The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 3

Just think of seeing a hard-fought foot race across the Nev- ada desert, with a girl’s heart and a huge fortune at stake! It’s all in the excit- ing play now showing here— COPYR!IGS » | hen | | Father watches the stars, wanetimes musts ever Mary = | whe finds life’ pretty lonesome She | eet invited te « ay ) poe given for an hee eld friends, and tries net to care | BRULN “ake, TODAY I dofi't see much of father. still, [there's something kind of queer j about it, after all, He only speaks |t0 me about twice a day—just | “Good-morning, Mary,” and “Good. night.” And so far as most of his actions are concerned you wouldn't | think by them that he knew I was in the house. Yet, over and over again at the table, and at times Yi when I didn't even know he was ‘round, I'vp found him watching me, | and with such a queer, funny look | in his eyes, Then, very quickly al: | ways, he looks right away. But last night he* didn’t. And that's especially what I wanted to write about today, And this is the| | Way it happened. it was after supper, and I had gone into the brary, Father had gone out to the observatory as usual, and Aunt Jane had gone up- stairs to her room as usual, and as| usual I was wandering ‘round look ing for something to do. I wanted to play on the piano, but I didn't dare to—not with all those dead-| f\hair and wax-flower folks in the! | parlor watching me, and the chance | 4 of father’s coming in as he did be fore. | I was standing In the window | [staring out at nothing—it wasn't quite dark yet—when again I had that queer feeling that somebody was looking at me. I turned—and |there was father. He had come in land was sitting in the big chair by | the table, But this time he didn’t! lqok right away as usual and give/ me a chance to alip quietly out of the room, as I always bad before. Instead he said: “What are you doing there,| Mary?” | “N-ggghing.” I know 1 stammered. scares me to talk to Frances Drager, Violinist Pathe Review It father. “Nonsense™ Father frowned and hitched in his chair. Father always hitches in his chair when he's irri-} tated and nervous. “You can't be! doing néthing. Nobody but a dead! |man does nothing—and we aren't #0 brave man and|sure about him. What are you do- ing, Mary?” ‘Women admire Weve an audacious one Four Popular Hits—August § “Love Nest” and “Bine Diamonds*—Both from “Mary” Double-tace record of reigning musical comedy—85¢ “All Star” and “Hy'n | in Dri”. —One ‘Step and Fox Trot Both played by All-Star Trio. Great for dancing —85¢ “Love Nest” and “A Young Man's Fancy"—Fox Trots Another double-face arrangement, sure to be popular—85¢ “I Love the Land of Old Black Joe” Bung by Billy Murray; also “Tiddie-Deo-Winks"—65¢ VICTROLAS $25 to $1500 Convenient Payment Terms Third Avenne at Pine, Seattle 928-030 Broadway, Tacoma Spokane Portland ASK FOR Horlick’s The Original Avoid in Substitutes. Invatian on see, Oromngctiares | at |, Maited Grain Extract lo Pewter ary Marie Py EleanorHPorter jhe gave me another sharp look out} of his eyes, and sald: | eyes now, and his lips came together | they belonged. jsaw it wasn't going to be the last, | | what can you do when he asks you! | short. | late, | much. Now go to bed. |of course, 1 couldn't say anything. |]| on in | Safe Tlie for INFANTS & INVALIDS it “Just Mooking out the window.” “Thank you, That's better, Come here. I want to talk to you.” “Yeu, father." I went, of cours, at once, and mt down in the chair near bim, ~ | hitched again tn his seat, “Why don't you do something—| read, sew, knit?’ he demanded. “Why do I always find you moping around, doing nothing?" t Just like that he said it; and when he had just told me— “Why, father!" I cried; and I know that T showed how surprised I was, “I thought you just sald I couldn't do nothing—that nobody could!" 7 What? Tut, tut He seemed very angry at first; then suddenly he looked sharply into my Next, if"you'll believe it, he queer litte chuckle! his breath that I've heard him wive two or three times when there | Was something he thought was fun: | ny. “Humph! he grunted. Then HT 1920° “1 don’t think you meant that to be quite so im pertinent aa it sounded, Mary, #0 Wwo'll let it pass—this time, I'll put my question® this way; Don't you ever knit or read or sew?" “I do sew every day tn Aunt Jane's room, 10 minutes hemming, | 10 minutes seaming, and 10 minutes basting patchwork squarea together. I don't know how to knit.” | “How about reading? Don't you! care for reading?” i} “Why, of course I do. I love itt |f) I cried, “And I do read lote—at home.” | “At—home? | I knew then, of course, that I'd made another awful break. There |f| wasn't any «mile around father's hard and thin over that last word. | “At—at my home,” I stammered, “I mean, my other home.” | “Humpb!" grunted father, ‘Then, |] after a minute: “But why, pray, |) can’t you read here? I'm sure there} | are—books enough.” He flourished his hands toward the bookcases all | around the room. | “Oh, 1 do—a Uttle; but, you wee, |I I'm no afraid I'll leave some of them | out when I'm thru.” I explained. | “Well, what of H? What if you | aor he demanded. “Why, father!’ [ tried to show by |}/ the way I maid it that he knew-— of course he knew. But he made me tell him right out that Aunt Jane wouldn't like it, and that he wouldn't like it, and that the books always had to be kept exactly where “Well, why not? Why shouldn't they?" he asked then, almost crons ly, and hitching again tn his chair. |{/ Aren't books down there—in Bos | ton—kept where they belong, pray?” It was the firwt time since I'd come that he'd ever mentioned Bow ton; and I almost jumped out of my | chair when I heard him. But I soon | for right then and there he began} to question me, even worse than nted to know everything, everything; all about the house, with | ita cushions and cozy corners and curtains ‘way up, and books left around easy to get, and magazines, and Baby Lester, and the fun we had romping with him, and every thing. Only, of course, I didn’t mention mother, Aunt Jane had told me not to—-not anywhere; and to be specially careful before father, But himself, right out plain? what he did. Ho'd been up on his feet, tramping up and down the room all the time I'd been talking; and now, all of a sudden, he wheels around and stops And that's |T) “How is—your mother, Mary?” he asks. And it was just as if he'd opentd the door to another room, he had such a whole lot of questions |}| to ask after that, And when he'd /]) finished he knew everything: what | time we got up and went to bed,|f) and what we did all day, and the|}| parties and dinners and auto rides, |}) and the folks that came such a lot} to see mother. Then all of a #udd sen he stopped— asking questions, I mean. He | | | | stopped just as suddenly as he'd be- | gun. Why, I was right in the mid die of telling about a’ concert for! charity we got up just before I came away, and how mother had prac ticed for days and days with the young man who played the violin, | when all of a sudden father jerked his watch from his pocket and said: ||) “There, th Mary, it's getting [| fou've talked | enough—too Good-night.” indeed! And |) Talked too much, | who'd been making me do all the talking, I should like to know? But, | That's the unfair part of it. Old) folks can say anything, anything| | they want to to you, but you ecan’t| say a thing back to them—not a/ thing. | And #0 I went to bed. And the!l/ next day all that father said to me| was, “Good-morning, Mary," and ‘Good-night,”” just as he had ever) since I came. And that's all he's said yesterday and today. But he's| looked at me. He's looked at moe a lot. I know, because at mealtimes and others, when he's been in the room with me, I've looked up and found his eyes on me, Funny, isn't it? | eee Two weeks later Well, I don't know as I have any. } thing very special to say, Still, I suppose I ought to write something; so I'll put down what little there ts | Of course, there doesn't #0 much || happen here, anyway, as there does || Bat home—I mean in Boston, (I must || =| stop calling it home down to Boston, |) as if this wasn't home at all It f) makes Aunt Jane very, very angry, }and 1 don't think fa likes it very well.) But, as I was saying, there really doesn't so much happen here as there does down to Boston; nd it isn’t nearly so interesting But, there! I suppose I mustn't ex pect it to be interesting. I’m Mary now, not Marie | (Continued Tomorrow) Don't judge a man by his rela- tions, instead of his company, Re lations are thrust upon him, but companions are usually of his own choosing. ' THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 3 Satisfactory Terms Always E GROTE-RANKIN OTTO F. 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