Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10

scene. Was this how they behaved
after a while?
Mrs. Meddy was getting into her
coat.
You heard what said"' Mr.. Needy
shouted
you've got to have YOU new suit
O. clothes" observed Mrs. Meddy. INC
use talking. Still. if you danced. it'd
be different"
This has gone far enough. tell
YOU >,
Nicholas. don't be ridic-a -lous, 81
said Mrs. Meddy. BY long practice.
this fell from her lips in rhyme.
She was at the door DO you run
this fiat. or what?" Mr.. Needy seemed
at a loss what to. say next, and he Sc
lected this as il it We're as good as
anything he had left.
She turned. IF my money was to
be taken out of fiat and shop" she
said. wed see what run what"
Mr.. Meddy lit cigar 1t was his
only surviving gesture Of authority
And, too, as he took down his hat, he
winked at Elmer. She thinks she
henpecks me-" he said, land I leave
her think So"
She brushed something from his
coat.
Hes the crossword puzzle for
angel Elmer" she observed, but
you'd never guess him."
mo! Only the CROSSE cried Mr..
Meddy. With this triumphant joke
he led the way from his castle.
THAT which the Winter Palace
lacked in art 1t made up in cleo.
4,.;r T.
sic, 1t eQualiZed in noise. Missing ex'
and variety. All this at 10 cents a
dance.
Mrs. Meddy bought the tickets
Ladies first" she said when Elmer
would have paid. Mr.. Needy had re-
tired to the seats, and he scrouched
there. looking ambiguous. Mrs. Meddy
held out her arms and Elmer saw that
he was indeed expected to dance with
her-three times his size. He received
her advances. found his feet. avoided
by a miracle. hers. And Waited into
the dance.
A solemn dance it was. All the par
Elephants on the floor seemed in the
unbroken solemnity Of some last day
Lets liven up" proposed Mrs
Meddy, and doubled the measure. Ell
mer trotted after her. OF all those
solemn co-operators at the Winter
Palace that evening, Elmer was in
deed the most genuinely solemn. Even
before she stepped on his feet, he
hated 1.-THE loud. band, the sleepy.
looking players, the dancers without
energy or grace, the onlookers, com.
menting audibly and without fattery.
1t was, Elmer told himself in his heart
mess. A raw mess. He encored duti.
fully. endured some more, and led Mrs.
Meddy back to her spouse.
Il got six tickets" he heard her say
and pretended not to hear her say.
He excused himself, muttered ''ciga.
rette," which he never smoked. hid in
the hallway, and there
Floating in blue, her hair floating
likewise. her sweet face smiling as she
waved away a lingering partner, Ell.
mer saw her. Without thought. with.
out word, drawn by some cord which
he could not measure, Elmer was at
her side. She looked up, her eyes
widened, her face burned, the orches.
ira banged. Elmer held out his arms,
she went to him, they flowed down the
room like two clouds on the breast OF
river. He and Minnie Rose.
What a dance! ALI the people with
the joyousness Of some first day OF
the world. The maddened orchestra,
the jolly players. the dancers like
graceful figures in a happy dream, the
watching crowd merely streaming by
in soft gold haze.
He encored like a man in paradise,
il that is where they encore most.
And she encored. too. Again! Waves
Of music, of motion, of happiness and
of life.
They came to the pause by a door.