The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-05
BABIES NOT ALLOWED
BY CATHERINE cooPE.

matinee on the following Saturday.
She would have left the foyer ant
gone out for the pleasant jaun
through the shops but for the fact tha
her attention was attracted to tht
poor little woman who stood forlornly
holding tiny infant in her arms
The woman had been arguing quietly
with the boxofiice man, but to nc
| avail
Il am sorry, madam, but infants in
arms are not allowed in the theater
It Is against the laws Of the house.
There was finality in the young
mans voice.
With her usual impuIsiveness Mary
| Anne approached the woman and
made inquiry.
I can't go in with i'm and I've
paid my way in from Bexhill. My
friends are up there now. They'll be
wondering what's 'appened to me-"
Couldn't ! take care Of the baby
while you go up and see the panto
mime? ! have the whole afternoon
free. Do let me-
Mary Anne saw the woman through
the doorway, then turned with her
charge, wondering what her impulsive
nature had got. her into this time.
Mary Anne lived in the suburbs,
herself. She remembered the huge
open fires that she had seen in the
Liverpool station when she had come
in the morning to business.
She soon arrived beside the warm
fire without mishap. She had not been
comfortably ensconced there for pal
try five minutes before the infant
showed most positive signs of dissatis.
faction with Mary Anne's treatment
Of him. He walled softly at first but
persons in the waiting room stared
or, more truthfully, glared at Mary
Anne, while one or two men walked |
disgustedly out Of the station.
The girl was distracted. She
wished she had never wanted to see
Jack and the Beanstalk." She pined
for knowledge Of the care Of infants
and determined to study up Doctor
Holt without loss Of time. The fact
the baby let slip the bottle his moth.
er had given Mary Anne brought
deep flush to the girls cheeks.
A young man, who had been surrep.
titiously watching Mary Anne's fran
tic efforts to pacify the baby came
over and picked up the fallen bottle
and presented it to her.
"Is there anything can do for
rou?" he asked, and he seemed so
likely to know more than she did
ibout infants that Mary Anne smiled
gratefully. There may be pin stick
ng him have you loolAedg" *' ss
Moo said Mary Anne Il didn't {
gnow Just where to look"
Great Scott! Who dressed your :.
'aby? Let me have look?" He took =
he baby from Miss Annes arms very {
rmly but gently and Mary Anne
eaved a sigh of relief. The young =
nan certainly knew how to handle a
ably.
NO doubt you have several of your h
wn?" she vouched only half aloud. II
"No-not guilty | am doctor.
hat is why l had the temerity to 4,
fer my assistance. There seems moth.
lg wrong with the kiddie. Wouldn't
G take his milk?' D
No" Mary Anne said with wist.
Il smile that sent wave of peculiar =
motion over the young man. "He :
idn't seem to want it." "
Maybe you gave It to him too hot"
lggested the doctor. y
Hot! It was stone cold" She sSsSs
azed fearfully at the baby. 81
Cold milk for an infantl You are .ss
fine mother" the doctor com q
ented. ak
"But am not his mother" protest. sSss
Mary Anne with a rush OF color to AZ
9r cheeks. Il don't know a thing sss
Dout babies" rs
Quite unnecessary information S@s
ughed the doctor, somehow very Sc
uch relieved that Mary Anne was sso ess
It The infants mother He had been IS
how SO neat and dainty a :as
RI could take such wretched care OF So:
baby.
Mary Anne told him of her adven.
re with shy smile. She marveled q
" the baby had become wonderfully sss
ntented in the doctors arms. sss
Il suppose you wouldn't mind show s
: me the number of your seat for S$
turday?" Doctor Cosgrove asked $e
as they went toward the !ssa
later with the sleeping baby. 81 have s
en- intending to see Jack and the 5s
anstalk." &
lis guilty expression told Mary Sc
ne that the paDtomime had never ss sss
cred his head before. @
My seat is No. 14D," she said S
ckly. .ss
1ary Anne blushed hotly and Doc ~ ~
Cosgrove burst into hearty laugh ~
when the little mother of the in *
t came beaming from the thea. n
Your misses has been an angel,
h | could give her as much hap. *
ess as she has given me today" Sc
think you have done more-for sss s
the man said quickly. and cast a ~
ice at Mary Anne. "She is not my s
;ses'-at present he added, and Sc
It over 10 the boxoffice to see II .sSe
4 =,