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(THE DAILY
SHORTSTORY
A Bungalow for Two.
By LOUISE OLIVER.
1?17 i.v thft McClure
quuy/i'buk-i
Newspaper Syndicate.)
) t cVtt tHAT you coin1 to do tonight,
\X/ Jimmy."
?t Jimmy, who had stopped
a at the drug store for a ptfcfcstful of
cigars, turned and faced Murrln, keen
eyed and clever of fingers, but well!
dressed and with a certain persuasive;
manner that always got under Jimmy's
skin.
Jimmy had started out with good
intentions. A walk, a movie, then
home to bed. It was Dutch luck to
run into Murrln now! It would be
s hard to get away; hard, because he
knew he didn't want to ge't away. J
He wanted very much to go where
Murrln was going?to Silver King's I
poolroom?where the crowd usually
hung out, and beore the evening was
c-ver through a movfable panel into |
f,liver's back room, where green-top
ped tables were popular In various
ways, according to the way one most I
preferred to lose money.
And Jimmy had his month's salary
in his pocket to lose. Kor, of course
he would lose It if he stayed with
Murrln and the crowd; he always did.
Thift was why he had determined on
a new leaf, lie was tired of boing
; strapped. Besides, he had been hav
ing visions lately of something different
from his unattractive life In a
, brtckcd-up boarding bouse.
"Hello, Murrln, you're a stranger.
' Where have you been?"
I UII, invffllllll H HUUU1UJ1UC muci.
What you goln' to do tonight?"
"Nothing much."
"Neither am I. Let's do it togethJlmmy
considered. "No, I don't believe
1 can. Mtirrln. 1 sort of have a
"All right. I'll walk part way witb
you."
Again Jimmy considered. The strain
of good old Vermont stock In him was
on top tonight, and while lie gave Ills
friend a cigar and lighted his own. a
plan struck him. It was suggested by
the entirely open directory 011 the
counter.
"(jive 111c an envelope and stamp.
Charlie," he called to the clerk. "Just
wait a minute, Murrin; I've got to
send a note to a friend of mine. I'll
pi with you then." And he ran his
eye over the pages of the directory
Parsons was the first name his eye
found. Patrica, Miss. :*58 West Twenty-fifth
street.
And slipping fire ii!0 hills inside the
envelope, lie addressed it and dropped
it into the mail box beside the door.
Murrin had watched tlie operation
with a scowl. "Must be a pretty gcod
friendy he growled.
"That's none of your business," said
Jimmy, cheerfully. "Now, I'm ready."
"Come to think of it. I guess I'll go
down to the quarium anu watch the
porpoise t blow himself. Uood night,"
said. Murrin, striding out.
1 Jimmy grinned rather sheepishly
lae he looked from his friend's re.
Itlng figure to the wall box whereay
most of (he money he had in
world, addressed to a person he
never heard ot. "I might have
t it myself," he reflected ruefully,
t I'd have wound up by losing It
the crowd, anyway, and it's safer
ire it is. So, Miss Patricia Parsons,
rou 70 or 17, may a hundred dollars
my hard-earned money make you
py."
ow we'll nave to leave Jimmy and
aw his letter which in due time was
ped under Miss Parsons' door after
inqulslte landlady had all but eaten
d determine its contents,
t 6 o'clock tho next evening Miss
sons unlocked her door and stepon
the rather thick envelope. She
i too tired to be very curious about
thing, and threw it on the bureau
I did a little wondering while she
k oft her things and pinned up a
' wayward curls. Miss Parsons was
y pretty?she was neither 70 or 17.
? was an nccauu'ant in a furniture
re and 22 years old. She was also
ely and homesick?for like Jimmy
i had a good old New England strain
Ich excluded the only kind of friends
vould have been easy to make.
Vhen she drew the money out of
i envelope she was not surprised,
was merely a mistake, she assured
iself, iu spite of the fact that it
e her name. She needed a now
; and shoes and a lot of things, but
veil tho money was not hers so there
s no use considering.
It the end of two weeks no owner?
r donor?had put In an appearance,
en Patricia began to be puzzled, as
what to do with it,
Then one day she made an investint.
It was a while willow breakit
room set with touches of delft
le. She had admired it In the
nlture store for weeks and pictured
herself a sunny little bungalow In
? country and a tiny dining-room
th roses at the window and the furure
within. Then when a happy litbride-to-be
bought it, and came
ck later white and miserable saying
it her fiance had been killed In the
.r, Patricia had declared promptly
it she would buy It back from her
rself and handed over Jimmy's $100.
In a month came another $100.
mmy nad determined to cure himilt
of gambling, for bis eoul'a sake.
^^Ld decided that the price was not
high. He'd only lose it any way
Hid the idea appealed to his sporting
Hood.
HThen along came another bargain?
Hllvlng room set of wicker?fuel the
I^^Hing for a bungalow, it was pur^Jased
and stored with the willow.
Kings were looking up for Patricia.
Hthlrd check brought a charming litH
bedroom set. for Jimmy was doing
Bright and Bending a hundred every
Hmth. He decided, however, that
H>0 was quite enough to spend on
Hring a bad habit. He felt that he
^Hs quite cured now and that Murrln
^ d his crowd would let him alone
^^Breafter.
^^Hrhen one day Patricia decided to
Ik for a house. Wasn't it odd that
^Hfu Jimmy's real estate office
Each day The We?t Virginian pt
by Mrs. 8. J. Brobst, Fairmont's fore
Cnt them out and ut? them. Today
SPICED 1
Wa?h, pare, quarter and remove
pear.
To each 1 /i peck of good pears
I Xi cups pure cider vinegar, and if n>
of cinnamon, one tablespoon of cloves,
stoon of mace: if ground soiccs are us<
cloth, using Yi teaspoonful clo':::, /i \
of mace; if ground spices are used, tie
using two teaspoons of cinnamon, /i
and Vi teaspoon of mace. Mix befo
whole spices may be tied the same n>oj>
the fruit.
Put sugar, vinegar, one cup of ma
minutes, sl;irn and then add the fruit,
careful to remove all scum as it rises,
the rubbers, which have been dipped ir
and when cold place in cool, dry place
Peached are spiced the same way
1 CONFESSIONS
('
"Well," said Dick, "let us get back i
to your man." i
"Mercy, Dick, he is not my man. I
According to his story three other women
think they own him, so why i
should 1 complicate matters?"
"I have had an idea from the first. '
thot he was something of an ass,"
said Dick.
"But he isn't dear?I really like
him very much. I am not sure that
if 1 should meet a man like him in
the flesh t should not he more than
interested in him "
"You can't make me jealous, Margie."
said Dick quietly. "You have
borne with me and my mistakes too
long to take up with any other man
and his mistakes."
Little book, what would Dick think
if he knew how nearly I came to taking
up with the other man? \Voulu
1 have done it if death had not stepped
in and decided for me? I do not
I know, little book, I do not know.
"Well," said Dick, "begin where be
| married the girl."
"That is Just where I lctt off."
"We slipped dway one ofternoon
and were married," continued the
man's letter, "and for a short time
the little jealous god was king. And
then, as Is inevitable, we began to
get acquainted with each other and
found that those traits which we had
fondly idealized had either vanished1
or had never been.
"One of the first things 1 learned
about my wife was that she was Belfish
and extravagant. She wonted all
of me and every penny 1 could cam,
beg, borrow or steal for ltelf. She
had been earning her own living and
was tired of it an dnaturally expected
that when she married, the earning
of the living would be turned over;
to me.
"She 'did not ltk > tiousekeeping, j
she did not know how to sew, she!
threw up her hands in horror at the
thought of having children?she had
no conception of the duties of a
wife. i
"She danced beautifully, played ex- 1
cellent bridge, dressed in splendid
taste and spent all my money most
profitably?on herself. I have always
loved peace before anything else, and
I did my best to keep the peace with
her.
"My health improved and we came I
north ond I again took up my work
of editing, this time in a amail western
city. My salary was sraull, and
a beautiful, selfish, lazy wife Is ex- I
coedingly expensive.
"For her sake 1 had to give up :
most of my friends?for some reason ,
she disliked them all. She seemed
to love me devotedly in her selfish i
way, however. 1
"Only In my work did I find real 1
pleasure 1 saw that 1 still retained 1
the ability to make and keep friends 1
?that most women's red mouths I
smiled in return for my smile. I
"I drifted, drifted, never allowing '
myself to think. I was always haras- 1
sed by debt and my wife and I 1
quarreled incessantly. When she 1
I
happened to choose and that the mtn- '
ute Jimmy saw her he decided that
he would show her the listed houses ]
himself? She was just such a girl as 1
Jimmy had dreamed might one day pre- i
side over the coffee pot in his own little i
house if he should ev6r be lucky 1
enough to get out of his bricked up
boarding house. i
Of course he dlscivered she was Fa- i
tricia Parsons, and Patricia discovered i
that it was Jimmy's money she had i
used. And when they found a love of
a cottage, roses and all. and pictured '
how it would look with the new furril- 1
tore, what other way was there to end i
it? Can't you guess? Ask Cupid. |
I YWHT You AwO OMllV
I NOU"_"l Love SOU
t DEAR, I LOVE YOU SO"
L
ibllshes one tested recipe prepared
imost authority upon culinary art.
a recipe is for?
3EARS.
the core, using any kind of cooking
ujc three cups of granulated sugar,
hole spices are used, five-inch stalks
j_LJ?k - - ?
umc tuoLcspoon auspice, ana one lea .d,
tie in two small pieces of cheeseleaspoonful
allspice and Zz teaspoon
! in two small pieces of cheesecloth,
teaspoon cloves, Ziteaspoon allspice
re tying into the cheesecloth. The
if you do not wish the spices among
iter and allspices on to boil; boil five
Simmer slowly 35 minutes, being
Fill into well sterilized jars, adjust
1 boiling water, put on sterilized lids
> OF A WIFE "^j
tound she was to have a child, I am
tlmost sure that she brought on the
illness that ended in a serious operation
after which she lingered for
months between life and death.
"My debts became overpouring as!
her hospital bills piled up. Poor woman,
she too suffered the torments
or the damned because of our foolish
mistake. At last another position
was offered me on a large magazine
where the salary was fairly good. My
wife recovered, we took; an apart
ment and the affairs of the household
went on in slip-shod fashion.
"My wife still was a beautiful wo
man and she had to have the gauds!
that would enhance that beauty. My |
salary barely stretched over my ex-1
penses and I was always In debt !
\Vhen I was not working 1 was danc j
ing attendance to her.
"1 ordered the groceries, 1 did the j
little shopping errands, I took on myself
all her neglected duties in look-'
ing to the buying of household ne 1
cessities.
"All at once 1 woke up and it was
a woman that awakened me."
RED CROSS WORK
m FRENCH BABIES
Major Grayson Wires Report
of This Feature ot
the Work.
What Is being accomplished by the
American lted Cros: tor the children 01
L'rance is indicated in the following |
coble just received front Major Gray- j
i-cn M. P. Murphy, Red Cross Oommis- |
sioncr to France:
"The medical work for children j
which the American ited Cross lias un-:
tiertaken at Tcul had its formal open- i
ing in the presence of the prefect of j
the department, two generals of the
French army, the senator of the department
and several American doctors and i
curses. The French and American |
Hags were raired 'u front of the new I
brick barracks given by the French
government for the children's refuge.
The Prefect warmly thanked the Amer j
Iran Red Cross for its help with the
children.
"The new staif, consisting of several
rpecialists in children's diseases and
iiuuen nurses uuu aiues, are ar worn
under the direction ot Dr. Sedgwick, j
professor ot Pediatrics in the Univer- j
Bity of Minnesota. A large district
hack of the lines at that point has been
forced to remove all children to places
3. greater safety, and several hundred
children at Pompey and Fouard, the
towns nearby which are under most
constant bomb attack, have been exsmined
and arc being removed from
their refuge in cave3 to the Asiie at
roui as quickly as possible.
"The work of the infirmary established
by the American Red Cross has
teen greatly augmented by the gift of
i children's hospital from an American
committee. This hospital ot eighty
Beds is already being equipped, and
will become the center of the American
Red Cross welfare work for the
entire department at Meurthe et MosPile,
a work heartily endorsed by the
Prefect of the department.
"The need of such work is overwhelming,
and the American Red Cross
la directing from this center at Toul an
educational campaign on Child Hy-.
fiene and Preventive Measures that is
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