Show MARY MADE GOOD by LOUISE OLIVER 9 alary dale lind lidd not been unanimously elected circled to ti tho io district school philip fleming had cast a dissenting vote ote when the board met in III room in stay slay of the previous year for election site she looked till nil right to me said bala jonathan mills 1 I thought she ehe vils I 1 india porty me tool agreed sir dike expect to rating emphatically into tho cuspidor phillp always unearthed from mile where on oil these occasions the opinion went around tile the table until it clinic to philip again presiding tit t alic head you dont sebin to understand der stand that lint it takes more inore than a pretty face to cope with the of it a place like this yell said jonathan in mi his deliberate fashion women seem to bo be doln most everything nowadays that nien men do besides weve lind had leill cm hero here before five years yeara ago we ve had a worn tin nn but tills la is different protested I 1 philip jil lip chos rl alt city girl born find and bred bied and to so were vero her forefathers you dont know the kind hind as aa well its as ido I 1 do they atre nio regular hothouse products dlo die in ili the first rough weather be sides slit sho looks iao so inadequate imagine her standing up find dIc dictating to those big boys from the minesA mines why VIly they nearly got awny away from Strap pot baist ast year it if lie he stand it ina and had find to quit do you think about her well spat mr dike im for givin her a it if she dont make good it aint aur our fault and she insisted so I 1 ki kanda tiLlit promised all right have it your way said philip but if she gets pneumonia tramping around in two feet of snow dont ask me file to sing fit at her funeral mary lary came in september and philip waited developments of course things were weke in her favor then for forthe the i country was still beautiful and tho the ro roads ads splendid mary alary had heard of philips disapproval pr ovill in fact he had not promised as had the others when she was elec clee tion tio cering so she was hardly surprised but it hurt her to think that a fellow had refused to indorse her one lay day he stopped at the school lie ile had left the office early and decided to have a look for himself Beho behold lil pence peace and order prevailed and as it was friday afternoon miss bliss dale was reading and what do you think it was wast I 1 pollyanna Polly annal Is rending reading the story of a little girl to those big hulking minor miner boyst and they liked it evidently and resented tho the disturbance of a visitor philip stayed aw awhile lille as interested its as the pupils but finally ho he left reluctantly luct antly feeling that his visit had made no impression tile tho days shortened at and id cooled 11 winter linter came about thanksgiving with n heavy storm of snow the road between the station and the school was knee deep find in other places conditions eions were acro worse now thought philip looking out of ills his dining room window well alwil see if the little teacher can look tit at the bright blight side of this blizzard I 1 doubt if the train got out at all today by jovo jovel 1 there she tat Is I 1 sure enough mary in high rubber boots was tramping through the drifts ano and enjoying it its a novelty pow now lie ho declared finally tho the expression dying walt wait until weve had two or three months of it its bound to get her in tho ilia end but there were more storms storm sand tina worse and they get mary one morning philip heard voices in the kitchen but thinking it wits was the chore woman who came to help ills his housekeeper housekeep pr he be paid no attention bater sira mrs dark clark came in sho cant get that wheelbarrow down the road herself im sure slig she cant what do you mean its the teacher somebody broke in find carried away anway all the coal from the schoolhouse dinst night ond and she die says the place Is like ice so she borrowed our wheelbarrow and some same coal and there goes philip caught up lip with mary ilary of course and did the rest but he folt felt that lie ho needed to ills youre not strong enough for this kind of wor work little gli girl II I 1 mary and doubled ua up her arm oh im lice ilka iron ron nit all over gymnasium worl work you know theres another teacher in lime creel amk now flow copyright 1917 by tho the Mc mcclure Clire newspaper |