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But she giggled in pleased self-consciousness and pushed her combs into place Miss Sternberger wore her hair oval about her face like Mona Lisa; her cheeks were pink-tinted, like the lining of a conch-shell. "My Bella always says a goil can't be too careful at these here summer resorts that's why she ain't out every night like some of these goils.
Ain't most of us got Gibson pleats in our shirt waists?" "I don't see nothin' about goils," the Secretary made answer, "but there's one here about ghosts. How would that do?" "Not at all," said Miss Masters firmly. "What's the matter with it?" asked one of the girls abandoning her sewing-machine and coming over to the table. "I seen posters of it last year. They are givin' it in Broadway.
"Ulysses Mullins!" said Jimmy, looking at him curiously. "I know the feeling. There's only one cure. I sketched it out for you once, but I guess you'll never take it. Yon don't think a lot of women, do you? You're the rugged bachelor." "Goils !" began Spike comprehensively, and abandoned the topic without dilating on it further. Jimmy lighted his pipe, and threw the match overboard.
"Well, in the first place, there are children in it " "Cut it! 'Nough said," pronounced the President. "Them plays wid kids in 'em is all out of style. We giv' 'East Lynne' the turn down an' there was only one kid in that. What else have you got in that Gibson book? Have you got the play with the Gibson goils in it? We could do that all right, all right.
She was always threatening to resign her portfolio vowing, with some show of reason, "I never would 'a' joined your old Hyacinths Shirt-Waists if I'd a' known I was goin' to have to write down all the foolish talk you goils felt like givin' up."
In her daytime capacity of saleslady in a Grand Street shoe store she would have called "cash," but as President of the Lady Hyacinths her speech was: "If none of you goils ain't got no more business to lay before the meetin' a movement to adjoin is in order." "I move we adjoin an git to woik," said Mamie Kidansky promptly.
"And them lovely pink garters!" "Ker-chew!" "Oh, you cutey! Oh, you cut-up!" "Ker-chew!" "Oh, you candy kid!" "And say, git onto the cunnin' elbow sleeves our little playmate's sportin'." "Yes, but goils, just pipe the poilies ain't they the greatest ever?" "They sure are. Say, kiddo, gimme one of 'em to remember you by, won't you? You'll never miss it you got a-plenty more."
"Ulysses Mullins!" said Jimmy, looking at him curiously. "I know the feeling. There's only one cure, and I don't suppose you'll ever take it. You don't think a lot of women, do you? You're the rugged bachelor." "Goils " began Spike comprehensively, and abandoned the topic without dilating on it further. Jimmy lit his pipe, and threw the match overboard.
"Why, last summer I was eatin' three meals a day next to my first cousin and didn't know it." "Look!" said Mrs. Blondheim. "There's those made-up Rosenstein goils comin' out of the dinin'-room. Look at the agony they put on, would you! I knew 'em when they were livin' over their hair-store on Twenty-thoid Street. I wonder where my Bella is!"
It seemed therefore that the business meeting was closed, when a voice from the opposite side of the table broke in with: "Say, Rosie, why can't us goils give a play?" "Ah Jennie, you make me tired," protested the Secretary. "An' you're out of order anyway," was the President's dictum.
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