The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1913, Page 8

T HE SEATTLE STAR The Star’s Saturday Short Story Here is a story that tells you more about yourself than YOU know about yourself! And it answers, once and for all, that famous question “Does absence make the heart grow fonder?” Moreover, it goes still further and tells whether fondness, so par ented, lasts—or whether a longed-for presence, suddenly restored, dis: | sipates it At least, it tells how it was in the case of John Perkims and HIS Katy. And who shall say O. Henry did not mean you—any of us—all of ue—when he named him “John Perkine’?t « “Eighty-first st—let ‘em|coat and read the evening pa-| out, please,” yelled the shep-|per. For dinner there would herd in blue be pot roast, stewed rhubarb} A flock of citizen sheep/and the bottle of strawberry scrambled out, and another|marmalade blushing at the flock scrambled aboard. Ding- certificate of chemical purity ding! The cattle cars of the on its label After dinner Manhattan elevated rattled Katy would show him the new| away, and John Perkins drift- ed down the stairway of the Station with the released flock John walked slowly toward patch on her crazy quilt that the iceman had cut for her off the end of his four-in-hand At half-past seven they would | his flat. Slowly, because in spread newspapers over the} the lexicon of his daily life furniture to catch the pieces of there was no such word as plastering that fell when the{ fat man in the flat overhead began to take his physical cul-| ture exercises. Then the gent! at the window across the air- shaft would get out his flute; “perhaps.” There are no sur- ong awaiting a man who been married two years and lives in a flat. As he walked John Perkins prophe sied to himself with gloomy the lady with the champagne cynicism the foregone conclu- shoes and the Syke terrier Sions of the monotonous day.' would trip down stairs and Katy would meet him at! paste her Thursday name over | her bell and letter box—and the evening routine of the Frogmore flats would be un-| der way. John Perkins knew these things would happen. And he knew that at a quarter past} eight he would summon his nerve and reach for his hat,/ and that his wife would de-| liver this speech in a queru- lous tone: “Now, the door with a kiss flavored with cold cream and butter- scotch. He would remove his uo aaa ALBANY PainLeS? 10080084 Albany Cut-Rate where are you go-| M jing, I'd like to know, John | __ Dentists | Perkins?” | ia eraxp mace oF oun wonn| “Thought I'd drop up to Tt was a note from his wife | running thus: ‘Dear John: I just had a telegram saying mother I am going FOR 15 YEARS, GUARANTEE SIGNED BY US. | McCloskey’s,” he would an- | swer, “and play a game of pool | with the fellows.” Of late such had been John| ‘8 very sick Perkins’ habit. At 10 or 11| ‘© take the 4:30 train. he would return. Sometimes! Brother Sam is going to Katy would be asleep; some-| meet me at- the depot F 90 c 0 } times waiting up, ready to there There is cold mut- or ays a y melt in the crucible of her ire| 0" in the ice box. I hope a little more gold plating from, ‘* isnt her quinsy again Pay the milkman 60 cents. ‘The following prices will be atren at 7 ee ithe wrought steel chains of re doing" ental woct for een than yous | Matrimony. She had it bad last spring. vertine our work | Tonight John Perkins en- ea revs to Pal hte he Teeth, G |countered a tremendous up-| . Comey Seow e ally uaranteed $4 heaval of the commonplace| &% meter, and your socks Dee eee ho: | when he reached his door. No| Fe in the top drawer. I Solid Gold or Porcelain @9 Katy was there with her af-| Will write EATY> Crown ........... seeeeees Wd fectionate, confectionate kiss. | sb ntio a si : + All about lay her things in ever uring their two — OE Sabie $3 confusion. Shoes in the mid- years of matrimony had he and ote ARE cg dle of the floor, curling tongs, Katy been separated for a hair bows, kimonos, powder night. John read the note over box, jumbled together on and over in a dumbfounded way. Here was a break in a routine that had never varied, and it left him dazed. There on the back of a chair hung, pathetically empty and formless, the red wrapper with ‘black dots that she always Silver Fillings . |dresser and chairs—this was Albany Cut-Rate Dentists! not Katy’s way. Some un- Becoed Floor gee —_ Bulidieg. | usual hurry and perturbation ill sn orbit | must have possessed her. | _ Hanging Cages rer turd to Cs WIth. vr | Ue a CALIFORNIA State Pennant.” you G¢ without warning, she gone, vanished, as completely absent as if she had never ex- isted He did not care to smoke Outside the city roared to him to come join in its dance of folly and pleasure. The. night was his. He might go forth unquestioned and thrum the strings of jollity as free as any NOW, WHERE ARE NG, TD LIKE TO KNOW, JOUN PERKINS? ASKED KITTY, IN A QUERULOUS TONE wore while getting the meals. gay bachelor there. He might Her week-day clothes had been tossed here and there in her haste. A little paper bag of her favorite butter-scotch lay with its string yet un wound. Everything in the room spoke of a loss, of an essence gone, of its soul fe life departed. John Per stood among the dead remains | with a queer feeling of desola- tion in his heart. He began to set the rooms tidy as well as he could. When he touched her clothes a thrill of something like terror went filled the council chambers on more through him. He had never thought what existence would be without Katy. She had be- come so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed—necessary, but scarcely noticed. Now. OUT NEXT WEEK always paid 65c for. Look for the Pennant Coupon in The Daily Star. receive your coupons daily. color and design. They will form a pretty ornament for your are not a college man. These pennants will brighten any spot. With them you hundred and one other pa ee decorations. A different pennant will be offered cach week. 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Order Pennants weekly “ Pennants can be secured at The Seattle Daily Star Office, 1307 7th Ave. BB UVVNNNNNNNNNNNAUUUUNNANNNAGAUUUOUOUUUEEOAAGAGUQUGUOUUEANAAAGGOOUOOOUUAOAAAAAAUTOOT carouse and wander and have his fling until dawn if he liked; and there would be no wrath- ful Katy waiting for him, bear- was | ing “THE PENDULUM” the chalice that held the! dregs of his joy. He might play pool at McCloskey'’s with his roistering friends until Aurora dimmed the electri bulbs if he chose. The hyme neal strings that had curbed him always when the more flats had palled upon him loosened Katy was Frog were gone. | John | customed | emotions. Perkins was not ac- to analyzing his But as he sat in his Katy-bereft 10x12 parlor he hit unerringly upon the keynote of his discomfort. He knew now that Katy was nec essary to his happiness. His feeling for her, lulled into un consciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of | her presence. Has it not been dinned into us by proverb and sermon and fable that we never prize the music till the sweet voiced bird has flown—or in| Jother no less florid and true | utterances? double-dyed dub,” ed John Perkins, “the way I've been treating Katy. Off every night playing pool and |bumming with the boys in| |stead of staying home with her, The poor girl here all jalone with nothing to amuse | her, and me acting that way! I'm going to make it up for }the little girl I'll take her) jout and let her see some amusement. And I'll cut out the McCloskey gang right |from this minute.” | Near the right hand of John | Perkins stood a chair. On the| back of it hung Katy’s blue] shirtwaist It still retained something of her contour. Midway of the sleeves were fine, individual’ wrinkles made by the movements of her arms in working for his comfort and pleasure. A delicate but im- pelling odor of bluebells came from it. John took it and looked long and soberly at the unresponsive grenadine Katy h a never been |_unresponsive. “I'm a ANGRY FOLK IN BALLARD PROTEST WATER MAIN TAX Water Ballard le a bolting qu Angry Ballard than one occasion In the past weeks, when the council threat to assess the property in that dis trict for the Installation of a trunk main, which would cost about $160,- 000, Never has the coat of auch an e been charged to the Ballard cit the near future, to pay one red cent into the fund Would Enhance Value ‘The city is not going to put In a trunk main to serve only those who now lIive in Ballard, but also escaping even the higher water rates. For that cost been of assess! lard, the non-n man Erick. dents, residents in or the ben- Seattle, ont improv. only.|ing and enhancing the value of y will | their property rofit mains| “But it will work a hardship on ved Seattle Rates Are ‘ioe You wouldn't? Of naumera in th ¢ would be paying for ft, too | who do not live tn F Th water rates would be hi Seat tle's rates are on c are in San Francisco | And that was the view taken by rth what they lard citizens act w Erickson alone openly cham n# opposition to the Ballard perty owners’ demar Would Mean Higher R r fund has no mon on b ba ely protested ause Wwe water rates to a mi mum. Bonds will have to sued, And the 7 those 1K outside of Ballard, as well ay those in Ballard, will have to pay the in terest. How will they pay It? By | higher water rates. will amount to. ‘Every water user in Seattle will thus be taxed. And who will be benefited? The property in Bal lard, much of which is owned by | non-residents, who have never, and do not now, and do not expect in That's what it AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK, Moore—Dark. Metropolitan—Dark, Seattlo—"The Girl From Pan Orpheum—Vaudevitie, —Vaudevilie, Vaudeville. Vaudeville and motion Clemmer — Photoplays vaudeville, Melbourne — Photoplays vaudeville, Alhambra — Photoplays vaudeville. course you! w some small home owners,” say the Ballarat warmer “CAPTURE. INDIAN John Frank, an Indian. y jail today on an ope is at the charge. an exciting race ay after. 1 in an attempt Ray who accuses him of passing to elude A thless ch n his father runs a fruit stand at Terry and Virginia Frank was {dentified at police headquarters as Samuel H. Morris lias Har oe, alias Harry Taylor, al De La Valle, who served thr at Walla Walla and recently was acquitted of forg a check for $150. tch was cashed by A. Bridge & Co Firemen will get their vacations. now that the council has authorized Chief Stetsor work short handed But they must co-operate and hel ch other out, as the o¢ ion de. the finance committee ng Friday The Aiscussion came up on the claim of a fireman for 3% cents extra pay on work performed by him as substitute for a man in a higher position Chief Stetson announced the vaca tions would begin tomorrow, and 5 men would be off every month for the next four months. CLAIMS. DENIED By & unanin members of th vote of the seven finance and utilities committee of the council, th S ms filed by socialists, the G P. Rent Piano Co. and the I. W w fae about $4,000 damages caused by the | riot of Jnly 18, were yesterday de- nied In a message to the counctl Mon-| day Mayor Cotterill said the elty) ought to pay th {ms as a matter of equity. Those who voted against the claim vere Petree, Goddard. Griffiths, Erickson, Marble, Haas and Parish Rest modern outside roome in & attle o 500, Stewart House, 86 Wes wart (near Pike Public | ' Market.) Advertisement, | Written by O. Henry | Picture by Groesbeck Tears—yes, tears—came into;rattle of the cog-wheels as the John Perkins’ eyes ae 1 third-floor front of the Frog-, she came back thi vuld more fl buzzed its machin- be different. He into the Order of up for all his neg What A band slipp was life without her? s t hed, the , was justed and the whee The door Caty revolved in th old orbits walked in car a little John Perki oked at the hand satchel John stared at;clock. It was 5. He reach- her stupidly . ed for his hat and walked to “My! I'm glad to get back,” | the door said Katy Ma wasn’t sick “Ne where are you go- to amount to anything Sam ing, I'd like to know, John was at the depot, and said Perkins?” asked Katy, in a she just had a little spell, and lous ton got all right after they Thought I'd drop up to telegraphed I took the) McCloskey’s,” said John, “and next train back I'r t dy 1 a ga or two of pool ing for a cup of coffee the ~ Nobody heard the click and! YD.) Serenmingly in Was Never CHAS. J. ROSS (of Ross and Fenton) HOWARD and HOWARD CLARENCE HARVEY MOON and MORRIS FREDERICK ROLAND y Beauties and Darit MOORE —len limes, Com. Suuday Night, Aug. 10—Seats Thurs. on the Way-—Viret New York Winter Garden Show to Invade the Weat THE wit THE PASSING ws’ SHOW of BIGGEST 1912 SUCCESS 0 T Popalar TRIXIE FRIGANZA ADELAIDE and TEXAS GUINAN LOUISE BRUNNELL ERNEST HARE and je Great Wh 1 ASD SAT. 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