The daily tribune., 1909-01-11
/ THE BEAR AND
THE BUTTERFLY
By stuart .. Stone.

The mamma Of the Very Littlest
One had gone to the Emerson and
Browning Club OF Hopedale. She was
going to read paper on THE OPP
timiatIc Aspect Of Rabbi Ben Ezra"
and the Very Littlest One took her
departure with remarkable resigna-
tIon, for the struggle with the Optimis-
tic Aspect had not tended to optimism
in Its author.
Now the Very Littlest One and the
Next Littlest One could play in the
corner with the A-is.for-Acorn blocks
with no scolding one to hinder them
in the delightful. forbidden pastime OF
building great Washington Monuments
and letting them fall with nerve
racking crash on the red and green
carpet. For the terrible ones were
responsible now only to the Dresden
China Girl, and the Dresden China
Girl sat on the sofa with the Cele-
brated Quarter Back and talked wishy-
washy stun. The Dresden China Girl
and the Celebrated Quarter Back had
engaged themselves just a week ago.
and they thought the world merely a
place for loving and had no time for
law and order arrangements In Block
Land.
And you will be gone long, long
week. murmured the Dresden China
Girl.
AN endless. eternal week." COM
planned the Celebrated Quarter Back.
Il will write twice each day"
Write me the very throbbings OF
your heart" pleaded the Dresden
China Girl. Pen me the absolute
spirit of our love"
Il will pour my intimate soul into
the black ink and spread 1t out over
the sheets. and you may road here
and think of me-" declared the Cels-
brated Quarter Back.
Then the loving souls managed the
surreptitious kiss OF hedging passion,
while the terrible ones In the corner
busted with Q and H and the Zebra.
Presently the Very Littlest One held
aloft a shaggy, brown beast and broke
in on the silence OF love. "B is for
Bear" she prattled. "They's a bear
in this room"
"Oh. where?" shrieked the Next Lit
tlest One; '1et me hide"
There II is." cried the Very Lit.
tlest One, there on the sofa holding
Aunt Elizabeth's hand. Sno said he
was bear. / heard her tell my NAM
ma so-and she Just laughed and went
on dweadful."
The Ceisbrated Quarter Back set a
rather remarkably fine jaw and
Strengthened himself up just a wee bit,
II see." he said frigidly, honey and
lavender to my face. and whom | am
gone 1t Ia to laugh"
The adorable pink In the cheek Of
the Dresden China Girl had become a
burning brick.red Richard" she said.
II didn't mean"
You have blasted my life." ex-
claimed the Celebrated Quarter Back.
with the scorn OF the hero In melo-
drama. He was n very young thing.
and he really believed what he said.
Richard" the girl began once
more, but now the Next Littlest Ono
had the forum.
"B is for butterfly. too" she said.
land they's a butterfly In this room" "
"Oh. where is the pity. pity butter
N.Y." chirped the Very Littlest One.
She's on the sofa. too" said the
Next Littlest One. Il heard Mr., Rich
ard tell another man SOL was right
behind en-
"Oh!" exclaimed the Dresden China
Girl. And the red In her cheeks went.
II possible, q little deeper. "Oh!" she
cried, my name a byword for idlers
In the street,"
why, Elizabeth" cried the Cele-
brated Quarter Back. and the firm-set
Jaw relaxed now to take on the lines
OF the man who pleads in earnest.
How could you"