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Little Odd‘ Storyyofiheyweek-No.53
llE Wanderer slumped to a seat
l upon an orange crate and tossed
' 8 banana skin into the corner
of the room. Anthony stroked the cin-
namon ruff of Victor. his performing
bear. and cleared his threat.
The hree were alone in the large
crate-tilled room. The odor of ripe and
rotten fruit andvegetables made the
air heavy. Anthony's hand organ leaned
"V-‘-"aQi"nst a barrel of potatoes
" .es," the Wanderer prompted him,
"you were saying that you knew Amelie
Picor "‘
"Heeza long time ago. Heez in Italy.
Is my Amelie den. Sheez one tine girl
'5 Amelie say to me, 'Antonee,' sheusay.
‘I’m goin! sin ' '"
. "I it.’
“Oh, she can sing. ‘Ave you ’eard 'er,
Mister?"
The. Wanderer nodded. "Marvelous
Ooob, w'en s e sing I ca
dance: I am crazee."
hand from the red bears neck to ges-
ture wildly. ,
. Victor opened one sleepy eye to learn
-the cause of the cessation of the caress,
but slumbered again when the speaker's
hand ran under the worn leather collar
to scratch the thickly furred hide.
"So I say, ‘Amelie, it takes a lot. a
big lot o‘ money; to learn to singa right.
How much you got?“ ‘ -
“Amelie shu work in a place, a. mill.
She save. Sheeza got a little.
"‘Is it not enough,’ 1 tell ‘er. ‘You
talk’ this. I gotta lots. 1 work all time
in my broth‘-in-law's. I get along.’
"Sheeza love me. Amelie girl. She kiss
me an’ say now sure we be married quick
as she sing l lot for big opera. I'm a.
.poor wop. She don‘ know, soon as sheeza
sing u lot vtben rhe"see some-a-body
sheeza like more dan Antonee. .
"But I don’ care’ so much, once she
must sing. Amelie can’sing. So my
broth‘-in-law give me my money and I
give it to. Amelie. -
"Sheers. study three year an’ then come
to America. Sheeza write to me at tlrsi‘.
Den she stop. I guess sheeza no care
for Antonee no‘ more. I gotta little
house in Italy, but sheeza not gonna
come to little house while she can sing
like now. ‘ ’,
"So I come to America an’ get an or-
gan. Then Victor. been good boy. He
dance an’ I play Lheez organ. The in
like us.. E: Victor ah’ Antoine.’ dey
' yell. ‘Bring a nick'l, rnamma. 'ere's
tonee.' Victor he like. da kids.”
Anthony stroked the bears rough coat
affectionately. , ‘ .
The Wanderer drew a newspaper from
his pocket. Ila turned the pages till he
found in picture of Amelie Plcori and a
press-agent account of her repeated suc-
cesses in prlma donna-roles. ,
Tiffany
"%a.x
Thayeia I
“She is to sing lllascagnl tonight." he
told the organ grinder.
“is so?" He took the paper eagerly
and his eyes shone with adoration and
devotion as he gazed at the singer's pic-
ture. y Amelie."
you never see her?"
asked sympathetically.
“See her? ‘Yes, sir. I‘ma see her-every
day. I'rna--eay,- you wnlL You wanna
t he “'anderer‘
He returned nlmost im-
mediately. “All right. you come along."
A startling picture those three pre-
sented as they passed down the qulctiug
streets. It dusk and the street
lamps had just been lighted. Victor led
The Italian strained at the
other end of the leash. tail, gaunt and
swarthy, decidedly tattered and dusty.
dressed In nondescrlpt articles of cloth-
ing thnt hung on his frame and llappe
as he walked. A long mustache saddened
his face. -
The VV'anderer's dress was little better
than his friend's. Ills fate characterless,
like a thousand others to be seen daily
in a crowd, and instantly forgotten. ,
the owner of the fruit store nie
same brother-in-law that you worked
for in Italy?" ,
“No, been ’nother one."
:B.ut"you have no brothers or sisters?"
5:-
“You never married?"
"No. never. As long as Amelie is
alive I'rna never marry any one but her.
2213 IIBVET R1311’, H18, 3 DODI"WOD, EC!
.. x
“But how is it you have so many
brothers-in-law?"
"I don’! know. In Italy I got 3 19:,
In America I got a lot. Eeez like that.
‘Ere we are." Anthony stopped near the
side entrance of a large hotel. "Come
back, Victor, stars‘ by Antonee,"
rnousine stood at the curb, 3, my.
eried chauffeur at the wheel.
"Juana wait. sheeza. comin' out now, in
1 minute. 'l'ha's her aut'mobile. Victor
an‘ me come here every night.“
They stood in a shadow near the door.
They had waited, thus obscured from un-
“8 notice. for five minutes when the
"V01"!!! doors turned and s. uniformed
maid 558113: a. fur coat came out. At
1”’ 59913 head high. shimmering in a,
gown of gold-cloth anddewels. her whole
“mg "diaung 93!! luxurlousness and
' -assurance came the Cosmopolitan
d3’(1;1t:‘;r‘aL Company's pin): donna, Amg][g
If the Wanderer had expected Anthony
to rush to greet his former sweetheart,
or had he expected her to turn expectant.
ly toward the shadow in which they
,stood. he was disappointed. without
sh‘e entered the door
limousine opened for her by the
gnoaoild. who followed her in, closing um
- A Blbllant. "See," issued from An.
NO. 6!.
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dark‘:-ample. ion, having brown eyes
I: hair. ’ v ' ‘
nu tell me how I can
. so? I have
tried lemon Juice, but that wouldn't
mks it out. , -. V .-
, “hat do, these names rnleanf
-- Llnon, Tlielmn, pure, Meluin. ‘ V
, BRIGHT EYES. 0
Red is your color: a. rich, ,ruby red
or blood red. Red and green plaids are
and. pink, white and
solid. dark
green is very seldom becoming to agirl
of your type unless the coloring in the
skin is of a particular tint. A bright,
jaunty green in sports things, how-
ever, such as sweaters, caps, capes, etc.,
is very stunning on>a little kiddy like
I
mnulliheyolnto very much, nnd. I
guess he does me, (no. 0! course. I
Illusllft In: 100 forward or he'll get - V
tlrrll of mu. BI]! Intel! he seems
to have gotten It into his head that
he does not DIIVQ Io IQSPQCI may and
v
stand that I want his respect as well I
Is his love. far he duel not. 01 llltey
stein (01-rnli1.e Inn
7 iHAl'PY G0 LUCK".
You sweet Happy Go Lucky! to say
that to me I just couldn't help>let-
ting it go into print the way it stood. on I
You be: I'm the friend of.the ki'ddy' The ink
who's out of luck! Just don’t you think
of hesitating to come .to me. Now let
us see. What CAN we do about this
problem of yours! .‘ . .
‘ Just be ilrm in the stand you have
taken. If you are tempted to be oth-
erwise. Just picture to yourself how this
you got on Your dress is
probably fountain pen ink and that
never comes out. Try soaking the spot
.in sour milk for two days and nights
and then wash it immediately you take
it out of soak. Wash in luke warm
water and a. pure, white laundry soap.
If it is not fountain pen ink, this ought
to take it out. v s
. I haze referred the names you ggvo
duce you ,0 them or them to cu, how ms to iisslilarshals department an ‘
you would oftener and oftenery. feel his h"p9‘She Wm be “me N ‘en ya” me".
scorn and iaterhow he would tire of Flea“ n55’ y a...
Lemon
of course. you will realize that no kind night and left on ‘we’ mg“ Wm lighten
of ending to the affair could be as hit- ‘he freckles consmerably‘
ter as this. ’ . ’ 5
You are such a baby, dear. that no "
matter what has gone before. you still
have your life brightly before you, and
H ,5 you“ to m ks. Y H are Such a,hair tlfty strokes every night. This
“"1 l 1 “I t H h . brings out the oil. 0 not wash your
8 E Y a you C znged c‘“es' in hair ofterier than once a month. I
two years or so no one could be certain
she recognized you.
Let me know how it all came out,
you care to and don't mind. -' V '
shouldn't read longer than two hours
If a day because you need s
my dear. “Bleak House," by Dickens:
y " “Dombey.and Son." by
near miss Grey: Vnmt vvauldjze
the most heconiilig color for me (Ii
- wean I am an gm 1:; years old. am‘
‘Ive tut two Inches tall and weigh
a hundred and ten punnas., I am or
When you've read what you want 0
.these. write me again and I'll give you
" a whole lot-more. ,
thou)": lips and he tugged his con- -Qua paid it all up in
Danlorrs sleeve as the ‘limousine drove -No. I should say not!
"' ‘I ‘ - . .1
fn";"j;'me“5:5- 1’ 5'“3,"‘“ 5'“f’- T1133 ‘cgn paving. At the end of the forty-four
x' ' ’ ' - 7 K years he had paid in $40,000, but the
, - - v ,' ‘. . ' mortgage was still there. and the farmer"
Arithmetic and Eats. 2
, was still plowing an acre in 9. day and a
half, leaving the amount of plowing to
“NOW. Dana." said the strict and some. be.d‘”‘e 1“ ‘W9 days 9- mY5‘"Y-
what young parent to the overly‘ “Plowing and paying mortgages is all
mduigem gmndpau --you germ“ of here the farmerxdoes, while other people en-
and 1e; David study his arnhmeuw. ‘ Joy life chasing trains on bicycles and
"Bu, Dzvm deem.‘ want to ‘may ms counting up their .aDDles‘and their mar-
arithmetlc now. lie wants to wait until mes‘ N”b"d" 5095 m“Ch eating “‘ ‘M3
in“. d,nner’.. contended the indulgent book, I notice. only the hogs and cattle
Rrandparent in a tone that showed that ea“A'-" than 3"“ the dl‘"'" be“! L399
he considered he had all the logic on his “f“- We 0”‘ ‘acme the ’"”hm9'-‘C after --
A fellow can.‘ work when he.’ ‘dinner, apples, howboats. mortgages. bi-
hungry '- , , cycles and all!" ‘
a couple of yearsu
He lust kept: right
..Nongen5e'n mm the strict mom", re. The indulgent grandpa led the way.
icnilpssly. "The hungrier he is the bet- ’ V 5 sp .
[er he can work. After meals is the I ' ’ "
"?.::9..‘;”::?::.:":r 2” r t 5“ G“"=-
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meals, on account of theoai?1l:s.beIfI(;1v:>GULLS 3'! among u'a‘m"st pe'fect
look at this; Jane has three apples and ecimens of nature's wonderful
5 fame the bodies of these birds contain great
when he's ‘mg,-3,7 Reading rgbggienggze quantities of oil, and as lungs would not
kids with 1.31; 3 dozen or so apples apiece hold oxygen enough for the great efforts
gives him 3 vision of bounty that blots they must make in stormy weather, all
out all the exact ggures’ An he knows’ their larger bones are hollow and not
is that Mabel had plenty. .. as air reservoirs. 1,
an Spams '0 me that ‘he apples are Their part in life seems to be to keep
very lJnEVen]y distributed In this book the near-coast water of the ocean clean
In one problem me mama havb 3 bushei and tidy: without them it would soon be
of ihdeim. atrjm in me next problem they strewn with decaying matter. To en.
‘"9 "5590 llgone. Fractions, .
I 5"” are provided with enormous appetites. A
3“ own weight ’in
pos .
"That's the reason why I llk b]
'3 ma’ 95 food in a single day. -
better than apples in problems" 53‘
David. “You can't cut marbles up inn; M311? 0! them rob us of fish that
fractions. But; one fellow always gem might have come to market. but their
three times as malty as all the others pug "C3Vehslns work more than makes up
10Ifether." . for this. and they often do the farmer
‘Somebody always gets the best of 3' End mm by visiting his iields and
in these arithmetic " said grandpa, “mm”: themselves with insect pests.
Here's one about a fellow ridingva M. r. p. y’
original Lawn Tennis.
Strides in popularity in recent yell”.-
“ his dropped the.prenx and became .
but the royal and ancient same
was B thedtitie originally belonggd
one lets th Very iiferent affair from 9;
elghths of the was)’. om" Wm nun" 1"“ 3"“ "‘ '05”-
An arithmetic is 3 gloomy book T
be
farmers are always up again” “V A
g m the problem “’ 5h"W ”9d“'3ed. French and English kings mm”
3 -“Pedal?-Y of the game.