Show THE HUMILIATION OF SPARKS The trouble with your brother John Eliza said Air Sparks aL the dlnni1 table one evening is I that he doesnt look Ma profession A young doctor ought to look like TI doctor John goes about with his pants tinned up at the bottom the latest cut of a I collar a little dinky necktie and the newest thing in hats He looks more like a young stuck broker than a sawboneu and people with measles In the family or with legs to 10 cut off wont have him In simply because he doesnt look a physicians partBut But Interposed Mrs Sparks John simply dresses i neatly and In good rtalltrt aasteOh Oh I know all that Eliza but a physician ought to wear frock coat jjoldbowed spectacles and a plug hat VluMi John dresiKS like that he will ° get noro patients than he has pills for You mark my words Vliy Great Scott look at mi Ive been something some-thing more than successful in my line and wluin 3 was a lawyer t I at least 1 owed a lot of my clients to the fact that I looked like a lawyer I want to jay again thnt the whole thing consists in looking your part Mien 1 cut htw for literature and went to book reviewingfor the Dally Preczo the mnjinslm v < Jltor whpn j 1 applied for the position simply looked at inc Ho knev In a minute from my dress and expression that I was the man for the job lye dropnuil 1 the lawyerllke look long since and now everybody can tell after one glance that Im in the literary line There Isnit l any question about It Jvo had strangers say after being Introduced to them Youre a writer Jlllmt you JMr Spades and say thin In the face of th fact that the old gent wont let I I me sign my articles Yrs Henry murmured Mrs Sparks you do look literary with your spectacles and your liair back from your forehead and all that but then you cultivate it you know and John says you wont mind this dear will you that hed rather be natural and dress I as he foots rather than put on unbecoming clothes though they made him look ns wlae as Msrulaplua Yell Kllxn Johns your brother but I must say hes got something of tho fool in him When somebody takes me for n butcher I may change my ideas on the subject but know whats what nnd Mr Sparks looked self sunicient Henry Sparks believed that lie midnight mid-night nil mad smooth tit low ofhl thought Thus It was that he did all his hook rcvlciwlng for the Breeze at I night lie went down to the t olllcujni inrdlatoly afli r dinner and there rend novels und history and natural science sci-ence and essays and wrote about them nil until a a mk when bpi want home Now the Spark family had been troubled in the matter of scrrante The maids came and went I Finally Mrs Sparks ran across a Wllmetfft nc fiualmanee J who told her all nbout the experiment time clubwomen of that eu bUm h had tried to better l the condition of their domestic employees by the UD ELECTION DAY IN KANSAS l it 1 M r fc mf m 1 tS r Lady at the polls I want to vote sir Judge Allright mum How old arc you Lady bushing upVhnt Judge How old are you 1 t ° Lady Do I have to tell that Judge Certainly mum Lady tearing up tckct ThanksI dent want to vote tlftt bad Good morning lifting process Mrs Sparks had told her woes and the friend said that she would send hir a t maid who was not only superior as a housework artist I but had a lofty Christian spirit a discriminating dis-criminating mind and it odo of moral that Was as rigid as that of John Calvin Cal-vin p Two days later l hemalll1 reported at the Sparks flat on the South Side She was everything that her WIfmette sponsor had declared her to be Mrs Sparks felt almost guilty because she didnt ask the young woman to dine with the family Ruth that watt the girls name made only one stipulation as to the terms of her acceptance of position In the Sparks household and that was about the time that sho was to have out She wanted to so to church twice on Sunday and to have every Wednesday night free from household pares so that she could attend at-tend the weekly meeting of the branch of tho Womens Christian Tempera nee Union to which she belonged Ruth baked fried and broiled to a turn t Mr Spark had never eaten such dainty and toothsome trlllos in the way I of omelet sotillles hlckcn croquettes and Virginia popovers aa that girl with Iho white ribbon of the W C T I U I in her buttonhole turned out Shes all right Ella he said hang on to har Be kind gentle and patient Ill promise you that youll never lose her through me 1 think she looks approvingly ap-provingly on my quiet way and literary lite-rary demeanor Mr Spitrkc always came home hungry hun-gry from lib book reviewing In the Breeze olllce So It was that at 2 oclock in the morning every day In 1 the week hairing only Sunday for Mr Sparks took Sunday night offhe would make his way to the kitchen and there do away with some of the delicate cookery of the pious Ruth which had been left from dinner the night before They had had Ruth two weeks It was Thursday morning thc day after the girl had attended the Wednesday night W C T U meeting that Henry Sparks thought ho cl l tad t-ad a troubled look In her face Th girl showed evidence oC some Inward eonlllet for the next seven days On the next 1 Thursday the look of gravity and trouble In her face had deepened still further Friday morning at 2 oclock when Henry Sparks reached his Hat craning cran-ing from his nightly literary labor in the Breeze ofllcc he found his wife sitting up for him HIT cheeks were tenrslalned Heirvy she said Ruth Is I gone I know youll blame me but I was ns kind and hood as n woman could be I kept out of ho I kitchen and never found fault but she left Just after you had gone to tho ofllrc last night Sho said she was sorry to leave me but her conscience wouldnt let her stay and no other reason could I get her to give Oh well Its tho fame old story said Mr Sparks like all other wo miii you cant keep a girl and of course youre to blame Why carit you look the part l and act the part of a good housekeeper as I look the part and act the part of a literary man s That same morning after Mr Snarks had seven hours sknp 1 he eat at I the breakfast table with his wife opposite I The postman had just been around with the second delivery There noi j u letter for Mrs Sparks She opened It lead It and then with a peculiar look In her eye she handed it over to her husband He took It and this a i what he rend Chicago May ODe r Mrs Sparks I was sorry to leave you 1 did not < toll you why > because I did not lute 1 to hurt your feelings but I think it Is I butter to tell you now You were kind and good to me but you know I J am a member of the Temperance + Union and my conscience would not IIt II t in of bar l let ate work In the house a tender I suspected that Mr Sparks J I G tended bar from his appearance tad hcciuse he always came home nt oclock In the morning and then I was I made certain of It by finding on IM wall behind his door a certificate showing show-ing that he was once a member of the Chicago Bar association Can you not 1 turn him tram his wicked ways Yours Ruth Jenkins Did Mr Sparks take It meekly t Did he act and look the part of J lamb as < he had always noted AS tt i looked the part of a lawyer nnd su scnuenlly of the literary man i Eliza he growled Im going to I ant put on n blue shirt a red necktie a green vest and then some blame fool woman will take me for a pir ronFdward B Clark in ChlclSO I RecordHerald 1 |