks of them little things. Then |
Geo. come back with the parlor-car |
tickets, but Cousin Egbert didn't |
think to pay Geo. for them just then. |