The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-11-01

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other in appreciation OF the lest:
and he chirped. You're worse than
Reverend Beniickl lie don't hardly
ever strike me for more than ten
dcilars--et q timer'
I'm not Joking. ] mean Il, Your
children In the cities are grown.up
and wciltodo. You don't want 10
die and leave your name unknown
Why not do a big. original things
Why not rebuild the whole town.
Get n great architect. and have
him plan a town that would be suit.
able to the prairie. Perhaps he'd
create some entirely new form of
architecture. Then tear down ali
these stumbling bundings-s
Mr.. Dawson had decided that she
Raily did mean n. He walled.
why. that would cost at least
three or four million donarsr'
But you alone. just one man.
have two Of these mlliionsF.
"Mey Spend all my hard earned
cash on building houses for a lot
OF shiftiess beggars that never had
the sense 10 save their money! N,s
that I've ever been mean. Mama
could always have a hired girl 10
DO the work-when we could find
one. but her and I have worked
our fingers 10 the bone and-spend
II on q lot OF these rascaIs--"
PLEASED Don't be angry, ,us,
meant moan---- Oh. not spend All
Of H. OF course. but II you led orr
The list. and the others came In. and
n they heard you talk about a more
attractive town.
Why now. child. you've got a
pt Of notions Besides. what. the
matter with the town. Looks rood
70 me. I've had people that have
travelled all over the world tell me
timr and again that Gopher Prair..
Rhc pretticst place In the Middle
vest Good enough for anybody.
Certainly good enough for mama
and me. Besides, Mama and me are
planning to 20 out to Pasadena and
buy . bungalow and live there
VII
she had met Miles B,ornssam a,
Tie street. For the second OF vel.
came encounter this workman with
The bandit mustAche and the muddy
0seraIis seemed nearer than any
&c else 70 the creduious youth
whom aha was seeking to fight be.
ssds her. and she told him. an q
coeerfui anecdofs. . little Of her
oocry.
He grunted. Il never thought I'd
- agreeing with Old Man Dawson.
the penny-pinching old land-thief-.
and . fine brfbcr he is. too. but
you GOT the wrong slant You
arent one Of the peopie--yct. You
want 10 Do something for the town.
DON'T I want the town to do
something for itself. We don't want
Old Dswson's money--not II it's a
gtft with . string Wen take n
away from him. because II belongs
= N You got to get more Iron
- cussedness into you. Come Join
= cheerful buns. and some day
vhsn ~ educate ourselves and quit
being bums-weu take things ana
run I'm strAight-
He had changed from her friend
. . cynical man IN overails- she
$1,000 NV tNf,Su tn9 8atoCfAEy OF
cheerful bums.-
She forgot him a. she trAmped
Tho outskirts Of town.
She had replaced the city haii
protest By IN entirely new ana high
~ exhflarating thought Of how IL
tie vas done for these unpictur-
ssqus poor.
The spring Of the plains 10 not
reluctant virgin but braxen and
soon away. The mud roads OF a
few days ago are powdery dust and
the puddies beside them have hard
ened into iozenges Of black sleek
earth like cracked patent leather.
Carol was painting a. she crept 20
the meeting Of the Thanatopsis
program committee which was to
decide the subject for next fall and
Dm1ntsr.
Madam Chairman CSfiss Ella
Sfowbody IN an oystcr-coiored
blcuse) ssksd II there was any new
business.
Carol rose. She suggested that
the Thana topsis ought to help the
poor OF the town. She was ever
20 correct and modern. She ala
not she said. want charity for them.
but = chance Of self-heip: an en-