The Washington times., 1938-10-17

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place"
Planning to get married, grand.
pa?"
He grinned and shook his white
whiskers.
MY granddaughter from Detroit
comes to visit" he beamed.
POLISH FOR SMART SET
Everybody knew that his daugh-
ter-the one who had married the
automobile man-was in society.
They wondered, rather pitylngly,
whether grandpa hoped to impress
a city bred, society granddaughter
by a mere blue door.
In town. grandpa called first on
his old friend, John Kleeman, the
banker.
How turns out that boy of
yours, John?" he wanted to know.
Already he's assistant cashier"
Kleeman Dragged.
Grandpa dlgested this news and
puffed at his pipe.
In Detroit, where my daughter,
Anna, lives, they got funny Gus.
tom" he said at last. "A girl,
when they want her to get mar.
ried. she must come out first to
society, in a deboo. 1t costs $4,000,
Anna writes"
so you send the two thousand.
! suppose" said Kleeman.
Grandpa Siebert had built up
considerable savings in his seventy
years of toll Now it went, five
hundred last Winter, one thousand
this Spring. now two thousand dol
lars. to that silly daughter and her
family.
With the automobile business
not so good, it seemed that grand
pa was elected to pay the social
bills. 1t was against all solid Dutch
common sense, the banker thought.
Maybe grandpa was getting fool
1sh in his old age.
mot yet do I send the two thou.
sand" grandpa said slowly. First
comes my granddaughter. Jane,
to visit me. I see then about her
coming out" Another pause. "To-
day I painted my front door blue"
he added.
Kleeman looked puzz.ed; then
he laughed aloud.
why, you old rascal" he cried.
REAL DUTCH BEAUTY
Grandpa paid other calls IN
town and all on the fathers Of
sons. The owner of the chief store,
two well-to-do farmers. He did not
confide in them as he had in the
banker, but to each he mentioned,
with emphasis, that his grand
daughter was to visit him soon
and that his front door was
painted blue.
Grandpa had not seen his grano-
daughter, Jane, since she was al
plump, blond child Of IL. He was
pleased to find that she was still
plump and blond. A real Dutch
beauty, he thought her.
He did not know that plump
blondes we're temporarily out OF
style as debutantes, and that Jane
dreaded her prospective debut al
most as much as she dreaded this
visit to him.
You can wheedle the money
out of him." her mother had said.
"Stay fat now. That'll please him.
OF course you must reduce as soon
\ as you come back"
Jane was shy and quiet. She did
not want to wheedle money,
especially for an event which she
feared as much as debut. Why
couldn't she go on with her domeS-
tic science course at school, in
stead of being flung into the mar
riage market where she would no
doubt be fat flop?
Despite her grandfathers warm
welcome she remained afraid.
Then the blue door burst on her
vision. It was gaily reassuring'
and she saw that grandpa'S bright
blue eyes were kindly too. Whether
or not she got the money, she
would have a quiet, pleasant sum-
mer.
She would devote it to learn
ing to cook, she decided, from
grandpa's housekeeper, Mrs.
Schimmel, who was an artist in
concoction of snits and keeps, OF
liver dumplings, Of all the sue
culent Dutch dishes Of southern
Pennsylvania.
Thus Jane planned-before the
knocker on the blue door began
to hammer beneath masculine
hands. She thought that the
three young men who arrived, one
by one, had come to call on her
grandfather. She listened while
they talked to him respectfully
about farm crops and local busi-
ness conditions.
YOUNG MEN LOOK-SEE
Mrs. Schimmel brought in a
great platter of jelly doughnuts
and a pitcher of iced lemonade
Shortly after this grandpa arose
said fatty that it was his bed
time, and clumped upstairs.
The three young men remained
Then she realized, with a star
of embarrassment, that they hac