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Show 6 u cars Off on Chorus Girls for Keeps, and Declares - He Must Buy a Hew Dictionary. .'. . r k ' " "Kid McCoy Is acaln ia the Um light. "This time the firmer Idol of th aquarad ' circle has leaped Into the spot light with . hia matrimonial "troubles., The Hooaler was married nineteen or twenty times, and aa many times divorced, aU with one woman. The-papers finally quit playing ' hli dally domestic stunts up into scare reads se the Kid and the then Mrs. Me-Cey, Me-Cey, decided to break tor good. Accordingly Accord-ingly they threw away their gas - stove, turned the .keys over to the Janitor, and . tfie happy home was no more. Then the Kid went over to "his" place at Broadway Broad-way and fortieth street and for some days ' endeavored to put John 1 Sullivan's Sulli-van's Irrigating record on Queer street. Thn the Kid took a brace either for the bad or worse and hooked up with the aid of a minister with a "near-actresa" or-a chorus girl who played in the front Taw counting from the back, and who had a spear to help her along In her histrionic werk. i . '. ; - This was during the time the snow s flies. Then the Kid hiked out for Hot tpringa and other places Just as warm without the water. Then he returned to .New York. .To be exact, the time was Wednesday. The KM chased Nill oyer - New York" for his missing "Mrs. Kid McCoy, looked everywhere in the district embraced nv Fortieth to Forty-second street and on both sides ef Broadway. But nary a slrht of her could he see. Then a trusty messenger brought the news she wss holding down an automobile automo-bile In front or the Hotel Astor In Long Acre square. McCoy telephoned to the newspapers, and when the reporters and artists were gathered about him made for the scene of action. . McCoy prides himself upon his conversational conver-sational ability and Beau Brummel appearance. ap-pearance. "Always be a gent," Is McCoy' Mc-Coy' a motto. - -. ,-- When the hotel was reached there sat Mrs. McCoy In a peaceful chug wagon. "When she saw McCoy she said: "The tranamagnlflcanjubaiidality of you is ever to me a phenomenal - phantasmagoria phantas-magoria of potential plenitude, always prepared to precipitate Itself upon the panning pain. . . "Whatsyudolnhere?" said McCoy. I getta talktoyu. Comeonover to the store. "Nix." said Mre. McCoy sweetly, "your modeety is as meritorious aa ostentatious pretensions are meretricious. But not with you. No more panoramic panoply of the megatherian wonders to promote publicity. pub-licity. You will have to live on Tschapl-toulas Tschapl-toulas street, Nacohdoschesvllle. Tanglpa-hoe Tanglpa-hoe county, on the Chattahoochee river, four miles from Bnettisham on the Snohomish, Sno-homish, so ff r as association Is concerned with me. iike!" , , - t "Forglt It How can yuglt alon without mr' said McCoy plaintively.' "Me for the stoige. It's me art I wBl yet hit the boards with a Thesplanlstlc achievement so full and fraught with esoteric esthetlclsm and callsthenic casuistry cas-uistry as to fascinate, enthrall, astound and electrify all who sit beneath the thrall of my own psychometrlcal hypon-otlsatlon-.'V ' ' - "Is it all " moaned McCoy. "Peradventure. your perclplence is not negative, but I wish it to be distinctly understood un-derstood that I neither deny nor affirm that it is 'all off for good.' But it Is for today at any rate. My 'brother-hvlaW.is going to take me chug-wagonlng and I really can't be annoyed with more de- I tails. Autoing Is one of the delicious I dreams of the debutante debonair.- So beat it while your shoes are good, as I'm not seeking any eztraforaneoua exegesis of my affairs." - . ' ' McCey showed signs of grogglness. At that moment the door swung open and a man came out. He leaped int6 the auto mobile and took the driving "reins." "Who?" lie said to the lady fair, motioning mo-tioning to McCoy. "A waa." she said. "I feel after all I can never love him more. Why, after all my talk he never showed a sign of meg-acephalopodltis. meg-acephalopodltis. I am afraid that his name is YubedanY to me." and the motor cart whirled off.- ' , Later McCoy explained that the only reason he did not pull his "brother-in-law's" head off was because of the fact that there was-" lady friend" present, end because, and his voice fell to a husk, "1 wasn't next to her speeU Did she put It on me or not?" . . McCoy will hire a secretary to help him in the next battle and will also buy what he calls a "Webster's TJnlon Dictionary." Later McCov issued this manifesto which it may be well for fond papas with tow head sons to see thst it is pasted conspicuously InVthe hat of each "promising" "prom-ising" hopeful: V . "She and I are quits for fair. Chorus girls ain't no good for nobody." |