Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
THINE rs NOT MINE
By FANNIE HURST

u wont have II v'
Felix, you--never in your life have
| you hollered so at your old mother.
You're right, we don't want our Ray
should have such ideas, only sometimes
! say to myself. she should try II and
fail once. and right away she loses her
nerve to try again. that's how sensitive
she Is. But
II won't"
Felix. that you should holler so at
your old mother. l-ach--I-how you
holler."
The crochet work rolled to the floor
him from her low chair with her face
screwed up and ready for tears
How he hollers at his old"
mama Mo" dtSH T9T ,nls@ m2ma Go So To,I help me-
II I hollered. I didn't mean II, II slip
ped Now nov. ma ma :" He was at
her side with a stride. pressing the side
Of her wet face to his waistcoat. patting
the hard knob Of hair cluckIng sooth-
ingly In his throat.
Now, now, mama, I didn't holler 40
help ue. You got roaring In your ears
today. Come, wa won't talk about the
singing lessons any more. didn't hol-
Ter, ma. you know didn't Here, slip
my hands for e. Here. now. now! Just
the best little mother in the world. Now,
now ="
She looked up Mt him with the ten.
denCy for tears gone. but with the
pucker still between her eyes.
sometimes 7 think how you fy of
the e'handle always at Ray. you need a
rest and change. Felix. For a hand
some young man in the theatrical busl-
ness, who everybody thinks could lead
such n gay life. you stick at home too
much evenings with me when you ain
working yourself to death with rehear-
sails. Take little trip with Ray. say
to Atlantic city, for a rest. Felix. Not?''
Not now, ma | amt got breathlng
time. The Laughing Girl had another
Sl4 600 week ma: that makes the
twelfth in succession. | tell you, that
show IL good for three years on Broad
way. It's a riot"
Felix such business Fourteen thou
sand dollars a week
Getting out the road companies al
ready, It's got II all over 'Zira on re-
'c5iptS. Some riot. that show"
Mrs. Gra,z wrapped hcr two hands
about the lax arm Of her son. looking
UP TO him as he stood there bes.6 her
Felix" she said. her voice chok-
ing TO her throat, II wonder if-if papa
in heaven knows what his little son
who was only in knee panties when he
died has made himself into. | wonder
Maybe. mamma"
81 wonder, Felix, II he knows how
instead of down on Henry street, his
Paulsha lives now on Riverside drive It
q $4,000 ride-up apartment house and his
Ray has her own automobile? I won
der If he knows he has got son now
80 big in the theatrical business he
can't get no bigger. 7 wonder If papa
up there has got way to know about
Maybe, ma. Maybe. How's Mrs
LefkOvitch's lumbago. better"
ia. Today l took her out in automo
bile TIL Ray wanted It at 5 o'clock. How
! they all talk about my boy and what 9
big man he is I wish, Felix, for somt
matinee next week you send Mrs. LET
/ kovitch a box for Laughing Girl How
she remembers always that time yOl
helped her Sollie out Of trouble. ! wish
. Felix. you send her n box"
/ sure. ma"
some matineee next week We can 60
and"
II was you. mamma. you've seen II
once. wouldn't go along. Let her hrut
! her friends that amt seen 1t. I don
/ like YOU and Ray around the theatr,
SO much: ma. Il. just don't like IT,
"Al! right, Felix; ! don't go then"
In a So house, where the finest peo
pie in town go, my sou says it amt An,