THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1909J
raulein
By FRANK H. SWEET.
Copyright, 1908, by Frank H. Sweet.
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'IIEN the two so fouJ
lovers were made, quick
into fairies' land by the
beautlfool white swan,"
concluded the tale told the children by
the little German governess.
"It'e a pretty story," said Delia, "but
not as nice as the one about the little
wooden shoes, Is It, Joe?'
"Tee," disagreed Joe, "better. The
wooden shoe one chops off in the mid
dle and doesn't end."
"But it might end some time,
mightn't It, frauleln?- Delia question
ed earnestly.
"Aon, no not until floats back the
one shoe that was not more seen by
the boy and girl playmates."
Frauleln WUma Kraft Vas not lack
adaisical Her eyes were a cheerful
bine and looked philosophically upon
life as she found it; her face was like
a round, ptnkiy
ripened peach,
and her whole
some mouth had
no pathetic
tendencies; her
waist was plump
enough to dis
credit any sug
gestion, of plu
ins, yet it Beem
ed as if the
buckle of the
belt fitting so
trimly around
it, creaked
faintly about as much as the extra
train of a sigh might occasion.
"I wish I had been the girl to go
paddling barefoot in the rushes in the
edge of the lake." Delia looked with
discontented eyes upon the fine kid
that held in her rebellious toes. "What
do yon think became of the shoe that
floated away, frauleln?'
"Ah, who could say thatr
"Well, I wish 1 could see a wooden
ahoe I never did," Delia mourned,
with a dismally defrauded expression
that turned f rauleln's heart to wax.
- Tomorrow iss the Saturday's holi
day," she reminded. "Come you up to
mein brutter's bouse once ask the
motterkln there haf I the one little
shoe that the girl safed yet"
"Goodyr rejoiced Delia. "Mommy
won't care. How did yon get the shoe,
frauleln ?'
"Ask me not some questions and 1
tell you not some fips," said frauleln,
laughing and springing suddenly up.
"I must now absent me."
Going down the granite walk of the
Stanhope grounds, Frauleln Wllma
passed Miss Aa
relia's new mu
sic teacher in
the shadow of
the winged grif
fin that snarled
above the gate
way. He was
large, the pro
fessor, and rud
dy cheeked; hl3
hair, the color
of a fresh pine
shaving, hung
straight to his
ears and then
curled under;
his eyes shone
amiably down
under big round
glasses.
Kindly Profess
or Yost could
scarcely pass by
a cow In un
friendly silence, much less a little rosy
frauleln la the employ of his own
patrons. A respectful "Gute efening"
in broad, mellow German tones reach
ed her sociable souL
"Gute efftnlng," she responded, with
a quaintly distant courtesy, and went
her way, dreaming absently of red
clover patches and strong, shapely tree3
and tranquilly flowing water brooks,
all because of the ruddy German with
bis mellow greeting.
Frau Lena Kraft scolded loudly
about the prospective invasion of the
Stanhope children on the next day.
"Scbildren cooming on the Saturday
alretty," she protested shrilly. 'They
will the cleaning hlnter and some mud
MB
Ik
The wooden shoe.
"(Jute efening."
dared atormy.
Herman, the Blow, tranquil husband
and brother, smoked his long stemmed
pipe in unconcerned silence through
Lena's brawlings, but occasionally tie
opened bia mouth briefly and quenched
her.
"Vat you make, Lena) Let the ohil
dren 00010,'' ho said comfortably ou
this occasion.
And Lena submitted, though with
much wasplike scolding and butrin.?.
to which Herman pnld as little at'e-:-tlon
as fo the rattling of a dry benn
pod.
The birds among the trees In the
quaint old Dutch yard of the Krafts
opened their Saturday moruhig rehears-"
als unusually early iu response to tl:e
sound of Frau Kraft's swishing, splash
ing, brooming and mopping begun In
the rosy gray dawn, and the fraulelu'a
faithfully burnished tinware flashed
broken javelins to the rising sun. The
good frau was still searching for tin
drenched corners and Wilma busy fry
ing big round apple butter doughnuts
when the young Stanhopes raced n
the freshly reddened brick walk edged
with blue flag clumps and a fringe of
lad's love.
A dark presage of tracks, together
with Wllma's desertion of the dough
nuts to show
the children the
wooden shoe. set
Lena buzzing
like a red wasp.
When the fat
little sabot, with
Its odd, curved
toe and wide,
flat heel, had
been returned to
the inner circle
of Wllma's trunk
and Joe and Del
la were hover
ing dangerously
close to the pink
knots of the sa
c r e d oleander.
Lena fell upon frauleln.
"Ach, hlmiuel!" she scolded. "The
house we must to the schUdren glf yet
yess. Some tracks they make ant the
blumen break vat you care? Now.
yust make on your ponnet once ant
make dose schildren home yess."
Frauleln found no hardship in com
pliance. Better the smell of dew wet
eartft than that of boiling lard; more
congenial a crisp morning walk be
tween strips of spangled grass than the
monotonous forming of knobby fried
cakes and the tireless refrain of Lena's
pungent tongue.
The children skipped happily beside
their little plump governess along the
sleepy bystreet which ran suddenly out
into the wide avenue where rose the
griffin guarded gate. From the opposite
side came Professor lost beaming
rosily, his Bieek. pine shaving bued hair
gleaming with the vigor of ts recent
brushing.
"Guten morgen." he greeted r.s the
four reached the shadow of the griffin.
"Guten morgen," fraulein responded
sedately, retreating gently. "Guteby.
schildren. I must absent me."
The professor's eyes beamed com-
mendlngly after the fresh, starchy Li e
calico of fraulein's disappearing hpusa
wrapper.
"Vas 1st the little fraulein's name
yet?" he asked the children, who went
hoppingbefore him like robins.
"WllmtfKraft,"Dellarep!ied. "She's"-
"Vas?" The professor was standing
stock still on the stone walk with his
mouth open. "Vere lif she at, hey?"
"In the peaky little house down the
next street that looks like mamma's
Swiss music box. It's got little bits of
window panes, with big red oleanders
standing in front And there's candle
sticks and blue plates in a long row on
the shelf, and frauleln has a wooden
shoe in her trunk"
"Wooten shoe?" the professor re
peated. "Yes, a stumpy little Dutch wooden
shoe," Delia babbled on. "She told us
a story about it A German boy and a
German girl used to play together be
side a lake and sail the girl's wooden
shoes for boats, and once one shoe
floated away, and they couldn't tell
where it went. They paddled and pad
dled In the edge of the water in their
bare feet and
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general housework; four in family;
Ami still she was u human little' per
son, with warm blood aud an Inher
itance of teutlnicut throbbing deep In
her sensible bosom. She was glad
wheu the upple butter cakes in their
knobby rotundity and the sheets of
cinnamon sprinkled coTee kuchoa for
the Sunday breakfast wre set away,
la company with Leua'a feather bed,
like loaves of bread, and sho could sit
near the greeu paper shaded window in
tho sitting room and see the oleanders
and darn in peace.
Over the plump pink lingers of her
Inft hnnit mhn iliva n liti? vnrn atwb nttit
set to weavlmt a blue latticework i no hn or ironing; must be good
across tho grinning hole, wondering In cook; wages $.'5. Apply at office of
a patiently tranquil way if there might the Morning Astorian. 7-17-3t
ever bo a loophole of escape for her i
from Lena's perpetual driving and ?2.00 STARTS A FINE LOCAL
scolding. Her brother Herman had one
time glvcu her the practical counsel:
"You shouldt get married once."
And Otto Boppert, the prosperous bar
ber on the next block, stood ready to
assist her In carrying out the sugges
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Otto now. Otto was short but very u -i, r . i-
wide. Ills hands were fat and moist ' . 1Iav' !U,d CTh,na: ,n Pfect condi
and always smelted of coeoanut oil ,K,n' chP- Inlu,r at thc McCrw
soap. His face was red aud glistening, 1'rd studio, 7-lS-tf
ma t Via fin.l lnf Inafr luwn .ItmAul fr,ml " 11 mmm
the lard kettle. He laughed in a pufTy i 'im'-vwm "nns.uu6 ura-
way, which gave the impression that j wmer, i nan price; aiso ugnt onv
he was stuffed full of feathers, and he ' ing team, buggy and harness; to
never seemed to think about much be- gether or separately. C. E. Barney,
sides customers and eatings. Maybo with Warren Packing Co.. Aitorla.
some time she would not mind those i .
things, but now, Just after meeting FOS SUIT.
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"Pettlers," thought frauleln, going
tranquilly on with her blue weftage as
Lena's flat shoes slapped belligerently re,t TWO NICELY FUR-
f0iri dr onono.1 sh heard the ' nishe rooms with nt wter'
fresh, wholesome voice of the "Guten corner 11th andBond.
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Wllma Kraft llf heer yet"
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sailed out on a
raft to find it.
and they could
not The girl
cried b e c a u s
she was afraid
her papa would
not buy her any
more shoes, and
she kept the onef
shoe to remind
wi ho paun flnnpa mfllrp''
Each Saturday it was the good frau's j r what a nlce
practice to so scrub and scour andtIme Bne na(1
splash and sluice the cottage that it j PlaJ'lD8 vlth tne
was surprising there was a sliver of i 0 y or ber
woodwork left about it And Wllma PaI,a aDd mam'
was not excused from sharing the ma moved away.
hnnootinifi taaka and she never
in the face of ! saw hlm !?aIn.
the fact that she !but she never for8ot hlm Wny Pr-
fessor, where are you running off to.'
sponded. "You should valk iu, ouce.
And into the sitting room walked Pro
fessor Yost, broad, ruddy and smiling
cheerfully. He carried a small parcel
wrapped In brown paper, which he ,VA VTrrLTri none.
nrvwiW sllentlv to unroll. Then he n "vjvjc,
held out upon bis broad palm a little
wooden shoe.
Wllma" he retreated from the pit
falls of his acquired English to the old, torian office
deep music of
the tongue of
his fathers
"dost thou re
member Wendo
len Yost thy
playmate, the
boy who sailed
with thee the lit
tle wooden shoes
upon the lake?
Yes? And the OLGA
one mue snoe
that sailed away
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"It teas not lost."
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ed to the island
and caught fast in the reeds, and one
day after the girl playmate was gone
the boy found it there and tender
ly carried it ashore. And the boy kept
it for love of his girl playmate the j
pretty little wooden shoe. Now, see,
my Wllma, if I speak not the truth, for ;
hara la thn rrfrl's nnmn rarvwl ntn the
little sole-'Wllma Kraff-and the date Leave Orien at Star Cigar Store.
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A Piute Indian Myth.
The Piute Indian myth of the sun.
moon and stars is as crudely anthropo
morphic as can be found In any sav
age belief. The moon is the sun's
w4a rri.. offl fa aiA til a fh f Mran
When be appears the children skedad- UJa -Bee Hive Jjlag.
die. They live in terror of him. He
eats them when be can catch them.
His stomach the only part of him one
can see Is stuffed with stars. When
he goes to bed the children emerge
again from their hiding places in the
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them. Every month she goes Into
mourning because her cannibal bus
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"Vaer
paid her board
to her brother
V LlM" Lena was a
thrifty soul and
1 a driving one.
"She pay fife
to liar efery
week?- That
make no differ
ent," would Le
na asseverate.
"She will scour
the tin ant the
coffee kuchen bake ant make tbf socks
mended,"
So -Wllma's opportunity for retro
spect or day dream was narrowed to
the darning hour, and even tnar
Lena's sharp tongue oftentimes ren-
"Vat yuu make,
Lena?'
Weren't you going to give Reelle hc?r
music lesson?"
The visit of the young Stanhopes and
the delayed frying of the doughnuts
soured Lena for the day. She scolded
Wilma roundly for both happenings
and made a clean Job while she was
about it by berating her for all the
shortcomings she could rake out of the
dim past and saddle upon the plump
shoulders of her sister-in-law.
Patiently the fraulein bore the stings
and arrows of her relative's tongue.
Lena was much the elder, and Wllma
seldom talked back. With serene fore
head and blue, unclouded eyes she trot
ted about at ber task amid a whirlwind
of shrill reproach and blunt sarcasm.
In her sturdy German mechanism there
Was no Dlaco fnr h.vrirWI nrrB.
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snaps at one of the stars, his children,
and does not get hold of it he only
tears a piece out and the star, getting
wild with pain, goes flying across the j
sky with a great spout of blood flow-1
lng from It. It is then very much j
afraid, and as it flies it always keeps .
Its head turned to watch the sun, its
father, and never turns its face away
from him until it is far out of his
reach.
Must 'Have Had Experience.
"Never mind, dear," he said reassur
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from his shoulder and they both saw
the white blur on his coat: "it will all
brush off."
"Oh, Charlie," she burst out. sobbing,
hiding ber face again upon his whitey
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