Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-05-15
BLOWING BUBBLES
BY GEORGE LIME CoEB.

iuS, dLu ledleu lfOiu Tile "luuON 0tlo
looked down and across to where q
little urchin stood, q dish Of soap and
water before him, a clay pipe in his
hands. AS Waring sat delving over a
scientific problem at his work table,
something had floated in through the
open window, struck his face, eXplod-
ed, sending u cloud of vapor into his
nostrils and a singing shower into his
eyes, and startling him 50 that he did
not realize that it was a soap bubble
balloon.
You young scamp" he shouted
down, and then was sorry and
ashamed. He now discovered that the
youthful bubble blower was innocent
of intent. Again, q sudden c6mprehen-
sion OF his own situation forced a smile
he could not get away from.
Actually getting cranky with my
deiring into invention! Why, that lit
tie child is doing exactly what I'm do
ing-blowing bubbles. Only he has the
fun of it and l the work and no re-
suits. HIM! blowing bubbles! That's
what I've been wasting time over for
months. Hello!"
At the echo Of a wailing outbreak
Waring leaned again from the window.
The little lad stood sobbing and in
tears, mourning over the broken pipe
at his feet. Evidently Warnings rough
ness had frightened him into dropping
his precious bubble blower.
TOO bad! I'm a brute" Waring
censured himself. But I'll mend it,"
and he straightway put on coat and
hat end proceeded to the nearest to-
baceo store. These he purchased half
a dozen clay pipes and gained the
fence surrounding the next door lot. A
gate was open, he passed through 10.
His victim was not in sight, but he
heard voices beyond a mass of trel-
Used vines. Advancing, he discovered
this to comprise m end of a sort of
arbor. On a bench inside sat a
young lady. In her lap was the youth
full bubble blower.
Don't cry, Ted" she was saying
soothingly. "TTl get you a new pipe
next time 1 go down town."
"The man broke my balloon and he
made me drop the pipe"
switch was wicked and wrong"
spoke forth Waring, and he confronted
the twain in the arbor. "Forgive me,
miss, for my intrusion, but as soon as
I realized the damage I had done, I
FASTENED to repair it. Here, little fell
low, I've brought you half a dozen nice
brand new pipes"
Ted fairly beamed at the prizes all
his own The young lady smiled indul-
gently. She murmured something
about her sisters child, his ecstatic de-
votien to sending up the rainbow-tint-
ed globes.
"You are a deserving little worker"
commended Waring. as he stood at the
spot where the basin of water was. He
vas glad to linger. 1t was a fair gar.
den scene and It's fairer queen of grace
and beauty fitted into it in a charm
Ing way. - d patent DuDDiC
blower I have in mind. Ted" spoke
Waring. May I bring it to him?"
"You have been too kind and
thoughtful already" said Miss Blanche
Tyndan.
The trif1ing event marked a change
in the life of Deane Waring. For near
ly a year he had squandered time and
money striving to work out an idea
that promised great results. He had
failed. He had blown many bubbles
of hope, endeavor and promise, only to
reach a block in his experiments.
Waring began TO devote more atten-
ton to the department in a great iron
and steel plant where he was employ
ed, almost completely ignoring his in
ventive speculations. Perhaps the fact
that the delivery of the toy pipe had
led to a further call at the invitation
OF Miss Tyndall, led to this result. His
visits did not seem unacceptable to
the charming girl. VINO was interested
in him as much because he was q
dreamer as that he was on the whole
a handsome and most estimable young
man.
Waring dropped in upon these new
friends Of his one evening to find Ted
propped up in a chair with a piece Of
flannel about his threat. 1t was hard
for the little fellow to be cooped in the
house, and Blanche was amusing him
by cutting out paper houses, animals.
and the like.
make me one of those curlicues
like you did last winter, auntie." said
Ted, land I'll get mother to let me
try it on the kitchen stove pipe to-
morrow
Blanche amiably began the task and
Waring a~dmiringly watched her nimble
fingers transform a circle of paper into
q long spiral. Then as Ted received
1t and swayed 1t up and down Warning
uttered a sharp, quick ejaculation.
"Tve hit it mean, you have" he
cried. "Why, the very thing! Please
excuse me, Miss Tyndall, but your cur-