1 II I IlHItj^y
PAQK
TI IK REDMOND SPOKESMAN
EIGHT
head spin and by the way Hilly
end she Just falrlv ate that note wl b
frowned I knew I'd done a perfectly
tuat sat at quiet as a half dosvn raw
scrumptious lob on grandpa
Atter
and looked a hole In my pompadour out salt or pepper
“ •You may «ell Mr » » • " » 'hat » he had hla morning face put on of
till llllly hung up the reoelver of the
cannot write a notv Juet now.
he came toddling right over to
telephone and oaiue over to me »Ith
me and in» bul I was the giddy young
" 'Tw o o two waute you aa »sou aa »aid. but to please »end up bis
to mother and me right ait*r lunch
ihlng
It only coat me two glances
you can route.'
ami another smile in hay» n theater
"I never In my life saw anybody sou I II see that he » received
•You'll »In . I told her
I " « M< invitation tor that night, and al t
light up the way that young fellow did
.. cl.nh I hlhc.l borne and put on nil
i S t o t c t w
All at once he looked like t'oney on a bet on you
When I told 11stdy the stunt that
hill rut deads troni the the plumee
opening night
was cut out for him he turned the
" Tw o huudred and tw o!' he said
down
color of hie collar aud *> l pet feet ly
When t m le Antique saw me In
TJo right up to her Don't tulud me
limp
the uniform I M l »ocry for his re
1 can w alt.'
i'h err up. I »aid
The rslutna .poetatile family, but I will say ho
“ 1 glanced up at hint aud he looked
awfully good to your Auut Heaale Ills are not all In yet. and if there* auy km-w bow to do the honors, and the
face had turned a little bit pink and say »our Aunt H e-le * • » <>#lp *,u"
was he tucked me Into my aeet you d
hla eyea had lost that faraway look the ballot box»», all her olhei engsg* have thought I » » » th# queen of
• Caiurrtaht bv thè M c C lu re N e w e p a p e r S y n d ica te .!
menta are off'
In a hurry
Shrbdl
"That night he »a s waiting to walk
"You don't have to ring ora to toll nil He didn't. He was puncture proof, and
"H er! Of course It was a Her In
I »uto>ed the show while I wee
Lho counterfeits." observed tho Hotol « hen he got up to go he leaned over tw«>o-two!
out
to
the
car
with
me
and
t'«arutea
Hut front the wa) this
there, «*»• everything In thl# world
Delvelgh manicure girl a* sho opened the tab'e to me and said:
Itko
a
custard
pie
Ile
allupi
h»d
to
young fellow acted I could tell that
h-ks so g o o d to me nowaday a that I
a bundle of oraory paper
"Only la*t
" What do you think o f a nice eve thla was an extra special Her of the recite It all to somebody and l »s a could almost enloy the toothache but
» eek I had on» In horo (hat « a * ao ning at the theater tonight, and maybe very best brand, the choice and pick the only audience he could nail
juat before the all get buay chorus at
rank an Imitation you'd think ho d ait a bird and a bottle after?*
'• i saw her. he said, and I'm to
o f the whole Her flock so tar as be
Ih» end I
reel peevish and made
up nights to make fun of hlmaolf, any-
see
her
once
more,
though
I
sues»
" F in e!’ I*chirrup« d
1 like to read waa concerned.
» » i , you'd begin to undoratand how about It: but If you re hunting sopie
“ 'tt wouldn't take me but a little
Casalo Chadwick took up collections. poor but honest working girl of fatal bit to get through with you.' I said,
H o was old enough to hatro fod M o beauty to share tt you d better hurry, keeping my smile for In the elevator
thuaelah hla fonnol toa. but tho help for the hour Is growing late. For me.
** Not 1 can watt.' he Insisted
I d
an old man can got from ugltnoaa. doc not! I'm going to spend this evening rather wait. T o tell you the truth. I
tor» and tailor» that ought to hare with my own grandfather.*
want to see you after you route back
.ween taxidermists. makoa anything
“ 1 hadn k supposed It could be done, down, and he stammered and stut
thoy sho» at tho Hippodrome look but the red began to creep under his tered tike a young married uisti doing
easy
The minute I cdtight eight of make-up, and then I felt a little bit ' hla w ires flrst shopping wltlf girl
that saucy little froahman hat and sorry It's wrong to hit a cripple, any
clerks.
Finally
he blurted out:
the college-cut clothea. I know the how. and as he went out I sunshtned 'Would you mind taktug a little note
■whole play before tho curtain went up, at him just so I wouldn't feel like so up there ^>r me?*
and 1 wouldn't look In Btlly'a direc much of a grouch myself I thought
" 'A note!' I said, putting on my
tion
He »a a already joshing more 1 cculd take a chance on that much topplest air. ‘I don't think the bouse
than was good for him
You know
without putting out the Welcome' would permit I t You rau call a bell
Hilly. He a the boss barber and wanta mat. but say! when I die. put on my
boy from here, and he U take It up ’
to buy me a plain gold ring and a tombstone, will you. She was a good
"H e fidgeted again, and the more
piano-player, but poor Hilly iau'ta man gy-urt. but she couldn't learn.'
he fidgeted aud the redder be gut the
o f hla word. He promised he'd do any
"Th at very evening, aa I passed out more I liked him.
thing In the world for me. and reneged through the parlors. I saw my Me
"'Y o u see. It's this way.' he ex
on the only request I made He thuselah's uncle, about five years
plained. There's two ladles up (here,
vouldn t change hla face.
younger tn hts silk tile and open-faced and I want the younger one to get the
"O f course, the (!r»t thing Mr Ner- vest, talking to a real foppy mother
note without the older one seeing It
erdie did when he kittened down Into and daughter who wore enough happy
Then he got so red I begun to feel
nay chair was to aqueeie my hand. harness to stock k new Tiffany's The
real motherly toward him He reached
That was a terrible shock to me
1 younger one was such a picture that
In hla pocket and pulled out a roll of
guess, since It only happens from nine I swung up close tc see If It was hand
bllla big enough to stuff a Teddy bear
to twenty times a day. and I hardly painted or only a chroma, but that's
" ‘Smother that, young matt. 1 said
knew what to do—only Just how to once I had to send a wireless apology,
'Once In a while I like to do a per
•top It. 1 shifted his hands Into and for her complexion was put on from sonal favor Just to Jolly myself along
out o f the ninety-eight cent near-cut the Inside and would stand scrubbing. that me heart a In the right place I
glass bowl so often he fell to tt that She looked perfectly happy except for tell you what you do
You scratch
the program had been changed with one thing: all she wanted was some off your note and give It to me. and
out notice, and then he took the num thing Interesting to happen She was
I'll think about what 1 ought to do
ber. 1 .lly snickered out loud, and I real willing to go right away from on the way up. I'll be gone from three-
shot a glare at him that ought to hare there to And It. too. but the other two
quarters of an hour to an hour. Will
shrunk him to the site of a on e had their chins en pivots and smiled
you be her»?'
lunged peanut: but it didn't. He onty continuously without pain
Anyhow.'
“ Would he! If I tell aa certain of
swelled up and watched for more He's 1 thought. 'Father Time Is now back going to heaven aa l waa that this
a regular cut-up. Billy Is. and o f course In his own precinct and they'll take young man would be right there when
he knew there was more coming
care o f him if he gets to wandering I got back. I d never worry about my
These past-due flirty boys get so cal in hla mind.’
conduct aa long aa I live.
lous to turndowns that nothing short
"T h e next morning, bright and
"M y* I do love to see a plot thick
o f a brick makes a dent In them, and early, before I even had my wraps off.
en. and when I got up to Iwoe-two
you couldn't scratch thla one with an
Installment solitaire; for there waa
the girl with the complexion that
wouldn’t come off. and ahe waa pret
tier In a kimono than ahe had been tn
her grand opera atunnera! Her mother
was there, too, aud when I came In
they were In a gab-feat up to tbelr
pompadours, and blowing and pawing
for shore ao bard they never noticed
me but went right on Anyhow you're
supposed to wear blinkers aud ear
cotton around a hotel, to I went dead
and got busy. The girl stopped long
enough to give me a real human smile
as ahe gave me her nails to do. and
then she said:
‘"B u t. mother. Just think' Mr l‘aa-
say la older than father would have
been at this tim e”
" ‘ Mr Passay le young In everything
but years,' her mother came back. In
that dead level tone of voice the hard
hearted father uses In the tiowery
thrillers. 'H e la reaping the reward.
In hla splendid preservation, of a
clean. Christian life. He 1» a gentle
man. he le wealthy, and can give you
social position. Why. child, he la the
leading membereof the famous Paaaay
family, first cousin to the Vander-
caahes, connected by marriage with
the Whlteners. H e’s devoted to you.
and all his daughters are grown up
and out o f the way.'
"Yes. and they'd all tik e great
pleasure In calling me mother!" ob
jected the girl.
Waa Perfectly Wlckeo and Proud of le
" 'They wouldn't dare show their
faces near yours when they said It,' thal will bo about all. at least that's him le «»* Of course lhw » . . . m o ..
snapped her mother,
besides you
rather n M Y l¥ Tnh t0 " Bd* r,U ,ld' * n<1 * » ' ,h" bird and th- bottle M d .|th
could stand that for a few years*
rather plainly There a no chance for »ut luting him km.w that I . . . «»..I,.«
'■ That's the trouble,' said the girl.
H e’d never die. He's proved that al
"D on 't tear up your ticket beforw l í ’ l t Ü ? - . ' ‘ r ^ Y é l d
‘ rr,>M
ready. 1 won’t have him. mother, and • he be,, ring.,' I ,„ ,d him Everythin, .her. U one of £
,£ ¡¡2
that settles It!'
come, out t . ,h . w.ah, ,„r white
............I n J T .
“ 'You're
an
ungrateful
child, thero'a life there a soap W hen dost hi rasi .m l m atw. _ » l ..
*nd »pok* io turn
G race!' walled the mother.
'You'd this dying Interview come off?1
I
rank, I or<lt*r»*d. gut m two
rather have that young adventurer
‘"Tom orrow night, he said
T m tables n ,lt to the wall. , n4 > b „ 0
that 1 forbade to bother ue any more
to take them to the theater.'
here a a certain party of threw comes
“ When Uncle Antique Saw M » in T h is Uniform, I Felt Sorry for H I» Re You have no proper pride at all.'
"That's when I decided to wedge
n a nlr*» looking young roupt* and
spectably Family.
“ ‘Adventurer!* said Grace, and I In. I can t keep out Of it H ail c o m
an
1 | , g|y.
w.
. ,h.
. . nml , a4
an old
old lady
lady 1
I'll
liked the way her eyes snapped. Mr.
t l l l give
If V s . them
I k . . . ak.
„a.
rom my East aide bringing up. where, V you
the other
tab
pretty soon I saw him watching my who should come prancing Into the Hardy has a fifty-thousand dollar whenever there * . . . midnight light.
"Frank . . . 1
barber shop but my Mr 8ear-and-yei- ranch, and a nice little house In a every man In the block yelled out
hair and my eyes, and I got ready.
,f t.K k th e f. , , m
* »Inute
Wo
“ 'Do you know.' said he, 'you look low to have his face Ironed, and with nice little city near by, and money In the window for them to wen till
he ... vr m t, ! 1 * 7 BBd 1 m,n««e d It
a nerve tall enough to make the Sing the bank And he made It all himself. got hi. .h oe. on. If there . . . . . .
exactly like Maxine Elliott?’
n,
.!
* oul,, h ,'r* *»•
«»
it .1 ..-°.-*-— * - “ V ' 1 mu" ' '** • " fu'
** 'O f course 1 know it,' I handed him er building look like a hitching post Hla social position la good enough for thing doing we all wanted to be In
»1 «. to learn, for I d rather h .v « f,mm
back
'Maxine comes in here nearly he lifted the roof o f his toupee to me me. It's better than father's waa when and I suppose I'll be tickled to death
bubble, any day. but thla time
with my own funeral. Just because 1 11 It han
every day and asks me to quit It. but and amlled aa pleasantly as a mummy you married.'
wa. me f „ r
rhll|jr q w (
,
"W ell, the old lady began to drip at be there and have the beat part In the
that had died dippy
I escaped him
I won’t.'
the
eyes
right
away
Her
daughter
when
he
went
out,
though,
because
I
cast
I
had
a
fine
plot,
standing
right
.o ! k ?
r " ,lo * ,r'
and by
"That made him pause for the cross
touching glasses ever so often I coaxed
ing. anyhow, and I got three minutes was busy with one o f the worst kind— was ungrateful—again. She had no Where I waa. too I get em often that
proper
pride-
again.
She
was
for
a
merchant
from
Darkest
Indiana
who
way Ain't I the little Heaale Bright?
S 2 T
° ° 10 h'
real human
farther on the way.
had come to New York to buy last getting a solemn obligation. Her father
" T e l l you what you do.’ I .aid
cim 7 .7; " my •p~ ‘UI » “ dlence
"'W h a t a lonesome city this Is !’ he
year's latest style, and who was ex on hla very deathbed had told Grace
After the theater
yOUr to\
V illu-e-r
,i
•''ron4
’ W . t . v w , tooet-
put in next, and I knew it waa no
e m itr you
you bring
bring your
lug . the
nail whii.
plaining how much he missed his wife to mind her mother, and what waa she
* ,ll,r*'r « ¿ T a n * while
grandpa
~
w Charter', m iur
use trying to save him a chill
He
crowd over
to
tor « , bit*
bite Of
of only U tto**.»«.Aw.
d * _ ! ...
m
* * »a .
doing now? And the old lady retired •upper, and
so
I
would
go
to
the
theater
with
him
.„ d n
„ t up , a little play
£ *•
I'll , , get
wouldn't be satisfied till he got froze
" ' " '''i
Front where | .a " |
to the bath room for flrat aid to the for you that'll beat any show on llroad
and let him tell me about her.
stiff
' " U'4
mY eye « „ ,h* d)M,r , n<J
"It helped some that afternoon to weepers, scared purple for fear her Way
Don't
get
there
too
quick
"'W h y did you slip away from him
have a real one drop in. He was a eyea would show red at lunch.
Mosey out of the theater
, n4 and r " k , ' “ r" ‘4 ,,,rk **'h Mr Hardy
then?' I asked.
"B y that time your Aunt Beanie had be sure you're the la.t one. out r»o and Brace . „ d M , h. e. u, h, mr „ J
tall, living-picture built young man,
| " 'From— ' he began, and then he and looked so solid he could have had her mind made up good and plenty
back to your »eat for something to kill he n^vé, , P“ abU" T ,U* ' ' h,,n •"
^stopped He wasn't so slow after all. his clothes pressed right on him with what to do
more time
When you get Into t'hur . . . . K * 4 • " ’ “ n d ' bU l
,h ' Y M W
l i e d been going to ask from whom,' out hurting
** 'This Mr Hardy.' I guessed, put
His hands were not a
o 'e ,
,*T d,d’ Tb-
ro o m
but he had a flash o f second sight and olt pretty; they were better than that; ting a dab of rouge on the prettiest xn V n \.h* V* *
"av,‘d ,or »ou
T h a t» all you have to do except .p
tableau 1
M ln * “ W'tod and the
knew l ’d hint that it was either his they were good to look at. They were little Anger nail I ever saw
‘If he's with your back to roe;
í ‘ "
u. pesche, and cn-.m to
guardian or his keeper
a man’s hands, big and strong and a young man with two shoulders and
Of courae he wa» craxy to know
. M ils
. T ,h fr h* 4 ,h"
Of
" 'W hat a cross little dear you a re!’ brown, but well shaped enough, too; several white teeth, I think he's down
« th! en.
“ Kr« ' lk — «“ d her
m e.Wa* r 0" 11" * ,,n hut > " " ’" d » t
lie said, and patted my hand.
at
th,
end
of
iha
table
where
the
I the kind that can hold a high stepper In the barber shop light thla minute, . tell
him I ttim t quite »ure m y.elf
j ‘"J u st see what I have to put up | down to an even trot through ten spoiling his Anger nails, waiting till yet, but the next morning I wa», for
hah.l * « ? d n‘ lm* * " ln ,ul1 Tl,‘* I
I
come
back.
See
If
hla
name’s
on
rwltfa. though. I explained, and then I \ miles of fireworks. It was a nice, Arm.
my p.sae Mr. !*.»;„> w.|i*e» m „
S
lr n' n' f,,r
hand,
this,’ and I slipped her the note
Ja* bed him one under the thumb nail warm hand, but It didn't know I held
u»ual to have hi. wrinkle, pr.-,,ed
mother
hear“
f" r
"Say, she lit up like a Helasco sun- out. and the .m ile I g . , e him
that set him Jumping all over That I It, and that Interested me right away.
Jab waa for the little dear '
1 You know, I suppose I’m like other rise!
have melted thl» Whetatone brick lee
r s z
| "W ouldn't you think be d guess his girls
It makes me mad If they do,
" 'I didn't
know he waa here,' she
cream ----
that they
put uj;
up iur
tor iJirnim
picnic. if*.
,|e
* fwx
'c\t *
AMI
an
ll
e
b
U
.I
f
»
l
Jtne had been disconnected after that? and I ’m disappointed If they don't Ha
said, but it wasn't to me ahe said It
* a . ao tickled I thought be g g,, K for ^ , ' ‘" 7 ', ,
lor* r,'"'e d me
m.
'
If there w „ , b„ Mnf
m xm
George Randolph Chester i l i
i l i
’r
7 J T E . T ' ”
u
thread about
pulled out .he
U
„
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toTj™
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v 'L lk :
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obd hi.
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napkin, into
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ft..... acre, ag
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5 '
;
** Kj
tice ani h
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or Hot. and mtwty .u **
• a l.r h . to p
v
...
tloowry an.) m .. |
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dignity
'‘• l i
' Mir aald I
eMined
! • », „ u
"I paused Just .« u,
utber table t,,
i gat
•*>d of tuuise ih.
tu r o d around tu fang M
*j
' kiabla.
■ .. * ' " l
curtain was .| .„,
. W
Ftank sent uy
<1
wi t h t h .
" * h t*
h. .
1 *
lug to flgur.
* May be they
...
*
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o n e . , young lt»rdy ^
_
1
’H
^ 1
^
*1
made tow
• . i.
j
mother wat .. i, <keee¿^]
Nhe reco« !r j me is w, J
barr^vawd »
*t kertoyaCJ
Ih » manicure girl of tg,
*
•be ae.m , J quite »a a w
family
William* • ah, n g ig g (
ahtwik my h». I
Wha.*,. m
by any Chase» ruaaeetag *w
Williamses *i S.rragaaastr
" ’No the W Ilh a m *** ya,
I asid and tie gear oM m *
fwrlly aMIsBeg •»»,. n * .
York, nor the nasa, ss
«a th
poeta down
w»ry
Mow amended •«-* » rUlawinj
G 000
JOKE
ON
F re e «* beealeee iM
ed le»iial>oe» *
" S 'l »* S o j.»
l it » la ottsn str»KgM Uto hq
but that a hues sb ulg |» y»:*,
la cultured tod hruilaat IV» t
•nfpsMeee the Ingentoua thacy g|
clerical playwright »be etuis tbi
Mghtf.il angle trtah farm. 1
John Meg at
a play la vU d
to an Americas >■*«» a
la erected la aa • ,atsg tito
to a military and y lltvsl kn
never ealated I» a »alta» to
surprise
A French -myayr
had gnubllees heard of the tito
tried the Igea oe rassbwi g
present par Stnient
tl seat i
to eesators and drpjtMa la tks
of a ‘committee and tavtM
psrllrtpstkm la the f i s l
of the centenary of the !»*
•h.-r lle c n ;
Si!
o f whose prof on rd aag » >|d
» » » riven on the note paper *b
striking thought was. "When to •
rises, garknewe vanishes" Th» »*
m llle « ' offered to furS'ih tots** *
appropriate nddre»#«-» Is tto
o f the great toan Thu »as sas»M*
more than enough
Fifteen sena«*'« sag ntse •'!**
among them e* c»ht»»»
swallowed the halt
They .o* •
flattered by th# lavltaius tto W
promptly accepted omtittag w **
Into worha of reference toto sfM
tribute» to the great thinker sal *
g ret led contemporary xdlstt MM
The paper promptly !»* • * '* ' *
host and rrunce I» laushisp »> M
humiliated politician» Tto
*
the affair I» loo piste to emd F *
Ing nut
tt I» »af* ••
’h*1
Brians who hear of th* !»c^gm, •
add some biographical IllerstW* *
their librarle# or uec more •a** *
the selection of eecr» 1 srle#
Indian Ohoet btery
Revrral year» ag« 1 h»< * *,*®i *
Alhuquer>|ii<- N v
•n,,
o f my recopilen room* »nd oMc*
hung with large photograph* *
diana. Karl Moore »r ile » la ted11*
One day I waa visited by *1* ■**
the Navajo tribe, who sft*r
smoking and visiting made
real cause o f their rail thrwtM
my desk waa a framed portrait «
o f the old medicine men of
who had Juat died I telle »Ini
part of hla soul was It.iprtso—< ■
portrait r !» « h »e " i’11 11
like h im *—they aske.l m» tf I
not destroy It. ao that hi*
*
b « released and be at peace ' »
dlately took the print from «b»
and tore It Into bu» while
looked on with allenf appr"»**
thanking me they each »hi>«h
In turn and tiled quietly md 0
rvMim They did not i i l f N *
might still he In ................. . cop»
o f the picture or a negsi1**
Real Drug.
New York *
Rutger Jewett, the
he «ito
terati-ur. gave a luncheon I
i)»ra**f
day at the l'layer» Hub la
,
pork and during the gat»* Cl’ jp
club attendant brought to ooa
Jewett s literal y guests a long,
oua looking envelope
. ^
At sight of thla envelope. •«
lar to all litterateur» »
™
ter went up
Kiask**
The object Of the lauglhtet hi ^
and thruat the envelope hurrlem»
hla Inside cost pocket
.
^
It's only an elegy, b°r*'
* .*
"that tho editor of • rrihbl*
turned down.
Mr Jrwett ahook hla head
Mow true It le." he aald. 1
• ry la on the declina."