Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-26

.tNathaniei Parker Willis. 1905 1851. was
many short stories and sketches which are
still being read)
I have a passion for fat women. II
there is anything hate in lie 1t Is
what dainty people call "Spirituelle."
Motion-rapid motion-a smart,
quick, squirrel-like step, pert, voluhle
toneLin short, lively girls MY ex-
Quisite horror. / would as lief have a
''diable petit" dancing his internal
hornpipe in my cerebellum as to &c in
the room with one. have tried before
now to school myself into liking these
parched peas of humanity. have fol-
lowed them with my eyes, and attended
to their rattle till was as crazy as
fy In q drum. have danced with
them, and romped with them in the
country, and periled the salvation OF
my white tights" by sitting near them
ment do. I won't-no-hang ME
II I ever show another small, lively,
spry woman a civility.
Albina McLuSh is divine. She is like
the description Of the Persian beauty
by Hafiz; Her heart is full of passion
and her eyes are full of Sleep" She is
the sister Of Lurly McLush, my old
college chunn, who, as early as his soph-
onore year, was chosen president OF the
Of which was ever known to be sur
prised at anything-(the college law of
rising before breakfast eXcepted). LIrly
introduced me to his sister one day as
he was lying on a heap of turntpS. lean
ing on his elbow with his head in his
hand, in q green lane in the suburbs
He had driven over stump and been
tossed out Of his gig, and I came up
just as he was wondering how In the
devils name he got there!
Albins sat quietly in the gig. and
when I was presented, requested me-
with q delicious drawl, IN say nothing
about, the adventure-it would be so
troublesome to relate it to everybody!
loved her from that moment. Miss Nc
Lush was tall and her shape, OF Its
kind: was perfect. 1t was not 1eSny
one eXsctly, but she was large and full.
Her skin was clear, f1ne-gralned and
transparent; her temples and 1oreneao
perfeotly rounded and polished. and ner
lips and chin swelling into ripe ana
tempting pout, like the Cleft OF ourst-
ed apricot. And then her eyes-large,
LIQUID and sleepy-thcy languished De.
meath their long, black fringes as II
they had no business in daylight-llke
two magnificent dreams, surprised IN
their let embryos by some bird-nestlng
cherub. Oh it was lovely to look INTO
them! ,,.,, -,
She sat. usually. upon a fauteuh
with her large, fun arm tmoeooed III
the cushion. sometimes for hours with
out stirring. have seen the wind lit
the masses of dark hair from her shoul-
ders when 1t seemed like the coming to
life Of marble Hebe-she lad been mo-
tionless so long, She was a model 1or
a goddess of sleep as size sat with her
ewes half closed lifting up their superb
lids slowly as you spoke TO her, ana
dropping them again with the; deilp,
crate motion of cloud, When she mac
murmured out her syllable OF assent
Her fieure in sitting posture, pre-
sented a gentle declivity from the curve
Of her neck to the instep of the small
round foot lying on its side upon the
ottoman.
I remember a fellows br ling her
a plate of fruit one evening. He was
one Of your lively men-a horrid MON
ster. all right angles and activity. HaV-
ing never been accustomed to hold ner
own plate, she had not well tXtrlcated
her whole fingers from her Eandkcr-
chief before he set it down on r1er lap.
AS il began to slide slowly toward her
feet. her hand relapsed into the mus
lin fcldNn and she fixed her eye upon
1t with 20 kind of incident surprise.
dropping her lids gradually till. as the
fruit scattered over the ottoman, they
closed entirely and liquid jet line was
alone visible through the heavy lashes
There was an imperial indifference IN
It worthy Of Juno. tE
Miss McLush rarely walks. When she
does, it is with the deliberate majesty
of a Dido. Her smalls plump feet melt
to the ground like Snowhakes, and her
figure Sways to the indecent motion OF
her limbs with glorious g;ace and
yieldingness quite indescribabie. She
was idling slowly up the Mall one eve
ming Just at twilight. with servant at
a short distance behind her, who, to
was employing himself in throwing
stones at cows feeding on the common.
A gentleman, with natural admiration
for her splendid person, addressed her.
He might have done more eccentric
thing. without troubling herself to
look at him, she turnad to her servant
and requested him with yawn OF des-
perate ennui to knock that fellow down!
John obeyed his orders and, rs his mis-
new handful of pebbles and, tossing
one at the nearest COW, loitered lazily
after.
Such supreme Incidence was irresisti-
Bile. I gave. in-I--who never before
could summon energy to sign-I-to
whom a declaration was but synonym
for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES had only
thought OF love as a nervous complaint,
and of women but 10 pray for good
-I--yes-I-knocked under.
Albina McLushl Thou vert too ex-
uuisitely lazy. Human sensibilities cam
not hold out forever.
I found her one morning slipping her
coffee at IL, with ha- eyes wide open.
She was just from the bath and Ter
complexion had soft, dewy trans
parency, like the cheek OF Venus rising
from the sea. 1t was the hour, Lurly
had told me, when she would be at the
trouble of thinking. She put away with
her dimpled foreflnger as 1 entered.
cluster of rich curls that had fallen
over her face, and nodded to me like
a water lily swaying to the wind when
its cup is full of rain.