Show LUCKY SALLY by GERTRUDE CUSHING 0 9 1821 1921 by mcclure newspaper syndicate dorine darlne glorious glor ioui tonight oh she made me feel as if I 1 wanted to cry and cry for hours on end do you bill suppose pose ill ever sing III like e thata that the speaker dropped her chin into her cupped hands and stared across tile the shabby little cafe with a gaze of algoet tragic wistfulness A few blocks away tile the great reat opera house was once more a silent darkened ca arn in her dressing room the prima donna ullyse butterfly ha had d moved eager hundreds to envy sadness or admiration as tile the case might be was fretfully removing her makeup and thinking of if the check in tier her handbag and th the delayed dinner which would tie be ready in tier her apartment un bel dl di huni hummed nied the girl in the little cafe oil oh do you think it will ever come to mu me iler her companion a big dark eyed pirl set town down a clip of vicious viciously Y strong black coffee and gripped tier her fists tensely ten cly on the edge of the table dont ever give it up I 1 never will its worth any struggle any A little old man sat opposite the two girls helas me was sipping tra tea munching I 1 a liam harn sandwich and ar around und the side of ills his newspaper regarded them with kindly quizzical eyes 1 I take it youre music students he advanced courteously for the first time the girls became aware of ills his presence yes we are arc the old mans face grew genial rind and encouraging ging the girls responded did you hear dorine tonight bt she superb madame dorine Is a very great artist I 1 know her ber I 1 have known her for a great many years I 1 have a farcy fancy she bould like you to hear hor her sto story ry you particularly ile he indicated indi caled the dark eyed girl who had last spoken they bent forward glowing and expectant pec tant coffee and lees ices were forgotten she was born in it small town out I 1 west sally Gerri gerrish sli her ber name was lucky sally what they called her it bc began an when my lily brother sent her east to study singing you see my niece ard and she were chums almost inseparable and there was money in our family biffle lethe the Gerris Gerri hes were poor at least too poor for that sort of thin thing well they came on here fourd found a good teacher and settled down to hard they were as different as any two girls you ener eer saw ay my iy niece was a quiet little tiling thin took everything pretty sober and thought a lonz lone while before she made up lip tier her mind at the end of a year they were both retting getting ahead fine but my niece had taken up with a beau and slie she wa was doing a lot of thinking about more things than music I 1 never saw him but I 1 guess lie he was pretty liand handsome sum C lon looking hing ond lie he was as rich and sort of a swell well about this time lomeo someo someone tie heard my niece taking tier her les lessons song and he be was crazy about her voice ile he was lookin looking for a soprano for ills church and he hunted tier her up and offered her the position 1 I dont know to tills this day the whole thin thing but crystals young man mail had something to do with sallys getting the church she did get it and a lilt tile he folks back home said again sallys luck a and lid did ancone an one ener eer see anything thin like itt it theres a lot of things you cant see right from froin a distance sly niece was the lie lucky one that time though no one knew it iler her fine beau kinder drifted away from tier her and the next tiling thing we knew lie and sally sailed for europe on the same raille steamer sly niece never talked much bout about a it S she I 1 e went home aud and she never came bad to study she kept on with her singing aud and we all think in our town tha that t there never was a olce quite so beautiful ashes married now to a tiptop tip tol top P nuin man and ashes got a nice home and three children splendid youn youngsters the boys named for foi me sally never went back home III last hist spring slie she stayed over in europe most of the time and the newspapers became her ber letters we n neer eer heard much illy any other way slie she kept tier her own Cun counsel sel the world v orld knows tier her as a great singer ashes sl les rich and generous to her people and back home they still C call her lucky sally the man mail who 1110 led tile the two girls to tile lie turning point of their lives lives in new ow Y tark r k iles hes married too I ast pi ing when madam dori dorine tie went home she stayed staved throe three days and most of tile the time she spent nt at my lily nieces playing with tile the children she was aas there when nhen the telegram came with an all offer that tool took her pot poat haste to paris my niece laughed when she read it always be lucky sally sho she said to her sally turned on her like a tigress she says dont let those words ever cross your lips again ag gain lucky sally oil oh tile the mockery of those were ivere just hey words and for some time she paced back bach and forth x without speaking in finally she got quiet and bade my illy niece goodby good gool by at the door she turned and said crystal youre got two things z id give all I 1 have in tai the 0 world to own then she pointed t to 0 file plain ring on my nieces left land hand and to to tile the baby in ills his cradle 1 I guess perhaps that just the kind oc story you oil expected but mabbe some soine alino lipop you if yourT youre ever at a crosaro crossroads ids G gond night the old man mail nipped ap ped his chilled tea folded ills paper and bowed himself from the cafe |