~ BOARDERS
~ WANTED—
CAME
J. Walsh.)
(© by D.
ARY CARMAN was pale 08
she finished reading her
son's letter. Fred was a good
boy; he wrote every week and
came home whenever he could, al
though his work kept him confined
pretty steadily in the city. As usual,
he had tucked in a $10 bill for ex-
penses, Mary owned her house, but
she had almost no money aside from
what her son sent her. And Fred
would not let her earn by taking
boarders.
But this letter—Mary read it again
slowly, dwelling upon each word
Yes! It was what she had always ex-
pected some time. Fred was going to
be married.
That letter changed the
course of Mary Carman’s life. “A son
is a son till he gets his wife.” The
old saying was true enough. She had
seen it again and again. Son married
- gaughter-in-law unsympathetic —
mother gradually neglected. Of course
Fred had a right to happiness. It
was only that—that she felt
had lost her son,
She sat there behind the white cur-
tains and geraniums of her living
room window with the letter in
lap, crying. And Mrs, Binner,
ping through the back caught
her at it.
“Why, Mary Carman!
matter—Fred sick?’ noticing the
ter.
Mary tried
her eyes,
“He's going to be
“Married!” Mrs.
her
er. “Well, you know
as well as 1 do-
“Her name
+» works where
ing to be married soon,
they'll live in
didn’t say."
“Bobbed hair, paint, cigarettes,
maybe,” Mrs. Binner sniffed. “Well,
what can't be cured must be endured.”
“Oh, Fred wouldn't any but
a nice, sweet girl,” his mother said.
“My dear woman!
what he'd choose. Take a country
boy, brought up as carefully as he's
heen, he'd be too innocent to know
what he was getting.”
Mary was glad when Mrs. Binner
departed, She felt she had stood all
she could.
She sat looking about the room. It
was full of simple, intimate treasures,
The whole house was furnished with
things that had belonged to her moth
er and her grandmother. She had
hoped to pass these things
Fred's wife. But a city girl, a busi
ness girl, would not care for such
things. She would want overstuffed
furniture and etchings. Well—Mary
felt she had a much graver problem
still going
10 live? F not sup
port two hments, Probably
they would offer her a home with
Ahem. No! She would have
jomething herself,
would have » hoarders,
When daylight broke on the quiet
street as to be seen by early
card in Mrs. Carman’s
front window: *“Board-
at with
whole
as if she
her
step-
door,
What's the
let
to laugh as she wiped
marriea”
Binner
what that
-who's the g
is Helen
Fred
means
iri?”
ranch,’ She
does. They're go
And of course
the city, though he
choose
You don't know
to consider—how was she
red’'s salary could
establis
support
to 1:
there w
passersby a
I-clean
wanted.” It
rise,
Late that afternoon
again sitting at
the white curtains apd geraniums,
saw two girls coming down the street.
Ther wore simple, dark clothes and
one carried a single bag, the other
carried two bags. They were looking
for somebody. When they saw the
card in the window they paused and
consulted together. Then they mount.
ed the steps and rang the bell.
“Do you really take boarders?” the
dark-eved girl asked as Mary opened
the door. “And—and would you take
us for a—a—"
“A few days?’
eyed girl,
cold.
The sight
Crysia
ers was looked
sur
Mrs, Carman,
the window behind
blue
hard
finished the
who seemed to have a
of the blue-eyed
nose decided Mary Carman and she
asked them in, The best room was
made ready-—aired, with fresh sheets,
spread, snowy towels distributed. The
girls seemed delighted with it,
“Now, there's a book for you to
read, Peg” sald the dark-eyed one.
“You're to stay In when it's warm
while 1 hustle to make a few sales,”
She was gone with the smaller bag.
Mary Carman made biscuit, made a
chocolate cake, opened a jar of straw-
berries, creamed potatoes, shirred
some eggs. She was lifted out of her
depression. And the rate of $10 a
week was the pay the girls insisted
upon,
The dark-eyed girl came back at
gix and reported excellent sales,
“Blodgett's ‘best breakfast tea,” she
explained to Mrs. Carman. “You pre
sent the housewife with a coupon and
she ealls at her grocers for a sample,
Here's a sample for you, It's really
excellent tea”
“I'm sure it is, or—or you wouldn't
+be selling it,” Mary returned warmly,
The girl poised her pencil over the
page of a small book.
“ril just dot down your name if
you will give it to me, please,” she
gald in a businesslike way,
“Mrs. Mary Carman,”
The girl looked up at her with some.
thing like a start. Next instant she
was scribbling. \
It seemed the blue-eyed girl called
Peg was really quite sick with her
¢old, Mary Carman made her a cup
girl's
st ef -
of hot lemonade, rubbed her throat
with camphorated ofl and put a hot
water bag to her feet,
“She'll be better in the morning,
I'm sure, sald the dark-eyed girl
called Scotchy,
But Peg wasn't,
bed. Meanwhile,
She had to stay in
Scotchy hustled to
make sales. She took the bus and
went as far as I'reeport. Coming in
at half-past six, hungry but success
ful, she found Mary Carman in a
great state of excitement.
For Fred had come home on the
afternoon train. He had decided that
the letter didn't explain enough and
he wanted to talk with Lis mother.
Scotchy bounced in upon them, a
strand of loosened hair whipping one
rosy cheek,
As she saw Fred she.gave a gasp
and dropped her bag. As Fred saw
her he sprang forward snd caught
her hands fn his,
“Helen! To find yon here!”
Mary Carman merely
stared,
“Well, this place happened to be on
Peg Payne's route and—"
“But what on earth are you doing
here with my mother?
“Boarding, dear chitg Helen
ranch smiled over her shoulder at
Mary. “We had to board somewhere.
Of course 1 didn’t know this dear little
Indy was your mother, even when she
told me her name. And,
had a card up, and Peg
with that awful cold.”
Mary came forward.
“And you're just
can be, my dear.
is, Fred?”
“Well, it's hard
Helen said. “1
do It for a steady
stood and
anyway, she
was half sick
tired
you
as
Don't
as you
see she
work selling tea”
wouldn't choose (0
job myself, But 1
had to help Peg out, Besides, |
thought 1 might see your
came down this way. 1 thought it
would be a good thing for us to get
acquainted without any
from you, Fred. If she'd had
picture ywhere 1
and but there
she poin to the
“and that
nuch now,”
It was
lightfual
mother
assistance
an
known, was only
wall,
doesn’t
to a
very
the
surprising
after first crowded mo
ment. For
wns there
Helen
and Mary (
Branch was just
the unknown Scotchy had been. Jee
slides, Fred coming back to
into business with the money he had
sayed and he and Helen were to live
with his mother in the old house.
“Next morning early passersby no
ticed something different about Mary
Carman’'s The card, “Board
ers wanted,” was gone from the front
window.
was
house,
Bourgeois Not Meant -
The middle class, as a dominant so
cial body, is a comparatively new
thing. From the days of Corlolanus
to those of Louis XIV, If you wanted
to hate any large group of people, you
directed yourself to the sweaty ral
ble, the great unwashed. The bour
ols of those times was, as the name
ller, a citizen,
was usgally a
dwe
he
town
more
indicates, a
and what is
free cit 1.
That, perhaps,
that the word, which 18 used
countries ns a of
good odor where
accounts for the fact
in other
eantem pt, is
it originated.
the window
the equiv.
only In
cooking
“hour
would
as Wil
ferm
etifl in
bourgeoise” on
restaurant is
“Cuisine
of a French
tent of “home
France it really
word they resent is
but “peuple,” which
correspond to “the peepul”
liam Jennings Bryan used it
The French Romantic poets, with
Victor Hugo at their head, did their
best to cast a shadow over the name
of burgher, bourgeois or citizen. “We
must stir them up,” they cried; “we
must shock them out of their stupid
complacency.” It was then that the
contemporary form of boob hating be
gan, and if you look in a French die
tionary you will find that the bour
gooige is “anti-diberal, anti-artistic.”—
Gilbert Seldes in the Saturday Eve
ning Post.
French Women as Porters
Nearly all old women do the heavy
work of porters in Dieppe, France, in
the fish markets and on the beach,
where they carry loads of stone
weighing 150 to 200 pounds on their
backs.
These women plod from the fishing
boats to the market and from the
beaches to the dumping grounds, car
DE heavily loaded baskets. Their
cheery countenances indicate that they
are not overburdened. The stones
are exported to England for the man.
ufacture of porcelain, They must be
carried through sliding shingle up »
steep grade to the carts. Here the
carriers dump their loads by making
a deep bow and allowing the stones
to rush out over thelr heads-—Ex
change.
4 wking.”
means home
The not
ernie”
goeaise
Clock Plays Many Tunes
A clock that plays tunes has just
been put on display in London, Every
part is handmade and engraved, and
the timepiece fz belleved to be the
only one of its kind In the world. It
is a perfect timekeeper, chimes every
quarter of the hour on eight bells and
at the hour, after striking, plays one
of six tunes on 14 bells, concealed in
a gilt wooden box. The tunes are
“Auld Lang Syne,” “The Blue Bells of
Seotland.” “Robin Adair,” “Caller Her.
rin)’ a Scotch reel and the Scotch nn.
tional anthem, The clock was made
in Glasgow, and required two years
to construct. Some of the parts are
minute, and are perfect In detail,
Long Silhouette
on Fashion List
Individuality Is Being As-
serted; Mode Must Suit
Personality.
With interest keen in what will es-
tablish the high lights in the fash.
jung; notes that come from Paris are
being followed with more than or-
dinary care. There will be many de-
partures from the former modes and
there will nlso be many old points
retained.
In general, it is noted that skirts
are creeping downward, At any rate,
individuality is being asserted and the
mode must conform to personal de
sires, It is no longer smart to have
every skirt well up to the knees—if
not above them. The houffant gown
that is so chie for evening Is respon:
sible In a measure, but it Is also es
tablishing its own skirtline and that it
varies greatly. There is a certain
smartness given to a coat or
thut follows a longer silhouette. [It
gives variety to the mode, The
skirt is not, and undoubtedly will not,
be eliminated from the sartorial field
ut it no longer exerts an uniimited
in defining chie. Skirts will
vary in their lengths, The short skirt
plays an extremely Important role in
certain type
will undoubtedly
the winter modes,
there an
will be noted when
is long.
Flares and
dress
short
frocks and couts and
be predominan
However, here
treme chie
8 of
of ex
the
appearance
skirt or
Coul
1 the miine have
uncer
seen In
longs
uneven he
with creating an
of skirt It is
new models that
to do
length
of the
tain
many
-
Coat That ds long and Flared;
Ecaver Trimming.
fronts
length In oth
finish below the
lend longer ling
Billie Dove,
delights in
ances, is seen
ample of the
“The Stolen Dride”
that expresses all the new
the mode, It Is long, flared
light beige trimmed wi
in an exotic way.
vides, or hack
fins de her
new
She wenrs a cont
pointe in
and is of
th twin beaver
Ped Has Gained Renewed
Popularity for Dresses
A color vo
hard to stop. popularity
is a surprise to everyone not
in the seeret of how styles are
made. Women with red costumes may
continue to wear them with the knowl
edge that they are up to the minute,
Many women who resisted the lure
of the rich burgundy colors are order-
ing them this season. Dark red vel
vet is one of the of the new
materials. It is used for many things,
from suits to afternoon and evening
dress. Red, with a tinge of orange, is
good for evening wear,
arted Is often
of red
actualls
gle once at
#
he
3
color
loveliest
Tunics Are Lengthened;
May Grow Still Longer
Tunics have lengthened until they
threaten Yo become dress length,
Some are perfectly straight, except
for a slight drapery at one side of the
walstline. Others subscribe to the
circular Russian tunic, With some of
the French tailored suits, tuck-in
blouses are worn, but these seem un-
important-—until spring, at least. it
i& the tunic of various lengths that is
of current interest, both as a means
of establishing an ensemble and as a
means of introducing a colorful and
often very elaborate fabrie,
Tea Gowns of Velvet
for Afternoon Wear
Tea gowns are tea gowns, and noth-
ing is more charming than one of the
new velvet afternoon costumes when
a woman receives her friends, The
skirts of these frocks have an uneven
fiemline and are sleeveless, with a
moderate boat-shaped neckline. The
charm of the costume depends on the
meterial rather than on its trimming,
Winter Coat of Plaid
Cloth; Fox Fur Collar
poses in this handsome winter
it Is a sport mode!
cloth with brown fox fur collar
wears with the coat a chic
hat with brown grosgrained band
coat
Plenty of Bags That
Sach Woman's Costume
or
coud
show it
apd si
desi an
taste can be
For traveling
Is still the
model that is recel
allent
and
itself contains
curely attached,
popula
ion Is modi
sections
ns
ealed pocket,
to bold Important
bags depend upon ti
and tallored finish
an style
cone which
Peeve,
eir sn
for distinetio
are given
combi
1 pin etal i
brown |
enlor
bright re
dark
with gray
with black
#i lity by being In
moire and havir
ather
Skirts Longer in Paris
The day has gone when Paris
London can say
wear. All Paris can
hope the model shows will prove popu
lar Amer fo
a Parisian dress as to
a doc
go to a druggis
or
what women will
do Bown
an women went
game
Now thes
ir own pre
nce
tor for a prescription
t te have
filled, That is what ix wor
Paris with regard to the length
of skirts, Skirts there are longer, but
it =till i= uncertain whether the ma
jority of American women will
the change.
the
scription:
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accemt
Shoulder Straps “That
Launder; Easy to Make
Ribbon shoulder straps for slips are
pretty but do not wear very well, un-
less attached to snap fasteners and
washed separately, which Is some
trouble. Instead of ribbon use thin,
washable sateen, in flesh color or to
match the slip. Cut the material one
inch wide, on the straight edge of
the goods, and roll the edges. At
each end put an inch of elastic to
take the strain, Such straps look like
ribbon, lannder nicely and will last
as long as the slip itself,
Box Plait Is Favorite
The big box plait is the most popu.
lar way of inserting fullness into
sports skirts in the new Paris winter
styles. Inverted plaits are still ex:
tensively used and there are many
small plaits to be seen. But th: new.
est and smartest style 1s the box plait.
Sometimes circular skirts are skill
fully arranged in simulations of hox
plaits, Chantal has a circular skirt
of dark brown tweed of the type.
Chic Buckle
Many a new gown buckles Its way
to chic, using ns a focal point sone
intriente and stunning buckle for the
belt drapery or bodice ornament,
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