Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05

noon and evening he took me somewhere Peo-
pie on the Boardwalk would turn around and
stare often, and even YOU Milly, would have
forgotten your precious young officer for few
minutes II you had seen the doctor in his tux
edo.
1t wasn't long before I had our life planned
out, that Is, to myself! Oh, Just knew I'd
make perfect doctors wife. I'd pretend
answering the telephone, using my new voice
and being so elegant and sympathetic that
couldn't wait to really get started.
I'm also planning when he comes in from late
calls. to sit up for him with tray of delicacies,
and I'll wear something soft and clinging And
while he's eating I'll talk all his cases
with him. Then while he's resting I'll play and
sing for him. I'm getting enthusiastic that
III die If he doesn't propose soon.
Thursday, at Midnight
Mily, he did propose. but please be patient
We we're sitting watching the waves.
Eileen" he said I've confession to make
which should have told you long ago but
did so want you to care for me first. have
been married for five years, but got my divorce
in Mexico just a year ago. My wife is to have
our little boys, although can have them for
a month every year. But the moment I saw
you in the hotel I wanted you to be my wife,
And for weeks now 1T has been my dream to
go back and start all over again with YOU to
help me find happiness"
Well was so stunned for q few minutes that
! couldn't speak. OF course, it was frightfully
romantic to have him fall in love with me at
first sight but then maybe that was the way he
fell in love with his first wife Maybe man
can love q dozen women but knew without
doubt that couldn't live in the house with the
ghost of even one woman.
Your thoroughly disillusioned EILEEN.
DOBBS FERRY, March g.
- Darling:
Mother was so adorably sympathetic that we
left Atlantic City the next morning to
make things easier for me.
But as soon as I got home met Joe at a
dance. Doesn't it seem strange, but first it was
Charles the college boy, and then Joe the lee
turer and then Charles the doctor and now
Joe again.
At first I didn't care much for him because
he is so short. But soon found that by look
ing at his face all the time forgot his size.
He is very dark and when I tell you, Milly,
that he is Southerner and that his mother
comes from one OF the finest Italian families,
I'm telling you something
He seemed to like me from the beginning.
In fact, he told me after the third dance that
it was love at first sight Oh, he's a perfect
Don Juan. He was so jealous that he wouldn't
let any one else dance with me, but didn't
mind bit because he did dance divinely. It
made pne think of moonlit garden stirred by
a jasmine breeze or drifting along in q
gondola, or combination of the two.
Joe Is going to be in New York for only q
few weeks, so he wants to me every minute.
This time mother actually seems so worried
that she doesn't joke with Jimmie. Jimmie
was sitting in mothers room smoking today
while mother rested and overheard him say
when he knew that Joe was coming back with
me for dinner, II hope, Mother Mine, that you
have ordered spaghetti for dinner tonight and
that you have supply of garlic on hand"
But mother stopped him with Don't joke.
Jimmie, for am so worried this time, truly
am" WELL" heard Jimmie answer, don't
worry because know that Eileen has lot
Of common sense underneath all this romance
of hers and she'll marry man you'll be proud
Of. Just wait and see.'
The Merit Morning.
I'm just floating on air because Joe proposed
and I said YES" even before he'd said that
we would spend year in Europe for our
honeymoon. Think of that!
Joe says that when We come back from
Europe he is going to build a lovely house on
an island his father left him in Chesapeake
Bay. It will be the only house on the island
and we'll be so Economically alone, with him
coming out every evening from business. It
all sounds like princess in castle with
drawbridge, or a clustered nun, and I feel
that can't watt for it is just too perfect.
One Week Later.
Milly something awful has happened.
One morning mother and were arguing
about Joe. I said that he was temperamental
and she answered that temperament in most
cases was just a dress-up word for temper. And
somehow that word temper sounded so horrid
that couldn't get it out Of my mind.
That night while Joe was at the house one