Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1921, Page 53

——— i —_ E- SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 10, 1921-PART 4. NEW GIFT OF THE UNITED STATES.TO HAT INEZ MISSED DON'T know how long this moon- faced person With. the fresh coat ¢ of sunburn on fhis bald head had been trying to g;ivs me the friend- 1y eye. For, with MYs. Tremaine sub- bing in the kitchen| for a cook who was enjoying an ulclerated tooth, and me trying to walt ori six tables all by my lonesome, you cain guess how much pare time I had to waste on a middle- aged cut-up who thought that so long as he was dining 1a Greenwich vil- lage it was up to him)to get gay. But, firally, aldng floward 8:30 when the big rush had sort of eased off, I a1d take his signal und drift over to the corner table where he was finish- ing his demi-tasse. One of these poddy, short-legged, barrel-waisted men, he is; with soflt chubby fingers and a chin dimple. And_somehow I am always suspicious of the chin- dimpled male. Not that he’s apt to be any professional home wrecker, or ything like that, but generally he has a mushy, sent!mental streak 'in [ him that shows sooner or later. Even if it hadn't lbeen for the time table snd the homue paper sticking from his coat pocket 1 could have guessed he was an lout-of-town trip- per. For one thing, (his hair was cut Tound in the back, coil heaver's style; and then he wore thrize different lodge emblems—Eli’'s head in his button- hole, gold square and Compass as & stiockpin, and a_Shriner’s fob on his watch chain. Small-town stuff that Jou can't go wrong o Besides, when e first came in held almost started to take off his coat and hang it up, but had remembered ‘that he was away from home just in time. “More coffee, sir?" T asked. “Sake8, no! _says he. “Another cup of that and I wouldn't get to sleep until after midnight. 'Don’t tempt, me, sirlie.” S + “Trust me, mister,” /says I. “Tempt- ing isnt my line. Here's your check.” “Aw, say!” says he. “Don’t go off mad. I'm not trying to kidnap you, sirlie” “That's comforting,” says L “What's the folksy idea, then? “Just lonesome, that's.all,” says he. “Seems funny to you, I expect, but this is such a whaling big town, and there’ 80 many peeple you on’t know, that after you've knocked around in it a couple of days you begin to feel blue and homesick. But | 1 suppose you were borm and brought D hero?” . I shut my eyes and, indulged in a sketchy smile. Say, it doesn't take long to put on the New York finish, does it? Probably this snappy wait- ress costume, with the short white smock effect and white sflk hose with the black clocks helped some. And then the box cut on my carroty hair. ©Oh, sure! Gwendolyn had wished that on me the first day. It did get a gasp out of Inez, but once I got used to ofng without hairpins' and found ow easy it was to coax a curl into the ends of my rusty mop I was glad I'd had the nerve to do it- And it does give rather a pert, zippy look that I'd lacked before. * ok ok X I‘ ‘WONDERED what heWd say if he'd known how few momths it had been since I left Superior street, Du- luth, with a vague idea, that Broad- ‘way started from somewhere in front of Tammany Hall and ran through the middle of Central Park to the Bronx Zoo; or how he’d stare if he could see a'sketch of me in the berry- icking costume I wore when I found nez Petersen at Tamarack Junction and let her persuade me Lo leave home «nd stepmother forever. 1 didn’t tell him, though. The safe bet is to tell these cleft-chin sports only where they get off and let it ride at that. “Listen. uncle,” says I watching him_ squirm at the pet name, “if I tried to chirk up all the lonely out- of-town buyers who stray in here with affectionate dispositions and enough nerverto ‘call me girlie I'd ‘BY SEWELL FORD “Think you'd lke to se t | the door knob T your right shoulder. She’'s a quick-change artist, For in those few minutes she'd not only shifted from a grease splashed kimono to a spiffy evening drees, but she'd done up~the henna_tinted hair. artistio and brushed in'a complexion have done oredit to a BELGIUM AND THE WORLD OF LEARNING BY EDWARD MARSHALL. ERE {8 another great American achievement (not achieved in fact, but ip the process of achievement), and the Belgians In fact, I never saw |belleve that it will prove a spiritual and And I guess OScar |indestructible barrier against - future}- she broke loose at me she was mighty bitter against everything. he wasn’t really living in a place like that, but was—well, I forget just how she did put it.” she was in dead storage” I s. worth visiting on his way ba: I don't suppose you' 41 e her againT" it look over of sympathy toward all efforts in the she. “I—I don't care to see him, or to have him know.” o1 thought not, “Walit, Trilby Ma; do_you mean by tl “Why, after your affair with Percey says I * says she, shrugging her shoulders careless. Probably 1 gawped at her about For you remember about Per- He was the vaude- ville artist we found here supplying the local color when this joint was the Mad Mullah, only a week or ten And during the row that followed Inez's little spanking re proof to Percey it came out that Mrs. Tremaine had been traveling with part of a sketch team. course, that might not mean much in her career, but I'm not so used to the tors shift around that I could howing I was a bit shocked. She got it, all right. “You don't understand.’” Td known Percey line of mind and svul advance, which really is the foundation of the n tion’s greatness. ‘An interesting detall of the situ tion {s the fact that In this matter we have had competitors. allied Europe is in deepest sympathy with this especial effort at reconstruc- tion, but it will come as a surprise to most Americans to know that our one rival for the tusk of rebullding Lou- vain library was Japan. ‘The crown prince, tour through Europe, cxpressed the deep desire of his government and people to make some practical demon- stration of their sympathy for Bel- glum and suggested that this might be best expresscd, perhaps, in the re- bullding of this structur: “For this proffer Belgium was duly grateful, but Americans already had i begun to work upon the project and the prince was that perhaps Japan might find some {other way of indicating the profound, sympathy of her government and stu- dent classes. : “After 1 had been called to Belgium ito take up the work of planning, I was at once impressed with the great spiritual significance attached by the Belglans to the offer, though as yet entirely _unrealized, The utilitarian significance of the bullding of the library is least In the eyos of Belgium. looting and destruction of Louvain were not military necessitics or even military city had been occupied for several this outrage wholesale murder of the city's citi- The episode was typical ror tacties which HITNEY WARREN, an American Archi- tect, Is Selected to Prepare Designs for Louvain Librpry; Destroyed by the Germans. ;i Monument to Democracy in Europe flnd a Barrier to Barbarism for All Time—Germany Forced to. Supply Ten Thousand Books Each | Month—To Be Our Greatest Monument in Erope—Deditation to Take Place on July 28. says I, starting to I didn't dream anythin vs she. “What would come of it. Thought she' simmer down. And next thing I knew she was gone.” ig_scandal, eh?™ T asks. “I gave out that take care of a married geport who was sick. and might stay for months. Some of the women sniffed at that, I expect, but thats all they ever got out of me, Of course all, blushing bride. he; look better. ¢ |German aggression. Note that it is an |} American achievement. “Gwen!" says he, breathing it ou husky. “Well, Oscar?” says she, holding out a friendly hand. ‘Which seemed to be my cue for| ' coyy T suppose? Follows presently a talk with the American who has achieved it. And his When 1 suggests ' choice for the task is ar acknowledg- calling it a day. that Inez and I will be golng along |ment by Belgium, land of artists, that iss her much?" says I. “But I'm not sore Maybe I was some to blame. evenings very now, though, she shakes h ‘Since you seem to know all about says she, “why not stay? ; st architect. '8 going to be no deep emotion- al scene, I hope. two old’ friends. America has produced the world's great- We dldn't get out often, on account of my being tled And I expect I have kind of settled down into a rut, as That's what she How quickly we forget! Just a meeting of | instance, definitely recall the day when o the newspapers announced the German You're looking | march upon Louvain and the looting and Is this your—|destruction of Belgium's preclous treas- ures of literature and learning, the price- less collections of the great library? Seven years ago, in August. water has run under the bridge, much blood of heroes into Flanders' soil since And although it secmed unlikely stunned days in up at the store. Eh, Oscar?” you might say. complained most about—seeln; same people, doing the same things, after day, year in and year out. the monotony of it got on her mighty fine, s Pollock since I e e, in those unbelieving, America that the United States could be tremendous struggle which began so unexpectedly and was forced at first with such a ruthless hatred the advancing Ger- mans, it was the fate of this great peo- ple to supply the mighty welght of men required to stem the tide of Teuton vic- and barbarity by conveniences. When this otcurred the conquerors withdrew from Louvain. tragically wrecked, Armed freedom, with its cyes and voics uplited with its hands clenched for a mighty blow had Europe and turned the tide away from despotism into the broad channels which eventually will lead to calm, clean-souled They left it days before zens began. of the reign of t, the Germans had believed would win the war and which are especially ab- horrent to the ideals of America. “The monument, therefore, only by a contribution to the sufferer, 1, an everlasting symbol, of American ethics as made this destruction possi- . ble, and those ethics which made the whole war possible. invaded maddened D now from this same nation. of gone a man, chasen by the suffering Belgians a: those in the world most fitted to, the task, who has designed the structure which will take the place of that de- stroyed, and another who will lay the corner stone within & few weeks from great task had been intrusted to me I was, I must admit, oppressed some- what by the weight of the responsibil- ity, for I realized that far more than a personal achievement or fallure, the building when con; as an American success or fallure. leted would stand Whitney Warren of the American architectural firm of Warren & Wet- more, New York, wag the manl select ed by the Belglans to rebuild the and learning which barbagism had torn down. utler of Columbia Univer- sity, New ork, was the man selected to lay the uvorner stone”and make the address proclaim- ing and interpreting the significance The plans have been completed and accepted and the work, whjch it is hoped, may be completed by the aid of American generbsity, has Butler has just sailed for the great ceremomy which will come to pass. Today. it is the in connection was immediately obvious to me that whatever 1 produced must be sober, classical and familiar “to the H ! people who live about it and at the same time must have the dignity fit- ting to a gift from our great coun- try to the little nation which say ficed itself that the word ‘honor’ might not become meaningless and that hope of right, justice and advancing civill- zation might survive. “The site on which the building I8 to stand is by far the finest in Lou- vain, occupylng one entire side of the > Place du Peuple, and originally had been selected as the site of the Palais de Justice of the province. “Much has been done already. Three thousind books have been received, with Germany sending 10,000 presented by par- |monthly as agreed upon in the peace The requirements of the uni- as laid down by the authori- ude the ultimate housing of two million books, a seating capacity of the event. been begun. writer's privilege, ith this article, to pre- sent to the readers of this newspaper |, exclusively the drawings which have WHITNEY WARREN, AMERICAN ARCHITECT, LD THE LIBRARY OF LOUVAIN, ONE OF THE MOST PRECIOUS REBI been prepared and which have been| STRUCTURES DESTROYED DURING THE WAR. accepted by the Belgian government and to ask, upon behalf of Mr. Butler and others among suggestions from s to how best Belgium ed by Americans to com- k which already has been The ceremony: SELECTED TO o AN, horror at the time of the assassina- tion of Louvaln. “He knows and has explained to all | the world the miitary unnecessity of | the looting and destruction of Lou- . It was, and he has quite con- vinced himself of this, to be the key- | note of the German hymn of hate n | Which was to stir their own to frenzy 7| and terrify all other opponents to T ¢| the German march through civiliza- the arehitects of the|toin into disciplined barbarity. ““Above all, the fate of crushed and in | burned Louvain was to be a proph- of that which would occur_ te n Paris and to London and even to New York, if their nations and their ar- mies dared to_ offer opposition to ‘furor Teutonious." “The destruction of this library was an assault. upog all o upon this matter and feel sur |1 shall not be forced to. o It is my belief that in America oo the opportunity in the buflding of structure of unique spiritual signifi- | fully realized stinctively, and that, voluntary im- | pulse, unstimulated by anything in the nature of appeals or urgings, will accomplish all that may be nec- contributions, whether of thought or of money. “The drawing of the elevations is the first to be given out for pub- lication, and I hope that its simplic- and characteristic features will to architects in the United sense of fitness which is so notably a charagteristic of my Americam countrymen started by Americans. of the laying of the corner stone will be on July 28. No greater tribute ever has bee: paid to the art accomplishments o! the selection o: rooms for special classes and students, library at Louvain, a small museum and offices of admin- doubtful if any structure reared this generation, wi e, such a significance as this wi o. “Realizing that the libra of the university planned for the ground floor a vast assembly place, open to the winds and protected from the rain. such as exist- ed in the old library. “If the room in which the books are 1 have, in years to| €5 have to keep double-entry date books and the madam would need two more Waltresses in my p. That gets him rosy in the ears. “Excuse me, sister, says he, “butl| you get me all wrong. Absolutely. I @idn’t mean a thin “Then that's that” says I “But if ou should feel like getting a bit risky try it on our White Goddess. over at the cashler's desk. That's part of her job, acting as shock ab- sorber for- the place. You haven' missed her, have you?" And I nods at the black velvet; throne affair over by the door where Ines, in her white satin_ robe, sits spectacular behind the white enam- eled cash register. “No, I've been watching her,” says he. “She's a stunner, all right. “That's what this friendj of mine I met down at the Atlantic City drug- gists' convention told me. Said If I was going to stop over in New York I ought to come down to this here Greenwich Village and hunt up the Cave of the White Goddesg. So I did. afrald I'm a little past the godde stage. Maybe before my bald spot spread and I took to wearing forty fats I might have sidled up to her. But now now. I've moticed that the young sports who have tried it on her tonight didn't get very far. Kind of_a chilly proposition, isn’t she?* “Inez?” says I “Oh, no. It's just that has something on her mind. You she's been without her gum for nearly four hours now, and she's wondering if she couldn’t slip in a couple of slabs of wintergreen with out getting a call from the lady bos: Di; 1 right, sir?” “Bully!” says he. “’‘Specially that| spaghettl. Say, do you know, that al- most made me homesick?" . 1 suppos says I, “it was some- thing like the way the little wife fixes 4t _up for you?" “Something?" says he. “Why, it was exactly the way she serves it. That is, the way she used to before—well, be- fore she quit.” *“You don’'t mean——" says I, rolling my eyes up toward where that kind of Whves are supposed to 0. He shakes his head. “It's a thing I dadu’t often mentio; says he, ut I mean exactly what I said. She quit. ‘Went away. “Oh!" says I, gazing around to see if the two old mald slummers at the middle table were going to splurge on an extra dessert. They were not. One was choking over a cigarette she trying to smoke and the other watching sympathetic. “Just— flitted, eh?’ I went on. “With ‘s handsomer guy?” “Thank heavens it wasn't so bad as h says he. ‘No. I knew she was going. She told me all about it weeks before. Not that I got what it was all about exactly. Had some- thing to do with her not, being able to stand Main street and the Thana- topsis Club any longer. Never heard of the club myself, and we haven't any street by that name In our town as I know of. We got Marquette ave- nue and Huron street, but I ean't see what anybody could object to in eith- er of them—six or seven blocks of as good stores as you'll find anywhere, even if I do say.it. Mine's the, Elite Pharmacy, across from the Phoenix House and next door to the Bijou movie theater. Some way, though, Gwen seemed to get sore on the whol outfit and—" “Just a minute,” I breaks in. “There' party counting out a two- bit_tip for a four-thirty dinner check and I gotta give 'em the cold eye or they'll get away with it.” * ¥k x TBIY di4, too, but I'll bet tiey re- member all the way back to Chillicothe or Salina that low tem- perature look I “?a ‘em. And then I strofled back to the vis- iting druggest. “Who was it you sald fot sore?” I asked. says he. ‘“The wife, you know. “All of a sudden, too. Ap- peared to be contented and happy 8s any in our crowd. We were in everything there was to be in—clubs, lod, bscription, dramatic asso- and so o dramatics, too part. And was asked to sing church entertainments and charity af- fal Clever at getting up costumes and decorating booths. But she kept saying she couldn't live her own life, couldn’t express herself, whatever ihat meant. ~Got It from some book. think. Anyway, that night when to be stored, technically called the it,_now all earning ‘must rebuild it. definite an insult to the cause of ‘stack room,’ be limited to & capacity the left wing “The Ishgthf of the facade will b depth willl of 600,000 volumes, the oppressor. “It has been an inestimable privi- lege and honor to have been intrusted with the design of it, an honcr which 0 well as we quite under- bestowed not upon us, but upon our country. *] believe that in the reconstruc- tion of this library lies the greatest opportunity which presents itself to- day to the people of America to build a monument on European soil for all men of the generations yet to come, to that idealism which, despite the vaporings of politicians, we, as Amer- icans, truly know carried us into the 230 feet,”the “bullding’ E NEXT THING I KNEW SHE'D LET OUT £ GASP AND SLID LIMP INTO A CHAIR. y my enterprise Glad you like the spaghetti. on account of a disabled cook I had to fix it myself.” “I_might have known, Gwen,’ hat nobody could do it just like So—so this is where you've looks around curiou rugs her shoulders. “Ip The Cave of the White I have expressed my artis- tic self at last, you se« Oscar stares at her “You—you like this sort of thing, do He used to live in our town, and we were in any number of rivate theatricals together befare he eft to go on the stage as a profes. sional. He would write me occasion Oscar knew all about it. Rather a sissy-boy, No harm in him. He hance to go on the when 1 went home. But I couldn’t stand It was awful. aded Percey to go in Mad Mullah. e flerves, even my wanting the same|was a girl. nd_wearing the same things to eat Kind of lively and kind of clothe: restless, Gwen always to wear odd rigs and do queer stunts and say queer things. other women talking about her, and that made her wild, too. think she'd really quit. I don't claim I was much thrilled over the commonplace tragedy that had come like 2 blight on the life of this bald-headed druggist from some- where in Michigan, but so long as he didn’t insist on having his hand held or his cheek patted I was willing to “Been gone lomg’ “Over a year,” says he, “and when you're taking your meals at the House that seems a long I can stand the fried steak snd the rubber omelettes and the canned peas, but when they give me 's been merely dragged through hot water and splashed with stewed tomato I feel like 1 want to go out and choke the cook. Gwen spoiled me, I suppose, and when I my favorite it should be served with grated cheese-—say, wish you'd pass t your chef that here—take this in with m ments, will you? Walt, I'l card.” 1 sure will,” says I, collecting th d the business card h "Il give it to her my- Only got the wasn’t worried. Percey was. simply gave me a C We were not ‘afraid,’ had no need to ‘save our ‘we were inspired, we had the impulse to preserve democracy. “Had it not been true of us we would have proved ourselves degen- erate descendants of the founders of our great republic. * % But I didn’t idea. So I persu ort of puszled. with me here, 11 there was to it. 1 “Then maybe you ke a few words with Oscar?” k not,” says she. when I'm not trouble with the cooks, or the land- lord doesn’'t turn fractious, slumming parties are not But how are things at home?" 'Oh, just about the ) ‘ve bullt o RSONALLY, I am quite oonfl- dent that America's practical idealism will see the value of partici- pation in this monument, which will be as much of a warning to those ‘who might incline toward errors simi- lar to those of ‘furfous Germany’ as it will be a symbol of sympath; Belgium and an attestation of leadership in stimul: bition of the individual. “It will stand upon the very spot where Belgium threw herself across the path of the an armies and gave France and England the time necessary to organize re Thus it will be democracy’s great monument to democracy’s pre servers. That, and that alone, will be its political significance. “Its spiritual significance will be greater; will, indeed, be paramount. Rising on the site o 1 building wiped away frenzy, serving as one of the great centers of European culfure, but built by the whole people of I know that the Belgians feel that its mere existence will be guarantee that nothing of the sort ever shall occur ain. Z S Cardinal Mercler has told me that he knows the Belgians will thus ac- esture of America involved ruotion, and that he feels convinced that while it comforts Bel- will warn Germany and se may need & warn- iten, . 1 B He's kind of lonesome.” ‘Stupid persons usually are” “No inner resource: wonder how he's been passing his oft evenings since I've been away? Either at some lodge or going to the or playing solitaire, I sup- Did he tell you :;)W ‘I tuledtl‘t; im, trying to gst him intereste Side thing t?rnd books and Gwendolyn. much _about. Put it over the back L by the blg maple, just as you'd -planned. the back yard cleaned up, too.” says Gwendoiyn. “And while I was about it; had ‘em change the bath room as you wanted—built-in tub, floor and everything. spaghetti th: in outside things, ion of the am- 0,” says I “Chiefly he described Makes it kind what a wonder you were and how he couldn’t blame you for leav- invading Ger * ¢«7 should think Gwendolyn. “But how’s every- Kate Marshall still running tfl)lm subscription dances and the bridge ub?" much obliged. And Isn't that just like Oscar!” says ‘Always good natured. he still out there?” “He was a minute ago,” says L “But I couldn't see him like this.” |} “I should have to “I belleve 30, says Oscar. “The dra- matic association, too. They put on a plece hll' spring and she took the lead- c by militaristic. says Gwendolyn. slip upstairs and change. want to have him find me looking Could you hold him for Trilby May?” D just for that I did pat him friendly on the shoulder as I cleared away his ice cream dish and started through the swing door into | the back basement, whe: maine had been juggling pots and s on the gas stove all the even- I figured that this little tribute of appreciation ought to cheer h says I “Your says ‘We were all pre he was the worst. Is she just as gay “Not quite,’ says Oscar. you know; Dick Carter is prouder than he was when he was elected mayor. out and bought s limousine, first thing, to drive ‘em around in. But they are & fine pair of twins, no get- ting away from that. there to dinner the other night.” says Gwendoly: "M took pity on you, I suppose? Whers do you get your meals now, Oscar?" DESIGN FOR PHE NEW LIBRARY OF LOUVAIN. THE STRUCTURE WAS DESTROYEI 1914, AND THE RESTORATION WILL BE MADE BY AMERICANS D BY THE GERMANS IN 1922, about Minnie Carter? 1ike a cook. ten or fifteen minutes, “Nothing simpler,” got no place to go but out. And.if going to be a reunion per- better shunt that other might be left for later building. de- creasing the first financial demands Of course, I hope for an immediate construction of the entire building and 1 feel that this by no means is be- y;lmd the possibilities of American en- 1l i Not much steel and iron will be used; that which is used should be all American. “After the building has been fin- it_will need furnishings and Of the furnishings the most costly will he the ‘stacks’ for books— the shelves to hold 2,000,000 be 150 feet. education as was that of the Caliph destroyed the library mar, when I at Alexandria. * in its const E plans, which have met with full approval, are ready to be used | in actual construction. Th the corner stone will be a grent j event, at which, of course, the King of Belgium will be chief figure, nnd with ex-President Poincare of France, will be held mext in importance. 3 “That an American, Nicholas Mur- ¢ | ray Butler, should have been /gelect- ed as the principal speaker is/a high tremendous fnfluence |- which American thought, thpyugh our participation in the war, lrus gained Mr. Butler sups in the event a milestone in thy progress, that over. | of democracy. It s fitting that Amer- ica should be In every-sen s d have seen the|the erector of this milestone on th Oscar’'s moon | sacred soil, ys he, reaching| though it one of Gwendo-[cred to all e “Wait until these. two girls_before | heart in Belgium: hr shocked. Forgive | by didn’t imagine we glum it also whomsoever el ln"‘Ctl'fllnll Mercler was certainly the & spiritual figure of the war. tood upon the spot amidst the s and blood and ruthlessness and d—_—,__ ,” says Gwendolyn. So while she dashes up the back oes in and whispers to Oscar made a big hit with the Look, Gwendolyn cooking certainly has got right with one party, even fi only an out-of-town druggist with an extension forehead and a chin dimple, It was the spaghetti I'Italienne that got him and he's expressed his un- dying gratitude with a Not_anonymout ‘The ertimated cost of the building The laying ot is seven million francs, ent rates of exchang It is estimated v “Of course, the opportunity to help in fitting this tremendously signifi- cant library with volumes which will make it even more notable than it was before the Germans fell upon it will appeal espccinlly to American college men and women. “It has been suggested that each American institution of learning shall be the scene of the activities of a com- mittee appointed from and by its stu- dent body, pledged to devote itself to the collection of some special group of books and some special sum of Careful co-ordination should be planned, so that evéry ounce of effort and every generous impulso will produce efficiently exactly that which may be needed to make the library, which Is to stand as democracy’s great monument, the best the world pos- sesses, and there will be no lack of fine co-operation among the European allied natlons toward this end. volumes—and that is all. not a large : “Well, I'v eating at the Phoenix mostly. sum for a monument of such signifi- can and then I shift to the Bon Ton lunch for a while. qen having eome ‘he. put the skids under that bunch of chalr warmers who take this for an all-night walting -“Then watch me Cardinal Mercier, it as long as nk it would do any 1—1 ;:)kuldn't help—" “I have been dclighted by the fact that the plans. as drawn, have seemed to please the Belgians. cler writcs to me: “*The plans and drawings are per- fect. With a sense of delicacy which touched me deeply you laid aside your designing a bulldirg rest traditiozs of our nconne art. Gwendolyn wipes her hands on dish towel and takes the tribute. A the next thing I knew she'd let ou’ a gasp and slid limp into a chair. had expected her to maybe laugh outright, looked for her to pi 't that kind, you know. Gwendolyn,” ys “You musn’'t let an artistic succe sweep you off your feet. Nobody e! even mentioned the spakhett! tonigh and if it hadn’t been for the fact thi oddy person of hi ug store and the in Gwendolyn. y bustling around busy, brushing the crumbs In their laps, and shoving in the bill with th They'd no more than paid up and started for the door than Inez yawns twice, retrieves her gum cud from the back of the throne, and glances annoyed at Oscar. “Don’t bother about him,” I says going to get the lite shortly. Who do Cardinal Mer- “I should think you would,” says “The Phoenix and the Ban “I"know,” says Oscar. got some one to come in and cook the meals for me, I expect, but I kind of hate eating alonme. I can Ieave the store morn'n I Got a new prescription clerk. Smart Knows his job. That's ?ni.“, % s o ‘We'll have to talk But I'm coming.” .And you shoul ming_expression on wnltl:lch finger bowls. “Might have slgn of the - bt » gays Gwendolyn; Yo . "] inink I can express my- selt better in cooking you than in am but I hadn't out like that. American ideal recalling the p: Flemish and Bra even stili finer than the gift of the sture of the natlon . which claimed the privilege of re. other way I've tried. the program. What|in Europe. this place here I don't in her ear. young feller. ble to take this trip. by next Monday I'll be back at the old grind, I suppose.’ “You—you'll have something to tell them, won't you?” she h?” says Oscar. ver tell ‘em is what says he, “and that is to off'n’ you. old silly you are!” “Were you thinking 1 might come back some time?” Oscar poked the cigar ashes around in his saucer with the, end of his un. ar and dropped his eyes I kinda hoped you might,” e library is the ge: it reminded this home over the little wife 'b “‘It meane that the American peo- plo intend to preach before the worit the distinterested ocult of Jjustios. America entered the great war witl out having any interest. gither per- sonal or national, but wholly beciuse ’; she wanted.right to prevail and in- justice to be punished. ““Its first mission achieve not wish to see the results of the crime perpetrated by the German in- cendiaries to be longer borne by their first victims, and should Germany re- main obstinate ir her dishonor, Amer- ica, through the creation of'this great scientific institution, will signify her opposition to any relgn except that of justice and to any triumph save that of civilization. ' wThe United States still gro) the world’s eyes, and when in t future your compatriots shall come to visit our ancient city and to adm're the monument which they have reared they will feel, I have 20 doubt, that Lheir xenorosity has morally enriched great an. cxteat as it hoe Cuwngriget, 103 Wwhich, foreign to us be, ever, must be sa- vocates /5t human lib- Y. I do not hesitate tgy say that every the assurance ”“tb:;n f.‘.}""‘ hat -the libra will be rebuilt. E 4 certain that its retailding by Amer- 4 be . Pow erfully throughout Europs, and the Belgian rebuilt, the struc- as a spiritual bar- false ideals and mis- of old. and .autocratic 3 a psychological ex- s> true ideals and pene- y hubby that she tossed into th cards a year or 30 back.” “Huh!” ~ says Ines. ens ‘Which is all the imagination she as. If she ever happens to be a Mrs. Enoch Arden I'll bet all the greeting Enoch gets will be-a *“Well, where you stay so long?’ As for me, 1 was almost as thrilled as if I was walting for the second act of a melo- t, I had to mix in and age a little by shifting Oscar around so he couldn't see*Gwendolyn when she first came in the door, and then sitting down opposite him so I “Tell me,” says I, try to' find the missing wife’ “What was the use?’ says he. “It ‘wanted to come back she would. rd she went on the stage, and|lo that—well, I expect living over with me would seem “Not much, of the United States must do this thing particularly well It will be to Europe a new kind of symbol 'of Americanism. We are not known upon that side as stardard- bearers of the higher education, asad- vocates of historical research, as pos- ors of the scholarly impulse. “Our gifts of food and money to the peoples who had suffered in thelr efforts to preserve democtacy were taken as entirely in character from a mation which had shown itself pre- éminent in all the wholly -practical ch as money-making in will be, an ex- n sofl of the hich we koo of subool leges ané univer- says I “—I'm the little wife!” says she. *It's Oscar—my husband. “The one you plained to me about not being stand Main street and the Thanatopsis Club any longer?” seems to revive Gw She starts up and stares a do you know about all that?” she de- *“How do you come to—" “gimple enough,” says L “For the last twenty minutes your Oscar Has been_telling me the sto No, I wasn’t vamping hi He was just feeling lonesome folksy, and the sphagett! statted h e T | *“How strangel™ ssys she. “Osear! Here!” keep their tongu they're thoroughly me, Trilby May. should get in as deep a: plain it all to In m“’l':l; o wmle!od she is.” & ow exc 1 at this hour of night, Inez is yawning between yanks on the And by the time I'd woke her 'd got into our street clothes the reunion was well under way. we left, Gwendolyn and Oscar were sitting cosy in a corner chatting away says 1, after we'd closed the door. ple amo; “Who that guy? asks Inex |, ~What's the matter?” i “I'll glve you the Ines,” the rning, lobks . like you'd through another job.” ez, will you proposition,” says L thought that; s ture will stand rier against th taken tfought Burope and position of t! Arating thowsht' of real ungusstions “In mi drama. In fac % ;e or, a8 el1?” she urges. I promise,” says she. “Go on. iy has soun aikifig: plans for the new aV0! 0 p e site and the peo- / whom it is to stand. The be_carried out ocal, origin. im. Honest! “I even prayed you would, he, his voice breaking in an absurd chin dropping still wer. Gwendolyn didn‘t laugh. BShe was biting her und and crack and his building I/ en d operation at Lol jon upon Europeal hat in America, w] but they do not, is the es. | and lbraries, of col sitiea, and there iz an irresistible urge ry defafl It w. the drug store bricly ‘and -stone of t so wefrd, at that™ says 3 been down to Atlantlo City f tragic detalls in ’ convention, and besids bald spot sunburned, he ut him wise that ave of the White Goddess was says he ' *I—I can't tell you how. much.” . { 't,” says L as 1 hears ¢ material . the United S8 a druggis! getting his gontril 1 h{ not crystallized me one who 3 R IR Y a%y