Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
The Last ofa Series Of Four Complete
Stories -Aud YouWIU Be Interested in
the Various Entertaining E0ents That
BefrHNheu *OM Sloppy Weather Mush
Turpie Became Eddie BuItinchS
Uu7UeLl0me Guest.

trade around, for instance, with a couple of
junked motorcycles till he gets hold Of the
engine OF racing automobile maybe which
he's liable to put into pretty cranky dory and
call it motor boat
Naturally, Mrs. Massey and never felt free
from anxiety when Enid was with him, but, of
course, Enid herself. being at the age when
noise and excitement are pleasurable, enjoyed
his expert rents, and that's probably the main
reason why such intellectual girl got in the
habit of standing so much of Eddies compan-
ionship.
Right at the opening Of this present season
Eddie did something like what I've just been
telling you he's liable to do. He old
sailboat about 30 feet long and he got his
fathers chauffeur to help him put two junked
automobile engines into it-said he thought
he could get up some real speed with a twin
screw arrangement-and Mrs Massey and I
spent some nervous hours on our front porch
with a spyglaSs watching that boat flop around
with Enid in it out on the Atlantic Ocean.
Usually they'd have to get towed in by a
fisherman or somebody because Edde'd taken
out the mast and sails. But one afternoon the
contraption got to working right well, as I
saw myself through the Spyglass. 1t didn't get
up any speed particularly, but it did splash
along for quite little while without stopping,
and Eddie was able to get 1t going again every
time it broke down, they actually came back
into the harbor under their own power. Eddie
seemed to regard this quite triumph. He
brought Enid up TO our cottage In the infants
bathtub he called the "side-car" of his patched
up motorcycle and told me he guessed he'd
showed a few people what was what.
They all said I couldn't do it," he told me,
while Enid was in the house changing her
dress which was pretty wet. "A lot O. people
around here thought they were going to have
a chance to laugh at the Shooting Star but
guess today showed em!"
Shooting STARE" / asked him
he
"Her original name the Mrs. Calvin M.
Flick when bought her from fisherman. but
it didn't look right painted on twin-screw
motor boat. Some OF EN- think they can laugh
at me yet for naming her the Shooting Star,
but wait till get those engines tuned up just
right"
About how much time will it take you to
get EN- tuned up the way you want em?"
asked him, just not to let the conversation flag,
and 1 was rather surprised when the question
seemed to have a depressing effect upon him.
He looked gloomy. made curious sounds in his
throat and tried to scratch a place on his back
that he couldn't get at.
why dog gone it," he said I'D have those
little hummers tuned up absolutely within the
next four or five days If that wet splash wasn't
coming to visit me-"
What's coming to visit you?" 1 asked him.
though he seemed to think I'd comprehend
him without his explaining.
"Mush, Sloppy Weather" he said. -old
Sloppy Weather Mush Turpe. Sloppiest
weather I ever had anything to do with any
where"
You mean it's q person. Eddie?"
Why yes" he said, looking surprised. Any
how he thinks he is. It's fellow named
MushmeIon Turpie at least, that's the name
we had for him at school. What he's got on his
calling cards is Mr.. Lathrop Mallowfield Tur-
pie His mother calls him 'Mae,' and my
mother says I've got to begin now and call him
that too instead of WASHINGTON because he
always hated being named WASHINGTON ter
rbly his mother wrote to my mother, and it'd
be disgraceful to make my own visitor uncom-
Portable. That's the position my whole family
take-that just because he's my age and I
went to school with him he's supposed to be
coming here to visit me-when wouldY! have
asked him myself in thousand yeosS, and
would good deal rather have some animal or
something visit me-
TDDIE spoke with such bitterness that got
Z little interested. But If you feel I'M
congenially toward this young Mr.. Turpe
don't see how 1t happens he's to be your guest"
MY guest" Eddie said. why that's just
what I've been explaining he isn'ti Only he's
going to think he Is and my family keep in
sisting and pecking at me, and III have to
drag him around with me- and entertain him
and everything, or his mothers feelingSn be
hurt. She's my mothers most intimate old
girlhood friend and she was getting afraid his
mothers feelings'd be hurt about our never
having invited him here, except once five years
ago; so my mother wrote and asked him to visit
me without telling me anything about 1t before
hand giving me the slightest chance to argue