South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 280, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 6 October 1920 — Page 20

20 ui;im:.si.y .moiinint,, octob c. 1020. iTfc ÖOUTH BEND PEWS-TIIYItS

The Rubber Plant's Story By O. Henry

VvV ru!'V-r j.l.mts form th nr.- j r-cti;,i; link ltnn f.v- v-v ! ib!': j kin'lcni. ami th- l--"oratiT.s ''f ;i j Va!(lorf-vst'Ti l y-w ir. ;i Thif'l , A(nuc thfV,r. I Iiav. n't ' ! up our family tr hut. I I ; 1-v- v. j ucro r'iis;I liy trra f tir.c a nur- : ."he- on to .1 :-: '-- -nt t a !; J'hot j i-taJk ' t as;.ar a u-;. Yon iak- ai while !ul-flu with a Uoiirk 0krn Jiir of n;.i jicr.'hr;'-- ahr.ut Iii. A j and a mM.r j!üU .a r. I th'-r; o;i!

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What th- t ham r-k is to Irlunl j th nibf- r i-i int 1.-? to the- dw !! r i In fats- ;ir.l furnihil rooms. V.v I .'t-t niov 'l from on- pl.t to ;n- j other ho quickly that th- only w,i" wo can K'-t o:;r jiietur- tak-n is with a. k in tosoj. v aro th"! viu'raüt vir." ari th Rlttsr In: tr-. j Ycu know th provt-rb: "Vh i ' th- rubber plant sits in th wirnlow i

the moving van draws t:j) to the :loor.,, nro tho city rrjnlva' nt to thv.ooilhir.o .ar.rl ihf homyMirk,;. .o otlirr V -r t.i M- xrjt th' I'ittsburpr ftotrit- can with-t.in.l as mu'h handling as u.- can. V, hi ri th family to which v. b!or: rnov 3 into .1 f. it th-y .--t us in tin- front uir.lnv and m- 1 oh:.- la;a-s an 1

penatr.", iiy-r-apT anl tin- pcrip a- i tf-tic ir.bb-m of "Horn- Swd t I llr.me." W nron't as n as w-!

look. I trti .-M w' nr.- about what ou wouM call tar- .mbr tt s of th-on?-r,..itury. You try ?- i 1 1 i n r in

th- front window of a 40 l!at in i Manhattan and looking out into th-: .-tn-et all day. and back into th- Hit, at nh;ht, and - vhthr you p t

wi5 or not hey? Talk about th" tiv of km-.'. Icdir. of pooil and cil in tho ,' ird n of Khn say! sujiprc fhoro had la'n a rubber plant there When V.( but I wan poing to tell you a f-.tory. The first thir.ir I ran renumber I bad or.ly thro lr.ives and belonged 10 a merr..b.-r of the pony ballet. I Aas kept in a sunny window, and was generally watered with seltzer and lemon. I had plenty of fun in those flays. I -ot cross-ryrd trying to watch tho numbers of th.- autolaohibs in tho street and tho dates on the labels inMdu at tho amo time. "Well, then th anRf! t!:at was

nH.ultiri for tho musical comedy I.... v,:.. t .,1 . 1 I

o-.-i iu- 1 11 ii'.uim i auu nie con.tanv broke up. Tho fonics trotte,.! away and I was left in tho window ownerless. The janitor pave mo to a retined comedy team on the eighth floor, ami in si weeks I had been set in the window of live difi rort flats. I took on experience aiu' put out two more leaves. Miss CarrutherM, of tho refined comedy team lid you over seo her cross both feet buck of her neck? .ivo me to n. friend of hers who hid jcnlo an unfortunate, niarriae with a man In a store. Cons juent1y I was placed in tho window of a furnished room, rent In advanc, water two flights up. pas extra after ten o'clock at ninht. Two of my haves withered ofT here. Also, I was moved from one room to another so many times that I pot to Ukinc tho odor of the pipes tho expressmen smoked. I don't think I over had fo dull a time af I did with thi lady. There was neor anything1 amusing k0!'1"

iceman, she never did a thin.; to- , ard bn ;tking the monotony. j Waen the ( o'jj b- trok p they left me with tho rt of their goods' at a s -cond-hand store. I was put 1 lit in front for sab- a!(.n,' with th" jobbi .-t lot vol; ever hard of be. inp lumped into on- bargain. Think 'f this little c o r n u 1 t p ; i of wonders, all for S10: Henry James' works. s; talkinp mar hin- records, one pair of Unnis sho.s, two bottles of hor.-o radish, and a rubbor plant tPat was tue; 're aftrrnoon a rirl came alor.p and stopped to look at me. j-.r- had dark b.air an. I eyes, and she looked .'dim. and sad around the nuuth. "h. edi:" sh.- says to he;-;,.-.Jf. ' I ner thought to s e fne up here." Sho pulls out a little purse aboal as thick as one of my b-ave.i and !m rs over some small silver in it. ('Id Koen, always on the lookout, is reaily. rubbimr his hands. This pirl prorr-ds to turn down Mr. James and the other commodities. 3:ubbuPlants or nothing is the burden of her song. And at last Koen and sho rome together at .". cents, and awn slo kocs with me in her arms. She was a nice jrirl. but not my style. Too rpiKt and sober-looking. Thinks I to myself: "I'll just abou: land on tho fire-escape of a tenement. sl stories ;jp. And I'll spend the next six months looking at clothes on tho line." I'.ut she carried me to a nice littl"

room only thre- flights up in rjuite a decent street. And 5he put me in the window, of course. And then she went to work and cooked dln-

n r for herself. And what do you 1

suppose yne. nau : un ad and tea and a. little dab of jam! Nothing cd so. Not a single lobster, nor so much as one bottle of champagne. The Carruthers comedy team had both every evenimr. except nn,v and then when they took a notion for pig's knuckle and kraut. After she had finished her dinner my new owner came to the window and leaned down close to my haves and cried softly to herself for a while. It made me feel funny. I never knew anybody to cry that way ove r a rubber plant before-. Of cour.se, I've seen a few of 'em turn on the tears for what they could pet out of it, but she seemed to be crying just for tho pur" enjoyment of it. She touched my leaves like she loved 'em and she bent down her head and kissed e ach one of 'em. I guess I'm about the toughest specimen of a peripatetic orchid on earth, but I tell you it made me feci sort of epiee-r. Home noer was like that to me before. Gene rally I used to pe-t chewed by poodles and have shirt-waists hunp on m.e to dry, and pet watered with coffee prounds and peroxido of hydrogen. This girl had a piano in the room, and she used to disturb it with both hands while she made noises with her mouth for hours at a time. I suppose she was practicing vocal music. One day she seemed very much excited and kept looking at the clock. At 11 somebody knocked and she lot in a stout, dark man with tousled black hair. He sat down at once at the piano and played while she fang for him. When

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One afternoon a Rirl came alon ami stepped to look at inc. she finished idie laid one hand on her bosom and looked at him. Hu shook his head, and she leaned against the piano. "Two years already," she said, speaking slowly "do you think in two more or even longer?" Tho man shook his head again. "You waste your time." he said, roughly I thought. "The voice is not there." And then he IookcU at her in a peculiar way. "Hut the voice is not everything," he went on. "You have looks. I can place you, as I told you if " The girls pointcel to the door without saying anything, and tho dark man left the room. And then she came over and cried around mo again. It's a pood thing I had enough rubber in me to be waterproof. About that tim.e somebody else knocked at the door. "Thank goodness." I said to myself. "Here's a chance to get the water-works turned off. I hope it's somebody that's game enough to stand a bird and a bottle to liven things up a little." Tell you the truth, this little pirl made me tired. A rubber plant likes to seo a little sport now and then. I don't suppose there's another preen thing in New York that sees ns much of pay life unlcs-s it's the chartreuso or tho sprigs of parsley around the dish. "When the pirl opens the door in steps a young chap in a traveling cap and picks her up in his arms, and she sings out "Oh, Dick!" and stays there long enough to weil, you've been a rubber plant, too. sometimes, I suppose. "Good thinp!" says I to myself. "This is livelier than scales and weeping. Now there'll bo something doing." "You've got to go back with me," says the j'oung man. "I've come two thousand miles for you. Aren't you tired of it yet, Hess? You've? kept nil of us waiting so long. Haven't you found out yet what is best?" "The bubble burst only today." says the girl. "Come here. Dick, and see what T found the other day on the sidewalk for sale." She brings him by the hand and exhibits yours truly. "How one ever pot

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away up hero who can tdl? I bought it with almost the last mor.oy I had." He looked at rr. but h couldn't

keep hi." eyes off her for more than a second. "Do you remember tho night, Hess." ho said, "when we stood under or.e of thort on tho bank of the bayou and what you told me ther?" (leewillinkins!" I said to m;self. "IJeth of them stand under a rubber plant! cem to me they are stretchinp matters somewhat." "Do I not." says fhe, looking up at him and sneaking close to his vest, "and now I say It azain, and it is to !a?t forever. Iiok. Dick, at its leaves, how wet they are. Thoso are my tears, and it was thinking of vou that made them fall.' 'The dear old Magnolias!" sny? the young man, plnchinp one of my leaves. "I love them all." Magnolia' Well, wouldn't thatPay! Tli oso innocents thought T wan a magnolia! What th" wel

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