Show killies Kil ties tasters by JANE OSBORN mcclure syndicate service icea ft TT WAS kitties theory that a satis 1 fied bed taster would always make an eventual customer so she regarded the slight extra expense of time and money involved in making a daily supply of tiny patty cakes as well worth while A plate of these little sample cakes was always prominently displayed on the counter of her small shop located on the I 1 highway from new york to graham university over the neat white painted one room cottage was an enormous sign with the words kitties kitchen and the front of the shop was so arranged that on bright days it might be folded back so that gleaming the thel blue and white kitchen might be seen by motorists they could see the stove and the long table where kittle rolled out i I 1 the pastry that was to be the foundation of her famous pies or mixed the batter for cakes or coy covered ered them with luscious icing when they i were done and they could see see kittie whose golden hair showed in a stray curl or two that escaped the confines of her becoming cap on bright days that promised heavy traffic kittle made more cookies cakes and pies than she did when the weather was less promising and sometimes when a promising day turned out to be rainy with a meager supply of customers kittie had more samples to offer one day in august that had started out with a sky so bright that kittle kittie had made maximum supplies of everything and turned gloomy a rather forlorn car with two men stopped before kitties kitchen once inside they looked hungrily about signs of admiration gleaming fin in their eyes they priced various 1 good abood things and after consultation bought a half dozen patty cakes for thirty cents gee id like some pie said one of the young men its sixty cents informed d the other in an undertone dont you want to sample the th pie said kittle kittie mo moving ving the plate plat of f samples toward the young men ayou you see I 1 have lots of samples and we cant many custom ers on a day like this each young man took a sample which was wap only too easy to swallow ah do have another urged kutie kittle and each young man took another and then then pt at kitties urging another its very wet outside said isaid kit tip 00 ive just made some coffee for or myself of course I 1 dont usually perve icove anything but there is a going to waste and some nice cream you like a cup the young men looked first eager then hen dejected the truth of the matter is said th the e obviously younger of the two the truth is that we are broke kittle laughed as if being hal flat broke was most usual and a rather pleasant predicament 1 I really mean to sell you the coffee she he said it would be bb a bad precedent as I 1 dont sell coffee its a bother to wash the dishes I 1 just josf thought you might drink some of 0 JJ so it go to waste t the hungry young men needed no urther further urging each drank two CUPS cupa of the delicious beverage well certainly never forget this athis said both young men early the next summer kittle saw a strikingly luxurious roadster stop before her shop A young man of about thirty strode easily into the shop glanced approvingly at the neat blue and white equipment and then at kittle kittie my brother came nere last kumf summer he began and then looked ln in bently at the girl before him kate ronald as I 1 live he exclaimed brucel she gasped explanations followed you see my kid brother went broke after the end of his summer school work at graham last summer he had to leave his good car at a garage as ai collateral on a loan and he and a friend bought a wheezy old car for a hundred dollars to make the trip home hed had a pretty good time I 1 guess but hed passed off all his conditions so dad settled his hid debts hes finished up his college course nearer home where dad can keep a closer watch on him that both ered ted because he was so anxious to come back and thank you tor 0 r the way you treated him when he he was flat fiat broke As a matter of fact I 1 think he ha was rather hit hard but I 1 dont blame him now as I 1 was coming east this summer he got me to promise to stop in and see you and thank you and ask whether he might write ile he bother to write said kittle kiltie blushing hes such a kid not much older than you are smiled the elder brother but this thia is ia a surprise ive often wondered what you were doing hardly blamed you for not answering my letters it if you ever wrote I 1 get the letters said kittle softly you see after father died there was nothing not i a thing and so 1 I worked in a goody shop to learn the business I 1 want anyone to know and I 1 think you cared and then I 1 got started for myself really it so bad its marvelous bruce assured her but not so marvelous as you are kate I 1 came on to thank you borwhat for what you had done for my brother but I 1 am going to keep you jot for myself |