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outside, if l couldn't have both" com.
mented Stella as she pulled the mat
tress over.
After Stella had gone downstairs,
Maude slipped her white dress out OF
the box and looked at it. She had to
admit that it was as nice gown as a
sixteen-year-old girl need wish, even
for a garden party where her best
friends Harvard cousin was to be the
lion. Maude wished the dress didn't
look 80 pretty and fresh. All in the
world it needed was thorough press
ing, and she could do that herself
She looked at her sample of organdy
pinned on her cushion. 1t was deli
cate green ground, sprinkled with pale
pink rosebuds and dainty green sprays.
How cool and refreshing gownmade
of that would look! Emily was to
have pale pink organdy. 1t was no
use Maude couldn't give it up. No
she wouldn't!
"Good by, MOTHER" called Maude,
when she was ready for school. "1'm
off now. Are you going down town
to buy my organdy this afternoon?'
Eyes, DEAR" mother called back,
cheerfully. II expect to. Ill leave
your dinner on the stove. You know
where to find the key?"
eyes, in the same place." returned
Maude. "WelI, good-by." She did
not go out to the kitchen to kiss her
mother good-by. But then she didn't
always do that now that she was in
the high school. Mother didn't seem
to mind. At least, she never said
anything.
Maude's school kept until two
o'clock, and the family had dinner at
noon. Maude's dinner was always
saved hot, and if her mother had to go
out, the door key was left in a secret
place. Today, however, Maude sur
prised the family by walking in while
they were at dinner. To their excla-
nations she said, smilingly, that she
had very important matter to at
tend to, and she had been excused
early. She went to the closet and
got her plate and knife and fork and
took her place at the table, Her faith
er looked at her curiously, as be help
ed her to the baked fish.
"You look tremendously happy
about something, Maude," be said;
what is it? Have you had a cable
gram that his royal highness, the
Prince of Wales, is coming to that
wonderful garden party?"
'.Oh, no." laughed Maude, "some-
thing better than that, father. Moth
er, how many yards of that organdy
were you going to buy?'
"Oh, that's it. Well, l thought |
would make twelve yards do" replied
mother. "But do you think you ought
to have been excused for that? Couldn't
you trust me!'
"Twelve yards at thirty-seven and
a half cents a yard.'-went on Maude;
chow much is that grammar. school
girl?" .!
"Four dollars and fifty CENTS" an
nounced Stella, promptly.
"That doesn't count Innings or rib
bon or lace" pursued Maude. "Now,
III tell you. There is perfectly
stunning walking hat in Clorinda's
window, for three dollars and half.
l know because l priced it. want
mother to buy that hat and new
pair of kid gloves with the organdy
money and go to the reunion. l plan
ned it all out this morning, in school,
and l told Miss French about it at re-
cess, when she asked me why failed
in my recitations. She said it was
the thing to do, to go in for mothers
good time, and that she would let me
90 home at II o'clock to accomplish
it,"
"That's something like her mothers
grill" exclaimed Mr.. Sanderson.
"I'm sorry l said those mean things
to you this morning, Maude," said
Stella.
There were tears in mothers eyes
as she left her seat and went round to
Maude, "Thank you, DEAR she said,
tenderly, as she kissed her. "This
means more to mother than the re-
union.
"It means more to me than the Or
CANDY" returned Maude, heartily. at
means that I've found out that have
been selfish daughter to you, moth
er. guess you can't be as glad as l
am that have found it out Youths
Companion.
Dotty Dimples- in s'Dose va