The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1923, Page 4

THE STAR'S ‘2 Daily Short Story] “APPLES OF THE EARTH” 1 By Guilford Nethaway : “Them’s potatoes, peony bulbs.” | Mamo Keble lumbe Kitchen to t with tho strong « to the le bi ttle curls of steam. “Them's potatc sh Dalancing, ever ready be the saucer brimfull with the coffe I'm lettin this year, I guess Her husband tapped on his “Well, just as you say, Bu , fo me that $4.50 a day ought to t Able to see a few decorations ar here. Lord, I like color, and pre pictures, and flowers, take ‘em back to the market an’ get the bulbs. Lot's make the backyard & garden instead of diggin’ it all up for the sake of a few dolla i across th led her cu 4 retu wing away the lazy repea the rest 5 do that this yea: entreaties brought his face peril Glose to her saucer A tiny curl of steam from the coolin ed him thru its t of his earnest pleading with an open heart as she alway heard him. “I thought I might want to take a little trip up al’ see mama fall. I'd like to b dress, or sumthin mama nothin’ ‘cept th from the Presbyterian rummage * five years ago. Potatoes got a way fof gettin’ a little side money, Ch God, tho, I hate to think of & down on my knees and diggin’ * an’ diggin’ an’ planti plantin’. It takes the lady out of you, | Charlie.” She scrutinized him closely, anx fously dreading that he would verify this last statement of hers. She was getting bent and cumbersome and Goarse—only the other day she covered a queer face In the broken kitchen mirror. It certainly must that he, too, was becom! it. | “It’s tough slolghing now, Mame But we got to have a little pleasure fn life. I like color, and nice furni- | ture and flowers—I like—" FIFTY THOUSAND WOMEN) would comprise a vast yet that is the number who have replied to a Syuestionnaire re: n by the Lydia E. Pinkh Co,, of Lynn, Mass out of every 100 letters Women contained positive assur-| ances that they have been benefited | ‘or restored to health by taking this | old-fashioned root and herb med! cine. This {s most remarkable evt-| dence of its power over the ills of| women. Therefore, with 98 chances out of 100 that Lydia EH. Pinkbam's| Vegetable Compound will overcome | such ailments for you, why should | you continue to go through life in| pain and suffering?—Advertisement vape Middle Aged Spinster| Shows Sudden Charm) ‘Well, for goodness sakes! Tye been staring at that ha: woman over there inthe n: gown for the past half ho ing who she is. And here she turns @round and I find it’s Elizabeth.” "Yes, it is. And I'll bet you had quite a shock when you discovered | who she was.” | “Gracious yes! I nearly fainted She looks a different woman. That} shows what clothes will do for a per-| gon. Why, she looks twenty years Younger, if a day.” | “That's what I told her, and she| faid she was too old to look like a/ flapper. I had quite an argument| with her. She doesn't look Iike a| flapper at all, but a striking woman, | She really 1s handsome when dressed | properly.” | “Yes, she is. She has worn those funny old fashioned clothes so long no one ev she had any Possibilitie "Now, you see she has. The fact fs that Elizabeth isn’t so old. She} dressed like her grandmother and| qe all thought of her as about 60. Do you know she is only 40 years/| old?” “Tg she that old? Well, if she only continues to dress properly she'll de Yelop into a fine looking woman. She| has had a queer life being raised by those two old fashioned aunts of hers. Now that they are gone I am| Blad to see her getting Interested in| life. She's a fine looking woman and) T shouldn't be surprised if she even got married. | “Oh, she's getting vitally interested | in clothes. She showed me a lot of the loveliest new things. Well chos- | @n, too. She got ther at Cherry's, | 1015 Second ave., in the Rialto Bidg.,| just over the Pig'n Whistle. They haye.such fashionable clothes for the | middie aged woman, I think. Clothes | with dignity, too. Just right. And Cherry's encourage charge accounts, too, I hear."—Adve | suit | cho! } worm r . an’ clean yourself up an’ start pin’ a van's work That ning when her husband Jreturned home, aho was fully firmed to follow her brother's advice It had been & hard struggle to co to @ decision that might mean a hardship to Ct but with ty that it waa for his own good, ° od herself to the seemingly brutal commands of Phil How did the potato Mame “4 suddenly e Did you get half wo plantin he aske in th I knov he seriously on the tat interrupted him, the faded pattern with half a char atleman. ‘That's ute I laid © easy-golNK You're fit your He her 5 pot ing f the mea th, I've decide would be Charlie, A after t maybe It you'd ma Ke str garden back the rnin’, What favorites stopped eatin rpl ~y 088 wavered be angry with Do you like jums an’ sweet alyasum mention of the her @ sudden re would find many Charlie watched t plantin and u're 1 Was ho going to innias an’ nastur The mere ame awoke within that minutes! your new followed him into the bed a when he flu r, announced excitedly, s Mr, Charles Keble, 2 w I fixed the straw above the new suit and your hoes sticking out below the Some outfit, I'll say.” came Into dignified Still it's the man that fills it that makes the difference. Now your} er Phil coul wear a) Shi ization a happy . r paradise hat ¥ plar ve new | then?” he repeatod. pant| “Not this year, Charlie, Didn't you ay this m that you'd like a little Mower garden He was silent for a moment I like color an’ flowers plant ‘em, Go ahead. 8 was very passive for the ro room g open the an unfa' ire not tatoen, sobriety Sais’ “Bure un to such thi ania ntion to ft i 1 plage hat was to at there the pot: thought in hy he duous task d getting down on your ng the bills with your wied along, catching r dress and nearly eat broke out o dirt unt! but a big lump of the which you crept—an g—a thing of which ge nized no existen . and then @ ge: man would know his lady She had been planting nearly an ur when Phil came over. He worked In the factory, and not like Charlie, at @ clean oak desk. All Phil ought about was bis wages a dirty mach He liked hi said, but ested see » in the morning vivid that ho sud n awakening of a love. » counted every minute lost until happy work might be begun. sang she prepared their breakfast. Charlie was still quiet ly saying “Yen” Sure” to her question. bout her ceval ta! nees and di nds. You ¢ knees on \aiverd and ming’ plans, hap: ure that it must be his w 1 she was unable t lack of interest, un t of his departur att for n reer superinte: | “Well, a fellow likes to urrect. Your week in this here| with his crowd, sort of." dirt, I see | At midnoon, Phil found her on her he knew what his thoughts were. knees in the backyard the same as on Now, Phil, there ain't no need of|the previous day. gettin’ huffy. I want to go up and) “There ain't no need of you sayin see mama and get her a new dress, . Phil Train't the w or sumthin’. It don’t hurt me to do|thing In this world beln' a lady. | this here, an’ besides—besides—I—|got a mate an‘ I'm plantin’ some kinda like ft.” ing so he can Itve, an’ ro long as he “You got to do be happy, why I'm happy. An You got to do tt. Don't go hidin’ il MeCount, if that's the way I'r under maw's skirts. T hate to see 1” * to et piness, T can’t seo woman do tt when she's got a man!” “I don’t have to do ¢ ‘t none your business if I have to do it! | “Tis I stood ‘bout as long as J can stand for that man of | sister be a regu- | in keep it, Mame Keble. hestdes It did Rheumatic Neuritis shirts. I ain't goin’ “Phil McCo' of use in you ain't goin’ to Charlle’s got keep 1 his a : : Says His Prescription Com- “Baht! Out 6 . here work ot; Pletely Banishes All Rheu- yours, that’s how I und matic Pain and Twinges— pearances come about. Is Guaranteed. goin’ to see maw, An’ there won't be no new dreas for her or anyone else, an’ you know | that! You know damn well that | Charlie Keble'll reap the benefit of this sowin' in someway. You know that—now don’t you?” Little tears welled u The sight of them on For the Inst six years you've is here potato p stand ap-| You 3 Deep-Seated Uric Acid Deposits Are Dissolved and the Rheumatic Pot. son Starts to Leave the System Within Twenty-Four Hours Every druggist in this country ts authorized to aay to every rheumat fe sufferer that if a full pint bottle of ALLENRHU, the sure conqueror of rheumatism, does not show the to stop the agony, reduce swol len joints and do away with the slightest twinge of rheumatic weeded ‘em an” worn your fingers to the bone, an’ what for? So that pup could have two| ‘0° < sults a year an’ spend his vacation|>%!7. he will gindly return your somewhere's where they stay dressed |™Oney without comment. tp all day an’ play cards an’ dance| ALLENRHU bas been tried and " tested for years, and really maryel h the swell chickens imherdist trons ia Her. bande ous results been accomplished {in the mos brushed into her tears when she spoke, “It's his nature, Phil. Char- lie has got to have them things.” “Then let him earn ‘em! If that the class he’s gofn’ to travel in, then| Mr let him earn ‘em! Let him earn ‘em,|N. ¥. d'ya hear?” RHU, w “He works hard, Charlle does.” | the “Like hell! Lord, a 14-year-old | desires all sufferers to know that he could push a pen as good ns he can|does not want a cent of: anyone's an’ call it play. Now, I've talked|money, unless. ALLENRHU decis. pretty stiff to you, Mame, but, be gad,| ively conquers this worst of all dls. you had it comin’. Let him earn his|eases, and he has instructed drug own shirts, an’ his railroad fares.|gists to guarantee it ns above in He'll get out of a $109 a month fob|every Instance. All druggists can then. Now you go back in the house| supply you.—Advertisement even was | |wuffering and and piteous and was helpless. James H. Allen, of Roct the discoverer of ALLEN > for many ffored tormer rheumatism gony were intense where the patient years of actite MONOLITH PLASTIC WATERPROOF TER-PROOF “For a durable, waterproof exterior stucco, Monolith Plastic Waterproof Portland Cement has no equal.” That's the tribute paid by a prominent Pacific Coast architect, who states that he has used Monolith on a number of schools, as well as on his own residence, and it has withstood the elements perfectly. PORTLAND CEMENT When a successful and experienced archited uses Monolith in building his own home, he registers an endorsement of this concrete which is much stronger than words can express. 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