The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1920, Page 11

LAY HOUSE Starting Saturday Beautiful stage and screen star seen here in “Every- woman” and “Three Faces East,” (Continued ftom yesterday) And I looked at him, and his ever and hie mouth and hie whole face weren't angry atall. They were just worry, actually sorry. And somehow, before T knew ft. I wna erying again fn & story jand father, with his arm around me of life’s joys |with his arm around me! think of and life’s that}—was leading me to the sofa, And I cried and onjed there, with tragedies my head on the arm of the sofa, till that pulses I'd made a big tear spot on the linen cover; and I wondered if it would dry and throbs up before Aunt Jane saw ft, or tf it with would change color or leak through , to the red plush underneath, or some reality! lother dreadful thing. And then, some way, 1 found myself telling It all over to father—about Mary and Maria, I mean, fost as ff he was mother, or some one 1 loved—I jmean, some one I loved and wasn't | afraid of; for of course I love father. | Of course I do! | Well, I told him everything (when | all about how hard ft waa to be | Mary, and how today I had tried to | fe Marie for just a little while, to lrest me, He interrupted here, and wanted to know if that was why I looked so different today—more as | tmd when I first came; and I aaid lyes, thet these were Marte things that Mary couldn'twear, Ana when [he asked, “Why, pray?” in @ voice almost crona, I told him, of course, that Aunt Jane wouldn't let me; that Mary had to wear brown serge and | calfskin boots that were durabite, and that would wearrweil, And when J told him how sorry I wae about the music and siden | a nolan ag I'd been making. he asked | if that was Marie's fault, too; and I | maid yea, of course—that Aunt Jane | didn’t like to have Mary play at all, | except bymne and funeral marches, and Mary didn't know any, And he jerunted & queer little grunt, and sud, “Well, well, upon my soul, upon |my soni Then he said, “Ge on” And I did go on. I told him how T wae afraid ® was going to be just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde. (1 forgot to say I've read it now, I found i in father’s Ubrary) Of course sot Just like Jt, only one of me was going to be bad afl o wood, I was afraid, if |i /a@van't look oot 1 told him how | Marie always wanted to kick up rags, and move the chairs out of their sockets in the carpet, and leave books around handy, and such thinga And #0 today tt seemed as CORRUT FRIDAY—Good-bye to the smart comedy of New York life— ~._ IRENE CASTLE in “THE AMATEUR WIFE” » SATURDAY—for four days only—a noteworthy drama— tee”! CParamo nl dricre ’ vt ( AVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS? «... ‘THE COST” VIOLA HEMING > di & CLEMMER MUSIC “THIEVES THe NIGHT”’ The fateful work of the assassins is before them as they peer from the locked and barred house. A coward, a brave man, a villain and a beautiful girl are shut up there. The happen- ings of that night are epochal! Hayden, Hall and Snyder in a Song Prologue Sunshine Comedy, Natural Color Scenic }T got started there was no stopping) | THE SEATT Mary Marie Py EleanorllPorter COPYRIGHT if I'd just got to have a vacation from Mary's hot gingham dreanes and clumpy shoes, And I told him how lonesome I wae without any body: and I told about Charlie Bmith and Paul Mayhew and Mr. Claude Livingstone, and how Aunt Jane wouldn't let me have them, either, even if I was standing where the brook and river meet. Father gave another funny Bttle arunt here, and got ap suddenly and walked over to the window, I Urought at fiest he was angry, but he wasn't. He was even more gentle when he came back and sat down | Purpose to bear it; but I guess Anyway, she didnt sy anything. Father didn't sy anything either, but he acted queer. Aunt Jane tried to te him something about the mis sionary meeting and the heathen, and a great famine that wae raging. At first he didn't my anything? then usted, and accused him of being leven More absent«ninded than usual, | maid. But even that @4ant move father a mite. He just said, yea, yea, very ikely; and went on scowling to him self and stirring bis coffee after he'd drank it all up-—1I mean, stirring where it had been Mm the cup. I didn't know but after supper he'd speak to me and ask me to come to |the library. I hoped he would. There |were lots more things I'd tke to | have said to him. But he didn't. He | [never ead a word. He fust scowling, and got up from the thbie and went off by himself. But he | atan’e 0 out to the otmervatory, as |he most generally does. Ho went [into the library and shut the door, | He wae there when the telephone | mosange came at sight o'clock. And what do yoo think? He'd forgotten jhe waa going to speak before the | College Astronomry club that even ‘ingt Forgotten his old stars for onen I dont know why. I did think, for a minute, 't was ‘cause of me—what I'd told him. But I knew. Of course, right away that ft couldn't be that. Hea never forget his stars for me! Probably he was just read ing up about some other stara or had forgotten how late it was, or something. (father’s always forget ting things) But, anyway, when Aunt Jane called him he got his hat and hurried off without so much as lone word to me, who was standing near, or to Aunt Jane, who was fol jowing him all through the hall, and atyou voice how shockingly absent minded he was getting to be, ] eee [One week Inter, | whole week through. him out at all he's glad I told him all those things in the parlor that day I dressed up in Marie's things, and sometimes I 1 can't make think he's sorry and wished I hadn't. | The very next morning he came down to breakfast with such a funny look on his face. He said good |morning to me three times, and all [through breakfast he kept looking over at me with a kind of scowl that Heese not crome at all—just puzzled. the observatory, not even into the |library. He fidgeted around the din. ing room till Aunt Jane went out | into the kitchen to give her orders to Susie; then he burst out, all of a sudden: “Well, Mary, what shall we Go to- day?" Just like that he said ft, as every day of our lives, “D-do?” I asked; and I know IT showed how surprised I was by the | way I atammfered and flushed up. “Certainly, do,” he answered, tm. |patient and scowling. we do?” “Why, father, L—I don't know,” I stammered again, tome, come, of course you know!” e cried. “You know what you want | to do, don't you?” |T shook my head, T was so aston lished I couldn't even think, And when you can't think you certainly can't talk, jagain. “Of course you know what |you want to do! What are you in the habit of doing with your young |friends—your Carries and Charlies, and all the rest?” | I guecas T just stood and stared and didn't say anything; for after a min- te he cried: “Well—well—well? I'm aiting.” “Why, we—we wnalk—and talk and play games,” I began; but right away he interrupted. “Good! Very well, then, we'Tl walk I'm not Carrie or Charlie, but I be eve I can walk and talk—perhaps even play gamea Who knows? Come, get your hat.” And I got my hat, and we went. But what a funny, funny walk that was! He meant to make it a 00d one; I know he did. And he tried, He tried real hard. But he walked #0 fast I couldn't half keep up with bim; then, when he saw how 192° | whieh was entirely unnecessary, she | mt i telling him in her most I'm-arnazed. | Father's been awfully qoeer this Sometimes I think | After breakfast he didn't go out to| jit we'd beon doing things together | “What shall | “Nonsense, Mary,” scowled father | x LE STAR Avmrust), and did I have @ good breakfast, and how old was IT, and did T enjoy my rtudies—which shows how litte he was really thinking what he was saying. He knows schools cloned ages ago. Wasn't he teaching me himeelf the last of ft, too? All around us were flowers and birds, and oh, so many, many lovely things, But he never said a word about them. Ho Just talked-—because he'd got to talk. I knew it, and it made me laugh inside, though all the i i while it made me sort of want to ! you have ‘bho experienced taisfor- ery, too, Funny, wasn't it? tune—and who has not?—you can appreciate the message of cheer con- veyed by those words. ‘The best friend in time of need ts a Sfevingn Ao count. If you have been planning t® have one for some time, why not begin now? livery day y Kvening from 6 lost means money and time lost. i‘ 3 for your convenience The Seattle National Bank Resources More Than Thirty Millom Dollara Becond Avenue st Columtiia After a time he didn’t talk any more, but just walked on and en; anda by and by we came home. Of course, it wasn't awfully jolty— that walk wnren't, and I gues father didn't think it was either. Anyhow, he hasn't asked me to go again this week, and he looked tired and worrted and sort of discouraged when he got back from that ona (Continued Tomorrow) Cow Kick in Ankle Is Fatal to Farmer HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. Sept 3.— happened to think he'd got to falk. |A cow kicked John Hammock, Tren. | ton farmer, in the ankle. Bieod | And how he talked! He asked me j was [ warmly clad (and here ft ia! poison followed and Hammock died.! Ki Iwas hurrying, he'@ slow down, ‘way down, and look 40 worried—till he'd forget and go striding off again, ‘way ahead of me. We went up on the hil through the Benton woods, and it was per fectly lovely up there, Hoe didn't say much at first. Then, all of a sud den, he bewan to talk, about any thing and everything. And I knew, by the way he did it, that he'd just Savings Department open Saterds Boys’ School Clothes Two-Knicker Suits, $15 These are just the suits for school—made in mannish styles, with yoked backs, inverted plaits and slash and patch pockets, With: two pairs of Knickers, the strenuous lad’s suit will wear as long as two. It is thc Knickers which re- ceive the hardest wear. The suits are made of durable 4 fabrics—wool cassimeres—in a variety of patterns, *” Sizes 7 to 17 years. With One Pair Knickers, $11.00 If you wish, you may buy these Sufts with only one pair of Knickers—a splendid value at $11.00, Corduroy Suits $10.00 Boys like these Suits of corduroy because they “stand the wear.” Made in mode shade, they do not show the soil quickly, and the taped seams are protection against ripping. Coats are made with pockets and belts, and trousers are in knicker style. Sizes 7 to 17 years, — New Overcoats ™* Big roomy Coats, in styles as smart as “big brother’s,” | with belts at the back, big buttons and pockets—made of Melton cloth, Chinchilla and worsteds, and lined with wool plaids. Shown in blue, gray, brown and mix- — tures. Sizes 2% to 18 years. Prices $12.50 to $30.00, New Hats and Caps New Caps in a wide variety of color combinations, in plaids, checks and heathers. Sizes 63% to 714. 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