Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 94

Carlita’ Monroe OBODY _ but ‘Egenhoff would thought of dly. pictures of herself around the portrait | coming to dinner.” Also Carlita was | thin slices of toast and talking A sudtlenl‘}3 tnnspll‘:nv:lnsm:‘n old | Carlita watc! him &s he tied up|of a long dead Egenhofl. such a good cook, would she—— She wore a maize chiffon l‘e“a’zll’d lady who had lived 72 years in | her package. Suppose he didn't come? Carlita saw the pictures without feel-| Carlita would. The eminent financier | her black hair was a mass of tumbled one house t.| It was so in the apartment. that there was desecration here.|arrived. His name was Rogers.” He had | curls “about her small, heart-shaped |. to an ent But Carlita said to herself, “It is time for grandma to make a change, if she ever is going to make one.” ‘The nhoffs had left a 10-room house behind them, not counting the attic. No Egenhoff would ever count the attic. They settled in Inwood’s newest apartment house, and they took seven rooms, because Carlita didn’t know how two people could live in less. “We will need a kitchen,” said Car- bedrooms, a dinl room, & money. He hated me to come here, but | that occasion. - , g::lnr ‘:ollbrary reried mux‘?c‘ room.” fim mm“m ':m',: so long as I'm with some respectable [and against her cream-colored skin it ;,‘:'.":"'.‘" “:l}nl:’t :l':,.“";‘“y kid? “And a maid’s room?” asked the take all the time he wanted before his girl, he’s more or less content.” created an alarming illusion. Tommy hmm‘“n only & clerk. agent, who was showing the Egenhoffs So Tor . ehfl:dn(ly m::d at despised Inwood from the be- | kept staring at her. x“‘“"fl”lx Wiy to e any money in that, around. m"m mmozw very slowly to | Sinning. It amused Carlita to find her- | “Can’t we three see a show some Wed- Ywhinkm' there hn’mc thing ’%h:g‘: Carlita gave him a deadly look. “Did | Hie SO COVRIEE B0 VO3, Bion of a | €lf Tesenting the things Erminie said of | nesday night?” he asked. . any lmit you hear me mention a maid’s room?” | p it had been doing nicely where | the. women e doorway with | “T'd love to,” said Erminie, game. T think T 5 she asked. nog E— their baby carriages. Somehow, while | «What would you like to see, Miss | b ng game. 1 think T'll speak to The sgent didn't reply. He was|'®JR% o0 1otting my knight out of |She hadn't been looking, Carlita had o i e Spout, R Tommy could bowled over. In Inwood two people | yya¢ hole ™ said Carlita. become an In te. “I couldn't go,” she said. honest, live in three rooms. The lease was " signed, and the Egenhoffs moved in. Carlita’s grandmother closed herself in one of the rooms, furnished the same as the one she had had in house, and spent most of the time glaring at the portraits of her ances- tors who had never had the courage to move to an apartment. And Inwood knew that the Egenhoffs had come. “Seven rooms they took,” said Mrs. Lewis. “Maybe other relatives are coming from somewhere.” But no other relatives ever came, and Inwood wondered what the two Egen- hoffs did with seven rooms. They speculated much on_the two strange By Vina Delmar Carlita, Set Apart From the Crowd, Was a True Sport had such a frosty, unsmiling face. She held herself so . ps, go, night after night, without talk to, he would not disappoint her, She would tell him something of how it felt and make him promise to come. “—TI" she began, “I'll try some of that wder, too!” After all, she was the ast of the Egenhoffs. R MMY and Cavlita were playing chess. At least, Carlita was playing “Oh, that's all right,” said Tommy, “Y always like to help a fellew out of a tough place.” ‘This was the third time they had played. Three Wednesdays Tommy had come_dutifully to apartment D 12 to take his chess lesson. After the second session he had felt that the hospitality was too one-sided. Carlita was always the one to serve coffee and sandwiches. “Would you go to the theater, Miss Egenhoff, next Wednesday night?” he had asked. L “There has been a death in my fam- ly,” she reminded him. ‘‘Besides,” she added, “you wouldn't let me tickets.” A quick flush leaped to Tommy's pay for the packed her trunks and hung a series ot r all, Miss Randolph was paying her money for a half interest in the apart- ment. She did not question Ermine about her means of support. That, s0 long as Erminie conducted herself like a lady, was Erminie’s business. “We're from the East,” said Erminie, although she had not been asked. “Father has made a great deal of money in Wall Street.. He allows me a ridi M“m amount of spending iwoodite. “I like Inwood,” she said to Erminie. “The people are very nice and very friendly.” “Of course, down home—" began “Ob, by the way,” sald Carlita, “this being Wednesday; the clerk from the drug store is visiting me tonight.” * K kX TOMMY had not been prepared for Erminie. She burst upon him just as Carlita had caught him in a fool's mate. Ermine came into the room with a glad smile lighting up her face. She wore a black, fur-trimmed coat and a saucy little hat. ¢ Carlita made the introduction. Er- Carlita would have no objection to his a red face and he called Erminie girlie. He_wheezed heavily as_he ate. On the Wednesday that followed, Er- minie read, while the game pro- ceeded. When the first game was over, she said to Tommy, “I don’t belleve you really like to play chess.” “Yes, I'm very much interested in it,” Tommy said, but Carlita did not ask him to play again. Erminie was wearing a lace dress on It was cream colored “Why not?” asked Tommy. “I told you before,” g “I guess we’ll have to go alone,” said Erminie, looking at Tommy, with mock forlornness. “Oh, come ahead, Miss Egenhoff.” Tommy's tone sounded desperate. Car- lita sald no again. Who would go to the theater with a fellow in a shabby coat, when tickets are three-thirty aplece? * K k% 0, on the next Wednesday night, { Carlita sat alone, with a book. She couldn’t read and she wasn't sleepy. It was an uninteresting book. It couldn't hold her attention for a minute. She sat drinking her coffee ‘and crumbling face. Carlita sat across from her with a stolid, unencouraging countenance; her her—a break- THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 7, 1929-PART 7. own breakfast was before fast that irritated Erminie. Fried fish, little pat of eream cheese, rye bread. A heavy, peasant-like breakfast, the taste for which often made Erminie wonder what the Egenhoffs had been |- before they distinguished themselves. “Do vou know,” chattered Erminie, o];:n face that & person would trust him wi lxxsw&:r:vuflntm." b necessary to Mr. Rogers’ bonds?” called: “Tommy said for me to ask you if yonkw-mtonwfl.h us to a week.” Carlita answered, over her shoulder, “No, I'm going out of town Monday. the success of 3 asked Carlita, “Golly, you're nasty,” said Erminie. Carlita said nothing more. tired to her room to dress. It was Er|' minie’s turn to do the breakfast dishes. Carlita planned to take a ride up to Connecticut for the day. She was just leaving the apartment when Erminie T'll be gone for the week.” She went, too. 8| he had said the words She re- how next SHE HADN'T ’l’l;lE TALENT FOR MAKING FRIENDS. BESIDES, SHE'D HAD THE CHANCE LONG ladies in apartment D 12. The agent | . .. %rney don't pay drug clerks so | Minie was charmed. You'd have SWO | kept looking at the clock. At last she | unthinks BEFORE TO BE COMPANIONABLE AND HAD PASSED IT UP. = ks. ' bef met anybod; un ingly, but they would have to be = = 2 - = told them that Carlita was the grand- | p,qn he saiq. 'wh;: "‘l‘:dd ]!;lee?s:d oyl oo 97 | undressed, turned out the light and sat | made good. Carlita packed & valise and aughter, and they watched her with ?nwiest. Some of ythem nodded to her and were rewarded with the frostlest “You need to learn more about chess.” So here they sat playing chess. “Tll make some coffee,” she said pres- Tommy O'Dell. She sat quietly by while ‘the chess proceeded. Tommy ‘The Egenhoffs had been at the window, watching. Tommy and Erminie came along. Carlita was too much of a disciplinarian. went to a town, where a distant relative owned a hotel. It was a good hotel and he would welcome her as a guest. It “Tommy’'s selling bonds,” she said. Four days, and he's made two sales; isn’t that wonderful?” ‘The clerk said, “Good evening, Miss Egenhofl.” Carlita said good evening and told “I don't know.” He took a swallow of coffee, then of acknowledgments. Inwood was not| ..., won a game. to eavesdrop, even if she had been close | had been folly enough to pushed the mug from him. “Somehow,” d. Faint heart never won | “idL - P famous for their chivalry. : e away, with-| ghe cocked her head on the side and | him the things she wanted. he said, “I don't feel like that.” 2’%:&,’;& ‘acquaintance with & nelgh- | .bicase don't bother Erminie insisted upon making the | €nOugh to hear them speak. But she jout adding the extra folly of extrav-|jooked a smiling challenge at Carlita. “Do you remember Tommy O'Dell2" | He got to his feet. He put out a hand T. Every afternoon. when the sun shone “I'll have coffee anyway,” she said. They had sardine and cheese sand- coffee and setting the table. “You two hold post-mortems over | was surprised when' Tommy kissed Erminie. He did it as simply as he would have shaken hands with Carlita. agance by going to some town where she was not related to a hotel, I do as I intended,” thought Car- lita, “she’ll think it's spite work, be- asked the clerk. “Yes,” said Carlita. to steady himself, but not in time. Hs fell back weakly against Carlita. wiches and a cake, " I t * % brightly. Carlita would come down the | ™icey do you live?" Carlita asked |JOUr games.” she said, dimpling at | WCR/ rred 10 har 'at'1 o'closk Ahiab * % || cause she took Tommy away. She knows | “He was here a minute ago. He's| “Pardon me, Miss Egenhoff, I can't steps of the apartment house. In five Tommy. “I'm sure I'd be better at @ mmn“n 00d IRt for. &5 EIET who Enmml gave a party in Carlita's I'wll:kl]n‘ that L it dsolhs mets gown and out. Looks hungry and every- | seem——" minutes she would be back, driving a glittering black sedan. Without look~ ing to left or right she would “re-enter the house, tall, aloof—Carlita Monroe enhoff ! Eg"She's gone to get the old woman,” the neighbors would inform each other. And, sure enough, Carlita would re- turn with her grandmother, deposit her carefully in the car, wrap her in blan- kets and go rolling down the Drive at & full 10 miles an hour. * k kX “I have a room,” he said. “There’s a lady has a big apartment on Academy street and she rents out rooms.” “Where do you eat?” “In the restaurants around.” “I have dinner alone every night. Why don’t you have dinner with me?” “I will some time. Thank you.” she hated to see him go. talking to him at the door. When he took his hat to go, she did not seek to detain him. Perhzps he was bored. It the coffee making than on the enter- tainment committee.” Carlita was quite at a loss for an ex- planation for all this kindness. She al- ways looked suspiciously upon a deal trom which she got more than she‘ex- pected. The explanation came the next eve- ning. It seemed that a friend of Er- minie’s family was in town. An em- inent man, indeed, as Carlita would know, if she was acquainted with the bond business. Erminie hoped that could attract men with money to be bothered with Tommy, unless it was a case of love. At 2 she decided that Erminie was not the t; to fall in love. Tommy was probably recreation for her. At 3 Carlita thought that Tommy had showed poor taste in kiss- ing Erminie where people could see him doing it. It was after 4 when it came to her that Tommy was probably mad about Erminie. After all, Erminie was very pretty. Then, too, while Erminie absence. Carlita knew it the min- ute she walked into the apartment. Somebody had dropped a cigarette on the sofa tapestry. Somebody else had had a set-to with the antique glass lamp in the music ropm. here and there other little that a good time ha ly in a satin coat that stylish cape. lnz:: 1t ations d been had Erminie came in an hour after Car- lita arrived. She was looking very love tralled a’short, fumed little figure before her. Then her eyes turned to the burned tapestry. Of course, it was insured, but it was the principle of the thing. “Qur arrangement {o share this apart- ment is automatically terminated by your abuse of the furnishings,” Carlita said, in & cold voice. Erminie laughed. ‘T expected that whep I told you that your darling drug clerk was no longer a drug clerk,’ she sal hing. He wanted a job. It's a wonder ;Ae couldn’t stick at a job he was fit or.” “Which way did he go?” asked Carlita. ‘The clerk shrugged his shoulders. “You want rachel powder, don't you?" He spoke to thin air. The last of the Egenhoffs was flying down the street. In the little cafeteria at the corner she found him. Through the plate-glass window she saw him carrying a mug of coffee to a table. Inwood’s lady with money flung open the door and burst in. His volce trailed vaguely away. Car- | lita put her arm about him and marched | him out. She got him home. There was no nonsense or false modesty in the Egen- hoffs. Quickly and efficiently she got him into grandmother’s bed and phoned a doctor. “This is terrible,” moaned Tommy, “What about your reputation, Miss Egenhoff?” “Don’t be a greater fool than neces- had pretty clothes and that sort of thing, nobody had ever drawn a prickly, poisonous circle about her and con- demned her as the lady with money. sary, Tommy, and, by the way, don't call me Miss Egenhoff,” said Carlita. “We'll be married as soon as you feel better, if that's satisfactory to you. Now to be out by morn- Carlita stared coldly down at her. She felt very heavy and clumsy in her tailored clothes. This girl had ever had the knack of making her fesl huge and “Tommy!" He looked up at her and smiled. “Hello, Miss Egenhofl.” “What's happened, Tommy?"” THE first person in Inwood who got to know Carlita Egenhoff was Tommy | O'Dell. Tommy was a drug clerk. He was one of those men with bewildered Tl expect {ou ing.” said Carlita. “And please arrange that no eminent financiers call on you tonight.” blue eyes and the look of having very recently been washed and combed by his mother. Heavep only knows why he, of all In- woodites, got Carlita’s first - friendly smiles. Perhaps the reason for that dates back farther than Carlita’s ances- tors. She hadn’t wanted to be friendly with Tommy. She didn't need him. Carlita never bothered about people she didn't need. She liked to read and she adored shopping and she liked to play chess. All she needed to read was & borrower’ card at the Invo‘gd ltibrh‘eliy:h'h‘ ;e- uired no companions p her shop :nd she'd never met a better chess play- er than her grandmother. So why bother about making contacts in In- wood and why be friendly with a drug clerk? _Obviously, she had no-use for him. She tried to puzzle it out, but reached no solution. She decided she'd buy her drugs in another store. That, however, didn't work out well, because the store in which Tommy worked had the largest stock, and Carlita’s grand- mother was always needing some very unusual drug. The EgenhofTs had lived in Inwood six months when Mrs. Egenhoff took to her bed. The doctor came three times a di ‘The neighbors saw Carlita scooting be- tween the market and the drug store. “Such a shame if she should die,” said Mrs. Lewls. “She must have money, the way they live, and to think she has to leave it.” When Carlita came past them with her bundles, they stopped her. They now had a perfect right, according to Inwood law, to speak to her, even MATE. At breakfast Erminie had much to say on the subject of Tommy. She TOMMY HAD NOT BEEN PREPARED FOR ERMINIE. UPON HIM JUST AS CARLITA HAD CAUGHT HIM IN A FOOL'S graceless. Before Carlita could Erminie led her trump. SHE BURST speak, So Erminie Randolph, with a pert smile on her very red lips, quitted apartment D 12. ‘The Jady with money stayed on. ‘There wasn't any other place to go. For the first time she looked with in- terest at the young women who were her neighbors. It occurred to her that .Dun.\mu;::mm;nlu com- iness. Once, as_she jumped into her car, little Billy Duval asked her for a ride. answer Billy. She pulled viciously at dn;; gearshift and disappeared down the lve. “Don't you care,” said Mrs. Duval. She picked up her baby and soothed his wounded feelings. “Daddy will buy a car some day soon, and you'll ride all the time, just like the nasty lady does. Don’t you care about her, darling. Mamma won't even smile at her any more.” \ * ok ok % Afln four months of living in soli- tude Carlita decided tc go abroad. There are friends to be made in travel- “That friend of Erminie’s was crook- ed,” he said. “Those bonds were fraud- ulent. I sold them two months before I knew that.” “Where's Erminie?"” Brightwood’s History (Continued From Fourth Page.) 3 :‘onrbwmcmwd.mdnumy.uvi L Enoch Moreland, Thomas Brown and Henry Ould were selected as trustees for the school. The second story of the building, which was frame, and in which wes held divine worship, was entered by a separate entrance from the outside. A gallery was also provided for the nearby colored worshipers. The church was named for John Emory, who was born TYINg (in Queen Anne County, Md., in 1789, | and was ordained bisliop in 1832, the year the first church was built. Nearly all the family names of those who assisted in organizing the chapel are still familiar in Brightwood, a num- ber of their descendants still living in the neighborhood. They included: Levi Osborn, class leader; Enos Ray, William B. Beall, Alfred Ray, Anthony L. Ray, Hamilton Cashell, Octavius Cashell, Franklin Jones, Christopher Brashears, ‘| William Osborn, John Thomas, Henry Hoyle, James and Thomas Lundon and R. S. Jones. It is said that the wives of these men were also largely respon- sible for whatever success was achieved try to get & little sleep.” Carlita went out and turned off the light. After all, she said to herself, there is no sense in wasting electricity. (Copyrisht, 1929.) dates back before the Civil War and also contributes to the history of Brightwood, having been used between the years 1861 and 1865 as a signal station, and also as the headquarters of Gen. D. N. Couch and of Gen. F. A. It was the writer's pleasure some few years ago to dine under these sturdy old oaks with some very nice people, including the late Vice President Marshall, who entertained | the party with some wonderfully good storles for which he was noted. What a shame it would be to see this beai | tiful place, with its magnificent trees, | turned into building lots! Let us hope | that such a time will never come, . Park on Olympus. MOUNT OLYMPUS, the home of the gods in Greece, is about to leave the realms of mythology and become & national park, planned on the same model as the national parks of this country. The center of the project, of course, will be the precipitous broken mass against her will. There was illness in ing, and, though it might be an extrav- | in the pionee s of Old Emary. which rises 4.000 feet from the edge agant thing to do, it was cheape: In 1856, there being a pressing de- 3 her house, and it was compulsory that than insane. e mand for a better mdg. larger chureh, | Of the sea. With its immense crage, she should tell how everything was going. “Just_the same,” Carlita would reply. ‘Mrs. Egenhoff went down-hill rapidly. Carlita faced the neighbors with her rouge as thickly spread as usual, with her clothes as carefully arranged, but something within her grew more and more taut each day. It was 10 o'clock one night that Car- lita 'phoned the doctor. Grandmother was very ill. He came at once and dis- patched Carlita to the drug store with was not in her to urge him to stay. She stood now, as always, with her head held high. She was so tall that her eyes were on a level with his, They were lovely eyes, he thought, but cold. His mind began to run, ridiculously booked for Li L On the night be(m boat uflnd% went to the drug . a brick building was erected on the site of the present edifice. It was & red brick structure and is said to have been “neat and commodious, splendidly equipped and furnished for its day.” At this time its congregation consisted of 59 white and 13 colored members, and Hamilton Cashell, who had some musical training, not only conducted the music at the church services, but conducted a large singing class besides. Among those whose names are pre- served as having preached in the draped with great masses of vegetation, cascades, springs, grottoes, venerable trleye;l and Ofl"l)lfl‘ rgmn'.l‘c lflnglx‘ms. ':’lout:t Olympus will offer fu y e %n.un wandering of the visitors’ minds. Not only will the seat of the gods be utilized, but surrounding territory, including the gorge of Tempe, the cypresses of Baba, the Byzantine fort- ress of Platamona, the ladder of St. Theodore, the slope of Scotinas and the Callipeucian forest 'M set aside a prescription. Carlita stood at the|enough, over other girls to whom he ‘may - | for a great mecca for tor . counter between a lady who hated drug | had im good uflm‘l’; hallways. He m’;fi" °rru{3'v$“g:‘c'hn m‘;;,,‘{‘”g_ The territory is said to be ideal for stores that didn't keep stamps and an | had always kissed them. They would Vinton, William H. Coffin, Thomas |the development of both Winter and elderly man who wanted to buy an perfume. from Car- ounce of very. expensive ‘Tommy took the preseription 1 hand. man. Carlita began to smile. At least, she thought she was going to smile, but, the first thing she knew, there were tears streaming down her face, and she was trembling all over. sat her down in the back g: last time. sl Tommy thought, bt he didnt brutally, Tomm; 3 knowugu uengom as the doctor did. Tommy thought that Carlita ‘ showed signs of a nervous breakdown. He didn’t know that she had had all the nervous breakdown an Egenhoff ever had, right there in the drug store. * ok k¥ Tflx neighbors thought that Carlita have been hurt, if he hadn't. But they were a different type. This was a lady with money whom he was vis- “Good nig} The door closed. Carlita went back “Now, don’t know me, Miss - X I don't know you. I don’t know a thing about your habits, but I'm ean. So, the minu girl ought warned of the ::xlnn people are insinuat 'S - | another e | says to myself,! out away from land was the boat e : they firsi BY WILL ROGERS. ELL, all I know is just what T Cabinets sworn, Indignation over ‘Vanderbilt book in Reno, Mexican per- suit race, and all those things are all as nothing in the press the last week or so to what has happened along the prohibition enforcement lines. Sinking that Boat down in the Gulf of Mexico gome pretty near being of Tea in the Boston ow we had a World England over that little incident, and when we sunk this one it looked like the Dollar-a year men would be_out again. ‘The whole argument was, “How far ‘when The old time that t took it2” L(,u': LIQUOR ? NEVER Took. DRINK Iy Rogers Thinks Prohibition Is Having and the Twelve-Mile Limit and Congressmen on Panama Trips —Wonderful to Be Blind. A Well, we was just getting over the excitement of all that in the papers band and then their little boy shot one of the officers. Well that caused arguments than the boat sink- or was it just proj got back here to New York and they only searched one of their baggage. =E T it Well e - where the Federal authorities deter- Wheeler, Francis Macartney, Thomas Magee, John C. Dice and Charles B. Young, and the presiding elders in- paid $200 toward the greuher‘s salary. Probably because the church was named mzxs hono‘rj:sm £ the ‘was customary early days, several bodies were buried in the m!:v. churchyard, now occupied in part the Brightwood Junior High School and the Church of the Nativity. In more recent years some of these bodies were removed to Rock Creek Cemetery, while those undisturbed still repose where first interred. This may be the same cemetery mentioned in the city di- rectory of 1885. a::ln[ in Brightwood, with Hilliary ne mentioned as * k kX Church happened to be right mined to place Fort Stevens. The brick church was torn down by Union troops and the bricks used in bullding Fort Stevens and in constructing baking ovens. The log building formerly used finally, in 1880, paid $412 as rent for the use of ground, and it 'e‘l;:ew' until 1907 URING the Civil War !mfll’y’ rch | exception of the United States, Summer sports, and leaders in Greece point to the advantages, from an eco- nomic point of view, which will accrue E iting. - She wouldn't stand for anythin 2 to the nation through this project, if it %a1d the Iady who needed s | HieSinet. o in Ahe Pepers, Doltties. Its Inni What With R R when away out in Aurora .omewhereig‘;g,:‘m e L LR roolin®: | is carrled through to its full possibilities. stamp, “5ou were waitng on me, Young | -Well. Sood. night, Miss Bgenhott” o S Inning, a 1t UM INUNNETS | they shot & woman, beat up her hus- | it ‘reiated that Bishop- Emory 1o 1845 v S Fur-Coat Market. DESPITE the comic artists’ depicting of the average young man lost by | somewhere in the depths of a huge raccoon coat, the total number of fur and fur-lined coats for men produ ,during 1927, as contained in & surve by the Department of Commerce, indi- cates the fur-clad male was not present in any great percentage. Only 47424 coats and overcoats of this nature were produced, but their value was fairly high at $3,869,238. ‘Women, on the other hand, found fur coats available to the total of 1,658,043, | with a value of $156,851,144. | ‘The total fur bill for the year was $299,615,047, which represented an in- crease of nearly 18 per cent over the total of 1925, Movies in Antipodes. i | A USTRALIA is the second best mar- ket for American movies, accord- ing to a survey of the Department of | Commerce, which amplifies the state~ ment by saying that, with the mflg}: Australian fan is the most ardent. ‘The average weekly attendance is 2,250,000 at the 2,000 movie theaters in_the country. The total footage of shown varies between 25 and 27 million feet & the country during 1927, 80 per cent were of United States origin. Of the feature films, 90 per cent were from this country. American-built organs supply the