Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 44

44 THE EVENING STORY Blandishment. bahz ‘énual:. he‘l:lell r:‘ther :Q .n‘dll:: Dora Stone had acquired quite a| When the ncial crash came seputation with her blué. Persian cate. | {ather was forced to sell his g ey were out of the ordinary because, | in town and find a small country home. besides posessing authentic beauty, they | Hence the cats. had wonderful dispositions. They did | Next door lived & rather portentious not scratch, they were comrades. Even widow. She was nice, but formidable those undiscriminating persons who dis- | to Dora on account of a commanding liked cats in general were forced to say | presence. However, Dora saw . she *they seemed just like dogs.” .n-egg w;“ w“j'hnl:e: .?‘oflg.%;:;g led and let it at | secretly hope: at wha e |,h‘D'.°ra et . neighbors called “an understanding™ might result. Her father was quite jost without the book store. Her mother had died three years before and she felt at. Dora herself was pleasantly plump, fond of all sports and while in college had captained the track team. provision of such meals as THE EVENING that he needed a more complete Hoi than she could give him. ,h’hq-'g;; did not eat with Mrs. Graves, the f dable widow. . ‘But sometimes when the twilight fell and the cats were fed and put to bed Dora felt lonesome. She was not sorry when the widow' told her, her son, aged 24, was coming home from college to take up work as an instructor in mathe- matics at the high school. The mathe- matics -sounded terrible, but Dora recollected that Lewis Carroll had been & mathematician in his off hours. possibly the instructor could play as well as demonstrate awful problems. And so it proved. Peter Graves was whimsiral, He read Locke. He loaned her books and he really liked cats. He understood the temperamental Victor, STAR, WASHINGTON, . / DO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929, ch n and lord of the cattery, who iral showed affection, and Victor ,junfbed in his arms and purred. J was delighted. “You must be vemy nice or Victor would never make :d gl: He is very particular,” she ed. “I am exceptionally nice,” said Peter, “and I fully justify all that Victor thinks about me. ~ You'll see.” (a D08 laughed. “Well, we'll see,” she Peter taught Dora to drive a car. Be- ing without nerves, she was an apt papil. Mrs. Graves beamed on the and it was almost disconcerting to frealize her formidable character dis- appeared with each box of candy Dora's father carried next door and melted into maternal smiles when she viewed Victor, the aloof, allowing his coat to be brushed by Peter, a liberty he slightly resented even at the gentle hands of Dora. “We all seem pretty happy these days,” ventured Mr. Stone as he sat at dinner alone with his daughter, “Do we?"” said cautious Dora. “I think Peter is about the finest young man you've run around with in some time.” Mr. Stone helped himself to more fried chicken and a liberal spoonful of hominy. Dora certainly could cook. But then—so could the ex- cellent widow. “You make it sound as if I ‘ran around’ a great deal, dad,” said Dora, “and you know very well I do nothing of the kind.” Mr. Stone laughed. “Well, well, daughter, don’t catch me up so. I mean you certainly look better in young "Graves' roadster than when you used - to go out with that red-headed Fred Smith” " “But, Fred''nev@® rushed me, dad. Not that- Pe—I mean Mr. Graves— does anything silly like that; but he is so sensible with the cats. He has saved me at least 82, for he brushes Victor and you know I had to get old Jim to help me hold Victor for he’s dreadfully temperamental when he's brushed.” “Well, that's something. 1f Peter | can make himself useful it's a good | sign that he's handy about the house. | Just what a’man ought to do, eh?” “Is that \what Mrs. Grayes says, dad?” said impudent Dora, her eyes twinkling in a rather red face. Mr. Stone rose hastily and excused himself from watermelon. “I am taking Mrs. Graves to hear Kreisler,” he said. “Fine, dad. Peter is taking me to the movies,” countered Dora. Of course, the neighborhood said the whole thing was riduculous. “Like some silly book,” exclaimed one disappointed woman. But Mrs. Graves insisted it was the blandishments of Victor that won Peter his pretty bride. And, when | he was in a teasing mocd, Mr. Stone declared his daughter had fairly pushed him into the widow's arms. As all parties to the proposition had | an exceedingly well developed sense of humor, it all ended in laughter, which | augurs well for the future. And since | animals are mighty good judges, of character, as Peter reminds his bride quite frequently, Victor chose his mis- tress a good husband. (Capyright. 1929 SHEPPARD UNOPPOSED. No Candidates Announced Against Dry Law Author. TEXARKANA, Tex. (#)—While Texas politicians are scrambling to run for governor in ne»: year's Democratic pri- maries, no one has announced opposi- tion to Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, United States Senator and author of the elghteenth amendment. taken for granted that Sheppard, who has been in Congress sinoe 1002, will seek re-election. 1f he 3 the field will be large. S ames E. 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