Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 43

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. . FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16 1927. his No. 9s, proudly consclous of the|thought. Not until morning, in the lit-| the hedge, wondering if she should | Yes, I know you had the same trouble, | 4§ THIS IS LONDON,” intensely interested, excited eyes of | tle Kitchen, Bill out of sight, did Lil-| speak to Mr. Romibold on the other | well, I bought it from him last night!” ’ his mother and sister, and without a |la's arms suddenly circle her mother's | side, who was evidently unaware of [ Mr. Romibold chuckled, “bought it word laid five crisp $10 bills in his|neck while she whispered chokingly.| her presence. “Hello, there? Wasn't | 2o nobody else could buy it and spoil ven weeks, came into W. mother’s lap. “Sold to Mr. Romibold | “I was wrong, you were right. It's|the radio great last night?” Mr.|our radio reception. Some crazy fool | o s :mi "';dflm aterloo sta- for $50, one radio, despised by Sister | perfectly clear to me, mother. Mr.|Crick's brisk voice speaking to his | actually wanted to buy that set, but,| Wales and Brother Return Home that Ihe_ spectators at ihe basein Lil. I didn’t mention Mr. Crick's name | Romibold bought that radio out of | neighbor, Mr. Romibold. believe me, I'd have paid any price to [ weve: takairsity ':" -1 the barriers Washing by Radio. | and ne said if 1 had another offer to|to Mr. Romibold, just sald somebudy | kindness, it was his way of helping | Mg Meade, completely hidden by | keep that maddening set out of the After Seven Waeks’ Trip | havar et ’c’h adrhony and didn’t S f s be sure to speak to him before I closed | in the neighborhood offered me $25.|us. I'm going to tell Myrtle today ) po p “heard Mr. Romibold an- neighborhood.” The voice died out as There was abnoelel;l e L L RS. MEADE looked at the the deal.” This is the result” A triumphant Bili | that T was mistaken. I just couldn’t | ; A arpmibold & | the two men moved aw: foiCannda: | about their arrivat. > 1O Ormalty gray-enameled washing ma- | When Bill had left the room, mother | who graciously permitted the hugs|move away from this dear little town™ |, Ed! Come a little| The corners of Mrs. Meade's blue | By the Associated Press. | st ching with troubed eyes | and ‘dnughter tared, at each ‘atver | and kisses of two willely . exoiteq| A when. Mrs, Meada dusted tha| baans S on ot e 8 | cves crinliled. “Nowadays,” she wh.:i‘\ LONDON, Beptember 16—"50 this|suis cer r et Shce: DUmercus that usually held a spark of | with puz: . “He turned down | women. ser 3 3 @ ) : whis- | = el O en packin; laughter hidden in the cor-!g15 for his bum et!” Lilla sighed, ing?C;:\:;‘qu:::‘iI\“V'n’]‘(?gndi'::‘.111;9'::353‘021;);3[3":(\331?; (!;‘\5;;, l;\a royal baggage 1‘1cluded { ners. She hated to part from that elec- | “and he'll never get another offer! il y ! But some- | Wa his best Cana mettbdmedon o S tric washer, for since it had been in | Hone ety sthanE bl s i pussied. The gray enameled washer complished by | when he arrived In his home town, as | “Prince of Wales. (R the house things had gone smoother |ty me. Mr. Romibold, of all men! And she never | he held out his hand and felt the pat- | was a gift from new friends on the and she had been able to double her | The next evening Bill came in tering of the rain. He and Prince' boat orders for washing curtains and blan-|an earnest face, but his eyes shone kets | llkke searchlight: His monther and “It's a shame, isn't it?" said Lilla,|sister, sensing something had hap- standing in the doo hot indigna- | pened, dropped everything and hurried tion in her eyes. “Just makes meto him. boil! Oh, I'm sick of this town and| Bill looked straight at Lilla. “You all the mean people in it! Yes, they [ wouldn't believe that my radio was are mean. too! Like old man Romi-|worth anything, would you? Well, bold, in back of us, high-hatting us|when Mr. Cri ked me this after- all the time, the old grouch! Living noon how my radio was working I M a great hig house, with servants| just mentioned casual that 1 had! and all kinds of luxurie: and we |an offer from somebody in the l\(}lxh- can’'t even keep our electr washer!” | borhood of $15 for my set. I didn't “Don’t be a little goose, Lilla,” mention any names. Well,” Bill smiled her mother. “Mr. Romibold | couldn’t suppress a grin, “for a certainly isn't responsi that I'm | minute he didn't say much, but just back in my payments, even if he is|as I was going to walk on_ he said, dent of the Fair-Day Washer Co. ‘ve been very nice and lenient Sat if T don’t have the §25 by the| : flled silence, then hE of course, they must take it| Lill id excitedly, “Course you ac- cepted right away, Bil “It's my fault for getting pneu-| He shook his head ope. That monia, that's what” Bill's voice, on| wouldn't be fair to Mr, Romibold. the cracking bridge between boyhood | You know, I promised to tell him if 1 and maturity See here, mom, let| another offe 1 think 1 ought to me get job—you're not going to go | ound and see him tonight. What back to washing blankets by hand!” do you think, mom?"” man, vou're not going to he did not know what to think, until you're thro being utterly dumbfounded. | &chool Mrs, Meade told him posi-| After supper when Bill, having tively washed and put on a clean shirt, “If T only earne o © flung arted out with a businesslike air, out fiercely, *pe & a typewriter| the two women settled down with for a measly twelve per wee Look | their sewing in the living room. here. mother, you got to let me go| “Fr 1 don’t understand it to the city. T know I can earn more ystery to me. there, Mrytle Rodman told me so and she's going! Let me go, please I'm 19 and 1 hate the people here! That contemptible Romibold— for one minut “Say, stop knocking Mr. Romibold; Ramibold will pay for that he's not so bad. Yesterday he stop-| radio set. I know Ramibold, he's ped me and asked how my radio was. | just a mean old grouch, never did a 1. ‘Rotten last night, and he Kind. generous thing in his life! I can’t o was mine.’ 'Course he wait till we move away. You'll go to Crick, the city. won't you, mother, if Bill wants to go, to A little stab of pain shot through . Meade's heart. Leave this little “Guess it needs a new battery or|town where they knew everybody for . Bill muttered. reddening. | & life among strangers! But if Bill forget, Tl Mrs. Meade came home disillusioned, sick at heart, hastily, interposed. “that Bill assem.| Urging to go away, too? bled it all himself and worked after | Bill came home surprisingly soon. school to pay for the parts! I'm just | He stalked noisily across the room in xurf-k \\‘ll\‘l!‘"lhv weather clears it will % " £ e Nothing Else Like It Quality—and Nothing Else but Quality. Bill's face lighted with an idea.| “Mom! I've a peach of an idea! I'm | going to sell my radio and then you | can keep your washer! It's a good adio: 1 ought to_get $20 for it. and Search the World Over, Spend what You Will There Is No Gear Lubricant Like Ebonite. maybe you and Lilla can raise the other fi Lilla’s laugh fairly rocked the Kitch- Demand Ebonite-T for Transmissions, and Ebonite-R for Rear Axles. 1old me,. somebody! _Twenty | that radio! Why not (Combination of Pure Oil) 20 Cents a Shot At Filling Stations and Garages. BAYERSON OIL WORKS Columbia 5228 e ————————————eeeeeeeseneeie i George then entered the royal car and were taken to the palace. SAYS PRINCE, IN RAIN I oThe two princes. atter an absence of library table the little stack of | kpow y A ) it e : . (kK young Meade's terrible howling. | peret to herself, Mrs. Meade went to bed happy, but | thumbed magazines was gone. \\\hlsmm: set that turned my radio | by radio, even Dusk of the mild, almost June-like | evenings into nightmares? Made me | times even more was safe, hers for good, Lilla was| April day found Mrs. Meade on her | sa thumping mad. never could hear a | keeping a secret! strangely quiet, seemingly lost in deep ' knees at the tulip bed un her side of thing for tha ise his set made. | told this one of her head. . Don’t think that Mr. rd anything but squeaks | and howls from it!” F rigidaire saves “Perhaps vow'd better not sell i . his mother interrupted gentl ou'd miss it terribly, and I'll man- »mehow, Bi Vo, siree!’ I'm going to sell it s face positively shone with prid “besides, I'd just like to show Lilla that there are some people in this town who'd be glad to get my radio average of $10536 a year over ice refrigeration! A warning glance from her mother made Lilla smother her laughter, but when Bill had strutted out of the Kitchen in his noisy No. 9 Boy Scout shoes she broke out in a low, vehe- ment voice: ‘*Mother, why let Bill kid himself about his radio? He's due for a terrible disappointment and | he'll be just as disgusted with the | people in this town as I am! You know his set is no good, and no one | will give him a nickel for it!” | “I'm not going to smash his first hope of helping:me.” Mrs. Meade an- swered slowly, “Bill's always been in- | clined to be a little selfish, and now he’s ready to sell something that is; awfully dear to him. He worked so | bhard for that radio.” | Mrs. Meade did not sleep well that night; her head ached. Bill had tried to get stations on his radio until a Jate hour and the noise had been fear- | ful, but it wasn't that which kept her awake. She was worried over Lill the girl’s growing discontent and b terness were becoming alarming. ‘The first stinging remarks about the rich Mr. Romibold in back of them had | begun from the first day of her friend- | ship with Myrtle Rodman. Mrs. | Meade did not like Myrtle nor the | poisonous little stack of thumbed mag- | azines she had left on the library | table. And now this Myrtle was talk- | I ing Lilla into going to the city! J P.M.: Wilmington. In the morning the April sunshine’ ity danced on the worn rag carpet in the November 6. 20, December 4, 18 kitchen and Mrs. Meade, using her | . o : = Penasylvania Railroad $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAYS September 25, October 9, 23 Special Train Leaves Washington (Union Station), 7:30 AM. Ar, Wilmingion, 10:05 A.M.: Chester 10:26 AM. :2i Philadelphia, Broad Street, 10:50 AM. - leaves Philadelphia :40 P.M.: West Phila- Amazing facts reported by FRIGIDAIRE users. Low cost of operation an achievement of FRIGIDAIRE engineering MANY still regard eleceric refrigeration as cxpensive. To prove that this is not truc of Frigidaire, we sought the opinion of some 10,000 users. science has incorporated elements that the exterior of the cabinet can’t reveal. Huge production — lowest prices Yet, you pay no premium for Frigidaire’s super-quality. In fact, by every standard of measurement, Frigidaite actually costs less thanany other electric refrigerator on the market tofay! This is due to General Motors purchasing power and tremendous output that is greater than that of all other electric refrigerators combined! ! Take down your ice card forever No more ice to buy. No more spoiled foods that electric washer, felt more cheerf: “Might as well use it have it,” she smiled: thought the same about night. My, it was terrible glanced out of the window acr hedge at the end of her lot and shook her head. “There’s Mr. Romibold prowling around his yard looking as f he'd bite somebody any minute. what makes him 0 She turned off the electric current and thought, “Losing this washer is going to make Lilla more hitter and unhappy at being poor. Saves $105.36 per year The answers were startling They indicated savings even greater than we anticipated. According to carefully tabulated records, an average of o $105.36 per year — over and above all operating costs! ST These agnazlpf cconomies are due to two things: v (1) No ice bills. (2) No food waste. But remember And now when Bill comes home I'l ceiling that leaks! | have another one on my hands. He : | just won't understand it that nobody : BUTalsaky root will leed FARES hils radl H to a leaky ceiling if you Wants his rad don’twatchout! Use Storm- But Bill came home with a very im tight in time and make your portant business like manner. “Had worn roof absolutely weath- an offer for m dio set,” he men tioned nonchalantly, “but it wasn't| enough. I can't let it go for $15.” i t: Two gasps and Mrs. Meade and; V= thicker than paint and easy Lilla spoke at once. 3ill" Honest to apply. Simply stir it, it. Bold a¢ e E nestly it, t They began to shower him with ex- »; 7 E..dw.n.ndn.mm.-, cited questions. Bill made gnificent gesture of L. Sonneborn Sons, Inc., New York ¢ tndifference. ~ “It's worth twenty or ° more. 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