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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1931 PAGE NINE nay PLEMPORD LJ FAIRBANKS ~1927 i rd KAT Maggie Johnson, whose father is a Jetter carrier, is the d stic drudge HLEEN NO "It was the day you first'--she d--"first came," she resumed of the humble home where her mother does Hike : d bemoan 1 shop, gle gett before she starts out to her job in the Five-and- Ten-Cent Btore, There's 8 new at the Pive-and- Ten, Joe Grant, tells Maggie that he has been assigned to work as her tielper In the stock room. He seems rather dumb, but Maggie helps him through his first day at the store and shares her Junch with him in a cubby- hole of a place that belongs to a mat- Lréns 1actory next door to the Five-and- en. ' cy are looking over some chesp picture cards. One of them has a motto that strikes Maggie's fancy. "The way, to begin the ideal life is to be- gin." She and Joe talk about that and Joe is surprised that the girl has high- er standards than he has suspected. When he goes home that night be is thinking about Maggie. And his home is the home of the owner of the Mack Five and Ten-Cent Stores, though Maggie does not suspect that he is the 8' son, Maggie, at home, begins to suspect that her mother's complaints are due to that lady's belief that happiness de- pends upon material things, while at the store she continues to surprise Joe by her appreciation of the realities of NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY INSTALMENT V "A lot of it's bluff," he said care- lessly. But he liked her blind ad- miration, nevertheless, "Does your mother work?" asked him one day. "My---?" He started, eonsidered, "Not now," he sald, "She split a Board the other day," he sald, after thought, Maggie saw nothing unnatural in this, She visualized a sturdy, bare- | headed old woman helping with the | family supply of Rindling, i "What does your father do, Joe?" | "The only real work Dad does now | is on a golf course, at a country club," Joe answered scrupulously, "A gardener?" she asked, widen- ing her eyes. "A caretaker?" It was a shame to tease her, but then she was such a simple little | dumbbzll, Joe reflected. Grimy lit- | tie face, grimy little hands, mud-! coloured apron, and boots a size too big. Maggie was talking. | " but she was quite a swell She didn't have much money, mind you, but he did. Mackenzie was in the business then, an 'they say he named his son for him. There was a' familiar ring about these facts; could she possibly be speeking of her employer and of his father? "What on earth are vou talking about?" he asked blankly, | "Merrill," she answered readily, "Ma vzie was the brains, they say | --he wes the 'Mack'--but he's dead. | But Merrill is the soul of honour | and he not only has the faculty of | dratwin® good men about him, but he | has made a small fortune out of | the Mack, took care of most ot her | family, an' has kep" sev'ral of her relatives ont of jail for what they | done profiteering in wartime as| well!" Joo was staring at her, oddly, 8 slow smile spreading on his face. "Who taught you that piece?" "Ev'ryone knows that." 'Is--that--§0?" He grinned. Rela- tives of his mother kept out of jail, eh? That was probably Uncle irv- ing and young Irv, He looked at her, musing his turn, "I'd like to walk Maggie in on the old man some day--or better yet, walk him into the store and intro- duce Maggie as the fine, independ- ent girl he's always talking about." Joe reflected. "I'd say, 'You keep suggesting that I get out somewhere and meet a real girl--well, she's real Maggie. And she's going to step right off the floor of the Mack into the position of your only daughter in-law!" "I might bluff it, anyway" his thoughts ran on. "Maggie's such a little sport, she'd enjoy playing the part. She'd make up for it and carry it off like a comedienne!" But he couldn't play any game with Maggie. The poor kid was fall- ing in love with him fast enough as It was. "It's probably her first crush," Joe thought, watching her not without & sort of generous pity. "She'll have it bad, But it won't hurt her, it never hurts anyone." She was far enough from any 3p preciation now, at all event, as she shattered on of everything she found interesting, sometimes making him laugh, sometimes--~oddly--giv- Ing him a prick behind the eyes that owed itself to @ very different sen- sation, Maggie had never thought of love, for herself. Her own affairs, indeed, were en- trely secondary. But she betrayed her to Joe with almost every word and glance. - T11 tell you what, Joe, I like you better than anyone else except my own famy!" "Don't Jie 'me as_ well as your sister, huh £8 "well, I like some things about you as well as I like anythin' about Lis," she might finally decide. The little figure dropped against a length of drab-painted brick well, the small, hard-worn hands were clasped in one of her rare moments of idleness, and her absently staring eyes wore an unusual expression of sorrow and doubt, Joe's heart pricked him. " 're not beginning 1 Soe can't finish, something that you Maggie!" 'he said to himself more than once. One day he brought her envelope, which, upon opening it an expectant flutter, Maggle found full of printed "G's," large and small, cut from magazines and newspapers. "Oh, Joe. it's awful cute the way you learn me!" she sald, her betray- ing eyes luminous, her whole melting toward him visibly, irresist- ibly, And she presently repo that her ' mother and sister ha mada dry, half comptsmptous refer- ence to thé fact that she did not dron the ubiquitous final consonant anv more. ' £he told him that had brought her tli-her Tucks nai PLR Wi ad she a long act | shat I got on to the ideel ides, rted |velled in the rush and hurry, the d | absurdity briskly, deciding upon her verb, And then 'member that you gave me one that night, going home? Well,| been called I put it up by the clock, and we-- we just about live by that card. It's made a difference in Ps. an' in everythin." ' "I see a difference in you," he said seriously. "Oh Joe, honest--do you?" "Honest, I do." "How?" 'Well in everything. The way you talk, the way you look, the way you act," he said, "Oh, I visht--" she said elatedly "Oh, I wisht--" she sald elatedly ence in our kitchen! Pop an' I ask each other every night, 'Is it ideel?' And we won't go to bed unless it is!" It soothed him to have her so openly, so completely adoring. She thought him brilliant, she thought him well educated, she thought him wise and witty and lov- able, when his own failed him, And her laughter! The divine, the inimitable gift of mirth had been given her--Joe first thought Maggie pretty when first he saw |agal her laugh, She lived in a delicious gale of it, That little soft touch on his coat, that little soft girl-person jumbled against his choulder for a minute, in the crowded aisle, those black-fring- ed eyes brimming with mirth and helped her from the very beginning, ~an obvious fact that made her still more his abject slave. On & dismal, early January day Maggle first appeared in what ht have her normal form, he heard the congratulations that the busy girls flung at her from sll sides, and congratulated himself! Hat he was' pardly respemiible at She had done no more than elec-| trify every one, by discarding mag-; nificently, and without ! the dist! ticking apron, that was all. But athe effect was wionising. Everybody looked at her, every body praised her, and the - room boys went down like a row of ten-pins. Tt was on this same day that she sald to Joe, with 8 carefully careless alr: "I'll bet if you fell in love, Joe, it would be a regular young lady, wouldn't it?" "How do you mean, regular young lady?" Joe asked, "Well, I mean--you know, a--=a nice--sort of smiling--" Maggle floundered-- "I mean--" she began in desperately-- "Mean, for In- stance, that there are lots of girls in this store that you eouldn't call young ladies!" she sald, turning scar] let. "No, you might call them nice girls," Joe conceded, "and you might call them smart girls, But no you'd | own family!" Por 5 3 30. "Pll tell you what, Joe, I like you better than anyone else except m| alfection--those were all darned agreable things, his thoughts would agren. A hundred times, times, he heard her call lucky. With her usual eager rush she re- tailed a hundred reasons. Her health her wonderful family, her moth- er-- described as "genteel," her dashing sister who had suth a good job and her father, without while as- sistance Maggie's yearnings toward the "ideal life" would have been crushed in the bud, and whose com- panionship meant everything to the job, her father---without wile as- washer of the Johnson dishes and the keeper of the Johnson kitchen. "But you've had hard luck, Joe," she asreed pityingly. This vexed him, too. Or perhaps the pg°kling, uncomfortable emo- tion it aroused, was not vexatioh, but something deeper---something near- er compunction, Of course' he had had a rotten deal. But for Maggie to be the one to see it! "How d'ye mean I've had hard luck?" . "Oh well, every way! You were- n't raised for this kind of work- and you hate it, and you keep think- in' that you'd rather be somewheres else, doin' something else, an' you don't like these girls here in the Mack?" N "Does your mother cook well?" she asked, . "None. Doesn't know a darn thing about cooking," Joe confessed. | 8 thousand herself! "Don't - your father help her none any?" Maggie asked, - Never. The old man is no more use around the house than a paper monkey!" . "Joe, I do think $hat's pretty hard on you! Who makes your bed?" "Oh, anybody. Last .night I had dinner with some friends of ours named Russell," Joe volunteered, "And did she give you a good din- ner?" "i . ' "Oh yes--she cooks all right." An odd look came into Joe's eyes. "Her, | daughter was there." "Daughter? An' her husband?" "No. Mill--Milly's not married." "The daughter aln't?" | 'Nope." { «Just a little girl huh?" ol "Nope. Milly's about--nineteen."| «1 guess she's pretty, ain't she?" "She's beautiful." But he told himself that he must stop this teasing, when he saw her suddenly daunted face, the gallant, efforts she made to appear quite herself. But he saw that her colour had ebbed and that the little hand that steadied the boxes was itself un- 'steady. He felt oddly shaken. He return- ed to his own business filled with a wretched sensation that he must! somehow make this up to Maggie.| Yet--hang it!--the very making up would carry the matter further, and it had gone far enough. He shook himself physically. He could not shake the thought away. He unlucky--with the roadster park- ed a few blocks away, and the com- .| fort of one of the State's most beau-| tiful homes back of the roadster. in [He unlucky--a Merrill playing at) work, here in one of the he would largely own some day!- More bewildering still He be- ginning to like this play work. But oddly, unexpectedly there were being | moments when the Mack filled his soul with a deep content. Joe re- and yet seriousness of 'everything that went on in the Mack. Even Smith and Fleming sometimes took Joe into their coyn- sels, as they wandered im to and fro, Joe's champlonship of ac JA .are invited to hardly call them young ladies, "Like school-teachers and lib'ari- ans," sald Maggie. "Yep, I guess school-teachers and librarians would be young ladies all right," Joe laughed. "Leave it to ou to think a thing like that!" he sald. "My aunt was a school-teacher. Joe," she said, "Joe, how would a person who wasn't a lady get to be one? Somebody must of com- menced, once, you know." "Well, reading the backs of news- papers and magazines about man- ners, for one thing." "That helps a lot, and to be always looking for the right way to do things, to be quiet and gentle and listen to the way nice persons speak. And then, of course, there's always the rule and a lady puts the feelings of other before her own----thinks of others first." "Nice things all join together, don't they, Joe?" she said, in deep thought, "I don't get you, Miss Johnson" "Herg's what I was thinkin', Last Sunday in church they said some- thing about believin' that you have a good thing, an ' you have it. Not will have it, but have it. An' that's like the idee! life--T wrote up on the same card, It was in my prayer book, an' I got it all straight. Now, these two things go together, don't they, Joe?" "They do" he sald, struck. "Bul I think that vou were smart fo see that, Maggie." SOFTBALL TEAMS HELD BANQUET South Ontario Sunday School League Season Ends With Social Function (Mrs, G. H. Robinson, Corres. pondent) Thornton's Corners, Oct. 28.-- The softball team of Thornton's Corners attended the second an- nual banquet of the South On. tario Sunday School Softball As sociation, held in Brooklin United Church on Friday even- ing last. The banquet marked the closing of a very successful sea- that were in the League. The speaker of the evening was Frank Fiddler, premier of the Boys' Parllament of Mani- toba, who gave the boys an ex- ceptionally fine talk on clean sportmanship in athletics as 'well as throughout life. Jack Parker, of Whitby, de- lighted the Sutnoring with sev- eral songs and was heartily en- cored. . . The Rev, P, L. Jull, of Brook- lin. United Church, thanked the ladies for the fine and tempting- ly served banquet to over one hundred guests, During the evening Whitevale, as championship team of the League, was presented with a crest by Grant Ormiston; former president of the Association. The hall echoed with the hearty cheers of all present. The Young. People's Society is holding "a - Hallowe'en party 'on Friday evening, October 30, at the home. of Mrs. Robert Sully. join in the good time. son of the Sunday School teams | There was a splendid attend. ance at the Sunday School ser- vice on Sunday last. Miss Louise Bennett and Mr, Clarence Toaze, of Oshawa, were special singers for the day. Miss Hazel DeGuerre accompanied each, ) A roast chicken supper will be held Thursday evening, October 29, at the Sunday School. A splendid program has been pre- pared. Little Miss Ruth Cooper was a recent guest for a few days of her cousin, Miss Frances Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perry- man, Miss Velma, Gordon and Ewnest, of Orillia, were Sunday guests of Erjc Dean. Mr, and Mrs. Norman Gilbert and baby, Murray, have returned home after spending the pabt two months in Manchester, the guests of Mrs, Gilbert's 'parents. Cecil Dean has returned home from a three days' training course in Toronto in connection with his work in the Bell Tele- phone. Mr. and Mrs. W. H., Peryyman and Billy, Mrs. Joseph erson, Mrs. Arthur Jackson and Mrs. A, H. Dean were in Toronto on Thursday. J Mrs. George Reynolds, the Migses Gladys and Frances and Master Glenn were Sunday guests of Mrs, G. H. Robinson, Mrs, Arthur Lewington and Mrs. James Lewington were in Toronto recently, Mr. and Mrs, Oliver Pascoe, of Pickering and Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert Tink, of Sclina, were recent guests of Pascoe. Mrs. Hodson and family, of Little Britain, were Supday guests of Mrs, Hodson's brother, Mr. W. A, Scott and Mrs, Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pascoe aftended the funeral of Vr. Pas- coe's cousin, the late Mrs, Arthur Pascoe, of Solina. Interment was in Hampton Cemetery, Mr, and Mrs, Edgar Armies of ants are felling en- tire forests in Brazil, according to Sir Almroth Wright of Mary's Hospital, Belfast, Ireland, who has just returned home after at- tending the Argentine Medical Congress in Buenos Aires. "Bra- of insects," Sir Almroth said. "I saw a whole forest with every treo fallen to the ground. No axe had been anywhere near, Mil- Hons of insects had destroyed some of the finest timber in the country. Iron telegraph poles are too expensive for general use, and all kinds of wood have been tried in efforts to find immunity from these beetles, but none has been successful," Sir Almroth told of another kind of ant in Brazil which eats all the leaves of the trees. Other insects get into the coffee beans. What to do with a circulating library for schools, unwanted be- cause the books do not have suf- Irish Free State, At a recent council meeting it was reported that the library had been econ- ducted under the local education committee's auspices, and it had been decided that the volumes | should be handed over to the municipal library in Prooke Park Musuem. Councillor Bonner moved that this resolution be re- scinded. The books, he sald, did not seem to be what the modern, mind wanted, They were not' thrilling enough, and the edu tion committee, not knowing what to do, decided to send them" to Brooke Park, where, perhaps, someone in ages to come would find some value in them. 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