Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Sh Short rt Story THE MODEL FLAT r By MARY MARSHALL l Copyright 1913 1910 b by the McClure 1 Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate The Tho door of or Scott street ho hous Sc j stood tood ajar and Dick Wadle went wont In In passed a group roup of or coarse figured sal eal- eal- eal low-faced low east side side mothers mothers waiting to receive their offspring from rom the day and grop groped d his his' hisa way a through a adark adark adarle dark darle hall ball of the tho old building In search search of some one ono In charge Ho found Miss l Bailey tho head worker and told her that he wanted to look around and with stereotyped pe J cordiality she Bhe told him he could go o through the building and Irhe if Ir he wanted to 0 ask any questions he could find her later Dick knew that If Ir Mss Baile Bailey knew what errand had tailed called him there her re reception reception reception re- re o of him would have o been different her cordiality would have havo been of or a different different dif dlf- ferent brand He wand wandered red up several flights of or worn well-worn stairs into different club rooms The building had once been beena a church but since tho the encroachment of or ofa ofa ora a non churchgoing population In the neighborhood It had hull been abandoned aban to the uses of or a settlement house houle After Alter the last flight of or stairs he found himself In a re region lon that had once b been en tho vaultIng vaulting vault vault- ing leg of or the tho church before the floors were wre Inserted At one side Hide of or this attic room Dick saw what seemed to be u a playhouse At least there were four small window looking out on the tho main floor and through these windows he could see sec curtains and potted geraniums There was a 11 front door dour apparently leading into the small mull apartment apart apart- ment merit was interested He lIe stood lookIng look- look lag Ing at the little apartment slid and heard girlish chattering Then rhen a little pigtailed pig pig- tailed d. d cast st side girl Irl with an apron pron and an empty empt market basket t. t came through the door and went Tent about apparently pretending pretending pre pre- tending to be shopping She fahe hc stopped at ata a wood woo box at oric orte end of or the largo attic and filled her basket with kindling wood Then she went brie back to the playhouse Wad Wadle ley thought of or knocking at ut the lire door and finding out what was tens going on Inside in inside In- In side but he waited Finall the door o opened ned and n a dozen little girls all vei very In-I In happy and with l a great i deal to say 3 l dame out ut A young woman oman came cam to the door doo- I and anti helped them Ihen Into their thell hats hat and 1 coats In one end of or tho the attic room and andI I I then saw them to the head of or the stairs and with a 11 word of ot encouragement to each one with a Be Be sure and come I next week BeCk Berky to one and H t I hope the tho baby will b hp he better soon Rachel for rorI another nother sent them down downstairs Then tho the young woman whom Dudley adley I I raw faw ut a d lance c. even ln In ht the gloaming of Ib the lain into afternoon oon vaa vall yours oung and graceful graceful grace grace- ful came eanie back lack to 10 the door Un tame Came up to her ax as aM she he went Into the Tho door of or the little apartment I 1 I She h greeted him blur with a little start start I Idid Idid Idill did dill not sec MIC rou you ou the ehe hc said Have dare you ou bo brIO bees i here lon lone Wadley told her that h lie he was Just lookIn looking look look- In ing about that he h had Imd d l been heen watching h r Has class from the In- In outside The young was eager er to e things to him She said sald I that the apartment us he called calleJ it It w was waH aH a model flat It consisted t d dor of or three rooms room of or the tho sort that tha t the young girls gins of or the nel neighborhood h would probably proba- proba bly bh have to J go to housekeeping In and It Il was fitted UD Ut with Inexpensive furnish furnishing In ing I The Irie all do marry rr n arr here she he said so th the best work we ran can do is to show them how row to make good good ool wh wives es So you ou teach these east ut side aide people o how to tarry and live on their little and the poor young bankers hankers and nd lawyers on the other side of or town lown with i tn n times I II I their salaries cant can't marr marry because the young oun women the they would marry matry cant can't ma manage nage p Tho young woman laughed That That I le II- about tho the situation she she- she said sald and and jc i th these se people are happy B By this time they th had on Into Irto th the apartment arid and adley Wadley Was delighted with Its comfort comfort- furnished rooms I I I saw PAW the tho curtains and the flowers rom from the outside o he said Eald They look very ven pretty The They aien arent aren't t real windows 1 nd 0 she ox- ox ex They are Just solid glass lass but the they are arc where the th windows wIndow ought to be The real lJ light ht and air comes conies In n through the skylight kII ht And nd with each of or Wadley's Wadi Wadley's Wad- Wad i leys ley's 3 Inquiries 8 she e explained details of ot the lIUe flat fiat She told him that she was Miss Clarice HardwIcK that she was a volunteer worker and that she wished she sire had enough h mone money to make a 0 generous generous generous gen gen- erous gift to the settlement house I I adley felt that It was time for him to explain himself I am looking looking- around here for a Do way wiy wa to spend some money not money not my nay own own of ot course but I some ome of or my mv chiefs ehlers He Hc explained that ho was ayoung a ayoun young youn f member of or the linn of or a prominent prominent prominent nent financier and that he r w W 18 ris i often orten lent ent on the thankless Job bf looking up to to which the financier thought of or giving 1 money mone lie He had hid b been thoroughly thorough thorough- I lv ly discouraged crl when he arrived ed II at t the house he ire raid ald but now lu was he was glad he ho had come conic Clarice wa was Interested and d. laughing laughin saId va d she wouldn't let him go o till he had promised to get set a Ii little of or the money mone for her to spend on model flats ts All 11 this explanation had grad taken laken half an hour and when the they to 10 tire the door doo the they found round It was lurked locked Clarice ic ic- that the tiro J janitor always s earn cam up top and locke Jt Jl from the outside after t she hart had gone gOIl l and d kept the k key Ap p I parenti he lie had hal thought drought s she ho had gone cone at her usual time Wadley a 11 I e suggested the Inside windows but Clarice Clarke reminded him that they thov didn't open We W e could break brenk one otic through rough she suggested but Wadle Wadley protested and rind Clarice Clarke as UI d rim him that some on one would come to their rescue before lon long HS as there thero was WI a boy boys boys' c club chub on that Unit floor noor at al 7 and they would hear their call for fr help In the meantime Clarice lau laughed Il 11 and Vad Wad Icy ley laughed ante and neither seemed Scorned to be sorry sam You 10 can prove pro e to 10 nr mo m. whether r you OU OUn n really do d cJ deserve ser xe the noo he lie heald ald Id And Clarice started the hue Ore lire In th the little sto o and J un to treat heat the water for the supper that sire hc was going to ea cat t. t This supper supper coffee coffee WI with Jr condensed milk breakfast food and nd creamed chipped beef and Jim theca the the c e were Wert all KII thin Ihn supplies supplies sup sup- plies that Charles had bad on h hum d In tire the model kitchen served kitchen cd on nn the bare bire white while table In the rued l tint flat was D the tle most royal ro feast that feut that had ever er had hrad Once out of or the Scott cott street settlement house Jo Jostled b by the Scott street Jut population pop lation Wadle Wadley naked If H he might M e ee Miss Mias home 1101 ne and she accepted his hlll escort with relief I lOr hope hop lid auld CIa Clarice rico as she left him n af n the thc d door of or her house C n I th Mi other side of or the thc city that tint yen HI viii f KOTie tI It It- n. n fineries fluence with your YOU chef und and that o i will willII II e 1150 that hat Influence In favor tn of or model na tl stood and took rook l r outstretched hand handes Ves es he ire said ald but wont won't ou you give she me another demonstration You will let Ift m me come again wont won't you yon jou Two To months later Inter Wadley Allie m met t Clarice one a afternoon In lit th the Scott Stott street house II after h her r da lass aK t WaS o over Tire The voices of or orthe the little houFek leu we were e stilt to he be heard heard on the stairs stair Chance Clarice he said raid taking her hand that was dripping with soap and water from the little kitchen sink I I 1 brought the th Ih chin today H HP Ile r. r Is III down wn r f |