Evening star., 1919-03-30

of my life when frail. anaemic.
sharp -visaged, meek little woman,
with extraordinarily fair complexion
and beautiful brown hair Whispering
ly asked me. In sad forlorn tone of
voice, if l would please direct her to
some one who would know for sure
whether or not her husband was in
the Army and If he was as far away
as Europe. Half an hour later / was
amazed to see her gaily tripping down
the corridor toward me, her face
wreathed in smiles, a glorif1ed air OF
freedom about her, and actually look
ing ten years younger than when she
came, in. oh. he's over there all
right she said, and I'm so glad! |
can now go to movie whenever L
want to. He never would let me go
anywhere. I've been afraid Of him
ever since I married him. l do hope
he will never come back
I'm strange contrast with this poor
soul was the dear, sweet. gentle. re-
MED by a beautiful little girl of three.
She asked If there was not some way
she could get permission to send a
package to her husband. a captain In
Pershing's Army. whose company had
been practically annihilated going
over the top, and he was lying in a
hospital seriously wounded. You see
dear lady, she continued with quav-
ering voice, a baby boy has come to
our home since my husband went
away. The Red Cross nurse at the
hospital wrote letter for him ask
ing me to send him something that
belonged to the wee one he has never
seen. This package contains only a
little undershirt and tiny pair of
stockings. Please. may l not get per-
mission to send them to him?'
ut hurt every fiber of my body to
be obliged to tell her that it could not
be done, because every inch of tho
vessels was needed to take the soldiers
over who were so sorely needed just
then by France. We hit upon a COM
promise. though. by slipping. one of
the dainty socks into the envelope
containing a letter to the father and
husband.
"rhe ultra educated female secre-
tary of a society woman created
fair-sized row one day when we We're
mitted to go directly to Mr.. Bakers
office without filing out the usual slip
explaining the nature of her business,
She came in with fuzzy, bleary-eyed
pup of high-up lineage under one
arm, and was accompanied by meek
ana weary man, "ho oiiuA"e-
ed the safe example Of the dog by
saying nothing.
'She angrily, and far from grace
fully, draped her figure across my
desk in reaching for the phone, spill
ing dozens of papers to the moor dur
ing the operation, which neither she.
tho man or the pup offered to replace.
But she filled out that little oblong
piece Of paper, just the same.
"Unless you have, at some time
during your career, been In Kansas
or Oklahoma when a cyclone was
doing its prettiest 1t will be quito
impossible for you to appreciate this
next experience. To begin with. he
had red hair-oh. great gobs of 1t;
real nice. old-fashioned, brick red
that stood out in every direction.
He had complexion that was snow
white except where 1t was hover-
Tapped with huge freckles that ap-
peared to stand out in basrelief.
judged his age to be about twenty.
He was not angry-oh, goodness, no
-he was mad clear through. That
red name Of his bristled like a dogs
neck when about to grab the other
animal by the windpipe. His OPEN
ing remarks, accompanied by apprA-
pirate sophomoric gestures, were:
Say, young woman. / want to see the
Secretary Of War. and I want to see
him right now: he has perpetrated a
scuryy trick on the college boys Of
America! l am going to tell him
about 1t to his teeth, and II he don't
like what have to say to him. I'll
commit suicide and fall right at his
fact AMI he can put that in his pine