Show THE EV EVENING STORY FATHERS FATHER'S s PLAN CopyrIght right 1012 by W W. Werner I feel more arid and more persuaded every lime time J I 1 como come father and mother that you must move Mrs Irs Georgia Talbot gave a fluh flashing glance around the old fashioned parlor her hei eyes w went nt from her mother sitting by b- the tho window knitting to her father down on his knees in front of ot the base burner poking down clinkers Its a a. positive shame hame in these days das of ot modern flats to e you two living alon along in this old unhealthy un un- un healthy frame cottage when u Unhealthy onal Mrs Hortons Horton's voice broke in on her daughter sudden suddenly Do you rou ou know Ive I've raised six of you In unhealthy frame framo cottage Unhealthy Un healthy health indeed Just look at al alar of you pictures of health I Mrs Irs Hortons Horton's knitting needles clicked furiously But Mrs Georgia Talbot only pityingly and after sitting a moment mo mo- ment mont In iii mart martyred Ted silence went on Its Us Just that you jou OU dont don't understand mother This place is lf not fit for you yon ant and father to II live ll In an any longer Father should not have a a. thousand and one chores to do dowhen dowhen when hen he could just as well be in a. a adear dear little apartment in the city steam heated and with a a. janitor to do all aU the hard work And were we're all on deadly tired of or having hay hav lug ing folks wonder why youre you're living hiving in this ramshackle le cottage a away ay out In an n un un- I I i I S Watched the tho Gloomy operations fashionable suburb miles from us UE us when thc they know that wo we live lIe in up to d date te It reflects on oil u father and mother you might know it Mrs Georgias Georgia's voice trembled d Into tearful tearful tear tear- ful silence and for tho the first Mr Ir Morton Her Mor ton glanced up Reflects ch did you say a Georgena Sup pose poso folks Know mow were we're depending on on- on nobody dont don't they Who ho is folks fOUs anyway any any- wa way Our Crl friends live all around us In Cottages cottage same Bame as we vc do where we can keep our affairs to oun ourselves I cs If It wo we want to to where we wc ha c room to br breathe ath t too o Well We'll take our OUI bit of lack bark yard with the chickens pecking round and our bit of oC front garden with lt Its sweet flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers If It we wo do 10 have to tote coal and wood In the winter winters so BO Just stop top your our botherIng bother bother- lug Ing us Georgena Mrs Mra G Georgias Georgia's she as rose was pathetic in th the extreme Its no us use talking she said resignedly you are ale both so ob t she he substituted Quick quickly at an ominous lifting of oC he her mothers mother's spectacles s but but we well we'll lI see flee The seeing took th the shape during th the winter of at so 60 vigorous an attack by th the Hortons Horton's sons eons anc daughters that It really was WM not in the least surprising that Ma May 1 saw a moving van JUt an backed up to the trim little cottage Saw also alo Mrs Horton sitting In the We front YIU yard watching h In gloomy silence th the operations bossed by Mrs Mn Georgia The Tho parlor furniture will Ill be bo Just just swell mother after aCter its it's done over Mrs frs Geoca gia a paused a a. moment by tho the silent figure The sofa will tit lit In iti your dear little par par- lor br beautifully ll and tho the rest of oC the suite She hesitated a moment Well WeH glumly Why Clara and I thought wed we'd divide th that t between een us Your Tour apartment being on the same samo floor as our ours where very verj sweetly we wo can loo look after you so 80 nicely we e decided It would be kindness to take it out of your our Wa way Then If Jr you ever h have vc company compano It will bo be easy to wheel It In Mrs Hortons Horton's Oh Indeed I tIt spoke vol vol- volumes umes and she glanced swiftly to where close cloe to her Mr fro Horton Horlon was taking u up pansy plants and potting them He lie Ie Seemed perfectly unruffled Even E when the van an an had moved away and Mrs Georgias Georgia's electric elec rice trio brougham pulled ed into tho the curb to bear them then to tho the new homo home In the city he still smiled serenely He lie seemed oblivious ob ob- ob livious of ot the pitiful quivering of ot his wife's tips lips as she Bhe looked hooked around the farden gar far den of oC the tears that filmed her e eyes cs as they rested for for Cor the briefest moment on the For Sale SaJe sl sign n tacked on the th front door And when whon she sobbingly murmured as the they followed Mrs Irs Georgia sla la down the pebble bordered walk Oil Oh Henry Henry Henr I wish the city and Jand nil all the swell flats were ere in Jericho ho he merely said fald Tut tut mother dont don't bo be foolish He Be com completely ignored the tho indignant light tight which flashed hed into her eyes and as ho he stepped into tho the brougham after her Jer he be hencer never nc once glanced at the deR deserted rt cl cot cot- I I ta tage e. e but cheerily waved goodbye to the neighbors Henry Hemy Horton tolled rolled alon along in the corn com brougham ham still smiling II i Yc Yes even en thou though h mothers mother's specks were vere 01 olt olf and nd she was furtively wiping her eves oel But Bul suddenly he hA burst out with Pull up Georgena Ive I've left m mv m umbrella on the tho veranda You just go so along along- with mother Ill I'll come on the tho street ct car No ii use mother coming cominS' back bick to be bo all up again I So oven men even as the nci neighbors hung hunS over gates dl discussing his hili cold he was among amonS' them again but not alone With him was an Individual with a 11 small notebook in on ono one hand haud a pen pencil in Iii In th other occasionally writing as they the walked along alonS' Henry Henn Hortons Horton's smIle Emil was vcr very expansive as ho he passed fied them and as th v looked l after fler him wide eyed ed he pulled up In front of the bold For Sale sign Jm his Ills head bead went back and a rich gur- gur glinc hugh came camo to them Then with witha a quick backward ward glance the sign was as torn oft off stuffed ii in his pocket the door unlocked and ho and the stranger went WI within thin S There was er Very ery little settling for tor the Hortons to attend to In tho room four-room apartment high up ii in Ira the tho big bib apartment building Mrs Irs Georgia and sister Clara quickly had things In shape so o father ther and mother molher could nit lilt back take things eis cas easy and enjoy enjo Ufo life enjoyment however how how- evor ever that for tor mother became a martyrdom martyr martyr- dom Sho very tho tiny apart apart- ment because as ah she put It it climbing five eve nights night o of was harder than a abig abig abl bl big big- w wash day alay la and she nhe flatly refused to tout put put ut her foot toot Inside the elevator Tho Tle jack back por porch h she ohe called a gossip shop am and in her own room rooms as alS Iho ho styled them she did not havo have one morsel of or privacy acy I 1 Just jut hate bate it all mother molher fumed to father I used to love 10 to have them come come out home to se zee cee us us but now now now-I I aint so io old I cant can't run m my 0 own house house bandbox bandbox I ought to Ie and ray and I 1 guc SUP SUP-JS s Ive I've got gOl a mind of ot m my own yet And you too oure m-oure o ro dif dlf- I erent terent You seem to think this hit thing We o living In stuck away up In the clo clouds dg Is Just all right You don dont don't t missour miss mills our g garden with tt It its mignonette and pansies and roee one And And And-and and my chickens I ral raised eJ those chickens IndI andI and nd I SUe guess tf I pretty near loved them Oh Henry Horton stop atop that stall stall- lag ng I You g get t me BO ISO so so Mrs Hortons Horton's voice broke the slow tears ears coursed down don her cheeks Yet father Cather k kept pt on r. r though hl his Jils hand rested a 0 moment on th the h heed head d There hat hr ir mother nother hv hit aM I set get t Yo I You'll 11 come out all aU r after n a while white But as ns time the weeks necks drifted b by mother moth f 1 not come out all right True h cli hr longer complained to Henry and amid she Ahe h c the bossing of Mrs Mr Georgia Clara quietly But DUl she took 11 BO no inter In the new home She SITe was perfectly different us as to how the children bee bour Hound around on things she sho who had bad KUI guj h her lier r pos possessions 5 lons so ii In UI home Most of oC her time was waa spent i bar n r kitchen n window hei w the hit pan bloomed brou brought ht rom mon homo home iu and d tr i u Her lier c Cc eyes eye's c rested on their r fa fac croat ireat wistful light dwelt In them Li little friends sIte she he would i abI Youre YouIe nil all Ive I've got sot I t It was well on In August when hen t. t e to her da day she sho sh up one aa as sat sal by by little I friends Mother lie said Id b W I iy Ij you ou and mes me's got to take ake takeJI JI a A 16 d o outing What do you jou tay say to going 4 the old place and see now how tt ItS Used gd tl on 7 The old spirit blazed Mated In mothers mother's f e Henry Horton do you think I 1 could uld ri rito to 8 ECO so 0 strangers stranger squatted on omi my ho boa she a Eked asked Well I 1 thought before Its It's s slid ld like to look over things fi once Mothers Mother's c eyes es were suddenly a moment Honry Henry Horton honest ha hayou hai hais s you ou not sold Then there theres a In whole world I want to see so 10 Lad bada as I. I horn home e. e r rIt It was th time the hour when 4 intent on affairs In the kitchen kitchin that hat Hortons Hortona slipped tin ouch time the old gate i observed Jut Juet tn the doorn mother paused and h her hr r luo arn oo la went from new polished hardwood to new gilded radiators th then 11 to 10 fi edict lICht her und Ind rested In stipe stupefied ed silence But he only smiled J boyishly a and d I Il eck Look Loo in 0 oneil lier ller down the tho hallway a there thero mother HP hn whispered a a. as hI o th the dining room door T Jh be stow sited 0 oJ and looked at her triumphantly Henry sho gasped m my r Iut fUrr e and and and- Bet your life he reared d and an th bas basement ment s 8 full run of all our stuff r Oi O thought wed we'd sol sold Mother that P JAr furniture's furniture been here her for eek I I nt l J. l lh man roan Georg Georgena na sent lent to pOlish It u ua U Ua ui uia a a. bit Then L I. fixed axed him to keep putt nt J Geor Georgena ena off orr on the work ork an r 4 T nd-T T J j Com Coat on on though till tm I show sho you you you- v Fathers Father's vole voice trailed off ocr down dO tho h baR merit steps and followed hJ hi daz dazedly dl f 3 There Therel he ho cried eliod as he lie opened the tb th d dc I of a a. wonderful nc new furnace H Ho f r j that thAl And nd nd this he lie pointed to a T fitted d up 1 as a a for OW janitor mother ho he announced pro proUd Then he folded his arms and nd tb the in ml ml that tha t had tortured her for weeks ery radiant Poor Poor moth mother r h he said Id softly foUly tho h the old man JUan had gone Kono back bade on h hr r t Why I made up my mind wh when n G rE first stait started d talking about this house home tt h hIn In lag iner unhealthy and tho the work York h thi Id I'd get set It In iii such shape shapo there'd b be I further room for kicking I ke kept kepi t qui qu about It because well YOU OU o know dren have a way of oC getting their 0 o. o Way ay no days s 's and I J w was ws s afraid If th tn knew what I had au an I idea of or don doing the ther they get tet tho the best of or me mc fome Will way I din tell lell you OU I c-I I u pad j-pad I II It out you know kno I 1 lr Ii t the he remodeling could coult be done better wit 1 witus us out so o I consented to move gladly gladi to ISta stay out of or the old home hono until Sept ber her l I Why 1 Why mother 1 Mother head had suddenly ppe d don do doOh Oh on his shoulder and ih ho was wag as bw aa away the homesickness and tn the pam weary wo kC Henry Horton sale said 80 1 Come Conic outride moth mother r. r and take tale a lOOk JooK U It t the vegetables c and the flow rl no fn reason fathers father's been away from you much much and and oh oil yes es s the tho chicken I Ionly the anI only things that haven't been off olT vis I lag Ins |