South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-28

| phone was? oh. here it is" seeing it
on the wall by the hall door
Hello. VIII you order me a taxi?
Yes. right away" And then turning
back to Helen: ooh. Mrs. Curtis. may
! ask YOU to put pitcher of drinking
water in my room? ] always have to
| have it by my bed at night"
why, certainly" answered Helen.
There should have been one there"
| In a few moments the taxi was an
nOunced and Mrs. Morrison hurried
down
Helen had been mildly astonshed
at the elaborate evening gown and the
order for the taxi but she was much
more astonished when little later she
went into the room to take the pitcher
Never had she seen a place in such
cyClonic disorder. The big trunk
stood gapingly open. The three trays
were on the floor. and dresses waists.
hats and slippers were streWn over
bed and chairs and table. Everything
was covered with a confusion of fem
| mime apparel In her harry to find
what she wanted. it was evident that
Mrs. Morrison had simply pulled
things out and thrown them any
where.
\ Bewildering Array.
Helen gaZed about in wOnderment
| Never had she seen so many slippers
most of them sOiled-and never so
many elaborate evening gowns-none
| of the fresh.
The bureau was simply covered with
bottles and jars and boxes Of various
] toilet preparations. And what was
| that curious attachment screwn into
one of the electric light sockets? Then
Helen saw it was an iron heater-for
| two irons lay beside it. A large elder
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ivory box filled with pink powder. And
there were combs and brushes and
manicure articles. Helen had prob
ably never seen SO many things for the
toilet, and certainly never in such
painful disorder.
She longed to straighten up the
room All Of her neat and orderly
instincts We're outraged by such dis
orderly confusion How could any
one live like that For the rumpled
! appearance OF everything showed that
! this was their usual condition.
Helen stepped over pair of blue
satin slippers to place the pitcher on
stand by the bed. then turned out
the light and left the room.
Later as she brushed her hair for
the night before her own orderly bu-
reau. with its few simple toilet ar
ticles arranged in neat precision. she
wondered how Mrs. Morrison could
! sleep IN q room Ike lHdl
! She herself could never go to bed
until all her clothes were carefully put
away She thought Of how this very
! trait had so often irritated Warren
] How he used to roar at her to come
| 10 bed. Even now she could hear his
For Heavens sake. turn out that
| light and come to bed You always
potter around half the night want
! to get some sleep"
And yet if he was only here She
knew she would welcome his most
curt Impotence If only he could he
with her For the moment she for
got even ber hurt pride and fierce in
d1gnatiOn at his recent letters about
the expense. She forgot everything
except her love for him. As she
reached I'D 10 turn out the light she
started through the darkness toward
the bed-its smooth emptiness filed
her with a keener sense Of her lone
! illness
1t was after midnight when she was
aroused by the opening of the hall
door. In the half daze of the sudden
awakening for a second her heart
lleaped with the thought that il was
Warren She started through the