The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 15

By CONDO! INK Too MUCH OF THAT SONG “TO ST IDLY BY, WHILE IT'S BSING BY THORNTO Copyright, 1919, b N W. BURGE yT Ww Concerning Welcome Robin 2 ey ETUST between you and me. Peter . . I think the Bluebirds Show more sense in nest building @han do their cousins, the Robins ‘There is nothing like a house with ) Stout walls and a doorway just big @nough to get in and out of comfort ." said Jenny Wren. Peter nodded quite as if he under. ‘stood all about the advantages of a thouse with walls, “That reminds We,” said he; “the other day I saw Welcome Robin getting mud and) | @arrying it away. Pretty soon he Was joined by Mrs. Robin. She did ‘the same thing. What were they do img with that mud?" “Building their nest, “retorted Jenny. “Welcome | Robin, with that biack head, russet breast, black.and-white throat and Fellow pill. not to mention the Way in which he carries him- , certainly is a handsome fellow, “afd Mrs. Robin is only a little lees t How they can be content build the kind of a home they fs more than I can understand. think Mr. Wren and I use a ‘Bot Of trash in our nest. Perhaps we i but I can tell you one thing, it is clean trash. It is just and clean straws and feath- Welcome Robin ts a fine looker “He acts as if he heard those ‘worms in the ground,” said Peter. and a fine singer, and everybody Joves him, but when it comes to housekeeping, he and Mrs. Robin are just plain dirty. They make the foundation of their nest of mud— plain, common, ordinary mud! They cover this with dead grass, and sometimes there is mighty little of it over the inside walls of mud Any one with eyes at all can find their nest. More than once I ha known them to lose it in a he: a fain, or to have it blow down in high wind. Nothing like this ever happens to Winsome Bluebird or iP tiie.” Welcome Robin flew down on the ground, and after running a few J steps stood still with his head on | one side, as if listening. Then he ) reached down and tugged at some thing, and presently out of the "ground came a long, wriggling angle worm. Welcome swallowed it fened again, then ran three or four steps to the right, where he pulled another worm out of the ground “He acts asx if he heard those worms in the ground,” raid Peter “He does,” said Jenny Wren. “How @o you suppose he would find them if he didn’t hear them?” of course, | “Can you hear them?” asked Peter “I've never tried,” retorted Jenny Welcome Robin may enjoy eating them, but for my part, I want some thing smaller and daintier, like young grasshoppers, little caterpil lars, bugs spiders Peter bad to turn his head aside to hide the wry face he just had to make at the thought of such things for food. Joy Next story: An Old Friend in a New Home. CHINAMAN IMPROVES OPPORTUNITY TO WIN (Special to The Star by N. EB. A)| PARIS, May 26.—Takes a China | |man to improve each passing op- | |portunity to gather in a bit of| jeoin. Chinese laborers with th American Expeditionary Force were forbidden to play a certain popular Oriental gambling game, but for & photographic record for the army service corps a group of them was | asked to make a few passes, The| lequipment was quickly and mys [teriously produced and the specta-| tors asked to put up some Then the pictures were take lerward the officers learned at |the dealer cleaned up about $100 |while the pictures were being | taken, | j |HUN COAL THIEVES | HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN (Special to The Star by N. EB. A) WEIMAR, May 2¢.—Al German plunderers need do is make a show of force to get away with the loot in the home land. After a thou |men had pillaged coal stacks near Nabrense, on the Baltic, they com |mandeered carts, hauled the coal to |a station, stopped a train and loaded the fuel and started for Stettin. But 200 of the looters could not get on the coal train, and the authorities sent a special train and cleared the |line for it to take them to Stettin money Aft. | and PLANE PARTIES ARE | POPULAR IN LONDO (Special to The Star by EA) LONDON, May 26.—Half-hour fly ing parties are London's |: lar sport. Three Handley chines, carrying eight each, are carrying seekers for $: builders lar short f flights as parties ma passenge ace re the sens a head. preparing to offer ghts. Women enjoy ften und family are as men are 1 Gus C. Trune, logger wick, Wash within a eaten a 2 ot died Sunday of the few minutes Yesler mem! of th way, | Loyal Le- Lumbermen morgue | restaurant, was a gion of The body Loggers th “DYNAMITE,” HE CRIED mW YORK, May snappe Dyna mite hen d him what his suit case The had Dave fined $5 for a conduct he satchel contained clothes. | contained. sleuths order! AFTERETFECTS OF “FU LEAVE SYSTEM BADLY SHATTERED Help Is Needed to Restore} precaut! 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S. fron ar druggist tod | Free advice can be h writing to Chief Medical 249 Swift Laboratory, Atlan | vigor by viser ta, Ga THE SEATTLE STAR—MO DOINGS OF THE DUF Say, recent, (’'m (‘Lu SAY | SAW HIM HIT You TWICE, PETER HIT NO - THAT You SAW ME TO BLAME, Amos FS ALL RIGHT, Tom ~ Dorr STAN ov ‘bo LATS - JUST TESTIFY AND HE WAS IT LOOKS AS THOUGH | GONNA, WIN) ) SUIT FOR DAMAGES MAY 26, 1919 That might make a difference, Helen! Peter Loses His 9 1 GUESS TIGHT ROPE WALKI NG ? Star Witness IN AN AUTO ISNT DONE EVERYDAY, S0 (LL SHOW You (Continued From Yesterday) “Little wite-tobe! he had said, and was r amed of his own emo tion. From across the Street, as he got into his car, he had waved his hand to her. Christine went to her room, and, with a long breath of content, K up his long length on the step Well, said. “how goes the world?” “Things have been happening, K.” He rect and looked at her Perhaps because she had a woman's instinct for making the cnost of a piece of news, perhaps—cnore likely indeed—because she divined that the Announcement would not be entirely she delayed it, pldyed sat agreeable, with it 1} room Finer" ‘The costume is ugly cous in it.” Doubtless.” He smiled up at her. There was relief in hie eyes, and still a question. bat all the newer?” “There is something elee, K."" It was a moment before he spoke. He sat looking shead, his f Apparently he did not wish to hear her it; for when r a moment, he spoke, it was to forestall her, after all ave gone into the operating I look hid net I think I know what it is, Sid ney.” didn’t re to wish You expected it you?” “I—it's not an en “Aren't you & piness? If my wishing could thing 1 to you verything in the wor His voice was not entirely steady, but his eyes smiled into hers, “Am I—are we going to lose you soon?" I shall surpri hap bring any- would have finish 2 condit in a burst I know so little so much! I that he my training. I made Ther confidence und he knows to read and talk to me That's what cnar . a sort of partner so?” K um goin, study, #0 can about ught to Don't you think nodded. His mind refused to forward the unthinkable fu ria ship. K Ko ture “Do you know,” said Sidney, sud- denly, “that it ts almost a year sin that night you came up the and I That's 4 to get to , isn’t it! He man ged some surprise into his voice How Joe objected ing! Poor Joe!” “Do you ever see him?” “Hardly ever now. I hates me to your com. think he well, you know, K. Why do men always hate a woman who just happens not to love them? “I don’t believe they do, It would be much better for them if they could. As a matter of fact, there a poor devils who go thru life trying to do that very thing, and failing.’ iney's eyes on the tall It was Dr. Fd's eve hour, and thru the open were house ning office acrous dear ministering angel,” he | »|Was going to the je waiting their turn. They sat im mobile, inert, doggedly patient. until the opening of the back office door promoted them all one chair toward the consulting room shall be just acroms the Street,” the raid, at last. “Nearer than I am at the hospital.” “You will be much farther away. | You will be married.” “But we will still be friends, K.?" | Her voice was anxious, a little p zied. She was puzzled w him. “Of course” But, after another axtounded her. Bhe the way of thinking of him as always belonging to the house, even, in a sense, belonging to her And now “Shall you mind very much if I tell you that I am thinking of going away “My dear child, often nilence, he you do not need & roomer any me 1 have always recelved infinitely more than I have paid for, even in the small services I have been able to render. Your Aunt Harriet is prosperous, You are away and some day you are going to be married, Don't you see—I am not es That does not mean you are not wanted “I shall not go far, I'll always be r enough, so that I can see changed this hastily—‘'so that we can still meet talk things Old friends ought to be lik not te ur, Dut to be turned Jed, like a tap “Where will you go?” “ Rosenfelds are rather in I thought of helping them ta small house somewhere and aking a room with them. It's |largely a cnatter of furniture. If they could furnish it even plainly, it jcould be done. I—haven't saved anything.” “Do you ever think of yourself?” she cried. “Have you always gone thru life helping p i kK ny thin I should th all on others!’ and put her hand on his shoul der, ‘It will not be home you, K."* To save him, spoken just then | “You have not wished me happi ness, K. Do you remember, when I hospital and you gave me the little watch—do you re member what you said?” “Yes"—-huskily Will you say it again?” But that was good by.” “len't this, in a way? You coing to leave us, and I—say it | “Good by, a you.” over that on when ne pple Rave You bent spend it She he could not are K." | CHAPTER XT The announcement of Sidney's en-| ajpending danger to erent was not to be made for Wilson, was obl that it was best. Many could happen in a@ year. Carlotta would have finished her training, by that time would probably be oncile to the Uonship. Tie intended to end that to admit to him rec He had had fallen into! without | have | , and—God b1688) said chafing under the de-| things | and|t ending of their rela-| eifishly was genuinely ali that} pride was very happy glowed with put thea fushed when she heard praises sung; grew to know, by a sort of intuition, when he was in the house, She wore his ring on « fine chain around her neck, and grew pr every day Onee or twice was our, summer when her lover piece of tated work and hie palpi er however, when she at home, away from the glam her early fears obsessed her. Would he always love her? He was so handsome and #0 gifted, and there were women who were mad about him. That was the gossip of the hos. pital K. had postponed his leaving until fall. Sidney had been insistent, and Harriet had topped the argument in her businesslike way “If you insist on being an idiot and adopting the Rosenfeld family,” she said, “wait UNtLI September. The season for boarders doesn't begin until fail K. waited for “the season and ate hix heart out for Sidney in the interval. Johnny Rosenfeld stil! lay in his ward, inert from the waist down, K was hin most frequent visitor. Asa matter of fact, he was watching the boy closely, at Max Wilson's request. “Tell me when I'm to do it,” sald Wilson, “and when the time comes, for God's sake, stand by me. Come to the operation He's got eo much confidence that I'll help him that I don’t dare to fail.” 80 K. came on visiting days, and spec dispensation, on Saturd: ‘noons. H was teaching the basket making. Not that he knew anything about {t himself; but, by means of a d teacher, he kept} just one legson ahead, The ward was interested. It found some abeurd and rather touching in serious young man with deft fingers, tying by af ja knots. ‘he first basket went, by Johnny's request, to Sidney Page I want her to have it," he said, “She got corns on her fingers from rubbing me when I came in first; and . besides Yes?" said K. He was tying a| most complicated knot, and could not | look up. I know something,” ‘I'm talkin) said Johnny. | going to get in wrong by but T know something. You r the basket then, and surprised secret in his face looked up Johnny's Ah!" he “it Va ished me you know these days." | I'll not tell, or make it uncom-| fortable for you. What do you] know?” | Johnny looked around was in the somnolence noon. Th arest patient, a man In a wheel chair, was snoring heavy ily 1 “It was the dark-eyed one that] changed the medicine on me," he} ‘The one with the Is that} were always tapping around, waking | me up did it: 1 saw her! After all, it was only what K. had | suspected before, But a sense of im-| Sidney obsessed him. If Carlotta would do that, what would she do when she learned of the engagement? And he had known | her before, He believed she w lly unscrupulous, The odd coin- cidence of their paths crossing again troubled him 1 Carlotta Harrison was well again, | and back on duty. Luckily for sid-! aid wquealed she'd have fin-| for good, Thi got me, | I'm not running in 2:40] The ward! of mid-after. window she could see @ line of peo-|meant every word of what he had ney, her three months’ service in the peo: | y Jea ler smiles, renew him. ue. ignored. jl | operating as far as|For Carlotta was mac tiflable, wu: But to desert a woman, apparently against the rules of the game. room not kept was or certain even Then Carlotta ma move senior A new interne had come into} piqued him. The enthroning of a suc. the house, and was going thru the|cessor galled him. process of at learning medical them now not merely She found herself neglected It ate her like a But she did not yet suspect an en difficult | S4sement method She stopped sulking, met Max with no overtures towg of their re this annoyed him. simple fons Later it piqued To desert a woman was jus roumstances and have her know that By ALLMAN | 1F 1 Ten You THAT | You Cat's Go WILL | "r weLe ANY P a | oveuT To Go Dow TO AUTTLE MeeTWG AT THe Cup bur! Just CAAT Get MY SeLe STARTED- wat’s “THe MATTER, AreNty You Gowe P | Nou DION'T SEE MY AUTOMOBILE 1/>\ HIT PETER PAL, > \, CJ \X DID You, AMos ? WHEN (1S DONE WITH A GYROSCOPE ATTACHMENT) LIKE T HAVE ON MY BUS— if-baked junior interne is a long Ine termed it, in the operating buck. He had to endure the|as he assisted the anaesthetist, | good humored contempt ofthe older; took his troubles to Carlotta, | men, the patronizing instructions of | soothed him in the corridor—in nurses as to rules jsight of her quarry, of co alone treated him with| putting & sympathetic hand deference. His uneasy rounds in| sleeve. : Carlotta’s precinet took ‘on the’ state} and form of staff visitations, She| Let's go eat at B . flattered, cajoled, looked up to him. | 1414 3rd Av.; downtown, 913 2nd After a Ume it dawned on Wilson | T ER Reduce that this junior cub was getting more | your doctor’s _ bills by keeping on jattention than himself; that, wher-| VicxsV PORU ever he happened to be, somewhere BODYGUARD” - SOP, 601 apart. | ver | Cartotts enough 1a At it, was/|in the offing would be Carlotta and| the Lamb, the latter eyeing her with her second | worship. 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