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Show MOTHER'S I WAY I fO.MR aro born victims, t-'omo jBJ nchleve " I.ucjr -,IJ hesitated. J "So mo achieve BJ victims and "some J hnvo victims J thrust upon BJ t h e m." finished. - BJ Miss HnywooiU BJ promptly. "If yon J aro going to para- BJ phase, pnrophaso BJ to tho bitter end. BJ Hut why this pes- J h 1 m I s 1 1 e out- BJ "Oh, I hnvo vlo- B thus thrust iiKin BJ me," said Lucy, B laughing. "Of nil B the easy marks- to quoto my brothel BJ Frank my mother Is the limit still BJ quoting my brother Frank. Wo never BJ know what portion of our belongings BJ hnvo been handed out to some ono BJ who nsked for thorn. Frank kept hit BJ closet lockod until tho day ho wns In- BJ vlted to spend tho night nt Glonwood BJ and forgot to give the key to tho BJ portor when ho sent for his clothes. B Mother had nlwnvs felt Injured by BJ the locked closot nnd you should havo BJ seen her face when Frank enmo homo ' BJ In n stnto or roaming wrath. Shu BJ looked llko tho cat that ate tho BJ canary. He hasn't locked It since BJ then, though ho runs big risks. B "Last week when I came homo I BJ found mother in tears. Sho refused BJ to oxplaln for somo time, I think sho BJ had mado up her mind nover to toll, BJ but sho craved sympathy. It seems BJ that n young man in uniform aha BJ dwelt upon tho uniform as an ex- BJ tenuntlng circumstance hnda coino to ' BJ tho door with nn express " package BJ from Now York upon which there wns BJ n charge ot $1.55. She said she told BJ him sho didn't know nny ono In Nov. BJ York nnd sho thought It queer nny BJ ono would send u present with n BJ chargo on It nnd sho thought $1.55 too BJ much nnd she had only $1.50 nnywny. BJ The messenger retused tho reduced BJ rates and wns going away with the BJ packngo when mother nianngcd to BJ scrape up four pennies, which ho uo- BJ coptcd. BJ "I can Just Imagine her look ot Ba ploased expectancy ns she opened the, BJ package, and tho awful realization BJ when she snw the cako of soap and BJ tho lot of tlssuo paper she drew. BJ "Well, sho pledged mo to secrecy. J She protends' not to mind Frank's fl tensing, but she docs. A few evening J later Frnnk wns looking over tho pa- BJ per nnd said, nfter making various BJ exclnmntlnns all bearing on tho In- BJ credible gullibility of women: 'Trot BJ out your gold brick, mother. No gay BJ deceiver over missed you and this BJ fellow must hnvo sold you one." J "Poor Innocent mother snld with BJ great dignity that It wasn't a gold BJ brick, but n cake of soap, nnd thnt BJ sho know sho didn't know much, but BJ sho know enough not to buy a gold J brluk nnd thnt any one would havo BJ been taken In by his uniform und that BJ she always thought she could trust me B to keep my word. B "Nothing thnt Frank or I could say BJ would convince her thnt her contl- BJ deuce wns not betrayed. B "Ono Snturday she was In n perfect fever, hunting for two cents. Sho re- BJ fused nil offers of dimes and nickels B with the mysterious remark thnt sho BJ did not want to givo him so much, t -BJ naturally suggested that It ho hndnlt J tho change she might tell him to call BJ ngnln, but she paid no nttentlon to B me. I went out Into tho kitchen lo BJ see what manner of tradesman the - B man was. On tho edgo of a chnlr sat -B n brisk-looking old man twirling his B lint very Impatiently. After mother BJ returned triumphantly with the penny Bfl sho remembered to hnvo seen In tho BJ bottom ot n drawer nnd I had dug ono out ot little Jim's .bunk with the edgo or n knife, ho said: 'Cod bless BJ you, but you've boon n long time,' B nnd depurted. B "Frnnk enmo in then and she nntd apologetically thnt ho wns a poor old BJ fill nil to whom BJ several women In B the neighborhood B paid a weekly BJ trlbrte of two B cents for his room ImP rent She snld he SSI, mutt bo a nice rk Wm old man or he wonl d nsk for 1 -irfjf moro than two ti M cents. This kind Aftpj of logic made . Sk3$ Frank speechless. S iM Then when be I, Ifift burst into n lauh j $3 mother mild that l.W from the time he 'IV?' Mother. w,,s u child ho ' ! VS! never hud much sense which was a V( 'very scathing remark for hor. J "Hut when tho old man failed to r5fl' " nppoar for two of three weeks mother iiiy v was so worried that Frank wont und frC i lookod him up, which wasn't an easy M v task." mk "Wns he n mllllonnlro or n mlserr 3Jv nuked Miss Hnywood. Jff'K "Nolther,'.' snld Lucy. "Ho was just "SROT n poor old man who was trying to nMuSI keep from going to the poorhoitse. MntS? "Since thnt old man has been found -VirM' J worthy mother has a strong .weupoa v?fcv I of defense when wo toll her shu Is JtjKL easily Imposed upon. flj "After nil, I'd rather havo her at sho Is nml run tho risk of buliu: robbed than have her any other way." 'H i Chicago Dnllv News. BJ |