Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 36

THE EVENING STORY The Mother Heart, HE shadow had been hovering over North street all the previous day and when morning dawned it was found to have descended. Poor Anna Hicks was gone, but the baby was alfve, & girl baby, too, more the pity. © Miss Swain sighed as she ate her €risp, hot, buttered toast. Sighing, however, doesn't interfere with the ap- petite. Miss Swain relished her break- fast, but why not? She was 70 and she had seen a great many comings and goings. Death and birth were no nov- | elty to her. Yet she did feel sorry that Anna had left a girl baby. It was just {1t legal. T'Il do by it as if it were ther on the shabby old bag which eld the earnings of the last two hours. appen to at Mrs. Van Name's when you phoned,” she said. “About the Hicks baby, you know. She told me what you said. I-I hope you haven't placed it, Miss Swain, for I want it myself.” “Goodness! You!" exclaimed Miss Swain, She looked in astonishment at her visitor. “What are you talking “bout. Emma Burk? You don't want | another baby! You've got two scarc school age, already, that you ha | work out to support. The ide: { Emma Burk smiled faint! “I want it, just the sam 11 adopt | 'ike her, too, the pretty inconsequential ‘mn. I take good care of my children, { little thing. ss Swain, es everybody knows. I | dress and teed them well and I'm going | § ;It's come to A hard world" $aid |y, see they're educated. This baby shall Miss Swain to her coffee cup. She | lived alone, save for Hannah, her mai “Well, I suppose somebody will have to do for it. Mary Peck has been to stay and take care of Anna, but she share with them Suddenly &he.arose and coming close to Miss Swain, began to plead more v £00d | hemently, “I've got lots of room and love in| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 8 1929. Hecht F ST. at 7th. e Printed Combination Frocks Are Featured Among These Pretty Spring styles for the girls are priced low here! Tots’ and Girls’ Dresses Piques, pamico cloth, printed 1,000 Lovely can't look after the baby. I suppose I|my heart for another. My children are shall have to take & hand in this. |poys, I want that little girl. You'll see | Somebody will have to go ahead with it. Perhaps I can find somebody right here on North street who will adopt it— Mrs. Dick Van Name now! It would | do her good to have something besides | lthac wretched litte Spitz to sit in her ap.” Miss Swain went into her living room and sat down at her telephone table. She had the comfortable feeling of a person who can impose & duty on others without in any way feeling obli- gated herself. She called Mrs. Van Name and a pretty voice answered. “I, Miss Swain? Oh, my dear! I couldn’t take a baby! Why, Dicky wouldn't let me. It's all I can do to | get him to have Lovey around. And besides, Lovey might bite it. He h #such a jealous disposition. I reall, couldn’t. I'd love to accommodate yo but I couldn't. No. Really!” Miss Swain hung up the receiver, “Let’s see. I'll eall up the Misses Kel- ley. Now two women haven't a thing ¥ do but read and motor and play the player-piano. They aspire to culture and I guess they have got some. But it would do them good to have a | baby in the house.” | Miss Frances Kelley answered in heri quiet, self-contained voice which had an alarmed note in it now. “A baby! Poor Anna Hicks' baby! I was afraid this would happen when her husband died. She was so completely wrapped up in him. Love, Miss Swain, is a beautiful thing when it's Teason- | able, but that pair had no business to | get married. Anna was to0 young in | the first place. You're not asking us, Jane and me, to take that baby! The | idea! What @0 we want of a baby? We are spinsters. If we had wanted that I get her, please, Miss Swain? lY«s‘\:'ll use your influence in my be- | half?” ! Miss Swain sat back, staring. , I'll see you get it if you want she said. “But I ¢an’t understand | hy you should want it when all the her women didn't—Dicky Van Name's wife with her leisure, Miss Willlams with her big house, Mrs. Russell with her money, the Kelley girls with their | health and strength. Why, compared | with them, Emma, you have no quali- | fications at all, She paused at something she had just | discovered in the quiet face of her vis- tor. | “I'll take that back, Emma." she said. ou_have the best quaiification of all. You have the mother heart.” THE END. (Copsright, 1020 s g e e King's Chaplain Dies of “Flu.” | LIVERPOOL, March 8 (#).—~The Rev. G. A. Studder: Kennedy, chaplain to the King, died to t influenza. Dur=- ing the war he popularly known as “Woodbine Wi to thousands of | Tommies to whom he endeared himself | by frank talks, helpful advice, sympathy and an unfalling supply of cigaretes. i § b ¢ Michigan Supreme Court has de- cided unconstitutional the law prohibit- ing suits by guests in automobiles. bables we would have married and had some of our own. I'm very sorry, but you'll have to ask somebody else | h"As if two middle-aged, well-to-do, | | people deny her any: ! , Tl try Angeline Russell her number? Mrs. Enoch Rus- sell—177, private wire. Now, my dear | | Angeline!” > at? You want me to adopt | baby?” The way Mrs. Rus- | sell said “me!” “What have you got to| | do with it? In that case why don'’t you adopt it yourself? It would make a g:e laything for your old age! No, ma‘'am, beg to be excused. Children are like | toothpicks, you want your own most decidedly. When my son died I was| ‘heartbroken, but I've outlived the worst part of it. St he had lived and be- come what lots of people’s sons are to- day? Indeed, I wouldn't think of ac- cepting the responsibility of bringing 4 up a child.” This was all Mrs, Russell, “There’s Burnham.” thought Tied, 2aave thev e s asce e 1o . Mayl e a nicer o start housek with.” - d'fiu: Pear] ham giggled a good “Mercy! You'ré joking, Miss Swain, I know you're joking, Miss Swain, I know you're 1" she gasped. | “Ill try Miss Williams and then I'm | doge.t" said Miss Swain, ut Miss Williams was quite as un- willing as the othér women had been. “I know it looks as if I could and should do it,” she said. “But I can’t. I don’t understand babies. I should prob- 2bly hold it wrong side up. It's too great & problem. I can't accept it.” “Well.” said Miss Swain as she hu up for the last time, “I've done ng‘ fi%:vgy. And now I think Il knit & It was pleasant in her living room with the smell of newly blommn:a hya- cinths and the sound of her canary bird cracking in his golden pagoda. She rocked and knit and occasionally looked down the street toward the poor little house where Anna Hicks had lived her brief married life and had died gal- lantly, and where the tiny girl baby, motherless from.her first breath, was walting for some mother heart to claim | and love her. “Probably,” thought Miss Swain, “it would be better if she died.” And she sighed. “Life 18 & coil for the best of us.” Somehow she made poor progress with her knitting. There was ever the interfering thought of the tragedy down the street. “If I wasn't an old woman who can’t keep a servant any length of time I might"—she was beginning when Han- | part,, strength 80 they continue to act Capital Mother Has Problem As 2 rule, milk is about the best food for children, but there are times when they are much better off without it. 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I have also used California, Fig Syrup for her colds and upset spells, with equal success.” nai looked in at the door. “Some one to see you, Miss Swain, “that is, ¥ you'll see her.” | “Show her in, Hannah,” sald Miss ' 8wain, glad of any diversion from those | troublesome thoughts. | The woman who.entered wes not ! young, merely youngish. She was small d Tath 5 1 impression of muscic aid vivaciy. ohe | g8 LCHRD @ 24 O o gnted a little as she sat down, clasp. g her black-gloved hands close to: 2, & gf_fi Flawless Hosiery Mending at Small stocking by of the stoc no noticeable Speedily danger whatsoever pair work. “F Street The New Knitbac Hosiery Repair Machine Single “Run” Repairs 25¢ nachine repairs the holes or runs ridges or and flawlessly . . . with no damaged. Orders accepted now Tar Hecat Co. To be sure of getting the gen- uine, which physicians endorse, ! always ask for California Fig| Syrup by the full name. CALIFORN LAXATIVE-TONIC for CHILDREN Cost—Via knitting the broken king itself. Leaving ugly marks. of the stockin% being or re- (Main Floor.) at Seventh” New Frocks 24 99 Included are many chic styles for the Junior miss | With many ” | slenderizing styles in sizes 40 to 50 H Prints are big this Spring! Se you'll see many delightfully printed frocks in this showing of — * what’s new for milady’s Spring. You’ll see them in a wide array of colors, in many styles . . . each charming, attractive—and priced low! And, be- sides prints, you'll see other lovely materials— at the same moderate price! The new shades end materialsare: Georgettes, prints Sl ses & Blues, Teds, greens, navy, ack wany e, others, The sizes, 13 to 52. In the group are: Tailored styles Afternoon styles Frocks for street wear Frocks for business ‘wear The new style details are: One and two piece models Flares, Boleros New tuckings Graceful flares Attractive pleated effects The Famous “Sunny Child” Nainsook Undergarments Included are slips, gowns and combinatiom in sizes to 15 years. “Sunny Child” undergarments are made well, cut full, trimmed with lace or embroidery. The material is a soft, white nainsook that assures wear and the ut- most comfort to tender little bodies, Boys’ Spring Clothes—in New Styles—at Low Prices Boys’ 4-Piece Spring Suits AT T s 5.99 fabrics, with two pairs of lined golf knickers. In sizes 7 to 16. Boys’ New Spring Caps To match the boy’s Spring 79c suit. Of dur- able fabrics. Sizes 6% to 7. Boys’ Blouses and Shirts Built to stand hard knocks. 79c N e w patterns and shades. Shirt sizes 12V to 14." Blouse sizes—7 to 16. Boys’ Long Trousers Of serviceable wool in suiting $ ,97 patterns. Well tailored and strongly made. to 20! Boys’ New Sweaters Of good grade worsted fabrics .97 made for service. In new shades. Sizes 28 to 36. Boys’ Tweed Topcoats Rich-looking, In sizes 14 Every One a New Mode worn this Spring by the small miss. In new shades and styles. Sizes 7to 14. Misses’ Spring Skirts $2.99 Flannel skirts in all the new colors for Spring. Sizes 26 to 34. Children’s 73 Length Hose pr. Colored rayon and lisle mixed hose in colors to match the new Spring dress. Sizes 7 to 9Y;. gabardine and broadcloth, as shown in this group, will be PY Misses’ Rayon Hose 49c pr. Excellent quality hosiary, with seamed backs, lisle toes and heels. New shades— cizes 8, to 10. Girls’ Suspender Skirts $1 Pleated skirts in this popu- Iar’;tyle. Jacket to match, at $1. Girls’ Coats of Tweed Are popular for Spring Tweed is going to be popular with all smartly dressed misses These are fash- ioned by experts —in the new throw scarf styles or the new Full lined —in all the new Spring shades. this Spring. shawl collar effects. 3.99 Sizes 2 to 14 years. % Saturday Is Infants’ Day styles. hems. Crepe de Chine Coats Yokes or straight- A line effects. Touches $2 94 of hand embroidery. Infants’ S{)“ringf Bonnets Fluffy sty or the girls and tailored n;l:rf.or the boys. 59c Of crepe de chine or organdy. The Coats: green, navy and In sizes up to 52. Featuring the new scarf throws as well as many other new modes. Of new materials in the new shades — suntan, middy, others. Baby Boy Suits One and two piece les for his first :gt. 2:;4 years. 99c Tots’ Panty Dresses Made of plain col- touches of hand embroidery. Infants’ Wool Sweaters White trimmed ‘ with pink or blue rayon. In many pret- ty styles attractively trim- med. Presented for Spring Wear— 300 New Coats, Suits & Ensembles $15.99 In advance styles that are being worn by smartly dressed women for Spring, 1929 The Suits: Of good quality Poiret sheen in the popular navy blue. Double - breasted cont—wbilod slnrtl Cl:ep:‘ wrap-around style. - back satin lined, satin bound. In sizes 14 to 38. In the New Shades The Ensembles: In combinations of silk and tweed. With 34 or full length coat to match skirt. Blouse of heavy quality printed silk. In sizes 14 to 40. In double-breasted models, with In sizes 21, imported tweeds in the popular gray and tan mixtures. Mannishly tailor- ed and well lined throughout. [ two flap pockets. to 9. For the Kiddies’ Spring Wear A New Tie Pump As Well as Many Other Cute Little Sp:'ng Sltzlgsize. $ 1 .99 . 8% to 2 Patent leather in a delightful new tie. As well as new strap ef- fects—at the same low price! Close-fitting, perky shapes that lend a jaunty appearance Crochet millinery is here pre- sented in brand-new modes for Spring wear! shapes, youthful, stylish—and in lovely new shades. Some are flower trimmed, others are plain. In all headsizes. Showing the New Modes in & Crochet Millinery 2.99 In close - fitting N