The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-12

was kept on the run for days and
nights. She worked as only rich WON
en- work when some orgy Of charity
is on foot.
Gloria In turn kept everyone in her
neighb0rhood scampering. Her father
her fathers secretary, her brother and
his secretary, even her brothers wife,
she made use Of.
Lois responded to the lash with an
enthusiasm that surprised Gloria. She
began to understand that idleness had
been more cogent excuse for frivol-
ity than she had believed when Lois
gave it. She saw that Lois heart.
which had yielded too easily to the
Establishments Of Freneau, yielded as
easily to the allurements of unselfish
labor.
The plans for the Polish fete were
changed again and again. The boy
Stas was so much in the way that
Gloria set him task to keep him out
from under her feet. He brought in
the children Of the vicinage and estab-
lished himself as their leader.
Some Of the rich tots, like their
parents, were good fellows; q few Of
them woeful snobs. These latter twit-
ted Stas with his origin, whereupon
he had resort to the wild arbitrament
Of battle, and two or three small
bloody noses ruined two or three hand
some suits of clothes. After that Stas
was the accepted leader.
In his researches among the picture
books he found "Pied Piper of Ham
lin" and made his "Aunt Gloria" tell
him all about it. He decided that she
should be the pied piper and he would
organize an army Of children for her
to pipe away. She kissed him for the
inspiration and that event was one Of
the successes of the afternoon. Mobs
Of people thrOnged the Stafford estate
on the afternoon of the festival and
the roads outside were quadruply lined
with automobiles.
There was no hesitation about en-
plOying piratical methods Of extorting
from the rich as much money as they
had been reckless enough to bring with
them. The hollow eyes Of the ragged
starvelings of Poland would have filled
with wonder if they could have seen
in far-off America the well-fed, silk
clad aristocrats revealing in their be-
half. It was a strange way of getting
food for the hungry, but it was the
fashion of the day, and most important
Of all, it accomplished its purpose.
The world was so packed with
tragedy and so bounded with cries for
pity that it took something more than
sorrow to wheedle funds from the
weary public. 1t took beauty and en-
tertainment. Gloria furnished these In
full measure at her festival. In her
ragged doublet and hose, with her
feathered cap atilt, she danced and
piped, and the children followed about
the lawn with moving audience till
she led her little army into the great
cave that Pierpont had ordered con-
structed In one Of his hills.
The mothers left behind pretended
to weep-for their lost ones. and they
begged the pied piper to return. So
Gloria, contrary to tradition, came
back from the cave, and, surrounded |
BY her kidnapped troop. bowed and /
bowed.
Gloria was good and tired when the i
last Of the spectators had gone home |
impoverished. She stretched herself |
out on the diyRn In the living room and |
felt her old l0Aeliness come back upon |
her. Her task ~s.dpne and she was d |
40 more use to the world, for, Of
course, her father had pointed out to
her that her project to take the funds |
70 Poland q person was Q beautiful