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By Grace Kings ley
"n^his is a great joke on Carmel, isn't it?" demanded Patsy the Party Hound, as we ascended the steps of Carmel Myers1 pretty seaside home in that picturesque canyon at Santa Monica where all the millionaires live. "But a perfectly delightful one,1' I qualified. Carmel's mother had planned a surprise birthday party for her, and Bessie Love had been given the job of keeping Carmel away from home all day, with the result that Carmel arrived in the midst of her party clad in a tennis suit, and with her hair, which she is letting grow, flowing rather wildly over her shoulders. But of course anybody young and pretty like Carmel doesn't have to worry about a little thing like that.
Bessie, we found, was all worn out with her strenuous day.
"I got her out for lunch and tennis," declared Bessie, "and then I wondered what I should do with her in the evening until her party was ready. Carmel kept saying that she must go home, and that it was her birthday and "
"Yes," put in Carmel, as we four went upstairs, Pat and I to get rid of our wraps, "and I was pretty hurt at mother for not seeming to notice my birthday."
"But I finally hit on the plan," explained Bessie, "of asking Carmel to dinner at my house, and though I had a hard time persuading her, I finally did manage."
A while before we arrived, Carmel had come into the darkened house, and everybody had shouted "Boo" as the lights were turned on.
"Yes," put in Gertrude Olmsted, "and we nearly got nervous prostration before Carmel arrived, as every time the assembled guests heard a machine coming down the road, we had to switch off the lights." The party was a fancy dress affair, and everybody was masked. So they made poor Carmel guess who everybody was before the masks were removed. All the boys were dressed as gobs, since the party was by the seaside, and of course Irving Asher had to make a wise crack:
"Fm a sailor but I can't get a broad!" he exclaimed.
"That's horrid slang!" Rosabelle Laemmle admonished him.
Carmel was very keen at her guessing, even if the boys did look pretty much all alike in their gob suits. Bessie
Love was hard to gu because she wore boy's clothes, but of course arriving ' Carmel had a suspicion at once.
Gertrude Olmsted^3 ver>' funny in a Bowery costume but really isn/Qv:e rough enough for that sort of dress as it turnedA s ^ce, when she tried to put on a sort of apache d/e wltn one of the boys, she suffered rather a hard f/ But she picked herself up at once, and though pafmiled brightly.
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