Show fabits AA at orade ada the new fable of the girl who tried to start something and did once there was a kittenish senorita condemned to dwell in a piccolo town out on a spur division of the denkus ville villa short line it was one of those not dead but sleeping Ble settlements with a sheet iron cornice on every store building and the hack alack in which gen sherman once rode still meeting the trains all the other residents were sitting bitting back on their surplus trying to hatch out 7 per cent anyone suggesting a public improvement was led into court house square and publicly do de headed A girl with real jamaica ginger coursing through her arteries did not have a lookin look in so long as she was hung up at this whistling post where every meeting of the research club war wan a poultry exhibit and the local astor played a drown brown derby in conjunction with the extreme soup and irish SO bo the senorita by name madeleine used to burst into tears every time she saw a train pulling away from the depot for she certainly had laid the Soubrette soubrettes fi curse on home sweet home she had read those large explosive articles in the family department of the sunday paper telling bow the smart set hang bang by their toes from chandeliers and jump into public fountains and she panted for the wild free life of the idle rich now it happened that madeleine had a married female cousin living at the corner of easy street and ept 9 p L i e d 8 she wanted show the boobs blobs just how these functions are stage managed burean avenue up in the big town w here people hate bate the sight of a brass bedstead cousin invited madeleine to come and see bee her out of mere politeness for she had the country lass sized up as a myrtle killjoy whose limit ably would be a burton holmes lecture or a rollicking afternoon at the tea shop madeleine saw that she ehe was waa down in class B and would have to make an immediate demonstration of form to i void avoid being permanently benched or sent back to the bush league consequently as soon as site she found herself in the main alain drawing room among the and rosalinda Rosa linds she he began to break furniture and do head spins on the Bo kharas thereupon she was elected a full sister of the gladsome bunch known as the young married set compared with whom mr air burman doing a mile in 26 seconds on the beach at ormond la Is a second rate snail sho she sent home for all of her things and more coin and applied for an advanced degree in the grand lo 10 lodge dge of the knights and ladies of insomnia in one month she had entirely remodeled her figure and landscaped her hair into a new design and carefully picked each broad western R out of her vocabulary and she could walk right up to a french bill of pare fare without the quiver of an eyelash also she could hand out that dear boy line of polite guff to all of those rugged and self made bucks who get back to earth every day at 5 p m and begin calling feebly for barbers I 1 and masseurs massears Mass eurs and manicures and nerve specialists and barkeeps Bar keeps she learned that rough house lost all social Sti stigma gnia it if pulled off at 2 P ft m in a private resort with a striped awning in front and a carpet leading down to the landing stage her folks kept writing her to come back home because tile the ladles ladies of the guild were about to have a bazaar but she stalled as long as she could and when she finally packed up the wardrobe trunks and the eight kinds of massage cream she extracted a promise from cousin and several ober characters that they would come out into the wilderness and give tho the rummies a touch of high life it was tho the first time madeleine had spread her ter wings and hit tile tho rarefied strata for a beginner sho bho was there with the spread she mado made tho the american Ameri cuu eagle look like an english sparrow As aa soon boon as aa she arrived back in n sleepy hollow she began to turn tho the old family residence upside down and got it stocked up just like a club for tile tho hot babies fram the metropolis tho the real things arrived oj a special car with their hats down over ever their ears and were more or ar less obscured by dogs and english help and cigarette smoke As thoy rodo rode up main street there was a palo pale face at every window just as tho the parado parade passed the high school tool the tall smokestack smoke stack over at the hominy mills fell with a loud crash that thee was a smell amell of moth balls in a refined home for all who had learned to take taka soup from the edo of the spoon were wera under royal command to come up and get a private peek at the imported gentry it was to be a dinner followed by a small dance if it had been a full sized affair no doubt father would now be working by the day instead of the customary 3 carria carnations and 1 maidenhair maiden malden hair fern gracing tho the center of the board the terrified ter rifled guests saw BOW a wagon load of tropical blogin which pleased them very much as soon as aa each had secreted a new kind of cocktail served in goblet with a stick of dynamite substituted for the olive the orchestra did a lot of those oli oh oh rags while strange foods kept descending to the table and a special corps of walters waiters tried to give an imitation of the johnstown flood conversation became epidemic and many ucal local characters who had remained in obscurity for years came out of their pods and began to hop about and sing in the sunlight members of tho the married safety league were hanging out signs of distress and trying to give warning signals but madeleine would not permit them to crab her little party she wanted to show tho boobs blobs just how these functions aro are stage managed in upper circles accordingly they all felt their way to the front room where they found awaiting them a bowl of artillery punch about the size of lake erie eric and no more harm in a full bumper than there Is in a rattlesnake rattle snake madeleine headed oft off a two step and told friends and neighbors to sit back close to the wall with a piece of ice in each hand and get wise to the latest 1914 stuff then she and her friends pinned up their garments and put resin on their hands and cut loose they did the argentina tango and the maxixe and tile the twinkle and tho the ta tao and the ono one step and the castle walk and the hesitation and tho the rye waltz etc etc the fire department began carrying out bodies at 1230 a m some of the survivors were hurrying horns home through the alleys wondering if they could fix up alibis at daybreak many prominent citizens were found miles from their homes wandering aimlessly in roadways and shouting talce take it next afternoon the male parent of madeleine crawled out from under tho the wreckage and said to his only daughter you are too progressive for us farmers take your trained troupe of society acrobats and g get et out of town the white caps cape are gathering in tho the outskirts madeleine simply retorted that tho the dances were being done in the most exclusive homes an exclusive home is one from which the police are excluded of course she never dared to return to her birthplace after this scandalous performance she had to remain in tho the cruel city as the free and unrestricted wife of a cotillon leader with art an income of 2200 a minute |