The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-01-19

red-satin ribbon for my spring open

red-satin ribbon for my spring ope
ing"
His heart rose In his throat.
III Il bet you look swell in red, Mi
m Sadie. But a girl like you looks swt
in anything"
Reds my color. Dee Dee says II
ID mama vas a gay one, too, when
IT came to color. Gimme red every tim
n Dee Dee's the one that's always kicl
d ing against red she says / got to
Rashy taste"
"Say, if she keeps bossing and bos'
n ing at you, what do you keep on Twin
= with her for?"
{ Wouldn't you live with your ow
r mothers sister if she raised you fror
a kid? What am | going to do, pu
her in cold storage, now that her eye
/. are going back on her? Up in the rib
!, bons she can't hardly keep her color
graduated no more, that's how blint
she's getting. What am l going tt
dor"
Honest, Miss Sadie, ! didn't know
that she WAS your aunt and that hei
eye was bad. / just thought she was
some old girl up In the ribbons you
a living with for company. Hon
est, | 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 a near-sighted old crouch with a
name like a sparrow"
Miss Barnet laughed with an up
ward trill.
dee Dee amt her real name. When
I var a kid and she took me to raise,
that's the way / 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 1t.
Gee! but you're a 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 ] know
of ever had to build white marble IL
braries or present a bread-line to the
city to get rid of his pin-money.
"Say, amt it hot7 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 l wish l had an 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 a grand-opera
box"
"Your-your-friend7 II guess II
you got swell friends like that, a boat
excursion down the river amt got
much of a sound for you"
HE says he's got a launch in sum-
mer-"
4Oltek 1AH OddtC. - Jdoi bSCh 1
trying for the better part of two weeks
to ask permission if / could come and
call on you some evening, Miss Sadie,
but"
"Whoops amt he the daredevil?
THE first boat of the season. Miss
Sadie, a 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 1t, /
thought maybe, 1t 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,
right strict with me. She don't
think 1 ought to keep company with
any boys that don't come to see me
at my house"
81 know 1t, Miss Sadie; that's the
right way to do it, but / think l can
get around her all right. Wasn't she
down here In the basement the first
lay / heard about my promotion, and
1idn't she give me the glad hand and
,eem right friendly to mel"
Anyways. If her eyes amt too bad,
Mr.. Meltzer, / got a date with my
If his car is out of the shop
rom having the limousine top taken
IF. We-we're going for a little
pin"
A quick red belied her ~insOuciance i,
nd she made a little foray into the ,
lin of mill-ends. ,
"Geei if I've made three sales this
day I don't know nothing
bout two of them" I,
Max Meltzer met her dancing gaze, 7
.inioning it with his own quiet eyes. /,
You're right to pick out the lucky
elbow who can buy a good time. A =
tile girl like you ought to have every i
njoyment there is. If / could give it y
D you, do you think l would let the i
Their fellows beat me to it? The best b
int none too good for a little lady :
Won" Y