The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-09-15
THE LATEST FILM
BY MARY LOUISE BuzzELL

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90. 1922. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
81 do wish that Jerry would come
intends to-" complained Mrs. ingalls,
fretfully, making a futile slap at an
intrusive fly. Her daughter Jessie
laughed, but the laugh became
frown at the added: "Now, If you
hadn't quarreled with Dick he would
have"
.Nc, he wouldn't interrupted the
girl CURLY; "he'd be too busy enter
tanning strange girls to bother with
anything so mundane as screens-but
you run right along to your Ladies
Aid meeting and I'll put the screens
on myself-without the assistance of
any man." a
She began pulling her sweater on
over her house dress. preparatory TO
fishing hammer and tacks out Of the
tool box, and paying NO attention to
her mothers shocked, "Why, Jessie
ingalls,, are you crazy?" or her added,
"How will you get up on the roof
without breaking your neck?"
"Oh, the veranda roof Is almost
fiat! And haven't we perfectly good
ladder? And haven't / been climbing
trees and things, ever since was ten
years old? You run along, Mumsy,
and I'll have a big surprise for you
when you get back-a surprise in
screen landw and the girl waved an
airy good-by to her mother with the
hammer.
She hurried to the barn for the lad
der, and with the roll of wire screen
ing under her arm and the neces-
sary tools in her sweater pockets, the
intrepid "handy man" climbed to the
roof and measured and cut the
screens for all the windows opening
thereon. Then she worked her way
cautiously down toward the ladder.
But alas! None too securely braced at
best, it had succumbed to the force of
the wind, and now lay on the ground,
many feet belowI
The girl, peering at 1t over the edge
of the roof in wide-eyed dismay, found
herself neatly and securely tackled out
of house and home, so to speak, with
no means either Of reaching the
ground or of gaining access to the
chambers.
So at last she disgustedly curled up
against the side of the house and
settled herself to wait for her moth
er's return.
After two hours of weary waiting,
two big tears rolled down the girls
cheeks, making for themselves path
through the dust and CRIME acquired
by labor; then the two tears were re-
enforced by others until audible sobs
broke the quiet; broke It so effectual-
ly that a young man passing the
house heard and wondered what had
happened. Coming closer, he saw the
fallen ladder; raising his eyes, he saw
the girl, now a perfect Niobe of angry
grief.
He entered the yard, lifted the lad
der, and, posing 1t in midair. pro-
ceeded TO interview the fair prisoner.
"Jessie Ingalls,, if l help you down
will you be good, and-and-marry
me?"
The girl uncovered her eyes, choked
back a sob and snapped:
"No, / won't Dick Harland! You
can take yourself out of my yard. and
stay out! IL like it up here; and
and-Pm-er-just restingr'
"Um-m-ml SO / see!" responded
the intruder, thoughtfully. But be-
fore go l am going t., tell you for
the last time-the very last time
that it was not strange girl you saw
In my car, but my cousin Sally; and
that she is not 'yamp,' as you called
heri And declare, there she comes.
and Dolly Parker Is with heri And
If they catch sight of you on that
roof"
The girl on the roof gasped, then
snapped out an indignant: "Dick Har-
land, you help me down, quicki If
Dolly Parker sees me up here l shall
never hear the last of it Hurryi"
Putting the ladder in place, he
scrambled up and held out his arms to
the girl She meekly slid into them
and was helped to the ground, barely
in time to escape the eyes of the APP
preaching girls.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Ingalls,
came up the walk ana, seeing her
daughter sitting on the steps in the
circle Of Dicks arm, gasped: "Why-y,
Jessie-f-f am surprisedl' She re-
ceived in return a cool: Eyes, Mumsy
II told you I'd surprise you'll What
have we got for supper? Dick is go
ing to stay. And the screens are all
on-every one Of them!"
"And this is the latest film to be
screenedi' added Dick, boldly kissing
the girl beside him before jumping up
to open the door for his prospective
mother-in-law.