The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1919, Page 13

VE A VERY Fine 1ON INSIDE, Si1R— ON'T You STEP IN F "By CONDO! NO MY DEAR SPIDER, PLL NOT STEP U L NEVER TRADE THeY TRAP THE Synopsis of Preceding Chapters PR. Sabarite, a $15-a-week bookkeeper, is tired of his dull grind Uckets to see the Oriental play Kiernet, thru the kindnes: of | but well-to-do relatives. Snbarite, after thrashing George Brows, | clerk, for calling bim theater. They ask “Molly Lessing’ the same boarding house. to accompany them. He “Percival,” George to accom and Violet Prim, Broms THE SEATTLE STAR—-THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919 DOINGS OF THE DUFFS—- “Two VANILLA Ice | | CREAM SODAS PLEASE WON'T, MY SWEET - |'\VE QUARREL ANY |]! ore MORE, wicl we?// LET ME TRY SOME “LIQUID AIR” ON OTTO AUTO - THATLL ot a missing young woman in the evening paper, Blessington be the mysterious girl. Instaliment opens with Miss Leasing | ‘The following Gepartiment store. He ventures that Sabarite warns him to say at the boarding house or the evening of the theater party which ike a vineingty With determination and « heavy tread he went on to his room. Vi Spring Twilight When he had shaved (with par ticular care) and changed his linen | acknowledged the saluta-| (trimming collar and cuffs to a de-| i | table, In the basement dining room. | | gree of uncommon nicety) and re- sumed his coat rushing and hating a ferocity, for its very shabbiness) P. simOitaneously and with equal! had cost P. Sybarite many a night | of bedside vigil. On the floor below lived @ maiden lady whose quench: | amiable person. clammy parlor he had whiled away unnumbered hours aesisting at dreary “bridge drives,” or Diving) audience to amateur recitals on th laged and decrepit “family organ.” For an entire decade he had occu pled the same chair at the same feasting on beef, mutton, Irieh stew, ham and beans, veal, pork or Juat-hash according to the designat ( om, QUID MR ») eht~ iD gerrer | dixpteasure, Besides, he was hun kry; between the home exerciser and the daily walks to and from the training. Miss Lessing sat on the sgme ride Of the main Ginitg table. but halt a down chaire away, P. Sybarfte couldn't see her eave by ersning his neck, He refused to crane his neck; 1 RGA seem velentalous Violet ond her Gegrge occupied ad. Joining chairs at another and smati- er table, Their attendance wae oo castonally manifested thru the med.) Rabbit wome time, so TN just run over and & dipsomaniac whose periodic orgies lant to hurt her feelings or incur her j jess hopes still centered about his| Brooklyn bridge, his normal appetite | Downstairs in the| was that of an athlete in pink ee | | | } } | Tom Sets’ - uM UM { | HOW CAN You SAY THAT WHEN YOU KNOW 1M 1’ BLAME FOR THEM ALL? sf | YOu ? wuy | YOU ARE NOT PAGE 13 Nowl, PAY “THe manl For “We SODA ~—By ALLMAN | WELL, Now How DO | Nou Fee? { | Guess | Much OBLIGED Nou’RE IMPOSSIBLE | ou- Moun ( WA Tes NTE ~ THIS. \. ELECTRICALLY HEATED “) CHAMBER WILL KEEP ME ) , WARA~ C'MON YOU : ’ Kce AIRE \ oe “ee, at (wow ~ F tHaT S DONT STOP ram, ALL BETS ARE | | | bard was But }1ooked good to eat. |even , . the BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919. by T. W. Burgess) THINK [I'll ran over to the! real danger Bmiling Pool,” exclaimed Peter | but you, Peter, for I was having a | ance, “L haven't been there for) ———— |plied Peter, ( WeEM~HEK ICE TODAY — Tce! SPECIAL BARGAIN ~- 100 POUNDS FOR A SITWEY!~—1'M AN ICEBERG i ON WHEELS - HEH-HEM splendid meal here and I would have hated to leave it. You'll excuse me I go on eating, I hope. We talk between bites.” | short, and his neck was ‘ertainly, I'll excuse you,” re-|his bill was long enough staring around very up. His back was a mixture of g1 to see what it could be Longbill/ brown, black and buff, wl making such a good meal of.|breast and under parts Peter couldn't see a thing that beautiful reddish buff. It was There wasn't | head that made him look queer, a bug or a worm crawling on eyes were very big and so far ground. Longbill took two or|that Peter wondered if it | three steps in rather stately fashion. | casier for him to look behind | Peter had to hide a smile. I am glad it is no one | Longbill had such an alr of import: | You see than in front of him. Next story: The Secret of © . yet at the same time he was’ Little Round Holes, Sybarite sought out a pipe old and/ed day of the week to Grandfather disreputable enough to be a comfort to any man, and sat down by the one window of bis room itop floor, hall, back) to smoke and consider the state of the universe while await. ing the dinner gong. The window commanded an eleyat- ed if non-exhilarating view of back yards, one'and all da: littered with the debi hard winter. Famihacity, however? had rendered P. Sybartte immune to the miaama of melancholy they ex- hailed; the trouble in his patient blue eyes, the wrinkles that lined his forehead, owned another cause, In fact, George had wrought more disastrously upon his temper than P. Sybarite had let him see. His hints, innuendoes and downright as- sertions had in reality distilled @ subtle poison into the little man’s humor. For in spite of his embat- tled incredulity and the clear rea. soning with which he had over- borne George's futile insistence, |. | there still lingered in his mind @nd to compose himself with less success than he ‘with a suggestion of steaith ascended the second flight! caution that were wasted. for the space of three inches. this aperture were visible a of bright eyes, with the curve & plump and pretty cheek, and ‘An adorable bare arm and shoulder. | “That you, George?” Violet Prim f demanded with vivacity. | Reluctantly he stopped and in a throaty monosyllable admitted his ty. “Well, how'd it go off?” “Fine! “He fell for it?” “AM over himself. Honest, Vi, it @ scream to watch his eyes pop. could've clubbed ‘em outa his without touchin’ his beak. I died.” B Miss Prim giggled appreciatively.| “You're a wonder, George,” she “It takes you to think “hh, I don't know,” returned her admirer wth becoming modesty. “He's gone on her, all right, ain’t phe?” i “Crazy about her!’ “Think he'll make a play for her George demurred, Downright ly- ing was all very well; he could man- Age that with passable craft, espe- | cially when, as in this instance, de- ‘tection would be difficult; but proph- | eey was a little out of his line. Tho with misgivings, he resorted to un-| | varnished truth: 4 “You never can tell | He's « queer little gink. Footsteps became audible on the below. me Well, so long. See you at din- ”’ George added in haste. “George!” “Well?” he asked, delaying with 111 | Brace, “Wh about P. 8. makes you sound #0 always would, until he knew the truth himself) a carking doubt. Perhaps it was" true. Perhaps George had guewsed shrewdly. Per haps Molly Lessing of the glove counter really was one and the same with Marian Blessington of the fab- ulous fortune, Old Brian Shaynon was a known | devil of infinite astuteness; it would | be quite consistent with his charac- |ter and past performances if, de- |spairing of gaining control of his ward's money by urging her into | unwelcome matrimony with hie son, he had contrived to over-reach her in some manner, and #o driven her | to become self-supporting Perhaps hardly likely, the hypothe. sis was none the less quite plausible; & thing had happened, within P. | Sybarite’s knowledge of Brian Shay- non. Even if George's romance were true only in part, thene were wretch- | ed circumstances for a girl of gentle birth and rearing to adopt. It was really a shocking boarding house. P Sybarite had known it intimately for ten years; use had made him callous to its shortcomings; but he was not yet #0 far gone that he could forget | how unwholesome and depressing it | must seem to one accustomed to bet- | ter things. He could remember most vividly how he had loathed it for weeks, months, and years after the tide of evil fortunes had cast him upon its crumbling brownstone stoop (even in that distant day, crumbling) Now, however * * * P. Sybarite realized suddenly that habit had in atilled into bis bosom a sort of mean affection for the grim and sohaid place, Time had made him sib to its spirit, close to its niggard heart | Searcely a nook or corner of it with | which he was not on terms of the most intimate acquaintance, In the adjoining room a deserted woman had died by her own hand; her | moans, filtered through the dividing |wall, had summoned P. Sybarite— too late, The double front room on the same floor harbored an amiable couple whose sempiternal dissen 4 only his tact and persistence ever served to still. The other hall- | “Laughin's" protested George con-|vedroom had housed for many years fhe very room in which he sat) arite envied them; he had it in his was somehow dear to him; upon fee nds to envy anybody young he wasted a sentiment in a way kin} to that with which one regards the | ner table. grave of a beloved friend; it was,/ In fact, the tomb of his own youth. | ed her seat some minutes in advance him all those many nights [potent mutiny against the oj & prisoner there. Ita walls had mut-|againet the cost of laundry work, ed the sighs in which the desires of | tobacco and incidentals, he had five youth had been spent. Its floor | dollars left. matting was worn threadbare with, He wondered if he dared rik the the impatient pacings of his feet extravagance of «a modest supper (four strides from door to window; | after the theater; and knew he dared swing and repeat ad libitum). Its|not-—knew {it in wretchedness of solitary gas jet had, with begrudged | spirit, cursing his fate. Mumination, sickiied o'er the pages! There remained half an hour to be of those innumerable borrowed| killed before time to start for the books with which he had sought to | theater. George Bross joined him dull poignant self-consciousnens, jon the stoop. They smoked pen A tomb! Bitterly he grant-| sively, while the afterglow faded ed the aptness of that description! from the wentern sky and veil after lof his cubicle; mausoleum of his|vell of shadow crept stealthily out jevery hope and aspiration, sepulchre| of the East, masking the rectangu fed all his ability and promise. In| lar, utilitarian ugliness of the,street, | this narrow room hie very self had | deepening its dusk to darkness. been extinguished; @ man had de-| Street lamps, touched by the flame. | generated into a machine, Every-| Upped wand of a belated lamplight | thing that caught his eye bore mute er, bourgeoned spasmodically like | witness to this truth; the shabby| garish flowers of the metropolitan | tin alarm clock on the battered bu-| night. Across the way gaelit win jum of giggles and guffaws. P. aye | | rea waa one of a dynasty that had| aroysed him at six in the morning with unfatling regularity three hun: dred and sixty-five timen per year (Sundaya were too rare in his cai dows glowed like squares on some great, blurred checker board. The roadway teemed with shrieking chil dren. Somewhere—near at hand—a planola lost tts temper and whaled endar and too precious to be wasted abed). From an iron hook in the window frame dangled the elastic! Lady.” Other, more diffident instru: home exerciser with which it was|ments tinkled apologetically in the his unfailing habit to perform a cer-| distance. Intermittently, across the |tain number of matutinal contop it seaffolding of the Ninth ave | tions, to keep his body wholesome | nue L, at one end of the block, roar |and efficient. Beneath the bed was|ing trains flashed long chains of | visible the rim of a shallow FEnglish| lights. On the other hand, Eighth |tub that made possible his subse-|ave. buzzed resonantly in stifling | quent sponge bath. clouds of incandescent dust. The A machine; @ fixture; creature of| air‘amelt of warm asphalt an implacable routine; a spirit im-| And it was spring, | molated upon the a of habit; into| spring P. Sybarite had wat | this he had degenerated in ten years.| that self-same spot Such was the effect of life in this| Discontent bred in him a brooding melancholy shelter for the homeless | despondency. He felt quite sure | wagesiave. He was no lonely vic-|that the realists were right about |tim. In his term he had seen many | life—it wasn’t worth living after all another come In hope, linger in dis. The prospect of the theater lost appointment, leave only to go to a|its attraction. He was sure he meaner cell in the same stratum of njoy it. Such silly romant misfortune nse waa out of tune with Was this radiant spirit of youth|the immortal truth about things, and gentle loveliness (who might, for| which he had just discovered. Life lal one knew to the contrary, be|was a poor fol | Marian Blessington after all) to be} At nis side, George Rross, on his suffered to become one of that dis-| behalf, was nursing hia private and consolate crew? personal grouch. Between them they What could be done to prevent it?| manufactured an atmosphere of thing that the wits of P. Syb-| gloom that would have done credit could compass; he was an in-|to a brace of dumb socialists. iclent as any gnat in any web, But presently Miss Prim and Miss Thru the balls resounded the caco-| Leasing appeared, and changed all phonous clangor of a cracked gong | that in a twinkling. announcing dinner, Sighing, P. Syb-| (10 BE CONTINUED) arite rose and knocked the ashes delicately from his pipe—saving the dottle for a goodnight whiff after the theater. Being Satu: of ham and b Sybarite loathed ham and beans with a death ly loathing, Nevertheless he ate his dole of ham and beans. He sat on the landiady's right, and was reluct- the eyerlasting daylights out of an inoffensive melody from ‘The Pink the tenth ned from is full of “has-beens,” m the pee frown; ® how high you were it was the night After you'vé tumbled down. So go out and hustle for yourself Or on pay day you'll be missed; The mill will only grind for you While you supply the grist, ough | Frog and Redwing to be able to see a joke at that din-| Redwing was one of the first birds By custom, the landiady relinquish: | ed him shamefally.” Its narrow and impoverished bed had| of any guest. Whon P. Sybarite left typ, for the Smiling Poot groaned with the restless weight of the room he found her established clone to the edge of the Green For. thru | at a desk in the basement hallway. |est until he reached the place where | Which he had lain wakeful, in im: Pauaing, he delivered unto her the|the Laughing Brook comes out on ‘ag major portion of his week's wages. ite way to t cous clreumetances that made him | Setting aside another certain amount | Green Meadow! | | | pay my reapects the Blackbird. to arrive this year, and I've neglect Off Peter started. lppertylipper- He kept Smiling Pool in the Bushes and young trees krew along the Laughing» Brook at this point, and the ground) was soft, In places it was quite) muddy, Peter doesn't mind getting | his feet damp so he hopped along | carelessly, From under hie very nose something shot into the air. with a whistling sound. It startled Peter so that bo stopped short with his eyes popping out of highead. He WAttend This FREE Lecture AFTER THE LECTURE STEP ACROSS THE STREET TO OUR OFFICES AND LET US SHOW YOU HOW WELL EQUIPPED WE ARE TO CARE FOR YOUR DENTAL NEEDS [le 4 EXPERTS TOTALK | ON CHILD REALTH Mothers Will Hear Vital Sub- jects Discussed at Freder- ick & Nelson’s. Hear What Doctors Say About the Care SESSIONS BEGIN MONDAY of the Teeth “I deciare,” sald he. “I had for-| gotten all about my friend Long Bill the Woodcook,” } caught a glimpse of a brown form | disappearing over the tops of some amall bushes. Then Peter chuckled. “I declare,” said he, “I bad forgotten | all about my friend Longbill the| Woodcock. He scared me for @ sec: | ond.” ‘Then you are even,” said a voice close at hand, * you seared him I saw you comir but Longbill | didn't.” Peter turned quickly. ‘There wes Mrs. Woodcock peeping at him from behind a tussock of grass, “I didn't mean to scare him,” apologized Pe: ter, "I really didn’t mean to, Do you think he was very much | soared?” Yot too scared to come back, any-| way," sald Longbill himeelf, drop: | ping down just in front of Peter, “I comnived you just as T was disap: pearing over the tops of the bus! j *0 I came right back. When very | young T lear that when startled | it is best to fiy first and find out afterward whether or not there is EURALGIA” or Headache— Rub the forehead and temples with VicxsV ‘YOUR BODYGUARD" - 5 Child health in all ite ramifica- tions will be discussed with moth- ers of the ¢ under direction of the public se in the audit Nelson's dep ont next we perta in child peyehology, ch eare and prob- hers will speak every beginning Monday and Friday. ‘Talc on Teeth Dr es Mann will talk on Vriday on the importance of the © ng children. This sub- the branches of work ttle rehool clinics have is held b; Dr, Ira C. Brown, district medical inspector, to be one of the most important’ in health matters, since a larger per- centage of contagtoun disease can be traced directly to poor teeth than y other cause res will begin at 3 cilities for the care of s and the comfort of women ding the lectures will be pro- ending bab The Child’s Health Depends upon its teeth. 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