Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-31
(pALkfA SIOUX
SCARBERRY
HR0mo,Hcg
az tire
/0OHohtS
IG9ls cISrKAL PEIss Asss.rsc

touched her arm. and She wa CRATE
ful 10 him for the understanding.
II was not five minutes before they
beth realized how he had come BY
the nickname Of birthstone For
the hot words he heaped upon every
thing theatrical was enough TO burn
the place down. Janet did not move
| neither did Ballard-except 10 glance
at Janet from the corner Of his eye
occasionally. and grin despite him
self.
He had. perhaps. been talking ten
minutes when suddenly he whisked a
Sunday paper from his pocket and
held III up. Silently, and with eyes
full of fire. he held IL out 20 the audi
encc and pointed to a girl in a the
atrical costume. Janet leaned for
ward and gasped. Her picture. Ii
was her picture that had appeared in
a tabloid the Sunday before, taking
up nearly a whole page. The picture
was a work Of art-revealing In every
line.
Janet grasped Billiards. arm hys-
terically. and waited. What was no
going 20 say? Plainly underneath
was written:
The Naughty. Naughty Baby OF
The Farce Of 1925, Janet Mary
James, who Came over from La
Belle. Frame. Last Fall 70 Conquer
Our Broadway. And howl"
Ballard would have given anything
TO have saved Janet the suffering he
knew she must be going through.
lie knew how sensitive she was. and
Ne could tell from the dramatic way
IN which the evangelist held the pic
ture up that she vas due for a
TRADE.
Suddenly he yelled and leaped
down from the platform.
Men and women. get a good look
at this-this Jezebcll Paris
HUH She has never seen Paris. Ii
breaks nv heart 10 tell you. But,
that girl is my daughter
Janet slumped, and Ballard shook
her arm slightly.
Here, sit IN. What do you care :"
The audience was a-buzz with at
tention. Janet burned. What If
someone should recognize her. She
would die with humiliation. She
pulled her little red hat farther down
over her face. and tried 70 look nat
ural. Her father kept on. measuring
every word.
II tell you this only TO prove to
you the evil Of bad companions. and
how important IL Is that you see tl.at
your daughter and your son IRE
brought up in the right atmosphere
among the right kind Of people"
Then he seemed TO feel e~xplana-
tions were in order. and his voice
toned down. Softly, and almost tear
fully, he told Of how his wife had
died when his little one was born. and
how she had been brought up By
strangers because he felt the service
needed him. He told them that he
thought he had left her in good
hands. There we're tears in his eyes
when he ended.
He told the story well. Women
wiped their eyes, and men blew their
noses. Had Janet known what was
70 come next, she would have leaped
up and hurled herself at him. He
looked at his wife, sitting on the
piano bench still, and shook his head.
MY good wife understands what
! have been through. My-my first
venture in matrimony was not quite
SO fortunate. | made a great mis-
take. ] feel / must bare my W
past 70 again show TO you the i'm
portance OF good influence-and es-
pecially for the young men who are
contemplating m%atrimony.
my first wife was n theatrical
person. married her after I vas
certain she had embraced the faith.
But she was not happy in the noun
tains with me. She wanted 10 get
away. back 10 her old life. | believe.
my friends. that IL II that influence
that has helped to rain the life Of my
daughter and make of her a notori-
Gus Broadway sinner
Janet wanted to hit him. She was
stunned that he would say such
things. That he would use her
mothers name in such a manner.
Ballard held her arm and tried TO
quiet her. fearing she would lose
control Of her feelings and leap from
her seat.
Daniel Webster James ended, damn
with Precipitation, and with a wave
or his HANDS that seemed 70 say:
"You see how little | care about my
own feelings. | told you folks this
for your own good"
! ITO BE CONTINUED