Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-01-19

oAo 5oiiS puSh vi ieI! up IN the r1D-
bons she can't hardly keep her colors
graduated no more, that's how blind
she's getting. What am 1 going to
dor"
Honest, Miss Sadie, didn't know
that she was your aunt and that her
eyes was bad. just thought she was
some old girl up in the ribbons you
was living with for company. Hon
est, l didn't know she had bad eyes.
Gee!"
mo, they amt bad. Only she's SO
blind she reads her paper upside down
and gets sore If you tell her about it"
"And me thinking she was nothing
but near-sighted old crouch with a
name like sparrow"
Miss Barnet laughed with an up
ward trill.
Dee Dee amt her real name. When
l was kid and she took me to raise,
that's the way l used to pronounce
Aunt Edith. Gee! you don't think Dee
Dee was the name they sprinkled on
her when they christened her, did
your"
Max Meltzer leaned to the breath of
her laughter as If he would fill his
lungs with it.
"Geel but you're cute little lady
when you laugh like that"
"Say, and amt you a freshie! Just
because you're going to be promoted to
buyer for your department won't get
your picture In the Sunday supple
ment. No white-goods buyer l know
Of ever had to build white marble IL
braries or present bread-line to the
city to get rid of his pin-money.
"Say, amt it hot? With the Open
ing on Monday, they better get the fans
working. Last year three girls keeled.
Honest, sometimes l think I'd rather
spend the summer under the daisies
out on the hill than down here in this
basement"
Don't / wish had ali auto to take
you spinning In tonight"
"YOu ought to see the flyer a friend
of mine has got. A Mercury Six with
a limousine top like grand-opera
box"
r-your-friend? Il guess if
you got swell friends like that, boat
excursion down the river amt got
much of a sound for you"
HE says he's got launch in sum-
mer-'
Honest, Miss Sadie, II just been
trying for the better part Of two weeks
to ask permission if 1 could come and
call on you some evening, Miss Sadie,
but"
"Whoops amt he the daredevil!"
The first boat Of the season, Miss
Sadie, swell new one they call the
White Gull, goes down to Coney to-
night, and, 1t being real springtime,
and you feeling kind Of full of it, 1
thought maybe, it being the first boat
Of the season, maybe you would take
a river ride this grand April night,
Miss Sadie"
Her glance slanted toward him, full
Of quirks.
my Aunt Dee Dee, Mr.. Meltzer,
cAAC . kAShI oIIlIl Will LIE. SllG uOIl I
think I ought to keep company with
any boys that don't come to see me
first at my house."
II know it, Miss Sadie; that's the
right way to do it, but think I can
get around her all right. Wasn't she
down here in the basement the first
day heard about my promotion, and
didn't she give me the glad hand and
seem right friendly to me?"
Anyways, If her eyes amt too bad,
Mr.. Meltzer, I got date with my
friend If his car is out of the shop
from having the limousine top taken
off. We-we're going for a little
spin"
and she made little foray into the
bin of mill-ends.
See! if I've made three sales this
livelong day 1 don't know nothing
about two of them"
Max Meltzer met her dancing gaze,
pinioning it with his own quiet eyes.
you're right to pick out the lucky
fellow who can buy good time. A
little girl like you ought to have every
enjoyment there is. If 1 could give it
to ydu, do you think I would let the
other fellows beat me to it? The best
amt none too good for a little lady
like you"
saw, Mr. Meltzer!" Her bosom filled
and waned Jaw, Mr.. Meltzer!'
II mean It,"
An electric bell grilled through his
words. Miss Barnet sprang reflexly
from the harness of an eight-hour day
Jaw, looka, and l wanted to sneak
up before closing and get Dee Dee t.
snip me two yards Of red satin, ant
she won't cut an inch after the bell
Amt that luck for you? Amt that
luck?"
Her lips drew to pout.
"Lemme get it for you Miss Sadie
| know a girl up in the ribbons"
NO, no, Mr.. Meltzer. II got ia
charge it to Dee Dee and, anyways, she
gets mad like anything if l keep her
waiting. l gotta go. Night, Mr.
MeltZer! Night p
She was off through the maze of the
emptying store, in the very act of pin
ming on her little hat with its jaunty
imitation fur pompon, and he breathed
in as she passed, as If Of the perfume
Of her personality.
At the ribbon counter on the main
floor the last Of a streamlet of out
going women detached herself from