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THAI!sD\ ? TMttr\‘E, NOVEMBER 9,1017
Horace and the
Violin
By Katherine Howe
(Copyright. 1517, by W. G. Chapman.)
“This is outrageous! Maddening!
The limit!”
Horace Padden threw down the pen
cil with which he hud been trying to
make the first rough draft of his story,
and sat back in the chair with murder
in his eye. At that moment it is possi
ble he might have done actual vio
lence to the perpetrator of the raucous
shrieks from a violin on the floor be
low. Just then his telephone rang.
He got up and answered.
“Yes, let him come up,” he called.
Then he let in a man who apologet
ically said: "Pardon me, old man. I
would not have come at this time if It
hadn't been important.”
“Sit down, Jack,” said Padden des
perately. “It doesn’t matter at all.
I couldn’t write anyway with that in
fernal racket underneath.”
“Great Scott! That Is something of
a nerve rneker sure enough!” ex
claimed the visitor us a screech of
the key rose high above the uncanny
din.
“What right has a landlord, janitor
or anybody to let that loose on a quiet,
law-abiding community? When I came
here I expressly stipulated that I must
have a quiet plaee, as I was a writer.
I've lived here three years in peace
and have annoyed no one to my knowl
edge. I’ve had nothing to complain of
till now. But there’jt going to be some
complaint go in If this keeps up.”
"Mn.vbe It’s someone who lias to
make bis living?” suggested Talbot.
"Well, don’t I have to make my liv
ing?” protested Padden with some
heat. "Don’t I have to make It writ-
urn
The Violin Bow Began to Get in Its
Fiendish Work.
tng for the magazines? And how in
Hades do you think I’m going to do It
with that going on?”
Talbot, being powerless to answer
this, made matters worse by suggest
ing that probably the offender was
“just learning.” Padden glared at him,
and exploded.
“Just learning!” he shrieked. “Have
you any idea of what that means? Tor
tures worse to come, and more of
them! Why, man, a wretch who has
no more ear than to flat the same note
every time, as this one does, will never
learn.”
“Well,” said Talbot, "I suppose the
only tiling to do is to kick,” and he
proceeded to unfold the errand upon
which he had come.
Padden was gloomily dining in a
restaurant that evening when a young
man with a very pretty girl entered.
As they drew near he recognized
Burns, a fellow club member, and bow
ed. Burns came up to the table,
and introduced hita to the young lady
as his cousin. Miss Adams. Padden
asked them if they would not join him,
and Burns very readily accepted the
invitation.
Padden found Miss Adams exceed
ingly good company. She was bright,
well informed, and with a mental
equipment capable of forming opin
ions of her own, which were In the
main sane and reasonable. Besides,
she had a sense of humor which Pad
den thought delightful. Padden was
thirty-three, and so far. not badly
scarred by the little god's darts; in
fact the club fellows called him “im
mune.” He stuck closely to his work
of story writing, with always a dream
of doing greater things looming up
before him. On his way home cer
tain little sayings or a characteristic
expression of the girl’s lingered in his
mind, and he wondered why he had
not asked if he might call. He con
cluded he would some time ask Burns
to take him to see her.
The next day the violin was silent,
and he plunged into his delayed work,
to the complete banishment of Miss
Adams from his mind. There followed
several days of undisturbed quiet, and
Padden accomplished many pages of
manuscript. Then one day when he
was nearing the climax of a story, and
pausing to think out the most unusual,
and up-10-date Way of bringing It about,
the violin bow began to get in Its
fiendish work. He stopped, ground his
teeth, and determined to seek the jani
tor. Then the noise ceased, and he
tried to go on with his work. But It
seemed he could not pick up the snap
ped thread, and he rose, and
made ready to go out, and attend to
some business that needed to be look
ed after.
In the doorway going out he met
Miss Adams coming in. Being so full
of his grievance, Padden, after the first
greeting, must needs pour into her ear
an account of his woes. Miss Adams
sympathized, and said the violinist
probably had no Idea he was annoying
him so. Perhaps if he found out when
Mr. Padden was writing he could ar
range his practice hours for another
time. Padden said he always wrote
in the morning, but his hours were
likely to extend to a good part of the
day.
“No,” he said miserably, “he’s not
likely to change his hours for me. Any
one capable of producing such diaboli
cal shrieks as he draws from the vio
lin could have no consideration for a
living soul. He Is ready for ‘treason,
strategem and spoils.’ ”
Fanny Adams burst Into a peal of
laughter. Padden looked hurt and In
dignant. She saw his face and tried to
look serious.
“Do pardon me,” she said, “you put
It so forcibly, and In such picturesque
language, I couldn’t help seeing the
funny side of It.”
“Do you know someone In this
house?” she asked?
“I live here," he answered.
“Why, then we arc neighbors. I am
staying for a while with my friend,
Mrs. Banks. Do you know her?”
Padden answered that he had not
the pleasure. Then Fanny made bold
to ask him to call, which he prompt
ly accepted. Then he added: “If you
are In this house, you must have heard
that fiendish violin. How can you
stand It?”
“I can’t hardly I" laughed the girl.
“But I’m trying to have patience.”
Padden sought the Banks apartment
very shortly after this having first
telephoned to ask If he might. The
violin had been silent for two days,
and he was In n better frame of mind
when he found himself In the presence
of Miss Adams, who met and intro
duced him to a pleasant, elderly lady
as Mrs. Banks. After this Padden dis
covered that the Banks’ apartment
held charms for him greater than the
club, and the next discovery was that
he was very much In love with Fanny
Adams. One evening Burns came in
while Padden was catling on Fanny.
“Hello, sis!” he luughed. “How’s the
violin getting along?"
“It’s not getting along.”
“O! did that crank shut you off for
good?” asked Burns.
Fanny was getting red up to her
hair. Mrs. Banks was looking utterly
miserable, and Padden u mixture of
horror and amazement. Then Fanny
looked at Burns and spoke: “Well,
you've done It! I’ve been trying to
keep the horrible truth from Mr. Pad
den, having a desire for a small rem
nant of his respect."
“So you are the crank 1” blurted out
Burns, turning to Padden.
“I am,” acknowledged Padden.
A hearty laugh from all In the room
cleared the atmosphere. Fanny at last
left alone with Padden asked him if
he thought a shred of that respect for
her was left. Padden answered:
“There is something so much stronger
and bigger hammering to be heard. I’ve
got to say it. I love you, dear.”
When Fanny got a chance to speak
she said: “You see, daddy was de
termined I should learn the violin. I
came down to the city just to please
him to study. I knew I hadn’t any
ear for it, and, well I'm glad I have
such a good excuse to give it up.”
WHEN FATHER TELLS A JOKE
Mother Sees Nothing Funny About It,
and Daughter’s Glance Simply
Expresses Pity,
When a man hears a joke which his
primitive sense of humor classifies as
“the funniest thing he has ever heard”
he hurries home to bear the glad tid
ings to Ills wife. Father produces his
great discovery, but mother’s counten
ance remains untroubled by so much
as a smile. Nine wives out of ten will
gaze blankly into that interesting emp
tiness to which woman's eyes are con
tinually traveling over her husband’s
shoulder. The tenth and cruelest crea
ture will wither her spouse with a pen
etrating stare which registers, “I see
nothing—absolutely nothing—funny In
that.”
Disgusted and baffled, the husband
tells the same joke to his daughter.
Her only Indication of amusement is a
pitying uplift of the eyebrows and a
subsequent absorption in her knitting.
With his finger on the last unbroken
string of hope father approaches his
nearest masculine relative. At last
success is his, for his son or his son
in-law or his uncle roars, applauds and
slaps him on the back. Father bows to
imaginary audiences and compliments
his follow man on his perspicacity and
hts fortunate possession of a sense of
humor. He pities “those women—those
poor defective women.”—New York
Evening Sun.
None Too Soon.
They were seated in the parlor con
versing on the uncertainties of life.
She—The future is a vast unfath
omable mystery to us, isn’t it?
He—Yes, all we know is that we
have to go sometime.
Voice From the Library—lt would
suit the convenience of the household
if you'd make it a little sooner than
that.
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GEORGIA STATE FAIR VIA
G. S. & F. RAILWAY
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