Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-31

Patsy Kildare, Outlaw
By JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS
The Young Lady

vT>HIS is the second day ] have been ir
| i school this week. ] think i am getting
| rid OF the days in hurry. just to sho"
| nv father that | was back on the job
| made some coffee this morning Jim Is
| like clock-he works whether you are
| there or not, only you don't have to wind
| him up so now / have sour milk enough
| to keep me going and fresh milk is coming
| in every day. -
did a new thing this morning. When
nv father had gone TO bed tired out with
| his night watching / washed the dishes
| and wiped them on my blue nightie-lt
| needing washing. anyway. A little wet on
| the dishes would not hurt It, This Is PINK
| niRhtie week, but both of them ought TO
be washed so It doesn't make any difference
| which wear. | was just starting to school
with Rowdy when young lady In gray
dress came to the gate. She had little
satchel in her hand.
Are you Patsy Kildare?" she asked me.
I said, "You guessed it the first time.
What's it TO your"
The young lady said, 1T was reported at
the settlement house that you were hurt
and I was asked to come around and look
at your injury. l am trained nurse. .
| said. "Are you sure enough trained?
She smiled and said, IL surely am l
said. Can you stand on your head? L
have tried that lots Of times but always
tumble over" She smiled and said, NO"
[ said Can you walk on your hands? l
can" She sad NO" l said. Can you
turn over endways? l can" She said,
mo" | said, can you climb trees and
swim?" She said, mo, but | can go into
the water and swim" | said, you are
silly I don't swim when / climb trees. l
swim when / go into the river
| said to the young lady, You are NICE
Ill I
you but you are mistaken about being
trained Somebody told you that you are
trained and you believed IT, which you
should not have done, for you aren't trained
at all"
Then the young lady took the plaster off
my bean and took off the cotton. which
made me lift one leg up. Then she opened
her satchel and put something on where
the crazy girl blammed me and put some
more cotton on It, and then she put on
some clean plaster
She was going to sit on our porch and
talk to me, but / told her that l had to
hike to school and that if she would come
back in the evening | would talk her head
off. So she said she would Then she
shook hands with Rowdy and me and went
away. She certainly did look clean.
That young lady came back just after my
father had gone to his night watching and
she swept all the downstairs part of the
house ana showed me ABOUT washing dishes,
not that there Is any trick about it, but
you can do a whole lot better If you know
how and have hot water to wash them
in. She is going to get me a short stick
with mop on 1t to wash the dishes, so
that / will not have to put my hands in
the hot water, which she says will ruin
them. She has got very pretty hands.
Before she went away l would have
gone to bed, for / was sleepy, but I have
got to educate Rowdy, so l sat out on the
steps and explained to him why people are
not of different sizes and colors like dogs
Then we went in and Rowdy crossed his
paws and 1 crossed my hands and prayed,
Dear mother, what do you know about
that young lady thinking she was trained
when she can't even walk on her hands or
turn over endways? Isn't that the limit?
Now, please listen. / want you to ask
God to help Mr.. Rockrudder by taking the
crazy ideas out Of the head of his daughter
and giving her some sense. Tell God to
drop everything else and make good on this
for it is important / am going out Satur-
day to see whether He has made good and
/ don't want to go out there for nothing.
Ask God to bless you and my father and
the young lady. Amen"
Last Words, the next Patsy Kildare ad-
venture. appears In tOmOrrow's Evening Ledger