The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-08-03
The Synthetic
Lover
By WILL T. AMES
. i5ll. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate

, Little Daisy Hemphill didn't type"
circus In the least. You look for her
kind behind the soda fountain Of a
village drug store and think of pink
and-white-checked gingham as having
been inspirationally created for just
her variety Of prettiness. Neverthe-
less there was so very deep a strain
Of 1t In her blood that the night which
witnessed the tragic derailment Of the
Hardenburg performers train took
away both her parents In one awful
moment.
The All-ARerica show was already
IN winter quarters Madame Felice
He0ert, who had known the Empillo
duo, premier double bareback act," !"
ever since Daisy was a child, and who
had lived more than one winter In the
sunny back room Of their cottage In
the AlLAmerca's home town, threw
up both arms and shr1eked when Bob
Sloan, boss OF the paint shop, brought
the terrible news into the wardrobe
loft. Then she grabbed her hat, tore
down two flights OF steps, raced the
entire 200 yards Of trnckage and ex-
ercise ground 20 the back gate, hailed
a passing taxi and In six minutes was
at Daisy's boarding house, holding the
grief-shaken orphan In her arms
The only thing about Felice Hebert
that was not utterly French was her
accent-which simply didn't exist The
circus is school OF thrift, and there
are few dull pupils among the tan
bark folk; but the thrift of Nine. He
bert was an All-American axiom. Yet,
when the first dreadful days were over
and Daisy came 10 the facing Of the
future, a kinless orphan, It was only
her own inherent sense OF justice that
| prevented the hard-working wardrobe
woman from taking upon herself the
place Of both father and mother and
maintaining Daisy through the final
year Of her high school course.
But, look here, chiId,n expostulated
Nine. Felice, haven't / been your
mothers best friend for a dozen years,
ever since she first came to our show
and whether she's been with II or with
some other? Haven't l watched you
u
Who's got a better right? OF course
there's the house and a little bit on
the side, but you're simply not going
10 eat that up-yOu're going to have
something to start life on"
"But I'm not going TO do that" ar
gued Daisy. I'm going to work"
And To the arrangement Nine. Felice |
was eventually compelled TO acquiesce.
But she had her way shout one thing. |
IF you're going to earn your own liv- |
ing. Daisy" she said, you're coming |
into my loft with me. simply won't |
have you knocking around any old |
place"
And that's how II came that Daisy |
Hemphill, who didn't type circus a lit
tie bit, came to be earning her living |
stitching vari-colored Jewels In huge |
designs on mammoth elephant blank
cts OF black velvet. And Daisys Job
was very much more responsible one
than II sounds.
For, be It known, to the surprise no
doubt of the unlnItiated, that the BUSH
els Of gems employed by the big circus
10 bedizening the trappings of its
beasts are no ordinary fabrlcations of
glass. II they were, week of the
wear and tear Of the road would leave
no single CLEAN in them. Instead they
are truly synthetic jewels of parts, and
come from overseas, and cost a pack
Of money in the total. Now It hap
pens that Just at the time when Daisy,
under the kindly tutelage of the ward
robe chieftainess, became seamstress
to elephants. camels and Arab charg-
ers these highly essential gems had
become very hard 10 get and extremely
high in price. The country where they
were made having with traffic folly
permitted itself to become involved on
the wrong side Of the great war, the
markets OF the world were closed to il
and EnOch PrOut, the All-America's
purchasing agent, had made haste to
gather in all the wardrobe jewels" in
sight They cost thousands where for
nerly they had cost hundreds, but in.
ismuch as IL was now assured that no
Dther circus would be able to rival the
Of the All-America's trap
pings next seasOn-for ,EnOch had
,leaned out the market--it was re-
yarded as excellent business.
Nine. Felice, as department head,
vas a highly trusted and responsible
as well as an artist. All
he store of cunningly fabricated Jew
lis was left I'm her care, and was kept,
llong with a fortune In costly stuns,
II great strong box in the loft And
presently Nine. Felice turned the care
md accounting Of this over TO Daisy.
Now there were dozen girls at
work In the wardrobe loft. But for !
,leven OF the dozen Bob Sloan, the
foreman. had no eyes at all,
hough the personnel Of a great circus
n winter quarters is community. v
Bob, from the day OF first catching a 4
llmpse OF Daisy, and aside from as (
iduous attention to his Job, became a
nop of nna idaa And tho idaa ,,.os q