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Show TEDDY BEAU'S ADVICE T UETJLA, the doll who lived in the hi? doll house in the playroom, was very unhappy when the magic hour came around and the toys could talk, because her husband, Harold Doll, bad not come home. All the toys could hear her softly weeping and Teddy Boar mustered up courage to say to the other playroom play-room folks that he would go and see what was the matter. "You better mind your own affairs, Teddy Bear," said Calico Cat. "I can tell you what has happened without asking Luella Doll ; Harold lias not come home and here It Is midnight!" Calico Cat always slept with one eye open and never missed a thing that went on In the playroom. "I saw the little mistress take him out Mm 'I 1 Aa "Fiddlesticks !" said Calico Cat before be-fore Teddy could . say a comforting word to poor Luella. "Don't wasti your pity on Harold. He is having good time, while you, poor dear, ai staying at home alone. That is ab that is the matter with him." "I am sure he will come home just as soon as he can," said Teddy "Don't you cry, Luella. Harold h staying away on account- of business. You can be certain he will come as soon as he is able. Now dry your eyes and sit down on the steps and chat with the rest of ns, or the magic hour will soon be over." Calico Cat laughed and said: "Yes, lie will come home, Luella in the morning." It was long after the sun was shining shin-ing in the playroom window that the little mistress opened the door and came in with Harold in her arms, and placed him in his house with Luella Doll. When the hall clock struck the magic hour that night Calico Cat ran to tli doll house and. sat down close to it with her ears wide open. "What did I tell you?" she loudly whispered lo Teddy Bear. "He is telling her that the little mistress left him out in the yard all night under a bush, and that silly Luella Doll believes him. He better not tell me that." In a little while Luella Doll and Harold came out of the doll house. "You were right, Teddy Bear," said Luella. "Harold could not help it. He did not stay away from me because be-cause be wanted to." "Ob, dear me!" laughed Calico Cat. "She has swallowed the whole story, poor thing." "Calico, you are a very unpleasant creature," said Teddy Bear. "Why do you try to make Luella unhappy? Don't you think there are any good gonllonion dolls in the world?" "Well, I am not foolish, Teddy Bear, If I am unpleasant," snapped Calico Cat. "Nobody could fool me as Harold Har-old has fooled poor Luella." "I would rather be foolish than think unkind things of folks the way you do, Calico," answered Teddy. And then hi! went over lo the doll hiai.se and sat on the slops with Harold Har-old and Lui'lln. "You mustn't llslen to anything Calico says, Luella," Teddy said. "She can't, help being eallisb, you Know, because she bus claws." (Ll) ly MUluro HfwiiMi'wr Hyriilluute.) Mill! ! IIIMUlMlllMflli, III I I l III WilMMWV ' "He Did Not Stay Away Because He Wanted To." j of the room this morning. She said men didn't stay at home all day long. They bad to work and earn the money for the wife to spend." "Well, perhaps then Harold had to slay away and work," said Teddy Bear. "Anyway I think I'd belter go to I Luella and ask her what Is the mat-I mat-I ter." "Are you In trouble, Luella Doll?" asked Teddy Bear. "Oh, Teddy Bear," sobbed Luella, "Harold lias not come home and lie never slayed out so late before." "There Is always a first 1 1 mo," Knapped Calico Cat, who bail followed Teddy. "You may as well get used lo It, Luella ; they all do II." "But I am sure something has happened hap-pened lo him," said Luella. "lie Isn'l .slaying away because bo wants to. Ob, dear, what shall I do?" |