Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 164, 21 May 1914 — Page 8

THE UCHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 191

PAGE EIGH1 By Nell Brinkley Coming? And Don't You Wish She'd Hurry? Married Life the Fourth Year

. BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. Her shabby black bonnett sat askew on ber struggling gray hair. Her hands trembled In the frayed gloTea as she fumbled in her handbag for her references." Helen took the envelope and drew

out a worn sheet of paper, written in I

faded ink. It was dated 1905 elgnt years ago. "Anna Flannigan has been in my employ as cook for the past four months. She is a good cook, honest, willing and Bober. "Mrs. W. G. Rpberts." "But this is some time ago," ventured Helen. "Where have you been working since? Haven't you any later references?" Her answers to this were somewhat vague, but she answered Helen that she could do any kind of work or cooking. "I'm sure 1 can suit you, tnics. If you'll just try me for a month." Helen wanted to dismiss this poor woman without telling her that she was too old and that her breath was strong of whisky. "Well, have your address, and I can let you know. But don't wait for this hastily, "if you can get any other place." "You looks real kind, miss. I'd like to work for a nice young lady like you." THE MONEY REFUSED. "I have several others to see before I can engage any one." Helen's tone was more decided. "Now here's your carfare." But old, shabby, destitute as she was, she hesitated to take It. "Oh, no ma'am, you needn't give me carfare. I'm staying only about twelve blocks from here I walked down." Helen insisted on her taking the dime, and with a "thank you, ma'am," she put it carefully in a little worn purse. As she went out Helen looked after her pitingly. How could she ever hope to get a position as general houseworker? She was too old and too shabby. Vet her advertisement had read, "Competent middle-aged woman wants place as cook or general houseworker." No doubt she had been competent eight years ago, but her breath and her shaking hands cried aloud of her incompetency now. Those eight years, as she grew older and her chances of work grew le3s, had drive nher to the solace of drink. And now who would employ her now? Helen pictured her going from place to place with that worn eight-year-old reference, until, weary and discouraged, she would seek a momen tary alcoholic forgetfulness. The doorbell rang again, and Helen felt, relieved when she saw that her sympathies would not be harrowed by the woman who now entered. She was about thirty, a foreigner, fairly well dressed and most assertive. Her keen glance quickly took in Helen and the apartment. Not waiting to be questioned, she promptly began to do the questioning herself. "How many rooms have you? What time do you have dinner? What days do you give off? And what do you pay ? "Now that I've answered all your questions, suppose you answer some of mine," said Helen quietly. "Oh, I know how to do my work," with a superior smile and foreign accent. "Here are my references." The references spoke of her as an educated, capable woman, but Helen noticed that she had remained in one of the places longer than three months. However capable, evidently three months of this young woman's assertiveness had been all that one could stand. uo you speak French or German?" the asked abruptly, as Helen returned the letters. "No? That is too bad, ili- 1 speak both French and German iftter than I do English. I speak also seme Italian. "But I am not looking for a linguist but for a good, plain cook." lleN.n's sarcasm was quite lost on ! is vcung woman, who loftily informa her that in Germany she had taken ; thorough course in domestic science. HELEN AMAZED. "Lui. 1 could not come for $25," sbe avtiouuced, as though the decision resits ! v. hoily wit i har. "They give me ?:' v. lu re I ain now." Ther pos-fil-ly you had better reuv;.t thre." st4gcjted Helen. "No; 1 do not like the people. I i used to working only in the very best families. So you do net think . u could ulve me $30'.'" "With difficulty Helen retrained fi rn faying what she did think. "Well. I will consider it," condescendingly. "Sines the family is so small and no washing I might try it. I - let you Know next week." Meln gasped. "I will have to ask you for my oarft re," as s-he rose to go. "That is customary, is it not?" !t had neevr occurred to Helen to To Put On Flesh ! And Increase Weight I A Physician's Advice. J Moot thin people eat from four to

t . pounds ot good solid rat-making food every day, and still do not increas in weight one ounce, while on the other hand many of the plump, chunky folks eat very lightly and keep gaining all the time. It's all bosh to say that this is the nature of the individual. It isn't Nature's way at all. Thin folks stay thin because their powers of assimilation are defective. They just absorb enough or the food they eat to maintain life and a semblance of health and strength. Stuffit. g won't help them. A dozen meals a day won't make them gain a single stay there" pound. All the fat-producing elements of therr food just stay in the intestines until they pass from the body as waste. What such people need is something that will prepare these fatty food elements so that their blood can absorb them and deposit them all about the body something, too, that will multiply their red blood corpuscles and Increase their blood's carylng power. For such a condition I always recommend eating a Sargol tablet with every meal. Sargol is not, as some believe, a patented drug, but is a scientific combination of six of the most effective and powerful flesh-building elements known to chemistry. It Is absolutely harmless, yet wonderfully effective, and a single tablet eaten with each meal often has the effect of Increasing the weight of a thin man or woman from three to live pounds a week. Sargol is sold by Leo H. Fihe and other good druggists everywhere on a positive guarantee of weight increase or money back. 'AdvertlaessenO

My gracious what a long time 'til June but she's coming up out of the boil of surf from the green of a Sum-

offer this superior person carfare. She had simply not thought of it. But now she hastened for her purse. "Thank you. Good morning." u nen tne aoor closed Helen gave ( way to her suppressed laughter, for her sense of humor was stronger than ; her indignation. But if this woman ! should condescend to come? Then j Warren would have to handle the situation fcr Helen felt she would not! be equal to it. She had answered four advertise- j ments in yesterday's paper, writing them all to call before 3. As it was; now baf-past the other two probably j were not coming. i With an anxious frown she took up ! the morning's paper. Under the situ- j ations wanten iut one advertisement held possibilities: COOR German girl wants general housework in small family; clean, willing and good worker. No. West 8th st. (Ring Krass bell.) Helen had never gone out to look for a girl this way; she had always written them to call on her. But now, as she hurridly dressed for the street.

she decided it would save time and she or in the morning," as Helen drew out could judge something of the girl's : her card. "You see, I need some one neatness and character rfom the place right away." in which she lived. j But as Helen went down the three Eighth street was swarming with j flights and made her way through children. A bakery shop with some i the street swarming with children, she stale looking cake in a dingy window j had little hope of the girl coming, was at No. , but above were flats, in spite of the better wages, better for there was a side door with three j food and healthier conditions of housebells, j work Helen knew that a girl rarely Helen rang the bell marked j leaven a factory to return to service, "Krauss," and entered the dark, nar- j and all because of a false social row hall. Coming from the sun-lit standard! street, she could hardly see the stairs. It was now after 4, and Helen hur"Come right up, please," came a ried back to help Mrs. O'Grady get woman's voice from above. j dinner. They had been home three Then the patter of small feet, and a , days now, and still there was no difchild peered down at her. inite prospect of a maid, and this was "Is your mamma up these?" asked i the last dav of the week that Mrs.

Helen, almost afraid to eo uo The child, without removing its finger from its mouth, nodded encouragingly, and trudged ahead of Helen up the two steep flights. The hall was filled with mingled odors of washing and cooking, but the woman who held open the door was I bright looking and clean. There were 1 two other children, pretty, chubby, ' who clung to their mother's skirts and ! gaied up at Helen with big, brown eyes. "Did you come 'bout the advertisement, miss?" the woman asked. "Wont you come in? That was my sister, and she's just got a place." 'Oh; I'm sorry!" exclaimed Helen, glancing around the room, which was kitchen, dining, living room all in one, yet was scrupulously clean. Surely thin woman s sister would make a good maid. IN DEMAND. "Won't you sit down, miss? Those seteps are real steep. Yes, there's been two ladies her this mornin', and the last lady took Susie right home with her. I wanted her to wait I told her she might get somethin' she'd like better. But the lady just kept at her to go." "Do you know anything about the place she's gone to?" asked Helen. "No, arfM, 'ccpt there be three in

the family, and Susie has to do th-j waehin'. I wanted Susie to get some place she wouldn't have to wash." "Yes, I'm sorry I missed her. There's only myself and husband and no washing." "An' I know you'd have liked Susie, miss. She's a good girl and a fast worker, even if I do say so, an' as neat as a pin." The woman hesitated and then added thoughtfully. "I've another sister,

a year older than Susie. She's a fine girl, too, and I've been wantin her to go back to hgousework -it's a lot better for her health." "What is she doing now?" Helen asked. "She's workin' in a factory where they make these straws for soda fountains. But the season's near over now, and I've been at her to go back into service. Factory work ain't good for her health." j "Is she a good cook? She's had ex- j perience at housework?" "Oh. yes, miss, she's a fine cook. ' She was three years with Mrs. Powell on West Seventieth street. I might have her come to see you, miss." "Then she must come this evening O'Grady could give her. Tomorrow Helen determined to get Absorbs Skin, Chases I Wrinkles Young Again "The shock at beholding myself in the glass after nine long weeks abed, nearly caused a relapse," writes Emily Colson in Home Queen. "The faded face,, with its lines of illness and worry, seemed twenty years older. Now, I thought, I could not attend my chum's wedding, eleven days off, to which I had looked hopefully forward. i ,hfl , "1ZS 77 j 2 X71" "dSK wh,ch fihe bade me d on col(j . v. i. i Applied nightly, this apparently ab sorbed the withered skin, so gently I experienced no discomfort. Upon the wedding morn the pallid complexion had entirely given way to one of youthful color and loveliness. "And there wasn't a wrinkle. This due to a wash lotion made by dissolving an ounce of powdered saxolite in a half pint witch hazel. The daily face bath had dispersed every line." (Advertisement)

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signed only as a "general whitewash of the accused soldiers. A bottle of wine left in Philadelphia when the British evacuated that city during the revolution has been given to a local society and will be drunk in 1992 when the society will celebrate jits centennial and the society will be 124 years old. Applied With a Sponge "VERY POPULAR." Opera Cream is now used by Actresses and Society Women in all the cities, when making up for the street or fancy occasions, when desirable to look nice and still not have powder showing on the face. OPERA CREAM A LIQUID BEAITIFIER For the complexion, when properly iispd imnarts a velvety loveliness and softness to the skin that is unobtain- j nhle with anv other preparation. It i never roughens or irritates. TRY IT. For sale by all druggists, or by mall direct from manufacturers on receipt of price, 25c. Manufactured by Dayton Drug Co., Dayton, Ohio. ACE of Heights" Mary Fuller SELIG DRAMA 28

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