Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1926, Page 15

Fixing the Blame. HEN Bessie Apperson took her new position in the lace department at Miller's she was determined to make no friends. Being pleasant had cost her a job at Feldman's. One should smile at no one, she decided, else one might be reported. It had been the head of her stock who had complained, Bessie knew. because the floorwalker had lingered about Bes- sle's counter. It was said that the heag clerk herself was sweet on the floor manager. Bessie's vears at the orphanage had taught her little con- cerning social relations. There one smiled et the matron and at the visit- ing board members, but it seemed that in the big world everything was dif- ferent. The head of ths lace stocck was a tttle dried-up old maid, who wore thick near-sighted glasses and found it hard to distinguish one clerk from another. Bessie felt herself miles re- moved from the girl whose stool was nearest hers—the doll like, little crea- ture, so wasteful of her rouge and lip- stick. There was one person, however, whom it was hard not to be kind to— the floorwalker, who strolled past her counter and looked at her with such kind brown eyes. Still, Bessle resisted the temptation to meet his glance. It was not safe to smile at floor man- agers. “He's new, too,” confided the near- est clerk, laving another coat of car- men upon the cracking surface of her lips. “Just came in a day or so before you d1d. Looks kinder shy to me, but 1 believe he’s sweet on you, Bessie. How'd you ever learn to do that baby stare?” Bessie replaced a bolt of Irish lace and turned to inquire of a customer what could be done for her. At that moment she saw the floorwalker turn into the aisle. He did not have the stately stride of floorwalkers, and he was young and altogether human Jooking. Out of the corner of her eye Bessle saw Dot smile and bestow upon the young man a wink, doubtless in- tended to be enticing. Bessle shud- dered. Poor Dot! Surely some one would report her and she would find herself on the street in search of a job. She was doubly alarmed when she saw the floorwalker stop and say a word to Dot. That night, however, it was with a sickening sense of disappointment, which Bessie was totally unable to ex- plain, that she saw the floorwalker join Dot and walk away from the store with her. Evidently one would not be fired at Miller’s for the things one dared not do at Feldman's. The next morning Dot was quite evidently in a blue funk. “What do you think?” she poured into Bessie’s ear. “That guy asked me where 1.got my eats, and when I told him the ‘Dirty Spoon,” around the corner, thinkin’ he'd say the Waldorf- Astoria wouldn't be too gogd for me, he said he'd just go alond® with me. Do you know, he had the nerve to take me to that joint I go to every night and then to come with me to that dump where I have my room?” “What did you expect him to do?” asked Bessie. “Now, cut out that innocent stuff. I wanted a feed and a show and a cabaret and something different. There ain’t no place to entertain at my room- in’ house. When he found that out he just said good-night. Now ain't that the cheapest?” Bessie noted that Dot tossed her head in disdain every time the floor- walked passed the lace counter. Bes- sie was sorry that he could not meas- ure up to Dot’s requirements of man- hood. It was a pity for any one who looked as he did to be gullty of cheap- ness, At lunch hour Bessle studied her face in the rest room mirror. Her hair, loosed from the orphanage braids, waved slightly toward the coil at the back of her neck. Her cheeks, though unrouged, were not pale.: Bes- sie wondered if all her life she was destined to be lonely. Late one afternoon the head of the stock announced that two bolts of the expensive handmade Italian lace had disappeared since lunch. Bessie felt more than ever miserable and forlorn. She was the newest clerk, and surely she would be the first to be suspected. She longed with a spasm of home- sickness for the orphanage and the hideous blue gingham. “We'll have to search every one,” the head continued. Bessie thought that Dot was pale |. beneath her rouge, and she was sure that her own face was ashen. It was terrible to stand in the shadow of sus- picion like that. Mr. Brown had not been in the store ‘all afternoon. Strangely, Bessie felt that his kindly presence would be reassuring. “I've looked in the pocket of all the coats,” the head of the stock said. “Now I want to search behind the counters before I go through your clothes.” Dot’s counter came first. Then the 1ittle lady approached the domain over which Bessie reigned. She picked up the girl's handbag, that seemed strangely bulging, opened it, and pulled out the crumpled yards of ex- ING STORY quisite lace. For a moment it seemed to Bessle that she could not be really standing there in such frigid misery. She opened her mouth to speak, but the words would not come. Her tongue was dry. The thumping of her heart drove the breath from her body. All the world was arrayed against her. Then, through an enveloping mist, she saw approaching the counter Mr. Brown, the floorwalker, and the mer- chandise manager himself. They had probably come to take her to jail. There would be a bondage worse than that of the orphanage. Still, in prison she would be safe from a world she aid not understand. From miles away there came to her the words of the floor manager. “Don't torture this child,” he was saying to the head of the stock. “Thieving was going on_long before she came to the store. Put the lace where it belongs. It isn't the theft we are interested in now, but the liv- ing conditions that contribute to it.” The head of the stock blinked her eyes again and again, but finally obeyed. Bessie turned to get her hat and coat, but before she left she heard the merchandise manager say to Dot: “We have a new rooming .house for you where conditions are better. You are to recelve more money. So to- night buy yourself a nourishing din- ner. We are giving you a new'chance in spite of the proof found today in your room.” As Bessie took her coat from the rack, Dot rushed into the rest room and threw herself on the couch, weep- ing. The little new clerk hurried out. She felt she could not stand the con- fession that was about to be made. At the door Mr. Brown was waiting for her. Now she knew that he was not a floorwalker, that his name was probably not Brown. “Poor Dot!” Bessie faltered. “I'm sorry for her.” “She will be all right,” the young man replied. “The store has been at fault, but with the higher scale of wages I think there will be fewer Dots.”” 'Who are you?’ Bessie asked. t a floorwalker?"” ‘No—a personnel manager. T lost || my job at Feldman's soon after you || went there, but I know how you hap- | pened to lose yours. They weren't ready for my ideas. Miller's is. I know more about you probably than you know about yourself, but my in- | [f terest isn't scientific. Bessie, look at )l me. The girl obeyed and then lowered her eyes. The new world outside the | [} orphanage was suddenly filled with more joy than she could stand all at once. % THE END. o The Netherlands is planning a num- ber of modern auto roads. Colds Toothache Headache Pain JOHN R. MOTT HEADS Y. M. C. A. CONGRESS 1,500 Delsgates From 50 Nations, Including 250 Americans, Elect New Yorker. ' By the Asgociated Press. HELSINGFORS, Finland, August 2.—The_ world congress of the Young Men's Christian Association opened yesterday with 50 nations represented by 1,500 delegates, intluding 260 Americans, Dr. John R. 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