The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-30

, last minute things for grand
mother.
Dorathea ought to. She never
did anything. But if she'd rather
read a stupid detective story
than help, let her. 1t wouldn't
hurt mother to do something
either. She was giving herself a
facial. She always did things
like that around dinner time.
Nobody ever helped grand.
mother, but Jan. Well, she liked
to, and in moment she would.
The envelope was addressed,
and she was just going to stamp
it and then read the letter over
again, when she thought she
heard someone call her.
did you call me, grandmother?
I'm coming"
Nobody answered - she m u t
have imagined it. Smelled like
something burning, though.
So she put her letter in her
pocket dI1u WSA4V "AAAONoAA '
kitchen to see.
The cream sauce had boiled over.
and so had the peas. The whole
kitchen was full of smoke.
And on the floor a little heap
of gray foulard and neat, ruttled
yellow rubber apron, grandmother
lay where she'd fallen, near the
sink.
"She's fainted!" Jan cried.
"Grandmother's tainted! Oh, come
quick!"
But Evelyn, who ran in from the
bedroom, her face glistening with
cold cream, her hair tied IN a
towel, screamed, shes dead"
For once, she was right.
Dorathea and Jan, between them,
managed to call the doctor, and
two neighbors, whom they'd never
spoken to before, came in the open
back door, and helped lift the frag-
lie little body from the floor.
Once more the family assembled
Once more they put away their dif-
ferences and were together a
united group.
"Oh, David, I've nobody but you
now" Evelyn wept after the fu'
neral.
And he put his arm around her
and led her away, and the family
all looked, and Uncle Peter said to
his Caroline, so loud that both
Dorathea and Jan could hear:
poor old Dave! She got him
after ALL"
It was after their grandmother's
death that the hard times really
set in. It was as she had said,
there was no money left in the es-
tate.
Peter still spent lavishly, Of
course. On himself and Caroline
and Ards.
Evelyn couldn't forgive her sis
ter-in-law for having all the things
that she yearned for, for herself,
and Caroline accepted her open
animosity with cold. smiling 1ndif-
ference. It amused her to offer
her old but still lovely dresses to
Dorathea, and to hand over Ards
things to Jan.
Don't you dare take any more
of their cast-off junk" Evelyn
would cry fiercely, each time they
came home with bundle.
Then her curiosity would get
the better of her.
Lets see what's in it. Nothing
she could ever use again depend
on that. Even if it We're good, I
wouldn't let you wear it. I'd rather
YOU went around in rags than have
Caroline gloat over me. Take 1t
out-all of it! I don't even want
to see it. Tomorrow I'll call the
, Salvation Army. ...
"Well, you needn't dash out
with it now. I said tomorrow.
Let me see that black crepe. A
Paris original! Do you know
what that cost? More tn a n
enough to send both of you to
school for a year. And good as
new. It's too old for you, Dora
thea, and besides I wouldn't give
Caroline the satisfaction, but I
do believe. Yes! BY ripping off
the jabot and putting on my own
lace collar, and changing tn e
shoulder line, could fix it so
that"
Ito Be Continued)