Men I'm Not Married To

On the contrary, as the French so well put it. He has no end of patience with others, and he is always willing to oversee what they are doing, and to offer them counsel.

He never requires his audience to do any feeding for him. It needs no careful leading around of the subject, no tactful questions, no well-timed allusions, to get him nicely loosened up.

strongly. When you have seen him do this it will be small surprise to you that Freddie is in such demand for social functions.

He is funniest, though, it seems to me, when he is pretending that the lemonade is intoxicating, and that he feels its effects pretty

There is never any of this hanging back waiting to be coaxed or protesting that he hasn’t touched a key in months. He just sits right down and does all his specialties for you.

There may be many more accomplished musicians, but nobody can touch him as far as being ready to oblige goes.

There is one awfully clever one, a big favourite of his, with the chorus rendered a different way each time—showing how they sang it when grandma was a girl, how they sing it in gay Paree and how a cabaret performer would do it.

He is never without a new story of what Pat said to Mike as they were walking down the street, or how Abie tried to cheat Ikie, or what old Aunt Jemima answered when she was asked why she had married for the fifth time.

And he is practically a whole vaudeville show in himself.

He is never at a loss for a screaming crack.