| Show WINIFRED BLACK 1 Writes About The Treasure Copyright 1915 1911 by hy Newspaper Feature ture S Service Inc Inc I dont don't mind going Coln Into 1 a n new w school said Fluff Fluffy Ruffles but oh Im I'm I scared to death o cr every time line I think of ot algebra algebra is harder than fractions and than Tho They say worse worM decimals and I meaner than th the dynasties of Spain anti and I England n and France Franco and Germany I put Jut to together Algebra scoffed Plain Braids tilting her saucy little nose heavenward I I 1 dont don't care anything about that that but oh when you OU set act to astronomy thc they say that's ts perfectly U unbearable I I 1 went Into the sitting room and sat sut down by the fire and I had a a. plate of or fudge with me anti and as we ate th the fudge we talked talked Fluffy Ruffles Pia Plain aids Dr-aids and I. I I T told them that I was a n traveler returned from the weird country y of ot Algebra and the strange o and awesome kingdom of or Astronomy I and I had lived to tell the tale Why shouldn't the they And the they laughed and looked comforted a a littin I wish I could comfort them AH H easily n or comfort myself i HS 11 easily about the rest relt of the things s which Plain Braids and Flur Fluffy Ruffles will have to learn In the school ot of life Now No- there's theres Fluffy Ruffles III She's tb the best hearted little thing In tn m the world generous and tor forgiving mid amid so AO unsuspicious How am m I r ever going oln t to tell her not to trust people too far I hate to take that look of or faith out of or her blue eyes I t feel fecI lIk like A ii criminal even to think of ot making her understand how careful she hc will have v to be about ever every wor word she sho says sass and almost every thought she Aha thinks wh when n she sho ho Is among amon strangers If I should try to do It It she would Just laugh and think mo me and too particular Plain Braids she's proud nn rind and broad minded She doesn't see seo the difference difference differ differ- ence between tho the ashman and the millionaire and she fhe cant can't cantIe see Ie wh why sh she should hould be an any more polite to the tho governor of the than she Is to th tm thA Janitor of the apartment house and nd the worst o of it Is I r cant can't give Ive her an any good reasons either yet ct after nil nilI allI all all- I I have havo a friend who smokes She's a woman brilliant highly educated and most attractive She is a II foreigner and in her country all the women of ot her cla clans claRo smoke moke a. a as a matter of ot cour course c. c She's coming to visit me Now if tf It weren't to for l' l Fluffy Ruffles I shouldn't care particularly whether my friend smoked or not She la is free treo white and a n rood good dc deal l more than 21 1 But how about Fluffy Flurr Ruffles What if it Fluffy Ruffles struck a 1 match and started to smoke lIo How am nm I going to explain to her Mrs likes to come and have ha a cup of or tea at my mj house and talk over the new pla plays s 's an and the Ue latest books She's She as good as ari B gold old as ns honest as ns the day and Id I'd stake my life on her character yet ct some of ot th the tho things B she says are a little er nh ah er ah Hosin HonIn How Hon in tho the world am I oln explain her to Plain Braids Have He Hethey they the right of ot it these children who think that white Is b white and black is black and that there Is no such uch thing as gray at all I scolded Plain nral Braids s the other othor da day for starting to tell a n. wee T littI fib tIb and yet she Rhe heard me over a telephone saying sayin that I would love lovo to go 10 to the tho party but really couldn't manage It It and md she sho knew that the th only reason I didn't mann manage o It was because I simply hated the very Cr thought of ot even being a asked k d I r wonder voon or what Plain Braids and nd Fluffy Ruffles r really think of ot me rae and of or m my friends down own in tho the bottom of ot their hearts One traveler returned returned returned-oh oh yes cs I can tell them about the algebra nd nd hint to them about tho the astronomy but when it comes comps to the tho plain realities s sor of or life lite I cant can't do 10 half haJt n ns as much In the way of or training Plain Braids and Fluffy Ruffles n as the old gray ray cat eoe does docs in the way of or training her little fluffy fluter gray and white kittens when she Rho teaches them how to fall from th thu th wall without getting in the tho least hurt Experience ExperIence that's that's the one possession that we te cannot p pass pais pon on Oil to the th nt generation no not If It w we are arc willin willing to lay Iny down our lives JIves to do It And somehow that does doe seem a pity I f |
