Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Short Story I WATERCRESS B By Y ROSE EOSE OSE W OE D- D t 1914 by the Mc McClure Newspaper Newspaper News- News 3 paper Syndicate Dona sat on t the e edge egge of a 1 stream 1 g illg g salt over crisp green con branches watercress the first time George o f dison dison saw ew her H lie had come there to paint and to tot t t away wa from rom his s sisters sister's l er ers er's s many shat- shat hatI hat liat- I ri Jt girl t rI friends who seemed always to b be occupying por porch h nn and lawn and p i rola at home hOIle 4 ilie lie H He was trying to get his picture in in hii Ih vision and aDd was squinting and othere other other- it ii ate e distorting his face when ho he saw Her drop into to his hia ca canvas caa a a as it were Ho Hog o g risking making bits of scenery to frame for for I a fri frieze e in his stu study r. r and he would 1 pot inthe t. t ill in the least have havo minded having the girl rJ in the picture i if he co could ld be jor sure sai she he te would come conic Vain again ain and again til he had finished But ut to have havo herI her I settle eWe herself down don for the time being perhaps never to return again for abit n n. bit sitting iW was fog i g fas rather disconcerting to the tho mist From his distance ho he could not till Mill or not Dot she were pretty She h seemed merely to be a girl who was ryas as tb th there re re for the of gathering s fr from m tho the ed edge e of the stream B Somehow or as as young oun Madison be tej began an aD to sketch iq the contour of the f landscape and to Work fork In Jin bits here and there the Ibe girl l seemed a necessary t ouch and ho lct let her take her ber pla place e on ills his canvas almost t without meaning t to Ir i 1 If If I dont don't like it tomorrow ho he assured assured as ns himself Ill Ill I'll obliterate her f Bv y the time the liht was wat no longer d desirable and the girl giro irr had sono ono the thear ar artist artist tilt b began gan to wish bo po might expect to find thid lidd bis model there thero on tho the fo follo day 4 3 pouring n rainy rain prevented the artist I from r going going o n to paint on n the next da day trot fat bright ht and early on the third morning morn morn- iD ing ini ho he t wended nde his way to tho the hilltop ith palette and easel and aud a all l necessary pump paraphernalia I.- I. Ho He had bad hardly bl begun to mix mil his color col col- or ere when tb the same samo girl rI in tho same sarno dr dress sl aD and with tb the tame same salt shaker in l r band hand took her seat Scat on the cd edge o of th the stream a and ml be begun un to pick and Ind cat watercress George Madison lau laughed hed I it Ua was almost wierd to tot think ink I thai hat al she h should have returned and ho bo borra I l MUO UIe she bad had not seen him Therefore Therefore There There- fore he could could- not account for her ber pres pres- fate cote He lIe Work worked d fast and aud his picture ro grew iv n wonderfully under his ent ll tl touch Audas ud udas as as before tho the girl fin tin bt her r a apparently satisfying meal ud betook ber herself off by way a of the I winding cr creek ek path After that thit tho the ar tit list did not paint with such enthusiasm If If Ehos Eho's there again l aiD Ill I'll say sav a she's sho's l tt h lie lio said Haiti l ins inelegantly to himself a he J e folded hl his easel eases se f ff ft But the was there and she hc consumed quantities of watercress and bummed and seemed cout nt to be bo alive Tho The Theartist artist t began to be very curious about her If Tf i she he hc had been picking i the tho water water- tress reas s and aud tarrY carrying n it home in a n basket it won M not Lave have seemed so od odd but to torno porno there day aft after r d day and consume such r t Of it WI was certainly certainly- the tho act of au an eccentric person He lie began becan cean to wish she would notice I him and yet ct he could not move nearer and get et the same picture on his ean can vas lie IIo believed cd as ho he looked at hi his nearly completed picture that it was the tho best thing he had done dODe yet and tho girl in an her colorful frock and olden golden masses of hair hail sitting gracefully ra on the ed edge o of the stream was not tho the least o of it it He flattered himself that it was as not unlike a n Hennel Honner lienne thou though li he had bad be been n true to the gold Jd o of the girls girl's own hair instead of trying to get et th the ho Titian red of the famous artists artist's girls' girls tresses Thero was hardly an excuse left forthe for forthe the tho young D man to go o n again to paint on his it canvas it was finished But he could not resist t tho the desire to seek bis his place a again ain and aud see seo if perhaps something some some- thing thine might not draw the thc girls girl's irl's attention attention atten atten- tion awa away from the tho stream When rhen he e arrived he looked down and ind there complacently munching th fresh grass at tho the streams stream's s c stood stool an old cow The Tho girl rJ stood II nearby ari evidently c a afraid to sit down She looked about her as if for help belp and h her r eyo eye fell on George Madison well up liP on the hillside beyond As s if she had summoned him he be ran down dOt the bank hank and picked up a a. stick Shall ShaIl I chase her away ay ho asked Winona smiled gratefully r Oh Oh I I wish you ou would she no said eaid The Tho cow Corr moved on with a little persuasion persuasion per per per- suasion and the artist assured d Winona that she was wag perfectly harmless II Nevertheless s. s I 1 wouldn't have havo tho the courage to sit it down dower peacefully while n a cow cow stood tood near me the girl ad ad- And J Z must havo have watercress water water- cress Are ou do do like it much you you you OU so George asked II Its Its It's a cure the girl irl saidA saidA saidA said A cure the man asked still moro more mystified Had ho he painted the picture bt of a lunatic bo ho wondered wonder d a girl who could bo slightly slightly- demented i He Ito never had hall heard of re s being a euro uro for any anything thin Y Yes Yes it it rois is a Trench French cure for bronchial bronchial bron bron- chial or pulmonary weakness a and d J I Iwas Iwas was not sure that I had not one ono of them so I am taking tho precaution of not letting anything thing R get t a n hold on me me mc I r must have i she declared de Glared earnestly You look as if you ou enjoyed it it- it now the artist could not help saying as his bis eyes Cres dwelt on the wonderful fairness s of her skin I am perfectly well non non- now now-I ow I 1 think think i the girl irl went on OU but but it is is' is due lue I am sure Mire to tho the fact that I have havo dill followed the advice ad of this old oM French physician whom I met in Normandy I have havo eaten caten watercress to the tho e exclusion of ox o else and in order older to have bave haveit it fresh and to be out put of doors as at much muchas as possible I have havo come here for it every da day and made matle my meals of it I Ilive Ilive live ic only a mile mila from front the stream sho added I does docs And does i it l satisfy you 1 George Georgo I ask asked ed wi with th wonder Perfectly as long as I do o not beo the family at nt home borne sit sitting Un down don to tempting meals meal of other thin things g. g That's another reason why I conic como hero here to have solitary f feasts a tS of or this t And Aud Atul a another reason I think think think-is is fate ate fate the young onn artist dared dared to to say tay a hat the girl sirl thought of las remark Ins remark she did not betray but G George orRo Madison Madi Mad son knew that it was fate nevertheless uc less that hail ball s sent sent nt Winona across hi his path And so it proved to be I |