Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1915 — LOCAL COLOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL COLOR

By BARRY TIBBETTS.

“Well, it’s surely good to be back on Broadway again!” exclaimed Jimmy Lawlor, as be awakened In his apartment tne morning after his return from the two weeks’ vacation which he had allowed himself. The room was filled with the golden sunlight or September. Lawlor glanced around hrs room. It was plainly furnished, but there were no evidences of poverty here. Lawlor ’as becoming mown as an illustrator; he had worked his way up from the depths, until he now secured a modest Income, with the hope of increasing it materially within a few months. Miss Mary Dewey, the famous shortstory writer had half promised to let Mm illustrate all her stories. The arrangement had been suggested by the editor of the magazine which had bought the exclusive right to her work. He was to meet her soon. He would have met her before, but she had been away.

Presently, as he dressed, sober thoughts began to steal through Jimmy's mind. He bad been guilty of very imprudent behavior during his short vacation. In fact, he had gone to the Catskills expecting to find rural quiet there, and he had found the place full of young store clerks and salesladies on their vacation.

Among the latter had been Miss Lizzie Moore. Miss Moore was a type of the store-girl—one of those types that Miss Dewey knew so well how to depict. And —they had fallen in love with each other.

At first it had been only a flirtation on Lawlor's part, but soon the transparent ingenuousness and simplicity of the girl had stolen into his heart.