Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 36

THE EVENING S’[‘.‘\R..“’,\SHTY(‘-TO.\'. D. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929. Settled for Life. RTHA PELL swept the walk with firm, swift strokes of her | new broom. When she came | to the big maple that shaded the house she paused and | lald her hand upon its rough trunk, | B: looking up at it with tender pride. had not a leaf, but some day it would be green with whispering leaves. Blessed tree! Her own tree—or T ‘Whatever was Dicl was hers, just whatever she had was his. There were, no reservations of a seifish sort be-| tween her and her son. Dick had bought this little house with | the guardian tree, the bit lawn, the | tiny garden spot at the back. For about a month now she had'been at home. | It was a goodly feeling to be at home to know that you could meet the storms of life sheitered. And there had been | 0 many storms since her husband died. | A good man, Charlie, but he had left | her and her two small children unpro- vided for. She had worked and prayed until somehow she had got them to the point where they could care for them- selves. Then as she was so very tired Dick had bought this home for them all. Nina was helping with the living expenses. All mother had to do was to keep house. After years of outside work keeping house was a joy. She loved to cook and wash dishes and Just furniture. To be free to move as she wished, to sit at her window, to warm at her own fire! The wonder and peace | of it. “That's a nice tree!” and saw a neighbor, Mrs. with her market basket. brightened. “Yes, it is a nice tree. thinking that myself. Lovi Mrs. Simmons.” “Dreadful cold. Got settled yet?” ‘All settled,” Martha laughed, push- ing back her gray hair with her slender hand. “Settled for life. I may say.” “Settled for life, eh?” Mrs. Simmons’' mouth twitched. “Well, I'm sure I hope o, for your sake. But you never can tell. Of course you may get along with your new daughter-in-law bet-| ter'n most women do with theirs. “What do you mean?" Martha drop- ped the broom, clutching her gray sweater near the throat. “Why, everybody's saying that Dick’s going to marry Elsie Barth. I thought you knew it.” Martha stooped to pick up the broom. She gave a flirt or two with it. Then she laughed again. “What everybody says must be true. Of course my son has reached the age when a young man usually begins to | think of getting married. One can't blame him, you know. Besides, Elsie Barth is & nice girl.” “Do’'you know her?” inquisitioned the relentless old woman. Martha was silent. “She's a nice girl and the like of that, but she’s a great hand to have her own way. Her folks brought her up to be babied. Yet, as I say, maybe ;ou'n get along all right with her. ou’ve got an easy disposition.” The old womap jogged away toward her own portal and Martha went into the house. ‘The dear little house, with its breath tinged with the cake she had just baked, the meat that was soasting for Martha turned Simmons, Her face | T was just | morning. | | the | Martha gen dinner, the geraniums on the window sill and the smell of freshly ironed clothes on the rack! She hung up the broom and sank into a chair by the kitchen table, leaning her head on her hand. So Dick was going to marry Elsie Everybody knew it but her. .~ Nina had been keeping it away from her. Nina came in presently. She was slender, vivii, young-looking, in her brn{wn cont and hat, like an Autumn lea How_long since Dick decided to v Elsle Barth?” Martha asked. “I don't know, mother. TI've been hearing it quite a while. Dick's a clam for confidences, you know." “Then he may be married any time. | He bought this house with that inten- | on. " na looked troubled. “Now den't worry, mother. Of course Eisie | will feel she's the boss here. If we can get slong together we ought to, but—- Why, you and I can go into one of | those little new apartments on Loder | rel As far as that goes you and I| can be hap) anywhere.” | dear.” So it was all true. ShP; was not settled for life after all. She had just made another stop—how brief | she could not tell. “Whenev: you are ready for your home, dear, he said quite steadily, | “let me know. It shall be ready for you.” Dick's voung face reddened. “Oh, now, mother! When Elsie com~s here she'll just be one of us. What's matter? Do you think we ecan't all live together?"” | “That's for Elsle to say,” replied There was_an embarrassed interval “Oh, say, Will Boyd came into our | office and bought a lot todav. He's going to build a hcuse in the Spring.” Martha's glance went to her daugh- ter's face. Nina was looking down at the roll she was buttering. Her face revealed nothing. How brave she was to take it like that! Nina had always cared for Will Boyd although o wardly they had been cdsual friends. This meant that Will was going to be married—and Nina was out of it. Poor, poor child! Next day Martha went to see one of the little apartments on Loder street. It had three rooms and a bath—a new, clean, bare little place, no garden or maple, no place for even a flower. And she had made such plans for planting JUST WET PAD w2 RUB/ A'/Jpeciu/ Cake Flour that will help youwin SPECIAL Gold Medal Cake Flour Sold only in this Carton GOLD MEDAL oo and results quarantsad by the millen of Gold Medal itchen-tefted "Flous Here’s the kind of bran that doctors recommend! 93% of the thousands of doctors who answered our questions said 100% bran is the best form of relief of constipation. 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And he did. d It was a difficult affair—for Dick, who was the awkward young house holder; for Elsie, who blushed and dis- played a glittering new ring, for Martha. trying to be hospitable and unobtr sive at the same time. Nina was quite herself. She kept things going with her jaughter. Afterward when Dick had walked home with FElsie, she helped Mertha with the dishes “Well, Elsie will be here in a month | Nina said Don't you wor- You don't have to stay mor Ty, mother. here a minute longer than you want | to. We'll be happy anywhere so long as we're together.” “That's true, dear,” Martha kissed her child's cheek. “I suppose really it would be nicer to just go and let the young folks have things to themselves, You see, they're not going to have a long honeymoon, just a few days. Dick ¥ mother, darling.” So it was settled. Nina was to rent the apartment on Loder street. They would move right in, the sooner the better, The following noon Marha looked up from the hash she was turning to scc Nina. 'You rented the she asked. “No!” Nina leaned against the cup- board. “I didn't have to. a betier place offered.” Her “Just as you sa apartment?” At the botiom of the Earth! with the World's Greatest Exploration Party We've got | | stars, her cheeks burning. “Mother! | Will ‘Boyd came home with me. He— | he asked me to marry him. And I am going to." “Why, how did it happen?" Martha | asked bewllderedly, after a moment She and Nina were both crying for joy. | T don't know. I only know it's tiue! | He wants me to be married right away. And he's going to buy the Foster house, | that lovely oid place: 14 big trees, a garden, 9 rooms. You know all about | {that House, mother. And you're to| have the south chamber—1I thought of | that fi thing.” But what about the lot and the new | house he's going to build in the| | Spring?” | “On, that was for speculation—noth- ng to do with a real home. Oh, mother! | Aren't you giad? We'e both going to | o settled for life—at last!” i (THE END.) (Copyright, 1929.) | NEW LINER, STATENDAM, READY FOR TRIAL SPIN | Capitalist Declares No Unemploy- Holland-Amerfcan Fleet to Put Vessel Into Atlantic | Trade. | The new steamship Statengam, Jargest ‘nl the Holland-America Line fleet, will make a trial trip from Rotterdam Tues- day and begin its first voyage from that port to New York April 11. Construction of the Statendam begun in 1914 at the Belfast shi of Harland & Woll The N Even now...after the Byrd and retold... the public is not aware of the amas- ing perfection of detail which characterised the outfitting of this expedition. 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