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THE It EE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, KKmU'ARY 4, 1011. 'afe M VThe cRee'g limine Ma az,irp llic Bee'5 Junior Birthday Book UTILE MMON P TOE WEEK DJD jr Husband's Voice A Seraon iht Keckl,e" ftnd Ex btamereman. travag-ant Economy of Women. F 13 j x 4 I I I I II I I 11! w If -I V ough the Butter-end-KgKS Man en .ued to deliver his male. flat itnd ex , remely profitable wsres at the home of the Amateur Wife. Her 11 unhand s Voice still preached of household economy. Since the Helpful Handmaiden had dis closed the depth of her Infatuation for the middle aged dairyman that particular avenue of saving wa cut off. Hut there remained to be Investigated the lex al butcher and grocer. "Prices out here are away ahead of any thing In New York, and the things are not nearly so good." the Tout Graduate Hue band announced so often and so convinc ingly that finally he converted Ilia Wife, tio one Saturday morning proclaimed her Intention of accompanying him to town for the purpose of marketing for the Sunday dinner, Til get a ateak for tonight and some roast beef for tomorrow and some let tuce and chicory they're always nicer In New York," declared 111 Wife And on the train to town she busied her self with making and revising the list of purchases she Intended to make. "How are you going to get them deliv ered?" Inquired the Pout Graduate Hus band. He loved to sermonize, but shrank from the practical application of his the ories because he wan not always sure that they could be demonstrated. Why, I'll carry them home myself," she " tetorted scornfully, "I'm not one of those women who are afraid to be seen with bundles! If ou are sure enough of your position you can can y home the' washing, ou know." "1 guess I'd rather be a plebiun and have 11 sent home," replied the Post (iraduatu Husband, to whom the tenets of excluslveness were rather a Joke. "I've been figuring how mui:h money I'll have by this trip.' pursued the Amateur Wife, "and I think it will be at least sev- tnty-five cents. There's three cents a pound difference on steak and eight cents on roast, beef. Of course that's not count ing the price of my railroad fare, but then yuj paid for that." Her Husband s heart sank within him. Well he knew that If by any specious reasoning His Wife could persuade herself ythal she had saved half a dollar she might whik lionie wiin a new wi ui iuis iui i based In all good faith on the strength of, and Incidentally a a reward for, her econ omics. He left his off lie early that afternoon mid look the first train to Mountainville, expecting to find that His Wife had gone before and that she would greet him with a triumphant story of. her marketing and possibly the new furs. Hut she had not returned. And It was "not until six o'clock, when a steady, nag i.lng drltzle had set In, that the sound of a carriage stopping in front of the house proclaimed Her arrival. The Post Graduate Husband opened the front door and Ills Wife, laden with a gigantic bundle, entered and sank Into a chair. "I'm utterly exhausted." she confessed, "but I've got some wonderful things to eat and such bargains! Why, we'd save money If I went to town to market every day!" Dinner Justified her optimism, at least so far as It concerned the porterhouse steak. And the state of Her Husband s appetite was such that any other consideration seemed for the moment the Inereet detail. It was not until after the coffee perco lator had been removed that the Post Graduate HuBband observed that His Wife was busily occupW with pencil and paper, and from the Intensity of her concentra tion he Judged her to be figuring compound interest or even logarithms. "Well." he said with s suggestion of twinkle In eyes and voice. "how much money did you save?" "That's Just what I'm trying to find out." His Wife exclaimed with a bewild ered sigh. "Hut It comes out differently every time. 1 tell what we'll do. You put down the figures as I call them off, and then we'll compare our totals. I know per fectly well that mine must be wrong, be cause It's far too much. Why, accord ng to this thing I spent $8.17, and. of course, there d be no economy In that." The Post Graduate Husband agreed, and at His Wifes dictation act down various expenditures for carfares, . lunch, sodas, etc., besides the amounts paid for meats and vegetables. "That makes $7.17," he annonnred. "You have forgotten a dollar somewhere. Here, let me see your first list. Maybe 1 can find It." "Oh, no; I know what It Is," the Amateur Wife admitted. "You see, It was raining a little and the bundle was so heavy and I was bo tired that I took a cab from the station. That makes seventy-five cents you haven t got." "And the other quarter?" pursued the In quisitor blandly. "What did you Bpcnd that for?" "Let me think! Oh. yes; here It 's! I gave that to the organ grinder! You see, he stopped outside the butcher store when I was buying the meat and played that thing from 'Rigoletto' I love so much, and then he came In and held out his hat and and" "And sOou economised to the tune of $8.17," laughed Her Husband. "All right, baby," he added; "but don't economise too often. We'll go Into bankruptcy If you do." ' ' (Copyright, 19U. by the N. Y. Herald Co.) 1 Peter. 2:1 "Not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness '' Topic, "The Abuse of Liberty." Liberty Is the Instrument of personality, and the abuse of liberty Is treason against the democracy of human existence. To abuse liberty Is to misapprehend Its na ture, to misinterpret Its laws, to Ignore Its fundamental opportunities. The tri umphs of ltbe-ty are delayed when men aubstitute lawlessness for its stern re quirements, and when they wantonly waste the resources which should be dili gently conserved. In this American republic of which we are citizens, and in which with painful processes the Implications of liberty are be ing worked out. we are vaguely conscious of the fact that our theory of life calls for a threefold manifestation of liberty. We must have liberty to know, to do, to be. Amid the clamor of economic theories. In sistent science and experimental sociology we cling desperately to our Ideal; we are determined to know, to achieve, to be, Kven so must It be In the spiritual realm which Is the ultimate Justification of the cosmio procesi. To knowl Knowledge Is power in all spheres. In domains physical, mental, spir itual, but especially Is it power In the re- publlo of the spirit. In the domain of the spirit most of all should there be insistent striving for abiding verities; and all work done in the subordinate realms should be deemed preparatory to the task of ap prehending spiritially the laws and possi bilities of spiritual existence. Commenda ble and Inevitable Is the impulse which In cites the old Genesis writers to crown the creative process with a conception of God, Inevitable, too. Is It that the Flakes and Drummonds and Tennysons of thought should pass from the laws of matter to the laws of spirit. Thinking is In Its very nature progressive, and Into It at some stage must enter the elements which render It spiritual, satisfying to the deepest de sires of the heart. The study of the uni verse, the world, life, body, mind, must be estimated as Introductory to the study of the free spirit , Its God, Its laws, Its possl bllltles. Spiritual Ignorance means the abuse of liberty. God, misinterpreted, means maladjustment. Men will cringe where they should stand erect, bring bleeding bullocks where they should bring consecrated hearts, seek, rewards where they should desire communion with God. rj ii 111 .- U fames Alexander Jenkins, D. Marj's Avenue Congregational D., St. Church. Undoing of Mr. Uplift BY- LAr AYlCTTK PAKlvd 'Shall Wire Bon the Business" Argued by Father vs. Son. Nor Is It otherwise with man's knowledge of himself, for comprehensive, spiritual knowing Is the only safeguard against de lusions, excesses and abuses. Spiritual Ig norance carries with It misinterpretation of the laws of human life, and liberty works maliciousness and desolation. The Ignorant man becomes a tyrant over life's sanctities; the man who knows becomes the willing servant of socloty. Abused liberty pro claims war between the spirit on the one hand and mind and body on the other; but tliev liberty which has the knowledge of Christ makes personality the glad unifier of spirit, soul and body. As free men who would make the most of liberty, we must insist on knowing. No knowledge which the finite can possess Is too exalted for the humblestyson of God. In the republic of souls no privileges are reserved for aristocracy. It Is the duty of the lowliest to learn the truth from the stars In their courses, to know the sig nificance of being, the Implications of (in carnation, the legitimate functions of church, book, priest, the inspiration of Immortality. Such knowledge Is evidence of the right use of liberty, and Its marks are toleration, sympathy, good will, the surrender of personal privilege for the common good. To Do Liberty means action. Lethargy and inactivity are marks of bondage, and even action may bear the sign of serfdom. Much of the worlds 'doing" has been slavish rather than free. Nero was not the doer of a free man's deeds, though he wore a crown and wielded a scepter. Na poleon's achievements were those of a slave to ambition. Rousseau's freedom was limited by the tether of his moral weaknesses. The deeds of the man who Is "free Indeed" are not traceable to selfish ambition, official prestige, or formal sub jection to the dictates of organizations, rather have they the disinterested, spon taneous quality which characterised the activities of Jesus of Nazereth. To the fulness of the glory of His doing men may not attain, yet are they able to labor In the spirit of the Christ. The "works" of the man who Is free In Christ cannot be mltated successfully by the worldling. Only freedom through tUs cross ran pro duce the deeds of Paul and Frances, the ant Ions of Luther and Lincoln. To Be In holy writ the Kternal is dis tinguished as "1 Am." and the spirit of God unceasingly encourages the free man to possess the assurance of his own being, an assurance which will enable him to say "I am," even amid "the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds." And with nothing less than this assurance Is the free man content. He strives to possess past and future, In order that his conscience may utter the full, glad cry, "Now am I the eon of God." Wherever being Is unsatisfactory, limited, circum scribed, It Is certain that some liberty has been abused. The scepticisms of this pres ent are confessions of the limitation ot being through broken law, through free dom mlsappllej. When the "perfect law of liberty" Is obeyed, being becomes pro phetic, poetical, mystical, saintly and Im mortality secures Its highest earthly dem onstration. And this meditation closes where It be ganwith the thought that liberty Is the God-given Instrument of personality. To abuse liberty is to make knowledge a stumbling block, deeds monuments of folly, being Itself a shadow. The biblical culmi nations In evil are only witnesses to the abuse of liberty, the closed gates of Eden, the brand of Cain, the unpardonable sin, the doom of Judas. The biblical culmina tions In good are only witnesses to liberty rightly used, the devotion of Jeremiah, the loyalty of Ruth, the return of the prodigal, the martyrdom of Stephen. Kven so ts It In sll of life. Liberty abused Is sorrow and unrest, while liberty rightly used Is Joy and peace. mi -' a . iii i li ii i itv i l sTM 1 1 I 1 hddbirM WILLIAM LELLAPLA1NK. February 4, 1911. Name soul Atli! ross. SclltMll Christina Anderson, 3606 Haskell 81 Windsor Joseph Baughnian, D006 North Forty-second st Lucille R. Brown, 206 South Thirty-fifth Ave. . Helen Bock, 2715 Camden Ave. Year. 1900 Central Park 1901 Farnam 1898 Miller Park 1901 The Secret of Popularity J Keaily glad to nee. that many of our 4Vn are discussing the question whether v otiKht to know more about their hue- t bunds' business affairs," remarks Mr. I'p llft, pausing from his reading the paper In an effort to Interest young Mr. I'pllft In I he newest problem of social economics. Not If hubby can help it, they won't." contends Son, who sees a -multitude of dire possibilities In the custom should It once V'ecome a fixture with the feminine side of marital partnerships. "It seems to mo that such sn arrange- ' ment ought to prove vastly beneficial to the husband,' as well as to the wife." con tinues Father. "What chance would an enterprising business man have of tucking away a few extra bones for himself It the dames had the run of the officer demands Bon, with a keen eye to the practical side of lite. "It's hard enough for a married man to keep his wife from pinching off the loose change he brings home In his trousers' pocket. If she had the right to camp out In the cashier's cage, believe me, the busi ness would soon belong to her, and hubby would be Just another hired man." "The average business man has a great many troubles now." says rather,, "that his wits knows nothing about. If she knew these matters she could sympathise with him." "But would she?" doubtedly queries Bon. "Most of the married dames that I know would tell their husbands it served them right if somebody slipped 'em a bunch of wooden coin or a stack of phony . checks. Inatead of handling hubby a tew .kind words tu cheer him up, wlfle would be mora apt to order him to firs the pretty girl cashier, blaming the loss on her. What It he could save a few bucks more It the Sunshine of the office had to put on her lid and goT" "I have always believed?' argues Father, "that a wife should become acquainted with more than the domestic aide of her husband." "The Imported article Isn't always what It's cracked up to be." protests Son. "Some trusting wives fondly imagine that their nobis husbands spend ten hours a lay growing in their offices as they drive their hired men like slaves under ths lash, with the sole object of making more cush to bring home to their better halves. That just shows you what a vivid Imagination will dm. Ceually the real picture la so different if little wlfie could look upon It she would tear uft a mad scene." "Ths details of business sre so dry," lather complain. "It aeenia to me that a man's wife could bring inspiration to him by dropping into the office st unexpected ii'.ouienls." "Take it from me. Pop," advises Pun, that business men have several very popular methods of moUtenlng the dry ietulls of trade that are not supposed to oecome generally known at the hapy iuiiw. These unexpected call from wifl lie all light if some kind friend lips off niibby In advance, so the prettiest stenog rapher In the shop isn't taking dictation whitn she strives. Sonie ety classy little .lames have been known to lose their jobs lu cases like this." "It Is proverbial that a woman in tuition in btigiriei-s deals U imu h more re liable tnsn a inau's Judgment." relates lather. ''If I were In business 1 shoulvi alwa gt my wifes advice." Intuition is all light in trying to pl winueis al the races." hedges Hon," "and a dame can drop off the right pony as often as a man when ii cuiur tu thai stum. Just the same. I'd rather fiag Intuition a u.I play a f bel when paying the rent bf the loi and liie heltf dt-penri on it. " 1 fuel twitala thai fi eti onlalde Mwn on iioubUsom tansl In basin "THE tCTATUS OT rUSTNE3S ARE SO EfRW' give, might save htm money." "The boss gets enough fresh Inside views from the help to keep his goat working overtime as the game stands now," Son retorts. "If the wife has to blow Into ths shop every day and give orders on how to run the business, there's a bunch of us Wlsenhelmers who are either going to chuck work or else pass the buck on ths marriage game." (Copyright. 1911. by ths N. T. Herald Co.) "Why Is Mary so popular?" writes Es telle Kegler, the girls In a certain set kept asking one another. They asked so often and Mary's popular ity was such a constantly growing quantity that they set about systematically to dis cover the secret, and what do you think they found f N6 secret at all. It was just as plain as the signs on railroad billboards. Mary was sweet to old folks. Be It understood the rest ot the girls In the set aren't discourteous or disagreeable to those who have been touched by the watching, hand of time. Rather they cheer fully Ignored their elders. There are so many exciting things to do, places to go, motoring, dancing, cosey little conferences over a box of chocolates all curled up In your dearest chum's cosey corner, and there Is so little time for all the merry whirl they can't possibly stop to be thoughtful. But Mary has a mind above chocolate eclairs and what Helen Is going to wear to Clara's party. Before she graduated from pigtails she discovered the spirit of youth was contagious and she will tell you the youngest girl she knows Is the beauti ful old lady across the street, who admits to TO summers. Now, It so happened this lady across the street Is a social dictator by reason of birth, wealth and social charm. TTnen all the other girls were kow-towing to her and then running away to be chatty to gether, Mary was dropping in. bubbling v- with happiness snd brimful of confidences. It was not a play Jor favor that Mary made. Fhe was Just a wholesome, natural, loveable girl, with a faculty for selecting real friends. Then the girls wonder why the ludy across the-etreet Is always giving cosey little parties fori Mary, where everyone Sits around the library table and Is happy, and why, when Mary made her formal entrance into society this winter the very most wonderful party of the season was given for Mary by this lady. They don't know Mary and the lady have formed a pleasure partnership to which one contributes youth and enthusiasm, the other counsel and sug gestions, and both sympathy. Neither could they understand how at the holiday hop Mary could deliberately sit out a whole dance with an old lady who wore a lace cap and showed other signs of hav ing outlived her usefulness as a pleasure asset. They didn't know the old lady was a fa mous musician In her day. and neither did Mary until she received an Invitation to be the guest of this same lady for a week and to occupy a seat in her box at the opera every night for six wonderful even ings. "Mary's popularity again," they told each other. But now that they know the swer they are making new friends, and the older folks of their acquaintance are won dering why girls they have always known have suddenly become so attractive. "You Hear Me Talk!" Two Pullman car pillow thumpers who were quarreling over a certain passenger who had tipped one of them somewhat liberally. The other seemed to think that he was entitled to part of the plunder. "Ain't you got no honahT" asked the aggrieved one. "Whaffo you try do me ought'en man lawful share of his yers money T" 'Cos you have no claims on ds stipend. Dat'S whaffo." 'Vouah all tongue talk! What 'bout yer consclentitlous. If yer has dat commodity concealed in yer robbln' black carcase?" "Whose you callln' black, nigger?" "Whose you callin" nigger, nigger?" "A gen'leman Is." , "Well, let me tell you dat you Is so black dat you could go to a funeral wldout clothes on yer, an' no folk 'ud know It. You hear me talk, man!" Railroad Man's Magasine. Llllie M. Brown, 2616 Wirt St Loturop Etta Blackstrom, 2606 South Ttalrty-firBt St. High 1895 Sampson Brown. 2616 Wirt St .' Lothrop 1898 Donald Bohan. 722 Bancroft St Bancroft 1903 Victor Hugo Croly, 4304 Camden Ave Central Park 1904 Boyd Carey, 115 North Thirtieth St Farnam 1897 William Dellaplalne. 1612 Cuming St Cass 1897 Joseph Dougherty, 2118 Grace St Sacred Heart..' 1902 Ellrabetb. R. Elliott. 3324 Bedford Ave Howard Kennedy ..1902 Katherlne Engler, 625 South Thlrly-flrst St High , , ,1893 Sabry Fales, 2021 Center St Castellar 1903 Ernest Gross. 2443 South Twentieth Ave St. Joseph 1902 Sarah Goodman, 1714 South Thirteenth St Lincoln 1899 Hazel Graser, 106 William 8t Train T1896 Vivian Graser. 2768 South Thirteenth St Bancroft 1901 Lois Hai:. 2602 Burt St Webster 1900 Fred A. Hennlnger, 3060 Woolworth Ave Park 1897 Otto Johnson. 3115 Miami St Howard Kennedy. .1898 Andrew Johnson. 2413 North Eighteenth St High 1896 Gunnar Knudsen, 4748 North Fourteenth St Sherman 1902 Joslln Kanglor, 2411 South Twenty-ninth St Dupont 1904 v Fred Kenyon, 3239 Ohio 8t Howard Kennedy ..1901 Richard Krage, 2763 8outh Ninth St Bancroft 1901 Jochan Kanglor, 2411 South Twenty-ninth St. Im. Conception 1896 Michael Levy. 2885 Chicago St. Central 1903 Frances M. Lewis. 824 South Nineteenth Strr Leavenworth 1902 Fisk WMlllam McKee. 3310 Spalding St Franklin 1900 Antonio Magauaro, 723 Pierce St Pacific 1905 Met H. Mayhack, 1617 Maple St Lake 1903 Julio I. McHale, 806 Hickory St Lincoln ,1897 Robert Nelson, 2410 South Twenty-ninth 8t Dupont 1904 Theresa Nlsser, 905 Dorcas 8t Train 1902 Verna Peterson, 3816 Chicago St Saunders 1900 Edward Rleser, 121 Woolworth Ave Train 1898 Fanny Forbes Robertson, 4 6 Saratoga St High 1896 Glen H. Sullivan, 3319 Franklin St Franklin 1899 Bryan SJaberg, 1017 South Thirtieth Ave Park I8"98 Paul Seastedt, 3012 Cass St .Webster 1896 Charleo Sharmed, 1614 South Eighth St ......Lincoln 1891 Frances Shutte, 2716 South Twenty-fifth St Castellar ........ 1899 John Sims, 4105 South Twelfth St Forest ........... 1888 Marguerite Tangney, 2120 Vinton St Castellar ..1898 Frederick Wickstrom, 414 North Twenty-eighth Ave. High . ..1892 Katie Whitley, 3121 Charles 8t Franklin 1900 Glen B. Wurn, 2012 Locust St High . . ,T. 1894 Joe Yecha, 1213 South Fourteenth St. . . Pacific 189S Margaret Zechmelster, 979 North Twenty-fifth Ave. .Kellom 1903 Theresa Zechmelster, 979 North Twenty-fifth Ave.. Kellom 1895 Elizabeth Zarp, 1602 Elm St Castellar 1904 Fable of Pala sad Purity. Dresaed in the latest cycling costume, with goggles all complete, the motor cyc list gayly toot-tooted past the park on his way to the soo. Suddenly he stopped and said to a small urchin: "I say, my boy, am I right for the soo?" The boy gasped at so strange a sight. "You may be all right if they have a spare cage," he said when he could find his tongue, "but you'd ha' stood a better chance If you'd 'ad a tall." Llpplncott's. If Something Happened J One of the congressmen defeated at the last election, telling in Washington "how It happened" said cheerily, "It was a good deal like that story that's been going the rounds lately. They were examining a wit ness at an Inquest over the body of a negro named Henry, who has been killed by train. 'Sam,' said the coroner,- 'what do you know about this accident to Henry?' " 'Not much. Bah.' " Tell us what you know, Sam, In your own way.' " 'It wus dis way,' explained Sam. 'You see, boaa, I wuz slan'ln' on de stashun platfowm wit Henry, an 'Numbah Klve win chalk up klndah late on de bode. lef Htnry an' went roun' de stashun fob a liT dram. When I come back, boss, Numbah Klve done gone by, an' I stahted up de track to go home. Artah a IT ways i come cross a tatg uen a 11 T ways on I fin's 'nothsh laig. Den I stumble g ainst a hald. It wus Henry's haid.' "8am had ended the grim narrative, but the coroner asked another question: " 'Well. 8am, what did you do then?" " ' ell. boas,' replied Sam, 'I thought wal, 1 ss tuh mahself, 'Somethln' mus' done happen tuh Henry.' "National Maga sine. A Hright Hrakrmaa. A brakemen who had not been long employed was going up a very steep grade on hla first run. With unusual difficulty the engineer succeeded In reaching the tup. At the station, looking out of his cab, the engineer saw the new brskeman snd said, with a sigh of relief: "I tell you what, my lad. we had a job to get up here, didn't we?" "We certainly did." said the brakemun "and it I hadn't put on the brake we'd have slipied back." Liiinincott's Maua- i lint. Oaly Mae I ell. Harry had been naughty, and was sum moned before his "mother. "M v hov." said hi mother. "I've said the Ten lVnitiia.nl ments over and over to you. and new you've broken one of them " 'Tbal leaves only nine, tnt-n, doesn't It. mamma?" lamaikt Ui boy. and .i eru raiae. "sue a suaa s wits eouid'4lu,lUr 11 l ihaL-Llppincuiia, j - - " JL' , " - ' i , g , , fe Pec sat) . 4 max $ treers s Mf saw iTV-rj vm t - m - Mb- 'iM Mm ' Lt- . I "ar? ii i i unjt a f , x i vii.sTi'n f i i if f w r-' w m -1 i " a -san mm a. a. a. 1 I I .. ? , V, L 'J Some Silhouettes of the Sidewalk BY BOBBIE BABBLE. The Old Actor. Here where the tide of Broadway flows, Then ebbs away, to flow again. The poor proud rlsyer comes and goes. And lives his mimic Joy and pain. , His long locks waver In the breexe. He rolls his 'r's.' his 'ss's' hiss. And when his younger friends he sees. He holds them with a tale like this: "When Booth and Barrett played with me, Those were the days ot drama, sir. Our 'Hamlet' was a thing to see, It would have made your pulses stir. 1 My role was sobs and sighs compact. Ah, sir, It was a noble thing. And Booth once said 'Would I could act As you perform the Player King.' " 'Othello' held my favorite part Casslo It was you know the role? In the great drunken scene my art Would have enslaved you! Bless my soul! I was the understudy well, 1 watched and waited day by day. That Casslo kept his health so well, I never got a chance to play. "There is no acting nowadays. Actors, today, enact themselves. And gain a public's easy praise While work like mine it simply shelves. With a good tailor at your back, A careless esse, a handsome face, 'Tis easy to succeed! Alack! The mad world rushes by space! - --..svsl st m "Take the young actors of our time, What do they know of noble verse? They can't declaim a noble rhyme, And when It comes to prose, they're worse! John Drew? Ned Southern? Men Its., these. Is their s great acting, do you think? ' Refreshment? Hem! Well, as you please. Since you Insist, I'll take a drink!" (Copyright. 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Co.) '. ; --W-a f Cheerfulness as a Tonio There are more ways than one ot taking a bracer. I walked three blocks with the girl next door the other morning and the tonio effect of her presence hasn't rjrn off In the least, writes Kstelle Kegler. And what do you think site administered? .v'hy nothing in the world but pure, unadulter ated cheerfulness. I started out feeling about as happy as a first class funeral procession, and In order to give outward expression to my Joy I had donned my most unbecoming and som bre suit. "Walt a minute." called a cheery voice behind me. I turned to encounter the merry person of the girl next door. She reminded me so much ot a bright, fragrant flower that 1 felt graver and mote dowdy than ever. A red umbrella was held dain tily above her fluffy hair. In which nestled a ruse of the same color, drooping from her snug little hat. That roi-e simply de fled the weather man. "How well you're looking." she chirped. Latching step and gratefully dodging rain puddles. "Isn't tills rain fun? I alas Ilike to walk i amy das, the drops sound so paltsry on your umbrella. Coming home Is always so much more worth while after you've been wading all day.'.' "Never thought of It Just that way," I admitted, feeling a whit mure friendly to ward the weather. After all, my gray suit wasn't so Impossible. Just then we met a friend. You could tell at once she wus a candidate tor con dolences and would gladly aay mean things about the weather man and fulks In general all the way to the car. "Oh, Kdlth, who was that stunning chap I saw you walking with lust evening?" asked the girl next door before a complaint could be entered. Immediately Kdlth forgot there was such a thing as weather, fur. the stunning man was her latest enthusiasm. "I won't tell, put III bring him ore some evening." she laughed happily. "Yes, do. All three of us girls will liav one of those coaey parties, and each. Invite a friend. We'll run my chafing dish and have a spread. Some rainy night. It's ai ways so 'comfy' rainy nights." No use. All that day I simply lova4) rain, and I've been wishing for mors eve4 sines. ' I I J I