Show Winifred Black s Writes w rues tes A bout About Living Service FIa little brown house In There's Theres a a little gray grav str street i And ever every once in III a 1 while when I am l tired red of or the the regular cho close t to IW where rc I accustomed Ia da day I turn down the thc gra gray little street way a y Walk alk for n u t to when Wilen I get to tho the little brown house I stop and look a chan change e and at al at it l it and an and l there wonder von dee It is quite a L simple little place built of brown painted green am and tho plain little door that front shingles H V with h a 10 1 is green too the ine l Plain ain little lime little But Ivo Ive always alway wondered who lives there I never garden or at the window or on the porch and tho the neighbors saw anon anYOn ne W I n few rew visitors there thier sa say th t The rue other othel lay day when I passed the tile passe little iitti brown hous house I T had surprise There was waK a service flag in iii the tho window a 5 sh a fla flag wm u-m Could there thero have been een a man there thero after all all all' with one A day or so 80 after as I went by I saw someone in the f fand and with her was a a. little child and the they were making gardena y earth oarth Tile They had sticks slicks and were marking some kind of I i. i n. n In the ground round for COl the da day was surprisingly warm geOmetrical rl 5 even for climate and anti the tho frost seemed to have n Our m mo gone for a while from rom t tI I looked I saw tile the they were tracing the thc form Corm of a star on 5 the the air Ani i And the woman leaned upon the thc childs child's shoulder er and nu said M. M s Is s it all made now now tIle the star Arul AmI the child said Yes In the tile spring sprIng- said the woman oman we e will plant it with whito and purple there here are no blue ones one you ou know know- know and and ana nd red Teds Ted's then star stat will be bo alive alic and growing o ou our r II as asI I saw law that the woman was waI blind Soon after by the tue stran strange c that so o often 1 I begin In to take interest In ill hen an some particular I person learne l did live li In the littie brown house alone and that her that the w 0 so son it JoIned the array anny Was Who She had quarreled with him hint over some boyish freak I had run away asay from home and she had bad not heard from him long Jong ago aI and a the tho other lay day a letter lettel came telling her that ho was in the for yea rear went went arid bought the service flag and put It in her lter window army and and i hittle friend of hers in from the thc neighborhood to-ethL to S She ca an and 1 lo etner out the tho place lIaCe of at the thc star etar In the little garden the they tn How beautiful it will ivill bo be when spring comes and tho the tulln tulIps I in the little garden What a lovely star they will ar are ra in b I the green of or tile the till tiny Uny lawn make mako shin shining S thera thea What hat pity it is that the woman who lives Jives In the I cannot see the star she has made But nut she sees i it in little HUla rown ho bo I hw her r heart T doubt I IThe have haye I The Tue smoke curled up wonderfully from the little t I chimney when I went She this IM mo past must have made a bl big fire firo in the I I if it the boy hoy who ran awa away from home wo would ld like liko to step sten in fireplace and ami sit I Won I her for a few minutes and tell her hor ho lies bo's s sorry sorry and and asham ashamed there thoro w 1 I I dont don't believe tiP hed he'd have to tell her iler I think she knows know an and I sites she's trying to tell him hint something with tho the stars in the garden carden th 1 J wonder what it Is I 4 |