The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-04-04

mead of the packing department of
Ebenezer Jeffrey's china store"
And you want to leave me here?"
demanded Mrs. Judd.
We'll. my dear, after I've explored
the city bit, maybe I'll write you to
come on. We ought to have a little
trip for once. But we can't both go
there. knowing nothing of city ways.
Why. 1t wouldn't be safe for settled
woman like you until learned the
ropes"
"Therel That's enough, pa. You
shan't go. How can / face my niece,
Lizzie Spears, and you not here, and
tell her you've gone of on q sRyee
alone?"
Lizzie? You amt going to Liz
zie's?"
mo, but Lizzie's coming here on a
visit. Read that!" She pushed let
ter across the table Wonder if she
favors her ma or her pa. Pretty girl,
her ma writes me. and she's been run
down from overwork and is going to
spend month with US to recover. I'm
going over to WATERFOWL to fetch her
next week."
Let me go, ma"
You'll stay here" answered his wife
firmly.
Stay he did, while his wife departed
on the three days of her little holiday.
Pa Judd was under instructions to
have the house as Feat as a pin for
their coming. But on that morning he
received q letter from his wife, inclos-
ing hundred-dollar bill. He gasped
as it fiuttered out. His wife was the
family banker, but-what was she
sending him hundred dollars for?
The letter informed him that she
had had such good time she had
changed her mind and thought he
ought to have his little holiday.
But you'll have to get off tomorrow
before noon," the letter ran, because
I've told Lizzie you're away, and it
wouldn't look decent for you to go
after she comes"
Pa Judd needed no second invitation.
A few hours later saw him firmly es-
tablished in New York, in an mex
pensive hotel, which seemed to him,
nevertheless, the height of magnii-
cence.
He spent happy evening wander
ing up and down Broadway, looking
into the moving picture shows and
staring in wonder, and with rather a
guilty conscience, at the specimens of
feminine beauty on the famous thor
oughfare.
When he got back to the hotel he
felt that he was seeing life at last
Next day he meant to look up his
friends.
But the next morning he found a
lady at his table, one of the most raw
ishing young women whom he had.
ever seen. She was dressed in the
height of fashion, and she showed a
marked inclination to tbe friendly to
pa. Before the meal was over they
we're chatting like old friends, and he
had told her the story of his life i've
times.
In this story, whose later versions
varied from the earlier ones, Ma Judd
always appeared as the angel by the
hearth, for pa was sincerely fond of
his wife; but pa gradually grew from
a misunderstood youth, condemned to !
a life of servitude upon farm, to a
modest hero who had deliberately for
sworn the wicked world.
At lunch the lady was there again.
Now it was her turn to confide to pa.
She told him that she was a stenog-
rapher on a vacation and offered to
show him some Of the sights of the
city.
Pa flushed. He did not know wheth-
er this was quite proper, but he did not
want to confess his ignorance.
4 guess a bright young lady like
you don't want to fuss round with an
old Teller like me-" he said.
Il adore men of fifty" answered the
young woman.
Pa, who knew that sixty lay a little,
but yet irrecoverably behind him,
flushed with pleasure. They took a
car downtown to the aquarium.
This is where the Four Hundred
promenade on Sunday mornings" said
the young lady.
You don't say!" calculated pa, star
ing at the sea lion.
Afterward they saw the BROOKLYN
bridge and went up the Woolworth
building. At every step Pa Judd's en-
thusiasm grew.
You're a wonder!" he said in
amusement. And to think you live
here and all this comes natural to you.
should like my wife to meet you"
i guess she might feel that way"
said the young lady, laughing. What
do you say to q little supper, Mr..
Judd?"