Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1926, Page 40

THE EVENING All the bright, sunshiny forenoon she worked. Dave could make no complaint about her housekeeping, but why was he so indifferent to her desires® She clinched her hands and looked out over the prairies. “I think you should let Hannah have that kid, Dave.” It was lunch time and the good food and lighted pipes had made the men cominunicative. “Ah, what good will it be? If it was a boy about 14 or so, but I ain’t going to spend no money on some THE EVENING STORY Husks. ANNAH MULLET answered mechanically as her hus- band called up the stairs: “Get up! Water's boiling.” She had been awake long Then, taking the ground corn, she went out to feed the chickens—and to look in on Tillie, the white-faced heifer. “Even little Tlme is going to have something to love,” she mum- bled as she petted the heifer's head— “but I have chickens, a dog and a H before, but from force of habit she | .1 e rat buily. wa : vhe 1 as eard fir-A ool's mama it B o, s heard UR | Fifteen vears before she had bur- | ““Bill Briges eved the man a mo- BE300 for 3b- Jonrs. It wound soem | 160 fher litle browneved baby back |ment, . “Well it dilferent with in Jowa—and with her she seemed to bury most of herself and all of her imost pres % to arise wi e @imost presuming to arise without “Oh, it's a good thing you didn't the announcement - ) - heart; her grief had been o terrible Bill—a woman could twist & i marry, Bill—a homenage el it the grude little | ihat Dave had sold out his improved | vou around her little finger” and he farm in a thickly settled country and jaughed until his thick neck showed that had once been brown and glos: twisted it into back of her head—then commenced her preparations for breakfast. The kitchen door was open moved to the prairle, where he thought new scenes would help Han- nah forget. All her life Hannah had a for babies. Even as a little girl she its cords. Bill thought of Hannah Clark as she was 20 years ago, a gentle, brown-eyed girl, and wondered what she had seen to admire in “Mullet a hard knot at the passion and the cool air blew into the war rosm.oondn;mh, with ),;.r. h_—.,:‘d’"(,n,: planned on the time when, instead | Head,” as the folks back home had the knob, looked out across the|©f mothering dolls, she could have a called Dave. prairie and, shuddering, she closed | réal baby that would be able to love It was late afternoon when Han- $he door | Atier 15 vears she seémied |in retun. nah was returning from the pasture X el s y For years after little Betty had left | with her arms full of goldenrod, for she did love flowers, that she heard Tillie moan. There was the little calf, just in replica of the proud Tillie. "Yes even Tillle has something to love.” A longing surged through her thin, her she had hoped there might be more, but she hoped in vain., Then on a trip to Dellwood a month before, where she had to go with Dave to sign some papers, she had stolen away to visit the Home d man and prepared were going down to an isolated rter to plow. She acted nervous and ill @ Hann: there was a look in her eves that|f,r Unmarried Mothers, and there|overworked body, a longing so in- seemed to hold a longing, ved | were babies, dozens of them. One,|tense, so gripping that it seemed to by hopelessness. Bill Briggs s the little brown-eyed girl, had walk- | assume definite proportions and to her ki s he brought down a|.q right into her hungry heart, and [ master her, to leave her weak and box for mnch, “Ain’t you feeling | she had wanted it so, but Dave |shaking. She ran to the house cry- Hannah?” is consent. 1 y couldn’t I have Eood, 5 all right,” she answered la- But she glanced quickly . who was still eating. She was roman, old at 40, s plenty of and figure 1hout both d been con the men got into the | ind went hesi ace and At last that she Just 1 wagon 1 up to came out hunband, timidly wugh his stolid figure repelled her. Perils of W Bill will be away so jnich ,'fv‘ all; the prairies are so I’l‘ must be all of twenty years ago that mother first “Oh, helll You've heen on these gave me ynl‘p Pepsm For those Fevers, Colds and Bowel Troubles of Childhood prairies 15 years; should think you'd be used to them now.” She drew back as though cut by a Tosi and per pale face reddened. | How time flies, My ?od mother has gone to her rest, but I have brown-eved b They would only | faithfully relied upon dsment and have given Syrup Pepsin keep it till September 1. Can't L| to my two children smce ey were born. It is ly a noble like to recommend it.” medicine and never fails of m purpose. I vou can’t. Who wants some- hody else’s brat to take care of? (Name and address will be sent upon request.) You've ot chickens and a dog and a 1 with. Now, Wdy. I'm not s be home And in the Evening of Life ‘When age comes creeping on, with bowels relaxed, muscles weak, digestion poor and blood thinned, then is when_constipation does its work in a mght. meal 1 B/ aliesy I the ter| Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsm xs so palatable, sets so teh that white-faced heifer, led back over his shoulder. “1| Well in the stomach, works , so gently, so ier in. It's about time for her kindly with old folks as to aocomphsh its purpose kens, n dog and a cat!” she| Without gripe, pain or other distress. 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(The end. (Copyright. 1926.) Five Dead in Venice Crash. VENICE, Italy, November 26 (#).— STAR, WASHINGTON, another baby? I've wanted one so long.” It was almost dark when Dave and Bill Briggs drove into the yard, tired and hungry. There was Quletness about the premises seemed aminous, and although both men felt it, neither mentioned it. “I see Tillle has her calf,” sald Dave as he hung up the harness. “Fine little critter, t00,” added Bill Briggs, as they started for the house. MUTILATED, KILLS SELF. Relatives Say Chicagoan Brooded Four Years Over Attack. CHICAGO, November 28 (P ~Jo- seph Wosnlak, 38 years old, shot and killed himself because, relatives said, he continually brooded over a mutila- tion to which he was subjected four They opened the door, then heard the soft crooning voice of a mother singing a lullaby. In the little room, where Hannah kept Betty’'s clothes, they found her seated in a low rocking chair. She raised her finger as the men entered. “Don’t waken my baby. Hush, she's asleep.” Her eyes, expressionless, looked right past them. Dave Mullet stood as though turn- ed to stone. “My QGod, Hannah!” $2( A Rare Purchase ‘There was no light in the kitchen |was what he said. But Bill Briggs, lled and 14 in- and ‘1o evidence of & meal, they | With his hand at his throat and the |1 "~ e o D e s iibiat yoareingos 1f you want sccurate time, ses this muscles of his face working, tiptoed | Jured when a co: The case attracted much attention | G Mflodltyond-l- *s. Hear as Dave lighted the lamp. Vhat's that?” asked Dave. They listened; a low sound came through the closed door. Dave's face the famous glass factory at Murano céllapsed. 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