Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-07

..uO,,< You two go,
8 ] should say
.as,ea$ so. but you
fsSSsSasss. ssSs TII%pccr don't wa
FANNIE - an old woman
drag along with you.
"vor lust listen to her. Vetsy :
~ Wu us.bc--oin't she just the limit?
naif n,I tbe time when we &c. III stores
Iaao,ber ns,t they take us for sisters, and
gs pss'Ib Isbo--sLe begins to talk like that
to get out of going "
"Ruby don't understand put 1t am I
dsbt, Mr.. Vetsbulrg, l shoul1 De away
cver @ Saturday and sunday. On EasteI
aMS'l itS lnrie's sore ankle, IL"
"oh, mommy, cant you leave this old
,hsbsng for only two days just for an
Easter Sunday down at ~, A'lon'lc'
nyou know yourself. Ruby. how. al
rsys on Annie's Sunday out
"Wou what of it? 1t won't hurt all
d no,r I'D things upstairs that let you
nS.I usit m them hand aud foot all year to
W. without a few frills for their Easter
: dinner.
Ruby
~ NEAR it. The old gossip pots |
,rst sat and looked at them there at
sumner lust now, and | said to myself,
TTNpfd said, TO think they drown kittens and
lei those poor Jumps live''
"Ruby. amt you ashamed to talk
\ like that!
"Sat there and looked at poor old
man Katz with his ear ali ragged like
4 Il ,.aI sNf md NfnnHnrnH
why he didn't just go down TO Brook
4 lyn Bridge for high jump.
RUBY, l.
"If all those big. strapping women,
suss ard Finshriber and the whole
Fang Of them. were anything but vege
tables, they'd so out and hustle with
keeping house, to work some of their
fabbness off and give us chance to
ret somebody nj besides chocolate
eating, novel reading crowd OF useless
women who think, mommy, you're a
dumbwaiter. chambermaid, lady's maid
and French chef rolled in one! Honest,
Ma. il you carry that ice water up
10 Katz tonight or the sly, with that
biz son of hers to come down and get
it, I'm go right up and tell her what
think Of her if she leaves tomorrow.
"Mr Vetsburg, you-you mustn t
listen to her.
Cant take a day off for a rest at
Atlantic City because their old Easter
dinner might go down the wrong side.
N Honest Mama. toto think how you re
letting u crowd of old habby women
that amt tit even to wipe your shoes
make a regular servant out of you !
Mommy
There were tears in Miss Kaufman S
voice and actual tears, big and bright,
in her eyes. and two spots of color
had popped out in her cheeks.
RUBY. when-when woman like
me makes her living off her boarders,
she cant afford to be so particular.
You think it's pleasure 7 cant slam
the door right in Mrs. Katzs face when
sl times a day she orders towels and
ice watery You think it's q pleasure. !
got to take sass from such bad boy
IKE Irving? | tell you, Ruby. it's easy
talt from a girl what don't understand.
Ach, you-you make me ashamed be
fore NJ. Netsburg you should run down
50 the people we make our living
Miss Kaufman flashed her vivid face
ttcowas!d Mr.. .Yetsburg, still low there in
9ls chair. She was trembling. "Netsy
knots He's the only one in this
mouse does know. He amt been here
WIN US ten years, ever since we started
ln this big house, nOt--not to know he's
the orly one thinks you're here for
ANYTHING except impudence and run
nlng stairs and standing sass from the
9ad boys of lazy mothers. You know
1 don't you, Vetsy?"
Ruby Mr. vetsburg. you-yor
must eycuse-n
=, from the depths of his chair Mr.
yetsburgs voice came slow and care.
t9ly weighed. 'Ny only complaint
Mrs, kaufman, with what Ruby has
gov 70 say is it amt strong enough. II
maybe ain t none of my business, but
Always | have told you that for your
own good you're too gemutlich. Nc
wonder every boarder what you go
Wys year in and year out till ever
tne biggest kickers pay more boarC
sooner as go. In my business. Mrs
4sut9an' sat nan it's the same, right away il
i get TOO easy with"
Put, Mr.. Netsburg, poor woman
car afford to be so independent
Sg SoI pig expenses and big rent I got {
laughter to raise"
H.. Mama, haven't l begged you hun
uteq times to let me take up Sterog
caply and get out and hustle so yot
'al take 1t easy-haven't II"
u.A thlck coating of tears sprang t,
Sa, ,s' Nauiman's eyes and muddled thu
sIle she turned toward Mr.. Vetsburg
,hn u natural, Mr.. Netsburg, mothc
oIuliu oIu want her only child should huv,
,LM;aES the best and do always th,
she never herself could afforC
uoi All my life, Mr.. Vetsburg,
Suu Ss"u always to work. Even wien I wa
IL.S Io months married to a man what i
tp;ea IGhea like would some day do bi;
.m Imilgs In the wool business, / was lef
4 and VI sudden with nothing but debt
But, Mama--"
v,n Is It natural, Mr.. Vetsburg, / shoul
Ht TO work off my hands my daugh
W. should escape that? Nothing, Mr.
lbV'spurg; gives me so much pleasur
81 wbo SIIGuld go with all those rich girl
friO, i'Ae her well enough poor to b
tsEaqs with her. Always when yo
dsrs ner down to Atlantic City on hol
~; SSp WheIe she can meet 'em, tit
sirl pu' ~ Mommy, is it any fun for
VIII VIII EEeep taking trips like that wit
sanI ,n net mother always at home lik
II Epor,, HL' Nhnt do people think
Il ynS ytS holiday that Vetsy asks me, 20
yoH Tou PACK out. II won't go withou
u Ma HoTnmy' and-and ] want to &c
a. - want to-"
NY Easter dinner and"
lou, Mrs. kaufman, with you
e' yonr dinner Ruby's right. Whe
one one e. mama don't go this time nc
,,,S S'ep we go by ourselves-ain't it /?
Not step
But"
that tioIIuTSrneow, .Snw Mrs. kaufman, we cate
ea;l ~ train. Twelve o'clock
mama Ruh vL you. Put ginger in you