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v The Story of Elizabeth By Her Mother, ANNE AUSTIN Coprmght. 1026, (U 2 and Gre; e, Borih Ammrican. Sawsonoer A Newanaper Al served. ) 4 TV.—Left Alone. long iliness in Marfa zether with v penzes and ra used up all my $80 « month salary--a wage which had emed nunificent 1o me when | PRned the contract. An operation for ) k, rV. but there was no money for ospital and surgeon. And my hus and. Charles, in his vouthful ignor- nee of iliness, did not realize the seri. usness of my condition and advised e o “forget i | tried to—b y ebruary. wi Slizabeth was » ears old. 1 w 1o the hospital }:m-'flnvhn- tis was absolutelr neces. ELIZABETH AT THE AGE OF 6, without my husband's consent, for the Trmlmn could” be postponed no Idnger. | was operated upon on Tues- da on Thursday | received a note from my husband. saving that he was taking A position on a F Worth paper. and bidding Elizabeth and me @and-hy forever ; That was all The prophecies of disaster made by older and wiser peo we at the time of our vouthful mar Hage Lad come true He was so voung. And he loved freedom. 1 can't nd it in my heart to hlame him very but then it seemed that tie| h i come mother took care of etin i the short time | was in the hospi md paid the hospital and su; geon’s bill out of a small amount of moneyv left her grandfather. But ther ugh to take care of Elizabeth and myself, even for & short time. Three weeks from the day I was operated on 1 began the| Heartbreaking search for work, which was almost an unknown quantity duz ing those early dayx of the European ight Dollars a Week! 1 took the only job I could tind stenographic work at $8 u week. 1 found w room for $2 a week. with | “kitchen privileges” thrown in, and | beth during the day nt day nursery i soked vegetables, bread, suppers nsisted nd toast noon meal ise et My work | cenis And how 1 did st at lunch rding house moit_on had her Grade A certified milk, It the bread and but that she could eat. 1 sometimes had 4 hard time convine 1 did not like oranges | i ewed prunes, but that | made «t that time was nmore than justified by her JMooming health, and her unflagging «d not faily returned sary to have the ironing done, but 1 ke her simple dimity, ercale dresses during immer evenings. She was fast that she was always underwear. used to accu he < of seliing me paper-soled shoes . and. considering the price for them, they probably did Wealthy on $45 a Month. jLater in the Summer comparative afuence came when 1 secured a ! rrenographic position that patd $45 a month. [ remember inctly the thrll that 1 got out of the first ready made drese T had been able to afford for more than o ve: eptember. 1 went to Mood a salary of vas oniy 30 nd 1 couid come home wother and sister. on an end a divorce from my and in September | My last hope of a recon: vanished. and if it had not been for Elizabeth's exceed agly demonstrative love for me and our ever-increasing companiouship, T am afraid 1 should have succumbed te melancholia * For the way seemed very hard and lor college was definitely in the past, though I needed u vear to graduate. But 1 had my v T did not for a moment T had married and me girilhood to motherhood We arrived in Moody on September 21. Eiizabeth’s third birthday. We settled ourselves in « private home. where the kindly oid couple were glad te have the companionship of the baby, while 1 was at school. That first day in Moody, Elizabeth startled us by spelling out the big letters on the back of a magazine—The Ladies Home Journal.” Only the J puzzled her, because it was drawn fancifully, with & veery long tail. 1 had fre- quently told her. at her request, what & certain letter was, but 1 could not belfeve that she had mastered the en tre alphabet in that haphazard fash tbn. But she had every last letter af it. Spells at Three For Christnias she {ng board. the kind which ic operat By sliding little wooden lettera in groovee. COne day che met me at th ’o: oa wmy return from school wily cened a sy |the proud assertion that she could spell “organ recital.” She had copied the words from an advertisement, | memorized the spelling. then had |asked our landlady what the words were, Soon she was spelling my name and hers, the names of books and maga 1 all sorts of other long. hard ded her information | wvas mnot able 1o ! upid progress in the fascinating game. But onc day, when she was visiting school. she up: set the dignity of the schoolroom by | giggling whe boy spelled “'Quaker” inc Uy “Oh. te mother, that's not | ight! | She held up her hand for per: mission 1o speak in the approved SSTOO1 mAnLe! “"HE\ SHE WAS IN THE 1 tried to sh-sh her. hut | lighted pupils insisted that {allowed 1o correct their cl A great big ‘Qu-a-k-e tled off the letters rapidly ! How did you learn to spell that | word”" I demanded, as much aston- | ished as my pupils. “1 guess it’s on the Quaker cars hox that 1 put my dominoes i, she answered rather indignantly Arithmetic From Dominoes. With those same dominoes, by the | ay, she learned to count and to add. ! he counted evervthing-—the number ; of steps she took from one room to another. the buttons on her dress, | the rungs in the chairs. the grapes on | @ bunch. She did all this without !any prompting. because she had an | unuenchable thirst for knowliedge and {an infinite amount of time to acquire {1Lin. She seemed never to be fdle | or hored. and never to be lonely | That v she had measles, which | s llightly as if it had been lia strawberry rash Her superb | health was my chief yride, and the g that I safeguarded as jealously as a miser his golden hoard. Her | diet was still as strictly regulated as { when she was an infant, and she never once transgressed in the matter | of eating between meuls. | 1t was not always a temptation-free life, however, for the school children and their parents adored her. She | uld 10t appear on the streets of | | Moody without being plied with offers of fce cream and candy Town oud of Elizabeth. Her unvary answer was had my lunch. thank rou petite at meal times was exce and she had learned t thing that kind of fruit milk, in quantities. She had meat occasionally—roast beef, Salis bury steak en and fish. But it was never a daily article of her diet. 1 taught her the calisthenics which were part of the school children's ! daily routine’ and she could be seen | every morning racing madly op and down the cement walks which sur rounded the house. her short. fat legs | pumping valiantly at her tricyeie. She played with other small children very seldom, for there were none in the | neighborhood. but the school children formed a habit of dropping by our | house after school to play with her. hey teased her some, baited her to “show off” her knowledge of spell- ing and counting, but she was so much more interested in games of “hide and seek” and “Farmer in the | Dell” that she saved herself from be- ing spoiled and becoming priggishly | seif-conscious of her precocity, which [ by that time was a matter of town | pride. I never discussed her in her | presence or permitted others to do so. {1t never occurred to her that she was ydifferent from other 3-vear-old little i girls. In’ March of 1917 my big oppor- tunity came and with it ended the | epochi of extreme poverty. Hope, ful- filinent_of ambitlon, adventure, lay ahead of us tomorrow’s Star.) A new industry has sprung up In | Hawali where the natives make soles | for_shoes from old auto tires (Continued by regular shampoos with Cuticurs Soap, preceded by touches of Cuti cura Ointment. This treatment keeps the scalp clean and healthy and promotas hair growth. Seap - Vintmer: 25 and e, Taleom Zie THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. WEDNESDAY. ATGUST IT. 13%6. Assortments Are So Embracing— Reductions So Whole-Hearted in The August Sale of ‘Lifetime Furniture £ HINGTON people waited 6 months for this le. They deserve unusual savings. They get them, too—only bigger savings than they expect. The variety of good furniture is overwhelming! The sale is so allembracing. Everything vou could pos- sibly want is marked now at savings. The same Lifetime Furniture that sometime or other you have enthused so warmly about at regular prices is doubly acceptable at the low sale prices. e This is one of the two great furniture events of the year when Lifetime Furniture is reduced. 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