The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1919, Page 13

SIR, TA Not TAKING AD TO SELL THE & I LOST OVER S6 ON THEM! COST, SH$ Lost ARMS QHT AND HEALTH How OUR SOLDIERS WHO cess, NY BONDS THIS TRIP. S THAT I HAD, AND =] A - ops AW, THATS En TIRS LY DiSeSRenTt — t BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) _ Jenny Wren's Ideas About Dress [D> you have a pleasant jour- Rey up from the sunny asked Peter Rabbit of Jenny | Pleasant.” replied Jenny. it rather easily. Some right thru without stop should think they would be © death when they arrive. Mr. I prefer to take it easily fist follow along behind Mis. é. keeping far enough be | so that if she has to turn) We will not be caught by Jack | | It gives us time to get our) on the way. You know,| you my,” chattered I see of bright better I like brown. It taste, It goes It ia} ft is useful. If there is} @etting out of sight in a can do it if you wear) But if you wear bright it isn’t so easy. I never ly who happens to have brighter clothes than mine. I've seen dreadful things happen, all on account of wearing bright colors.” “What?” “I'd rather not talk about them,” things I've heard you say,” chattered denny. declared Jenny in a very emphatic way. “Way down where we spent the winter some of the feathered folks who live there all the year round wear the brightest and most beautiful suits I've ever seen. They are simply gorgeous. But I've no- tleed that in times of danger these are the fotka dreadful things hap- Pal Was “There” pen to. You see, they sim get out of sight. For my part. I | would rather be simply and neatly | dressed and feel safe than to wear | Wonderful clothes and never know ja minute's peace, Why, there are |wome families I know of which, be jcause of their beautiful suits, have | | been #0 hunted by men that ay jany are left. But, gracious, Peter | Rabbit, I can’t #it here all day talk jing to you. I must find out who else has arrived tn the “id Orchard, and must look my old .ouse over to nee if It Is Mit to live in.” Next story: A Neighborhood Squabbie CHELAN COUNTY PLANS GOOD ROAD BUILDING | WENATCHEE, May 14—Ptans | for issuing $1,600,000 worth of gen eral county road bonds in order to | construct about 55 miles of concrete pavement were adopted Tuesday by the Chelan County Good Roads as- sociation The proposition will go to the voters at a special election to be ¢alled at an early date by the county commissioners. GOODYEAR TRUCK TIRES Solid and Cushion ARE NOW SELLING AT 33% REDUCTION From List Prices All prices include rims and pressing on. Our SERVICE station is AT YOUR SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT with the best equipment money A TELEPHONE CALL BRINGS AN EXPERT A GOODYEAR SPECIALIST—CALL HIM can Elliott 2441 East .. 770 OHN S. BAISDEN, Inc. 5 | Sthand Union TIRE ENGINEERS 1406 Tenth Ave. | (Continued from Tuceday) The Christmas morning had brought Sidney half a dozen gifts. |K. sent her a rilver thermometer case with her monogram, Christine | & toflet mirror. But the gift of gifts, lover which Sidney's eyes had glowed, was & great box Of roses marked in 'Dr. Mass copperplate writing, “From a neighbor.” Tucked In the soft folds of her ker | chief was one of the roses that after. noon. Services over, the nurses filed out, | Max was waiting for Sidney tn the | corridor. Merry Christmas!’ he said, and held out his hand, | “Merry Christmas!’ she said. “You you!"—she glanced down to the rore she wore. “The others make the moat splendid bit of color in the ward.” “Put they were for you" “They are not any the leas mine because I am letting other poeple have a chance to enjoy them.” Under all his gayety he was curt ously diMdent with her. All the | pretty speeches he would have nade |to Carlotta under the circumstances died before her frank glance ‘There were many things he wanted to say to her. He wanted to tell her |} that he was sorry her mothe had/ died; that the Street was empty without her; that he looked forward to these daily meetings with her as a holy man to his hour before his saint. What he really said was to | inquire politely whether she had had her Christmas dinner. | hurt. “What have I done, Max? bad for discipline for us to be good friends?” “Damn discipline! said the pride of the staff. Carlotta was watching them from j the chapel. Something in her eyes ways slumbered in him. | “My car's been stalled in a snow: drift down town since early this morning, and’ I have Ed's Peggy in |a sleigh. Put on your things and come for a ride." | He hoped Carlotta could hear what he said; to be certain of it, he mali clously raised his voice a trifte. “Just a little run,” he urged. on your warmest things.” Sidney protested. She was to be | free that afternoon until 6 o'clock; but she had promised to go home, "K. ia alone.” “K. can sit with Christine. one, he's with her now.” The temptation was very strong. She had been working hard all day The heavy odor of the hospital, min- gled with the scent of pine and ever- | green in the chapel, made her dizzy. ‘The fresh outdoors called her, And, besides, if K. were with Christine— “It's forbidden, isn’t it?” “T believe it is." He smiled at her. “And yet, you continue to tempt me and expect me to yield!” “One of the most delightful things about temptation is yielding now and then.” After all, the situation seemed ab: surd, Here was her old friend and neighbor asking to take her out a daylight ride. ‘The swift rebellion “Put Ten to Carlotta had gone by that time gone with hate in her heart and black despair. She knew very well what the issue would be. Sidney would drive with him, and he would toll ber how lovely she looked with Sidney eyed him, half amused, half | Ta it} roused the devil of mischief that al-| of youth against authority surged up| YEP, AND ITS GONNA GET SPEED GOAT- You LMM DP MLE Wer Mayer You Twili | WAVeN“T— | HAO Those. PUMPS OW ME For “Thaw Wouns,LET’s see ROT SO FAST BUDDY- ALL 1 GOTTA DO 1S START MY SAND-TRACK ATTACHMENT, AND FOLLOW “THE TRACKS ~ = Lx ah Sa: pee eS Spee ' | good-looking young fellow Uke that | common ground Marx R oberts }the alr on her face and the snow jabout her, The jerky motion of the little sleigh would throw them/| | close together. How well she knew | ‘it all! He would touch Sidney's | hand daringly and smile tn her eyes. | ‘That was his method: to play at love: | | making Mke an audacious boy, until) quite sud@enly the cloak dropped }and the danger was there. | ‘The Christmas excitement had not | died out in the ward when Carlotta went back to it. On each bednide| table was an orange, and beside it a pair of woolen gloves and a folded white handkerchief. There were| sprays of holly scattered about, too, | and the after-dinner content of roast turkey and ice cream. The lame girl who played the vio- lin imped down the corridor into the ward. She was greeted with silence, that truest tribute, and with the in- stant composing of the restless ward | to peace. She was pretty in a young, pa-| thetic way, and because to her) Christmas was a festival and meant hope and the promise of the young Lord, she played cheerful things. The ward sat up, remembered that it was not the Sabbath, smiled across from bed to bed. | ‘The probationer, wnose name was Wardwell, was a tall, lean girl with a long, pointed nose. She kept up a running accompaniment of «mall talk | to the music. | “Last Christmas,” she said, plain- tively, “we went out into the copn-| try in a hay wagon and had a real) time. I don't know what I am here for, anyhow. I am a fool.” } “Undoubtedly,” aaid Carlotta. | “Turkey and goose, mince pie and | pumpkin pie, four kinds of cake; | that’s the sort of «pread we have up! in our part of the world, When I |think of what I sat down to to day—!" She had a profound respect for Carlotta, and her motto in the hos: pital differed from Sidney's in that! it was to placate her superiors, while Sidney's had been to care for her patients. | Seeing Carlotta bored, she ven- tured a little gossip, She had idly | glued the label of a medicine bottle | lon the back of her hand, and was |weratching a skull and croas bones | on it “I wonder if you have noticed | something,” she said, eyes on the la | bet “I have noticed that the 3 o'clock | medicines are not given,” said Car: }lotta, sharply; and Miss Wardwell, | wtill labeled and adorned, made the rounds of the ward, | When she came back she was | sulky. | “I’m no gorsip,” she said, putting the tray on the table, “If you won't nee, you won't. That Rosenfeld boy |is crying.” As it was not required that tears be recorded on the record, Carlotta paid no attention to this, “What won't I see?” It required a little urging now. | Miss Wardwell awelled with tmpor- tance and let her superior ask her twice. Then: ir, Wilson's crazy about Page.” A hand seemed to catch Carlotta’s heart and hold it, hey're old friends." Pie! Being an old friend doesn’t |make you look at @ girl as if you wanted to take a bite out of her. | Mark my word, Miss Harrison, she'll never finish her training; she'll marry him. I wish,” concluded the | probationer, plaintively, “that some 1 Miss: I'd do a mud would take a fancy to me. him credit. I an an ugt fence, but I've got style She was right, probably. | The lame violin player limped out of the ward; the shadows of the| learly winter twilight settled down. | this. They think I'm only a proba- tioner and don’t see anything, but I've got eyes in my head. Harrison is stark crazy over Dr. Wilson, and She was!At 5 o'clock Carlotta sent Miss | she thinks I don't see it. long and sinuous, but she wore her | Wardwell to first supper, to the sur-| mind; I paid her up today for a few lanky, {il-fitting clothes with a cer-|prise of that seldom surprised per. | of the jolts she has given me! tain distinction, Harriet Kennedy | would have dressed her in jade green | about quietly. to match her eyes, and with long jade ear rings, and made her a fash- jon, Carlotta’s lips were dry. The vio- linist had seen the tears on Johnny Rosenfeld’s white cheeks, and had rushed into rollicking. joyous music. The ward echoed with it. “I'm 21 and she's 18," hummed the ward under ite breath. Miss Wardwell's thin body swayed “Lord, how I'd like to dance! If I ever get out of this charnel-house!” The medicine tray lay at Carlotta’s elbow; bexide it the box of labels ‘This crude girl was right—right Carlotta knew it down to the depths of her tortured brain. Aw inevitably an the night followed the day, she was losing her game. She had lost already, unless — If she could get Sidney out of the hospital, it would simplify things. She surmised shrewdly that on the Street their interests were wide The ward lay still or shuffied Christmas was over, land there were no evening, papers | | to look forward to. | Carlotta gave the 5 o'clock medi- |eines. Then she sat down at the table near the door, with the tray in front of her. There are certain thoughts that are at first functions | lof the brain; after a long tine the spinal cord takes them up and con- verta them into acts almost auto- matically. Perhaps because for the last month she had done the thing so/| loften in her mind, its actual per- formance was almost without con- scious thought. Carlotta took a bottle from her | medicine cupboard and, writing «| new label for it, pasted it over the jold one. Then she exchanged it for | |one of the same size on the medicine | tray. 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