| Show IN IS A NG A D F ada THE NEW FABLE OF THE ERING BLADES WHO ABSORBED THE MAGNETIC CURRENT DIRECT FROM THE CENTRAL STORAGE PLANT ont at in the celery belt of the hinterland there Is a stunted flag station number six carrying one day coach and a combination baggage and stock car would pause long enough to unload a bucket of oysters and take on a crate of eggs in this settlement the leading C citizens lit still wear gum creties with largo large buckles and parched corn ts is served at social functions two highly respected money amonoy getters of pure american stock held forth in this lonesome kraal and did a general merchandising izing one was called milt in honor of the blind poet and the other claimed the following brief Mon niker to wit I 1 henry neither of them had to pay the woman weman woi wei who did the housework henry and milt atilt got what they could during the daytime and always stood ready to trim up the dark lanterns and operate at night these two pillars of society had marched at the head of the women and school children during the dry movement which banished king alcohol from choir fair city As a result of their efforts liquor was not to bo be obtained in this town except at the drug stores and restaurants or in the cellar underlying a any ny well nell conducted nome home for eleven months and three weeks out of every calendar year these two played right night and left tackle in the stubborn battle to uplift the community and better the noral moral tone they walked the straight and narrow wearing blinders check reins hobbles and interference pads very often a Allot mother ber would hurry her little brood to the front window when milt atilt or henry passed by carrying under tinder his arm a package PacI cago of corn flakes and the report of the general secretary in charge of chinese missionary misi I 1 work look sho would say indicating local paragon with index finger it if you always wash behind the ears and learn your catechism you may grow up to be like him but every autumn about the time the frost is on the stock market and wall street Is in the shook shock milt atilt and henry would do a skylark ascension from the home nest and wing away toward the rising sun they called it fall buying because both of them bought and both of them fell at home neither of them would kick in for any pastime more worldly than a 10 cent al P show depicting a large number of insane people tailing failing over precipices the blow off came on the trip to the city that was the dig big show every nickel that thai could be held out went into the little tin bank for they knew that when they got together of these washers a man up in new york would let thorn them have some tiffany water of rare vintage with a napkin wrapped around it as an evidence of good falth faith on winter evenings milt would don the velvet slippers and grill tits his lower extremities on the ornate portico such as surrounds sur rounda every high price base burner while thus crisping himself lie he loved to read news notes from gotham signed carolyn stuyvesant who rc lemed to havo have the entree into the rest best houses ile he did not know that carolyn arolyn had tangled angled whiskers and jotted down his Ilou doir secrets in a Wein stube using a borrowed pencil so he believed what it said in the paper about a well known heiress having the teeth of her favorite pomeranian filled with radium at a cost of whenever lie ho got this kind of a private peek into the gay life of the modern babylon lie he began to breathe through his nose and tug at the leash ile ho longed to dash away on the erie eric to look at the tha iron fence in front of the home of tho the pomeranian when tho the day of days arrived milt atilt and henry would be seen at the depot with congested suitcases suit cases and their necks all newly shaven and powdered for the approaching jubilee each had pinned into hla his college mado made suit enough currency to lift the debt on the parsonage already they were smoking foreign cigars and these were a mere hint flint of what the future had in store while waiting for number six they wired for two rooms and two baths aa t h a and to have relays waiting in the Alani curo parlor up at the junction where they caugh the limited they moved into the high and began to peel from the roll the steak ordered in the dining car hung over tho the edge of the table and they scuffled to see which one would pay the check As for the boy in the buffet every avery iroe he heard a bound like at cesta ta he came out of tho the dark room and began to open small original pack ages when they approached the oits oils via tho the tunnel they thought they were riding in ca a curtiss di plane between the text taxi arid and the register they stopped to shako shake hands with an old F friend who were a white suit and was known from coast to coast as the originator of a alck mo up J p which called for everything back of the working board except the license and tile bicarbonate of soda the clerk let on to remember them and quoted a bargain rate of six dollars meaning by the day and not b by the month they wanted to know if that was voa the best beat ho he had and he said it was as aa tho the sons of ohio were having a dinner in the main banquet hall so they ordered a lot of supplies sent up to each room and wanted to know it if there was a good show in town something that had been denounced by the press the clerk told of one in witch asbestos scenery was used and firemen had to stand in the wings so they tore over to the news stand and bought two on the aisle for 8 from a palo pale goddess who kept looking at the ceiling all during the i q A the flag station seemed far away I 1 I 1 tlona for she seemed out of sympathy with her sordid surroundings then to the rooms with their glittering bedsteads and insulting prodigality of towels after calling up the office to complain of the service they shook the moth balls out of their henry hlll ira and began to sort the studs when fully attired in evening clothes including the sheet iron shoes they knew they looked like new york club men and the flag station seemed far away as in another world instead of the usual repast or of chipped beef in cream sody biscuits and a stoup of gunpowder tea they ordered up cape cods code potato let it go at that sweetbreads Sweet breads so and so on and on past the partially heated thick duck and salad with fringe along the edges and cheese that had waited too long and a check for 1740 and the walter peeved at being slipped a paltry iro heigh ho it Is a frolicking eifel pity the poor folks who are now getting ready to court the I lax ilax in akron ohio and three oaks michigan and tulsa oklahoma with no thought of what they are missing they remembered afterward being in a gilded playhouse play house with the activities equally divided between a trap drummer and restless young women then being assailed by the pangs of hunger they went out a and nd purchased crab flakes at 20 cents a make flake after which they paid to get their hats and next morning they were ft ere back in their rooms entirely surrounded by towels on the third afternoon milt atilt suspended bush fall buying long enouf enough h to send emd his family a book of views showing the statue of peter cooper the aviary in bronx park and brooklyn bridge by Aloon moonlight light then with a clear Conge conscience lence he went back and put his foot on the rall rail the morning on which their bodies were taken the pennsylvania station broke bright and cheery milt atilt said somebody had fed him a steam radiator and put mittens on him and unscrewed his kneecaps knee caps otherwise ho be was 0 K henry kept waving the eng english iash sparrows out of the way and asking ask ing why so BO many bells were ringing two weaks later at the union rrb viva iva services when rev poindexter gave out that rousing old standby stand by which begins yield not to temptation milt and arose from the cushioned seats and sang their fool heads off MORAL one who would woula put satan on the mat must get inside information from hla his training quarters |
