The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 17

RUE They May as Well Work | 6vess Youve GoT To LEARN TO WALK PREMCH AS Wau. AS TALC Tv To Wran One , DRESSES A MISTAKE I GETTING one -1 CAN THERE'S {wT oh Regge Ba spe You “oun You Gan. em ™e wan THOU rT IT Sveey Few Teer wth — YOu FICTH Ih N W. BURGESS. (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess Curiosity Gets the Best of Buster Fo two nights Buster Bear kept! big sugar maple hung one or more * away from that part of the of those shiny tin pall«. Buster Green Forest where the sugar|#Towled at each one, but he didn't 5 By that time he felt touch one of them. No, sir; he didn’t | go near enough to look into any of quite himself again. You see, the | them to see if they held any of that fed pepper Farmer Brown's Boy had delicious, sweet water. Buster didn't put in the sap Buster drank had/intend to be caught twice in any done him no real harm. Parmer | such scrape as that last drink had Brown's Boy had had no desire to got him into. Teally harm Buster. He merely | Several times he stopped to listen wanted to teach him that those sap | to faint sounds which came to him Pails were not to be meddied with. | “ _ Buster had done a great deal of thinking, but he was as puzzled as ever over what had happened to him. He wanted to find out about it. and the only way he could think the third night found Buster Bear en nese ce ccese socersel Stealing back toward the sugar i Buster didn't @ sound as he is, and clumsy looking as ter Bear can move thru the 4 Forest as silently as the Hitlest of the little folks who live D> there. Every few steps Buster : to listen, and to test the air f his nose, He was full of sus - picion, was Buster Bear. By and by Buster came tree where he had taken that drink of sap which had made him feel as if a million bees were inside him. hung the shiny tin pail, just lore. Buster sat up and glared it. “He wanted to reach out and > smash it by a biow of one of his big ‘paws, but he didn’t dare. No, sir; he didn't dare. He was afraid of that tin pail. You see, he felt that somehow that pai] was to blame for (Continued from Thurnday.) All that hot August morning Tillie worked in a dage. Mra McKee | watched her and said nothing. She |interpreted the girl's white face and set lips as the result of having had |to dismiss Schwitter again, and ltooked for time to bring peace, as to his midday it had done before. eee eee} } Le Moyne came late Tmeal. For once, the ‘mental anaes | thesia of endiens figures had failed So the third night found Buster |him. On his way fome he had Bear stealing toward the sugar |arawn his «mall savings from the maples. | bank, and maiied them, in cash and from the little sugar house where | Tesistered, to a back street in the Farmer Brown's Boy and Farmer |*ums of a distant city. He had brown wore (mean aerce ent déne thie before, and always with « sugar. By and by a wandering Little |{tlins of exaltation, as if, |Night'Breese ticked Buster's none | me at least, the burden he carried with a smell of that syrup. Buster's |W" Hehtened. But today he expert what had happened to him. It mouth watered. It seemed fenced no compensatory relief. Life to hii Jooked harmless enough, @ut then it that never in his life had he wanted {Wa dull and «tale to him, effort in’ had looked just as hafmiess that | anything quite so much as he want-|etectual. At 20 a man should look |back with tenderness, forward with |hope. K. Le Moyne dared not look back, and had no desire to look ahead into empty years. Altho he ate little, the dining room was empty when he finished. Usu ally he had some cheerful banter for Tillie, to which she responded in kind. But, what with the heat and with heaviness of spirit, he did not notice her depression until he rose. ‘other time. So Buster was content 44 some of that syrup. But he was fo glare a it and grow! ugly threats \rraia to go any nearer, and ao’ he way down deep in his throat. | just wandered about uneasily But the shiny tin pail didn't seem | _ * to mind those ugly threats, and) Buster Finds Some | finally Buster went on. On every Next story: | Sugar. “Why, you're not sick, are you, 4 ‘Tillie?’ “Me? Oh, no! Low in my -nind, I guess.” “It's the heat. It's fearful. Look | here. If I send you two tickets to a| roof garden where there's a variety show, can’t you take @ friend and go tonight?” “Thanks; I guess I'll not go out.” Then, unexpectedly, she bent her head against a chair back and fell to silent crying. K. let her ery for a moment. Then “Now-—tell me about it.”” “I'm just worried; that's all.” “Let's see if we can't fix up the Pet | worries, Come, now, out with them!” ¥ | “I'm a wicked woman, Mr. Le 3 Moyne.” |f—I'm pretty much of a lost soul myself.” He put an arm over her shoul ders and drew her up, facing him. “Suppose we go into the parlor | and talk it out, I'll bet things are | not as bad as you imagine,” But when, in the parlor that had seen Mr. Scliwitter's strange pro- posal of the morning, Tillie poured out her story, K.'s face grew grave “The wicked part is that I want to go with him,” she finished. ‘I keep thinking about being out in the country, and him corning in to sup- per, and everything nice for him and me cleaned up and waiting—O my You May Pay More But You Can't Get Better Dentistry It is an absolute fact that nature is@hard to improve on and it is @ fact that the handiwork of nature can be almost exactly reproduced. 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But I’m #0 crazy for children!" “Pxactly. So you should be, But when they come, and you cannot give them & name—don't you see? Examinations and Consultations Are Free I'm not preaching morality God forbid that I~ But no happiness is s built on a foundation of wrong. It's been tried before, ‘Tillie, and it Rooms 205-6-7-8 Pioncer Bldg. First Ave, and James St. Phone Main 6237 doesn’t pan out.” He was conscious of a feeling of failure when he left her at last. She ABT ach salhshih SEAN aaa atirie cht sn Eh ae vote tice manta amet mem em for a} “Then I'm the person to tell it to. | oF hese - "4 APRAID I vas Qvick ,OLIIA, Go UP IM THe SuH Room, There's A PARADE COMM OF “THE SOLOWRS ARE AT'S SO- MaAyYeE (T's Jusr AS WELL, Weu Ween, SEE iF ! some. Ha = Thad acquiesced in what he said lknew he was right, and even prom ined to talk to him again before mak ing a decision one way or the other. But against bis abstractions of con duct and morality there was plead jing in Tillie the hungry mother. | heart; law and creed and early train ing were fighting against the strong jest Instinct of the race loning battle. Copyright. 1918, 7 Mary Reberte Rinehart i | en | CHAPTER XI | The hot August days dragged on, | Merciless sunlight beat in thru the jslatted shutters of ward windows J At night, from the roof to which the nurses retired after prayers for | a breath of air, lower surrounding | roofs were seen to be covered with |sleepers. Children dozed precar) ously on the edge of eternity; men | jand women sprawled in the gro-| | texque postures of sleep | | There was a sort of feverish irri | tability In the air, Even the nurses, |stoically unmindful of bodily diseom: | fort, spoke curtly or not at all Mixes Dana, in Sidney's ward, went) down with a low fever, and for @ day or #0 Sidney and Miss Grange | |got along as best they could. Sid-| ney worked like two or more, per: | formed marvels of bed-making, | learned to give alcohol baths ‘for fe- | ver with the maximum of result and | the minimum of time, even made rounds with a member of the staff and came thru creditably. Dr. Ed Wilson had sent a woman patient into the ward, and his visite were the breath of life to the girl, | “How're they treating you?” he} asked her, one day, abruptly. “Very well.” “Look at me squarely. You're | pretty and you're young. Some of | them will try to take it out of you That's hurnan nature, Has any one | tried it yet?” | Sidney looked distressed. | “Positively, no. It's been hot, and, | of course, it’s troublesome to tell me everything. II think they're all | very kind.” | He reached out a square, compe tent hand, and put ft over hers, “We miss you in the Street,” he| said, “It's all sort of dead there since you left. Joe Drummond doesn’t moon up and down any more, for one thing. What was wrong between you and Joe, Sid ney?” T didn’t want to marry him; that's all.” “That's considerable. The boy's taking it hard.” Then, seeing her face; “But you're right, of course, Don’t marry any one unless you can't live without them, ‘That's been my motto, and here I am, still sin gle.” He went out and down the corri dor, He had known Sidney all her life. During the lonely times when Max was at college and in Europe he had watched her grow from a child to a young girl, He did not suspect for a moment that in that secret heart of hers he sat newly enthroned, in a glow of white light, as Max's brother; that the mere thought that he lived in Max's house (it was, of course, Max's house to her), sat at Max's breakfast table, | could see him whenever he wished, made the touch of his hand on hers | a benediction and a caress, | Sidney finished folding linen and went back to the ward, It was Fri day and a visiting day, Almost every bed had its visitor beside it; but Sidney, running an eye over the ward, found the girl of whom she alas hs. It was a} | the Dutchman who invented the ¢ |ized in Holland. had spoken to Le Moyne quite alone. | She was propped up in bed, reading; | but at e« new step in the corri dor hope would spring into her eyes | and die again “Want anything, Grace | Me? I'm all right. If these peo | CHAPTER ple would only get out and let me| About the easiest thing to grow in read in pew Say, sit down and | One's garden ix the onion. ox : CANE en if x talk to me, won't you? It beats the} It will theive in garden soll too hief the way your friends for-| poor to raixe you when you're laid up in a|bles, and can be made an all-season lke thie. producer—s«pring, summer and fall Peoph For spring green onions, plant the iting hours. can't always come at vie Rexides, it's hot year, and it wasn't too hot for me|be placed about two inches under to trot in twice a week with a/the ground, about two or three bunch of flowers for her. Do you | inc hes apart in rows a foot (if hand think she’s been here once? She | hoeing is to be done) and two feet Gf hasn't.” ‘Then, suddenly “You know that man I told you about the other day?” Sidney nodded. ‘The girl's anxious eyes were on her “It was @ shock to me, that's all. I didn’t want you to think I'd break | ton) apart. within a few days, moist spring weather. bulbs upright, At the same time I seed especially in| Place the cowed onion | These I spaced a bit farther | my heart over any fellow. All I | apart, to save thinning. They make | meant was, I wished he'd let me|fine green onions in early summer, | know.” and the large bulbs may be dug in Her eyes searched Sidney's. They | the fall for winter use | looked unnaturally large and som ber In her face. Her hair had been cut short, and her nightgown, open at the neck, showed her thin throat and prominent clavicles. “You're from the city, aren't you, Miss Page?” Seed onions must be kept free of rows. As the onion seedlings are | }tiny, they are hard to distinguish | from the young weeds coming up so | | thickly in the rows. You will have | }to pull these weeds by hand, as you | jcannot get near enough with a hoe | without harming the onions. “You told me the street, but I've forgotten it.” Sidney repeated the name of the Street, and slipped a fresh pillow under the girl's head, (Continued Saturday.) INVENTOR OF TEUTON Ought to Put These WASHINGTON, D. C., April | The Army Signal Corps is expert-| menting with a recent invention de- | scribed as an “audible beacon.” It PLANE RETURNS HOME) is saia to be 2 combination of the (Special to The Star by N. EB. A)|new wireless telephone and the or-| AMSTERDAM, April 25.—Fokker,|dinary phonograph. It will repeat a/ word or signal designating its posi-| tion. For instance, one at Langley Field might send out the call “Langley” at stated intervals, so the flier may find a landing place in any weather. r man warplane that bore his name, has had enough of Germany. 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