Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 33

DAILY SHORT STORY FORTY TOMORROW Martha Seemed a Forgotten Woman, for She Had Begome Too Old to Hold Her Job. BY FLORENCE R. FLEMING. with twinkling eyes and graying hair. " The other was a ARTHA VER- A ,\1’,’_7__- ’. ."J BLUN swept - | the dishes //, ) JLF left by the last pa- [f/ / tron off onto her oval black tray in deft, capable sweeps. She walked y briskly through the {//// swinging door, set there was some- miliar about him. the tray on the She felt that she dishwasher’s sink ought to know who | and walked into he was. | the employes’ wash “Would you gen-| room. tlemen mind She examined herself in the square, white- framed mirror, and patted her waving copper - colored hair as though it were not already smooth beneath Her gray eyes the white starched .Z= smiled openly out crown. From a at them, caught tiny compact she the swift, inscrut- drew a midget pow- der puff and gent- “This Was Her Last Night” passed between 1y rubbed the shine them. | off a tilted nose. She stood off and| The younger one smiled back: | squinted at the deep blue uniform. “Stanley Norton,” he said. | No. there were no wrinkles in it. | "“And my friend, Mr—" | Satisfied at last that she looked| “Smith,” the other interposed her best, she smiled. This was her genially. < last night as waitress at the Bide and |~ Martha’s heart hopped brightly. Bite Cafe, one of a chain of restau- | Stanley Norton—the Mr. Norton who | ranis owned by a Mr. Fiartree. owned the Rose Marie Night Club. She remembered again Mr. San-|Why, perhaps he would give her work. derson’s words early this morn-| And as she hurried out to serve the ing hungry avalanche streaming through “We shall be sorry to lose you, Miss | the door she resolved to ask him. Verblun, but our record shows that| Twice in her rush through the tomorrow you will be 40. And Mr.|heavy kitchen doors Martha paused | Fiartree feels that it is good policy | long enough to refill the water glasses | to please the public by serving their |in the last booth. She noted with tables well and with young women to | satisfaction that, though they had| do the work.” | finished their meal, they sat smoking, | For a fleeting second Martha felt | talking, just as they would have done | tears stinging her fine gray eyes. It in their own homes. | wasn’t fair. Forty was not old. And| Relentless minutes fled by, bringing she was still young looking, and |closer the inevitable hour when she | needed the job. Terribly. must go through the Bide and Bite But it was only for a second. She | doors for the last time. And if she could | wanted to look her best tonight so not get work from Mr. Nerton that the patrons she had served for Then they summoned her. Martha | two years might remember her as she ' marshaled her courage. She must wished them to. Always smiling. ask him now. Always efficient and pleasant. And Byt Mr. Smith rose and smiled at if those stinging tears fell now she|per in his genial way. “Say. young would not have time to erase their| woman, a little bit ago you asked tracery. It was almost 6 o'clock our names; said you knew all the Swiftly she turned and went back pames of the regular patrons and to the gay, green-gold dining room. | tried to make them feel at home here. Five of her regular customers came | well. now, turn about is fair play. | through the heavy glass entrance door | 1'd like to know your name.” | and made for the little mahogany — Martha smiled in pleased surprise, partitioned booths ranged along thegnd told him. { wall. Quickly Martha took their orders| fashioned name. My wife’s name.” and disappeared through the swing- | He cleared his throat. ing doors. | ow, Miss Verblun, I've just bought | Returning, she brought five spar-|the Rose Marie Night Club from Mr. | kling water glasses wearing butter- | Norton. And I'm looking for a good plate hats, and observed two strang- | hostess. Some one who'll make my ers talking to Mr. Sanderson at the | patrons there feel at home. Would desk. | you like the job?” | Coming through the dors a sec-| “Would I?” Martha's fine eyes tened to explain: “I like to know our regular patrons’ names and I try to welcome here” { “Martha,” he mused. “good old- ond time with trays of food skill- | glowed. “I'd love it.” And then, sud- | fully balanced on capable hands, she | denly, the glow died away. Maybe he | found they had selected the last|wouldn't want her either, if he knew booth. A choice place to survey the | she was 40 tomorrow. And she'd have | whole dining room and still be un-|to tell him. Oh! If only she didn't | observed. { have to. | “Shall I ask their names. as I al-| From far away she heard herseit | ways do new patrons?” she ques-|saying, “But I think I ought to tell| tioned herself. “Perhaps this will you, I'm 40 tomorrow, Mr. Smith.” be the last time I can ever make any |~ Mr, Smith laughed heartily. “Bless one feel at home in the Bide and Bite. | you, my child.” he said. “I'm 60 my- Yes, I'll ask their names. Just for | self and still going strong. And. oh, | Auld Lang Syne.” by the way. The name is not Smith. Smilingly she approached with the | I'm Mr. Fiartree.” menu cards, a formality dispensed | with for old customers. i (Copyright. 1935.) ‘ “Good evening, gentlemen,” she| Tomorrow: *“Mute Betrayal” by greeted. | Mary Faith Geary, tells how a lie Both returned her smile, one a | small, dark man, rotund and genial, | in com HEALTH APPROPRIATION INCREASE ADVOCATED | Social Hygiene Society Urges Prompt Consideration by Senate Group. Officially favoring increased appro- | priations for public health in Wash- | ington, the District Social Hygiene | Society at its meeting yesterday urged | prompt consideration of this appro- | priation by the Senate Subcommittee | on Appropriations. | “It has been demonstrated that public health is purchaseable,” said the society’s Commitee on Medical Measures and Legislation, “but the District cannot expect a well-rounded health program at an expenditure of 75 cents per capita, the present budget appropriation.” The committee’s resolution further | cited Washington's high records of (|~ tuberculosis, social diseases and in- |f§ & fant mortality, together with the lack | of adequate medical, nursing, social | and public health information service. — Huge Eagle Captured. A Scottish golden eagle, blown from | the Highlands across the North Sea | by the recent gales, has been captured in a state of exhaustion in the Teute- 7th Ave. burg Forest, Germany. The bird at |} ot50th St NEWYORK first offered resistance, but subse- |}’ quently allowed itself to be taken quietly” It has a wing stretch of 86 inches. MANHATTAN 1S AN ISLAND 2 || SURROUNDING 1860 1935 LANSBURGH'S 7th-8th & E Streets NA. 9800 Consider the COS BEFORE you ask how much [V s |\ ‘ glasses cost, think how B S AMEY] il much it may cost to do with- lt 4 Q out them. FAILING eyesight has cost many a job and caused many an accident. Why take these chances when dependable optical service is rendered kere at such mod- erate prices? Glasses $§.85 Above all you want accuracy in your glasses, and when you are fitted here you get it—regardless of price paid. These glasses made with white lenses in any single vision required. Eye Examination Included trifle younger, Mar- | |fi /] tha judged, with i still dark brown | il hair and eyes. 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