Show knitting for nerves by DOROTHY DOUGLAS say V 0 OU U have simply got to take up 1 knitting said the great nerve specialist set some wool n pair of n needles anil and go flown down to atlantic city and sit on the board walk and nm knit me knit I 1 I 1 certainly would look cute sitting on tile the beach like some aunt jemima knitting pink wool and lill all the idlers stopping to roar at me no thanks david pulled his six feet of strong manhood impatiently out of the chair the specialist only sat calmly look ing fit at him you prefer then my young fellow to end your lays days in a home for babbling forever about spring blossoms or trying to find a nice easy place to jump off the roof the doctor became more serious dont be a coward about life pace it out perhaps it 11 short summer of knitting just simply giving your hands something to do will set you on your feet david laughed lau glied ills ilia nerves were not quite gone and after all life had heaps to offer lie ile would be a sport and obey the doctors or orders lers anything was better than the state he was in only yesterday he had shrunk front from crossing the street aloiv and nothing could induce him to go into the subway certainly knitting was preferable to that mangled state of nerves so david packed hla his case told tits his sister all about it and she gave gau him film good advice its as well as knitting needles and wool but the lie brainstorm that was the most brilliant of tier liar career was tier her suggestion that dadd put on aunt nilles ellies clothed clothe 9 when lie he came from his bathhouse her bot bonnet inet with the strings to tie it on and her great cloak find and ample skirts why david you could sit on the annd and knit prize juni jumpers pers and no one would even cen cast a glance at you youre the prize brick ats laughed david ill put aunt nines ellies clothes on and knit till I 1 a nerve left consequently the lie old lady sitting dally daily on the white attracted little or no attention david gradually learned t to 0 knit mechanically it was EI aisles wee dog to that first upset the apple cirt of palm calm thought thou glit the do dog dashing about in quest of fun found davids woolly ball began playing placing and ran inn joyfully off ao oss os the sand anti and david because lie he always kept rather stationary when wearing aunt rifles emes cioth eq just sat and wat watch chol fd and elsie seeing the old ladys predicament dIca di cament went and tit the havoc being wro wrought aught with the wool gave chase amse after rido fide it was then that davids calm deserted him nisla in ili drenching and most nifty of battling suits stilts in hot pursuit of a small dog caused not only a burst of laughter fr from in david P avld but bill also a heavy licad i heart throb E casle isle with fairlin ir blowing about in the breeze and its ai graceful as a nymph made david tensely conscious that there were ere bits in the feminine world distinctly wonderful after a final desperate plunge the small dog was captured davids heart beat fast the girt girl was approaching him to offer an apol apology ogk im go ao very very ven sorry she said in the sweetest of voices fido aldo in IB always doing something awful but this Is not awful david quickly told her and when elsie jumped back startled at the great boom of tits his voice lie he realized that he was supposed suppose to bo be a lady but lie he has unraveled all your lovely knitting eisle managed to say and looked ruefully down at a mere strand of what had find been a fairly well formed mi sweater eater I 1 knit it back for you I 1 will slip into my bathhouse and get into my frock and come back here you will watt wait she ahe questioned 1 I certainly will david agreed with a slightly modi modified fiel voice As soon as slie she was out of sight david arose dashed into his own bathhouse and emerged in ili tho the most trim of white flannels he seated himself on the exact spot and waited when lisle bisle lie he knew that liis his nerve curtas was making tremendous progress aind would continue to do so so long its elsie would help him film to pass pas away aay the lie shining hours she was dressed in the daintiest daintie st silk jersey suit lie he hall ever seen and her fair hair now confined lay iny in it a huge coll coil about tier her fiend she stopped stop in dismay at seeing the big man sitting where the old lady with the knitting bad been somehow elsie had expected to make inake good tier her offer to knit back the sweater hw eater she was about to turn away when david dald drew front from ills his pocket a great ball of wool and aligned it straight glit at rido that wise little animal took his cue with the same accuracy that a well trained god of nf love takes his arrow and shoots elsie stood still mill took it straight and intensely interested look ionic fit at david then walked sl slowly vly toward him duvid arose to his feet and held out tho the remnants of that sweater im ready now flow for you to my sweater he said with a boyish laugh elsie too laughed lang hed and fido scampered up delighted at being so completely tangled up in the wool of romance the specialist had find most decidedly done the right thing for david |