South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-03

a feminine cough, which was the
thing that most annoyed Jack. II
was bad enough TO nave a kid lick
ing you over without having a girl
for an mediate audience. she was
probably q pretty girl II one could
! tell by a voice Why hadn't she
had the grace 10 sit in front?
The cough stopped YAH.
screa med baby making another fran
I tic reach and jumping up and down.
Asain Jack shivered and turned his
attention to- the rushing telegraph
/ poles
no. no. Baby mustn't. Mans
I don't want Carrie Poor CARRIE
The red new all the way round
Jacks neck this time, bat he per-
sistently watched the poles.
Then mother sneezed-and could
1 mt find her handkerchief Baby was
/ tossed about like a bean bag in the
/ searching process. while pockets
were searched unsuccessfully.
II can't find o thing with baby
/ on my knee" she declared 20 Jacks
| back. Would YOU mind holding her
while ] look ?' This request rein
forced by "A violent prod on the arm,
elected not only a response but an
/ assent What else could he do?
so baby was deposited red stock
ings sticky hands and all on her
neighbors's unwilling knee. while
mother began her search anew
/ Again came the coughing from be-
hind The handkerchief found.
mother wheeled promptly. va got
a bad cough amt cha she remark
cd with sympathy It's 30 Won
der ridin i'm this here draughty
car"
oh. but / Tive had this for
some time" came The voice.
Mother. unfortunately had wheel
/ ed aisleward the better 10 converse
with her afflicted fellow passenger.
/ Evidently she had forgotten all
about Carrie. who with shriells of
delight was pulling her benefactOrs
( bran now purple silk tie and trying
to stuff one end into her mouth.
Did ia ever try Uncle Joe's Cough
Remedy?
NO. it it good for colds?"
Good? You askin' if its good ?
Why ] could just talk from now Till
tomorrow night telli.' YOU what I
know about it"
oh. do tell me. I'm anxious 70
know about something. DO YOU
really know OF any one it's helped2"
DO u Just listen to her, Well,
all I've got to say is that my sisters
! husband would died long before
ne did If ne hadn't taken il. He
had Asthma Ny but that poor
man suffered" And there followed
ir minute detail q description of
J the dismissed Eentleman's illness
that lost nothing by gesticulations
and giration of the cerise lemon
leather
MY. That's WONDERFUL said the
voice. Don't you know Of any one
else? IL do so love to hear testi-
monials. / always read them in the
paper"
BY this time baby had ruined
Jacks new silk shirt as well as his
tie. and the gray suit fresh from
the tailor's would never be the same
again.
He had hoped that when sisters
husband was safely buried and the
viii read that mother would re-
member her sticky offspring and re-
turn TO things terrestrial.
The request from behind ended
this hope SILLY fool" he regis
tered mentally. why does she in
sist on starting the creature an over
again?" He would have Let the
car hut after cambridge there were
no stops
lie endured III to the very end of
the ride There was nothing else
To do When the conductor called,
Main Street. Newburgh, end of the
line. all out" mother claimed baby
agein and departed baby, bags.
bundles. basket and all
Then for the first times Jack had
an opportunity Of scowling at his
interrosative neighbor behind, she
Of the cough.
His decentralization was complete
when he gazed into the merry eyes
cf-COrrine Booth.
( Naughty baby, Spoiled nice mans
collar" she cooed into mis- ear.
oh. cut il out" said Jack.
Bad mans. Put chewing gum in
20 little girls hair in school. and
played JOKES on her all her life.
Little girl had to get even"
/ For Heaven sakc-have pity on
me" said Jack. helping her of the
/ car. Look here Reeny. I've come
all these awful forty miles 10 your
blame town just to say goodbye to
YOU. and you've been joshing me
the whole way"
Forgive me Jack just had
. TO get even. Tit was lovely"
And she went oil into peals of merry
laughter again.
Perhaps that IS why she was in
the humor to say TO a certain ques-
ton Jack asked her before ne left
tnat nieht. or il may have have
been cOntriton. and "A desire To- make
up for his bad afternoon. At any
rate Jack lefr NeWburgh radiantly
happy thar nishl. and as luck would
have IL found himself again i'm the
seat with the owner Of Carrie and
the ce-.sc lemon feather
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