South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 213, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1919 — Page 17

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S eh' walked around the ptcnlc grounds with her aweet- " heart. Jerry Collins. Lydia could not but envy the other girls their prosperous look. And many of them hed gone of! and got married flr.ee she had graduated from high fchool, she reflected. Yes, there waa Mary Cummlnga with her husband nd Molly Grey with Lon. whom she would marry in September all seaming; prosperous and happr except herself. Her eyes unconsciously wandered to her pwcetheart. Jerry, who was walking by her side. She eyed him affectionately, then a little frown of anxiety gathered over her eyes as she ojkxl hlrn over. Jerry all uncon-' fclcua of the scrutiny. "I don't know what It can be. Lydia." he said, going on with the conversation which ehe had brought up. an usual. "I guess It's Just lurk with those fellows, or fate or something I've done my darndest to make old Durham see I'm worth more money, but he don't give It to me." "Maybe he'd riht." said Lydia, a little reflectively. "If a man Is worth more he will get It. and If he doesn't he ought to leave nnd make pome oth IP HERE certainly was a Jam in h me suDway tonignt, iary Ä Ann." The speaker wa3 a rather frail young girl, and about 2. Her eyes showed the strain characteristic of those who work undr the electric light in the business offices and stores ot a large city. "Well, never mind. Lucy, dear," Faid Mary Ann. tenderly. "Only a couple of months more, so stick it out. girlie." A half hour later found Lucy In her tidy kimono and house slippers. Mary Ann was serving the salad before Lucy offered further comment. "One. but I feel lota better since I Ute. Tell me. Mary Ann, didn't you ever want to get married? Every time Joe eats hero he always says that aome roan missed a good wife when he missed you." n answer to thin volley of questions tho older woman smiled, perhaps a bit sadly, but she merely said. "Who'd marry an old lady like me. child?" "Get into your pretty white dress and slippers. In half an hour Joo will be ringing the hall bell and you won't be near ready unless you hustle." Mary Ann Faye was perhaps nearer f 0 than 40. Unmistakably, in hrr day, she must have been a beauty. Evon low, htT iron gray hair was remark 1 F you will only let m se him I'll promise not to bo fngaged to ' him," pltaded pretty Marjorie

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Benton, "but I don't think he is beneath me." Marjorie and her maid, n aunt, Loui?o Montgomery Benton. were standing r.rar the wide colonial window of their home in Georgia. Mommy Lou. as Marjorie affectionately called her from babyhood days, lrokod acros the green lawn meditatively, thrn her srarehins eyes rested cn little Marjorie at her fine. "You know, child, ycu are of Southern aristocratic blood, and Jck Fuller. as you cull birr.. 'comes (rem ;hc peasantry of m:r 'arit- You siPly could not marry hi:u and be happy. He's so weil. I don't know just what to say but there are much finer men in town.' ' Marjorie was about to turn away, but her aunt caught her by the hand affectionately. "Take for instance. Gcrfield Morris," sLe said. "He's as nice a man as any girl would want to know he's away Just now, but when he comes home train why, Marjorie. as 1 said. he a nice & young man as any girl would want tn know. He's a real man." Marjorte-'s eyes flashed for a second, then she shot back, impatiently: "A real man! Why. Mommy Lou. Garfield Morris is afraid of his own shadow." But Mommy Lou wsjs not satisfied

er firm realize his worth,' she said conclusively. "But, Lydia leave why Its preposterous suppose X couldn't pet another Job and suppose I was out of work for a long time" His refusal waa cut short by Anne Richardson, who sauntered up to them with her fiance. "Mct Mls Minnin and Mr. Collins." Anne said, as she Introduced Lydia and Jerry, and then turned off with Lydia, while Mack Rankin, her fiance, opened a conversation with Jerry. When the two girls had sauntered toward a rugged bench down the side lane Just off the midway Anne said: "You know we're going to be married next month. I've really been engaged six months, but we haven't announced It until Mack got on his fret He h?.e & dandy placo now, and so we're redr to take our chance." She smiled pleasantly at the realization of Mack'a success and Lydia tried to reflect the enthusiasm. Hut deep down in Lydl's heart her own disappointment cut all th deeper. There must be some way to put Jerry on his feet Lydia said to hf rself. Then the thought struck her to confide her trouble in Anne.

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ed for Its lustrous beauty. But her soft brown eyes told the world that hidden ßomewhere In their bottomless pools there was a memory, perhaps a great sorrow. No one that Lucy knew had ever been able to wrest from her lips the cause of the sadness In those eyes. Five years before Mary Ann mot Lucy Aldridge In Kempner Company's department store. Mery Ann was a buyer for the waist department. Lucy had started to learn the great business of "selling" waists. Lucy came from the American melt:ug pot, the East Sid of New York. Her parent, needing her financial assistance, however slim, sent her to work i.i the store almost as soon as she graduated from school. A hard winter and a slim purse sawboth of Lucy's parents carried off to the land beyond the sun during an epidemic of pneumonia. For years Mary Ann had longed to mother a girl like Lucy. She was not a rich woman, but she had a modest little four-room apartment, a good salary and unbounded aflectlon. And so Lucy came to live with Mary Ann. "Where's that ever-white gone, Mary Ann?" shouted Lucy from the tiny bathroom. "My slippers are a sight. Why. here it Is boob that I am right behind the t3lcum ran." "Are you alt right now, Lu?" said A Bis with Marjorie even recelvng Jack Fuller only as a friend, as she had finally agreed to the afternoon of the conversation. He seemed to be taking Marjorle's heart right out of her keeping, and she resented it not only for the sake of her own well-established social position In the South, but Marjorie must marry a real man and wealthy, she figured. And so it was on the 1th of July. Mmmy Ixu came to New York to arrange a Falling on the steamship Cambria to some foreign port vhere Marjorie, amidst the glamor of new faces and friends, as Mommy Lou planned so psychologically, would forget all about her puppy fascination for Jack Fuller. She waa to send for Marjorie and her governess within a few days, and they would shop together in New York and then sail away. San Salvador was the place Mommy Lou had chosen, and the change and scenery and climate she hoped would be sufficient to bring about as great a change in Marjorie a-s desired. The day Marjorie arrived in New York waa a seething hot, sultry day, typical of New York's July weather, but the pretty little blond creature who stepped from the train at her destination was crisp f.nd cool. There wasn't an3thing in the world could trouble her, for she was young and h??ful. and the whole world looked

Wbcn she was through talking Anne nodded understanding. "I fcnow." she said; "I know Just what It Is It really Isn't because Jerry is not doing his share, but he lacks confidence In himself. He Is afraid to start things for fear they won't turn out right? It's self-confidence, Lydia. I tell you.' she repeated emphatically. "That wa Mack's trouble, too, until suddenly one day he found himself alone In the office. Some big deal had to be put through Immediately mak'ng or breaking a contract by long-distance telephone and Mack was a little panicky at taking the ri&k when the call came In. There was no one In the office, every one being nut to lunch at the time, and Mack took his big chance and 0. K.'d it at hlpiown risk. It was his making," Anne declared proudly. "His boss recognized his power of Initiative and gave him some bigger responsibilities. " "But how " began Lydia, then she abruptly broke off her inquiry to remark "that was Just fate. Anne; it might never happen again in a mil,lion years." "Well." Anne reminded her, "why not take advantage of the experience, why not have Jerry get up hi3 self-

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Mary Ann, hurrying toward the bathroom. "I'll be sure you leok just right and then I'll run over to Jake's and get some cheese for the rarebit." Mary Ann was gone but a few moments when the door bell rang. It was Joe. Lu's heart began to flutter as she raptured the last of her stray hairs with an "Invisible" before opening the door. "Lu" and Joe Wallingford crushed Lu In the embrace characteristic of a big-hearted lover. When Lu disentangled her hairs from Joe's coat buttons she flushed defply, for standing behind Joe was another man. "Lu. dear," stammered Joe. "this Is my uncle, dad's brother." They were seated In the tiny grayblue living room before Joe continued. "You see. Uncle Ned is an old bach," said Joe playfully. He came In this morning from Brazil. Dad's been showing him the town today and tonight I just made him come along to see the dearest little girl ki the world I " Lucy blushed deeper. "I can not tell how bappy I am to meot the young lady of my nephew's choice and to tell him how fortunate he is." The last remarks were uttered by a man not less than 50. Tall, straight as an arrow was he. His bronzed com rosy through her eyes. As she entered the waiting taxi and gave the name of the hotel to the driver there was a gleam of anticipation in her eyea. a little gleam that unfolded Its mystery some weeks later. "Mommy Lou Vm so glad to get here and be with you again," she murmured as she threw her very white arms around her aunt's neck and smothered her with kisses. "But child, dear," her aunt looked in surprise, "where Is Susanne, your governess; Is she below T' And Marjorie burst into a torrent of breathless explanation. "Oh, Mommy Lou. I meant to wire you. but I thought you'd forgive me for traveling alone as long as I arrived safely; but the day before I left Susanne was taken ill. She had to be operated on for appendicitis, so she went to the hospital. The nurse phoned me last night and said she was doing nicely. It'll take weeks before she can walk and I thought you wouldn't mind do you?" "Why, of course not. Marjorie. I am sorry the unfortunate Incident had to happen at this time. I'll wire Susanne my sympathy right now. Meantime we can get another governess for you right here. I'm sorry you had to come on alone it's dangerous, you know, traveling alonebut," she said, incoherently, "New York U teeming with the best governesses to be had." And with that Miss Louise Mont

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confidence without having to won't he get all the more credit for It?" Lydia had been gazing idly about, her spirits a little low at the nebulur. prospect, when suddenly Anne uttered a little exclamation of enthusiasm. "I've got It, Lyd." she said, "I've got It. a scheme Jerry's got to start thinr.i for himself without your being in on his plan. He can have no leaning po?t it's a hindrance rather than a a aseet. "Suppose," she began In a confidential whisper, leaning closer to Lydia, "fcuppojo I play fortune-teller and tell him some inspiring things. I'll make him believe they're true and he'll bank his future moves on them," "Great," agTeed Lydia, enthusiastically; "Nothing like trying everything on the calendar," and they fell to dlscussing details of the impromptu plan. An hour or so later Lydia, a brighter sparkle in her wide blue eyes than she had ever had for weeks past, sauntered In a supposedly aimless fashion down the midway of the picnic grounds. "Look, Jerry," she said, suddenly pointing to the red and yellow gypsy fortune-teller sign over a little table behind a clump of trees; "let's go in

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plexion and rather 'sun-burned hair told of a life In the open. The few fine lines around his tender blue eyes lent a certain mellowness to their expression. His Immaculate linen and clothing of superior workmanship bespoke the man of means, the gentleman. Almost an hour had passed. The little group talked on every topic of general Interest. Finally Joe said: "Uncle Ned, you old batch, Vhy didn't you ever marry? You've been promising all day to tell us sometime why you went away to Brar.il. Dad says you went away about twenty years ago and all we know about you is the fact that today you came back rich." Mr. Wallingford arose and walked toward the window. Outside it wa3 refreshingly cool. Gay groups of young folks sauntered toward the river, to dance on the evening boats. It was summer, loves time. Cupid reigned supreme. Presently he looked toward Joe and Lucy. "Children, dear" he said, "another month will see you launch your ship Into the sea of matrimony. I hope you will always be as radiantly happy as you are tonight. "We should love to hear your love story," interrupted Lucy, ever enxlous for a bit of romance. "I'll tell it to you," said Wallingford. gomery Benton, sister of Marjorle's father, picked up the telephone receiver to dictate her telegraphic message to the clerk at the hotel desk below. "And please 'see that this little ad. Is placed in tomorrow's paper," she finished; after she had dictated another little memo detailing the type of governess desirable. Early next morning as Marjorie was arranging some of her new clothes in the little steamer trunk beside her bed the telephone bell rang and Mommy Lou reached to answer it. In a moment after she had hung up the receiver a knock on her door announced the first applicant for the position as governess. "And you play golf also," Miss Benton mused, taking in the fine, athletic physique of her new applicant after she had interviewed her. "All right, then; you may begin at once," she said, closing the contract. "We'll sign it for six month at least," she remarked, "and should anything unforeseen happen, both parties to come to a mutual agreemenL" The three remaining days in New Unappreciated TIt, "Men are really too mean for anything." -What's the trouble now?" "Why, I asked John for an automobile today and he said that I must be contented with the splendid carriage that nature had given me,"

here and have our plains r?nd." Then as she moved closer to the little cove she exclaimed eagerly: "It's Madame Paula, the great Egyptian palmist, she's a wonder! Only a year ago she Told Ralph Le Bonne's fortune and see didn't It all turn out as she predicted?" Lydia asked eagerly. "All right, Lyd," Jerry agreed pleasantly; "I'll go in to her, but I doubt " They were Into the core before he finished his pessimistic thought. The Egyptian witch, swathed in gay colors with a heavy mantle over her heal and a scarlet veil across her dark features, sat in deep meditation as they entered timidly. "I must tell the gentleman first and In private." Madame announced, and she dismissed Lydia with a wave of her band. One hour later Jerry, a new springiness to his step, emerged from behind the trees where Madame Paula had established her palm-reading parlor. He had time to think It all over while Lydia had hers read. "She's great!" he exclaimed, slapping his hands together as they walked away a little later; "simply great! And you know, Lydia, I think she's right in what she says about me. She

as he drew the sedan toward the couple. "A little over twenty years ago I loved a woman with all my soul. Although I was but a poor boy. I managed to cave, by the strictest self-denial, enough for a modest little home. And then I asked the woman to share it with me. For months we planned. As I look back, I oan still see the playful smile In those soft brown eyes as she planned where each little household treasure should go." "Why, Uncle Ned, there's tears In your eyes," said Joe.. "Why, what happened; go rn, tell us "Well," said WallingfoTd, "our wedding was Just a month off, when a lying tongue destroyed forever her happiness and mine. She sent back my ring, refused to see me, and brokenhearted, I left my native lani. "Gee, but look at the money you've made, Uncle," said . Joe whose ability as a money maker waa somewhat below par. "Money Is quite an empty asset when there Is no loved one to enjoy it," remarked Wallingford, as he reached for the gold cigarette cane in his pocket. "Miss Aldridge, If you don't object, I'm going to ask Joe to go to the corner and get his old uncle a pack of coffin nails." But before Joe had time to speak York feemed to fly. Miss Bee ton had much to attend to and many calls to make. Marjorie and her new governess spent many bappy hours together, visiting the aquarium, the parks, the Statue of Liberty and other places of interest. Then the morning came when the Fteamship Cambria 3alled out of New York harbor with the customary farewell excitement. Down through the moderate climate they 6ailed, then further down into the hot tropics and through the gulf. The trip was like tonic to Marjorie. Her eyes sparkled and danced with a new light and her cheeks were pinker and rounder than ever. The moon and the stars, under which Marjorie sat out for so many evenings with her governess, to hear all about their astronomical relations, were a constant source of interest to the "dear, enthusiastic child," as her Mommy Lou used to put It In talking with the governess. To their surprise and Mommy Lou's pleasure, they found Garfield Morris a gruest of the same hotel where they were to stay. It was a week later, after they had settled at Del Palrno Beach, that the little mystery which lay behind Marjorle's soft, pansy eyes was revealed. Marjorie and Garfield and Marjorie's governess were sitting on the beach in the sunshine, and Mommy Lou was canoeing Just beyond the palm-fringed embankment. Suddenly

says I'd he a great success If I exercised, the latent executive power I have I believe I have got It but I never realized It before. Madame says she can 6ee it there in every line of my hand it's entirely up to me to make my own future." Lydia stifled a giggle of delight In her slcezy lace handkerchief. Then she ushered Jerry over to the "hot dog" booth, from where a dellclous odor was steaming. Vithln three weeks the Idea of Jerry's initiative power had completely obsessed him. He had- made great strides in the office unier Its Influence. It was Jerry who had taken It upon hlmsflf to have all the office furniture moved to further efficiency. Then he had executed a w-orklng plan to stimulate old accounts. He knew all the time he had it in him, and now he was confident he would succeed, he argued as he went about his work. Wasn't success written in every vline of his palm? Lydia was delighted to hear it, then quite unprepared for the news, one evening Jerry brought to her. "He's done it. Lyd." Jerry said., smiling. "He's realized I'm worth more at last, and he's given me a

By Aimer Lucy was saying that If Unci Ned didn't mind, she would run along vith Joe. They were gone but a few minutes, when the door bell rang. Mr. Wallingford pushed the button In the living room which unlocked the door. All ready for a little smoke, he was walking toward the tiny kitchen, when he was startled by a voice calling out, "Suppose you thought I never would get back. I ran into Moran and he insisted upon buying me a bunch of sweet peas way over on Eighth avenue. Wonder how he knew It was my birthday." Wallingford had heard that voice before. The match burned to a cinder In his fingers. He was like a man turned to stone. Yet his blood tore through his veins with the velocity of a tornado. He could not move. Mary Ann, in a modish taupe satin gown with a dewy bunch of pink aweet peas caught at her waist silhouetted charmingly against the grayblue walls of the living room. Receiving no reply, she had hurried In to look for Lucy. And then, totally unprepared, she came upon Mr. Wallingford. "Good God Ned!" she gasped. Then the objects In the room began to grow dim. The light seemed to leave. Mary Ann had fainted. Like a father caresses a long lost child, bo thi3 man coaxed to con they heard a cry. It was a call for help coming from Mommy Lou. Marjorie waa startled. She could not swim, bo she suddenly turned to Garfield. "Jump in, Morris," she pleaded, "Mommy Lou's going down; quick, please" but Morris, panic-stricken, backed away cowering. "There's alligators in there, child. I I she's probably taken now It's no use" he said Lr :athlessly. And before the frightened spectators, Marjorle's governess sprang into the water. ThTe was a struggle, but the powerful physique of the governess overcame Mommy Lou's struggling and she was carried to the shore safely. A half hour later, when the formal Miss Louise Montgomery Benton came to, she looked up only to encounter the kindly, smiling eyea of the governess Jack Fuller. "Mr. " she began, but her sense of human gratitude was too overwhelming. She simply gazed at him, saying. 'Jack Jack Fuller, what on earth" It was Marjorie herself who explained that she and Jack had made up the plan when Susanne had been taken 111 so that Jack might prove somehow he was a real man and not " The three looked at Garfield's retreating figure down the beach. "Unless something unforeseen happens," quoted Jack mockingly when

ten dollar Increase this week. After I'd gone about things and seen what I really could do I took some new ideas to him. Told Mm I'd get another place if he didn't come across and he did." Lydia was congratulating him when he took her In his arms and whispered: "It's all because of you. lttüe girl; and now it's time to mutually share our spoils of the battle won. Whenever you're ready, Lydia," he said. "I'm ready to bein first payment on our on little home." A week later Lydia announced her engagement. Once, during the luncheon la honor of the occasion, she felt a tiny scruple of conscience when Jerry, In response to a toast, said his success had come about through Lydia as an Incentive. Lydia was gazing at Anne half ashamed for not denying the undue reward, but a knowing smile and a "loud" wink from th? mischievous little person reasured her. And to this day the now very pro, perous Jerry doesn't knrw that the Impromptu, mischievously planned scheme of Madame Paula, alias Anne Richardson, was the foundation upon which he built his fortune.

Anthony sciousness the woman he had loved and lost. Mary Ann opened her ryes and could scarcely realize that she was really in Ned's arms. "Is it you. Ned darling Is It really you? How can you ever forgive me?" "You were gone only two years when she confessed to me on her death bed that she lied about me. She said she loved you and could not see you marrying me." Ned crushed her to him and then he tenderly said: "But dead folks can't see, Mary Ann and, besides I'm very rich now." And in another month a store lost two workers instead of on, end the ticket chopper in the 6ubway missed two pleasant faces from the dally stream of those who do their bet ail along the line. 0 Geographically Spcakln?. Two Tommies went into a restaurant over on the eastern front and said to the waiter: "We want Turkey with Greece," The waiter replied: "Sorry, slra. but we can't Servla." "Well, then get the Bosphorua." The boss came in an! beard their order and then said. "I don't want to Russia, but you can't Roumanian So the two Tommies went away Hungary. Endicott they were back at the hotel, "and I herewith tender my resignation for a higher and nobler position of taking care of Marjorie for life, according to mutual agreement" he hesitated t. moment, but .Mommy Lou shook hla hand warmly and amllingly consented. 0 Revised Weights and Measnr One pound 11 ounces butter. 1 ton 1.S75 pounds coal. 1 square foot iKJllceman's, ' g 1 quart 1 higover. 1 league(now under debate at Peaa Conference). 2 feet very attractive. If supporting neat ankles. 1 yard length of hands In dress suit, 1 scruple nothing to a profiteer. 1 hour 3 yars when waiting la doctor's office, $1 12 cents plus tax money. 1 military pace some Job, on t hike. 1 cord 10 cords if wood has to be split. 1 gallon 4 quarts plus expressage 0 Matrimonial Advice. "Darling you must never marry a man for his money." "Why not. mother?" - "Because thet tort of marriage can not but end unhappily- But I an tell you what to do. You ran take care i.ot to fall in love with a man wha hasn't mcatf."