Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1923, Page 68

"4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 11, 1923—PART 5. 1 A Meeting Abroad, Stories of the S = - . % BY EDNA FERBER Old Home Town, the Thrill of the 3 S . » \ \ Who Gives a Swiftly Moving Country That Is Alive, Then Romance g a - K\ Story of After-War Days N the first place. gigolo is slang. |year following that of her husband,; “Let's go home, Giddy darling.” If In the second place, it is French |Winnebago saw less and less of the(a soarei chilg, : mEE ApRpIeAISion lonkey e pedlllindiiautes T G tambll thie SRANSan Ol MEY S, WhYS Shea) Eoneioutstor T e R e e e e o e beantital manaers should permit, But |corn fleits and I can sas fhe Toways wall with Mr. Masseitl” i is pronounced sHiE. and the |family. The trame house on the rivor| -Dou't be cruel. America’s the H"e.pfit’)nol:nc':d":tm'lln.hi:dr:on:t o) e e e T e e whole is not a.respectable word. |bluff would be closed for a vear or|only safe place now." i} foanicomin; nd e bkt Amer pectectly SulkinEABHARCS Audtyan! > LA b4 e . erfect Paris French. It didn’ i i ¥inally, it is & term of utter contempt. | more at & time. GIddy's father rather| “Too darned safe!” This was in ke didn't sound |ican men, and the grain elevators|ished. ABiyolo. Bencrills BPANKIGE 1 Wiikea Winioheke' dnd. wwoiia havelass - e "'::l:fl)":lk:b‘il‘d"" f‘;? near the railroad stations. Maybe it| Orson J. Hubbell sat a momen: ' . k _ > s P “My name's " sai v 1] veaant B e man who lives off women's money.|been content to spend six months of| By 1917 she was actually in need Sl e e e L N R LR I e S T e Al s eas 1925 A VW dn SIEs10, : , er pretty fair French. “Mary Hub- |reg), and growing, #nd big and alive!|ed English. That young French fell e mad seariiose A We & sleolo e yaac i the old Qory ouse, but [of money. But Giddy did not know bell. T come from a little town called | A)jver” . " . ey 8 definitely’ speaking. was one of those | Giady's mother. who had been a Les- | much about this because Giddy had. M | Winnebago.” tyes ; tEiked Einglist. incrediblo and pathetic male creatures |den of New Tork, put that idea out of |roughly speaking. got his. One day The Gore evebrow expressed polite ,,,M",:'v }:"b,be” ety :l'e:e'l?‘" T"Fk’{u""“ F;e"fl' t,','”:,‘ Ik . S (his head. he soared higher and farther than aist e bench alons (the promentfaiin tholl wan mklmiiag Iona (S Feowansie | : ¥ ) h nterestedness. i 2 Sice. she vi i or oven L‘;ii::"‘:io dance with any | “Don't talk to me." she said, “about | he knew, and the two planes were : That's In Wisconsin continued | "o tor besite L sl “3“:‘"‘;"";;” el : 0 your duty toward the town that gave |upon him almost before he knew it 5 . o al oy psside ey, aueen seoland lenind and to the RO ANT ST crowded floors of public tea rooms, | you' your money, becaute You know | They were not French or English or Mury, Mg Llov ) it 1o, |vttered a littlo inarticulate sound |around in the darkness. Ie seemed ‘;r;:n:r "Z\;”:up:::; ::::.g n:‘ m: you don't mean it. It bores you|American planes. He got one of iy irollement, * agroed;ths|&180lv: | ina vanisned completsly i the skomd: (o be followimE: s cextain trail, how- Gt b d_restaurants of | worse than it does me. really. Al e S e niian she abnte withoneituss | | CT) iEee s e Ossn T/etun; | eher A€ cas wie of the grest wi ce. Lean, sallow, handsome. ex- | Her husband protested weakly. “I|; A - | bells did not seo their favorite gigolo. [ walk, facing the ocean, was a cano- pert and ynwhol-some; one skw th : t the other had not caught him in ther conversation. Mrs. Hubbell had pert and unwhol-‘ome. one. nem | don't care. T like the old shack. T |na mrm. His mechanieian lay 1iop. i ; thes conve n. Mrs Hubbell had |1¢ Mary was aisturbed she did not |pled bandstand. In fts dim shadow he Sree Tieads in Ju;u et “‘(mxl = T sed live in it—once in a while. | gien then he might have managed a : “:“x;e (lm.:ct:-er;-;: s Gas|199% % tnough Ber eyo was slent In | dindemed & WiS of WhUS He mads USRS s o v (B s S0 1 war brought un in |01 "Lt the pursuing plane got spent the attacneon dancing, 0AU e whiong. Mrs. Hubbell and Mary|for it ewiftly sflently Masssiifs c ns and |it. So was the kid. He likes it, too. || : i : s e availed themselves of the professional | voice low, eager, insistent. Mazzetti slender. respectable American flap- | Don't you, Gidd ROiag BuRiiatiyt | Eera [ EiMETe handed it to gigolo, was the Kind that i ; 4 p you, Giddy?" s ; % services of the Italian gigolo Maz- | voice hoarse, ugly, importunate. The e e e | D ne bov wershiped His. tiother, |PEFISd of time that acemed (o cover, mounted grandly into dollars instead [ 30T1®3 ©F T08 i o thought | figure in white rose. Gore stood be spectability of almost every national- | But, ®lso, he was henest. So, “Yeh, [BY. 8ix years. but that was actually of mere francs. The gigolo's face, as bl i S s e e e of mers {rance Wne KlRolo’ et 4 |Nia dancing was, {f anyihing, move |fora the two. Tha girl took a ster q ’ nearly perfect than that What's-his- | toward him, but Mazzetti took two ity (except the French) yielded itselt | | like the ol barn all right,” he con- to the skilful guidance of the genus | fessed. end of that period Giddy, together than Mary’'s as she watched him take 2 & Eiacio in ke tEhwo oF foxitrots (Bub GotiskRen. hiB ) ather Fent on: 3 i - name, but his manner wasn't so nice | steps and snarled like a villain in a America. toyring Furope like mud| “Yesterday the kid was standing out (It i e 2 rom hke tteiuosns thrsushout |0 shedlanit 1ike him cyen Sort of jmonie. B ® villaty s mione oouid | “" sneaky. Mary said she thought so,|be heard to snarl. AR A after vears of enforced absence, out- | there on the bluff edge breathing | the next two weeks, if any girl as < like a whale, weren't you. Giddy?| thoroughly fine as Mary Hubbell OO et out of here!” said Mazzetti, in ten to one. And when 1 asked him what he was + - N ! could be said to run after any man, Nevertheless she was undoubtedly | Frengh, to Gore. “You pig! Swine By no feat of fancy could one imag- | PUMnE about he said he liked the N Mary ran after that gigolo. At the [affable toward him, and talked (in|To intrude when I talk with a lady ine G t smell of the sulphur and chemicals = N same time one could almost have said | French) and Jaughed with him. Maz- | You are finiehed. Now she belongs deon Gory of the Winnebago, o 4 Y : . L ieat - Wis.. Gorys. employed daily and|3nd Stuft from the paper mills, didn't A 3 1 . s ha veied to avoid Her. Mary took |Eett! #poke frequently of his col-|to e ) you, kid? . . Z N eeibee of tauey lessons: and arged||icagus. Gore, and alwavs in termsiof | “The Mol she doest” sald Giddy nightly as a sigolo in the gilt and | Yo% sk o . THASHTs reitaoTAntA Ao the Diome- | SDame facedly, SVeh.: said Gigds. i N g 7 ! Ber mother ta (a0 the same disparagement. A low fellow. A [Gory in perfectly plain American and e e merats T e Gideon | Betraved thus by husband and | ;L NS e [clumsy ~dancer. One unworthy of | swung for Mazzetti with his bad right Cory of Winnebago: Wis! Why, any | aoored aoh,: the Leydensidia battie 1 | . e ek hever he said, in Kindly pro- | Mary's swaniike srace. Tufit to re-farm. Mazsetti, after the fashion of one knows that the Gorys were to| -iou a0 both sty here then.” stel i A e i vanit you getting pretty thick |ceive Orson J. Hubbell's generous |his kind, let fly in most unportsman- Winnebago what the Romanoffs were | (oo "o i mimr.ce!ux?mu:m:" :Io w. \ | N with this jigger?" feex like fashion with his feet, kicking at to Russia—royal, remote, omnipotent. |10 = o 2 ¥ " A\ study rm all Giddy's stomach and trying to bite paohiin s with his small sharp yellow teeth Yet the Romanoffs went in the catas | pnew. too. went to London in May, / . , | ! Rissmandian, foorii0 theiGors of course, as she had known they i TR “Yeh, youre all right. Bui how [y ATg one evening, during the mid- And then Glddyin ;\f“';h:‘ BA Jaare . e ‘ | would. She had not known, though, | I e y LR \ about him?” . Il week after-dinner dance, Gore ;" _’°'“fc"e“ e el At HE Gorys lived for vears in the | that in leading her husband to Eng- Sthi “He's all right. too i appeared suddenty in the dosrwaz, Tt S0ry o0 S8y HUE e it great, ugly, sprawling, luxurious | land in May she was leading him to The Eigolo resisted Mary's unmaid- | 520 SAEG SOCRI O e were | On the Maszettl nose. And wi o old frame house on Cass street. It his death as well. { énly advances, and et, when he was | W55 10 O Clet S O eor. [Mow1 of pain and cage and serro was high up on the bluff overlooking | “All Winnebago will be shocked | with her, he seemed sometimes to | Sl iE Wl A bout | the Maszetti, a h saliolits the Fox river and incidentally the |and grieved to learn.” said the Win- | forget to look somber and blank and | (¢ 1 @7 O " bleading feature, fled in the dar huge pulp and paper mills across the | nebago Courier to the extent of two remote. They seemed to have a lot | ' YRR IR first. She | M5 river in which the Gory money had |columns and a cut. “of the sudden and to say to each other. Mary talked | “®'%" © = il And., “O. Giddy!" said Mary, been made. The Gorys were so rich | violent death in England of her fore- bout America a good deal. About |Deckoned Mazzettl. who stood in al- |y,qyght you'd never come.” and influential (for Winnebago, Wis.) | most cliizen, Gideon Gory. Death her homb town @ @ % fand Mig)|icrdance beside Mrx Hublell's.chair:! “wygary. Mary Hubbell, Did rou 1at they didn’t bother to tear down | Was due to his being thrown from h elms and maples and oaks in the She snatched up the wrap that lay at know all the time? You did, didn’ the old frame house and build a stone | horse while hunting.” > yard o = ¢ the Fox river valley|hand and rose, ©iUs stifiing in herej,ou2 you think I'm s bum, don Gie. o7 o idover ite [faded Tront with oEou % T e went ® o e Normal|I'm =oing out on the promenade for & | .. pon't you?" rosmetics of stucco Tn most things HE widowed Leyden did not even avenue ® * * Cass street * * breath of air. .4 ome on She pluck- Her hand on his shoulder. “Gidd) the Gorys led whero Winnebago could | 1 take the trouble personaily to Fox river paper mills. * * * © ed at Muzzetti's sleeve and actually |y oo peen stuck on vou since I was not follow. They disdained to follow | superintend the selling of the Gory She talked in French and Engl propelled him through the crowd and | oo coarg old, in Winnebago. 1 kep where Wennebago led. The Gorys ! place on the river bluff. It was sold The glgolo confexsed, one.day. to un- |Out of the room. She saw GOre'sslar: f raek of you all through the way had an automobile when those vehi- | by an agent while she and Giddy \ ¢ yratanding some English, though he { t1ed exes follow them | though 1 never once saw you. Ther cles were entered from the rear and were in Italy, and if she was ever T\ g 1o, speak nome. After that| She even saw him crossing sWilly {1 yoet vou. Giddy, when I was a kid When Winnebago roads were a Wal- | aware that the papers in the transac- | \ . 3 T o wers miaeh in earmest, or |10 where her mother and father sat |y yeog (o look at you from the side low of mud in the spring and fall and | tion stated that the house had been : | a7 3 e anthustastic, wpoke in her na- |Then she vanished into the darkness| o through the hedge of the h a snow-lined trench in the winter. | bought by Orson J. Hubbell she soon | tive tongue altogether. She claimed |With Mazzetti o Case. Honestly. Honestly, Gidd: o family was of the town and vet | forgot the fact and the name. Giddy y ; an intense interest in European after- - “But look at me now. Why, Ma: apart from it. The Gorys knew about | leaning over her shoulder while she . = g war conditions. in reconstruction. i | I'm—TI'm no good. Why, I don’t 2olf and playcd it in far foreign play- [ handled the papers and signing on 3 2 % - the attitude toward life of those mil. GORE stood bef Mr. | how you ever enew—" srounds when the rest of us thought | the line indicated by a legal fore- ) 4 ! lions of young men who had actually g ey Sl i 'Mk ore than a new Gree of it. if we thought of it at all, as finger. may have remarked: H - rticipated in the conflict. She asked o B0 TR HEiea lothes and a b O ich. ke hag:| “Hubbell Thats old Hubbell. the participated | afiet . " Where vour daughter? he de-|nose and French clothes ar 3 5 " questions that might have been con- |, 4. in ¥French arm to fool me, Gid. Do vou kno i . di . Mus ¥ ay. e - - o - o " sis. Thes Wad oriental rugs and|Grayman ustbemoney inthedray-| wGET QUT OF HERE!" SAID MAZETTL IN FRENCH TO GORY. -YOU PIG! SWINE! TO INTRUDE |sidered impertinent ot % B0 R0 | “0n, howas-do.: chirped | here were a lot of photographs o hardwood floors when the town still WHEN 1 TALK WITH A LADY. YOU ARE FINISHED! NOW SHE BELONGS TO ME!” “Now you." she said, brutall e s Gorot e missed| ou Teft up/in the attic of tie Cass He should have known that the ste d on carpets. They had fire- A —————————————————————————————————————— i 3 i - - draying business was now developed | 5 vou thes :h;':l:!:dr‘:"i::”;na'f‘;dng‘:ffl"l them: | into the motor truck business. with | with a tangle of wire. silk, woud and | American jazz music boomed snd|done’ m) compleretv i gode dap dur-{ment and background. Yet suu 3r¢ " .pere is vour daughter?’ de-iknow them sl by heart. Giddy. B 61ia Stme: Gty Nal e &1im, patent- | SECAL Yans roaring tlieis % between | something that had been the mech- | Whanged its svncopation > the|ing the 1917-1918 period. including | content to dance around ‘1 o manded Gedeon tore. in heart. * * * Come on home, Gidd e oot with i buckic. and eac. | Winnebago and Kaukauns, Winne- lanician, Tay inside the German lines, {manncquins and aticneites ot Buc| e expect driving of w wild @nd un=| hese—well back home & chap might § (o 0 s Mary? Let's g0 Home.” N u sunghade whan she visited the | 0280 and Neensh, and even Winnc land vou would hurdly have thought ape toled o weiisl! themsstes At | broken Hordiup and dowsthe abeli. | Exsh dishes 11 & cisap resteatan’ OF | £11 Rigats Reserced ) Rowees in the garden. Old Gideon | D3SO and Oslikosh. He learned thatinim worth the disentangling. | forgettuin torn) roadx-of Erance, One. of those]TUl an elcyAtor i &n Exal Jide 205 was rumored to have wine with his | 1®te" 2 5 They did disentangle him, though.| The Americans thought Giddy was|small-town girls with a big=toya| YOrK 1oft bullding, hut hed inever Just now Giddy wasn't 1€Arning |, a oven patched him up preity ex- | i Frenchman. The French knew outlook. a well trained mind. a slim, | numbered all other natlons a-travel. <. Hubbell caught the w dinner. Gideon, jr. (father of Giddy) el much of anything. and. to do him | | | TA very faint dull red crept suddenly smoked ¢ =W ertly. The bone ir o lower right | i or Vi rican. ss as boyish body. ood ¢l sk { " smoled algaretion with His monokram | Trachi. ‘the Tt Sliircasnd i not a | PErGs. THe bons in the lower Hghi|iim. for an Amirican dre o | Bost “hn:lw 2 & ‘:“ lear skin and| & VO TN ot the gigolo's face. | ABRAHA on them little. His mother insisted that he | oo knitted promptly and properiy. would. Danc ne with hi L - | They were sitting out on a bench on i raspeReuB BHl ARSI | e i e tavalimed & bad lears | IFINE & youns aud Negithy bosie. But | protéanion—no. = He dan The well trained minil and e THES were siing O o & e (o town has its Gory family. EVerY| whenever he rebelled and threatened they rather overlooked the matter of | flawlessiy. holding and guiding his | Steady seeing eve cnabled Mary H.h-\d_rr(“ "mm“wvw e TUDENT D YS b neweoinen. Telisnan IUNE)| o sab e Hhe lanEoR eirings) ‘Thas NGea | nerven animussien; 80 that later. | paroner impersonal.y. firmly. expertly. | bell tu discover that Eurape wasnet | Srect defance on 3fars s bac o rie !s savory tid-bits that fall from the|abroad entirely mnow. Mrs. Gory “mu"; it looked a perfectly proper arm. | in spite of the weak right arm—it [S0 ga) as it seemed to the blind. and | (g gigolos). Mary Hubbell had rich table of the family life. Thus|showed a talent for spending the |- 0 an't 1ift four pounds. His head | op g well enough. He stopped now |she didn't write home to the effect| ZOMT Eige By S = = 5 sl it | had emerzed stowls. month by month. ! served we % at] oud e ¢ €ect| aia rather brusque things before 0 e e vou ®aw that Mr. and Mrs. Gideon | Gory gold that must have set old| o " wathines of gauze. What had | o oo well enouzh. He adopted now | that you'd never know red been | BU W, for the first time. the youns BY G. LYNN SUMNER. ! mels Hoty. ir. ave returned from: Gall- | Gideon to whirling in his WiNNeDago | yorr dune o Crevases in hia shull bee| fCotional. Lower than Gldeon Gory|®er }m_ aefonded himself faintly “Abrakam Lincoln ax a}lonely thought. n oo e L fornis. where Mr. Gory had gone for | grave. Her spending of it was foolish | cume bl 4 sontiet s that his hair | f Winnebago. Wis. had fallen could Orson J. and Mrs. Hubbell had | MUl L e replied in his exquisite | ¥an Among Men. In his :Df‘l‘)-\ i;:;s “331 5 we Pl the polo. Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Gory. | enough. but her handling of it Was | pretty well hid when he brushed it over | "0 Man full never been in Europe before. and they | pronen, it is finished. For us there| ¢ ¢ HEY told ime that the Lin-| Weems " WASCAE Sl s Prog- T Eenounce the birth, in New York. | criminal, She loved Europe. America | the bad place, But the surgeon, having | Sometimes he danced in Parls. Dur- | SPI2¥ed themuelves enormousty, That| s nothing. This generation, it is no iy tneir Eables Bunvams So R ot a oon. Gideon TII (our, in @ manner | borea her. She wanted to identify |no real way of knowing that Giddy's|ing the high season he danced in | !0 4% Mrs. Orson J. did. and| o 4 1 am no good. They ave no T an\'hood libravy. But i speaking. heror. Mr. and Oirs.|nerself with forelgners. with foreign | nose had been a distinguished and aris- | Niee. Afternoon and evening found | ioon S0 NE her happy. enjoxed| 4. He waved & hand in a ges- i Xa he. Knew thoroughly ildeon Gory, jr.. and son Gideon TIL |life. Against advice she sold her | tocratically hooked Gory nose, had re-| him busy in the hot. perfumed. over- himself _vicarjousls They went| ‘.o that included the promenaders. jithese s {‘en 1': th upon the e e e d ond the 0oWe|iaree acA luerative intateat 1o /ihs |molded thnt wreeked feature nto alcrowdad dancs salonk. He Jemenea| o cohere. did eversihing, Sfurs | noimustolans o the cafes, the dune when 3 held the e IStretonea at funl lensth upen ih boasted a pretty fair French. Mrs. | N mother! said, Be Keerfuyjfoor. sometimes leaning on S © bow. more often lving on his back with an upturned chair for a head- tinent. It is undersiood that Gideon | Winnebago paper mills and invested pure Greek line at first sight of Which (0 ke his face @ perfect blanl tre The crowds eating and drinking | arms "” ’““' e “'"“"fd at achool in kng- | great sums in French stocke. in Rus- | Giddy stovd staring weakly into the pale. criptie. expressionless ]""‘""'” in the various |, ‘ipe jittle tables lining the walk. | with him, Dennis, fur you air the fust and. Mr. and Mrs, Gideon Gory, &c- |slan enterprises. in German shares. |mirror. A well-made an 2 3 11 ¢ anguages Surope by speaki & e A oA | . N e E ses. 3 | v milde and becoming nose. | tween himartt an e other boys ¢ =0 L What rot:" said Mary Hubbell |boy he's ever seen’ [ sort o swunx g = S I SO companied by Mme have gone| She liked to be mistaken for a but not the original feature Bis M1 ihere fens 1itilel oF hontes [RimIS EURIER Sersiioud, | e eonably said exactls | Rim bauk and forths little too peurt. | 78T he atudiedinsithe Vi » 1o Chicago for a week of the grand|Frenchwoman. vk here!™ he protested 1o the | fescional comradeship. A weird lot Bed: s n Pebruars and | G i ing in Asie after Alexan- | [ reckon. fur with the talkin’ and the ng log o, opera. She was vain of Gideon's un-Ameri- | surgeon. months too late. “Leok here. | p, o were Riier e, Bl teen plinged into its gayeties “fust w.m | can looks, and eross with him when, | this isn't my nose.” O e T e i OnN o Ig ¢ s ¥ Tt DPRETEt par A 8 n turously, “only ree francs P , - . . i B o all this you would have on their rare and brief visits to New Be glad.” replied that practical e | iuiuioa. There was Aubin, the forer o o0 e for al 'l gevilment in Macedonia that|wuz standin® hy. ‘Aunt’ sez L take iy CE O U0l hand. as he re thought that young Giddy would | York, he insisted that he liked Amner- | Son. “that you have any 3 i : acial or @ manicure and Wwo for aj .. id the y r nera- 1 fu 3 ] Frenchman. he tags sidelat At every one said the Younger ger him: he'll never come to mue u " e Blane With his knowledge of French and ? 4 | marcel. 1t like finding them Hon had gone to the dogs since t i Weliieae sl L U fire, was 1o 2 Brgiish and, Gennan Giady wcted: aw | tacs hadibeenidenc over by an xe it e SEdliersineny lmavs mnxl e A i e tell you he was the puniest. ¢i¥=1or o wooden shovel. It served him | interpreter during the months of his surgcon. who, though deft and sci- bluer” said Mary. “1 dow't think 1 war. and the worid i {in"est little youngster 1 ever secn invalidism and later interment, and |t fad not had u hand expert a3 oun stand it it's so lovely. S g fek up. afan’e L7 H things were not so bad with him. He of the Original Seulptor. There |y “Hubbell, at tea. expressed a | Coo (O P M . prediction made just 114 years @80 ' plaei Hawk war, Lincoln entered had no news of his mother. though Mazzetti the Roman. He parted | gegirs 1o dance. Mary, at tea, desired * at the cradle of Abraham Lincoln. the grocers business at New Salem HE boy turned and looked at her | Today we Know the destiny thati ¢“pinner with William F. Berry. He particular. At sixteen. for example.| “Like it e ; b R nis pair OB e wror atds dna Bhas Ciddy wasidrlving hisiown care—a car| (sweil, thexs Bngliih, © mean, and | Vit 115 & i the srntsticerand e | i e Tl 10 dance. but didn’t express it. Orson i, fore the inf: 1 how ot wa ‘e black wing of it was a deep atarely for the first time. his | lay hefore the infant. and Mo L ¥as | qicg served as postmaster. The store so exaggerated and low-slung and | French—they sort of grow up in a | '¢lease he hurried to Paris and theie | © L . loathed tea, and the early draying | o ¢ the backwoor: “ith such a long predatory and glit- | place, and stay with it and belong to | £°1 the full impact of the past year's Srecve. into which rou could 1ay i [pysiness had somewhat unfitted his|eves meeting hers. Mary looked at [ to make a :"“"‘”‘ of the backwooll® | was far from a profitable venture. and tering nose that one marveled at the it, see what I mean? And it gives ®VON® _ \forefinger A piece of shell ad|qiuray legs for the lighter movements) him. She even swayed toward him a prophet. But on that FELrtary day|pig revenue as postmaster was small meriness With which he swung its|you a kind of permanent feeling Julia Gory was dead and the Gory plowed it neatly. The Russian boy | or the dance. But he wanted only |little, her 1ips paried. There wasabout | in 1809 when Dennis Hanks. cousin iy wags while he was earning a scant S lemeth around the cormcrs of |Not patriotic. exactly, but solid and | Money non-existent. whio called himself Orioff had the | fhoi' happiness. So he looked about |her a breathlessness. an expectancy. |of Lincoln's mother. uttered hiSiung uncertain support with the as vur narrow tree-shaded streeis. He!nat heathy and Scots-wha-hae- prophecy in the cabin that mari:ed | gistance of any odd jobs that came to Out of the ruins—a jewel or two |look in his eves of one who had geen | 2 bit and asked some questions. and |So they sat for a moment. and be- | s dois ok Giday. with his|wi-Wallace and all that king orjAnd Some paper mot guite worthless— | things upon which eves never should | oo pack tween them the air was electric. vi- | Thomas Lincoln's clearing in -the Inang that he found an opportunity to CHiel Bacic haiv: Bie losn Sware fade, | 81005 he managed a few thousand .francs lave leoked : | Seems there's a lot of young chaps brant. Then, slowly. he Telaxed. sai; Kentucky wilders much could Jearn surveying. o1y ARRITNG, QBRI be. S D ent 1o Nive, There he waiked in| somerimes Gedeon Gare made 10| wro riobe b Susioest of dancing with | back. slumped s Yittle on the bench, |have been urged in defense of Lis; Again we find him smplosing Whe iday Occasionally. too, he said. “Look | Over his face there crept again the | judgment. There wus nothins by !inethod of home study. With some o here. Julia“—she liked this modern look of defeat. of somber indifference. | which the gloomy Dennis might kr {slight help from a friendly school method of address—-look here. Julia, 9a7¢d vounz er with hun- | gig not think at all. He felt nothing. | pay ‘em so much & dance, or so much | At sig1t of that look Mary Hubbell's | thix “puniest voungster.” undisputcd ' master, he mastered every book on 1 ought to be getting busy. Doing | dreds of other daxcd young thinge. not, soq,. times. down deep. deep in gy afre o You girle want to 1y |Jaw set. She didsnot 100k at the gi-| heir to ignorance. poverty and i<ola- ! the intricate subject within reach something. Here | am. nineteen. and | thitking, 1ot planne: ! hoplng. e gotten part of his being a|jgs ¥ golo, But out across the blue Mediter- | tjon, was to hurst from the shell-like | Day and night he studied. What Tean't do'a thing except dance pretty | (18 (LR il i :" | raneant and beyond it. Her voice was |oplivion of his environment inta the ' woald have required six months well. but not as well as that South | PIAYer T T bl ‘l‘l“"‘“:"m o low and a little tremulous, and she | itle and state of “the greatest Amer- study on the part of the average pe: American cel we met last weel: mix | Piased baccarat wnd Jow. | BE MO ne it his ears and mind and con-|chaps are who have been dancing | SPOKe i English only. jean” dn fact. had some one told|son, he had learned in six weeks, and Nl iyt wolies atill sick in mind and body, though | Sciousness and would not listen. R home " pretts Ameriean girls,| 1t isn't finished here—here in Eu-|ennis that a passion for study and ailearned it so well that he became of7 BEh el e e S s C’""xvr‘:md‘o:f“al“:'o,-:_':'_".1.';:*,,,|z::'""-f:f: e aot bhisw iy Deitawuna: dike ok ox o That's a nice looking one over there— | ToPe. But ':!'-'.‘-*!v‘«v‘_m_vr fome. i love of learning were to bring about of the most expert surveyors in the #e had carried a cane every day TOT | griv e shore after the storm; lying there ! gigolos all agreed. and they paid [gray. | mean. If that's one I'd like | o : L X dennis was noistudent, and knei nat juis % ) " RN T DA S, heAte e h“‘d’;hi_an,‘l:,.,,umw im there. “Drive | bleached and useless and battered. | well. though they talked 100 much. | to dance With him, Orson. Good land, you understand what IUs like there.|ihe power of study. Vet Lincoln be- fa frequent arbiter in land disputes just returned. There wss a g00d|a car better than even an Italian| Then. one day in Nice there was no|Gedeon Gore was & favorite among | what would the Winnebago ladies|It's all new. and crude. maSLe, ""'l gan his progress toward earthly i Then came a term in the Iilinois game of Kelly in progress. | Shautreur. Had you there. Giidy |money. Not a franc. Not a centime.|them. They thought he was so for-|say! What do they call ‘em, I ugly. but it's so darned healthy and | o eality the day he learned the al-|assembly. followed by a determina Glady. leaning slightly on his stick. | darling.” He knew hunger. He knew terror. He | eign-looking aid kind of sad and | wonde sort of clean. T love it. I love everyjpnanet. tion to study law. In Springfield h. bit of it. T know T sound like & a8~ " [incoin was ten vears ld when he | is found poring over law books bo stond watching it. Suddenly he was| She undoubtedly bad Giddy darling | knew desperation. It was out of this | stern and evervthing, His French,| Mary had been gazing very intent- o . are that players and loungers werc | there. Tis driving was little short of | period there emerged Gedeon Gore, | fluent, colloquial and bewildering, |1y at the nice looking one over there waver, but T flom care. 1 mean it} g.q went to school. The cchonl- | rowed from Maj. John Stuart. Again <tanding in attitudes of exasgerated | miraculous, and his feeling for the in- | the Gigolo awed them. Thev would enunclate,|who was dancing with the givl in|And [ know its sentimental. but ¥m |y o0 “jocated about four miles from |his program of self-education 18 & tricate inside of a motor engine was = ox ok % | painfully gray. “They call them gigolos." she proudiot it . {the Indiana farm to whien his fumily | success. and he becomes known far Said slowly, Then, “Get that one,| 7 dom't say I don't appreciate the iy, migrated. was a structure or|and wide for his triumphs in the dad, will you, if you can? You dance | PCaULY of all this ltaly and France|,ound logs, just high emougn for ajcourtroom and England and Germany. But it} \vhen. as President of the United his|With him first, mother. and then 2o - T e s man to stand erect beneatn the loft 9 e men- |, S ’ p ims o TE— gean't gok metlie WAy Just by The floor was of split logs it “punch. | States, he found himself the real an T cani et (twi voluntaered: (Gre | UONOT & namewiILREE e bapie home, responsible commander-in-chief of This trip. for example. Why, 1 Union forces, he began a study of war | summer four of us—three other girls and of military strategy—a study o and T—motored from Wisconsin to deep and futensive that he became, as Callforniay and we diove every inch is not generally known, one of the of the ¥ay ousecivan. Tus Siuts Doy master .acticians of his time. He was one of the few Presidents who trail! The Ocean-to-ocean highwa The Lincils highway:ihe Diuc b} could discuss military operations with Ute assurance of & member of the colns had @ baby house, and so 1 jest ran| all the way down thar. guess I was on hand purty early. for in my der had got through with ‘em. 1 sup- | shakin’ he soon hegan to ery and Jgp ooy tant practice to re hink! exclaimed Mrs. Hubbeil rup- 2 5 e nd gen- | . ihy. wehp = Wa® his constant 5 se there was such dancing and gen- | handed him over to Aunt Polly. wh dtioe 1o writing any mew thing he grow up a somewhat objectionable jcan tafloring and American-made voung man: and ®o. in fact. he did.|shoes. Once or twice. soon after his though not nearly so objectionable as | father's death, he had said, casually he might well have been. considering ' “You didn’t like Winnebago. did you? things in general and his mother in! Living in it, I mean unt t anythin; again. But it ¢ as a slate. N pi . ) Never me o muth-—Ahat \way thed After an adventurous experience in and his sy hooked Gory nos Qi the re occusions whef cruced Wineebazo with lis presence rou were ¥ to find him pursumg the pieas: et wccupied other Winnchaso boys oi his age. if n0t { the sunshine. and sat in the sunshine. | iraves a day. sometimes & . g metime some- | e swoman folks who haven't dancins |and even danced in the sunshine. a|iimes 50, infrequently » hundred. Me ,n0p ng. Hotel hires ‘em: You Voice called feebly, plamtively 1o the | wf 4o said Mrs. Orson J. Hubbell. station. In soine miracuivus way ne S = 2 i who had been Giddy Gory. But |wrpen that's what all those thin 1 escaped being a <hob Sull, train- ing und travel combined to lead him uto many innocent errors. When he clegance. liach was leanng on u eue, his o ked s nes . |as delicate and unerring = ., 3 bis wlbow crooked in ax near an ini- |83 delicate and unerring us s HIS Gedeon Gore of the Nice dan-| “Je pense que—um—que Nice est tation of ddy's position as the| e B pet plano- ie plus belle—uh—ville de France. A sants did not even remotely we- stick’s length would permit. The |forte. They motored a good deal, " N % 4 i Gi i P Mavers themselves walked with a, ¥ith France as a permanent back- semble Gideon Gory of Winnebago.| Gidds. listening courteoutis. « "1 ground and all Furope as a pluy- | Wis. This Gedeon Gore wore French head inclined as though unwilling to niineing step about the table. And:|ground. A pleasing existence. but|clothes of the kind that Giddy Gory |miss ene conversational pearl falling My deuh fellan, what a pretty play. |unprefitable. o o O iosd. A st pattow | from the vretty Amerteans lips. Mean fo say neat, dow't you kmow. | * * x leck. sad-eyed gigolo i tight French | would appear to consider this grave- came mumgruuun,\ from the lips of \ THEN the storm broke Giddy nrm'cms_ thia pants rather flappy at|1¥- Then, sometimes he would lieddy Lennigau, whose father ran promptly went into the La-|the ankle; effeminate Franch shoes|unswer: ihe Lennigan House on Qutagamielfayeite Escadrille. Later he learned | with fawn-colored uppers and patent| “You said something: Some burg. stueet. . never 1o miention this to an Amer-|leather eyelets and vamps. most de- [1I'm telling the world." Think so" giggled his opPONent.jcan, because the American was so|spicable: a slim cane: hair with a| The girl. startled, would almost way! The Yellowstone trail. The very Dutchy Meisenberg. “AW—fy | likely to say, “There must have been feent natural wave that looked |leap back from tne confines of his SotnaioF thoke wordsigives me & sort 1050 A0 thie &t home, and. wilien he I staff, who could offer Intel- sweet of you 0 say S0, old thing.” ke |ayout eleven million scrappers in |artifically marceled. No. this was not |arms only to find his face stern, im- HE dance concluded, Mrs. Hubbell | of prickly feeling. They méan some- ) %28 ROt at work he was at his books e sqn onstructive criu:‘ s turned to Giddy. “Excuse my not|ihat outfit. very fella you meet's|Giddy Gory. The real Giddy Gory lay | mobile. his eyes somber and re- came back breathless, but en-|thing so big and vital and new. I get He kept up his studies on Sunday, [1EENt @0 cg e a hm‘ 1d Ruyigmy; costion; dsslboyr: been in the Lafayette Escadrille.” in a smart but battered suit case un- | flective chanted. i a thrill out of them that 1 havewt|and carried his books witn him to N The game was ended. Giddy walk-{ Nzre Gory was tremendously proud | der the narrow bed in his lodging: 'hyi Where did you pick ithat| “He, has beautitul manners” she|had omcs over here. Why, even|Work, that he might read them as he crigluste CAINPAIEDS) That COIMBEIC ed 1o the table, and, using the offend-| o pim, and not as worried an she|The suit case contained: up..” said, aload, in English. “And dance!|this’—she threw out a hand that in- |rested from labor.” she: Sdmicetion (of Droféssiotallsbay ing stick as a cue, made @ rather| nould have been. Giddy looked | ltem. one sray tweed suit with| His eyebrows would go up. His|You feel like & swan when voure|cluded aad dismissed the whole sparicc *oxow % & S0 much aidi comellof ALtn pretty shot that he had learned from i prjjlingly distinguished and hand- [ name of a London tailor inside. | tace would express complete lack of | dancing with him. *“Try him, Mary.” |ling panorama before her—"this AL hat the gloomy Di His Benott in London. Then he ranged the | yome in his aviation uniform. But| Item. one pair Russia calf oxfords |comprehension. ‘Pardon?" The gigolo's face, as he bowed be-|doesn't begin to give ths joit that 1 ‘ JHILE Lincoln attended various ;:’a‘:"‘-‘s :‘l;‘ml:(;“;“e‘hg:“":‘zo“r::m“ cane neatly on the rack With the cues. | pier the first six months of it Mrs.;of American make. Afterward, at home, in Toledo or|fore her. was impassive, Inscrutible.|got out of Walla Walla, and um..‘_} schools between the ages of ten ) IS S UHE L e was due 1o i i eons.” the chimney of poles and clay. Greased paper on a frameworl of =plit boards formed the windows, “Lincoln was always there early.’ writes Nathaniel Grigsby, was at- tended the same school. “i~ was al- ways at the head of his class and passed us rapidly in our studies. ile st son J. . “No,” said Mary Hubbell sharply. The nice looking gigolo seemed to be in great demand, but Orson J. suc- ceeded in capturing him after the third dance. It turned out to be a tango. * o % ok He even grinned a lttle boyishis ry scarcely ever saw Giddy. She| Item. one French aviation uniform |Kansas City or Los ‘Angeles. the| But, "Sh” said Mary. and Missoula. and Spokane, and Seat- |and seventeen, and stood high in his |/l i ac” Ceaselessly through “You win,” he said. My trealpnew, now. that there was more so | with leather coat. helmet and gloves |&irl would tell about it. "I suppose onsense! Doesn’t understand aitle and Albuquerque. classes, he was, in point of regularity, ‘,""'f‘ T‘;‘““ ,'r(.l;,,m;; himself. What'll you have . [ the air service than a becoming uni- | all bearing siiff and curious fi\](,luhrs{sume American girl taught it to word." “We drove all day and ate ham and | far from a model pupil. When funds ases s |;—.~:y'v|e divine commis . Which was protty sporting for &|form. She was doing some war work (of brown or rust color, which you|him. just for fun. It sounded too| Mary danced the next dance withoggs at some little Hotel or luneh |were low in the Lincoln family voung | 127108 ub &8 = BOUE E0 L ™ houta boy whose American training ""“;h«'rself in an incompetent, frenzied | might uot recognize as dried blood queer—because his Krench was o him. They danced wordlessly untilfcounter at night, and outside the|Abe worked on the farm or for a :““"‘)'“ % L s heen what Giddy's had been. ort of way. With Giddy sonrln:]nams. wonderful.” the dance was half over. Then, ab-|hotel drummers would be sitting, reighbor. So frequent were these * ok % % Ihigh and her foreign stocks and| Item, one handful assorted medals,| Mary Hubbell of the Winneba y “What' ing; v 11 de upon him that it is esti- ~ on o ., go | ruptly, Mary said in English, at's | talking and smoking; and there were |calls made upo 5 mated ho never spent more than 100| World’s Pastest River. 3t Gmnv's father, on the death of!bonds falling low she might well be | ribbons, orders. etc. Hubbells, with her father, Orson J.|your name western men, very tanned and tall o1d Gideon, proved himsel much | excused for the panic that shook her| All Europe was dancing. Paris, | Hubbell, and her mother, Bee Hub-| He said in French, “Pardon®" and lean, in those big two-gallon hats | full days in school in all his Iife. TTHE fastest flowing rider in the ‘ more expert at dispensing the paper |from the time she opened her eyes|Nice. Berlin, Budapest, Rome, Vienna, | bell, came to Europe early in 1922. So, “That's your name?” said Mary land khaki pants and puttees. And| Althoush it would be hard to find world is the Sutlej, in Tndia a mill money than at accumulating it.|in the morning until she tardily |London, writhed and twisted and| The three Hubbells were thorough-|in French this time. there wers sunsets, and sand. and|any one who owes less to the public [which rises 1 200 feet above the sea The gigolo with the beautiful man- cactus, and mountains, and campers)school system than Lincoln, he was|and falls 12,000 feet in 180 miles, PAfter old Mme. Gory's death just one closed them at night warned and jiggled. And over all the lly nice people. ‘' Mary Hubbell had’ L