Show Eds Ed's New Store b. b Opening Dy By OO FRANK 11 II WILLIAMS I Copyright ED SI young and energetic plumber did dill two vo things shortly after his hla arrival In the city of tf ton The first of these thee was u-ns to start startup up op n a new plumbing shop on Main street treet n a couple coulle of blocks away from Irom John Jennings the oldest oMet plumber In Inthe time the city And the second was as to fall In love lo with a n bewitching blond who passed I Kd's Eds ds d's store each noon Ed Id found one ono tiny that his business busi bust ness floss was Increasing so rapidly that he be needed n nIrl girl Irl to handle the tho routine So 80 he be called It up 11 the time of the time rational National Business coll college e and told loud them of his wants That afternoon a n girl appeared And ns as I I 1 I looked at ot her his heart henrt skipped a n couple of bents It was the girl with whom he had fallen taUn In love lo nn and 1 whom whelm he be hind bod hn I never ner met mt before Youre oure engaged age 1 I 1 exclaimed Ed ll at length coming coining out of the trance trane Into which her advent ha had I plunged lIl him You 1011 ran cnn handle the work all right right- It Its It's Just plain stenography and n a little lit tie lie bookkeeping mill and helping me to get t ready for far n a lug big opening Im I'm going to have shortly Lots of people dont don't know Pin Fin In business here yet jet et and Im I'm going to put on an open house with music and flowers O ns as favors anti everything to get them coming By Ily Byth Bythe Ilythe th the way n what's what'll your our name Lillian Montgomery the girl re rev I pUNt plied demurely Of course p with 1 Ed ll ns as Infatuated as a. ashe ashe he was wall that Lillian did 1111 would have ha seemed right to him hum Hut But she really was efficient Business erns getting hotter better with v th I Ed t now no and he found his has hands full till In looking after everything Ir anti also In ranking making preparations for the time opening Ills plan was simple enough It was tint that of personally culling calling upon several hundred of th the lending business then men of the time city and asking them th to come cometo cometo cometo to his bis store for the opening anti of ot also getting th the city I health officer to tomake tomake tomal mal make nn an address during the opening on the lino topic of right plumbing RS as n a necessity In snaking making homes healthy Ed d was confident that his plan WD was a n nightly good one But lint still lIlli there was a n little speck of doubt In his bis mind which made him retrain refrain from telling Lillian what he be had bad planned It If the plan went W over 1 well veil then he could brag about It It If It It failed to get et the men mn then thell the time least said about It the better hettel Ed Ell was without doubt henrt heart and soul In his bis to 10 make Ida bis hl opening n success It If nil all went vent well and he be begot got Jot a n lot Jot of If business hed he'd he be In n a position position posh posh- tion to 10 otter offer marriage to the one girl girlIn girlin In t time the world lint But fate fAle was against Ed In this par par- A week neck before the thC date scheduled tl for the time opening there was nn an n cl dent A heavy beam benm fell on lid Ed When be lie finally crime came to himself It was to find that he was lying In n bed In a private room In n a hospital A nearby calendar told him that he hind bad been ben unconscious or only emly semiconscious for two lon long weeks Ills opening date dato was past Hed He'd made a n failure of It I IThen Then the time door to the room opened anti Lillian stepped In A startled glance came come to her face as ns she sho saw that he knew herI her I I 1 I failed on the opening Ed Bil murmured mur mur- inured slowly be a u hard bard pull from now on But Lillian smiled reassuringly Look at lids J I she exclaimed She waved wavert n bunch of yellow ellow sheets In front of Ed They were order blanks and on ha each pach sheet was nn an order order-n order a good order Why why gasped Ed 1111 I dont don't understand What does dos this mean It means that we put the opening over O on the date dale you'd scheduled It for Lillian explained And the or or- tiers dern Just jURt poured In Ed did II nut But expostulated how bow I you get the men to come corne I didn't tell you jou OU my plan for doing that Lillian smiled at nt him film My ly I I I figured you didn't ha e quilts the right slant on that she Alae explained Ive I felt nil all along that Its It's the women women women wom wom- en you jou Oll should Interest Women are aro really the main factors In the great majority of plumbing jolts Jobs So I In- In till nil my women friends and dolled up time the store with cretonne and served likes cakes anI and tea And the time women came and the the orders came too and Im I'm Im I'm so glad She smiled at nt him happily Ed Erl clasped her hands bunds and then he kissed her What I 1 cant can't understand said Ed Ell happily n a few moments later luler Is how you know so 80 much abou about the plumbIng plumbing plumb- plumb In Ing business Lillian dimpled and smiled a bit bitsilly silly I 1 suppose Ill I'll have to tell you she said Mid I fell In love loye with you ou when I u used used rl to pass paBS your store on the way to business college e. e And so when you called culled time the college olle and ond for fur a R stenographer ste ste- I F got ot them to send me to you My 31 family thinks Im I'm still going to 10 business college olle They rhey dont don't know Ive I've token taken this Job And nd they dont don't know Im I'm work working In under the name of Lillian Montgomery You see IN I ou ought ht to 10 know a lot bit about the plumbing bus bus- iness Incas I I I-I I nm am a plumbers plumber's daughter laughter Im I'm the daughter of your our competitor the man you jou OU wanted to show you OU could make good Im I'm the time daughter of John Juhn Jennings My II real name Is Lillian Jen Jen- flings I didn't tell you before befort because I was HIlt afraid you wouldn't hire me mp If you jou OU knew I and amI oh my dear I did so want to work for you I l lAnd And Ed kissed her liar again |