The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-03-11


n,ent and because pcrp.e ar" couS'ahHE
prospcr.ns ar failing back and t"7
street car franchise cutting through INV
SeclusIou. and new generation turning
from a hruwU-Stonc 70 Il w<e-st"Ao
front axe. WaShinstnn avnuue just
above Jefferson evacuated and slipped
into decay u Lex" began 70 s:aVe
from empty windows. duoys sagEed Out
Of plumb. auG finally. Ike g&oH)s 70 N"
corpse OF yesterday. the room.ns house
invaded. the ,u,!Ecr for the night laying
a rurt:v" head hea-a,& tho high. calc'm-
jucd cc!l!as ut proudcr days
A, 2S95 Washington avenue. sinister
,ooK.us With rs cron. door saSgtng IN
Ike a too;h,sss mouth. It's indoor
shutters closed ard milk bottles and
cans .: tha adt-hot-w2'"c'aC serve
foods Of the lodeer on tHe window salts
Mrs. Lucy HcaS,"y. 70 whom lie con
sisted OF two trayed ends which would
not meet. conducted I Eponing House
Light Housekeeping
You TO whom Light Housekeeping -
but a card stuck in nuCky w!ndo"
look 20 II well that you never know
moro. Il Is the .hearthSton" and the
family board gore 20 smash. and m
their stead tin can over the gas let
Women. sick with the AeartneSs or
Light Housekeeping sometimes forget
TO turn of tho gas. Men N such rooms
sit through the long hours OF out-ot-
work workadays. ort!mcs planning no
good. children cry here, not knowing
why.
In her third -story-back a slit ct
room overlooking a segment OF alley
and the roofs OK tho King Kual!ty shoe
factory. Annie kineady. brushing out
her flood OF hair. heard one such cry
beat against the thin walls OF hNr room
and paused with her brush held away
from her ard looking back at herself
in the square OF way mirror.
into the quiet OF Sunday morning
slow -clappered church bells rang round
". She stood there with her head cock
I'd 10 the cry. her hair owing down and
over her bare arms. and more than ever
brilliant In tho uleager room. with its
cot still awry from her rising. table
spread with her poor odds and ends or
toilet and 4 bowl and pitch O. beside ie
a tin s,op-jar and besides that her
empty telescope.
The cry. half a cough. rose again louh-
er and she tossed down III" brush and
wound her hair in its loose COLL slid int"
her black dress. WIKI her neck rising
Whitley out OF i. sGuirming 70 button
u up her back. slipped out into the
dark hall with the medley Of breakfast
smells oozing from cverywhers. and
knocked at the door adjoining hers.
Conc"
She did rot turn tae tnob: paced
her lips 70 a crack ias:cad.
II don't want 70 come in. Mr.. Foddie
only 10 know X the baby"
The door swung back Upon her. re-
NoalinS Mr.. FUdd!e in 4 gray and we'll
frayed flannel hUuse-gown. corded in at
the waist. and smile tha, lifted tho
looped-up corners OK his mustache well
toward his eyes.
We'll. OF all the heightened u;t!e
] roighborS Don't wanna come in"
Me and Eeas,ry are going over 20
tho LctunGws!l church THIS morning,
Mr.. Fodd.e. only hearing the baby kind
vt coughing"
Wonder YOU W>~nd't ASK a 7oor old
widowcr 20 go aIoGg
why. Mr.. Fodutc YOU yourself hoWH
sick from the store yesterday and .;;lc
ROBBIE"
He struck himself resoud.ngly uHon
the chest and smuot&et his ra::. 20
smoothly Homadeh arro~9 q 'h.Nn:as
spot and three shades Gari;"c than the
too brown wuSc1Che.
Never felt better in ny l::".
"BtaSl"y says that's wh'; !ou always
say after one OF you- hear:s2eU$. and
then right away start - "y"-,l":nr."
Never felt better IN ny no. "" F"r
the~store tomorrow. G"e III Ncvc" 2""o
down