Show 0 0 A joyous idealist S Q H by ALVAH JORDAN GARTH CARTH 1 0 verlorn Ved Lorn newspaper union look up tip i milled allied john lane cheerily get gel over the eyelids in ink if iou dont take a glint gillit at the sunshine and the blue blua sky once in a while the life of the office brought his hand down on oil the broad bent back of the bookkeeper with a brotherly slap arid and then faced him all smiles and good nature dont be like a quadruped hunting bunting tor for achins and never looking e up to see if its ita an elm elin or an oak lies ain under proceeded lime lane the aged bookkeeper looked up with clearing face confidentially observed the bookkeeper sailing now 1 I 1 mooning or blue but I 1 was as trying to figure egure out liow how I 1 was going to spare enough frow rom monthly to pay for a double cradle you dont mean cried lane boisterously terou sly tins yes I 1 do nodded the other animatedly girls saturday Satur duy night it strange now exulted lane double cradle got a friend lio ho tins lias one anxious to get rid of it tile the bookkeeper followed lane us as lie ile moved gloved away with a gleam of marked suspicion in his eye looking buck back for the years lie be could recall many nud and many instances where tills this awer of happiness liap had sprung into the breach to face the needs and troubles of others ot liers always he seemed to be most providentially equipped to act acl us as almoner or practical adviser when ned dolby a clerk had broken down in ili health and had to be sent to colordo lane had bobbed up miraculous ly ith a railroad ticket stand in etli the olli otti cial see he had intimated etli tin an audacious smile right now lie he lifted frona ills his desk a bouquet done up in ili paper and with it nd Minced ced to the dek of aless ava reade the stenographer for mother lie he whIp whispered ered raptly getting better and better every day I 1 hear yes thanks to you replied ills reade with humid eyes the oper anlou you paid tor for has saved her life 1 hope our constant bring you blessings aud ald now you go and rot rob your garden non edisel ridiculous 1 thousands left one solid mass of blo bloom otal 1 As to those acres of flower bloom as to 10 tile the friends who iio had overcoats tu to give away away in winter and double cradles und and railroad tickets this us as suring romanticist glided over ills his imaginary friends and posses possessions sIOUS too airily at rity for tile ottice office force to explode the llie real facts with his fits more urtle artless beneficiaries lane was rich lived in a regal hume home probably with extensive grounds rounds seeing that a bouquet on every suitable occasion was readily forthcoming if pretty ava reade ever suspected that this great philanthropist was glien ghen to exaggeration she adored him all the more for the sacr sacrifice itice tile the atlon devotion to humanity that thai must be the sole mainspring of his bis gell generosity ero sity slie she was vias the first to show solicitude when hen one day clay word had come by phone that he was by the end of the week eek it was said that he was under the care of a physician ava went ent to the cashier and asked fur for sir mr lanes lanea home address queer remarked the cashier looking over his books but lane never gave live us that never had occasion to ask him film for this Is the first time lie he eer missed a day ava mentioned this to her mother the old lady immediately ined lately went to a kitchen shelf where hei L slie she kept odd pieces of string and waste paper yes I 1 saved it she said unfolding the paper that had surrounded the lowers flowers lane had bad sent 1 I noticed his name written on in pencil and a paster hearing the name of li la laundry here it is it was late saturday afternoon when ava started out to visit the laundry the people there gave her the address of lane and ava looked surprised and almost dismayed the fictions of tier her stanch arid and helpful friend were apparent us as ale he located a poor tello tenement i und and was shown to a room one flout below tile attic from inside cattle came a babel of juvenile glee upon a couch in the stuffy spars sparsely ely furnished room lay lane pale and attenuated but smiling bravely and encouraging cou raging halt half a dozen dozell ragged un tin kumpt little ones to continue feasting lee ice cream and cakes set on a table in ili one of the windows was a little rude box bos filled with growing flo flowers Ners this then was his big royal abode mat two by four window space ills his solid mass of bloom ava glided to a corner of the hall and had a good cry then she hurried horne home there tier her mother joined tier her with wilh col companion tears thence hoth both departed in it a livery carriage an hour later to remove john lane from discomfort and almost squalor to their own ovi neat comfortable home i Fi iKid of the world but help belll it confessed lane and us always his 1119 wan 1911 face full of sunshine so lantuy needed what I 1 earned more man alinn myself and see gee the friends ive fiade you two alone are enough to nil fill a lifetime with joy dont you we see theres nothing worth caring for in ili life but loe oe my heart Is full of it 11 for nil fill liu manity particularly for ayou you ava lie supplemented ted next day what say I 1 what jabat ava said save gave to avas mother B loving gloving and fie beloved loved son in law before the year arar was over |