The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-18
THE WAR HELPS

l7G WAX 7EIfS
The war in it's onsweep of propara-
! ton flung out two Wavelets of aid to
the CAROLS
One of our men is leaving for
| camp" said Arkwright OF certain
| early autumn day to his assistant ship
ping clerk. I'm going to move you
Carroll. You've done we'll. l think
| you can swing Phillips's job on west
| ern shipments. Try it week. If you
make out all right the pay'll be fif-
| teen"
| Funnily enough, that very day An
ME, answering an advertisement that
offered 'half-time work to chocolate
packers on war boxes" found she
| could earn four and a half dollars a
week in the candy factory three blocks
away, working from nine to twelve.
When she heard Bernie's step on
the stairs she rushed out to tell her
news. He rushed in to tell his, and
they collided in a sort of extemporan-
eous hug.
They blurted the good luck In a
| single breath
"Nineteen-ffty!" they chorused
"Nineteen-ffty!" And they did lit.
tie dance around the table.
"Bern-how do your toes feel?'
My toes! What do you mean, my
toes?"
Bernard Carroll Annie held
up an urging finger. don't your toes
feel as though they were gripping the
| first rung of the Ladder?'
If troubles never come singly, per
haps properties do not either The
tide GIBBS, and it flows again. Il
seemed to Annie that from the day
she found her shorthour job at the
candy factory, she could feel Hope
sursing slowly toward her like grea'
wave that starts far out at sea.
1t began with the chocolate money
1t gathered strength with Bernard s
making good in Phillips's job, which
he could not have done but for his
grueling summer of study; it became
joyously visible at the elimination O
a certain romance in the Hargan lam
lily. And it broke in glistening white
beauty upon Armies shore one day a.
: she walked common-placely upon thu
street with her children.
The chocolate money, small as /
was, gave the CAROLS a little more
life. 1t relaxed the vicious grip O
their poverty. A rich man would have
laughed-to see what Annie did will
that four dollars and a half! TIL
WIVES she DdulSn6C, lno DeduIleS Sn
bought!
The securing and holding of Phil
lipss job did for Bernard what nj
easy money could ever do. 1t trans
formed him from a wage slave to
) working man. 1t gave him what non
can succeed without-encourage cement
1t set a light ahead upon which to fl:
his eyes. 1t relieved him from tn
: possibility of surrender.
l The romance in the Hargan famil
I was such as occasionally happens out
l side the moving pictures. jamie Hal
r gan married her bosss son. Consider
: ing that jamie was very pretty AM
had worked her way up from the mil
lner's table to a minor management
t which brought her into frequent cor
l tact with young Mr.. Royce, of Bloom
S field E. Royce, Ladies' Sports Hats
/ Strictly Wholesale, there was no spt
4 cial marvel in it. Perhaps there wa:
/ too, on second thought. For Raymon
t Royce, in this age of commercial cor
a siderations and popular prejudic
t against mothers-in-law, insisted upo
o Mamma Hargan making the youn
ROyce's shiny, varnish smelling subj
t ban cottage her home.
e 1t was the very day of the Harea
7. family's transfer Gncluding Jim br'
e ther now a husky lad with an ele
d trician's prentice job and proudly il
l. sistent upon paying his board) frol
g the east side fiat to the purleus {
e Long Island City, alluringly calle