Show I n s p l t B. B a t 01 A PLAYROOM LOVE STORY Jack lived in a box lie Ho was the Jack-in-a-box Jack that Jumped with ft n spring and always frightened you 1 If you didn't happen to know he was In there Jack had liv lived lind ed there In the 1 playroom m ma a long time anc and he mew all the toys very Aery well Indeed but not one of them seemed to h have ve any particular love for Jack in nor dl did l they hey think he want wanted d to be loved He had always lived In his box and seemed to be very well satisfied And he was until little fat short yarn doll came camp In the playroom to 10 live She was not very popular from the first and after a while the little mistress quite forgot she was there unless she he wanted to play house and then she I would take the yarn doll for one of the servants Jack Jack-In- JacK box box began to feel sorry for yarn doll and his pity turned to love lo before he knew it it One night h he looked out of his box and there was yarn doll on the floor under the tie table right close beside him Jack felt his spring quiver He shook and he trembled and then It was that I Jack dl discovered covered that he was in love She bhe has prettier e eyes ies than the big doll doU I think said Jack though Yarn Dolls Doll's Dolls Doll s eyes were two shiny black beads and the big doll had beautiful blue brue eyes that opened and closed I Her Iler hair Is smooth and teat neat and I like that better than big dolls doll's Hers Is too Yarn doll wears her dress better than the big doll It Is never In disorder and I have seen teen big doll looking looking- as if her clothes were half haIr on her Yes Yarn Yam DolI Doll is beautiful and andI I love her said Jack But he could not make up his mind to tell her that night so ho he just lust looked at Yarn Doll but never told his love The next night when the clock struck 12 Jack bobbed up up from his box determined determined determined deter deter- mined to tell Yarn Doll that very night bight he loved her but to his dismay she was not on the floor near his box She had ad gone Jack looked around and then he asked Teddy Bear If he knew where the prettiest girl In the room was Yes said Tedd Teddy Bear thinking he meant big doll There she she Is In her I carriage under the window Oh no no that Is not the prettiest I girl in the room said Jack box That Is big doll dollI I Maybe he thinks the big rag doll is isI I f prettier thought Teddy Bear so he heI j told Jack to look in the chair on the theother theother theother I other side of the room Oh no that Is rig rag rag doll said Jack shaking his head I 1 mean the prettiest prettiest prettiest pret pret- girl in the room dont don't you ou know her I I am afraid I dont don't said Teddy Bear wondering whom Jack could mean V Why hy I mean Yarn Yarn Doll Doll Doll said Jack Is she Where do you know Teddy Bear Bear almost almost laughed out for Yarn Yearn Doll he thought a f looking funny little creature n no a a bit pretty in fact he thought her face rather homely but he did not want to hurt Jacks Jack's JacksI i I feelings so sobe be be said Oh of course I should have thought of Yarn Yam Doll Don to tobe tobe tobe be sure Vh Why she Is on the table right above your jour head Teddy Bear went over in the corner and ind rolled over laughing Oh my goodness he Is is' in love with her I know he never could think her pretty If he were not I have ae heard that lovo love loveis is blind and now I know it But Jack box was not watching I Teddy Beat Beai Ho lIo was wondering how I he could get up p beside Yarn Doll She is f far u above mp me me said Tuck Tack but if she loves lo me truly she he will not think of to where I came from I mean to climb climb anyway and lear learn lm i-lm my fate And that was the way it happened that Jack-in-a-box Jack broke his spring 1 for the very next night at 12 out of his hill box jumped J Jack ck with such force that his spring snapped and up he went 75 right on top of f the table beside Yarn Doll Don He Fie told her his love lo w was s deep and lasting for her and nd little Yarn Doll Don s slid said ld she loved him so there they lived on top of h be playroom table for many a along along long da day day- for Jack was never repaired and every time he was put back in hl his iii box out he would jump and up to the top of the table he went and after a awhile awhile awhile while he was left teft there which of 01 course was just what he wanted Copyright 1918 1915 by the Newspaper Newspaper News New paper s Syndicate ae New York City |