The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-25

VIZ exclaimed Mrs. Wilcox,
= up from the letter she was
~. Evelyn! May! What
d think? Joe is coming home,
e's bringing Perry Spaulding
him.
rry Spaulding ?" echoed Jean
ng on the threshold, interro-
W.
W did it happen?"
hem?
tenA and you shall learn" prom
Yrs. Wilcox, smiling at the SEN
her announcement was causing.
While Evelyn and May leaned
aaxtly toward her over the pref
alcfast table, and Jean hurried
he Kitchen "just to peek at the
on the stove," she turned back
first 81 the budget in her hand
egan to read:
bother week, mater mine, and
beaded for home and a real
o1l And you never can guess
I'm bringing with me. None
than Perry Spaulding, my good
cry Of college days, now ire
busly rich and famous. Imagine
nrprise ct meeting him here
places! / found him moping
the hotel trying to avoid a
Of silly women who think it's
lost romantic thing in the world
We q writer of newsstand one
S young and a bachelor at that
their midst. They poster him
18th. But, from what he says,
is its that way and worse
ver he goes. That's why |
sted that he come home with
ID get away from it all. I as
him you and the girls would
lis identity, and that there would
silly tens and entertaining. He
being Perry Spaulding, author
aid O the Mist, etc. as much
u or / would enjoy it. So !
you-mum's the word! To
lers he's to be plain Mr.. Spauld-
an old college friend of Joe's,
ou're to make him feel like one
3 family. Incidently, I might
* that / wouldn't mind having
>ne Of tho family. He's fine
grown awfully good looking
I saw him last-and he's coin
money. See what you can do
Evelyn's pretty face is sure
arm him. Mays voice he'll
And Jean must bake some o:
amous cakes and pastries. The
to a mans heart-even ro-
) maker,sis often :"
N, still on the threshold from
she could keep a weather eye
e Jelly while listening to he
er's epistle, smiled to herself al
artiny shot. She, plain, "ho.
Jean, with no looks to speak OF
no talent Of amy sort, win such
art as Perry Spaulding's? Oh
IKE was capital. Far more like,
It Evelyn, who was lovely enough
a heroine right out of his books
hy, whose voice was equal to Tho
ba@about which he was forever
hg, should conquer him. And
hsciously. this seemed to he the
ct of the family. For Evelyl
complaining:
nere's hardly time for ne''
$. Why didn't Joe let us know
r?"
v answered: "Well have tt
new gOwns-white. He like:
e white. Don't You remember
$ last novel, Geraldine. the ar
model, always wore white dress
ut white is fearfully expensive,
1n objected. Especially whe,
simple You know MADAME
gu must have them, however,
Mrs. Wilcox, in her minds ey
dy welcoming Perry Spauldin!
son-in-law. "We'll mar2g
how"
f course we'll MANAGE" sroke "
secretly scorning the untebs@h
Hsigns of her family. "Take tn
" for my gown ard add it =
S and Evelyn's."
III, we couldn't do that" Ma,
Psted.
Why not?' asked Jean, smilin'
lsicallv. Il won't need re,
is for baking pies and cakes. Be
you might as well court NJ
bf the running. I'd never in tn
d capture the heart of an au
Fhy, Jean!" cut in a trio of mild
eprpving voices.
Yell, would II" Jean demanded
before any of them, flushing
could reply. she went on, moch
/: "Why should Perry prefe