Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06

Mrabel More freely than ever he met her
demands; with more prodigal liberality he
supported the group Of slim young boys who
danced attendance upon her. There again old
OBJ felt himself to be wise. He knew the call
Of youth 10 youth He never denied her this
call. He was generous with her boyish suitors
and up to certain point let them hang around
her and dance attendance. Mirabel knew that
point and never once had she erred.
Sugar daddy" came first.
About the end of the fourth year, Just as
Oh. keyed to a pitch Of self-confidence beyond
anything he had ever dreamed, was about
to venture to make demand for the perma.
nent ownership by" way of marriage of the
lovely Mrabel, one Of her young men, whom
OBJ had employed for the purpose of giving him
a living abSconded with the sum of several
thousand dollars of Obs money.
1t was proof of Mirabels great hold upon Oh
that she succeeded in preventing pursuit and
prosecution By sheer force of her curiously
dominant will power, she prevailed upon Oh to
let the crime go by default and against his every
instinct of integrity, he gave in.
Six months later, on blow that came over.
night, as 1t were, little Mirabel Joined her
abSconding lover where he was living in seclu-
sion on q Mediterranean island, leaving Oh, in
the phraseology Of q gossipy Broadway, "cold
and fat"
THE extraordinary part of it was that old
Oh. bhghted, wounded, stricken, Inundated.
picked himself up after the first blank shock
and resumed his role of sugar daddy"
He is sugar daddy" today to one after
another OF the little humming birds Of Broad
way. And one by one he is deserted by them.
DeathleSS to Oh is the thrill Of sugar daddy"
He still hangs around the stage doors He
stin sends flowers. He still writes mash notes
and buys forbidden wine. He stiI1 gives parties
in his fiat where adult men and women actually
indulge in the obsolete pastime of drinking
champagne out Of satin slippers To him IT Is
stin the most stimulating, exciting and miracu-
lous circumstance that has ever happened to
him-the fact that musical comedy darlings
actually sup with him in his apartment and
. that he OBJ Sinclair from Empire, N. Y, tits
incredibly small satin slippers to his lips and
SupS champagne: out of them.
It seemed to Oh that the vagaries of fate
were still treating him to a ride down life that
was SO thrilling as scoot along Coney Island
scenic railway And after his years of sugar
daddying he still asks himself the question:
Who was he, OBJ Sinclair, to be sitting in q
satin-and-gold fiat in New York surrounded
by. all these glittering people of the glittering
show world drinking champagne from the
satin slipper of q little dancer who was the
latest toast of the town?
As the town still wagged about his sugar.
daddy" reputation, OBJ hadn't forgotten to what
he. owed the great privilege of his title Money.
Well. OBJ was still making the best of his oppor-
tunities.
Back in Empire, Miss Lefty Leigh, who has
loved him with secret and hopeless passion
since they romped upstate meadows together.
sits in her quiet house, and day by day regards
with the eyes of her hopeless passion the six
photographs Of OBJ that line her dresser.
Copyright. 1879.