South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-22
Good Luck
. LAR me, now hot il vas.

- EAR me. how hot il was.
So hot that you could hear
- the paint on top OF the car
sizzling and all the grass shoppers
along the road were complaining
about it,
The worst ever remember"
buzzed Grandpa Grasshopper.
Il shall never live through it.
never wheeEed Grandmother
Gras5hopper. and all the little grass
hoppers had a beautiful time moan
ing and groaning, for all excitement.
pleasurable or otherwise, is inter-
esting-if you're young enough.
The porter was asleep in the back
OF the Puiiman-two men had taken
off their coats, one brazenly and the
other with a sheepish, shamefaced
grin
The baby in No. II walled like
lost soul.
The bride in No. just simply
couldn't keep her nose powdered
and 1t worried her to death. She
had heard that husbands don't 20
or loving a woman unless she keeps
her nose powdered.
Grandma and Grandpa. coming
East for a visit TO the new son-in-
Jaw. wished they had stayed at home
and began TO have dark suspicious
of son-in-law's designs in asking
them TO cross the continent at tins
time Of year.
The little girl who had been our
West in the movies and maze a fail
ire Of IT,, couldn't even read. She
was so tired and discouraged
And the looking mid
dle-aged woman with Emerson's es-
says on compensation and some
body's report of tenement and hous-
ing conditions in her Boston bag.
looked almost 40 bored as the peo-
PIE to whom she talked-there -
no use trying 20 Disguise il. IL really
was not and travelling across the
continent in hot weather is nothing
in the least like a joke
Five or six hObble- de-hOy boys
spared and wrea,,ed i'm the aisle and
nobody had spirit enough left to
demonstrate with them.
But in the corner of the very hot
test part Of the car a little red-
checked blue-eyed boy with a crimp
m his hair that was really too en-
gagiug. sat and made little animals
-,om lump Of modelling clay.
FIRST. ne made a COW placid ana
stupid, and next ne made a little
dog fox -err.er .mpudent and in
4uisltive, and then ne made sheep
and a woody .amo. And finally 49,
/ there was Wr.sgling snake in HIS
. land-wade If clay, was h.deous-
I natural
"Oh," said the woman who was
/ watching min. why do you make
/ -hat2 Isn't it bad enough to know
I lat tdere are such things IN the
1r,d without copying them?"
The little BOY with the red cheeks
smiled a SOW smile
Wei" ne said. lit is kind of
"a. But say. I'm sorry for him.
seif-it ust De bad to have
yeo.y haze you so
! Ike the g mos Of al Dog
g so frien y n; The wo,s. OF it
when I model one o., them l get
TO ik.ug him and hate TO see him
a. mel- mp and set squashy."
The woman rose and went into
her little stuny bedroom and when
she came out she had a little lac
quer box in her hand-red and gold
il was and smooth and pretty-no
end.
Here" she said look in this
little boX-there is something you
/ like inside"
And the little boy looked, and in
side the box ne found a funny little
fat dog. made OF porcelain with
huiglng eyes and a goodnatured
whimsical mouth
That's "a Chinese lucky dog" said
the woman who liked little boys
Hen bring you luck just "a sure
as you do not lose him"
The little boy was fairly radiant.
He held the funny little fat dog.
made OF China. 10 his round cheek
the other boys came 10 see what
i, was he had.
Do YOU believe in luck?" said
one.
There isn't any such thing said
another.
There il. too. said third, and
in i've minutes the car echoed to
an interested discussion Luck or
no luck. dogs or no dogs. Chinese
ideas. customS-why. II was a regu-
ar entertainment
Broom" the thunder began "a
roll and in the east the black clouds
gothered like a pail.
A cool wind rushed through the
I windows
It's going to rain," said tn,
bride
It's cooling off " said Grandma.
'.Whewl What relief breatheC
Grandpa.
But the little boy held up nm
Chinese lucky dog and smiled.
See he said. Hes brought u.
luck already"
And no one could convince the boy
that the cooling rain--the savinl
-ain-came as the result OF natura
, causes.
such a relief to take them OF. a
= night.
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