Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-08

PATSY KILDARE
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
A Feast for One

Vor feel a lot better when YOU
L haven't got boy on your hands.
7 thought that over this morning after
| woke up and 80 | decided that II
ever have chidren---which I might, for
you never can tell---when IL comes time
20 make up my mind which they are
going to lie shall not put any OF them
into pants. ! shall just let them keep
dresses on and be girls. for | think boys
are nuisances. IL all people knew as
much about boys as | do they would
never put pants on any OF their children
and make boys of them and then there
would be nothing but girls That would
be lot better, think. though. of
course, some girls are the limit
After breakfast Rowdy and ! rambled
out 10 Jim and Maggle's and on the way
! turned over endways a few times in
the road so my mother in heaven could
see how we'll I can do Il. I wished my
mother had been with me. for then she
could have seen me palmer than by
looking down from heaven. When |
turn over endwayS under the trees OF
course she cant see me very well. but
1t was all right in the road only the
road was pretty dusty. When | walked
on my hands they picked up good
deal Of dust. but 1t was no trouble e.
wipe them on my dress. Rowdy even
relied over in the dust. which was going
some
When ! got 20 Jim and Maggie's IL
was SO late that Jim said lie would
take me to school in his wagon. SO |
would get there before the bell rang.
Maggie asked me to come back 70 sup
per aud | said would. Then jim and
I rode away. After school went back
to Jim and Maggies, and when it was
time for supper they had surprise for
me. II was a dish of Strawberries and
cream. jim said he had bought the
berries in town for me. ate them
one at q time and rolled my eyes up be-
tween berries and when all of them
were gone I said I would take some
more. Jim said: Not today you wont
for that is all got. Strawberries ~
this time Of year are too expensive for
a big feed" ] said: For cats sake
didn't you and Maggie have any ber-
rles"" They said, NO" | said. Don't
either of you like Strawberries" ." They
said. Yes" That is the kind Of friends
they are
It made me feel Kind Of bad 10 thil>
| had eaten all the Strawberries. so |
kissed Jim, though | do not kiss peo-
pc very often, and ne TOOK me on his
knee and held me UP tight with his face
against my beautiful hair and said
Patsy. | hope God will send Maggie
and NE "A little e.rl some time and that
she will be just like YOU" I said. 81
hope SO, too. but she won't. She will
probably be nice, but OF course. she will
not be as nice as I am. for | am almost
all Irish" They both laughed and Mag
gle kissed me and we told stories till I
got sleepy.
Jim and Maggie went up with me
when | went to bed and waited while
Rowdy and | kneeled and | prayed
| Dear mother which art In heaven
please tell God to send Maggie and Jim
a little girl as much like me as possible
/ Don't let her be IA baby, but make her
about seven years old. They are good
people and ought to be treated right
/ Make her as nice as you can and / will
do the rest If have TO push her face in
Il couple Of times, Amen"
THE New Pet" the NEXT Patsy Kildare
ndyenture. nppears In Mondays Evening