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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1923)
Warren Exposes to Ridicule Helen's Ardent and Mysterious Admirer. "Sign here!'' With the stubby pencil Helen signed on the line indicated by the grimy finger. A florist box! Who could be send ing her flowers? Closing the hall door on %he re treating delivery boy, aglow wish ox pectancy, she took the box Into the j library. There could be no mistake—the tag, raid plainly, “Mrs. W. E. Curtis." The writing not familiar, it was probably addressed by the florist’s clerk. it could not be from Warren. He j never troubled to send flowers except i on her birthday or their wedding an niversary-^-and not always then. AVith feminine indirectness, she ex nrnined the tag, the box and the gilt lettered name of the fVniist for some • due to the sender. No doubt there was a card within, hut she wished J to prolong the delicious uncertainty. The florist was a prominent one ; with several branch stores. This had been sent from the main V1 fth avenue shop—but that was unenlightening. The square box suggested violets, ewaet peas or lilies of the valley. At last with flurried eagerness Hel en slipped off the string, raised the lid, disclosing, beneath folds of waxed paper, a great bunch of orchids. Orchids! Who could have sent so extravagant a gift? A card envelope lay under the flow ers. For several moments she held It unopened, trying to vision the name within. ✓ Then flutteiingly she drew out the card. “Mr. Robert K. Rodman, The Carleton Club." Rodman? Who was Mr. Rodman? Th® Dalton's dinner—that tall dark man who sat beside her and talked so little. But she had met him only that once. The card turned over, with height ening color, she read: "For Mrs. Curtis. "A tribute to her delicate love liness and charming femininity—so rare In these days of strenuous, assertive women.’’ The Intoxicating glow that comes only from masculine admiration swept over her. That long forgotten thrill she had not known since her mar riage. She was still young and attractive —she could still elicit this! The sense of feminine power, long submerged by Warren's unresponsiveness, now flamed up. "D’you want that eggplant baked eg fried?” demanded Anna from the door. "Ob!" starting almost gutltilv. 'Why, either way—no, baked. And bring me a vase—that low, wide one. T think it’s on the top pantry shelf.” Carefully Helen took off the laven- ! "der silk cord and green tinfoil that | bound the stems, while Pussy Purr mew sniffed Inquiringly at the feathery fern. Six large blossoms! At least three dollars apiece. Eighteen dollars! “What d’you call them rowers?” ssked the girl when she brought the vase. "Orchids. The most expensive flower there Is,” unable to resist the <’han«e to Impress th* supercilious •Anna. Where should she put them? Where would Warren he more apt to notice them? On the library mantel? No. the dining room table. She wanted him to ask who sent them. Friday they were dining with the Stevens. Would the orchids be fresh enough to wear? If only they were, going somewhere this evening or to morrow. She would wear one tonight any way. Just one, so the rest would stav fresh. But the old rharmeuse that ha 1 been pood enouph for a dinner a' aome seemed suddenly ehaMiy beside the expensive loveliness of the 01 chld. It was not quite 6. She would ha vs ■ ime to change before Warren came. Eagerly she slipped slnto her new ' hameleon taffeta The orchid plrin»0 it her wa:<« and her exc.ted flush were radiantly becoming. ’ Company tonight? ’ was Warrens crceting, as he kicked off his over shoe*. "No, dear. Wh\ ?’’ • Whnt’re you all dolled up for?" Then without waiting for her answer, ' Hole In these rubbers. Haven't 1 got another pair? ' "No. you lost your sandals.” sug gestively adjusting 'the orchid. But Warren, after the first brief glance, did not trouble to look at her. At the table he was equally obtuse. Intent on his cream of spinach soup he did not even see the orchids, placed conspicuously before him. In the Interval between th" soup and the roast. Helen tried by various manoeuvers to direct his attention to the flowers. ”Oot those new file* In today. Great! Hold more and take up leee •mom.” Not in the least interested in office files, Helen once more adjusted the doily under the orchids. "Goin’ to chuck all those old ones. Think I’ll move that safe.” "Dear, aren't those lovely?" She blurted out, her patience exhausted. "I thought you'd see them—but you nevo^ee anything." "Eh?" staring at the exotic patric ian flowers. "Where'd you get ’em?” "Someone sent them to me. Guess who?” "How should I know?" with unflat tering Indifference, as he carved Into tho roast. “Cooked too much again! Can't she ever get it right?” ‘"Mr. Rodman!"'flushing with pleas tireable scif-oonseiousnrss. “Rodman?" pausing to sharpen the knife. "Who the Ram Hill's he?” "Don't you remember? I sat next to him at the Dalton's dinner." "That Gloomy Gus? Well, he's got his nerve. What's ho sending you flowers for?” t "I'll show you the card that came with them,” darting into her room. With the knife still stropping the steel, Warren glared down at the card she laid by his plate. ."Of all the fool mush! How long you known him?” "Why I only met him that once. I can't imagine why he sent me flow ers.” "Huh, he didn’t seem to be having such a heluva time! You both sat there like a couple of clams.” Another disgusted grunt, as he glowered at the card that still lay by his plate, but he did not again refer to it. Helen was vaguely disappointed. She would not have admitted that she hoped he would be jealoue—but at least he might have shown eome In terest. This rare chance to impress him she could not dismiss so easily. “Dear, aren't orchids very expensive now? What do you think these cost?’’ ‘How in biases do I know? Haven't bought any. A jiosteord of the Wool worth building is my limit fur a skirt I've only met once. What’s the mat ter? You hipped on eggplant? Had ft every night this week.’’ "Only last night. They sent two such big ones. She kept on* for to night." No further reference was made to the orchids, but when they left the table Helen carried them in to the library mantel. The card she took into her own room. Not knowing what to do with it, she propped it against the bottle of toilet water on her dressing table. At the Dalton's dinner she had sat on Mr. Rodman's right. Several times she had glanced up to find his dark eyes fixed upon her. Now before the mirror, with a hand glass she studied her left profile. He was much taller. He had looked down. She tried to get that angle. Yielding to a swift Impulse, she ran to the closet and took out the tulle evening gown worn at the dinner. Knowing Warren was in the library safely engrossed in the evening paper, she colled her hair low. as she had worn it that night, and slipped on the gown. Th4n again with the hand-mirror she viewed her left profile—trying to seo herself as he had seen her. She should always wear her hair that wav and never be without a gray-blue gown. The soft quakerish color was most becoming. When would she meet him again? STEIN WAY THE INSTRUMENT OF*THE IMMORTALS PADEREWSKI PLAYS THE MIMUET AN APPRECIATION BY IGNACE J. PADEREWSKI . There U lometAmg in the hi«oryof «He See Hurt v family to bring toy to the heart of every one wh;> la devoted to hia profe'iion The Srelrwty la an unmistakable product of io*** of profenion. and to 1c 1 pay my tribute of high eateem and admiration" From a letter to Sutnuta? df Sons by Igmoee J. TatUrmvdi PADEREWSKI'S TRIBUTE to the Sfeinway li echoed in the preference of every great musician. The Steinway is the piano of Hotmann and of Rachmaninoff. 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The maga zines were full of such stories Suddenly from the library came Warren's loud guffaw. "Ha. ha, Kitten, this’s great! Come in here!" "In a minute, dear," starting to take off the dress, “I can’t " Just now." "Come now! This Is too good to keep.” “In just a second," her flurried fin ger^ struggling with tho hooks. Before she could get off the betray ing gown, he strode Into her room. For once phe was grateful for his careless oblivion to what she wore. Without even a glance at her bare neck and arms, he thrust the paper at her. Wealthy Clubman Sent to Private Asylum Relatives Secure His Con finement. Hubert K. Hodman has been ad judged incompetent and trustees ap pointed for his estate. One of hts eccentricities has been his mania for sending flowers, with an ardent note or poem, to every woman he meets. Last month his florist hill was over $1,500. Ills relatives, claim • • • As Helen read the item, her scorch ing humiliation crimsoned her face. "Ha, lia:" roared Warren. "X.ucky he didnit send 'em C. O. D. Only bird you could get to send you flowers is a jiut! What’s that he wrote?” spy ing the card (yi her dressing-table. She tried to snatch it from him, but holding it out of her reach, leering ly ho read it aloud. "No wonder they clapped him In a padded cell. He's batty, all right"’ "Warren, you needn't keep rubbing it In! You're cruel to—" "Huh, you were so darned cocky end lit up about it'. Preening all through dinner. And I bet were In here lamping yourself In that mir ror;'' Helen caught her breath. Would he notice her dress? Would he guess all of her silly vanity? But hts careless Inattention spared her that. Still Without seeing her evening gown, he took up the paper and strode out with a final unroarou* “Ha, ha, bats In his belfry! When he started to 'say it with flowers' to you—they put him away. Next Johnny you try to vamp—pick one who isn't ripe for the bug-house' i (Copyright, 1SZ3-> Next week—The Episode of Hie Blue Plate. 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