The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-07

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sure that you remember al Of ii
things you are 70 get'' called Aun
Betty from the kitchen where she wa
busy making birthday cake.
Tomorrow was jamie S fourteenth an
niversary and it was also Easter Sun
dav. Aunt Betty had debated q long
time with her strict sabbath principles
before conserving 70 allow jamie to
have several Of her little friends in to
help celebrate the event. However, she
had relented at the last moment and
jamie was going down town this Sat1r-
day afternoon to get several Of the
f'fnishiag touches" as Aunt Betty
called them.
Aunt Betty being Miss Elizabeth
Perkins Of Wellington, Vermont, and
jamie her nice, Miss Janice Perkins, the
orphan daughter Of Miss Betty's only
brother. They had come to Honolulu
for the health Of jamie, who had always
been rather a delicate child and they
were now living in pretty little cot
tage in Nuuanu Valley.
jamie had just reached the front steps
wnen aunt Betty appeared from the
kitchen to give few last instructions.
''Janie, don t you dare forget the
paraffin paper. Those sandwiches will
not be worth half price without it, and
while y0u are about it you might as
well have those red cinnamon drops You
wanted for the top of your cake. Its
a useless piece of foolishness, but your
birthday only comes once year.
Yes, Aunt Betty, thank you,'' and
jamie ran down the steps.
H'Janie. called Aunt Betty from the
top step, / almost forgot it myself
want you to stop at the florists and
fetch me an Easter lily. 1t will not
seem at all like Easter to me without
one and it viii help yon to remember
that the day is Easter as well as your
birthday
FAll right, Aunt Betty, won't for
get the lily. Goodbye" I
"Janiee Perkins. you hurry was
Aunt Betty's parting adrnonition. /
jamie knew that when Aunt Betty
dropped jamie and called her Jane it
meant that she was bit more decided
than usual but when she used Janice it /
meant she was very determined. Ac- |
eordingly she quickened her steps and
started down the road at lively pace.
as she had about a mile to walk before
she took the street car.
As rule, jamie thought that her aunt
was little harsh and strict, but today
she was thinking how kind it was of
Aunt Betty to let her have the little
party on the morrow. /
Janice was quiet, sweet child, and
very Eenderhearted, and Aunt Betty
was not always in sympathy with some
of the things her tender little heart led
her into. janice would give her last
penny to a poor beggar and walk
several miles home while Aunt Betty
at home These differences in their
natures often led to severe little
lectures delivered by Aunt Betty and a
quiet little cry for Janice, who could
not bear to be scolded.
Aunt Betty in reality was not as hard
hearted as she seemed, but she thought
It best not TO encourage jamie s. over
sympathetic tendencies for the child
only succeeded in making herself I'M
happy and oftentimes over things that
she could not possibly remedy.
This Saturday afternoon jamie found
It very hard TO hurry along the road to
the car. for there were so many things
IN the way to claim her attention. The
flowers the little Chinese and Japanese
and the many foriorn-l looking
logs. She had attempted on several oe-
sasions to adopt one of these forsaken
little brutes, but Aunt Betty had set
Der foot down decidedly and had even
said that jamie must in some way get
i'd of one of two little fox TERROR pup
pies. which had been given her by a
leighbor
jamie was just in time to catch her
ar and she did all of her errands in
'ecord time. 1t was not more than an
lour before she was again at the end
# the ear line and starting for the
pleasant walk up the valley. She felt
low that there was no great need of
taste. As she was strolling leisurely
long and enjoying the balmy air she
vas startled by long drawn out wall
rom the roadside. She stopped and
istened; for she could not see soul
n sight on this stretch of the road.
Yes, there it was again. A low, sob
hing, pitifnl wall. jamie at last located
he sound near elump of bushes by
he roadside and walking around the
ush she came upon a little Chinese boy
uddled down and sobbing as though
is heart would break.
80 Poor little fellow" thought jamie.
What can have happened7 | wonder
he speaks any English2" Going over
he put her hand on the little fellow Is
lead and said, "What's the matter,
title boy; cant I help you?'
The boy raised up anil looked at jamie
nd in so doing disclosed the cause of
is grief. In his lap was cuddled the
till form of little yellow puppy.
"Oh-o-o,' he sobbed, ga auto wun
led over SAMMY
Jamie dropped her bundles and took
he puppy in her arms in hopes that it
vas only stunned, but Sammy's HttleI
ody was so limp that she gave it I'M
$ hopeless and turned her attention to
omforting the little chap who still sat
n detected heap at her side, now and
hen sobbing aloud.
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