Show A MIXED by LOUISE OLIVER james porterfield Ar morgan organ known to the world as jim morgan looked at his sister quizzically mudge madge do iou you mean to say that polly love Ts s your ideal of a woman t yes jim dear bright wholesome whole somo little lithe polly with her silly giggle as you call it Is my ideal of a woman and I 1 wish marry her hep well I 1 like polly of course but lie be flecked the ash off his land failed to finish 1 I know what you mean jim your type Is the dashing kind with a n disposition like all the months of the year combined june one instant april the next and aye a regular gular january freeze to follow jim you men make mo tired with your queer ideas 0 of women take it from froin m roe e they arent the celestial beings you think any of them except polly slie ashes s an angel if she were here she would lau laugh at your wonderful wit answered jim sardonically no doubt what hels doing now anyway wherever she Is ashes always laughing and perpetual good humor bores me as much as incessant nt sunshine had jim known it he was right when lie he said that polly was laughing and this was the occasion that morning a letter had come from cornelia cormella graham announcing that thai she would visit them for a week on her way to boston cornelia was pretty rich and spoiled and d the entire relation relationship ship held her ln in reverential nwe awe oh w we e cant have her with afi the plasterers and paperhangers litiere acre protested mrs love in a panic and the rugs are all up and away at the cleaners and weve welve no girl of a all times for herto her to cornel why could she ehe wait a week I 1 and then polly giggled 11 int it the limit well she waiting tind and if im not noi rr mistaken ashes here vow cow for theres a taxi just stopping alt at the curb and behold milady pill polly y rushed out to the porch helto hello hely cornelia I 1 you dear I 1 im so glad to osee see you come right in but do dont nt you dare to sit down or ruin that e exquisite qui site suit you have on W we e look like fin an accident ward in a hospital all plastered up cornelia was led through shrouded furniture and buckets of calcimine and glue up to the second floor to pollys hollys room the only room in the bouse that been dismantled then polly flew to the kitchen to vee flee what she could scare up to eat there much she declared searching the cupboard heres a can an of corn and some salmon salmo fi but I 1 believe theres another thing it if I 1 had more eggs I 1 could mix up a custard two arent enough ill slip over to lauras the back way and get gei some eggs 1 I hate to borrow buti but I 1 must polly got the eggs and went home unseen by jim in the thel library i that poor child said laura ura la Is in an awful fix cornelia graham that rich cousin of theirs has just come and their house to la a mess mes cant you do something to help them out jim elmr do you mean that girt girl that wits was here bere last summer yes by jove you dont say bayl I 1 you yon bet ill help them ahem out ill telephone fight away and I 1 ask her to lunch and the theater this afternoon when jim called at the loves a workman had put aladden a ladder across the front door so he went around back polly was at the stove getting their own lunch the best she could she was lifting a saucepan from the fire when vh she heard beard jims voice she turned quickly the pan bumped against the high oven and the whole thing turned upside down on the floor at her feet she was wag tired hot and excited company had come on top of confusion and here was a man at the kitchen door whose good opinion she valued very much and who she knew was very fastidious yet polly ge bied ledl I 1 you two get out of herel here I 1 she laughed and HI glenn clean up this mess mesa jio no of course you cant help got corn orn all over my shoes when they lid had gone polly polls called mother can you come li here ra mother erl 1 there were tears of pain in her eyes now 17 1 I 1 I spilled the corn and it wa was 1 liot some of it went on my foot and it hurts jim ahme came in at six say laura I 1 take back what I 1 said about a mixed disposition this e morning what so soon yes tea ive had a taste of them al at this afternoon everything from janu jann ary to december ive been scorcher clie chee and frozen in turn until I 1 am numb then you dont think incessant sur SUE so bad speaking of which I 1 hav seme se me news pollys hollys in the hospital I 1 she spilled something hot on her feet fee and scalded herself dreadfully then something happened to james jamee morgan he thought ol of polly standing at the stove and laugh ing through gli her agony luear dear little polly he muttered what a fool ive beene where are you going jim callei callee laura to the hospital to hunt some sun shine h he answered im thinking li 17 would bo be a good thing to have 11 handy for the rest of my alf life 11 copyright 1918 by bi the mcclure per pei syndicate |