Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-28
Bv Fannie KiIbOu1ne
The Club Surpassed Expectations.

So I didn't get to that meeting of
the Mothers Club.
1 didn't get there the next week
either America couldn't come to wash
till Thursday, and couldn't find any
body to stay with the babies. I put
in the afternoon painting the window
boxes and the backs of the front porch
steps-painting the garage had got me
started. and you know how it is, once
you get started painting. The painting
got me to thinking about Ben Brace
and I couldn't put him out of my
head-a 12-year-old boy who looked
like my baby and never got chance
to go swimming All the time was
painting I kept thinking about him
and my little Jack. Suppose it were
Jack, all alone in the world with no.
body but man who would farm him
out every minute and never let him
have any fun!
x X x
DULCIE stopped by on her way home
from Mothers Club meeting to tell
me the news Mrs Kirsted had
brought frankie, and, it being SO hot,
Mrs. Vanter had taken off her hat and
frankie, when no one was looking,
had taken off ali the trimming and
v,
the trimming in, he said Also, the
Emporium had given the club a wicker
divan.
We're going to see If the electrical
fixture store won't give us some plain
fixtures" Dulcie went on with the news.
And Mrs. Long is simply furious.
Some boys broke into the warehouse
one day last week and broke a lot of
windows and pulled some of the cleo
trio wiring loose and did some other
damage, l guess. She found out who
they were, some of the boys down by
the tracks, and she's had them ar
rested. She's going over to Verblen
Friday to appear against them"
Also Miss Prescott was coming back
the end OF the week and Betty Bartel
wanted to join the club.
Thursday afternoon I took the twins
up to mothers and used her electric
sewing machine all the afternoon.
When got back America, who had
been at my house washing, said a
woman had been to see me, Mrs
RzWqtrvs," 1t sounded like when
America tried to say the name. and I
Couldn't imagine who it was. America
Salo she said something about the
Motners' Club, but couldn't place
any member with a name that sounded
IKE that, and family gave it up.
VIII wasn't going to be home that
night; he and Father Horton had gone
out to Berrytown to appraise some
farms and would stay over night and
go on the next day to look at some
property on beyond Dulcie's house
being so close. wasn't a bit afraid to
stay alone with the babies, but when
l heard a knock at the back door after
dark, 1t did give me a bit of start.
However, to my relief, I saw that it
was just Ben Brace. He'd come to get
ms sweater, a poor, ratty, little old
tnlng that he'd left in the garage.
Come on in, Ben, and have a piece
OF CAKE" said. The poor kid always
looked so Spindly had a feeling he
didn't get such terribly good board in
spite of working hard for 1t. So I
gave him glass of milk and a sand
wich and a peach, too, and sat on
the kitchen stool, watching him eat.
Il got rested the other day." he sud-
denly said, between bites.
Arrested, BEN" I gasped. When?
What for?"
"The day you let me go swimming"
he said. For playing in a empty
building. We stopped on the way back
from the hole"
My heart sank. He must have been
with those boys when they got into
Mrs. Longs warehouse.
"Oh, Ben" said, you all did lot
of damage"
"Yes'm," said Ben. I'VE didn't plan