Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 35

THE EVEN Built-In Features. YLVIA NORTH sat with her friend, Helen Morris, on the seat under the old grapevine exchang- ing confidences. Helen, passing by, had seen Sylvia sewing, and had hastened across thg yard to sit beside her for a little while. Helen's lovely darkness was enhanced by a startling new hat in henna, and she kept her left hand moving restlessly in order to enjoy the sparkle of an enor- mous diamond, her betrothal ring. Syl- via, fair and sweet, wore a faded blue chambray. She, too, was engaged, but | the diamond in her ring was like a tin: candle beside the incandescence of I hear that Peter has bought one of those new bungaloys out on East road |gp; for you,” Helen id. “They're such cunning doll houses, but all so much alike. That's what I should object to Have you been out to see it |} | We walked out there Sunday | afternoon,” answered Sylvia. “Walked! Why, it's ever so far. I should think Peter would get a car of some kind.” Sylvia smiled. “He’s doing pretty well, I think, to buy a whole house. A little later,” she said proudly, “we'll have the car and everything else.” | “Oliver’s just bought a new car,” said Helen. “One of the $4,000 kind. I don’t know what they call it. X teaching me to run it. Soon I can take you out, poor dear. I'll take you over to see the bungalow he’s having built for me. soon as we get back from our wedding trip. It's a perfectly wonderful dwell- | ing—built-in features and everything.| We shall buy the furniture in_the city on our way home. Oliver says I needn’t scrimp. And then, of course, grandpa | will make me a nice wedding present.” Sylvia’s eyes began to look a little tired. She had no grandfather to make her great wedding gifts. In fact, she had no one but Peter, and she thought Peter was wonderful, inasmuch as he was going to give her a whole house to be her own. She wasn't going to let Helen spoil anything for her now, but, she thought wistfully, she would have been quite as happy sitting under Mrs. Draper’s grapevine—she boarded at Mrs. Draper’s—if Helen had stayed away. “Has your bungalow built-in fea- tures?” demanded Helen. “N—no, it hasn’t.” Sylvia bit her lip. “You don't mean it! Why, Sylvia North, I wouldn't live in a house that | didn’t have built-in features!” | Sylvia laughed tremulously. “Well, I guess I shall have to, and T ton't mind,” she replied. “I should mind like everything. A | bungalow isn't a bungalow without built-in features,” insisted Helen. They sat there a little longer until the smell of frying potatoes began to creep out of Mrs. Draper’s kitchen win- ‘Then Helen arose and went her astically. | called a bungalow. was unnecessarily cruel. eating ' chicken salad before one Who has only dry bread. She couldn’t have done such a thing to Helen—never. away from the doll house. Tt will be all ready as |to watch her driving and Sylvia was too | oppressed. parlor_because it rained. other boarders had cleased out by going to the movies Peter came. dea; derful. took me out to see that new house he’s putting up for Helen. Call that a bun- galow! NG STORY Sylvia, left alone, took up her sewing. She was making a lunch cloth for her hope chest, 50 soon to be needed. That hope chest had been filled at the ex- pense of much thought, some sacrifice and a great deal of joyful labor. had done her best to get ready the small paraphernalia of her new home- making, and Peter had done his best. One's best was all one could do. She A few days later Helen drove up in the shining roadster and invited Sylvia to go out to Locust avenue to look at the new bungalow. followed Helen over the sweet smelling rubbish of wood and Sylvia went. She shavings from oom to room. Helen was very gra- | cious to the workmen and very impor- Helen’s big one. tant. 2 ort i She gave a small order or two ust to test her new feeling of owner- ip. “Isn’t it splendid?” she asked enthusi- “And almost too big to be Now we'll go and ook at your new house.” The contrast between the beautiful stucco bungalow on Locust avenue and |the tiny doll house on East road was so striking that Sylvia's joy was hushed to silence. went criticizing freely. She had a key, and_they in and looked around, Helen “I couldn’t stand it,” she said as they come out, “but maybe you can.” Sylvia was pale. She thought Helen It was like ‘They didn't say much as they drove Helen had That night Sylvia had to sit in the After the “You've been crying,” he said at once. Sylvia shook her head. He put his finger under her chin, lifted her face and studied it gravely with his shrewd, Scotch gray eyes. “Anything I can help?” he asked. Mercy, no! You—you're wonderful, He smiled “Sometimes T don't feel so very won- Like today. Oliver Lawrence Have you seen it?” “Yesterday. Helen took me.” “Great place. Built-in features and everything. Makes our little nest look pretty slim, eh?” “No, no, Peter! I love our bungalow.” He laughed a little, as men do when they've discovered a secret. As he was going away he said: “Give me that key to the bungalow you've got, will you, Syl?” “Lost yours?” she demanded. Peter did not answer. When he went away he took the key. Without it Syl- via could not enter her paradise. She did not see the bungalow again for two reasons. One was. that Peter had both keys and another was that THE EVENING she thought it better not to see 1t until she had got over the impression Helen had made upon her. She wished she had been so brave and strong that Helen could not have made that im- pression. The next three weeks were busy ones. Sylvia kept on with her job at the library until the last minute. Then she put on her new clothes and went to the parsonage with Peter and was mar- ried in the presence of the minister's family. Then they took the train for Silverton, where ‘they were to visit Peter’s married sister for a week. They came back one beautiful late afternoon. A cab took them from the station to the bungalow. “We might just as well start in living there,” Peter said. “I've had the furni- ture man put in a few things—just enough to get along with until you can make up your mind what you want. It's up to you to do the real home- making, you know, dear.” Peter unlocked the door and they entered. The pink western light came in at the windows, and the first thing Sylvia saw was that a change had been effected since she last saw the little house. Those adorable cupboards, the window seat with cover that lifted, the darling closet under the stairs—those were built-in features, and they had not been there three weeks ago! “Oh, Peter! Where did they come from?” she gasped. ; “Well, I did most of them myself with a little help,” Peter replied. fter I saw Oliver's bungalow I realized that STAR, WASHINGTON, ours wouldn't be complete without a few built-in features.” “And that's why you took the key.” “I was so afraid you'd find out.” “Oh, Peter!” sighed Sylvia. “What a man you are!” And she rested her head contentedly on his shoulder while the sunset light welcomed them home. ‘The End. (Copyright, 1938.) o SHOES TO BE GIVEN. Horning Will Donate 125 Pairs to Poor Children. George D. Horning, through the Central Union Mission, will give to the poor children of the city 125 pairs of shoes, each accompanied by two pairs of stockings, in accord with his usual custom at Christmas time. Tickets issued by the Central Union Mission and signed by John S. 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