Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 36

THE EVEN Crocus Time. FROM the very begnining Tom and Mollie had been determined to save. No matter how fate might buffet, nor what hardships might befall, they were determined to| adhere to this program. Mollie's idea had been a little tobacco can above the kitchen safe. Tom’s| had been a savings account in the bank | where he worked. In the end Mollie's idea prevalled and the little tin can| began to function. Into this tin can went & certain pro- portion of Tom's weekly wage, and though the food was scarce and the| fare at times nothing short of boiled beans and a hunk of bread, the beans making a most excellent soup, and though & whole week went by without a show or a new article of apparel, this | sacred respository was seldom known | to run short of funds. | Neither Tom mnor Mollie knew what generation, far removed in posterity, had given rise to this rigid program. nor did they care what hunger and nakedness and misery there had once | prevailed; but of one thing they did know of & future, not too far re- moved in point of time, there would be reserved for them A measure of pro perity at which time they would amply | and very satisfactorily enjoy them- selves. They would then have a car, & most sumptuous affair of gilt and gold, and it did not matter that cars of this style were not yet in vogue; they would be when Tom and Mollie got good and ready for one and theirs would most assuredly be of gilt and gold. Also at that time they would have a cottage, 20 minutes out from the rush and jam of the business district, and there would be & lawn as blue as the sky and as carefully clipped as a priest’s chin. a vegciable To the rear and a flower garden, well roped off | from the walk so that the little boy, yet to come, and the police dog might romp and play at will. And always there was the good-night Kiss, after which Tom had never failed to say in the privacy of his heart “God bless us an’ keep us, an’' don't forget Mollie home all day alone. Amen!” And no matter what dark clouds might for a time hang in thelr skies, nor what temptations might assail their minds, they had each other all to them- selves and that was sufficient to offset all these other matters. That alone gave color to their lives, keeping fresh and beautiful and clean their minds. Another thing, it happened as a very peculiar coincidence that the birthdays of both Tom and Mollie fell on the 25th | of April, just when a long hard North- | ern Winter was drawing to & close, and | when the brackish water in the swamps | that Tom, who was very fond of emok- | clandestinely cached, against the few - ing but who for ecoriomical reasons al- ways used an old meerschaum, & rather Y hefty, unwieldly affair which had been handed down from his father, found — himself so short of money that he could not buy what he had seftled on for Mollie. He was hard put to know was beginning to warm a bit and the | whatto do. And as he stood before an stalks of the pussy-willows to glow a | antique shop admiring a large comb, brighter green and the little fuzzy tips | fit for the head of a queen, which just to become more inviting to those who | matched Mollie’s wealth of golden hair, went out on trolley cars and ravished | the dealer came out. looked for a time these hardy shrubs. And down in the | with squinty, farsighted eyes at the sheltered places in the valleys crocuses | pipe Tom was smoking, and remarked appeared through the moist leaf mold ) “You gif me dot pipe and I let you and here and there the bloom of blood- | have dot comb. Is it a go——no? root was found. The heart of Tom leaped Wherefore the time of these double | throat and almost choked him. birthdays became known to Tom and | comb for the old pipe? Sur Mollle as “crocus time,” and back in|dam! Fork it right over.” the Winter when the country was| And that evening Tom drop) locked in ice and snow and Christmas | package at the foot of the stairs, came and others gave presents and|two steps at a time to the rickety top the stories of the Magi were told and | and embraced Mollle in his customary retold, Tom and Mollie began to plan | way and then strolled out again, what they would give each other at| whistling while he retrieved the pre- crocus time. | clous package, and placed it away in a And on a certain Spring it fell out | secret place where it would remain, d & The Mark of Genuine Aspirin.. BAY!:B ASPIRIN is like an old friend, tried and true. There can never be a satisfactory sub stitute for either one. Bayer Aspirin is genuine. It is the accepted antidote for pain. Its relief may always be relied on, whether used for the occa~ | sional headache, to head-off a cold, or for the more serious aches and pains from neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism or other ailments. It's easy to identify Bayer Aspirin by the Bayer Cross on every tablet, by the name Bayer on the box and the word ‘‘genuine’’ always printed in red. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mono- aoceticacidester of Salicylicacld THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,” D.” € ornate smoker which she had been ad: miring for such & long time. And tripping down the stairway with a little package in her hands, Mollie had gone forth on the streets in the snappy Spring weather; and when she returned she, too, was prepared for days that would elapse till crocus time. Meantime Mollie had looked long and hard at her hair, which she had washed quite frequently in vinegar, sometimes putting in a little white of an egg to give it just the proper gloss; the hair which Tom admired so much and which he so frequently stroked, |crocus time. letting its long, golden strands run! And on the evening of the birthdays through his fingers—Mollie had looked | when Tom returned from the bank he long and hard at this crown of glory, | could hardly wait to kiss Mollie on the and then, in a great spirit of abnega- |lips before he went to the place where tion,taken sharp shears and shorn off | he had cached the comb. Meantime every strand; and as she did so the | Mollle had drawn from its hiding-place tears had come and streaked down over | the elegant smoker and the two pres- her face and the view she got of her- | ents were placed side by side on the self in the mirrow was nothing short of | center table. hideous. And the _eyes of Mollie sparkled and But it was all for Tom. 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The Pheumatic Tire. 1929." now appearel Great the collar for horses, and In |thin sheet rubber and tires, though the streets were rough and the tires were solid, and conse- quently riding was difficuit. was owned by the son of J. B. Dunlop, |® well known veterinary surgeon, who she countered. | complatned "to his father of the dis- ald Tom, “I traded the pipe |comfort of passing over a certain stretch of _cobblestones. was at work on an invention for an air Johnnie’s pleas turned him to the idea of the pneumatic tire. two strips of American elm, and in his own forge made from them two rims, ‘There were mighty few bicycles 50 which he fitted to bicycle. but there were some. d England, where the first of these ma-|a pair of what were real pneumatic | chines in the form as we know them primit! nderful invent! A bicycle rim lieved in the machine. 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