Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 38, 24 December 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1913

Married Life the Third Year

. BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. The old night watchman had been discharged discharged because of a complaint made by Helen. Some letters that had been given to him to mail had been found on th3 desk in the office several days afterward. Evidently he had laid them there and then forgotten to mail them. As one of the letters was to Warren, Helen had been most indignant. There was no mail chute in their apartment, and since she often wrote to Warren late at night, she was dependent upon the watchman, who after 12 ran the (levator, to take them out to the letter-box on the corner. Fearing a repetition of the same are'.esHTies, Helen had complained to the superintendent. She had only wanted thfr watchman reproved and cautioned asainwt. Hying down letters fiiven him t" h-- mailed. But to her distress she found he had been discharged. He was a bent, wizened little man of over sixty. Helen had always felt sorry for him. There was something haunting!- pathetic in the faded blue even, tin pinched face and the patient droop of the rounded shoulders. She had heard that his wife was in the hospital ar.d had given him, magazines now and thn to take to her. When she learned of his discharge Helen at once went to the superintendent, eayinp, she would never have made the complaint had she known it would have caused his dismissal, and asking that he he taken back. HE IS EVASIVE. The superintendent was polite but evasive. Plainly he did not want the man back, and finally gave as an excuse that he didn't know his address. TTelen promptly called up the Charity Hospital, where the wife was ill, and secured the address. And the superintendent promised rather reluctantly to send for him next day. But several days passed and still the old watchman was not on duty. Again Helen went to the superintendent. He said he had sent for the man and that it wasn't his fault if he didn't "show up." Intuitively Helen felt that he had not been sent for, that the superintendent was only smoothing things over in this way, thinking in a day or so she would forget about it and let the matter drop. Rut the pathetic figure of the old man haunted her so that she ecu Id not forget. ' The next afternoon, leaving Winifred in Delia's care, she started out for the address the hospital had given her. Pho would find out if the old man was there and if he had been sent for, or if he now had work somewhere else. The address was in a crowded tenement district on the East Side. After Helen left the car there were three Ion? blocks to walk. It was piercing eo!?l. Last 'week's, snow was. still l.t.Hiked up in solid masses on each side of the street, and trodden into a hard black coating on the sidewalks. Tn spite of the cold, thinly clad, unkempt children played on the streets and around the doorways. Women Tvith shawls over their heads, and men with their hands in their pockets shuffled by. Helen had never been in this district bci'ore. and she shrank shudderingly from the squalor, the filth, the littered stoops and overflowing garl a;rc cans. WHERE POVERTY REIGNS. Dingy little grocery stores and crowded, unclean delicatessens were everywhere. Helen hurried on, averting her eyes from the dangling chickens and purplish tainted looking meat in the windows of the basement butcher shops. How could they eat the food from such places? - At last she reached the number, and paused hesitatingly at the dark, narrow hallway. Some children ran out gazing at her curiously. An old man shuffled down-stairs. For a moment Helen thought it was the one she was looking for but it was not. As sin5 j-assed she caught the odor of stale beer and he carried an empty bucket. Rut her revulsion was mixed with pity. After all. they could hardly bo blamed for seeking solace in the corner grog shop. Helen knocked hesitatingly on the first door. It was opened by an amazingly dirty child, who promptly put his finger in his mouth and kept :t there, while he stared up with eyes big with wonder. Then a woman appeared, a stout, good-natured looking woman in a soiled blue cotton gown. "Can you tell me if John McGuire lives in this house?" asked Helen. "John McGuire? Oh, yes, ma'am the fourth floor, back." Then lowering her voice, "Is you'se the lady from the hospital is his wife dead?" "Oh, no, no," stammered Helen "Is she so ill as that?" "I don't know, ma'am they said she's dyin'." Dying! Helen hurried up the steep narrow stairs. And she was the cause of this old man's dismissal! And his wife dying in a charity hospital. On the fourth floor she paused, breathless, then knocked at the door in the back. It was opened by John McGuire himself, a little more bent A MISSISSIPPI JNTHUSIAST Mrs. Lena Grcsham, of Clinton, Miss., Has a Few Facts to Tell Our Readers About Cardui. Clinton, Miss. 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BY NELL BRINKLEY. "Dear Santa Claus: "It's good form now you know to tell what you want for Christmas but it won't do any good to tfll my second cousin this want of mine for she'll knit me a pair of slippers any way and pathetic, and the blue eyes more faded and hopeless than she had ever seen them. In a swift glance Helen took in almost every detail of the room cold and dark and cheerless, but scrupulously clean. When a few moments later Helen was again making her way down to the street, the tears in her eyes blurred the dark stairs before her. She had left with the old man a two-dollar bill and the assurance that lie could go to work the next night. When she reached home she again sought the superintendent. But he told her briefly that it was too late he had engaged another man, a younger man who would be better for the place. He was to come that night. What could she do? Helen thought desperately. She had been the cause of this old man losing his work, and now at any cosj; she must have him put back. The thought of him coming tomorrow night and being turned away, the thought of the hopeless look in the faded eyes, was more than she could bear. Early the next morning. Helen, fully dressed for the street, started down to the office of the agent of the apartment. It was a huge building in lower Broadway. Timidly Helen gave her card to the clerk in the outer office. She had never before approached any one in this way and now her heart beat fast with nervous dread. The agent, Mr. Finch, happened to be also the owner of the building and i a prominent real estate man. When ! Helen was ushered into his office he looked up with a quick "state your business briefly," which completely disconcerted her. She promptly forgot the carefully worded speech which had so clearly and briefly stated the case. But her very evidence of enfusion and the deepening color in her cheks only added to her atmosphere of appealing feminity which was always Helen's greatest charm. "I will call up the superintendent at once," said Mr. Finch when he had listened to her nervous, hurried account of the old ma's dismissal. "The man has to be taken back tomorrow night." Drawing the desk telephone toward him, he called up the superintendent and gave peremptory orders that the night watchman be taken back and not discharged again without his knowledge. "I am very glad." as he most courteously bowed Helen to the door, ' thai you called by attention to this. 1 knowhow hard it is for old men men passed sixty to get work at this season and I am glad to be able to put this man back. And Helen went home, happy in the consciousness of her task fulfilled The old man with his faded blue eyes and pathetic drooping shoulders would be at work again tomorrow night. And his wife Helen resolved to go to the

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even if she could make me a present of a sweetheart. But here and now I join the ranks of the kids and come right out to you in black and white and ASK for what I want the worst of all. Just a GIRL if you please; if you have any on hand with brown eyes and hospital in the morning. Perhaps something could be done for her. And then, as always when moved by any emotion of pity or tenderness, her thoughts went straight to Warren. Why is it that when we come in touch with suffering or sorrow it always brings up closer to the one we love. So now when Helen reached home she could hardly wait to pour out all her emotions in a long love letter to Warren. "Oh, I don't know why, dear," she wrote at the close, "but it all seems to bring me closer to you to make me love you more. When ever I think of that poor old man's faded blue eyes I want to curl up in your arms and cry. "The tears have been very near all day, dear, pitying tears for all the poor, the old and unfortunate, for all t those who are not young and strong as we are, and who have not the hap-! piness of the great love I have for you. "I am kissing you. dear. Oh, so gent ly, your lips and eyes and forehead. I j will write to you again tonight, but I felt that I must write this now. Yours, Helen." In 1900 there were sixty-two beef cattle in the United tSates for each one hundred persons of populations; now there are thirty-seven cattle to each one hundred of population. are too wearing and dangerous for exneriment or delay-r-pneumonia or consumption easily follow. Exacting physicians rely on Scott's Emulsion to overcome bronchitis. It checks the cough; its rich medical nourishment aids the healing process, soothes the enfeebled membranes and quickly restores their healthy action. If you have bronchitis or know an afflicted friend always remember that Bronchitis readily yields to Scott's Emulsion. Shun alcoholic mabstitatmrn yen recover? dm a mJ A parity of Seott't.

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BOARD TO REINSTATE ELLA FLAGG YOUNG

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