Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-13
CHAPTER VII.

the Zines car. Mrs. Higbee was a
 easant. bustling, plump little wom-
 sparkling-eyed and sprightly.
 ominent in her manner was help
 bs little confession of inadequacy to
 r ambitions that made her personal
 engaging. To be energetic and
 endly, and deeply absorbed in peo-
 who were bold and confident. was
 r attitude.
 She began bubbling at once to Mrs.
 nes and Psyche of the latest fash
 ns for mourners. Crepe was more
 kagger than ever before, both as
 mming and for entire costumes.
 House gowns, my dear. and dinner
 wns, made entirely of crepe in the
 incesse style, will exactly suit your lughter-and on the dinner gowns
 e can wear a trimming of that dull
 passementerie."
 From gowns she went naturally to
 difnculty of knowing whom to
 bet in a. city like New York-and
 w to meet them-and the watchful- (ss required to keep daughter Millie bm becoming entangled with leading
 eatrical gentlemen.
 Amid Percival's lamentations that
 must so soon leave Chicago. the
 hin moved slowly out of the big shed
 search in the iriterwoven puzzle Of hcks- for one that led to the east.
 As they left the center of the city lgbee drew Perciyal to one of the bad side windows.
 Pull up your chair and sit here a
 mute" he said. with a mysterious tile air of importance There's .
 ing this trains going to pass right png here that want you to look at
 hybe you've seen better ones, of
 urse-and then again"
 It proved to be a sign some 20 feet
 gh and a whole block long. Elm
 azoned upon its broad surface was Hlgbee's Hams". At one end. and bwering another ten feet or so above De mammoth letters was . white hpped and aproned chef abandoning ts mercurial French temperament to D utter frenzy of delight over a "Hig- Iee's Ham" which had apparently just ben vouchsafed to him by an invisible |enefactor.
 There. now!" exclaimed Higbee: |what do you call that-I want to 
 Great! Magnificent" cried Perci- |al, with the automatic and ready |ypocrisy of a sympathetic nature. That certainly is great"
 Notice the size of it?' queried Hig- lee. when they had fitted by.
 Did T." exclaimed the young man. eproachfully.
 We went by pretty fast-you ouldn't see 1t well. tell you the way hey're allowed to run trains SO fast fight here in this crowded city is an outrage. I'm blamed if don't have ny lawyer take it up with the board # aldermen--slaughtering people on heir tracks right and left--you'd think hese railroad companies owned the 'arth. But that sign, now. Did you ,otlce you could read every letter in he label on that ham," You wouldn't hink it was a hundred yards back rom the track. would you! Why. that abel by actual measure is six feet four nches across-and yet it looks as everything all in the right it's wonderful. It's what
 call art" he concluded, in a slightly iogmatic tone.
 of course it's art" Percival agreed; painted. I suppose?" Sure, that painting alone. letters md all, cost s450. I've just had 1t put ID. I've been after that place for tears, but 1t was held on long lease y Max. the Square Tailor-you know. You probably remember the sign he lad there-.Peerless Pants Worn by Best Dressers.' with a man n his shirt sleeves looking at a new ,air. We'll. finally. got chance to ,uy those two back lots. and that give ne the site, and there she is, all hn- shed and up. That's partly what 1 .ome on this time to see about How'd rou like the wording of that sign?"
 ''Fine-simple and effective" replied 'ercival
 That's it-simple and effective. It ,oes right to the point and it don't lop over beyond any. after 1t gets here. We studied . good deal over hat sign. The other man. the tailor. lad too many words for the board pace. My advertisin' man wanted iI O be, flrst. 'Hisbee's Hams. That's lll.' But, don't know-for 90 big a pace that seemed to me kind of rell-kind of nippant and undienined. Then I got 1t down to Eat Higbee's llama That seemed short enough Iut after studying it. says. Whats he use of saying 'eatr No one would hink. I says. that a ham is to paper he walls with or to stuff sofa cushions rith-so of comes eat a being su- 'srauous. and leaving it simple and Iienided-'Higbee's Hams"
 By the way" said Percivsl. when hey were sitting together again. later . the day. where is Henry. nov7-
 Higbee chuckled.
 -Thafs the other thing took me hack Ais time-the new sign and getting Iask started. Henry Is now working sn hours a day out to the packing 'euse- After . year of that he'll be aksn isto the ofnce and his hours vill. . Gut iovn to eight. Eight hoars a ay will seem like sinful idIeness to 3s1ry by that time"
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