Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-04-22
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Mamma, let me take care Of YOU"
go long I wont be made q gran
ny or When haven't got any more
cnicks to take care of, at least, l can
take care Of myself. You've got your
own life. Live It." l saSa
4 tell you I'll never marry"
4 PVT Of course one day Wenda, who
was stenographer In a lawyers office.
ga meet young clerk named Laddls
hyans' to whom her little, young
moon Of q face was beauty and delight.
az was straw-colored young man
win 1.-THE, athletic body. great,
square white, healthy young teeth and
hand grip that was youth, and vital
: ~ - one 5i N Ia "a 0iasa1kQ
ln the office they met, these two5 and
we suddenly became something to
ti4gie ana flush over. New impulses
70 cry to laugh, to dance, to shivef
ecstatlcally, raced over wenda all Of
morning. When Laddie Evans
passed her type-writihv machine goose
flesh popped out over HIN like little
bells ringing.
Yet Wenda had head on her, The
daughter who had a mother who-was-n.
newsboy looked back into the eyes Of
Laddle with her heart crying, but her
lips firm.
1t was hard. because, almost from
the first day that they had begun to
be conscious Of one another, Laddle
was for plunging into the heart OF the
affair. He hung over her desk at noon
time and importuned her to 20 to an
automat for lunch. He slid little pa
per bags Of cherries which he had
purchased of push cart into her lap.
He waited for her at closing, and she
evaded him by sneaking out Of side
door.
One day--he was a bold youth--he
wrote her a note In long hand, send
Ing 1t In to her by an Office boy.
''Why won't you go out to dinner
with me tonight and give me the
chance to tell you that I love your
You might as well give In and get II
over with. I'll get you yet. love
yOu.-Laddie." a| r#.
With her lips quite firm, wenda
wrote him back:
'Yes, I'll have dinner with you"
They met down in the gulch of For
ty-flfth street, after office hours. There
was something really lovely about
Wenda. The dewlness Of tears shin
Ing behind her beauty. And Laddle
was like god. Heady with the wine
Of new love. .......
"Wenda," he said, "why have you
been so cruel1 Nothing can stop the
thing between US"
She looked at him with her eyes dry
and her heart crying.
"YOu must work." she said, land not
indulge in nonsense. Some day you
will be big lawyer"
II know I will IL you help me. Come,
Wenda, let's go to dinner-we've all of
life 10 plan"
"No--yes-but hrst-I must stop by
and see-my mother-have you moth
err Where Is your motherT'
"Sure I've mother. The greatest
ever"
"Where-is-she-"
"oh, she's home. We've a little
house up near Spring lake"
"A mother in a little house up near
Spring Lake1 Well, we must see my
mother-nrst-"
There she was in the doorway, end
ing her little old voice, futy with the
years, out into the jam Of the traffic:
"Poiper-Evening WoIld-Telegram
Sun and Post"
"Mamma-this is my friend-Mr.
Evans-we're on our way out for q
bite of supper"
"well, II It isn't young Evans. You
managed It, did your"
"He-what-?"
Heres a young fellows been pes
terlnR me to fix II for him to meet you
every time he seen you calling for me
evenings on his way home from the
law library and told him to shuttle
for himself" ..f.s
"You mean"
81 got myself Job In the office
where she works. That's what ] call
shutting for myself, Aunt EN-"
"Why-you-why you darling" said
wenda and looked at him with her
Young moon Of face.
you're a darling Yourself" said
T.addle.
"You're both darllngs," said Aunt
FIN. "And now rustic yourselves
along; you interfere with my buSi'