New Britain herald., 1926-01-11

reader This list is late"
 The copyreader glanced at Bar. , bara, expecting some retort. But she was walking away. her lips tight.
 Wells also looked up, and seeing her absent manner. called after her. i petulantly, Will you call the civic clubs and the chamber Of commerce now. Miss Hawley? Get their week. ly announcements" Still Barbara did not answer him. She went into the booth again. tore off the top sheet of the pad and sat down in the squeaking chair.
 When she came out of the booth some time later, with the pad in her hand she met McDermott bn his way to the composing room. You look tired, Barbara" he said. 'Why don't you go homer"
 She smiled and shook her head, but she could not speak. Wells had apparently recovered from his Ill temper. for he also glanced at her face and said, why don't you go home?"
 "1 will, after awhile" she an- swered.
 Barbara stayed in the Telegraph office until the papers came up from the press room. A copy boy laid one of them on her desk.
 Barbara folded 1t and put 1t un- der her arm. Then she put on her hat and left the office.
 The streets were beginning to fill with the afternoon rush. Barbara walked through the shopping dis trict, glancing now and then at dis. play windows. turning corners with out heed. running into passers-by Around and around she went. en- circling the same blocks many times. She entered department store and walked through the ground floor, looked at nothing. At last 1t was growing dark and she turned her steps toward home The folded copy of the Telegraph was Stlll unNeT f1eT dTIIl.
 Tn Church street Barbara met several of her neighbors. the women rushing home from shopping trips the men striding along with pack ages and newspapers under their arms.
 Now and then a toddler met one Of them and crawled up his legs in to his arms, with shrill cries of Daddy"
 Near Barbara's apartment house Tommy and his kiddy car blocked the sidewalk. His blond head was Der. over the refractory wheel and he was tugging at 1t with strainings of his chubby arms and legs.
 As Barbara approached, he looked up at her. Do you know anything about kiddy cars?" he asked, his brows wrinkled. "This one ain't nc good .
 Barbara tried to smile. "Nc." she said. "I don't"
 The boy was staring at her very hard. Say. your eyes are awful big You look just like my picture o1 Alice In Wonderland when the duchess said. Chop off her head" Do you know about Alice?"
 Barbara shook her head and went on up the steps. Inside the apart ment. she laid the folded news. paper on the table and went into hel bedroom.
 She came out, wrapped in a house robe. her feet in bedroom clippers and took up the Telegraph. Ther she seated herself in an armchair near the window and turned to ths hospital column.
 The paragraphs stood out al though 1t were printed in bold italic against the paler type on eithel side.
 "Reynolds-Bruce and Violet ta, . son, born Monday at N. B.
 General Hospital"
 Her eyes ran over the two line i, of print again and again. Bruce. , she repeated under her breath, q , son."
 The paper dropped from he r hands and che turned to the window } The street was almost dark. excep for long streaks of western lish . that fell between the buildings. Tn . kiddy car lay abandoned on tn , sidewalk.
 } A woman came out of doc . across the street and called "Jamc ] Allen, James Allen!" An urchil bounded around the corner of tn [ house and up the steps. The tw, passed through tss deer inte th