The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-21
When Phyllis Learned
a Lesson
BY RENA M. MANNING,
Economy, Ind.

remarks for the last half hour. At
last, however, Mrs. NewtOn's pa
thence gave way, and stopping be-
tween her travels from work table
to stove, she exclaimed rather i'm
patiently, Nov Phyliss, you have
heard what ] have said about you
going; you have bad cold and if
you were to go out in this cold wind
you would certainly become sick.
But this once l am going to let you
have your way. Do just as you
please and see what happens. For
my part, l think you had better go
in the living room and read that
book Mary Holah lent YOU" and
Mrs. Newton continued with her
doughnut making.
Phyliss considered moment and
then quietly slipped to her room
where she wrapped up as warm as
possible, threw her skates over her
shoulder, and started down the long
hill behind the Newton home which
led to the skating pond. She could
see the boys and girls skating here
and there in their brightly colored
REFERS, caps and scarfs.
Half way down the hill Phyliss
stopped, undecided as to whether
she should go Oh or obey her
mother. Her conscience said, "You
had better go back. Your mother
knows best and you know it," Then
Phyllis thought of all the fun she
would miss, and started once more
toward the pond, determined to put
aside the feelings of her conscience.
Phyliss was coed skater and
soon she was gliding across the
pond, turning and coming back to
the other side At last she grew
tired of going the same way and she
and Mary Hoiah, her chum, became
partners and chose a route leading
all the way around the pond which
was no small distance.
Phyliss began to feel that her
mother had been wrong in making
such statements, for in the bracing
air, among merry crowd of boys
and girls, she felt quite different.
She end Mary were halfway around
the pond Swimming along smoothly
when Phyliss suddenly noticed
hole, not more than three feet in
front of them. 1t was where some
one had broken the ice to fish If
Phyliss had been skating by herself
she could easily have lodged the
hole, but with Mary clinging to her,
1t was impossible. In another in
slant she gave a scream and found
herself up to her shoulders in icy
water Luckily they had been skat-
ing near the edge of the pond, SO
where Phyliss fell in it was only
about four feet deep. Mary had
escaped the hole, but had fallen to
the ice and lay as if frozen to the
spot, too surprised TO move.
Run for help" gasped Phyllis.
go, say"
But Mary still lay looking unbe-
lievingly at Phyliss, as though she
were in dream. .....
go, ! say" Phyliss again COM
manded, IF you don't l shall freeze
to DEATH"
With an effort Mary pulled her
wits together and skated as she had
never skated before, calling for help
as she did so. Help soon came and
the freezing Phyliss was lifted from
the icy water, laid on a sled, and
quickly drawn up the hill to her
home. Here she was soon out of
her wet clothes and into dry ones,
and laying wrapped in warm blank
cts on the couch, she chilled and
chilled, and her fever began to
; mount higher and higher.
Her mother became alarmed and
sent for the doctor. Just AS the
doctor entered, Phyliss gave harsh
cough which caused the doctor to
look rather grave. After testing !
her lungs and taking her tempera-
ture, he looked even grayer, but |
Phyliss was too sick to notice that.
She only wished she had done as
her mother Mad commanded and
then she might not be freezing and
burning up at the same time.
II am afraid" said the doctor to