| Show t t t t. t tM t I ANSWERED CALL f i OF THE RADIO t i i By JANE JAN CORDON ORDON 44 4 4 tt C. C IN If W it rn N Newspaper wip per Union Unton H HARMONY An sat at very still stilt The little room that was her home seemed unusually lonely tonight It may have been because the wind blew rattling the old shutters abutters and bo to visitors were brave bra enough to venture the country roads Harmony had bad rented the rest of the big house that had been her childhood home borne The old folks who were her ber neighbors troubled her little and gave her little pleasure For many years lars Harmony taught In the village school Sometimes when she would meet the parents of her smallest pupils pupils-pa- pupils pa parents rents who at a former time had also called her Iter teacher she teacher she would realize th then n Just how many years she lied had occupied the chair on the school rostrum Of course there was the exciting change of or springtime when the garden gar then den of the 01 old 1 house grew lovely ely la in Its fragrant bloom There was vaR too summet summer sum met mer with n a change In vacation nut Hut always a return to the old fashioned the desk the the upraised faces of village children before her The radio Installed In In her silent room wits was a n never never-cea never ceasing miracle It was a n new Joy to hurry home In the twilight to hurry through preparation of her evening e meal and end the following task of washing dishes and lUshes and then the reward reward listening listening rapt motionless as ns she wins was now while music trout from fur tar cities clUes poured into her ears It If our program has luis plea pleased ed you 1 0 a n manly voice voce would repeat a n post postcard postcard postcard card mulled mailed In will he be appreciated Harmony Intended to write some someday someday someday day that post card carll to give gin encouragement encouragement encourage encourage- ment nent where praise was due There was ns one sweet pet ringing voice that Harmony Harmony Har liar mony In her loneliness especially enJoyed en en- joyed-fl joyed Joyed a woman's womans happy son sons long But now the now the fire burned on In the grate and Peter Teter the tho great grent dog came to rest his shaggy Y hla head 1 In sympathy a against Harmony's Harmons knee An unaccustomed light shone In his mistress' mistress violet Iolet eyes her lips curved eel Into a n forgotten halt smile It was an old love 10 son song that came to her now through the lie air A song recalling other past happy halpy days days days that ended In disappointment Harmony forgot the disappointing ending of her time old-time love lo affair and remembered In the lie thrill of the song only Its hopeful beginning The very pry room seemed to change with the lilt of the song here sonIC here where the marble marble- topped table tahle stood by hy the fire was a n summertime table laden with a burden bur bur- den of garden roses rOles There where the square piano stood soundless beneath be l- neath Its black er co cover was an on opened piano music strewn across the rack and on the stool before the piano sat sata a young man his grave eyes glancing to seek Harmony's approval of his singing The young oung man of the beseeching eyes had hod sung the love lo lovesong lovesong song that came canto now stirring tender recollection This ThIs' had hall been the young mans man's way of telling his love lo to a shy young Harmony Come answer me my sweet sweet sweet- I Move Ilove love you ou I There was the some seine soft break at atthe atthe the end of the song lIong If U our program has pleased you apost n a po post t card carll mailed In will be he cl dime Came the number of ot the hotel broadcasting station In n a distant city Harmony went Int to her desk She hl must write while the thrill wits still upon her She he nailed mailed the postal hostel on her way to school In the morning Days two three two three She he had bad hadnot not gone to her radio since sineI In to a n desire to keep kelp n with Ith her the memory of the song Iong that had hod carried her back bark through the years to a time of love lo and roses Peter tact met her one afternoon wagging wag wag- pins ging his tall tail In manner of explaining that a II visitor awaited The Thel l visitor stood Mood 0 on the porch his fur collar turned high o against the breeze fairly had bad found prosperity riy evidently e his hll appearance was that of ofa a n successful man Harmony's father I then 1181 been mistaken In his prediction tion the lion the sad prediction which had forcibly separated her from her loverA lover lo A singing chap with no work but singing nail and playing Ing a plane piano will never he be able to support n 11 wife her father declared Ills crude crudo gruffness and docile obedience to her fathers father's fa fn ther's titers wish lied hall driven en hUbert Fairly I I away None other of her be ht I suitors had bud ever lr filled Roberts Robert's place l' And Jiow here he wa was after nil till the i yen waiting her coming coining In the old porch that hud hall so 0 often known his bis hl I presence I ny put forth Vier tr ter hand How do lo you jou 3 ou do Ilo site she saUl shirl primly The Theman I Iman man In the fur coat glanced Into Inlo the th theu u woman's womans sweet swett face tare lute Into soft MoCt violet Iolet eyes which he lie had hal had not been able uble to banish from III memory He tI smiled smiled smiled-it It It was the old uhl lovable lIhle Im I'm smile 11 1 I J was vies given 11 your our postal he hI sold have o ed would your jour writing If you had lull not signed 11 your our name And nd the he old song 1 still 1111 had bad power Ir to tn thrill well you you well I thought I would come lime on to see you you you- ou Harmony Standing before the piano she looked down upon Kobert Fairly Fairly- looked long mind and wonderingly It Is hard to realize t you jou OU I really ally were the radio singer I did Illel not catch the name because e I was so absorbed with my dreams Tho The singer Inglr came close took her hands In his hits The same old dreams Harmony She nod nodded dell silent I came alt all the way back fairly told her to beg you still stUl to tomake make those dreams come true |
