Evening star. [volume], April 25, 1920, Image 73

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Among
Us
Mortals
The
Embarrassing
Moment
By W. E. HILL
Copyright, 1920. N. Y
Tribune Inc.
"Oh, Fred, wasn't the table decorated prettily, and wasn't that the loveliett dessert! And did you see the
light in his eyes whenever she called 'Laddie Boy'?" About the worst moments we know of are those
spent in a crowded apartment house elevator when the lady who refuses to lower her voice talks over all
the intimate details. (Walter, the elevator boy, ia especially interested.) *
Arthur is standing treat, but if he is not able to And his money
Arthur will have to borrow from the girls. And that, at the age
of sixteen and a half, seems about as embarrassing a predica
ment as Arthur can imagine.
Right?"Oh, I am so glad you shaved it off! You look to much
better without it." As a matter of fact Sidney has not shaved
off the mustache. He might look about the same if he did,
however. Let this be a warning to blond young men "Never
start anything you can't finish."
A trying moment indeed is that in which the woman who asked you to call
six months ago?made you solemnly promise to come round the following
week and all that?appears from nowhere and insists banteringly on know
ing just why you never came. "Now promise, you bad boy, not to forget
this time!"
Right in the midst of the story?Morton was telling one of
those stories that we so very funny no one can possibly object
to anything off color about them?some one on the far side of
the room caught Morton's eye, and frowned. Morton is be
ginning to flounder snd feel red in the face?not a pleasant
sensation!
Nita is one of those girls who all their life have been sheltered from the outside
world, and here if Nita hasn't gone and laughed at the shadiest joke in the musical
show, which was just the wrong thing to do, as the face of her escort plainly shows.
The zero hour of Edna's day is
reached when a kindly old lady
offers Edna a little inside in
formation on a hole in her silk
hose, right down near the heel,
where it shows, and Edna is
hotfooting it home. Edna's
complexion is one of the kind
that puts her in the "born to
blush unseen" class, but the
blush is there all right.
This is an awful moment for old Bill Flamm, who is thoroughly at home with
steel girders, but not a bit in the running when it comes to afternoon tea. A
very intense female of the species has just asked Bill if he doesn't think that
rhythm is the soul of the universe?and does he or doesn't he believe that the
Yogi philosophy is the essence of rhythm?
This is a trying moment for Aunt Mons Gideon, for Aunt M. has just asked Mr. and Mra. Molar how thar
dear old Uncle William is getting on these days. Uncle William, sad to relate, passed to the groat beyond, some
three years back but Aunt Mona never can remember all the changes that will take place now and uion in the
best regulated families. It '* with difficulty that Aunt Mona is convinced that she herself wont to Uncle Will
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