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The Fairy
Godmother,
By JEROME SPRAGUE.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.
Bubbles didn't care whether It was
appropriate or not; she wanted it, and
she was saving up her money to get it.
Every morning when she went to the
store she found the girls talking of
their summer hats.
“What kind are you going to have?”
they would ask her. and Bubbles
would laugh—the gay bubbling laugh
that had given her her nickname—and
would say, “Wait and see, girls; wait
and see.”
“Oh, piffle!" one of them said on a
certain June morning. “I don't believe
you’re going to get a hat”
"Wait and see; wait and see,” snld
Bubbles provokingly.
And then after the store was closed
she went around the corner and looked
at the hat with the white feather.
The price was in plain sight—$10.
Bubbles earned" $ i a week. Out of
that she paid her aunt $2.50 for board.
Fifty cents went for car fare, and the
rest she had for herself. Since last
summer she hud managed to save
$0.50, and the other fifty would add the
complete amount necessary to buy the
hat with the white feather.
She decided to tell Alice Forbes
about It.
Alice was at the ribbon counter,
while Bubbles sold notions. Their ac
quaintance rose from the fact that
they walked home In the same direc
tion.
“I'll have to wear it with all my old
blue suit.” Bubbles said as she went
along. “But I don't care. I’ve made
myself a white net waist, and it’s
awfully becoming.”
“Ten dollars Is a lot for a hat,” Alice
said quietly.
But Bubbles laughed, with her head
flung up and her bright eyes shining
“Oh, what’s the use of living.” she
said, “if a girl can’t have something
pretty now and then ?"
Alice nodded. Her blue eyes were
wistful. “That’s what I think,” she
said. “Now, there’s a remnant of rib
bon at my counter. It’s white, with
bunches of pink roses on it It would
make a lovely girdle, and I could buy
a white dress for 15 cents a yard and
a little wreath of piuk roses in the mil
linery department, and then I could be
bridesmaid for Millie Drake.”
“Does she want you to be?” Bubbles
asked, with interest.
“Yes," Alice said. “Jimmie Bryan is
to be best man.”
“Oh!” Bubbles was silent for a mo
ment. Then she asked, “Don’t you
think you can afford the dress?”
“No,” Alice said quietly, “I can’t
And I told Millie last night to ask you,
Bubbles. I knew you wouldn’t mind
being asked second, because I’m her
oldest friend. I laid the piece of flow
ered ribbon away this morning, so that
if you wanted it you could have It
You could make a white pet skirt to
yopr new waist It would be awfully
pretty with the pink roses.”
But Bubbles was looking at her curl
“Don't you mind,” she asked—“1
mean not being bridesmaid?”
“Yes, I do,” Alice said, and Bubbles
saw that her eyes were full of tears.
“But I have to give all of my money
to mother now that father is sick and
can’t work.”
“Well. It's a hard old world,” Bub
bles remarked as they reached the cor
ner where they separated, "if I decide
to take the ribbon, Alice, I’ll let you
know in the morning.”
At the next corner Bubbles met Jim
mie Bryan.
“Jimmie,” she said, with her gray
eyes challenging him—“Jimmie, are
you going to be best man at Millie’s
wedding?”
“Sure,” answered Jimmie—"cutaway,
white flower In my coat and all the
rest of the agony.”
“And me to walk up the aisle with
you?” said Bubbles.
Jimmie looked at her In surprise.
“I thought Alice was going—was go
ing to do it,” he said.
“Alice can’t get the clothes,” Bub
bles informed him, “and If I wasn’t a
selfish pig I’d get them for her, but 1
want a white feather in my summer
hat.”
Jimmie hesitated. “Look here. Bub
bles,” he said a little awkwardly,
"ain’t there some way you could make
Alice think you were getting her dress
and let me pay for it? I’d like to do
It.”
Bubbles caught her breath quickly.
“Why, Jimmie!” she said.
Jimmie flushed. “She has an awful
hard time,” he said.
“Yes, she does,” Bubbles agreed ab
stractedly. She was a little white, but
she still smiled at Jimmie.
“So you don’t want me to be brides
maid with you?” she teased, still with
a funny catch in her breath.
"Aw, Bubbles,” he stammered, “you
know 1 think you’re about the nicest
thing ever”—
“But you’d rather have Alice walk
up the aisle with you.” was her quiet
reminder.
“I wouldn't,” he declared stoutly,
“but I’m sorry for Alice.”
“Of course,” Bubbles agreed, and
then she went on to plan. “I could get
her the things and tell her the money
had come to me unexpectedly.”
“I am afraid that w-ouldn’t do,” was
Jimmie’s worried response. “She'd
feel as if she had to pay it back. You
get the things and send them to her
and don't have any mark on the box,
and she’ll never know where they
came from.”
“Well, I can’t get the things we
talked about," Bubbles said, “or she
would know right away. Do you care
how iu'«,h you spend. Jimmie?”
"No.’' he told her with the reckless
ness of the skilled laborer who earns
his $3 a day; "uo, I don't."
“Then I’ll get a robe dress of pink
mull with a wreath of silver roses.
She’ll look like a dream, Jimmie.”
"I hope she will,” Jimmie said, and
Bubbles sighed.
“Goodby, Jimmie,” she said ns she
came to the tenement where she lived
on the third floor.
He looked at her anxiously. “You’re
not cut up about not being bridesmaid,
are you?” he asked.
She shook her head. "No,” she an
swered bravely.
“Well, you’re pretty nice. Bubbles,”
he said heartily, and then ho went on
his way.
When Bubbles reached home she
took out her hoarded store of money.
With what she would add on her next
pay day she would have $10, and she
could buy the hat with the white
feather.
She fingered the money for a mo
ment, and then she dropped her head
on her arm with a sob, for Bubbles
had wanted that hat to wear to church
on Sunday morning when she sang in
the choir with Jimmie Bryan. It had
been for Jimmie’s admiration that she
had craved the pretty hat. And, after
all, it was Alice that Jimmie cared
for.
Two days later Alice came to her
counter breathlessly.
“Oh, Bubbles,” she said, "such a
wonderful thing has happened!”
“What?” asked Bubbles innocently.
And then Alice told her of the won
derful gown nnd the dainty accessories
that had come the night before in a
big box.
“I can’t imagine who sent them.”
“It must have been a fairy god
mother,” said Bubbles demurely.
“And now I can be Millie’s brides
maid,” caroled Alice when she had
exhausted all her conjectures as to the
giver. “You won’t mind, will you,
Bubbles?”
“No,” said Bubbles steadily.
And as she sold needles and pins and
hooks and eyes and whalebones and a
hundred nnd one other things that day
she told herself that she did not care.
Why should she want to walk beside
Jimmie Bryan when he preferred to
have Alice?
She passed the window with the hat
with the white feather that night with
out a glance, and on Sunday she wore
a plain little black sailor with a cheap
red rose, and she looked prettier than
ever in Jt.
« A Kaa fhlnlra WAii’ro o filJpu (mil.
mother,” she told Jimmie after serv
ice.
“Say, did she like It?” he demanded.
“Of course she did," said Bubbles.
“Who wouldn’t?”
But Jimmie did not answer Imme
diately. He stood looking down at her.
“Say, little girl,” he said presently,
“you look mighty nice lu that hat.”
“It cost just $1.98,” Bubbles Inform
ed him glibly, “marked down from $2.”
“I don’t care what it cost,” Jimmie
stated. “You look mighty nice.”
Bubbles couldn’t resist saying, "But
not half as nice as Alice will in that
pink robe.”
“Bubbles, I believe you’re jealous.”
dashed Jimmie unexpectedly.
Bubbles’ cheeks flamed. “Why, Jim
mie Bryan!” she faltered.
“Look here,” Jimmie demanded, “did
you think I was in love with Alice?”
Under his keen scrutiny Bubbles was
forced to admit, “I couldn’t very well
help it, could I?”
“I was afraid you would,” Jimmie
said, “that day when I planned to get
her the things, but I had promised.
Oh, look here. Bubbles, you come out
to the park with me. and I'll tell you
about It.”
An 1 nil the way to the park Bub
bles’ heart sang, and she seemed to
walk on air, and she was glad that
she hadn’t bought the hat with the
white feather. She was glad she
hadn't been extravagant, for Jimmie
seemed to like her Just as well in the
black sailor with the red rose.
In the park the beds were full of
jonquils and tulips and hyacinths and
crocuses, and under the flowering alm
ond tree Jimmie and Bubbles sat down
to talk.
“You see,” Jimmie explained, “there’s
Bob Travers, and he’s in the navy,
and he’s away on a three years’ cruise,
and he made me promise that I’d look
after Alice—they’ve been in love with
each other since they were kids—and
when Alice’s father got sick I tried to
help, but they wouldn’t let me. and it
seemed as if getting her the dresR
would be what Bob .would want me to
do, and now he’s going to got home in
time for the wedding, and I told Millie
she’d have to have him for best man.”
“Oh!” cried Bubbles, aglow with
uupiiiutrss.
“And then I told her how much I
thought of you, and she wants us to he
In the wedding party, and— Oh. well,
look here. Bubbles.” And in the shad
ow of the flowering almond he held
out his arms.
And Bubbles, having wept a little
weep of joy on his broad shoulder, sat
up and wiped her eyes. “Ain't I glad I
didn’t spend all my money for that
feather, Jimmie?” she said. "I'll get
the white net skirt and wear the roso
but ribbon”—
“And a diamond ring,” interrupted
Jimmie.
“A diamond ring! What for?” de
manded Bubbles.
“Because we’re engaged,” said Jim
mie rapturously.
Economy Begins at Home.
“I hear you’re teaching your son to
play draw poker. Do you think that
wise?”
“Certainly. He’s bound to learn from
some one. If he learns from me It
keops the money in the family.”—New
York Life.
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