The Exeter Advocate, 1923-4-12, Page 6e.
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Fr�rn a Bench:in
the Park
BY ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL
PART I.
This was • a joke! The girl on the
park bench shivered. It was a shivery
joke, She laughed -she would laugh,'
she would!
"I feel a draft!" laughed she.
If it were not sufficiently funny to
be sitting out here -on a bench -at
eight o'clock at night, there were the
additional humors of her penniless
estate and the Landlady Kimmer's
ponderous image. You couldn't asic
more funniness than that!
Landlady Kimmer had sat with ter-
rible solidity upon the poor little,
trunk containing all that was mortal
of the girl's possessions. Furs and
finery that she'd been obliged to part
with at least had been spared that
humiliation. Fate had "sat upon"
then but not Landlady Kimmer.
"You departed this life just in
time, dear/' the girl said with a very
little smile. Little smiles helped out,
if you smiled them often enough.
The girl was a Stanley, No Stanley
ever whimpered.
"It's here I'll set until yez pay me
f'r the two wakes ye've .e't me vittles
an' drink!" She could hear Mrs. Kim -
mer even out there on the chilly park
bench.
"But I 'e't' so few `vittles an'
drink,' Mrs. Kimmer! I -I scrimped.
Besides I'll pay just as soon as I find
another job-"
"It's here I'll set. No expressman'll
be gettin' yer trunk out froom und-
her ! It's trunk or cash, That's what."
he girl who was a Stanley had
managed a final little attempt at
lightness.
"But trunks are so hard outside!
My petticoats and nightgowns are
nice and soft -if you'd just take an
inside seat-"
Poor old creature! Just being a
landlady "intil" her hair turned white
was pitiful enough, having no sense
of humor was worse; and on top of
these to have her boarders lose then
1d�
jobs -no wonder she sat herself so i -
ly on the trunk as. her only hope of
redress.
"I'in glad now I went back and told
her how sorry I was," mused the girt
"She almost got off the trunk then !"
Br-rr-r! It was growing chillier.
Well, hadn't' she always wanted to
sleep out of doors? Hadn't she' once
tried her best to have'Martha Mary
to have a little outdoor -coop built on
to the old house?
"My heart!" sighed she at thought
of the old house. All the rooms and
the fireplaces going to waste in it to-
night." And wood in the woodshed to
burn!"
Not even Martha Mary was in the
old house to -night. Where was Martha
Mary? She wondered between shivers.
"But, for that matter, where am I?
It's just as well and a good deal well-
er Martha Mary doesn't know things
-the dear heart!"
This would never do! If she calledi
Martha Mary a dear heart again -
one more time -she'd cry and no long-
er be a Stanley. But Martha Mary
was no longer a Stanley -
She must not begin on that.
"This is a joke," she said firmly to
her shivery self. "All this is a joke.
It will be something to tell my grand-
children. They'll love it. Tell us
'bout the night you slept on a park
bench, Grannie!' They'll tease for it.
Or it would make a good chapter in
my book when I write oiie. `What I
Know About Park Benches.' Not
every author speaks from experience."
She was twenty-one, this girl. Her
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`After Every Meal
"He likes to sit and watch, spine
II do,".concluded 'Shirley. "But I.mu
say he has a .softer seat." • She stirre
into a new position and then for tb
} first time noted that she had"company
on her hard .seat; a woman holding
i clumsy bundle. The woman did . n
seem even to breathe, so still did sh
sit there at the further end of th
bench. There was something 'disturb-
ing about 'tier stillness. Shirley de-
cided to �nrake her move. .
"Good evening -neighbor!" Shir-
ley's voice was gravely sweet.
The woman stirred but did not nib-
ble at the sociable little. bait.
"Don't you feel a draft?" asked
Shirley.. "I do ! Don't you wish. the
city fathers furnished good warm
blankets?"
At that, the woman at the other
end of the seat turned and -she was:'
not a woman but a girl, with a. sharp,'
white profile.
"What's a good warm blanket?" she
asked in a strange voice that made
Shirley shiver worse than ever. • I
"Oh, you are cold!" she cried. "It
blows so round one's legs! ' I guess
my petticoat isn't any too thick:"
"My°petticoat's round the baby."
"Round the -baby?"
"Yes. An'.my sweater, Everythiu'
I've got. She's asleep now but Lord
knows what'll happen if she wakes
up! She's terrible sensitive to th
cold, Maudie is. Do you know th
kind o' kids poor folks'd ought to ha
whose men get kicked out' o' their
jobs?" The thin voice broke into a
sorry laugh. Shirley shrank at the
sound of it.
"Fleece -lined kids! That wouldn'
need their mother's petticoats an
sweaters." -
Shirley could no longer make a p]
out of this park -bench episode. 1
was no joke when there was a Maudi
"terrible sensitive to the cold."
"I am so sorry! Couldn't T put
USE THE'i'GAME OF DECAPITA-
TION -AT YOUR NEXT PARTY.
The blanks in each of the following
r;.
sentences are to be filled in by placan
in the_ first space a. word which, de-
capitated and placed in the net space,
d will make the sentence entire.'
e 1. If the children "ghost stories,•
the nurse should cease to than.
a 2, The heavy came over the
of hill with the last of the sinking'
e sun.
e 8.In a pleasant....... the little sta-
tioner exchanged a of paper fo
a pot of gold.
4. It was.... . to see the stou
name was Shirley Stanley. Martha
1 Mary had been a Stanley, a year ago,
before -
Ah, the befores-and the afters!
This was the after. Before, they had
!lived incthe old house together, she
and the older sister who had cared for
and mothered her all the days she
could remember She had had her
Martha Mary all to herself and h
r been a -pig! Of course, she had be
one. But it had been so dear, bei
la pig! It had never occurred to h
that anyone else could ever have
right to love her Martha Mary: Th
someone had come along and had do
that very thing. While she was aw
visiting a school chum! Had come a
taken unfair advantages -she's be
given no fighting chance to ward h
. off. With a fighting chance-. T
girl on the park bench tightened
small fist�`'in its shabby glove. S
laughed fiercely in her slim wlr
throat.
"I'm a pretty good fighter!". s
said aloud to the empty darknes
What if she had hurt Martha Ma
in her fighting? Instantly the laugl
! gentled, grew tender. Silly old Mart
Mary to be fallen in love with
thirty-three! Thirty-three was so o
to- twenty-one. A. curious thing in
girl's musings over that year-old ha
pening, something she had nev
acknowledged to herself, was. t
Martha Mary might have done he
part in the falling in love.
Well, she had not kept Marth
Mary from marrying, had she? No
to any great extent! She had mere
reared her young Stanley chin mil
tantly and gone forth into an ind
pendent life of her own. Pride, up
root, hurt -she had gone proudl
rooted-uply, hurt-ly. Never woe
she be dependent on this' hearties
stranger who had -had taken advan
tage of her and beguiled Martha Mar
into thirty -three -year. -old foolishnes
In her twenty -year-old zeal she ha
lost no time. Straight to the cit
marched Shirley: The work she .ha
found for herself she must begin-upo
at once, they told her. Shirley beg
at once. Her steady,youung hand on
the plow, she had no idea of turning.
back. And it' had been a straight
, clean little furrow she had plowed m
from that time up to two short weeks
ago when she had been caught in the ti
general exodus from so many of the
work places of the city. Turned loose n
with the rest of them .-Shirley and w
Tom and Dick and Harry.
She had not been able to go hack S
to Martha Mary. But, of course; all h
along she'd written cheerful letters, S
carefully designed to keep• Martha v
Mary from worrying. But because
she had adhered so firmly to her own
burgomaster....... down the hill.
5. The physician accidentally :spill-
ed his upon the........after
which his patient speedily recovered.
6. Of. the. flowers, I most ad-
mire the beautiful........
7. In this unpopulated country,
shaggy...... roam in countless num-
bers through the........
8. With his" mother's . strong
......about him the little fellow
bravely faced the ordeal.
9. Leave your land and you
must you are entitled to no har-
vest.
10. Thdlittle and the wood
nymph engage in persiflage.
11. In the. . air he walked his
soldiers up the......and then walked
then down again,
el, 12. It was apparent to the old
e
ve
,'4••:
e4rn, 20: whoop, troops' 221, mother,
other; 22. neither, either •, 23, skate;
Kate; 24, sell, ell; 25. 'clad*, law`; 26.
clime, lime; 27. climb; limb; 28. close,.
lose,• 29... grain,. rain, 80;; -trail, ill; 31.
scamp, camp; 32. sage,- age; '33;' har-
bor, arbor; 34, black, lack.
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The water: glass or goblet 'should be
placed at end of knife blade on right
side, while the bread and butter plate
is placed on the left side at the end.
r of fork, with the napkin at the left of
the fork. Twenty-four inches is the
t usual space 'allowed for each person.
bachelor, promenading upon the
that engrossed couple were thor
oughly unconscious of his presence.
13, Into the dark - went the
pirate when he was no longer
of service.
14. When you
will run and
ay 15. It will
e when he learns the
my
this child, he
enad petticoat round •tier, too? Doubled ail
up it would be almost thick "
ng "No. Keep it on. No need of all
er of us freezing in our tracks."
a "But you can't sit -the can't sit
en here all night!"
ne "Watch an' see.us sittin' 1" cackled
ay the dreadful young laugh. "We ain't
nd goin' to any charity place. I'm bringin'
en her up respectable. Freezin's respect -
fm' able!"
he "Don't laugh!" begged Shirley, a
a • great new tenderness welling up in
he her. Let's talk about -about when
rte the baby grows up.
"Lord! Grows up !-Well then,
he Maudie's goin' to marry a fur coat an'
s. muff an' a automobile with a fur lap-
ry robe! An' her man's goin' to work in
u a big fact'ry that don't never shut
Marth down! Hear that, Maudie? ` She's
at dreamin' of it now!" -
ld "What factory was it that shut
the down," questioned Shirley. She must
p- say something.
er "Tim's fact'ry." She,gave a name
hat 1 that had no significance for Shirley.
r "You better asic what one ain't shut
down ! Tim's did hold out a spell -
a, Tim's my pian." The white-faced
t mother ,of Maudie spoke of her man
ly with a curious little undernote of
i- pride in her tone.
- e- "She likes him," Shirley thought.
The rest of her thought she put into
Yd.'
speech.
ld "How could he go away and leave
s -I suppose he has gone away?"
- "He'd be here freezin' with us if he
y hadn't. Or he'd set fire to the benches
s. to keep us warm! That's Tim! But
d he's off job huntin'. The landlord
y turned me an' Maudi out to -night."
d "I know him !". cried Shirley almost
n' growing warm with indignation. "1
an know that landlord his tribe is Kim -
mer! When I get my new place-"
"When Tim gets his job-"
"Yes, then we'll settle with the Kim-
ers, Tim and II" Shirley leaned to
ward the other girl with an eager lit-
e impetus of friendship.
"My dear, if we can just stand to-
ight-don't you think we feel a little
armee• when we talk?"
But the other girl did not answer.
he seemed again only a shivering
uddle of thin clothesand bundle.
hirley, repulsed in her friendly ad
anee, remained silent, too.
Then it happened.
(To be continued.)
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The dentist had finished work on a
lady's back molar and had handed her
a hand .mirror that sha might observe
the result h,erselr. Then he went on
"With his task with respect to the other
teeth. repeating ails .performance with
the mirror when each tooth had been
Oiled. Finally, when the lob was en-
tirely complete, and she handed back
the mirror wit`h. thanks, he said:
"Well, nraclam, how do they look to
you?" .
"How do they look to me?" she re=
peated. A,. - - -
"Yes, the teeth I have just filled."
"Oh, I forget about the teeth!" sthe
exclaimed, reaching for the hand -glass..
1 "What did you look at each time I
gave yob the mirror?"
"1-Vhy, my hair, or course!"
Hard to Please.
Grocer--' ViThat was that old tidy
complaining about?"
Assia,tant-"About. the•Iong \Fait."
"She must he very hard to please.
Yesterday she was complaining tibout`
the short weight."
It Makes, a Difference.
Rejected 8uitor -' ouid, you object,
to my prese=nce at your wedding?
The Girl --"flow do you spell the
rd.'?"
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ndependence and twenty-one-year-old
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and se had received no answers.
So that was that.
"And this is -this 1" smiled Shirley
on her bench. My, but a year could
be as long as an age -and two weeks
as long as a year! She absolutely
refused to shiver again. This par-
ticular park bench was well situated
or watching a gay stream of theatre-
oers turn in at a playhouse across a
atch of park lawn and a. street.
Shirley watched. The motors 'edg-
ng up to the sidewalk for a moment
ingorged their happy loads, and .vent
n to find parking space. Honks and
faint laughter and even,appetizing
mels from a nearer restaurant drift
-
d Shirley's way. She watched and
'ently sniffed and persisted in calling
talt ajoke,
One s touring 'car drew up directly
eros.,�p peteli pf Isarkway and she
nt'e gs .hneeelf•-becthi shg }want -
d to forget that xe "has cold and
angry -in the rather curious actions
of the man behind the wheel.
"He's going to the show -no, he
isn't going! He doesn't know whether
he's going or, not! Lonesome -that's
thetrouble. There, he has decided to
go!
1 'She watched him disappear in the
! gay little stream. Well, she'd have to
1 find something else to concentrate on.
A moment or two later when she
chaneed to look back at the spruce lit-
I! tie car which had acted_ as' if it were
moving on, there it was! The owner
-or chauffeur -was hunching- down
omfortabiy as if for an 'indefinite
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!e stay. M
wo
upon his nerves
lie must pay,
16. When the poetic miner found
the ' rich he sat down and com-
posed an. .to his golden discovery
of riches.
17. We may be sure that......will
offer to accept the sinecure which
one could fill.
18. Though to take the.
thencourt compelled it.
19. Youth is the time in which to
..those useful lesson which later
may a competence. •
20. With a gay :... , .. he rushed
down the hill, his new • rolling
ahead.
21. Appreciate this for you
will never have an......,., no matter
how long you may live.
22. We asked for and he said
we might take which you see
was fifty per cent. more than required.
23. I was about to teach her to
when I discovered knew
more about the art than I did.
24.. If you will not......... me two
yards, at least let nie have an-
of
n....of these goods.
25. As to whether the creature had
one or two was the h#dicrous
point of upon which the case
turned.
26. In this balmy. the orange,
lemon and abound.
27. Do not upon the
and then saw it off.
28. The game was but un -
.fortunately we man aged to .... , .in
the last inning.
29. The must wither unless
we have more
30. She promised to meet me at the
old....,. .but I was too.......to be
there.
31. That absconded from
with all our provisions.
32. This great senator was a
at t1ie of fourteen.
83. The pirates sailed into the
unconscious of the fact that we were
concealed in the........
34. He was not 'as.... .as he was
painted, although he did many
virtues.
The Missing Words.
1. dread, read; 2. dray ray; 3.
dream, ream; 4. droll, roll; 5. drug,
rug; 6. Easter, aster; 7. goats, oats;
8. warm, arm; 9. fallow, allow; 10.
fairy, airy; 11. chill, hill; 12. beach,
each; 18. hold, old; 14. childe, hide;
15. grate, rate; ' 16, lode, ode;, 17.
many, any; 18. loath, oath; 19.- learn,
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