The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1913, Page 8

A Modern King Cophetua and the Familiar Beg- gar Maid. BY STEPHEN FRENCH WHITMAN Mlustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum. ted, 1913, by the News Reeser Entorpriee Association) Her name was Bertha was @ shop-girl, 21 years old. Her siim shape was attractive; her hatr was @ark and heavy; her skin had fine, clear pallor; her eyes were Jarge and serious, Cheap cloth she wore with that subtle d ef good taste which poor #t @iscernment manage sometimes to @cquire by observation of the more fortunate women whom they bave to serve. | The mother did sewing, paid for) Dy the piece; towels, napkins, Dables’ clothing she made from ma terials with which a charitable so elety of women furnished her. Ber tha worked in a great department store, and her week's wages were six dollars. She had been put to work in the Basement, in the glassware depart ment. There, in an enormous white-washed room as full of pil Jars as an Egyptian temple, under | the violet glare of arc lights sput tering in great globes, from morn ing till night she sold dishes, tum Dlers, cruets, fruit jars, articles for a bundred homely uses. Length Wise in the place ran long tables,| Jaden with glistening «! Here} ‘Were the samples and, when a cus tomer had made her choice from them, a young man hurried off to the storerooms with the number ‘of the specimen, to duplicate it. He was a tall, bony youth—-this mes) senger—who shaved his bine cheeks every day, but seemed seldom able to afford a haireut. His coat sleeves were short; his wrists were thick and one saw no cuffs about Free plata, ‘of any one bie, on. Jo the la no hope, It will Instract & aid, cared thernse!ree had failed, and they In This Day of Opportunity it possible much more escape being poor. You can become rich if you for the opportunities are by is to do than just really want to, no exhausted for don kind means men of but the limi right eans of | spirit. Saving systematically is the first step toward financial succ Dexter Horton ° for ystematic thrift in this community | DEXTER HORTON | TRUST AND SAVINGS | BANK shcoND MD CHERRY usually found by Star want ads in the “Lost and Found” column, |scandals in the Ives of some Troe | -| great hotels “| wife {night invariably | 5 His cravat was same; faded blue, with blutsh- | white polka dots, For weeks, once, the top button of his coat was miss This annoyed Bertha, who was m Iways neat pulse to sew a new button there. Late one afternoon a strange! man, a superintendent tn a frock coat, while walking between the seladen tabdlos noticed Bertha He hesitated, stopped, and came back to her. He stared at her face her hair, and espectally at her fig ure How long have you been down he ? Six months,” she answered, and was almost suffocated by the beat-| ing of her heart. He looked sur prised. “Report for work making department ing.” She rushed home; with glowing eyes she entered the flat and found her in the kitehen calmly dtatoes I'm to go Into the dress making department! It means nine dollars a we Her m which i about on The two women embrac there were even tears in thelr ¢: Thetr supper Was an event. Tho whole flat seemed all at once more cheer ful, and they spent the evening) planning a thousand little projects) of improvement, now and then) dreaming in silence of the poss!bil- ities of the future. | In the morning Bertha became) a salesgirl in the dressmaking de-| partment | Here Bertha, tutored by her new companions, learned to fatter, to cajole, to tell untruths about her} wares and still, while doing so, to appear frank and honest. learned the names of the women| who came to shop, their affatre, er ot them, evolved in exact detail no =| tn the drens-| in the morn- dropped the potatoes the floor. d; knew from what source, but never theless implicitly belleved by eager audiences. Her eyes were opened | to a strange world; things which | before she had heard through hints alone, here were recounted to her tn plain language, and with the so-called principals of disreputable histories she came in actual con ta serving them. Curlously she would watch them, meanwhile woo dering at the calmness of their agreeable faces, their beauty, their prosperity. that viclousness was served? | One day, at some preposterous) story related by the forewoman Bd | | ruthless gossip—Bertha retorted al- | most in exasperation: “One would think there weren't any good people at all fn a big elty!” | “My dear,” sald the forewomen,| |looking at her intently, “those you | nearly 23 years old. Her life in the store continued in {ts outward de-| hs next night out. presented himeelf at every oppor tunity. | hibited costumes of silk, of velvet,|to the theatre, sometimes to an tlasne—perishabte | “Itallan seemed to be little doubt of his fn tentions, and the mother, from be hind her blue spectacles, watched the progress of bis courtah{p with suppressed excttoment. night, when he had brought Bertha back to her door, half-coherent speech, he asked her to marry him. “I know I'm not good enongh for |tafls as before. Day after da: | fluent praise and flattery, with | ox of diaphanous |masterpleces of dressmaking on leach of which a dozen working women somewhere had used up their wits, stiffened their fingers. and worn out their eyes. Non- chalantly she mentioned to the cus- tomers the extravagant prices of these things, amazed no longer at the thought that here were women | who could pay for a ball dress what would keep her and her mother for almost a year On her way home at night, walk ing for choice along the fine ave nues as far as possible, through a dusk gemmed with golden’ lights clustered before the porticoes of and restaurants, she was tormented constantly with Jealousy. She saw, before canopled doorways, ladies descending from their carriages, climbing the carp-| eted steps, their long trains trailing after them like tumbling foam | Doors opened to them, disclosing | the interiors of splendid houses, | }and shut while she looked long-| ingly. Beyond the deserted ter-| | races of restaurants, she perceived, through long windows, by the ald of jeandies Mt on the snowy tables white shoulders, flowers, strands of pearls, outstretched fingers glitter. ing with rings—vague people mov ing In another world She observed also the men who accompanied these fortunate wom en. From observing them, and from the perusal of stories in magazines | and in novels which she borrowed, | she made more dreams—dreams no less personal, dreams of the sort which young girls have. From act ual perception and from fiction she |constructed the young hero, the In | evitable Prine handsome, debon. air, , alwa dressed for the ing in glistening hat and pumps and inlined gre coat, alway at the nd of th ventures in which she perc him, taking her in hia arma And walking with burning. hungry eyes in that falr region craving intensely all ite rare allure ments, into her mind crept stealth fly speculative thoughts that she would not, a year before, have tol-| night, as she opened the door of the fiat, at exact! what to expect. In the little kitch-| en, the kettle boiled on the stove the tin clock tleked nastly on the enpboard shel ts a gingham apron, stc parlor,” she could see the ¢ the table, the work-basket, the earthenware shephe on the mantel-pléce, the broad brown stain on the ceiling where the water had leaked through one in the black aperture of the little alcove. Night after night that scene, ite inatg nificant details always the same! One evening the théir existence was There was a crash on the f fest, a very mon ony in a rum stalroase as-cutter and three ar 0 Ived with hin all children across the a er brute of a man | who spent his money on liquor as ho earned it and every Saturday tng |alipped on on down It 1 wl she had often an tm | aig» department | forth jroome. standing on the stairs a yard from | THE SEAT nee s before his family me home drunk, last staircase and Apper had tural the ambulance surgeon, In a sult, came skipping upstates xamined him, The fellow's| mother, used to run back between tables and ator He looked up, saw her Was this, then, the way | rifled . 7 You live here?” “Bo you've left the store?” “Bix months ago. And you?” “Still there.” On his way downstairs, holding one end of the stretcher, he stil! kept gaping up at her in bewlider- it. Throe evenings later he met her hear nothing about are the clever|Stammering that ft was hie “night ft” “I thought perhaps you'd go to a mon passed: show?” ar a ga) gy ees George returned to the fiat on you In the basement Watching him deliberately ahe compared him to thonght her own told him the truth the door of the fat-house, phoned After that he him He took Bertha sometimes @hote.” ‘able There Late one in an agitated, woman’ But ever since I first saw with Intent eyes, ft in her dreams. She We should never be dif. t. It would always be just Clinging to her old vintons, unreasonable hopes, she she did not love| He stood still for a while; places, Bertha’ then his me j ce he oN y) >» at lant went upstairs to the window| white forehead filled with tear walked away nd st and stared out over the ops. Weeks afterward, Jon, to when he or I though: r ad become of else, back was broken, The surgeon hereelf, asked what called up hia driver, who appeared |George, Bertha said calmly with a stretcher, And Bertha, with 1 refused him a shock of amazement, recognized) For a minute the mother sat mo in this tall, bony, blue-coated man tlonless, Behind her blue spec youth who, In the glassware ticles she seemed disgusted, and Hertha, looking at her, had for the’ — Tai him, and gaped at her as if pet-'first time in her Iife an tncompre hensible sensation of antagonism. At longth, in a low, trembling volce, |the mother exclaimed what you've done!” moment, rising to leave the room, added in weak accents things might be a little different some time before I died. maybe I deserved it—at least for a Iittle while” Next morning, with wide eyes,| the ralorgiris Bertha saw the dawn creep through | the window, and that day she tele-| the hospital So that's And after a “Td hoped t Reside her re Liet clined the forewoman, who, while| recounting wittingly an aged to exhibit, as {f casually, a new ring set with a large emerald ening absent-mindedly to the fore story, replete with detafl« of a sort which nowadays did not disturh her in the slightest. looked up and saw entering room a young woman and a young man, both strangers. woman was blond, handsome and well Greased. 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Resinol Soap is not artificially colored, its rich brown ia given it by the Resinol med- Costs 26 centa and ia worth infi- nitely more to everyone who values a clear skin and good hair, Kesinol Ointment ta mont valuable In the pentas farialervipt Its regular mn, ecreena,chat He was tall and heavy about the shoulders; his smooth ven face was finel clipped mo short Ided ript He his od and TLE STAR yellow hair above his the woman with bim looked alike; evidently she wae hin ste She wanted a new ball dress tn ault b had something alre aeaas Daenvm to contain) a hurry; whe had been everywhere but had not found anything to Perhaps the dy forewoman made, from Here Bertha Learned to Flatter, to Cajole, to Tell Untruthe About Her Wares, and Still, While Doing #0, to Appear Frank and Honest Paris, that would fit her with a few alterations? The forewoman, with | 4 suave and competent manner, pro-| Mother calmly that she was going alcove, her cheek upon the pillow, ate herself to p j of the flat, of her |mother working night after night lin the little kitchen, of the racket |rising from the rough street to ber window, disturbing sleep in the close alcove, Bhe thought of the days before her, each one like its predecessor, and of her mother finishing her Hfe on one of them without ever having enjoyed “some thing better.” "Oh, what a fool I wan!” Summer parsed, fall brought cold rains, and tn the somber streets the first snow fell | Walking home one evening through the fine avenue where, pervérsely, she atill tormented her self by gazing at that other world jehe saw striding toward her a tall |ficure, with glistening hat and pumps and a furlined great-coat |In @ flash he felt an acute, burn |ing pain below her heart. It was jhe again He stopped before her. They people who brushed past them with laskance looks. Presently she found |herself walking slowly beside him} |in a by-street, his hand beneath her| arm, He began to speak, and tho| rich vibration of his voice made her tremble | Why 41d you do it? Why were |you #0 cruel? I have had a terrible time ever since. Whenever I see a slender figure tndistinctly in a dark street, my heart leaps into my |throat and I think: ‘It is she! When I close my eyes, I nee you Why 4id you run away from me? I would do everything for you. 1 | would ike to see you always as you looked that day, in the silver dress I love you.” You do?” she asked, in a voice! which she did not recognize as hers | She folt his arma about her. In the shadows of the empty street Ufting her nearly off her feet, he kianed he she smelled a deli clous odor of Itlac water. She knew nothing. All was lost. Whon he left her, after walking with her for |reveral blocks, she had promised to meet him the next night The next night she told her { duced from a wardrobe a low-neck|to Visit a shop-girl who waa sick gown of silver tienue, covered with) The old woman. minute embroidery, ail in one plece. Th amined it, snapped his where | Just look at it “But the pric while customer, assuming the illegt ble expression of a bargainer, ex-|to invent a long story her starving for go® sip, asked Bertha all about the fr valid. The danghter was forced It wae her watch-case, yawned, told herself another—and tried to and began indifferently to inspect | believe !t—when, setting out, as is exorbitant!” “Oh, madame! Not for this robe! | ¥!l!l be all right. There ts no harm company affaires eubmitted to If you could only |! folng to dinner, ts there? George had worked. He had gone; try it on—it's exactly your size, ba® been slandered; he ts good she could obtain no Information of | I'm sure.” short of breath a running, she kept repeating if she had been shouldn't I know? He loves me, | ‘The customer, whose street dreas fOr he sald so. Then why should Bertha, wit |the girls, then? h he The aame afternoon she was rest. | looked as if putting It on had been | ing on one of the green sofas in the 40 ordeal, demurred. shop, which happened for the mo-| ment to be empty “It you wish to see it on one of UPON her Bertha!” he not marry me? | She entered Broadway deat a blinding light jfrom thousands of globes scintillat heart beating |!P* before theatres, from many fan intimate | hard, took the dress aw adventure of a friend of hers, man. ently returning fn {t, she saw ap- Prom tastic signs aloft, which, rocket |iWke, burst every moment {nto bri! proaching her from n distance a !!@ncy, from the green glare emit beautiful woman with white shoul ders and arms exposed, slender, ex quisite, to whom clung a gown of |oWerlng her head, she hastened silver, trailing behind her, tumbling ‘rough the crowd lke @ guilty per ted by shop windows, turning all faces ghastly, In this {llumination fearful stood motionless, heedless of the’ “tt terly He the Government, as required =» s0 rent At once, given to non-resident business. SCHUBERT CLUB GIVES CONCERT TUESDAY NIGH The f concert of the hut ib's 1% 1914 enno be BIG tip horus, now numbering 6¢ olcer HITS 4 well prepared to give to the muste lovers of Seattle an evening ; of rare pleasure Sunday, Monday, The program is one of unusual Interest The firet part will be a garden scene in a New Englan¢ Tuesday home, with natives of Englar Scotland, Jrelar Wales 2 { Featuring Unadorned len represent thelr native the ard Madame Grace Houston, contral-| to, soloist of the Forbes St. M. I church, Pittsburg, Pa; Prof. Wi!) Ham Pierce Gorsuch, reader, of the | University of Washington; Mr. R Festyn Davies, tenor, assisted by | the full chorus of 60 voices of the Schubert club. EN ] (c Mies Emily “A. Southmayd Comedy eral secr y of the Young Wom en's € Association, will wind up the course of lectures be ing stven on “The training of young women for the busin of house. work,” by presenting some very in teresting facts and statistics on Monday at 3 p. m, at Plymouth chureh. HAVE YOU VOTED / Vote for logged-off land district, Mrs. Housewife, and reduce the cost of ilving. sul The Phenomenal el for wal (a TRUST Company) i OLIVER G it We Solicit Your ; is “a: . fi WALLACE m British Columbia ” At the Pipe Organ Our books are audited monthly by independent chartered ac- countants; are periodically ex- brother first direct ie to her mother She amined by the British Colum- She RICHMOND Nurseries Growers of choice Fruit Trees, Pushes, Hollies with Grong Asaleas, Pyramidal and bla Government Inspector of Trust and quar led statement of Shade give you & first-class article at « late price. For catalog by. He hat. 1 Richmond #6. Prompt and careful attention The Richmond Ni Richmond Beach, Wash. 1” goddenty she felt frightened Fos agge Ag he . We have the following Fedad nn bearing tet i cea| ooking un recoatind Nar. i's |gagee for Cents. | eats 9 ote: te erg Age ee etka wonay'e tee ont chine. ic SMAAae pOReMNA. FREE EXAMINATION | j= her checks over her white neck |Bertha's.. ‘The Intense green tight |. EXPERT ADVICE tio “Walk across the room, Bertha With a pleading look at the fore woman, she graceful even obey in trepidation, S®*!ety and the exhaustion stamped Members American Bankers’ from a shop window {Illuminated it turning to purple the rouge on th exceedingly \Cheeks, revealing fully the furtive amid the fading daylight gleaming |O%_'h® detertorated countenance ilike an alluring apparition. The customer purchased the dress That evening, as Bertha, in her|4re¥ & stiff croase down from each | Dinck skirt and jacket wae walking home, midway tn a deserted street, |“Mimed | |a man who had been following con. | fronted her. It was he. She started | back, but he approached nearer, hat jin gloved hand, at first unable to begin his speech. “How shall I excuse myself? you could only forgive my this! meet you? t doing But how else should 1 ever If I had not, we should have had to go on always without For you that knowing each me! person glance! night you will word!" not some he was! and lay still, not see-—-of | “I must go “T must go this street don't be cruel quickly away mained fn sf leaning slightly In the had re pyrehase | wild it a reckle young man exelted by of his erable oth In the when he approache on him savag to do with y |spoak to me! crestfallen She sped | might have been on his smiling these As for rose the indistinet fac dark faithful to his ay other. pass at by How rich his voice! but not for What magte leaps from one| another Forgive me—the wildest |%* they had always been words seem reasonable to me. to- the first Say you forgive me, that! without a jand tn his fingers hers weakened How hand He took her hand; A look which she did Intense | crossed his face on on 80 ght he cane, a0 1 ca at the same time? lo; tho asip he was well unscrupulous, dangerous tisfaction she gasped. n't stay. I can't talk to you tonight.” “Then tomorrow night? Here, tn Oh, She withdrew ber hand and went as sho re watched her, speculative, forewoman concerning r of the ball dreas he was her brother. And the forewoman began to relate, with| gusto, storfes about him “whieh everybody knew.” He was. rich Youthful as he ; he had led a known for The forewoman was Rer womer str d her home; tha, n eet th “Low How W accomplishments before her of Innum that night ypointment, girl turned | ant nothing dare you “What!” he ejaculated, astounded, ‘he black She recognized Bertha and jamiled, with an expression which corner of her mouth. She ex “Why, hello, what are you doing! fgg? Her utterance seemed like a cor- dial welcome Bertha turned and walked away | |blindly, knocking against pedes. trians. She reached the cool, dark streets, She went on and on, at random, like a somn bullat stared up at the clear sky, spread out lke a great canopy of blue-black velvet, and was amazed to see shin ing there the countless stars, cold, | calm, unaffected, {mmutable- Just | She reached the fiat-house and| slowly climbed the four staircases. | She opened the door. George was sitting in her rocking chair, talking to her mother. He had on a fireman's uniform. He rose, trembling from apprehen. sion, unable to speak, his face! |transfigured by a look of dumb de | votion |. For a moment she could not be. Neve It true | Then, fn a faltering voice: “Oh, | George!” she cried, and reached out | her hands to him. (THE END) The fellow who i riding his hob by expects all the world to get out of his way.—Macon Nev | “DENNY-RENTON” All Clay Products 1007 Hoge Bldg. ‘XQ Me. 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