Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-12-12
AN ANGEL UNAWARES


The Uric reading club met ali Mabel
shaS a4icrnoon, and Genevieve was
ths reader. Geneyieve d the pretty
msmber," because she is pink aud
soause thAt sunshiny hair which never
VAL stay where she puts it makes her
70 o1aoe the envy and delight Of bo,h
the other girls. Frances Is the
"Sitylish' and Mabel the 'siDte.L,ectuaa
member"
Suddenly GeneVieve laid down the
book she was reading aloud.
Urls, L wish We mad called our
selves the Trio Talking Club" sine ex,
claimed. Il must stop and say things
that are on my mine abouo our street
Its prefectly ruined, and 1t used to be
90 pretty, w1th its cosy homes and nice
lawns! just think there ought To
be law against spelling other peo-
pies places by SAndwiching great,
tall, hat bmdlngs in between themt
We can't get "a Lit of hight on thaa
side of our house"
1isn't SO bad for you as 1t Is for
rs, though" put in Mabel. The
tower on your house and its yellow
color help 1T out, our little olive cot
tage nesting down i'm the shadow Of
that great monument--why, positively,
it's laughable!"
Frances was perched on the edge
OF deep easy chair, with her black
eyes shining through little rlmless
eyeglasses, as she turned her face first
20 one and then the other of the girls
Il resent 1T as much as either Oh you
II L don't live next door to it," she
declared. Its the view from our
front window that troubles us. by
the way, someone told papa that the
only reason Mr.. Keith moved away
was because that apartment build.
ang was put up opposite him. Those
new people that have moved into Mr..
keithiS house are manned Khrkland--
did you know it? The girl Us Hazel.
Sweet name, L think"
She's pretty, too" said Genevieve,
"bpt, seems to me, she has an exclu-
sive air. ! wonder if we're going to
like her?"
THAT makes me think of what I
wanted to tell you," chimed IN Mabel.
i've had the greatest surprise about
that girl! You know our cook is the
doesn't propose to slight these flats,
no matter what the rest of us do. So
she was over in the kitchen Of the
first floor last might, and 1t seems the
woman who lives there lis crippled
somehow, and has 10 stay in a wheel
chair all the time. Her husband 10
away during the day, and she hasn't
soul with her but her maid. Well
nuNaN IL liz
cratic looking Miss Hazel kirkland
called on her yesterday! Their bell
wouldn't ring, SO they didn't know
shed been there until they found the
card, but the wheelchair woman was
30 pleased with the attention that she
actually shed tears. At least that's
the way it went to her heart to think
= young girl-a perfect stranger-had
come to see her, and 1T went 10 mine,
little too. You'd never think ut of
that girl, would you?"
No, indeed" agreed Genevieve, "and
II she felt as we do about those fats
she wouldn't have dome it, no matter
how sorry she'd been for the woman.
couldn't go to see anyone that lived
there--no't Queen Victoria herself
and, as for person crippled like that,
= makes me sad just to talk with
her.
"She's cheerful, though" said
Mabel. ELLEN says she's bright and
happy as she can be-"
Uncle Norman says that cheerful
ness is getting to be regular fad"
put i'm Genevieve, with wise air. He
says people put it ON just for the style
of the thing"
why, Mabel Farwell!" protested
Genevieve. Mamma says that peo-
pie that live in flats move in and out
% often it wouldn't pay to call on
them, anyway"
Il don't carel" PERSISTED Mabel, who
generally grew stronger with opposi-
tion- Il guess that woman could
enjoy q bunch of violets, even If she
was going to move out next day. II
Isn't her fault the ugly old flats are
built. We needn't punish her for
that"
"Oh, WE'LL" said Genevieve, with a
grand air of yielding something. "I'u
tell mama about her, and may be
shell send her some blanc mango or
something"
I'm going to see her tomorrow"
announced Mabel suddenly. Perhaps
can lend her books"
'IIl go with you," volunteered
Frances. And, to the surprise of all
three, Genevieve added: why, so will
I then, if you really mean it. You
two needn't think you're going TO
leave me out"
Meanwhile, 1t happened oddly
enough, that ait the very time Hazel
Nrkland's call was being discussed in
AabePs house, the same matter was
being talked of I'm the barge gray house
across the way.
The idea, mammal" Hazel Kirk,
Land was sputtering, ''that any one
should think I'd be calling ON
strangers over In those flats, when
we've just moved in here ourselves.
VI course it was different, going to Zee
IN old teacher of mine, like Mrs. Ger
main. And how did that woman get
my GARD, anyway? put 1t right over
Mrs. Germain's own speaking tube
when l found that she was out. ]
didn't want to climb clear up o the
top fat. of course. 1t was just pre-
sumption in any one else to claim
that card. There is no excuse for II
And then sending her maid over with
. message of dhanksl And you
thought perhaps really had called
ON herl Well, I don't dntend to lei
her think came to see her-wouad