Evening star., 1922-07-19
"Carry Me Back to the Scenes Of
NV Childhood"


mast l. o'clock in the morning.
L They had pulled through d"
.xc;tins day that had come 10 an
.,,o,s,n, climax with small Dlcky
,,,n.ss His Grandpapa and Ut anu
LINDSAY had retired Tor the
,,sbt Aunt Gertrude and Aunt Elsie
hod also excused themselves ou.
Ant Rose who was Dicky's youngest
.untv fingered in the door"ay'
-.,cbine that little person DRIFT on
to sleep, holding his pretty iho'"e' .
hand. . .,.;a,s
His mother was wan with 1a'ie
DIR Leonard, tiptoeing from the peu-
room turned to eye her proiessio''
ally. o+
"How about some hot milk or ; not
cocoa. Miss Rose?" he asked meeds
tously. L think Mrs 'on'
sone,asns srrism lifted lite her head wearily.
..non.t bother. Rose" she Whispered
ave been enough trouole ior oe
osy; ayWouldnt you rather have ,;Ost cocoa? +
.aSfes .aif perhapsA" e Rose lifted her
ewes shyly to the young &C, DOCTOR s.
s'you'd like cuplui youi orld
It was the last thing in the worto
that that sophisticated person "ant, :.
ed. He was thinking longingly o1
Secanter on his own sideboard. But
ha was far too tactful to say SO IN q
household where he was aee,uears .San trs;ied
downstairs, they discovered tnat Jun
lindsay was sitting in the living
room talking with Philip Sheldon.
shsey rsyefa,iS yoS SeaF Sobodg @dst'a sold
M,1eb von'd been waiting all this time! And
when you're so tired, too-how
thoughtful of you"' ,,..,.
Just wanted to know the n,.ae
shaver was all right. the youhs pnt- pr1
ed to tell John what a hit youo maoe
in this town. ;,
stead of two hours ago.! merry s sae
down rather Imply m all IN! she
announced plaintively:
She seated herself adroitly near her
sulking John. But that young sentie,,,
man sat stiffly silent. He was sun
much hurt by her days obstinacy.
his arms and comfort her, but part
of him still wanted to box her pretty
ears!
Sheldon, always Merriam's chival-
rous admirer. scented trouole.
peacemaker, who had smoothed many
a difference between John and Merry
he made wild effort to put this Ill
assorted group at ease. He eyed the
doctor; he cleared his throat sug-
gestively.
Heard about this new medical dis
covery. doc, that makes old persons
younger" he asked lightly.
eff you mean these gland inocula-
tions." the doctor answered stlmy.
'.why, I think you ought to be man
of enough intelligence to realize that
that's all poppycock."
NO" Sheldon's voice was SO pre-
ternaturally solemn that all three
listeners were impressed This isn't
-er-gland stuff-it's some sort OF
liquid dope. I don't know the scien-
tifc term for it; they say that sin
gle drop really takes ten years strain
from the-er-arteries-or whatever
1t Is that affects our age. I just
heard about it last week"
The doctor leaned forward.
"where?" he asked. deeply inter-
"Friend of mine. a surgeon, told
me. Seems he had a queer expert
ence about it. A couple of patients
of his. who have led lives as is lives.
came toddling into his office wanting
to renew their youth SOS they could
sow some more wild oats. They'd
only been able to scrape up about $50
each, the price of a single treatment,
but they put 1t down and allowed
they'd rather be ten years younger
than they were than not to be young
at all. so the surgeon gave 'em a
drop each. He'd just given 1t to 'em
and 1t hadn't had time to act at all
when there was a sudden cry of Fire!
outside. He says he realized after
ward he ought to have suspected
there was something wrong. that II
was probably a false alarm. from the
fact that neither of those old viii
lains moved"
ssWell. when he came back. they
were both gone and the bottle was
there on the table, completely emp
ty! He began to look around be-
cause there was only one door out
and he knew that they hadn't come
out of that. but they were nowhere
to be seen. The windows were
barred and much too high anyway for
O man to climb out of-but. Of course.
he looked out. Heard a funny noise
IN q chestnut tree outside, and what
do you think he saw"
It'll be, the goat. Shelley. dear"
Merriam drawled good-humoredly.
What did he see?"
Couple of monkeys leaping from
vastly pleased with his own idiocy.
Even the doctor had to laugh at
the youthful professors naive de-
light in their disgusted expressions.
All three of them were teasing him
gayly when Rose came back with her
supper tray.
The three men jumped to help her.
Rose found herself cycling her
pretty sister-in-1aw curiously. Rose
had never had beau. Shed lived in
town since her childhood. and never
kafsfs had she seen two sligjhls