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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1920)
T A SMILE OR TWO. Sugar stocks are going um but not ou consumers' suelves. By MILDRED WHITE. Western Nowopapor Union) • Big Tom stood gazing absently through the window of his crude office in the wood. His mother had distin guished biiu by this name, from the frail Toni, who was his father. Now that both were gone, the faithful son awakened bitterly to a sense of his own loneliness. With the cheery mother awaiting him each evening In the neat outage home, this busy life among rough lumbermeu had seemed neither profitless uor dull. Big Tom dreaded poignantly his evenings. He wondered, if he might not arrange to leave the work here, and go to c more coniiuiniouiil'le field in the city. But whom could he trust to carry on his great interests, which had grown to remarkable success? No, the life which he had liven obliged to take up when his father's declining health made work no I- nger possible, must still be the life wh'ch would hold his fretting spirit. Aud as he gazed with somber eyes through the opening between the trees, he !'<■! I I an unbelievalde thing; a girl’s figure advancing rapidly to ward him. Tlie girl, dropping her suit case be fore the office door, and sounding a tentative knock answered the question. To Toni's astonished stare, she gave a wistful smile. “If you please," asked the wonder-girl, “will you direct me to a hotel—or boarding house?" she added at his evident glance of dismay. “! left the train at the last stop, and have walked, searching upon m.v way. The place Is less populated than I thought.” “Come In." said Big Tom. cordially. Before this girl's diffidence his self- consciousness vanished. “Why did you come?" Toni asked abruptly. The girl’s crystal clear eyes met his frankly. “I came to hide away from a man,” she replied, “and I left the train at the most isolated spot I could find. I hoped."—Impatiently she brushed the tears from her fringed lids,—“to find work here. Stenogra phy perhaps, and support myself." Big Tom whistled. “You know your own business of course,” he said, “but don't you think you’d better go back. Surely there is some other way— “This is the only way.” the girl an swered decidedly. “If it's the only way." he said brisk ly, “and you are determined itf It. why. you may become my typist, this min ute, I’ll be almighty relieved to find one. Even in this wilderness I'm a busy man. And there’s my mother's cot tage. all ready for you to keep house In. It will be pleasant to think of you there, sort of keeping things go ing." “And you?” asked the girl breath lessly. “where will you be?" “Why. right here.” Mr. Tom replied. “I bunk here now half the time.” So the plan worked out like n happy fairy tale, and the new arrangement of affairs ran smoothly, as affairs were wont to run, with Big Tom’s planning. The girl bade him call her “Joy:” “Be cause she had put her sorrows behind tier,” she said His love for her grew to a sort of reverence. In Joy. was personified all the beauty and truth and purity of the book women whom Tom had wor shipped; almost the only women that he had cared to know. And ev ery day, little Joy. singing about her neat cottage, or over the books in the cabin office, grew more and more into the very spirit of her name. It was then that Rawlings of the city end of the business came out to the forests to consult personally with Tom Here ford. And when Rawlings faced Tom's little stenographer he stammered in what he was saying and left the room patently perturbed." Big Tom’s troubled eyes noted Joy’s sudden pal- lor, and when Rawlings had gone she came to him with a gesture of resig- nation. “I will have to leave you. Big Toni,” she said wearily. “Rawlings Is not the man you are hiding from?” he asked sharply. Joy ahisik her head. “He will send the other man to find me," she told him. Suddenly, she was sobbing. “You don't understand, Tom dear,” she cried, “the man 1 ran away from, •was my promised husband." Instantly his arms released her, ac cusingly his eyes held hers. “Listen,” the girl went on. “I was for years secretary to n wealthy wom an who loved and trusted me. Before she died, she begged me to marry her only son, that I m'ght guard her for tune and convert him from reckless ness to wisdom. I agreed, only when I thought that he loved me. He was winningly attractive in a young girl's eyes, and I also thought—Oh ! Tom how could I ever have thought—that I cared for him: we agreed before witnesses that we should be married as soon as the requirements of the will were adjusted. Dazedly Big Tom turned to answer the telephone. When he replaced the receiver, he swung about and held out his arms. “Joy of m.v life,” cried Tom exultant ly, “you don't have to go back. Yon are not going back, until you go, as m.v wife. That was Raw’llngs; he called to say that the man you ran away from is married and already he has taken steps to secure his moth er’s money.” “He can have It all,” said Joy eagerly. Big Tom laughed. "Reckon I’ve got enough for yon honey.” he ■aid. (CopyrUhl, Marie Morrisey. It Is a cost of llvlug. It might lie said, Miss Marie Morrisey, whose under which It Is the easiest thing <n the world to get her father to eonaeut concert Tuesday, May ♦, prom to his daughter's hand In marriage. ises to be one of the most delight Tired Buying Tires? fill of the season, insists that her Tailors say the reason prices are high Is that pocket-makera, for <n mice wn* not always received stance, are getting $70 a week. What, with the same favor as it is to Liberty bonds will not bite the pos for Instance, Is the good of a pocket? day. It seems that Miss Morrisey sessor. Wild-cat securities do. Japan Is said to be giving Swlaa offi has always been determined to For a troubled conscience try shov cers a big bonus to Join her urtuy. sing. Ami when she was a little Switzerland might reciprocate and give eling the snow off your sidewalk. Japanese officers ■ bouua to serve In girl she used to lift up her voice and carol loudly for the edifica A lump of coal for a lump of sugar her navy. tion of herself and all the neigh may prove about an eveu trade. Fluctuations In the stock market bor*. Talking about the coal situation also may Interest a few speculatively In One day the policeman on the cline.! persona, but the thing we are helps to keep many of us warm. Morrisey" i Interested In Is the fluctuation of sugar beat passed Miss house and hearing strange If your sweetheart turns low the prices In the flrat page headlines. sounds issuing forth, he finially light, cheer up! She's but conserving The tnflux of wolves Into Mini Roba concluded to investigate. coal. is lnterprete.1 by thè trapper» as ■ foro- He was a good policeman, was cast of au exceaslvely severe wiuter. Pat. and he took an interest in The coal situation continu.-« to stlin- But we prefer to pln our falth to thè ulate production In typewriter sup beare of New York state, who aro all the affairs of the street. So plies. he presented himself to Miss salii to predlct a lulld one. If years go by contrarle» HW ought to bring mauy blessings. Liberty bonds are best In the long Girls inclined to he particular should run even If the government Is retiring remember that B.tWO British women them. ■re scheduled to come to this country “Operators Can Not Raise Price of next year In search of husbands. Coal,” and neither can a lot of the con British mothers-ln-law are forbidden sumers. by law to visit “the children" more The last glimmering ray of hope Is than a month at a stretch. This la fla gone. The kick is to be taken out of grant denial of self-determination. hair tonics. None of those German statesmen an* When mothers depiand an eight hour sorry for anything connected with the day then the world may as well give U-boat campaign except that It failed up the ghost. The Columbia profeasor who says n Sales of Jewelry have doubled tn family of five can cat on $11.00 a week Baris, and this with no rush of Amer has never lived In this little old town ican tourists. Many a nervous householder would The coal shortage has crowded the now find the rattling of coal down the sugar shortage Into the background of chute to the bln ns smithing as a sym phony. public interest. No wonder, when you think of the present prices for new casings and tubes. Don’t put your money into costly new tires and tubes when you can have the old ones neatly vulcanized by usjtnd with, the sav ings you can invest’in WaTiSavings Stamps. Think it over—and act! Morrisey's mother. 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