Show Telegrams Daily Short Shod Story I YS Y'S DEVOTED DAD By LOUISE OLIVER right 1916 by McClure Newspaper per Syndicate Moffatt choleric and al as well Jt red as the heavy davenport which he sat sat looked up from the g paper Well It looks as people were learning sense in n suffrage has been turned down downstate downstate own state he chuckled lm rm sorry exclaimed Dorothy ill lly doing nothing by the after- after lamp The girls have worked rd rd rd What do women know about demanded Ji demanded her father who spent ours vours in his office every day just juste justo o e o looks of the thing Politics Ibe be a nice mess with women ini in inI I tell teU you ou women have haven't lt and will have the brains of men othy thy seeing an opportunity struck the iron was hot Then dad u like men so well why do you to me having company or going here with a man te tt Moffatt looked up from her herting feting ting Ung horrified The affair of the mores mores' nephew who had visited relatives and managed to make make hY fall in love with him him to to t the e I leous ous us rage of Papa Moffatt who I r way lay on a trip at the time was time was J ct religiously avoided by the f For papa possessed a temper Vesuvius and as danger- danger alic tic ic as Ta fa mine A mere touch and it off othy's remark went home hom The exploded exploded So you think miss I came home in time to from run- run g some young whelp J tt with you that you are alto Ito be sarcastic the rest of ot your Sli its Irs ts t's a good thing for him he that train or Id I'd be In jail for liar r. r t dad you never even saw law him t fair to Judge people before before- ats at's enough young lady Do you ou lIve Ive I've spent money on you all your you music and painting goodness knows what just to have 1 1 young rascal of a nobody steal Besides youre you're too young I you right here at home to be beany bey bey any y y for ma and me till youre you're And when you get married ck your husband Women haven't brains Im I'm glad they didn't let vote and puffing putting his cheeks Moffatt resumed his paper Dorf Dor- Dor sobbing f louder than occasion deded deded de- de ded left the room and went to bed In reality the tears dried J miraculously as soon as her door if shut She got out an immense ket of thick letters addressed to eral Delivery and reread every one one ne flushed cheeks and shining eyes dear there will be some way going to think harder than I ever everin in my life No brains papa says k kf out ut dad wheres where's Dolly asked Papa rat at breakfast she the she has a headache She all night said mamma Spa Jopa pa tried hard not to look like the linal he f felt lt His moments of re- re for many of the won won- won won-I ul things Dolly now possessed He Hered red over his mail By George I ie Jel rye Ive got to go to New York to- to it IC t. t Ive I've just had a letter from Mc- Mc nell neil Have my bag ready will you dinner at 6 instead of 7 Tell Telly y to think up what she wants to lher her er headache o I he departed and Mrs Moffatt with the news Doro- Doro gr grew w thoughtful and helped herti herto her- her to ti another roll roIl she was having ery cry comfortable breakfast in bed t lIPO mo no more headache than I have at minute Something she want wanted d would make the price high found two bags ing in the hall when h he returned trunk a besides Dorothy dressed traveling met him smiling Such Sucho o d daddy she coaxed sweetly coma mma mma told me you said I could have havet t tI wanted so I decided Id I'd take athis a athis m this time You Tou are so good to Im I'm going to New York with you erk er father had not meant exactly but he dared not refuse Well ess maybe maybe All All right come along J pont Dont Don't know what Ill I'll do with but if you ou want to go I guess you I lut Ml AU All ready es es daddy demurely 1730 30 found them In a Pullman ding eastward et is s go to the St. St Martin sug- sug in the morning V Veil Tell n hesitated ted her father I als algO al- al s gO to the but if you t tithe the other its it's all right the St. St Martin It was I i ley icy engaged rooms and Mr Moffatt ed ad hurriedly at his watch I have ting at 10 10 Dorothy Now about you xou ou cant can't go around alone Ider I Ider Ider der if we can get some one to go ryen eps ets eC- ask ask the young man at the daddy is oung man very good looking obliging and anc v very ry much Interested of thy thought he knew of a way the ave a sister said he who would ble to go with Miss Moffatt per- per y Ve We have an apartment in Har- Har call her up it 14 was arranged that during her ay stay Dorothy was to have a panion while Papa Moffatt was 6 with with- Ith a a deal of great financial im- im ince elsewhere evening of the first day while while thy was dressing for tor dinner and andre tr tre re later Mr Moffatt appeared in ino obby oby o by and sauntered up to the desk young man was still on duty al- al alI I h not busy Soon they were hav- hav t chat Papa Moffatt had beforehand and was feel- feel He fairly radiated g good od reth long hours flours eh young man ot 9 o 0 bad Im I'm off oft duty in a few tew now Did your daughter en- en her lien day 1 es 3 yes yes much obliged to you h ont dont mention it If you dont don't don t Riy my saying so lO she's uncommon uncommon- god od looking P chuckled You bet she is And AndU l du tiu U I have lave a time keeping herg her getting g away from me Im I'm going ep her er for a while k while keep keep ep her forI for I lie la He put his finger tips to- to and leaned confidentially over leak leek Last time I 1 was here sheY she Y eloped with a young oung rascal back 0 o this time I brought her Dung oung man looked toung sympathetic sighed Id like to get married if iri But It costs so darn much gI I Just cant can't It Moffatt looked interested Roe Iloe Ho- Ho e always is thrilling if the daugh- daugh Inot not yours Too bad You seem ve ye it pretty comfortable here j i l iJ its it's all right right only only the gIrls gIrl's I to everything and her ller people make a row at Is too bad Well save sa all aU you and ind invest In something good my my motto Its It's the only way to Ch quick have r ve saved aved was th the tha CJ an f saver SWier but the thing is to get et the in inside inside inside in- in side track on something good No one cares to give me a tip Now it happened that the young man knew exactly what papas papa's b business business busi busi- S ness nesa was in New York and wasn wasn't t it t clever of him to bleat to the right person The other picked him right up and gathered him Into the fold told Putting Putting Putting Put Put- ting one finger against his nose and shutting one eye he leaned quite close Buy Valparaiso Special and n Ss S's s first thing in the morning It Its It's s mine mme t I tell Vi you but u keep It lt Quiet ell Hello Dolly Ready Goodbye e young oung man man And In a loud whisper Maybe her herold herold herold old man ma wont won't mind it so much if you youre you're re rich The third day and last of New York was a busy one one- for papa paDa but when he got back to the hotel before dinner dinner din din- ner Dorothy had not returned He went down stairs to inquire but bu his young friend Was also absent from the desk The clerk In hi his place said he was away for a few bering days das and remembering remembering something handed the anxious patron a letter e It thy was from Dorothy Doro- Doro Dear Daddy Bert our hone honeymoon moon I hesitated and I are on that he was the too to tell you ou liked Wasn't It young man Ive I've always And you odd to find him here Were ValparaIso darling to tell him abut about Specials He cleared thousand several dollars such on your our tip Up Youre You're a good daddy Ive I've bought such lovely clothes for tor or m my wedding d. d We Ve were afraid to ask you h but it t quiet Was very anyway Besides YOU said I l could have anything anything I happened to be want wanted and it a Lovingly Dorothy husband this hi time Ume e. e P P How S.-How about Do Women voting you still sUlI think brains Fess we haven't t any up da dad You well be sweet about H. 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