The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1920, Page 7

SE Lt Mann Be COPYRIGHT 1 i. rs | ‘s il ! whe here mother becomes very angry and leman but nat if eit int ily i sul ae Et te iif +4 | POSITIVE ENSATION tN S. Feary Serine. me ment Is Felt by All Th} " o MA sys You will find it just as delightful to listen to as it is pleasing to look at. The wonderful Brunswick: is strictly a prod- uct of the reliable house of Brunswick, from the fine hand carving in the beau- tiful cabinets to the very castets.' Your choice of musical selections is unlim- ited, as the Brunswick plays every make of disc records without any change of equipment, giving the fullest Tone Value to each record. We suggest that you add Brunswick Records to your record library. They are getting more popu- lar daily. A visit to our store will con- vince you. Terms to Suit eattle Main 3139 1216-1218 Third Avenue Between University and Seneca { | a order to introduce our new atalebone) plate, which is the lightest | “rongest plate Known, covers very little of the roof of the mou you can bite corn off the cob; guara teod 16 years. EXAMINATION FREE Whalebone set of tecth | $8 Crowns ... | $8 Bridgework | | $2 Amalgam Filling . PAINLESS EXTRACTION impression taken in the | and advice free. Bridge Work. We Stand the | 7 re AN work guaranteed for 15 years. i And Est teeth same da: Sell amd Kee Open Sundays From 9 to 12 for Working People OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS BELVEMSITY 9Te, Opposite Vrascr-laterson Coy = By EleanorHPorter 920° it THE SEATTLE STAR thot she meant well off because he was dead and she didn't have to live with him any more, and I said wo to Aunt Jane. (ie was a cross man, and very stern, as everybody knew.) But, dear sus me! Aunt Jane was awfully shocked, and said certainly not; that she meant Mr Darting had left his wife a great deal of money. Then she talked very stern and solemn to me, and said that I must not think just because my poor dear father's married life had ended in such a wretched tragedy that every other home had such @ skeleton in the clonet, I grow stern and dignified and sot emn then, I knew, of course, what nhe meant. I'm no child. She mother, my dear, blessed mother, | to say, I got to crying, #o I just had was the akeleton in their closet. And|to run out of the room of course I wasn't going to stand | there and hear that, and not say a word. But I didn’t say just a word, 1 id @ g004 many words. I won't| try to put them all down here; but I told her quietly, in a firm voice, and with no temper (showing), that 1 guessed father was Just as much of a skeleton in mother’s closet as sho was in bis; and that if she could see how perfectly, happy my mother was now she'd understand a little of what my father’s skeleton had done to her all those years she'd had to live with it, I said a lot more, but before I'd | ment BHOIN HERE TODAY ‘There aren't any teas and dinners | 5 and pretty ladies and music and soulful-eyed prospective suitors here. My! Wouldn't Aunt Jane have four fita? And father, too, But I'd just! like to put one of mother’s teas with | the little cakes and flowers and talk and tinkling laughs down in Aunt Jane's parlor, and then wateh what happened. Oh, of course, the party couldn't stand it long—not in there with the hair wreath and the coffin | plate, But they could stand it long enough for father to thunder from the library, “Jane, what in heave name is the meaning of all thi And for Aunt Jane to give one le at the kind of clothes real fo! wear, and then flee with her hands to her ears and her eyes upraised to the ceiling. Wouldn't it be fun? But, there! What's the use of im- agining perfectly crazy, impoasibie | things like that? We haven't had a) thing here in that parlor since I) came but one missionary meeting | and one ladies’ aid sewing circle; and after the last one (the sewing cir-| cle) Aunt Jane worked a whole day picking threads off the carpet. and smoothing down the linen covers be cause they'd got so mused up, And I heard her tell the hired girl that she shouldn't have that sewing cir | cle here again in a hurry, and when she did have them they'd have to| sew in the dining room with a sheet) spread down to catch the threads. |) My! but I would like to se Aunt} Jane with one of mother's teas in her parlor! I can't see as father has changed much of any these last two weeks. He still doesn’t pay much of any attention to me, tho I do find him looking at me sometimes, just as if he was trying to make up hia mind about something. He doesn't say | hardly anything to me, only meant mother, She meant that got half finished with what I wanted That night I heard Aunt Jane tell Mrs, Darling that the worst feature of the whole deplorable situation was |the effect on the child's mind, and the wretched conception it gave her of the sacredness of the marriage I being a widow, #0 or something like that, And ling sighed, and said, oh, nd the pity of it. like Mra, Darling. urse, as I said before, Mra. or mrling could be my new mother, Mut, merey! I hope she won't, I'd rather have Mins Grace Ann than her, and I shouldn't be crazy about having Miss Grace Ann. to write, Well, T guens there's nothing more the same, only more wo. The girix are getting #0 they act almont as bad as those down to Boston in the school where I went before I changed, Of course, maybe it's the divorce here, same aa it was there. | Mut 1 don't see how it can be that here, Why, they've known it from the very first! Oh, dear suz met How I do wish I could seo mother tonight and have her take me in her arms and kiss me, I'm #0 tired of being Mary ‘way off up here where nobody cares or wants me. nm father doesn’t want me, not want me. I know he doesn't 1 don't see why he keeps me, only | suppose he'd be ashamed not to PAGE 7 | the court gave me to him for that | time, eee Another two weeks later I'm #0 angry I can hardly write, and at the same time I'm so angry | I've just got to write, I can’t tall. | There imn’t anybody to talk to; and I've got to tell somebody. So I'm going to tell it here, I've found out now what's the matter with the girls—~you know I | said there was something the mat ter with them; that they acted queer | and stopped talking when I came up, | and faded away till there wasn’t | anybody but me left; and about the | party Stella Mayhew had and didn’t invite me. Things at school are just| take me his six months as long as (Continued Tomorrow) FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE The Banded Hats Of the New Season $7.50 and $8.50 brid; T° the ga the flowers 0: and the feathers of Autumn, Fashion offers these cleverly modeled Banded Hats in Hat- and Beaver; some with regulation band and bow, a few with ribbon deftly laced through slits in the crown. ters’ Plush between summer long-nap Straight-brim Sailors, Tri- or twice when he got to asking cornes and _ irregular-brim effects, -and tions again about Boston and * mother, Tams, in ‘The last time I told him all about Mr. Harlow, and he was so inter Black, Brown, White, Purple ested! I just happened to mention hiv name, and he wanted to know at $7.50 and right away if it was Mr. Carl Har low, and if I knew whether mother had ever known him before. And ot course I told him right away that it was—the same one she was en gaged to before she was engaged to him. Father looked funny and kind of grunted and said, yes, yes, he knew Then he said, “That will do, Mary.” And he began to read his book again But he never turned a page, and it wasn't five minutes before he got up and walked around the room, picking out books from the book cases and putting them right back, and picking up things from the mantel and putting them right back Then he turned to me and asked with a kind of of.courséI.don't-care air: “Did you say you saw quite a little of—this Harlow fellow?” But he did care. I know he did le was rea! interested. I could see that he was. And so I told him everything, all about how_he came there to the teas, and sent flow. ers and candy, and was getting a divorce himself, and what he said on the sofa that day, and how mother answered. As I said, I told him everything, Only I was careful not to call Mr. Harlow a prospective suitor, of course. I remembered too well what Aunt Hattie had said Father didn’t say anything when 1 got through. He just got up and left the room, and pretty quick I saw him crossing the lawn to the observatory I guess there aren't any prospec tive suitors here. I mean, I guess father isn't a prospective suitor— anyhow, not yet. (Of course, it's the man that has to be the suitor.) He doesn't go anywhere, only over to the college and out to the observa tory. I've watched so to see. I wanted specially to know, for of course if he was being a prospective suitor to any one, she'd be my new mother, mayb@ And I'm going to be awfully particular about any new mother corning into the house A whole lot more, even, depends on mothers than on fathers, you know; and if you're going to have one all ready-made thrust upon you, you are sort of anxious te know what kind she is. Some way, I don't think I'd like a new mother even as well as I'd like a new father; and I don’t believe I'd jike him very well. Of course, there are quite a lot of ladies here that father could have. | There are several pretty teachers in| the schools, and some nice unmar- And She's | ried ladies in the church, there's Miss Parmelia Snow. Professor Snow's sister, She wears! glasses and iy terribly learned, May- be he would like her. But, mer I shouldn't. Then there's Miss Grace Ann San born. She's fat, and awfully jolly. | She comes here a lot lately to see} Aunt Jane, I don't know why. They | don't belong to the sme church, or anything. But she “runs over,” as) | she calla it, almost every afternoon | just a little before dinner—I mean |]/ supper. Mrs. Darling used to come then, too, when I first came; but she comes over evenings now more. May- be it's begause she doesn't like Miss Grace Ann, I don’t think she does like her, for every time she saw her, sh way; “Oh, you? So you're " And then she'd turn and talk | to Aunt Jane and simply ignore Miss Grace Ann, And pretty quick she'd get up and go. And now she comes evenings.. She's fixing over her house, and she runs and asks Aunt Jane's advice about every little thing, She asks Father's, too, every chance she gets, when she secs him in the hall or on the front steps. I heard her tell Aunt Jane she con sidered Professor Anderson a man of most excellent taste and judg I suppose Mrs. Darling could be my new mother. She's a widow. Her husband died last year. ; very well off now that h nd | in dead, I heard Aunt Jane say one a) day. She meant well off in money —quite a lot of it, you'know. I offering delightful choosing $8. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Children’s School Shoes With Sturdiness as Well as Low-price to Commend Them .MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S BUTTON SHOES in patent and dull calf, made over broad-toe last, sizes 81% to 11, $4.75; 1114 to 2, $5.50. MISSES’ TAN LACE SHOES on English-style last, sizes 111% to 2, $5:50 pair. GROWING GIRLS’ TAN LACE SHOES with low heels and medium round toe, sizes 244 to 7, $7.75 pair. 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