Show ELCOME TO OUR ou UR R CITY 1 e S S SS S S s S 'S S S'S S S S k kt t I I I I 1 S vo o good and overwhelming w why y the D Democratic delegates the delegates the men at least totally least totally ap approve rove election lection of San Francisco as ca the city of the nati national convention There Thero are others equally persuasive persuasive- Tern associated with the hostess committee wh whoso ose pleasant duty it is is to say Welcome to our ourI city I I The two Californians pictured are left Miss Frances Joliffe and Miss Genevieve Geneviev Cooney Can CanS Cane S e the delegates for their enthusiasm Miss Joliffe is is a sister sister law Jaw in-Jaw of Colonel D D. D C. C Jackling of Salt lITHE THE HOPE CHEST I By Mark a A. A 1918 Company Lee by Little Luther u Blown 1 f CHAPTER CHAPT R 1 1 As Ae everybody knows knovs the girls employed employed employed em em- by Ballantine and Hoyt in n their great chain of candy stores are distinguished for their good looks This was a bobby of ot Roger Ballantine founder of the firm and he was said to ride It nearly as hard as the hobby- hobby i riding king who coll collected giant sol aol diers Certainly the local managers managers' were careful in their recruiting Those in college towns and watering places had to be particularly alert and the expert m In ch charge rge of ot The B. B H. H In Atlantic City therefore paid Sheila Moore a magnificent tribute tribute tribute trib trib- ute when he remarked that she was was waa the prettiest airl who ever er handed a box of chocolates across his counters coun coun- S j I coun-I I But Tom Ballantine went en e farI farther far far- ther In his opinion she he outclassed the entire B H. H IV IL cohorts He knew Ho lie had seen them all aU During the summer now gliding swiftly Into autumn autumn au au- au- au he had Inspected every ery link in in the chain o of oC sweetshops It was his his fathers father's ather r Idea of a a. vacation He himself himself him him- 8 self U made the grand tour of of or- his j I branches when h 11 he felt the need of j i change Young Ballantine w would have chosen another form of ot relaxation I from froni the labors of his Harvard Marvard year year but on the whole the pilgrimage had hadnot hadnot I Inot not been tedious Instructed to show him everything most of the local I I managers had broadly interpreted this f I to Include the town ana ano till tin he j I reached Atlantic City his studies were i i varied He then decided it was time timeto to specialize It H t was the candy busIness business bustness busi bust ness he had in mind but his specialty turned out to be Sheila Moore On a certain forenoon in September Septem Septem- ber her which had dawned deceptively bright Sheila darkened the day for forthe forthe forthe the manager by telephoning her resignation nation It seemed that she was was as going ging away She hated to leave him in the lurch Jurch she said bu but something oh something oh very ery important had had come up suddenly sudden sudden- i ly and she hoped hed he'd understand He did not Youn Young Mr B Ballantine sauntering sauntering terl g. g in shortly after listened to the news with c every cry ry mark marit of bf t sympathy H He agreed th that t her loss w was s a disaster ter tei of the first magnitude and Voiced i. II his regret that he could not help to toI I picK h her r successor successor But Jt it it appeared that that that-he he also was leaving town It was wasa wasa a a pers personal nal matter which no one could I attend to but himel He then took the the local manager Out dut t to lunch andI and I st strove stoe o e to to raise his spirits Th They Thay y had broiled lobster and other things II ghella hena lunched on a i cheese sandwich and a lemon Jemon at the soda Roda un n I fountain nearest her hall han b bedroom droom and II I r returned turned without a a pang of indigestion Indigestion tion to her packing She was vas only j I eighteen Bu But if h her r. r body was at j I peace her h r mind obviously sly w was s not note I and kneeling before her trunk her i I hands would every now and then tan fall fall idle and her hei eyes go questing Into far spaces s 7 The packing at an end nd she put on a suit snit of dark blue serge and a quiet little hat bat wIth a i Jaunty little tittle quill and Issued a gloriously youthful and vividly pretty f. f figure Ig I into tc a 3 a street which led hId II through shabbiness shabbiness' to splendor on its way to the sea The nearer she drew rew to the board walk the more laggard became her step and the rolling chair fraternity made confident bids for her patronage Once on the promenade however sh she sho gripped her courage afresh and walked briskly till she rca reached hed the entrance of a a. theatre which the billboards asserted was the home of supreme motion pictures and refined vaudeville Violent posters of ot the silent drama and framed photographs of the weeks week's vaudeville flanked the sh shallow lobby and ana after a glance at at a pier lock Sheila drifted to an easel dedicated to the renown of one Lew Pam and his Six Rosebuds The faces of the buds were ingeniously set about with petals petal All were comely and two might have met the exacting test of ot Ballantine and Ho Hot hoyt t The features of ot Mr Pam were nearly lost In the stock disguise of the German comedian but buthe buthe buthe he had a whimsical eye that was not in inthe inthe the least Teutonic He Ie looked directly out of the photograph and Sheil with her lovely color heightened ga gave e him gaze for gaze So rapt was she in her musing she took no heed of f the original original nal till he touched her arm I wrong Sheila he asked She started and flushed a still live live- her 5 5 I i 1 was just going to ask when your act came on she explained breath breath- lessly S Not r for an au hour he ho said But Continued n on n page gP- gP 3 3 |