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Show SENTIMENT ALL RIGHT, BUT - Youngster's Reason for Buying Carnations Carna-tions Knocked All Pathos Out of the Incident. He was a poorly dressed youngster of perhaps fourteen years. ' His trousers were shabby, and there was only one button on his' thin coat. He wasn't tall enough to push through the crowd of women around the bargain bar-gain countey where fresh carnations were on sale at two cents each. Finally a saleswoman saw the grimy hand reaching out, with six moist pennies pen-nies and a shiny dime in it, and in answer an-swer to his "I want eight, please, all colors," he received an assortment of pink, red and white flowers, all showing show-ing more or less the effect of rough handling. A woman who stood near by built up a pretty little story about him. She was certain he was a little newsboy, news-boy, and that the flowers were for his mother, who probably was ill in a free hospital. Tenderly the child adjusted the tissue tis-sue paper around the carnations, and a queer little smile curved his lips. "Are your pretty flowers for your mother, little boy?" asked the sentimental senti-mental bystander. "Xaw," answered the youth with an impish grin, "they're for my girl." |
