The Snowflake herald., 1920-12-10
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DREAMS
sy KATHARINE A. NEWELL
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(0. 1920, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
Now then, Dreams get a hustle
on you with those copies, and put the
long stop on that high powered car
driven by the Duke of Killicrankie.
Even in these days of help shortage
we want efficiency just the same"
Miss Johnson's razor-like voice struck
on Ann Flowers ear like ice.
= litter of amusement went around
the office at the head clerks intend
ed witticism, and many eyes were
turned for moment to the gloomy
corner where the girl had sat for two
years, the target for all the teasing
Of the department. Somehow or 9th
er it had leaked out that Ann Flower
indulged in day dreams, hence the
nickname, Dreams and the merci-
less sarcasm that was her lot
Dreams mean Miss Flower,
the boss wants you in his Office"
Again Miss Johnson's voice smote
flashed to her corner
"The bossY repeated Ann stupidity.
"Yes, the boss and don't keep him
waiting" snapped Miss Johnson.
Ann Flower stumbled to her feet.
All eyes seemed to burn into her back
as she passed up the room. She
knew she had not done her work well
during the last week, but they did
not know what it was to sit up at
night and finally have to see a golden
haired baby die! Perhaps they did
not know what it meant to leave the
distracted mother sewing for living
to keep two other little towheads
from hunger. Ann had not been sat
isfied with the doctor, and that morn
/ ing had herself telephoned for anoth-
4 er physician, not the kind that usual
Iv calls at apartment houses on the
/ East side of the city, but there was
something so insistent, so softly ap-
pealing and piteous in the girPs
voice over the wire that Doctor Sun
derland had promised to come.
Good morning, Miss Flower" the
'boss'" voice came to the girls
i senses through waves of pain.
This is Doctor Sunderland :"
"Oh, the children are not worse?"
Ann interrupted the boss introduce
tion in a frightened voice.
mo. the kiddies are going to pull
through IN fine shape, thanks to your
foresight, Miss Flower"
The "boss" cleared his throat.
doctor Sunderland has told me, Miss
! Flower. that you have been sitting up
at night with a sick baby for over a
week. until it died; you have also
been helping out the mother with TWO
other children all this winter with
your salary; you could just as well
have left her and gone to more com
Portable quarters"
''But / couldn't; she was good 70
me and it was hard for her
y 70 get a boarder who liked children
and l did I'm sorry if my
work suffered here but
couldn't leave her when the baby got
ill-and died =" Ann Flowers purple
blue eyes grew big and piteous.
Honey the voice Of the boss
was inst as soft as any of her south
ern "manmies." and he came to hei
side and patted her on the shoulder
81 did not know that l had sucn
real live girl in my employ ! guess
my character reading expert is Wofu
what | pay him after all, II ne getS
some like you, bless your heart bu
Doctor Sunderland wants to have
talk with YOU: you've come from
homo where there is a pretty slcf
hunch and he's afraid that you may
no in for a dose. We don't want
spread around the office, and WhaleVel
the damage is, remember, | foot th'
bills"
poor LITTLE l"Dreams' head seethe'
n a whirl OF aches and surprises AT
. -. tho "hoss" left her in DR.. Sunder
lands care.
II was dream of wonderful peace
! r. find oneself in a cool, gray an'
y-bito hospital room, with a pretl
rad-haired nurse ready to 90 one
bidding. But there were DAYS Whe
littla Ann Flower did not answer I
l Dr Sunderlands dear" with siilil
of shv welcome, and nights Wheh Il
would come and shake his head an
+nrn hastily from the pretty Ie'ei
g anshed face and wonder why we nav
] 70 find the best in our scheme OF lil'
: 70 los, it again. There were oay'
e foo when Miss Johnson and the - -
nartment could not bear to see u
/ patch of sunlight shine on the aus
Cover Covered typewriter cover in tn
!. gloomy corner, without a catch 1,,,.d !
d their throats when they remembers " :,
|. how t they had teased dear, patient y
t tle 'Dreams." ao
e But days came when DR.. sunae
I ,and,s "dear" won the day
r Il take my vacation next week !.
! and | am going south" he announor % :
: IN his most professional manner o