The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-01-02
copyright l9ds BY BENZ. B. Hampton.

copyright 1908 ~ BENZ. B. Hampton.
- - JUST adore the VIOLIN" sighed Betty, swing
ss# ing the shears recklessly as she cut pic
A ture of Kubelk from magazine 49,.
M Say my father, he's got peach of a
III VIOLIN" said Jack eagerly. S,a.-
Ng "Can you play on it?' asked Betty.
IN "Well-some," faltered the boy You 1
u Just got started on 1t while he and nom were
away last summer: I found it in the safe that
h time he wrote me the combination to get his
e papers out for him. didn't s'pose he'd care,
kS but I-he-I@
nj ''He what?' asked Betty excitedly.
5sS Jacks voice trembled with rage at the memory.
.sgS Jaw, he gave me the deuce for touching it.
81 He thinks I'm just kid
asssss .Is It Straddlyvariousg" asked Betty.
Nav, it's old thing my grandfather had,
81 hut fixed it up good. First on, tried my man
fddolin strings, but they didn't work, SO blew
myself to full set Of strings, an-well. then he
" came home"
5@ Jack chewed vindictively at his apple core
Il should Think" pondered Betty rehectively,
s.that he'd like you to play it" $685..
ST 81 Fathers make me dead tired" snorted Jack
#E5a Mine is simply noble asserted Betty with
dignity
"a "oh, it's different with girls; but now. honest,
81 Betty, he was dirt mean about 1t. And Ned Hen
non said he'd get me in his hrother's orchestra
B If I'd learn" -.
q sSSs "Really?" gasped the; xirl "why, Jacky--at
& those swell concerts they sive. too" 49,
s$Sss#E Yep" said Jack, trying to be modest.
ssSg3 Jack, could you get me and Nell an invite II
81 you. belonged?'
s%ss. ooh I'll belong all right" he boosted. I'm
q. blinking about getting a violin any day now
Betty held the picture at arms length and eyed
It rapturously.
S Isn't his hair grand and long?' she questioned
rnusingly. Say, you know my anut, Madge sey-
tnour? Well, she introduced to him last
!: winter and he shook hands with her. She let me
81 see the gloves she had that day. She isn't ever
s. going to wear them again, and they're per1ectiy
4 new four-dollar pair too
@rz::My hairs most long as that when I M play
B Ing football" observed Jack. ~-
{3ssszs Betty shifted ..
.sFsootsaal. sconed: "Anybody can play
81 FOOTBALL = :.'~~ =,
.oh, can they?" tainted Jack. well, your own
81 brother can't. He, the rottenest-
''He not! snapped Betty. And, anyway,
4 my mother is glad he got put of the team and
" % was just jealousy, he says, anyhow.
B she resumed her study Of the viohnst's picture.
$9 #'*Violins just make me cry" she conhded my
asxather took me to concert in New York last
winter and I-say, Jack, when you shut your eyes
md listen your soul Just floats and floats. Gee,
Islove it,"
$.zs Jack damned his hands into his pockets.
a4SSS''Why didn't you say 50 before? he grumbled:
It'd be playing for you every day by now. like
ss1t myself, but nobody ever encourages me-"
Hum, said Betty scornfully, acknowledgment
II Int all there is to it, Fred knows fellow:
sson the hill who got awfully nice violin from
his uncle for Christmas last year and his father
paid eight dollars and fifty cents for some LESSONS
and he can only play one scale and that sounds
perfectly awful. He told Fred he wished he could
swap it for something he liked"
Where does that fellow live?" demanded Jack:
that ugly yellow house Oxford Street
the one with the pink iron dogs in front. Course
hes quite young, younger than Fred; but ii
ne had any genius he could play. Kubelik did,
She returned TO her dreamy study Of the picture.
sic played simply elegant when he WAS six years
did. >r :~.,.:. .~.-.
Looks as If he, the same tie yet" xrowled
lack ....... -: .
That's just too sweet" insisted Betty quicklx
Xnybody wear stin old things like you boys.
think it looks better than that silly thing you've
sot on"
Jack was late that night for dinner He rushed
1tadly to his room with q bulky parcel and tried
tos slide into his seat unnoticed. He was rubbing
Ia hands on his napkin and trying to do his nails
With toothpick under the friendly shelter Of the
Z tabiecloth when the inevitable questions came. "
tssowheres,' he announced: beginning his soup
81 noisily. "Nowheres at ALL .*@%E ~..~'.
Il ..sYou mean not anywhere" reproyed Kate =.
II don't. l mean nowheres,'' he muttered. Gee
S you don't talk SO grand II you did get a. in
Engltsh." 49,, -. + =. :'>," -.
ttAfrs. Perry said the girls could come over to
play cards with Tonight. reJoined his sister;
Ss'bnt if you're going to act 50 grouchy We won't
q you play" 49,. -. :*.-~
Don't want to-" answered Jack promptly I'm
H# tons busy to fool away my time like that "
Wailing, whining sounds hoated over tho stair
way 9 little later in the evening. Spot, doing
hshind the sofa, lifted his head and howled. Mr.
M Htchard's door opened violently. ..>; III
hos making that Internal no1se?" he de-
rna1ded ~, ..~~:.. o.. -.