The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-13

ting a runabout: but $50 would also
crafty her whole hearts desire in
the way OF clothes.
Kitty's conscience had begun 70
stir by the time she alighted at the
station. II was very hot and
seemed 10 grow hotter as she start
ed over town ITS going 10 cost
me something more than money 20
get my clothes" Kitty thought des-
perately.
Long before she reached the place
| of the alteration sale she began 10
| wish she had taken car or cab
| She entered the portal with her
coat over her arm, oozing az every
| pore. with the consciousness that
| The last trace OF talcum had melted
| from her face. The sight OF so
many different things 20 wear made
4 her feel not unlike a greedy calf IN
a field OF clover What was II she
| had come 10 buy? A hat. gown,
coat, some blouses. But which
first? A foorwalker kindly direct
| ed her 10 an elevator which lirted
her 10 far regions where women
were snatching marked-down lin
| rerie dresses at lightning speed
Kitty snatched one herself, out II
| was as and she was only So
She matched another and found mat
a very angry-eyed woman had hold
OF 1t, too.
81 beg your pardon" said angry
eyes. that's misses size ana M
going to have II for my daughter.
Kitty reIinquished the hold "Oh.
dear" she thought. she probably
knows I'm from the country I'm
sure the size was 3s."
| After a time she got another
dress and girl TO AZ her. In a
tiny curtained alcove which was
hotter than any place she ever re-
membered. Kitty undressed and got
into the gown. which was too tien'
, In some places and 100 loose IN
, others. The girl insisted that II
. | could be altered and Kitty, weary
! | with heat, fatigue. and hunger, gave
In and permitted a filter 10 STAND
I her on a block and thrust some
a thing like a thousand pins al her.
!. Nv that time she wanted cup OF
. tea more than anything else in the
!, WOrlQ. ana "lluOut ""tN"S
r mora clothes she started out 10 hno
e Il. A quick lunch counter suppileo
y her need, but she still felt unforA
!. fed. Her head ached, and wher
n she saw herself In a glass she wa
o. scared by her own paleness.
Heat prostration? She had heart
70 OF IL. What would become OF her
d "Oh. what fool | was 10 come,
sr she walled TO herself. How ! visl
er were al home"
At that thought OF home she Eel
n staggering impulse. The smaT
"A little white coated waiter at IN
quick lunch counter startled az he
ae as she begged him 20 call tax
Hut he did IL because she locke
M respectable and also because al
to looked so Ill. When the car arrive
as Kitty tumbled into IL and gasped
cd direction. Then she leaned Oac
ok and longed for a Whit OF somethin
reviving.
at At the station she had TO wait a
ne hour and a half for train II VS.
oy an hour and a half OF purgstor
in but AT last she was aboard and {
her way back home. Ahead OF b.
| "A
Ter glaring headlines announced mat
ed was the hottest July for 30 yea
lot and that there had been an alari
rs. ing number OF prostrations. XII
Ike shut her eyes After a time s.
got ND and crawled down the ais
m 10 the water cooler and moistenii
he her handkerchief applied II TO h
on steaming face. A charming al
"a: miraculously cool looking young z
ne across the aisle giggled and XII
ALI glanced at the mirror. She "
he streaked like an Indian whose "
,er paint has been badly applied.
ne Jose Cripps took her home in !
iitney for a quarter thru a tempe
a rocked town, for the heat had
,ut pIoded In the worst electric sfor
,ly OF the season. But for all her fe
ct. OF thunder and lightning Kitty foui
= the resultant GOODNESS blessed
lief.
Presently came Hudson. astc
Ished 10 and her. Il was plannil
to meet you on the 9:lO. nc sa
where's your new clothes
For the first time Kitty rene
" bered the dress she had bought a
- paid for. She merely gulped a. :
n poured the remaining portion OF !
$50 into Hud's hands. Put II In
a car, put II into anything. but nev
. give me another cent 10 spend y
way" she said.
U And Hudson. being an understai
ing sort OF husband. soothed
with caresses and took the none
Two days later Kitty's dress cal
home by express. She tried u on
' nm secret and u was well. for. tho
rio. expert filter had done her best.