Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

Well Jason, hows the mulling?"
"Mulling!" Jason shifts IF wanted to do
any nulling about anything she wouldn't give
me a chance"
"She!" I pretty near gasps, because Jason
has lodged the trails with skill added to terror
since knew him. Jason, you amt gone
and got yourself entangled with a woman, have
you?'
IF there's any entangling" Jason signs,
"She's done it. Lord knows haven't given her
any encouragement but these modern women
don't seem to have any dignity or reserve. I've
done everything but slap her face, but"
us it pretty face?" asks.
"Oh, her looks are all right" Jason says
but just the same IN never forgive Lincoln
for ringing her in on me that night dined at
his house. I've hardly had minutes privacy
since. No time for study, no time to work, no
time to think
Who is this vamp?" asks.
Mrs. VAIL" he says. mrs. Sybn Vail
She's widow"
"A widow" I says. well. goodnight
Jason"
law, can the comedy" he says, land help
me. need advice. What can do about her?"
Marry her." tells him.
"I don't want to marry her"
"Then," says, travel. And travel fast II
you want to travel alone"
ct can't" Jason walls. I'm pretty near
pensive places. And, besides. some Of my Sc
curities have passed a dividend. couldn't get
much farther than Chicago"
Loud cheers" I chirps, unSympathetically.
"Shes beginning to make you pay some for that
living you been collecting from the world"
IT don't owe the world anything" says Jason
my moneys invested In productive industry"
Yeah" I says, but somebody else earned
It, and somehow or other the world has a way
of collecting double on money Of that kind
from the guy who made 1t and the guy who
uses it."
why should get out and toll and sweat"
says Jason, when don't need to-"
IT could tell you," says I, but you wouldn't
like it."
"oh, go ahead and insult me-" Jason says.
Il can listen"
ITS one Of the best things you do" re-
marks. Which amt anything for you TO boast
about. Listening is taking in-and taking IN IS
all you do. Like an oyster. Or a clam.
"You study, and take IN knowledge. You
travel, and take in geography and zoology and
ethnology and all the other ologies. You 90 to
dinner and take In food-but do you give out
conversation 10 pay for your food? No-yOu
take in conversation, too.
YOU don't even get decent nat 10 live IN
where you might have parties and give out a
little fun and merrinent. Instead You stick
around mostly in that noldy room Of yours
and take In your washing once o week"
Funny about that nat idea Of yours" says
Jason. "She has 1t, too. And furthermore,
have to admit that she told me that was q
mollusc. which, as you may or may not know,
might mean q clam"
"THE lady" says. sounds more and more
interesting. And also the problem grows
more and more difficult. But illustrate your
story with layouts and graphs Of her means
and methods and maybe-just maybe. and
certainly do mean maybe-I can suggest some
thing in the way Of . counter campaign"
well" says Jason, II know this sounds like
boasting, but the cold fact is that ever since We
met at Lincoln's she's been pursuing me. She
even announced that she intended TO-
"Not 10 minutes after we'd met she said:
"Mr. George, how does IL happen that no
body has married you? OF course she said
you're just q little fusty from living alone and