The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-11-22
Broken Rules
By DWIGHT TINGLE SCOTT
1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)

downright 1919 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
In the wear Of our Lord nineteen
eight, one who could wear white
vest and mix cold or hot eXhiarhting
things and keep the customers smiling
into the big mirror earned forty or
fifty dollars "a week for some fifteen
minutes of strenuous exercise within
roped arena, twenty by twenty, GER
tain husky athlete is reputed to have
received fifty thousand dollars; men
who could handle iron while it was
hot we're earning twenty dollars a day.
! During this prosperous era the efforts
OF Rev. Horace Chitwood, whose let
not YOUR heart be troubled struck
soothingly the deepest notes OF mortal
woe, and whose what God has joined
set vibrating the most sublime chords
of human joy. were appraised by So
ciety at six hundred dollars a year,
and he got that lsuch-some years.
So when Reverend ChitwO0d died ne
left a mortgage on the little home III d
Jersey town, twenty-eight dollars IN
back salary, determined widow anC
Little Chit.
at is the only thing 1 can do we'll
and I had rather it would be here thar
elsewhere"
Indeed Mrs. ChitwO0d, have neVe'
forgotten those pies and that cake yo'
made for the church supper and re
member my promise perfectly" 1t wa
the steward who spoke. He had one
been member of Reverend chi
woods congregation. SO Mary chi
wood became pastry cook at bl
beach front hotel, and because scho(
was out and because Mary Chitwoo
wanted him near, Little Chit becam
bellboy extraordinary out in front.
"What's all the excitement, sonny
old Colonel Job. the hotels most col
sistent crouch, paused, slipped han'
full Of "coppers" into the lads snt
coat pocket and patted Little Chit
] the head.
! ooh, haven't you heard, colonel? III
] Money Princess is coming today"
, "Huh-that child in Chicago tn
Is there has been so much in the pape
- about?"
D. Eyes, sir. the real Money Prince
p and she is coming to our hotel today
ef "Tell us about it, dear" prim 9
Miss Harvey. who spent the We
ou round in the hotel and who had sc
ch ously wanted to adopt "her pink-fac
ed cherub," drew Little Chit near to
IS chair
I'm "You see she is the richest little
Ia in the whole world. But she has
is auy mother or father, or even aul
or cousins" explained Little Chit gu
SO seriously. "But she is coming on
SIN private train with lot of people W
look after her and they have liked
almost a whole third floor for them
Oh. The honking of automobile h0l
the clatter of bags upon the mar
lhe floor the forward rush of bellboys
alo porters; they arrived. The Mo
Princess herself was almost lost in
sts hubbub. Came her gOverness, CO
ms her nurse, came her music teacl
came her maid came her housekee1
came her eminent DR.. Louise Or
ON Lakeland. the child hygienist, CT
others and the servants of others.
Little Chit picked up a small bl
A BAG. trimmed i'm gold. He touched
w. can and smiled. The Money Prin
Gov smiled back.
Aol When they reached their floor Il
came the hubbub Of inspecting rO'
anu Or Louise Craig-Lackland knew
Ia the scientific principles of ventila
80 had been violated. She got out al
r. strument with a fan wheel and
wv And of all things! The music teacl
room was done in salmon and la
der. the housekeeper had ordered
tho there were sweet peas In all
oov- vases, the rooms faced the east,
cost morning sun would annoy-to be
Tho the ocean was inconveniently in
..b direction, toO-could they make
iam- apartments do?
r. ;s Again Little Chit touched his
liver. and sthiieu at Tue sn,"'' 81 so.
bove In the miust ol al ,'''s eol'no.'' :,
looking very sweet and very Il
and very much like any other
girl of twelve might look who had
yellow curls and red lips and
TIa4 cheeks and blue eyes.
:s"A0 Again the Money Princess $
ner. hack and opened little gold
lis Oh nurse that hung from her gr'
K for young arm.
. A nj Not from you, princess.
The Money Princess closed th'
" &c "You know" said she, Il like 20
dis tie boy, very much
SIS IN "And / like you, too. princess.
It was week later and Little
had just delivered ice water.
,very- suddenly but softly the door Q
denly and the Money I,ihces' onppe
/ that the hall. She put her fingers ov
ion to lips.
Listen. Little Chit she WINS
81 am running away from them