Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-05

I did want to get to Ponderosa
Pepper. She is immense-both high
and wide, and she's awfully funny.
She adores Helly, who is, as 1 have
told you. SO fair and dainty. Pom
derosa often comes down the hall,
calling out in a perfect roar "Prettyl
Pretty! where's Miss Pretty She
never calls Helly by any other name.
She thinks Helly is absolutely per-
feet, and as beautiful as the angels
in Heaven. By which you al see
that she has an awful crush on
Helly.
Well, Helly was having a terrible
time getting things into her trunk
and as usual she said, well, I'll have
to will away my bathrobe. That's
the only way l can see" So she took
out the bath robe. 1t was a darling,
just right for Helly, a soft faint pink,
sweet and woolly, and bound all
around with beautiful wide satin
ribbon of the same tone. Helly's aunt
had given 1t to her for Christmas
with the dearest little pink brocaded
mules to match. No other girl in
school had anything like it, but Helly
said 1t was too dressy to wear eli
school, and she never wore it except
when she went to a spread in a girls
room. On such occasions we were
all al dressy as possible in oua
kimonas, with earrings and evening
head-arranEements a la Cleopatra
and other movie queens. GLORIA of
ten wore her brothers cast-off Tux.
edo which she had borrowed onct
for a show. It added a great deal Of
excitement because she had to veal
it over pajamas, lacking the con.
ventional trousers.)
But Ponderosa, seeing HeIly fish
out the lovely little pink bath robe
grabbed it lest it should fall on tht
floor and be soiled! And Helly said
do sit on 1t now, Ponderosa, and
If it locks this time, I'll give you M
bath robe"
The rest Of us gasped, for any on,
of us would have given. our immor.
tai soul for that bath robe. 1t wa.
Heavenly Still, we didn't grudge i
to Ponderosa,-we just wondered
what on earth she would do with 1T
She could never get,it on, and If sh,
could, 1t wasn't her style one bit
Ponderosa belonged in her own
which was a funny brown one, will
a piece OF rope around it, just lik,
a Franciscan monks. She looked
rather grand in it too, and when sh,
fixed her hair under a skull cap AM
used a little grease paint, she was s
perfect Friac Tuck. So you can JUS
imagine her with Helly's pal,
pink bath robe, that made you thinl
Of a sea she'll
Well, Ponderosa came down OF
Helly's trunk and it clicked. SO He'll,
handed her the bath robe. She tool
1t without a word and walked dowr
the hall to her room. We heard .hel
turn the key in her door and we
were all electrified. w couldn't dC
a thing, we were so stunned at Pom.
derosa. She had never before lack.
ed fer words. She could pour ZEN
out like water out of q jug. TheS
just tumbled out
We'll" Helly said. 'something's
up!" And it certainly was. Ponder
osa didn't appear for dinner, and
none of us cared to disturb her. *
cept Helly, and she slipped off to
tap on Ponderosa's door and say,
It's Helly, Pondefosa, and I've
brought you a darling c~antafoupe,
nice and cool. Do let me III before
anybody sees me-" And Of course
you might know that Ponderosa
couldn't resist Helly. especially with
an iced cantaloupei So she opened
the door a little, and Helly drifted
in, and what do you think was the
matter with Ponderosa anyway?
She'd been going to see an ',aunt''
In the city every Sunday afternoon.
and it turned out that the .'aunt''
wasn't any aunt at all, but a little
girl at one OF the big hospitals where
they do a lot of work
and lots of 1t for nothing except
the practice 1t gives the internesi
well, one of these internes was a
cousin OF Pondy's or something, and
he had been taking care of this little
girl who had been awfully hurt in a
motor accident. She was a dancer.
making her own living, what there
was of it,-she hadn't, gotten her
fame yet, but she was on the road
all right,-and here she wal with
broken legs and q broken rib, and
not enough to pay storage on her
costumesl No family or anything,
just n of those plucky, hardwork-
ing, awfully talented anu awfully
poor little girls that go to N. Y. and
hope it's going to be Heaven and
they expect to LAND QUICK,
but they don't.
So Ponderosa had been going up
to that hospital every week, Just to
cheer up that little hardluek story,
and I bet she cheered her up tool
If she couldn't, it couldn't be done.
You see, don't you. It's just like A
story in the Blue Fairy Book, Mary
G. The bath robe was for the little
dancer with the broken legs, and
Ponderosa grabbed it as an answer
to prayer, because school was out,
and she didn't know how to leave
the little hospital girl all alone.
You know. Mary G. the rest of It
makes me SILVER, it's so nice, and so
true to life as you wish you could
havJ it but often DON'T When Helly
got all this story out of Ponderosa,
she said. 20 Pondy. do take me
along when you go again. I'm dy-
ing to see how she looks in my
bath robe. Won't she love IT, though,
and won't that please Aunty? That's