Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1926, Page 36

THE FEVENTING STAR, WASHINGTON. THE EVENING STORY Mrs. Waffle. RS. RANDALL met her new neighbor, Mrs. Waflle, as the one was coming out of Colliton's grocery and the other going in. ~ Mrs. Ran- dall hed her 4-yearold son with her and as usual she was eager to show him off. ““This is Mrs. Waffle, Everett, shake hands with Mrs. Waflle,” she bade him. Everett shrank back, grasping his mother’s coat and staring up at Mrs. Waffle with large eves. .1, dear,” Mrs. Waffle Then to his embar- rassed mother. “Children do such finaccountable things, don't they? Especially when they are shy.” “Everett is not shy. looked at the child perplexed herself found Mrs. Waffle very at- ve and she could not understand evident aversion. The situa so annoying that she sald | y _apologetically and hurried away home. | “It was naughty in you not to shake hands with Mrs. Waflle, Everett, sue suid. “It was not gentiemanly Fverett hung his head, but said | Rothing, and Mrs. Randall wondered f he was going to develop a difficult disposition. She told Mrs. Bellew about it. Mrs, | llew had a most angelic little girl | 0 played very mueh with Everett. | ‘T never knew E & thing before “T am afraid M @ppears to be ver Do @rnest] @onfidential tone. “Alice behaves just | What way with Mrs. Waflle? \When | call Alice would not | She was all eyes | 1| Mrs. Randall. | . Wafle had moved into the | neighborhood a month hefore. The Bouse had formerly belonged to the Misses Peabody, gentle, middle-aged spinsters who had made all the chil- dren welcome. There were always ehildren to be seen in the delightful where flowers grew, birds gath- ered around an entrancing bird-bath, uirrels ran nimbly up the tall trees. e Misses Peabody had sold their piace and gone to keep house for a wealthy and widowed brother and Mrs. Waffle had bought it. Nobody had ever seen or heard of until she had appeared as entertaining. “Spirited,” woman. A few days later Miss serious matter. niec Oliva,” she said. simply refuses to go by M Mrs. Waffle a nelghbor, | but everybody was sure association | with her would be enjoyable. She was a thin, graceful woman with a sharp profile, large black eyes and beautiful | white teeth’ Her black hair was al- ways arranged becomingly in wave and her taste in dress was irreproach able. She was a rapid talker and vers Mrs. Ran- dall called her. She,loved a spirited Owen came |} in to talk to Mrs. Randall about a “I don’t know what ails my 1ittle staying with me this Summer while her parents are traveling.. She Waflle's Mrs. Rangahg | house, even when I am with her. ns in her ohild and others. She gives no reason. She will not ly instinctive little things. There must be something about Mrs. Waf- fle that they don’t like—something we elders are not aware of. Person- ally T find her attractive, don’t you?” “Very attractive. She is an inter- esting talker and she plays a good game of cards. And she is always cordlal. Well, it passes my poor com- ension. am determined to find out what e matter,” averred Miss uwen. will help you,” replied Mrs Ran- She was much disturbed. Tt did no good to qudstion the children. Either hey did not dare speak cr else their feeling was so_complicated that 1hey could not explain it. An intuitive aversion it might be called. And might be something more. Meanwhile Mrs. Waffle went un- concernedly on, never dreaming ap- parently what a lot of quiet discus- sion she was occasioning. One aft- ernoon she gave a charming party, at which the ladies gathered Happily, and never had hey had a better time. ybody came away enthuslastic in praise of the vivacious hostess. Next morning, Mrs. Randall had occasion to see her laundress, Mrs. Dix, who lived in the alley back of | the ‘old Peabody place. She decided to ay a word when I question. it was important. When I looked after her I saw that she had gone round the square instead of going di- rectly up the street. HShe came back the same way and she had run so fast that her little heart was falrly burst- ing from her side. hasten, Auntie,’ she explained! ‘But I did not tell you to take such a roundabout route, I sald. ‘Why didn't you go straight up the street?’ he would not tell me. But I just put 1 two and two together. She would | not go past Mrs. Waffle’s house.” “It is very stra murmured Mrs. Randall. “Ella Robins tells me her children hehave in the same way about Mrs. W Miss Owen continued. “She asn’t 'an ldea why. You know they sed to go o often to play in the yard when Elizabeth Peabody and her sister lived there. Ella says that they cannot be Induced to go near the place. Yet Mrs. Waffle asked them to go in their mother's pres- ence. Not a word would they say— merely hung their heads and acted absurdly shy.” don’t understand it,” Mrs. Ran- dall shook her head. “There is certalnly some mystery about it and I am determined to solve the mystery,” Miss Owon said Il you help me, my dear? I b lieve you know that children are odd- ip cross-lots” through the old Pea- di urely Mrs. Waffle would RICHEST STRBONGEST EST HIGHEST IN QUALITY. ‘With a dark shawl over her head she ran down the drive, which was hidden from the house by a row of tall rhododendrons, and out by the now unused carriagehouse where the chil- dren had loved to gather for play. As she emerged from the drive 2 voice startled her. She looked up and saw Mrs. Waffle leaning from an open Jp- per window, underneath which stood the youngest Dix boy in an attitude of paralyzed attention. Mrs. Waffle's black hair was skew- ered on long curling pins_which wagged like horns. Mrs. Waffle's black eyes were turned inward hor- ribly, and Mrs. Waffle's volce was & deep, ominous booming. “You go right home, you litlte trol- lop! I hate children. If you don't I'll come right down and eat you up!” she roared. The Dix boy could not stir for fright. As Mrs. .Randall caught him in ‘protecting armse he burst into scream upon scream. “Good morning, Mrs. Waffle” Mrs. 666 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. Ensily —no Write Dept. S today for D. O, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 1926. Randall said with an edge to her voice, “I see you are amusing your- self with scaring an innocent $-year- old baby!" But Mrs.) Waffle was Mrs. Randall carried Benny Dix home. 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