South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-29

do you want these boxes. ma'am ,"
yes. g,t everything down from
those shelves while you're up there"
Della handed down the rest Of the
boxes. then climbed heavily from the
rather shaky ladder
When she had gone back 10 the
kitchen Helen sat down on the floor
and began opening up the things.
What a lot OF stuff, What could she
do with IL all? While their new apart
ment would have more rooms, the
closets were smaller. and she must
condense and throw away.
The first box was filled with old hat
trimmings, too good 90 throw away,
get would she ever use them Here
was black wing from winter before
last hat. 1t was an expensive wing
and just as good as new.
And here were those lovely silk
roses from that summer hat she
had bought at AklOuse's. She handled
them almost afectionately. IL had al
ways been sEch a becoming hat. Sure
Is she could use these roses on some
thing else. And those were the Law
ender plumes she had intended to
have dyed.
In ali that box there was after all.
nothing she could throw away The
next was roll OF patterns. At least
these.
a skirt pattern. tied with bit OF
blue and white foullard-the material
she had used. How could she ever
have thought that full pleated skirt at
tractive? This was the waist that
went with IL. What big sleeves and
wide revers. a kimono pattern-she
would keep that. kimOnOs were al
ways about the same
But when she tied up the pattern
package II was much smaller. That
much she had gotten rid Of and the
tissue paper would be good for pack
ing.
Shoes Too Small.
The next was the shoe box. Those
beaded slippers she had bought at a
sale for S1.49. They had seemed
small. but the clerk had assured her
that with thinner hose they would be
just right Yet even with her sheerest
silk stockings. they had still been too
small and she had never worn them
She took off her shoe TO try one on
now. IL was tighter than ever Were
her feet getting larger Helen had al
ways had a very small foot, LIB.
And the thought that she might now
have TO wear 3. was far from pleasing
The slippers went back into the box.
The only person she knew who could
wear her shoes was tho WasherWOm-
ans little girl But a pair of high
heeled beadedaslippers would be hard
~ suitable for her Perhaps some
time she would fine some one who
could wear them
The next package was small and
neatly wrapped. She felt il inquir-
ingly Some or those things had been
packed away so long she had forgot
ten what they were
Oh yes. that sofa cushion cover had
never been finished. 1t was made OF
tufted squares Of silk, but il looked alb
surdly old fashioned now STYLES
change in sofa cushions as in every
thing else. Yet there was the silk
and cord and all the work she had put
on *. Perhaps Della would like it,
She called her from the kitchen
Della, here's a sofa cushion you
can have-if you think you can finish
It, It'll be nice for your room"
But Della never was grateful for
any gift. She never seemed 10 appre-
ciate anything And when she took
this with an ungraciOus Il amt got
much time for fancy work" Helen
turned back 10 her boxes once more
Nowing she would never give Della
another thing. She always regretted
IL: it always made her uncomfortable
roll OF leather trunk straps tied
together with couple of shawl straps
And she had thought them lost. They
had looked everywhere for these when
10y Wcht 10 EuioPe SIe ialu lnen
aside 10 be used in the moving
cumbersome brown paper bundle
she opened up one and. Her gym
nasium suit. What could she do with !
that? She would never need il, and as
yet she had found no one TO give ii to-
And so one thing after another she
unwrapped and wrapped back again
Most of them she would probably
never use. yet they were too good to
throw away.
There is nothing more discoura ging
than an overhauling of closet shelves
and old trunks. And Helen's mind