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Show 5 TUKBKK VALENTINE FOR MV MOTHER. Motherkin mint, are you fond of me, dear? I) i you ic.tlly am! honestly love me, I pray? Tnrow me a kiss, for St. Valentines here! Are vmi sorrv I'm on far .1 wav' from von here? I) yon miss me a little, on Valentine's day? Motherkin mine, are you fond of'me, dear? 9 Though it come with a smile, or it come with a tear, I'll know what you met a (though youll try to he pay!) Tnrow me a kiss, for St. Valentines here! Alt, that o ie Ins reached me, so be of pood sweet with the fragrance f Jacqueminot roses piled lavishly upon cveiy available space. She hesitated a moment before entering feeling that lie had nvurdotie the thing, he had made tot) much of this first meeting; but now that she had come so far, she dismissed the thought as liypcicritiV.il, and seating herself beside the candlesticks, opened the second note. Something in it steadied her resolve, and she deliberately extinguished the lights, and crossed to a seat against the wall. And now, for the first timr. the room frightened her; she had no fear of imconven-tionality- , lem, They did agree, however, th.t the life of an ice cream waitress, or a girl in a restaurant or store in Newark, resembles that of a horse that walks round in a circle at the end of a pole, except that the horse is reasonably sure of food and lodging. It is heartrending! exclaimed one speaker. Those giis work like slaves for clean shirt waists and hardly anything else. They earn only 52.50 a week, and vet their employers insist that they shall be as spotless and starched as if they had nothing else in the world to spend money on, Another speaker said that the least such employers might do would be to pay for the laundry work which they Insist upon. for this was no more extraordinary than their whole correspondence had The committee on philanthropy was inbeen. It was an absurdly romantic situation way!) Motherkin mine, are you fond of me, dear? shethougnt, but extravagant chiefly because structed to investigate the matter thorjughly, it had been premeditated. She was anxious ami from the tone of the conversation on the a tis Motherkin. Ah, though youre woman, to meet him, and excited at the prospect of subject the indications are that a protective clear association will spring out of this shirt waist the interview; not that she did not fed abthrow can There's one thing that you straight, solutely sure of his quality and ccitain of his grievance. AV:o York Joint il. I m ist s ly! respect, but because this meeting would Throw me a kiss, for St. Valentine's here! prove whether or not it wa possible for the . MICKEY MIKE ON COLBORN AND Oh, all of tlie girls will be jealous, I fear friendship' to go on, no longer in the dark, THE LIONS. intiI face. too had face but with to of would their kisses, Ill none grown They you mate for her to bear an unpleaunt revelaDid ye see Judge Coldborn inter th pk' to the had her anti she accent Motherkin mine, arc you fond of me, dear? tion, given ? said Mr. lions din 'at th Salt should condition that on the Throw me a kiss for St. Valentines here! they meeting, I Icgncy. so unless she decided. not see each other Indade an I did not," said Mr. MurTIIK RKNDEVOUS. For to hear him speak, at last that was it; Did he coomr out? phy. it was the test of his voice by which she She stepped out of the cab and dismiscd Why iv coorse he came out, said Mr. him had She little should worthy. prove the driver, then stood watching till he had Hegncy, fir th raisin he nivir wint in. it him mattered see to I was daffy inough, Pat, to spind a turned the corner. The morning had been enough curiosity deceived had her never but surely ear little, late in reaching the seclusion of the cottage, quarther iv a dollar, hesoides tin emts car her. fare, to sec th Tipprarv bhoy put on a clanc almost hidden between the dwellings on was a step in the front room, and shirit There an collar phrepirritory to interin th each side, and the frost still silvered the hid lu r face in the roses as the door she board walk and the steps that led up to the cage. He near frightened ol man Mundah his felt she and and shut, presence into a faint. Oh, twas a grand shindy. white dojr, but the path was steaming in the opened with some new sense. He did not speak for Mundah was as nirvous as a li in, but th bright sunshine and the cottage flashed in several and the suspense grew moments, the light. judge looked as though lie didnt giv a doni almost intolerable. fr th lions, an til lions, Pat, looked as She struck the old knocker with a single was for him to speak first lie had It didnt giv a doni fr th judge. stroke and pushed open the door without done the though theyhad a feclin had he been never formal, always that somebody would Ivcrybody waiting for response. There was a square so theatrical was this hall inside, hung with a faded green damask unexpected thing, yet git kilt, but who th saints only know, I nivir that she felt that all their future hung on his knew. Coldborn walked up to th cage an' paper; a narrow staircase curved up to the first sentence. looked in. Thin he took up a piece of scrap second floor. The doors faced her, and on would lie say? What could he iron an hurled at th bast. Thin wan iv th' What If one hung a note suspiciously pinned. say that should convince her? She waited lions gave a glirowl, an, th judge rcthreated. you doubt me, or if you doubt yourself, it almost first for that the word, superstitiously Wan dhrunken fillow in th crowd villed out ran, remember that this is the only time we of to her transcendent seemed importance. Go on in. Shut ycrc mouth. says th judge, shall ever meet, if you say it must be so. It his voice, of sound the heard then she And Til go in whin I git good an riddy, an if was in the same nervous hand writing that as if it still came from far away, across the she knew so well, and she smiled as she yez dont loike it, yc can go an git yure miles that had so far separated them. folded it into her belt, and entered the room. mooney back. Then Joe Tailor th undher-take- r The place was bare except for several packstipped up an says, Judge Coldborn, It is all right she cried, interrupting his are yez goin in fr sure, he says. Tv coorse ing cases, that showed dimly in the gloom, for the shades were drawn. A faint odour first sentence; I can trust you! and she ran I am, as soon as th toime comes, says he. of flowers drew her to the far end of the to the windows and let in the sunshine. Thin, says Tailor, take wan iv me he says, an I hope ye'll not forgit me, he room, and here was another note greeting SHIRT WAIST ISSUE. her. She took this and without waiting to says. a of Twas roight there, Pat, where th backbone the door. The chamber Shirt waists were read it, opened the man lost heart. His stummick wint within offered a surprising contrast to the problem in arithmetic which the Womens desolation of the other, being fully furnished Municipal association of Newark cudgelled back on him an his kidneys refused t do their brains over yesterday. This was the their dooty, an he was foorced to come off with a taste that gave a character to its inhis purch, fr he was overcome with tirror. terior to charm her with a hundred familiar problem: Thin thpeeplc got excited an dimand-e- d If a girl in an ice cream parlor is paid suggestions. He had evidently carefully a spaach. So th judge got on top iv wan studied her whims, and yet the unity of the $2.50 a week, and if her employer compels an said: her to wear several clean shirt waists and iv Jake Moritzs beer scheme of arrangement was distinctly masGintlemen, an th manager iv th culine and dominated her as his originality aprons a week, how much money will she sthreets iv Carro, he says. I hope ye don't had always done, in spite of herself. Upon owe after she has paid her laundry bill? n old wax Puzzle as they would, the members of think Ive bin thryin t pull your ligs, he an old round table were a Th candles burning. The dignified ticking of a the association could not agree on a row of says, in this marvilous performance. fact iv th matther is, he says, me purse was long clock reassured her, and the air was figures to express the answer to this prob cheer, (Theres another for you. that is now on the -- Pal-lace- ca-ard- br-ra- ve bar-rel- half-doze- s, s, |