The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-08-26

perhaps you would like to buy one
or these little bungalows. It's lust the
thing for a young bride"
"Oh, but I'm not a bride-I don't
e expect to be. I'm a working
girl
Just the thing" smiled the woman.
You live at a boarding house. You
nave no place to entertain YOUR
friends, no place to enjoy your holi-
days, no place to cook your own meals,
wash out your own clothes. raise flow
erS. or do any II of the dozen and one
thlngs that a young woman like YOU
really enjoys doing. In a boarding
mousse you ruin your health, in a little
cottage like this you conserve it. With
a little cottage like this you need spend
no money for holidays or excursions,
no money entertaining your friends.
no."
How much is it," faltered Helen.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars" came
PACK the answer glibIy, and that in
Guides all the built-in furniture, the
stove in the kitchen and the little bird
houses. 1t would cost only a trifle to
have it erected
"Twenty-nine hundred" Helen was
repeating. Then she did some figuring
n heard no more of the sales
Womans talk for a minute or so. She
was rejecting that her meager patri-
mony, all she had in the world, con-
SlSVpf Of n (NND A~I At. $3.50 n
$1,000.
II seems like a lot to spend" Helen
reflected aloud. "Still, if it would be
an economy in the long run, and if it
would mean better health and all-it
seems almost as if l couldn't afford
not to buy it,
Helen looked up with a happy smile
and both women laughed.
Then in IN effective whisper the
saiesWoman said that since Helen was
a working girl, and since she was the
kind of person who would doubtless
make her cottage a good advertise
ment. she would probably be able to
quote her a better price-say 200.
But that offer wouldn't be good long.
WELL" sighed Helen, II guess Iii
have to say yes"
And before five more minutes had
passed Helen had signed her name to
a little card that was a sort of prom
Use that she would buy one of these
houses at the price agreed. The sales
woman would call in a few days to
finish the deal.
1t was not until Helen had walked
In a sort of daZe out toward the en-
trance of the exhibition hall that some
thing astounding occurred to her. 1t
was then that the thought arose that
she would have to have some place to
put the bungalow, and she had only
left and that would probably be
for erection expenses.
She was standing stock still Won
.ering whether she had better go right
back and tell the glib saleswoman of
her difficulty, wondering if the sigma
on the card was binding, hoping
somehow that 1t was, so eager was
to possess the house whether or
she had any place to put it-when
one touched her elbow.
Hello. Helen" it was the voice Of
the city editor, Joe Brooks. 1--WE been
all Ove this place for you.
There wasn't anything pressing at the
office, and as I'd sent you here l
you'd be here. Thought we
night look around together. Awful
lOle, isn't it," :
REALLY, I've enjoyed it so much )
hat is, until just now"
Perhaps I'd have enjoyed it more" !
ighed Joe, "but the first thing I did
vas to run right into the arms of a
mart guy selling lots at Hawthorne !
Park. Nice enough place, of course. =
Veil, the long and the short of it is +,
hat l bit. l bought two lots-1OO i
rOnt and $50 deep. When l pay for /,
hat it will pretty nearly eat up my :
ank account. What the deuce a bach n
Tor like me wanted to buy a home for :
don't know. Perhaps l had a sort
f a reason; only now I've spent all 1
ave on the lot and what am l going T.
D do to get a house? l guess that '
elbow ~hypnotiZed me-" >,
Helen gasped, looked confused and r
aid something about being sorry. 81
lay a well tell you," she confessed, :,
that l bought a house and 1 haven't =
nywhere to put it,"
They started for Helen's boarding J.
home, and Helen explained her IL
redicament more fully. -
THAT settles it," said Joe. Il want =,
! to ask you to marry me. I've
anted to for a long time, but l didn't
low you e thought about houses
Id things. Now everything's settled, nc
MT it?" =.
"Why, yes" faltered Helen. "But a,
hat am l going to do about my story? =
was so confused that / seem to have
rgOtten what l intended to write.
ID you said to make 1t snappy-"
Come right along to the office.
ell write the story up just as it
opened about your buying a bunga-
" and my buying a lot and then de-
ling to get married. That will be
Apply though, | guess, and then"
Then what?" asked Helen, wonder
!, If Joe would ask her to have din
r.
"Why, then we'll go and get the