Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
IRVING THE LESSON or SMALL A11OUNTS-THE KNIT
THE DAILY NOVELETTE,
A FRENCH HEEL
BY May Shea
NNTAY, I think you had better 60 In
lVI town this afternoon and get

NNHAY. think you had better 60 In
lVl town this afternoon and get u
| pair OF shoes, YOU look kind Of shabby
| in those old pumps"
May Foster looked at her sister Julia.
who was motherless. and conhdante 10
her. and said My! but you're getting
| good-natured all OF a sudden. are We go
| ing to have a party or sotnething?"
NO. we're not going to have party.
! but you know Tom Barry is home on n
! short furlough. and has brought n camp
| mate with him. and I'd love to have
both OF them come to supper and play
/ cards with u.s. but I'm puzzled as TO in
| viting them. because don't know Tom
/ very well, but like him a great deal, and
I In case they come YOU must look pretty,
you know"
"Oh, ! know" said Mary. ~ know -
and she tripped upstairs in hurry to
change her lawn dress for a blue SUIT,
and in no time she was ready to 60 TO
town.
~ course she did not know just ex-
actly what kind Of shoes she wanted,
go she decided to look IN n few shop
windows before purchasing, AT last she
spied n pair Of black and gray. and OF
course once thought Of buying was as
good as done.
Sow everybody knows that wooden
French heels will become bold some
time, and just to have some fun VIII
fall of. so Mays unlucky or lucky day
mad arrived
Walking down street she met a
little decoration. namely q banana peel
on which unfortunate May was bound to
slip. and of came the wooden heel
Many men came running TO Mays as
sistance. and among them Tom barry:
Gracious are you hurt very much!
he asked.
Not hurt at all" said embarrassed
May. But for PHYS sake, Tom. do me
isyooir and get me away FRO" thiS
All right. I'll take this arm and your
bundle, and give Jack your other arm,
and we will steer you out Of here
May obeyed orders and gave her, other
arm TO Jack Harlihy and marched over
10 a waiting car. wniCh soon landed her
When .Iulia saw the auto drive up and
Two uniformed men assist her sister III
the house she started asking was hcr
Leg broken. or what had happened 10
her. when it had been explained to her
hy Tom she felt calm; 50 the boS
stayed to supper hat night ana piayer :,er
cards. too. and they visited the roster
home every evening during the re-
mander Of their furlough,
The last evening that they spen, 70, 20
gptnrr Julia and Tom went FOR a Stroll
in the garden and left Jack and May
IN The house. ,.
II can't keep in any Aonger rye GO,
y toll YOU bless the ffench heel ma,
tcil of. because the day you lost that
you found my heart. May. WIZ YOU
,,ait for me til I get the Kaiser, and
,hcn-oh, May. | have forgotten the rest
# the speech; Rut anyway tell me-
.iIl you watt ~
May looked at the flushed face OF het
ardent lover. and couldn't help saying
will | wait" You can bet frcncn
heel I will" and they were just Scaling
he promise when Tom and Julia canr
in aud confessed that as soon as rom
pulled the kaiser's gold tooth theE' loo'
v ere going to build n bungalow:
As Jack and Tom were on tneir way
rome Jack said "Fom, aint II Queer
the work that French heel and a shor'
furlougn can do"'
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