Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 88

N spite of the weather, Marshail had gone to play golf. He had said that it would probably be his last chance for the season, but as he had said that now for three Sun- days in succession. Helen did not take it too scriously. She wished he wor . come home. It was dark outside with the rattling windy darkness of carly Tall The baby was asicep at last and Helen wanted to get supper o with Sunday was always a strenuous day and she was tired. She pondered. as she kept things hot end turnad the gas still lower under the potatoes, on these little periods of | waiting for Marshall with which h: married life seemed peppered and won dered why they were so irritating. It was absurd to feel that thay were hu- miliating. and yet that thought per- sisted d to her that it might business da smed to the enly aportant were waitineg. as sho thought the front docr bang lustily. shali dropped his golf bag in the ha ond came out to ihe kit-hen to find . He was filled with fresh air. ruddy it. end especially handsome, as h» s in the rough clothes of ng or goif. should have been out,” he said to Helen. “Cold as Green- nd. but how it does set vou up! I'm going to cat everything in the house tonight. Got lots?" heard “Veu're late, you that's all right.” he answered sthing will taste good. 1 don’t mind " shed. There was something funiy in this complete ig- noring her possible point of view on his lateness. However, here he was and her irritation blew away, as it usually €id when he arrived. She hurried to #ct things on the table the pleas- urable vanity her cooking gave her. Marshall ate 2 great meal “That's the kind of afternoon that makes you feel fine,” he congratulated himself. “Gives you an appetite. 1] hope h: a few more Sundays be- fore the snow comes. Say. who do vou zuppos® 1 saw at the club?” “An Eskimo,” suggested Helen, mind- ful the wind. no, it wa% geod and warm in- was Louise Knapp.” he and Knapp I told them we Marshall!™ except that T'v p and 1 1v. I'll have to hing now.” aid Mar- going 10 g0 10 bed change my dress and every 1shand!” for & hum- up with a8 them this ernoon. He done up whie lonige best d like his daughter, at the It seemed s0 unnatural, y seem 1o g2t slong well enough,” (hink plates To me £uch 2 differ That's the way Not more €, at 1 What aid e on thi ! change aoan 1 oot Uy wake pone © bab up the their 5 Helen Fighed 0 back U sleep e taken off the baby's hard o ger ) be had weariness and fl was the dishes L T00m i order the 4 frat of Whe hous Ler Aress fhe 8 quick brush. her niow powocr, and went dovi ot men wme yere s aid when she war tulking IDg especinlly prevvier Vhwi ) e murriea i vk purtly bwr clolhes of Course, bt there wik more U 3t Uhan that. The yather hurassed Jook that Loulse used 1o veur duning those yeare of tesching F10 NORGENBE v hether she was gong to muiry, had nuite wone. Her hah hone goldes n the shuded Jght €4 there nding Lise 1 Wi Lonaise © Lea been befors r Margaret Culkin Banning her. Helen was suddenly aware that lier own hands were chapped and that she noeced A manteure. Henry Knapp was of average height and slightly past middle age, looking not too robust, but well groomed. Con- trasted _with Marshall's casy, hithe cight, o soomed a little shriveled of mature in manner. How are you, Helen? T haven't secn you in a long while. You're looking s usual.” Helen knew he would say that. mere words encouraged her. didn’t hear them often. hypnotize me into feel- she laughed: “you pay in such a Lancelot But She compliments “T keep him in training.” said Louise lightly. Jlenry Knapp turned to smile at his wife, Tt was full of devotion and admiration and wonder at his own luck. and yet it somehow escaped being fatuous. Helen had scen that smile many times. They had made fun of it. at first, all the girls whom Louise knew. when Henry Knapp | first fixed his atention upon her. He was 25 or 30 yéars older than Louise, and there were men in the world like Marshall Fenton who towered so nobly above cvery one else at dances, who drove 60 miles an hour in his shabby roadster, and whose reputation as a foot | ball star was still haloed about him, al- thoush he had been out of college for three of four years Yet Louise had let ! H-ary Knapp court her and had serenly married him. and after a little, no one thought his way of smiling at her was ai. although there were remarks like Marshall's “Ycu forget the fire, Marshall,” sald Helen. She had wanted the fire to be blazing when they came in. Instead, it had to be made now, in front of the guests. Marshall brought kindling and logs and tumbled them about the hearth. But the chimney was cold; there was no drzught outside and the temperamental fireplace acted its worst. The fire smoked and flared up as the bark on the logs caught the flame, then died away again, leaving only blackened logs. It was Henry Knapp in the end 10 took advantage of Marshall's third foray after kindiingz to adjust the logs all over again, and immediately a reas- suring blaze began to grow and spread s all right,” sald Marshall coming back: “now look at my fire!" “Henry fixed it while you were gone. You can't claim it any longer.” sald Helen, 3 ‘T was not a very successful eve- ning. Marshall devoted himself to Louise with the evident intention of giving her a good time Helen talked w Mr. Knapp, mostly about Louise and the things that were planned for Louisz and her baby. There was the Mediterranean trip for January, there was the new house in California, Yet Mr. ¥napp had no afr of hoasting of thees things. It was only that he ap- parently liked 1o tall: about the pleasure of Louiss end the happiness he could plan for her. When they were gone Marshall made the inevitable comment ‘Gosh, she's pretty isn't she? Ima- 2ine being tied to that old fellow though He must be a good deal more than twice as old as she 15" “I don't think she’s so missrable.’ Heden swept up the hearth thought- fully and went up stairs. The wind tore around the corners of the little house The furnace wasn't acting well, and the rooms were ob- durately cold, when one got away from the open fire open both windows to- arshall?” Helen murmured a ] Learing him push them energetically open. "It must be dropping 10 zero outside, and the house is so cold Won't one do?* "Oh, we got to have some alr, 1t's good for you shivered and drifted off Into a disturhed sleep. ‘Tie wall of the baby akencd her. Maybe he was dreaming 14 would stop in w minute, Bhe heard the clock stiike 4 The cry hecame iouder Perhaps he had managed o struy free from his covers. Helen drayged out of hed and found her bathiobe, The baby was situng up i bed, waliing. but he stopped as Helen come in and began to smile at her. It was all very well o talk about discip- line and the fact that children should Jeep Uhrough the night at 16 months, Lat it they don't, what could you Ao about 17 Bhe picked him up wnd Leld him ol He was s0 prio- foundly hers lke this, when all the rest of the world wis usleep. The erib quilts were stralghtened out snd the haby put Auwn wmong them, He was obedient enough 10 was only three glimpses of Lis mother he seemed o demand, now and then, during the night Jeaksing @ MIFTOr on her way to turn Iight, Helen caught sight of hier Not a girl's face any longer “Aou ook sort of peaked, Nelly" said Marshull w0 hreskfust. “Better get out wnd ,u.l wome fresh eir” “3 you know." “Well, you look as if you needed ex- ercise | vE suppose s, suid Helen: “I'm et g o look Iike a hag in the morning F'm going downtown when the nuree- T Heien He made no secret of the smile. | still b wve n woman here todey washing | | sneezed. “I'h getting a cold. Marshall. 1 wish we had a closed car. It takes forever to get downtown in the strect- car, and, if I drive, my hands get numb | on the wheel in the open one.” “Oh, we don't want one of those said Marshall. “Let’s wait un- o fat and forty for the little coop < Helen sighed. She Tooked at her hu band. They were the same age, but th morning she felt old_cnough fo be his mother. He was really very handsome, with the faint, curl in his thick dark | hair, the muscular lift of his shoulders. She admired him and she loved him, but certain things dragged at the love a memory of her independence of a few years ago, when she had been on the | Point of buying a_closed car for hersclf. She had been Mr. Hepworth's secre- tary. after she left college, and was be- coming more and more indispensable to that important financier when Marshall had come along. She hadn't bought the coach she had her eye on. She ha married and_her money had gone into house furnishings and partly into the car they had now. It could still te: along at 60 miles an hour, but it necded 5o many things done to it to make it comfortable. Louise had forgotten a handkerchief the night before, and Helen found it she dusted. It was a very fine handke; in one corner. All Loulse’s things were fine and soft and rare PR T was 11 when Marshall telephoned. She could tell from his voice that s pleased about something. . Nelly, I've just had some tickets given me for the big game nest Satur- day in Ithaca, They mailed them on to me with a letter that says I've stmply “I WAS TIRED OF TAKIN( IT SO MUCH H got to go on for it they have a winning team.” “You mean go all the way East?” asked Helen incredulously. “Why. 1 hadn't thought of it until now. But they sent me the tickets They're worth $10 aplece. The letter comes from old Frascr himself.” Old Fraser was the head foot ball coach In Marshall's college and his 'narie was one to conjure with “Why, Marshall, the time, could you “Business isn't very brisk this weck 1 could get back by next Tuesday. Can't we both go' “You know we can't. It would take evéry cent we've got in the bank.” “It's going to he a marvelous game, dearle. We're golng to win.” “Oh, Marshall, do stop talking lke a college boy,” saild Helen. “Come down to earth, You know 1 couldn't leave the baby, even if we could afford it. It's silly—take a trip that would cost $200, Just to use $20 worth of tickets.” “But let me read you Fraser's letter.” “1 don’t want to hear ser's letter, It's all tpo silly. To ect 4 grown man to drop his work and rush E to see a foot ball game!” Even then Marshall did not get angry That was one of the disarming things about him. It wasn't easy to anger him “Well--sorry 1 bothered you,” he sald. “Good-by.” R ARSHALL had not taken the car ! and in the afternoon, in spite of her cold, Helen decidea to drive. The starter whirred uselessly for some time —romething wrong with the spark, but finally she got the car out of the garage It was a low-built car, half racer, and its gray peint was flaking. Helen in- spected the side curtetns and found holes in two of them, so she rolled them {up and pulled her hat over her enrs ‘The alr will be good for me, she thought vou couldn’t take | back, making # detonr by Loulse’s house to return her handkerehiel found Loulse n her bedroom, where a fire was | biazing sgainst the cream-colored tiles of the firep) “What's the matter?” asked Helen | “Nothing. Ieaught a cold, and Henry made me promise that 1I'd stay n hed.” “I hope you didn't get a chill at our house last night | cavens, not” | #1 was driving home and 1 brought your handkerchiet,” said Helen “You're u solld lump of consclence, aren’t you?” asked Louise, “How about sOome e Bhe rang for AL without walting for an answer. Helen sunk back in her | ehndr, trying to stifie the jealousy within | her, Bhe didn’t covel the chinn or the Ince-edged napking or Loutse's sk com- | forters, But she was Jealous of that lonk of contentment, so I contiust to the lrritation that she knew was bring- g lines into her own face “Will you answer the telephone, Mis Knapp?' wsked the matd Louise took the telephone, and 1t wis | imporsible not to guess that she tulked i 1o her hushand L peeling fne dear. No, Indeed, you | must't. Why, no. T donw't_need a doc- tor i the least. Please don't, Henry | That's awfully nlee of you dear. Of course, 1 do” Bhe hung up the recetver, smiling “He does fuss 50" shie salad, “Don't you like 1o b fussed over?” Loulse nodded. I certamly do. 1 was tred of taking care of myself, and Henry does 1L w0 much beffor (han | ever cold. He's ko competent, s well vias b cared for Juok sboul gl comes and do some shopplog.”’ Bhe as belng thuugbUul,” chief, with an intricate group of initials | Bhe fintshed her errands and started | She poured her guest more tea. “Marshall dosen't look a day older, When I saw him out at the terday, he took me back six | vea “Helll never change much,” said Helen lightly. She could feel her nose | getting red with the congestion in her | head and she wondered how badly she herself looked. She hated the thought of the four-mile drive In the open car. “I must go. I've a laundress to pay off. an I send you home in the car?” 'No, thanks, I've my own.” “The open one? Isn't it cold?” Helen shook her head. “We're fresh |air flends., you know. “I should think you'd freeze,” sald Louise. Helen thought she would, before she r started. for five minutes before it Led useles decided to make ftselr useful as well | noisy. Helen drove off at last, but he had not gone a mile before she | discovered that she nad stayed too long at Louise's ‘The water in the radiator B n, and she went the rest of the way home with clouds |of steam surrounding her. Marshall | had promised he'd have the non-freeze mixture put in the radiator. As usual, he had forgotten. kR S HE left the car at the curb and ran ~in {0 her overdue responsibilities. It was a cheerless house to enter. The wrong lights were turned on, the ag- erieved laundress was waiting for her money, the bab: s crying and the radiators were only lukewarm. Helen ollified the baby and the laundress, the furnace and went out to came in, v cuckoo!" AND HENRY DOES very cheerful “Hollo, 1 $ON ,.f-‘t%@ AR with its viul cli- en felt fons, to the day. actually Hello! “Oh, thusiasm. are colds dy.” No fear; I never Possibly’ not meant a ‘Tonight Tic ngry at his cheerfulng said Marshall again hello!” she said, without “No, don't kiss me. There enough in this house al- en- atch cold.” Look here, Marshall you forgot to put alcohol in that radia- tor!” She took the most obvious griev- ance up first “Oh, 0 1 did! “I should say Did it freeze?™ it did." ‘The starter roar- | [tary has had to go to the hospital. Is {there any chance that you could come | back temporarily? I'd be glad to make it as much worth your while as s pos- sible, and you would be doing me a | very great favor. I neced some one right |away.” “I'm afrald t's impossible, * said Helen. “You see, my husband is coming home in the morning, and it's rather | complicated trying to keep busines: | hours when you have a husband an baby. tion.” “I suspected as much,” worth sighed. to ask.” When he had rung off Helen looked both pleased and rueful. It was flat- tering to be asked, but she had stopped ‘\\' ]k very definitely when she had mar- ried. tomorrow, The doorbell rang and a boy handed her a telegram. She went to the tele- phone and called a familiar number. “I'll come, Mr. Hepworth. Something developed that makes it quite possible. No, it's quite all right. TI'll be down this afternoon.” She tossed the telegram into the fire. | Marshall needn't try to be so funny and so affectionate. Waiting again. Wait- | ing for a man who didn't have the de- cency or stability to come home after this_holiday of his, but had to go on to New York for more tomfoolery. | Her pride stung at the very memory of the, anticipation that had been rising in her own heart at the thought of his ieoming. That was the worst slavery, to care so much, to miss him so when he was away. | She began to plan. The nurse-girl would have to be dismissed and a really | competent child’s nurse. whom Helen knew was available, engaged. And | Helen thought, with satisfaction, that [sh" would have plenty of money to pay Mr. Hep- Jhrr. according to Mr. Hepworth's offer. | ok ok K | MIARSHALL had sent a telegram tell- } ing the hour of coming. Sa when no one met him at the station, a little | furrow of worry appeared in his fore- head. He took a taxi home and open- | ed the front door with his usual cheer ful greeting. But there was no answer. The living room was orderly and empty. the dining room the same. He went upstairs and found the baby being bathed b an unfamiliar nurse “Where's Mrs. Fenton?" he asked. “She’s gone to work,"” the nurse said. “Work? Where?" “I think it's Mr. Hepworth's office, isn't 12" | Helen was late coming home that ! night, for Mr. Hepworth had some im- | portant_papers to get out. She knew Marshall would be there before her, but she had already decided that couldn't | interfere. Dinner was all planned, and it wouldn't take long to get it on the table. “Hello, Marshall, you back?" “Very much. I've been home for an hour, waiting for you." She kissed him ligh But it won't take me a dinner on.” He followed her to “What's the idea?” “What idea?" “Going back to Hepworth's office?™ h, he wanted me. He's paying me T'm sorry nute to get the kitchen. wel “You didn't think it was necessary to consult me about it “Why, Marshall, you were at the game. And then telegraphed vou had to go to New York with some men. 1 rcouldn’t postpone everything until you :;v_’cfz- through with your playing, could | Did you need money?" he asked. “Not ‘especially. I can always use | more, of course. But I get tired of sit ting around, waitinge for you to get through playing. I like the work and I can use the money to buy a few of the things other women have.” Marshall started to leave the kitchen. “It's pretty sudden. It really isn't Won't you give up thig job?" said Helen, “I've been happicr this week than I have been in years.” | “Fed up with me, Nelly? he asked quietly. “Of course not,’ ! ply fed up with, | “Blavery,” he finished | S0 he had remembered he said. “I'm sim- Oly_well, it won't hurt the old boat any.” he said easily Yes. And I'm not going out again this Winter in that car. We ought to ade that car in for a closed one *hall. It getting awfully crabby about starting, and this 4s the time to get rid of 1" “Well, maybe when 1 get back he began, but Helen pounced on his inadvertence “Back from what?" hesitated. “I can’t be a short sport, dearfe, must go East this week.” | 8he started to speak and unexpected- |1y sneezed, giving him a chance to | go on | You see a girl to get a pe like this game, It thing You haven't any right to go, Mar- 1L and neglect your business.” Mr. Harding says it would right, and he's the boss. Moreover, he {says I can drop it the Eastern office und get In touch with that crowd. It {won't do bit of harm.” | "DId he offer to pay your expenses I “That cold hi has it, Helen “No.” she sald bitterly, “to my eyes. I'm beginning to see things, 1 went in to see Loulse this afternoon. She hasn't (a8 bad w cold as 1 have and she was in | bed, with servants dancing attendance on hero IU 't the things she has 1 minded. Its the care she gets. Her llm-vlmml calling up, worrylng about her “The old doturd symputhetically. - like that sort man’s darli “I'm not sure it fsn't wo 1ot better,” Helen eame back hotly, “than being # young man's slave. Oh, 1 am ro sick of your eternul trading upon your youth 1Us all you have to offer, 1Us your ex cune when you want o go off o prise fights and “foot ball gomes and your fustification — for always thinking Pyousell irst and forgetting everything [und never being on time, Loty of peo- le are young and muscular! Why be vococky? - Youth! You're using up mine as fast as you can and hanging onto your own lke griin death! not fufrt” Ho It wis out, and he stood staring at her, his brows knit Helen wished that he would shout bk at her, sho wasn't consctous of the wish until 1t turned to disappolntment and futile rage ws he satd At lust, I that ahominably even- tempered volee, with the hittle laugh sl in it “Let me up, de o moall cnt Marshall went East. ‘The first plght shie decided to get very 1 and have him wired for, but the house wan qulet and both she and the baby slept o well that her cold mproved Hke magle. Ph was very Wtlle work to do with Ma shall sway, and she found tme heavy on her hands LY J7 was Monday when My Hepworth | 4" catted her up, the Monday after the am SURearrantable tiusion, Mrs, Fone Wi e sald AREUPLLY, bt iy secres pective on a thing really a great big satd Marshall un- You don’t mean you'd f st Heing an old {‘ of | Mar- | i | * he explained “it’s hard for | be all| n't gone to your hrain, | ny | . O'LEARY. HE people of Kansas Clty, Mo, and of Houston, Tex., are busy arranging the stage settings cratic Natfonal Conventlons i June, which will be the opening scenes of the political drama of 1028 In Kansas City the Republicans will » on June 13 0 the same audi- which the Democrats gath- ered 20 years wgo (o nominate the late Willlam Jennings Bryan as their can- didate for the second time. The pros- [ meeting of & political party ix not, thut thriving metropolis of the Houth- west Mo many years have rolled by however, since the Democrats L there, 1000, that o rendy to welcome, the Republican assomblage of 1028, according (v word Al out by IS committes on arrange- ments The convention hall in which the Democrats will seleet thelr candidate this year s helng erected for the oo caston by the City of - Houston 16t goat $100,000 1t will have & eAling GADAGIWY Of 20,000 mud 4 Rel | chalon W wodel of & 90-fook sy reached e, I'm afrald it's out of the ques- | “I know it's a great deal | And Marshall was coming home | for the Republican and Demo- | peet of belng host o the quadrennial | therefore, an entively new sensation for | and | PART T. | TS REALLY WON'T YOU JoB?” PRETTY SUDDEN. IT ISW'T NECESSARY. GIVE UP THIS i 71 [ i M b tine. Helen went to work early in the morning and came back in time to { put the last touches to the dinner. Mr { Hepworth no longer scemed to regard | her as a temporary sccretary. The | other girl was not coming back, and | he had again increased Helen's salary. Marshall took the situation 25 he | found it. He was more sober, seeming- older and once or twice Helen had little sinking of the heart as she | noticed some special manifestation of |it. He remembered to wipe off his shoes when he came, and, for some | reason. that made Helen feel like cry- ing. At Christmas he traded in the |old car and bought a coach. It didn't suit him the way the old racer had. nd she found that she herself didn't get as much pleasure out of the closed car as she had expected. | It was in Fcbruary that Louise Knapp. in town for a brief hiatus be- tween the Mediterranean voyage and a few months in California, asked them to dinner. “Just a family dinner,” said Louise, but Helen bought herself a new dress. none the less. Sh2 remembered how Marshall admired Louise. She was worth admiring that night, her blond- ness ripened by her gold-colored gown, ' THE HUNGRY APPLE TREE. Notably cautious among fruit-bearers is the apple tree, which is always th: last to flower. The almond tree is the most careless of consequences and the most in haste to open its buds. The wild plum, the wild cherry and the pear e are close seconds in the race for the Spring sun., and not s:ldom ther pay dearly {or their impaticnce. The apple tree and the quince trec await the arrival of their green leaves before they put forth their buds. | Prodigious natural forces must be set in action to prepare the sap con- gealed by a long, cold Winter to make it ready to swell, to run and at last to force the tree to burst into bloom. The effort is great, and the tree must find food of excessive strength-giving prop- | ertics before it can transform the cles | ments drawn from the ground into the ap that produces flowers and fruit. The strength of the fruit iree is casily exhausted, tor, though drawn from th> carth, it is the gift of a very limited radius. Only the ground within reach of the nutrition organs of the tree—the roots—can accumilate and bestow what the tree needs to enable it to work upon, to transform. and to send through- out its vegetable orsanism. Often there comes a time when ths tres ceases to find enough food to sat- tsfy its hunger. In such case nature is able to provide for a wild tree—an oax | or an ash, a tree raised from soil fitted !to answer to all the noeds of a trec But the fruit tree is hampered by needs They settled down to th» new rou-'given to it by man: needs that it has Iplaced on & slope of ground that will pProve advantageous i the seating lay- out. Information from the convention ity ds that it will be completed by June 1, more than thiee weeks ahead of time When the conventions get under way an unseen audtence of milltons of | Amerieans from eonst to coast will Hollow every detall of the events that take place i those two political arenas The hall I which the Republican candidate will be chosen covers half of A elty bBlock 10 1y 314 feet long and 198 feet in width The intertor 15 of ateel conatiuction, with outer walls of biick, stone and concrete. Ry A system of curtaing and partitions s capacity can be arranged at an where from 3,000 to 14000, and, need- less to sav, the Republican convention WHL eall for the masimum seating ai- rangenient The nomination 13 only one ol iy Mt have marked the history of (he Kamnan Oity. Convention Hall. There Hernhardt plaved Camille (0 an audi- enee ot B800. On another oocaston Caviso sang there o a capaeity of 18,000, mada possible by the fnstalias Ul of temparary seals. ON one oos of Hiyan o 1800 notable occastons [ gnzed at and the gracious manner of hoste:s and wife sitting well upon her. It was cl ar that sh> enjoyed having Marshall as a guest. For she liked youth. Mar- shall was like his old self. full of a careless, boyish badinage that had been quite lacking lately. Louise’s atten- tion brought it out again. “This creature mus* be fun to have around the house,” said Lo . turning to Helen. “Is he like t all day long?"” Mr. Knapp broke in. have liked the turn taking. “I saw a man in New York who was asking chout vou, Marshall. The head of the Dominance Insurance of- fice. He tells me you turned down an offer to come down there last Fall” Marshall grew red. “Couldn't break away,” he said hastilv: “there wa:sn't ~nough in it anyway.” “You expact to mo too fast.” said Mr. Knapp, tolerantly. “At your ase I'd have thought such a position w 2 big thing. You have to realiz> 1° all doesn’t come in a day. And. wh-n vou do get it. you'd give it all up for a little less arthritis and the fun th~ open air used to give you He may not the talk was no means Nature ndmits but docs not take the r all the consequencas of tiy tion. She rerenches in crder to sa tree covered with bl if not all. of its hal When natur~ has cl if the fruit buds remainin tree promiss to exceced th> casi'y nonrished i part of the fruit in proc: tion falls. Then. if the tr to do its work. comes to the harvest und> anemic. The nourishment given to =1 appls tres should bs wholesom> and abun- dant, and of a character to rs-onsiity the strength of the tree. acid and potash, mingled with the cle ments of the ground in }vhn-h th feeblest of fruit bearers. The first pa: of the nourishment should be given [ before the flowering time of the t and it should b> so dist: ed that every adult tree m1y draw nouris ment from 8 pounds of cf lime. Th2 nourishment should be placed within a radius measuring the circumference of the tree's foliage. When the flowers are fad~d. when thelr leaves fall, at the mom-nt wien fruit begins to form. th» potash is added to the lime alreadv given ty the tree and mixed well w the ground | Cities Prepare for C With docks adiacent. was set up tn the Aunditorium for the staging of the apera “Pinatore U Athletic events frequently are held there there s & bit of history connected With the bullding (that possesses all of the elements of & drama. Farly April, 1900, the auditorium was the svene of A disastrous fire, juat theee months before the Democratic Nationat Convention of that vear was schaduled (o meet. It ts not difeult (0 tmagine the sorrow that must have descended on the people of Kansas City as they the damage and thought of the approaching conventian date. 1t 1x velated that the fire scatvely was out when the professional and business men of the elty were holding hurrted conferences o consider the dilemma that contronted the community. The nucleus of a rebutlding tund was e ated that night, and without a day of delay workmen began clearing the way for & bigger and better structuve Resldents of Kansas City still ke o (el oW the emergency was overcome Day and night workers totled at the e CONSIUCLION . task. — Valuntser laborer SO0 I e AWATINE AR apportunity th 0 one of the thiee shifty cnplavad on the undartaking — For 81 days this ac GV contintied and e wa | on Jaly el t of thal | ention, u want Marshall to g0 o T Louiss asked Helen. “Helen was just started on her job” arshail answered quick! Heler's mind flew back to that home. coming from New York, and she fitted things together. He'd never said & word. He'd tossed his chance ¢ without a complaint. She heard Mr. Knapp's voiee again. “1 think vou made a mistake. Marsh It mar b slow beginning in New York, Lat it's just a question of time befors 1cit make more than you ev h-r in a branch of the organization. iting was immensely taken with ou. Said he’d met you at the gam u put a lot of into e bod:! He tried to come two hours later. “But why didn’t you tell me?” she ©Oh. you had 1 didn't vt o g playing in New ot that time. g2od tim~ at tell you the trut T didn't have & hat foot ball ga: h. I kept thinking hot tentences you a‘sd me to. I saw vou had been g the heavy end. en they cd me this job. and I thought that risht a chance to work up to 2 pracs wiers I could zive vou some ths that old bird gives Bu'. wasn I got back. vou job. s 1 let the other thing to e said. he told only a chance I'd And that not for meantime it mean 3 But I don't wan! to work."™ said H-len : T'm t of it. I'm lonesome lenesoms for you. 't than you do me. Mr. Heoworth's esteem and $40 » waek, and it's poor pickings! ¢ vou to take that New Y job and ses what happens to us Sh> sicppsd, and Marshall's face broke into its own natural. cheerful CONVENTION HALL, RANSAS CITY, WHERE THE REPURBLICAN CONVENTION WL BE HELD. Auditor owned and operat s dedicated (0 the communi ment. Built oy AT, 1t s oo avied board of trusi wmawhat ke a flonr seats ate surrounded by A ckicle Doves. Froam in hoek of the dovas ¢ SANUS Of seats exiend wpward ana 5 A baleony, wiy Sl mote s 1 be placed When the Kansas City m 163000 A different be seen by the K Visitars this Swane t NOW iy laced AL 300, with an ase Sompanying growih af the business sode ton At doth Kansas City and Ho " conmitiees are already at Wk arvangs R 10 accommodate the crowds the awns rentians WIL Dring within thewr gates and 10 ovide - the comfors of the Visttors - Senator Maviteld of Tey o~ emily fwerted M the Conare " Tecard A sTAtemEnE sho g WS PTG G LR DRIV Ransas Oly W AdAn coanen