The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1925, Page 14

\ surprised THE STORY SO FAR strug t y t or softness ote n Mot y She had always sa Ltée ° | thous he love she had for pos Dick grim kind that a . D . ‘ * 4,| Spartain mother might have had for MAC ( ' . | oe we aisrias resently Mother Gregory dried : . t »| her eyes and started for the stairs. H AN VA aie 76 ; : Halfway to the first landing she ; and ins By egg 7 I've been ; Bee nate heedeter t0 6 ay. | wal Gloria, and F ment « a STANL with w Levery whe } mentari! she 4 love MRS, OH t sTORY oh NOW GO ON WITH THE ieee w downstairs. put on her hat and coat Out of doors, She felt that, She UT »# sound Dick's voice Poti “Glory Glory.” It Ete kT TI eating itself over and over in her| me ¥ ears. ‘ Gloria's impulse was ways to} @Scape the unpleasant things of life — poverty, hard work and sickness. | She hated them with all her soul With a sigh of rellef she opened the front door and went out Someone was coming up the walk. Th the light that streamed out from the hall door Gloria could see that She picked up the telep Mrs. O'Hara was talking say tt now,” she sald “If Dick dies, remem: | I may as well emphatically it was M Her face | der. it’s you who've killed him! He's was haggard w anxi | been all run down from worry for “What in the world has hap-| Weeks and weeks. Maggie's told me pened?” she asked came) up | how yor n him out with your the fron says Rang- | rowdy 1 your late hours! s+ hid has b ng for me. I'ye| And jus er day he had to for money to pay | I¢ you ou'd know that lo than hard 4 no wonder come to his fa for some you rch guild all after- Toon, sew! : “Dick's sick. Dr, Joh e0ld of him has develope & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 9—THRU THE PEBBLE WALL Nick put some pebbles into his mouth and blew but | bles around the Twins blew away d they were free. Twins tried to move, | Be couldn't. The tiny pebbles on| a ce othe pebble wall had come rolling | jee the daisies in yonder field?" own about them until the children | Said the Bean-Shooter-Man to Nick ‘were almost buried up to their ears. | “Well, take my shooter and blow off To make matters worse, the Bea .| the 10th petal on the daisy that "7 Shooter-Man, to whom the wall be-| “longed, came along and read them ‘a lecture on manners, which they “didn’t like at all. ick put some tiny pebbles into mouth and blew. But finally he rolled up his lec- jood!’ cried the Bean-Shooter “It's off.” Then to Nancy. ure and put it into his pocket. “There!” said he. ‘Too much !s| “See the star over yonder tree plenty. Now tell me about your-| Well, it’s there just the same. ‘gelves—where you are going and/@ hole thru the middie.” No? w where you came from and what you | Nancy took the long pipe and 1a fare here for. And also how you! ble aa ) happened to knock down half my| ‘“‘Good!’ cried the Bean-Shoot [eG pebble wall without my permission."| Man. “Right on the bull’s-eye! “But we | Steady nerves you have, my dears! | Now I shall blow my pebble wall |in two and you may pass.” So he took the blower and blew long and hard. The pebbles divided, leaving a clear path thru which the Twins walked (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, N. B. A, Bervice, Inc.) “I'm sorry,” sald Nick. * came from home and we aren't go- ing any place unless we can get out _ of this stonepile.” The Bean-Shooter-Man looked at him sharply. “Are you poking fun at me?’ he demanded. “I hope not. That's the worst manners of ail. I'll have to add that to my lecture when I write it over. Now begin all over again.” | "We're hunting for Pixie cave,” | gaid Nick. “The Pixies stole the| Fairy Queen's golden beehive and | she hasn't any honey. Nancy and 1! are looking for it. We have the key to the secret cupboard if we ever| -met there, and we have magic shoes, too, that—' hat!’ cried the Bean-Shooter- Man in surprise, ‘‘Have you magic shoes? Then why don’t you wish yourselves out of this?” “We forgot,” exclaimed Nancy. So she sald: (3:3 <Bhoes be nimble, shoes be quick, 1 Or here we Twins shall have to stick. “Take us over the pebble-wall, We can’t stay here any more, at all” The shoes iitted them right out of the pebble-pile and took them tothe top of the wall, But thelr toes "caught, 4nd more pebbles camo roll- ing down, bringing the Twins with them, There they were, just as be- fore, buried to thelr necks. “Ha, ha! Ho, ho!’ laughed the © Bean-Shooter-Man, ‘It takes pretty ©1028 WY WEA SERVICE, ING. m: have my permission ts to shoot ah b 7 Calvin sent father a birthday at a mark with my olng bean-shoot os ako from 4 0 House ar. But first Il blow you out of| tatehen “More wuite om _ that. heck! But, maybe it was one of mt & mark with my long bean-shoot-1 those “angel” cakes that require and blew, and instantly all the peb- four dozen egeu. Feo LADDER WIFE yY Beatrice Burton © Gloria listened intently. | knew she would. | ho cartied young Teddy Hough. | | Greg | put the bables to be¢ y | bathe her baby. strong magic to cross my wall, No} [vt soon be warm enough for one can crows it without my per-| furs, mission, And the only you 1925 NEA SERVICE ING. ith, ten’t ft That I love you're in love w fi ria ughed wild Hough was too funny! nhe seo that he was fat and midd aged, and had puffs under his eye But, that was the way with women who loved tiir husbands. | They thought everybody else was in| love with them, toc | a mi Gloria noberly, “No, the| reason I told you about myself, Lola, | is because you have more sense than | the rest of the girls I know, And you won't blab It all over, either, | And I just had to tell some- | | answored body! were What would you do if you | OLA pondered J “Well,” sho said at last, “if 1 you, I'd go right homg and tell | Dick about it, That's the only equa thing for you to do, so far aa I ean | Do you mean to say Dick's sick he asked. She couldn't belleve her carn I forgot lo tell you, He's down th pneumonia,” Gloria answerdd. “That's why I had to get out of the ue. There's a nurse there and Mother Gregory, besides. And the whole place sounds and smells like © honpital Lola & Oh, it's awful!" For a m Well home riod, my advice to you Is to get as soon as you can!" she when she had found her v: hone to give May's number. streets thinking of cruel, cuttin The iden of leaving a sick hu things sho might have said to her band! Suppose Dick wants you and had only thought of them in you aren't ther For good ness’ sake, Glory, don't sit there! How wished she had! You've got to go home right away!’ stre were very qui anyone passed. And Dully, Gloria rose to her feet A wandered al a wort of “T suppose I must,” she sighed © stole over her drearily. “But, gosh, how I hate to go back there!’ i in the seemed to rean of a div buds on tho tts be mun days were a night Dick next ten between life and in the brown ut Into the hall and picked up the elophons to give May's number was talking on the Gloria Lola anked sly "Yos, you know him. who ho ts," “20 only yesterday. Would Lola forgive her? monia,” answered Gloria lowed her mo ear death » called for her the house. ce broke again and she; Glorla suddenly wanted someone in his de: metimes it was Mother Gregory o on upstairs to whom she could go with her hin with her large capable | Gloria slammed the door behind | trouble — her minery. ther Gregory came every morn began to cr her and went outdoors. Not mother she had ad mat om, knitting “Oh, my dear God!’ she sobbed.| Her b as filled with hate and | Never confided {n her mothe ading } And the very voice of prayer Madi ah er toward her mother-in-law. N May Seymour — nor n At meals, and Mrs, O'Hara fm her tone. walked along the lamp-lit) Wayburn, either, They were fair) © nan 1 know ‘a told each other all their best stories ms | weather friends, There was fa interrupted her with alabout operations and unusual dis pathy for anyone in either of them. h laugh canes. Gloria shivered through these ‘That was a cinch! ‘And not orty that,’ she maid, “but | meals. . CRA (ZAR (=25° Thén Gloria thought of Lola man I do care about doesn't) One sunshiny afternoon she made Hough. Shabby, neglected Lola,|#!¥¢ a snap of his fingers for me!"| up her mind to ask May Seymour to Oe PUNCIS whom she had hurt and insu Who's tho man? Anyone I) go for a walk with her, Sho went But I'm not Gloria an- don't ask Gloria | Mra, O'Hara exténsion, up in Dick's room. going to aay And not only would she forgive|#wered stubbornly, BY Irs FUNNY THERES NEVER ANY FIREWOOD IN TH’ Box Bur You KIN ALWAYS FIND A Piece T' WHITTLE on! homestead MUDD CENTER FOLKS SMALL B Lola herself came to the door, Sho was covered with a big flan nel bath apron, And under one arm | Well, of all things! It’s Gloria ry!” Lola cried. Sho smiled. I'm just on my way upstairs to sho went on “Come along and then we can talk in peace.” Lola seemed t know that Gloria | had come because she was in trouble without being told. | Upstairs in the big front bedroom the twins, in nighties and red bath-/ robes, were having bread and milk! for their supper Before the grato fire a bath basin | whs waiting for young Teddy. On} the mantel shelf his bottle of milk if | stood in readiness. | | stood in readiness, Gloria sank into an armchalr cov- ered with clean, faded cretonne With somber eyes she watched Lola “Isn't he a little old kewple?” Lola | laughed, as she took his out of the| | tub and bundled him into his sleep: | | ing bag. | | In Gloria's opinion Teddy was far } too fat, but she didn't say so, She} \ knew that {n Lola's eyes, her three) [~ - > ail bables were beautiful as cherubs. | : A Lola tucked them tenderly into By. Fe % thelr little beds and turned out the| [= mi Wt eee oA , WZ light le ei} rr — LEE “Goodnight, baby birds," she said, | LE softly closing the door. a Gloria followed her silently down- stairs to the dining room. A cold supper was Inid there for one, Sliced corned beef, bread and butter, and a bowl of canned peaches, |. Lola took an extra plate from the TROUBLE WAS WITH MA SLUPE SHE cimtay and have « ite of aupper| | NEVER MIXED PLEASURE. WITK HER WORK — BuT PoP NEVER, MIXED with a lonesome woman," she} ANYTHING ELSE — 7 > Pr Sirall begged. “And while I'm boiling the} water for the tea you can tell mo} what's on your mind. I can see that something is bothering you."’ Something?” ,... .Everything Gloria erled, ‘My whole life's wrong MOM’N POP e | 7-10 (©1929 BY WEA SERVICE, inc. Slowly Gloria shook her lovely ead, Her eyebrows straightened| nto a frown. ‘Of course, I can't do that, with Dick #0 #leck,” she mused, “But when he's better, I think I will tell him—that Js, if he gets better,” | Lola set her cup down with a clat auto she | her. She would probably have com- | Me! listened intently. fort and standing for her, too She measured tea “He'll « well i¢ his heart holds |... Lola was like that n the table, | ¢ But {t's pretty weak,” she | Trouble softened people and made H yeard Mra. O'Hara nay. | them more ht And when it} "Oh, I see;* sho exclaimed pres nen another voleo answered her. jcame to trouble, Lola cer y had} ently “Well, I'm at his office, Phone me }more than her share. In fact,| “what do you sce?” Glorin asked. | if anything happens,” tt sald. It was, Htrouble was about all ahe did havel| “1 sea why you come to mo with| Miss Briggs’ voice! Sho and her sis- eee |this story,” Lola said. “I wondered | ter were talking about Dick! Fifteen minutes later Gloria was| why you'd picked mie It's B (To Be Continued Tomorrow) j ringing the bell of old Hough | ALESMAN BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES (Woney- We Re Ricd IT- WE'RE WORTH HEC Now AN START UP & ROAIN Pw He WHAT'S TH USE YOURE DOMBER'N BR DONKEY WHATS Youre NAME PRAY — BET YOU #5 YOU'RE A }_ DISGRACE” To \T ——$— FRIDAY, JULY ID = TaAcK enero | | ar | FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS. ToOAY BEEBO THAT | DON'T LIKE 2 GEE ‘ APL. WELL THEARD SHE SAW Te THIS ORESS AN WAS COMIN’ IN AN’ Boy \T - SURE,\ KNOW ‘YT. 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