Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 4

WHICH? By DOROTHY i, DUFF. 5 (©. 1921, by McClure Newspaper pate Tee had We were gathered on the hotel piaz za, four former classmates who had uot met for a year, It was a glorious reunion, and of course each had a story to tell. Kitty is a teacher of | languages, Nel! is now Eleanor Marsh | Whitney, authoress; Alice, the class | beauty, is married; while I am a set- tlement worker. “My story?” asked Nell, in answer to Kitty's question, “Well, yes, I have a story to tell, but it is about someone else.” “Let’s hear It,” we all erled, and so she began “When Billy Appleton struck New York he had with him a suitcase con- taining bis clothes, $200 and a picture ef Elsie Hill, in a silver frame. “Billy was a designer of ability He loved the work, much to the disap pointment of his father, who thought the boy would quickly tire of art if left himself, and would return home y to enter business “Back in Portland, Conn., where Bil ly was n, Appleton & Co, ws the leading dry goods store, and Mr, Ap pleton was Portland's most prominent citizen. Proud of the fact, Mr. Apple- ton had his mind all made up that his only son shouid follow in his footsteps. Rilly, however, had other plans, He wanted to be something more than a b ond in a small puddle—he wanted to be fainous. And so, with only $200 in his pocket and his father's ¢ y oD his head, he struck out for New York. “Of course, he hated to leave Elsie, but a fellow had to have his chance in businese before he could get married, | anyway. Bi with the confidence of | yeuth, assured Elsie that he would soon make his fortune and then she could New York and they would live happily ever afterward. “But Billy soon discovered that life in New York was very different from | life in Portland, Ip Portland he lived in a big white house with a lawn tn | front; he had two horses and a little runabout; he had an adoring mother, | whose whole time seemed to be taken up in doing things for Pilly. In New York he lived in one small hall bed- come to room, Without a cheerful thing in It | except Elsie’s pretty face, The ele- | vated train rumbled by night and day | and made him wish with all bis might | for Portland. And the landlady seemed to be ever present with ber hand out to take some of Billy's precious cash. “In Portland he had been the one and only designer; but here in New York! Well, here in New York every- | body to be a designer. “At last, however, Billy found a job; not a very good one, but at least a job which would feed him and pay his room rent with a little to spare. He was set to work designing borders | and figures which were to be used pn the beautiful windows made by that | firm for churches and public buildings. “About this time the firm offered a | prize to their employees for the best | design for a window. Billy had many | ideas, and he worked all his spare time on that design, He wrote to Elsle | about it; all his work was for her. | Every girl he saw he compared with her, much to the stranger's disparage seemed ment, | “And then he met Adele. It was | quite unexpected, and Billy’s heart | thrilled as it had never thrilled before. Adele's eyes were as black as midnight. and she had straight black hair, quite a contrast to little golden-haired Elsie | with the blue eyes, *Adele was a won- | derful girl. She liked to.dance und Billy liked to dance, and it took all of | his spare change to pay for the din ners and the theaters and the flowers which Adele demanded. Billy himself was in the seventh heaven of delight, and time flew for him much faster than ever before. “At last came a day when Billy was awarded the prize for the window de sign. He was wild with joy, for with it he also received a substantial in- | crease in lary. Now Elsie could | come to the city, was his first thought, now they could be married and be for- ever happy. “But did he want to marry Elsie? What of Adele? He loved Elsie, oh yes, nobody could doubt that; but | didn’t he love Adele? Elsie seemed | like a dream, while Adele was an ever- | present reality. | “And then Billy Appleton had the hardest day of his life. He was at his | wit’s end, He sat down and looked at thelr pictures. When he looked at | Elsie he was sure that he loved her | and no one else; but when he looked | at Adele he was not so sure. Would | quiet little Elsie be happy in the noisy city? Would Adele be happy in quiet Portland? | “About midnight Billy wrote a letter | of proposal. Should he send it to sie? Or to Adele? Then slowly, slowly he slipped it into the envelope and just as slowly addressed it. He put on his hat and coat and went out | | | After a moment's thought he dropped it into the letter box. And Nell paused. “But to whom Nell, you didn’t Alice. “Weil,” sald Nell, absently, in her sweet drawling voice, “that’s just what 1 don't know myself. I've been work- ing on that story for a month, and | just can't make up my mind whether to let Billy marry dear little Elsie and lead a safe and sane life, or enjoy the glamor of the red lights with Adele for the rest of his days. “What would you do?” then did tell he address us?” broke it, in of her successors’ objection to chil- | Although our profession is that of planning Homes and that of “Building dren, for in due course she added to | Doctors,” having seen and interviewed a few of these fellows that are billy- her duties that of pushing the baby bryaning it through the country we are not adverse to diagnose their sermons carriage out every ufternoon. It Is | preached from the semi-socrascanct Chautauqua platform. worthy of note that the bedroom for | this treasure was furnished entirely First, pardon the suggestion; we have House plans that save both steps and ut a cost of 10s ($ ). Food coin. | badly } ave sold to the retail and wholesald IN THOSE GOOD OLD Times! SHOOSOOSS oa odes tetetetectecestet eterno Rymes and Lyries of Lath and Lumber Sprinkled With Sparks from the Big Chautauqua Tent MRS. TOM CLARK One Will No Longer Wonder Why Our Forefathers Gladly Entered into Bonds of Matrimony. Seeder oe: I have lately been shown (writes a correspondent of the Manchester | Guardian) Ue first account vook of a | couple who set up housekeeping vear ly fifty years ago. Many of the en- tries are interesting reading now, and os oe seclostesio stead died certain items especially are warranted ns 7 ivector is a challenge to “ son-of-a-gun,; smile” to wake the modern housekeeper's Every look of the director is a challenge to “smile, you-son-of-a-gun; mouth water, The first’ servant's | A visit here may save you much. for wages instance, were £8 ($40) a too, | wus given to who did all the washing, | utauqua than the she talk- them. There are none more enthusiastic about the Cha wers themselves—a case of honoring the hand that feed 4 servant, tand, plain cooking and evidently had noone | peepee eed ‘ prices, unfortunately, cannot be read. lly compared with those of today, as | , Rae That Perisho talked in a disconnected way like some amateur at 2 debating provisions were entered simply as | ae contest tryout. He did not produce any convincing arguments but a lot of “grocer, butcher, |e But what cheap applause by rattling the war skeleton and yapping about Yap with a growl Evidently he believes in in settling the should we feel now, I wonder, on re- | ceiving (winter) quarter's gas bill | amounting to 9s 4d ($2. it is in- te to that butcher's meat | bulked far more largely in proportion than it would in household bevks to- day, after the frugal years of war, and that the young couple considered food of another sort worth paying for | is shown by the entry: ‘Two uckets | for concert (Patti and Sims Reeves), £1 10s ( Ww). | “PANTS” PROVED HIM HONEST Their Frayed Condition Convinced Tailor That Man Who Wore Them Must Be Straight. and bared teeth intended to appeal and overawe shot gun patriotism as being superior to Americans Diplomacy Yap question. Who won a seat parliament in the Irish home rule elec- tion held recently. a srsbondeondostoedondostoatonteatonde Loetecdentestesteetonfonte ontosto stones in the southern ot sting see A silo is needed on every farm and will pay for itself in one or two seasons According to Perisho we are the wealthiest nation on God’s green foot-stoo] and taken one and all possess something like 300 billion simoleons. Comes now Hizonner Congressman Rainey and tells us we are nearly flat broke and worse off than the Huns. The average school boy can make a pot guess somewhere between these two extremes and be more correct than either of them. LABOR SPLITS ON IRISH QUESTION Denver.—The split between the two 3 Pere. eee If your community is not going ahead and building up, stand in front of a factions of Irish sympathizers in the mirror and look the community square in the face. American Federation of Labor | vention here widened when a majority | of the signers of a resolution demand. | ing boycott of British-made goods an- | . ; | nounced they had petitioned the reso- | to ad tise one’s poverty, | i | a certain statesman thinks, lutions committee asking permission A tailor in the last campaign was | to Withdraw the declaration | quite convinced in his own mind that | The remaining supporters the statesman was a most unworthy | reso bas and absolutely unfit man for public position, as a result of the campaign conducted against him, About ten days before the election one of the bell boys of a Washington club brought to this particular tailor —by mere chance—a pair of trousers con Miss Collette may be a lame duck, but beleive me, she is “some” fiddler. Our House Plans Please You—Profit You. The she-talkwers tell us it is our Chautauque but they insist upon doing all : the talking. Sut they aint no use talkin, the’ve got the smile, there’s not a a: blue pill in the pile, they tickle themselves for they have too, but they smile, - 3 i : + amilo = mile” It pays of the king to the statesman, to be pressed, It was a hurry-up job, be- ing the only pair that the statesman had at the time. pressing them and discovered that frayed The tailor started to his amazement the trousers were the edges and worn and showed other evidence that the owner was apparently not spending his money for elegance in clothes, whereupon he announced he was for him. “Iam with him from this day for- war he said. “Any statesman who is forced to wear clothes for so long atime as these have been worn is surely a square and upright man and I am for bim to the limit.” Goldfish in Ohio River. Many tons of goldfish were caught in the fishing grounds of the Portage river at Port Clinton, O., recently. Ac cording to some of the fishermen, the first scattering of the fish was found in 1913 after the big floods of Ohio and the lake regions, and it was thought at that time that the fish ma. have been liberated from some of thi park and resort aquariums, by thi overtiowing of the flooded artificia! ponds. The fish are not of the glass bow variety, but seem to be more of a car species, und will measure severa inches and weigh as much as a halt. pound each, They are placed in ca and brought here to be loaded into ex: press cars and shipped in tanks, allye, tu the New York markets, where they trade. St. Paul Is Exonerated. Men translated the Bible—and twisted St. Paul's remarks abou Women to sult their own ideas, Thai is divulged by Miss K. Raleigh to thi Women's .Freedom league, The apostie’s remarks about wom en, she said, were badly twisted tf translation and it could be proved b; the removal of a few dots and com: mas, that St. Paul did not: Forbid women to preach; command them tq obey their husbands; Insist that fo ever and aye, whatever the fashion of the country, they should wear hat in church; say that they should nevel wear jew and fine clothes, “In the sentence ‘Women obey you husbands," sald Miss Raleigh, “the correct translation of the word ‘obey’ is ‘be considerate to.’” A Yellow Peril. Can you read your laundry mark? T, Philip Terry, author of “Terry's Guide to Japan,” tells the following joke oq himself—a joke which emphasized th advisability of keeping on good term with one’s Chinese laundryman, T! Chink In Mr, Terry's home town wa inclined to be sur! so one day ti} guide book writer lectured him on t subject of courtesy, and urged him adopt civility as a habit. The adn nition palpably displeased the cel tial, but he said nothing. Later Terry, who lived several years ln da and knows something of the h guage, Was surprised to find his sh and collars marked with the Cantoi signifying “upstart J ass Sounds and Sights, “That motion picture theate beautiful music.” “Yes,” rejoined Miss Cayenne present we listen to the pictus look at the musical show.”