Show Summer Girl Grafter I Last cummer a lovely angclfnced young thing in a series changed from day to day of summery costumes calculated to impress the masculine eye made the rounds of the New York exchanges soliciting aid for free rides for the poor babies on the excursion < < burden She worked only on the hottest days when the perspiring brokers I < < were liable to be In a state of mind inciting them to the belief be-lief that every baby on earth poor and rich ought to bu somewhere where lungsful of cool salt air were accessible Likewise the lovely young thing was crafty enough to tackle the brokers as a rule Just after the luncheon hour when she knew that most of them had been addressing themselves lo the moist features fea-tures of the menu oC the Cafe Savarln or elsewhere She gleaned thousands nf dollars it is said for her little fake fresh air fund She Invested a considerable portion of the rakeoff toward providing fresh air for her c1r She was cap I tured as a matter of fact on aloof garden One of the brokers who had given up a goodly sum toward the fairy tale fresh air fund saw her there somewhat hilarious with a male companion The broker gazed at her rather sharply as I he passed by the table at which she sat and she recognized them and laughed gurgllngly I One of tho cute old good things she exclaimed good humorcdly to her male companion nodding In the direction of the sore broker But turning to the broker and laughing in a real arch way dont you care old toplook at the fun I nm having I She was removed from the roof garden and placed in a cell a few moments later but the broker who had caused her arrest on the charge of swindling didnt have the nerve to appear against her and she obtained her release Washington Star |