The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 1, 1937, Page 3

DAY, DECEMBER 1, 1987. Jwo’s Ci By MARGARET GUION The Characters Nina is beginning to-find happt- ‘ness with David whom she mare ried impulsively to escape her love for her stepfather. Richard, the charming, well- tailored stepfather, is (PP, 1a 5x month trip with his wife, after shamelessly talking iove 3 tana Honey, Nina’s gay, oer mother, is wild -about Rithard and traveling on doctor’s ‘orders. David, a bright young..auto salesman, adores Nina and strives to, make her happy on his small salary, Chapter 33 Summer In Town T HAD been a horrid early Spring, and May made up for it for all she was worth. June too. The leaves on the trees standing off the dust, and hanging on to their first baby freshness as long as possible. Nina, who had thought of the Park in past years, more as a place to walk off hips and hangovers, than anything else, began to love it and use it, like hundreds of other New Yorkers, chained to the city during the summer months. Cordelia went on a cruise to Norway and Sweden. Horseface | &n' went to Bar Harbor. Tony Leeds, to the south ef France. .. . Every. body, that is, Nina’s friends, fled the town. But still the shee | finding that new quiet ha a bness . at new peace, gave Nina the vacation she needed. July came on with a threat of ots first real heat, but she didn’t ‘mind. The movies (if the money in revious day’s dear little com- lent had not been used up) me gilt heavens of coolness; roofs across the court kept bat ie sun’s hot rays; and her hus- hand was an ange “Nina, sweet,” ‘said David, “you're looking marvellous...” as indeed she was. Tced vag Gin rickeys. Salmon in ame ..+ Beer. like New York, in the sum- mer, dar darling. the David was a lovey who never grew weary ... of loving. If they got ‘along too, ae beauti- fu" on t eir $5 a day—and yes- te: "s compartment usually did have something left over in it, for today’s amusements—David laid it all to Nina’s superlative manage- ment, Nina never realized just how she had got started using small amounts from her own allowance, when he had told her not to, but were zo small. and made such a difference . . , it seemed the height of foolishness not to con- tinue, Ten dollars or so what was that? Not «+. ahd everything. The Carstairs Sale DAv> Was that rare creature: a man who does not come home rite "Novtitiig Com; e|make this terri: many boy wonder at the salesrooms, pe HERZOG that the big shots had their eye on | him, Nina was proud, Gracie Nolan ia been away for several months. Nina had not seen her since the might up on River- side dtive. Temporarily ‘out of work, Gracie had sublet her thee." room apartment to a girl friend, * , |and. gone to visit her family, near! ‘| Roches ted back iter. She was exper about the middle of August. Except for Jack ig and Once when the modél, and her _ friend Bilt dropped:in, ; Nina and David: were page alone. acd She had any number ott friends z Se two Long Island Hamptons, at Ney but following their original p! \ of not trying to keep tip with Pee j dashing pale Note oo pretty wel! Op) out of things. Weekends were busy for David, demonstrating cars, so that they could not accept the few invita- tions they received, even if they had thought it advisable. Car] Semple had gone away for the summer, so that even that op- peed for a change now and en was denied them. Carl’s ee about Hester had a date a great many people... aroused admiration in all. Virtually, it had been: “Good for her! See has been the mat~ ter with Hes: all these years; my love hasn' Rens able to rouse her., ll then, since she’s been wanting thing so long, and so desperately/I’m glad she had riunity, —guts to,seize the opportunit when it came along. I hope shel be happy!” He was helene igs a divorce, doing everything in his power to ic new step easy for her, He had written both Hes- ter and Rian and wished them luck. , The autumn would see him back with his horses, at Harmony. His old life would go on. He was quite splendid about it. Hot And Sticky As JULY wore on, the heat be~ came pretty intense and steady. Nina watched the girls in the street who went about in low- backed, sleeveless summer dresses and no stoekings, as tho they were in the country ... and envied them. Why couldn’t she kick over the traces, forget her foolish sense of what was correct for town, and be comfortable, too? But she couldn’t. She felt that the heat was be- Eee inning to get her—she had never n in the city before, after the first of June—but she held fe 4 went about in the daytime in jamas, and stayed in the darkened apartment as much as she possibly could, so as to be fresh for David in the evenings; but it was becom- ing tHereasingly difficult to feel rey anid phe ever, colt fina cor y tennis, or g in the broiling sun, become per= a|fectly ne and then go for a swim and feel marvelous ... from work every evening, chock- full of business, Cars that he didn’t sell, he didn’t talk about ... cars that he did, well, that was different. But he made it interesting, amusing. He xe not anything borin; e an jragenen te salesman with a vision; a det an ambitious young eur with a sense of humor. He knew motors, and he liked them, and he had just enough of a smattering of psychology to help in aad over a sale; but Nina suspected—and rightly—that his engaging Personality was his best asset. Jack Rotph wasn’t by where near as good, nice thoi ie WAS, | Le: = ah el said he cou “ take an engine ay rh put it together jai foldi =i Sock tn had the car, and his pros- pect had the inclination and the money, Jack could draw up the necessary papers; but it was David who waebed miracles in the Psalesroom. ews known as @ Ae fellow Swith a future.” There was the time, for example avid did tell her about this— Fwhen a Long Ee A ony § sent a Carstairs Over the telephone, eg Long Island Salesman ex- — that Carstairs’s automo- ile, one of their most expensive Island, branch of ears, was in their service station for a big repair job. Carstairs wanted to rent a machine while his own was being painted and over. hauled, but they had been unable to satisfy him. Would David see what he could do for the man? David would... and he saw to Carstairs so well that he sold him | & brand new car, instead of rent- ing him a second-hand one, A neat iece of work, David admitted, ho trace of modesty; and al- though there was some doubt as ‘© whether he—or the Long Island n—would get the commis- it was putting the thing over at pleased him. The head of the agency had sent} ) rite and congratulated him, that was “something. | rance and tried s' fresh as a daisy and ready to dance all night. But this kind of heat was different. She took money from her allows g in some of the city pools—the Shelton was the nearest—but it was not worth the effort. If she marketed and cleaned the apartment = she was so weary that she didn’ give a darn about it when the time came to go; and if she swam first, the subsequent work took all the good results away. She grew to loathe the hot pave< ments, and the sticky ey a One day, when her french into a particularly mushy part Lexington avenue, and her stock- inged oe ni Ages out and plopped down in ie sticky street ... she burst into tears, she was so angry. She kept telling herself to a ad it easy, pas it didn’t do MO Lge David sti ios she was aie Martti bee cause she wasn't; and his owl freshness and vitality and abounds ing good spirits were a constant source of irritation to her, poor soul, insteddiof a comfort. One evening, when he thought she had had-enough of a spell of cooking, he took her to Schrafft’s for dinner. Nina was so excited at being confronted with a menu she hadn’ prepared herself, that she couldn’t make up her mind what to choose; and after much egies Ke of orders, David said to the wait “As for me, I'll just have the leg. ee a chair, without Russian . and sent the poor girl away te | stitches. And he took Nina to Long Beach, when he could, and helped with the dishes, when she would let him, and generally behaved like an angel . . . but had she ever said it was fun in New York in the summer? God! She must have been crazy! (Copyright, 1987, Margeret Brerseg) Nina has a desperate time preparing Jack Knight told Nine that herpher party for Gracie and som, tee quite the aint @usband was considered ISLE OF CYPRESS {RY Associated Press) TRODOS, Cypress, Dec. 1.—Ef- forts of an American firm ow copper mines in Cypress to an unemployment problem resulted in a gold rush here. the last six mont uthori this British colony have 240 prospecting permits. In ies of issued For more than a decade it had, — been known that gold existed on this island, but the ore w to treat. Wh faced the need ¢ tional employment it altered it equipment and went to work on Vain vain Hope Some day: it ts! tt#é ‘expectation aper some politician will of this picture ken with ack teeth. Abilene (Kan) exceeded cp tats Wetec | But probahly it is all} j BASKETBALL LEAGUE MEETS ane TO GET LEAGUE UN. DERWAY DISCUSSED DUR- | ING MEETING t Plans to get ‘the Island City Basketball League under way next week were discussed at a meeting of managers of local fives last night at the High School. |) “High School Varsity, Fellow- ship Club, Park Tigers, and High | School B team will comprise the league. Discussion at the meeting ;revealed that the teams are very 'closely matched and that one of the hottest fights for the league |championship in years is ex- | pected. | Referees are to be from mem- bers of teams and will be alter- } nated. Tentative lists of the squads follow: High School: J. V. Woodson, J. Lopez, C. Lewin, J. Domenech, |E. Stickney, M. Zachal, W. \Schnoeck, E. Pinder, J. Porter, J. | Browne, J. Soldano. Fellowship Club: F. Carbonell, D. Carey, E. Johnson, W. Dough- try, M. Rosam, B. Baker. P. Art- man, D. Harrison, C. Yat.s. Park Tigers: C. Knowles, J. Carbonell, B. Saunders, E. Solo- mon, J.,.Navarro, H. Wickers, J. Cooper. The High School B team has not been picked as yet. SCHEDULE COCCCCOO RO OEOCOCESSOOSES Tentative schedule of the High School Varsity five follows: At Key West Jan. 7. Andrew Jackson of Mi- ami. Jan. Jan. Jan. demy. Feb. 14. Ft. Lauderdale. 21. Pompano. 4, Miami Beach. Road Trip Feb. 9. Andrew Jackson at Mi- émi. Feb. Feb. Feb. 10. Delray. 10. Pompano. 11. Dania. At Key West 19. Fort Myers. 26. Ponce de Leon, Feb. Feb. Soccsccecacecse Today’s Horoscope Today’s disposition is enthusias- tic, possibly inspirational, very impulsive and headstrong, but having an idea in mind constant- ly kept sight of. These persons may be very successful, if the concentration is properly direct- ed; bu any case it will carry with it its share of trouble, due chiefly to excess of zeal. HIGH-SOUNDING NAME WINSLOW, M the high school in this city named Harvard Yale Brown. LEGALS NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED (Ser NOTIC holder of Tax Certificate issued the 4th day of September, A. D. 19: j has filed same in my office and h: made application for a tax deed be issued thereon. embraces the 28. Miami Military Aca-|- student at is Said certificate following described _THE KEY WEST CITIZEN {LOCAL PREP FIVE — STARTS PR PRACTICE: Fiton ilekOoRY GROVE | About every y place I go, people} Initial practice of the High! are wonderin’ about what is goin’ School varsity candidates was'on with business and prices, and held last Monday, Coach P. D,} they are sorta up a tree and con- Huddleston at the reins. jfused. And the folks down there J. V. Woodson, J. Lopez, J..on the Potomac, they afe kinda Doriieriech and C. Lewin are four Up to their neck explainin’ why regulars returning from last everything is not grand and rosy year’s squad, but there are still like they said it would be. six varsity positions open, and| And right along we been told competition for these berths is that another law or two would fix a, ‘i ere j;everything up sweet and pretty, is te ea e! aily/ and the rivers would run up hill te Me hig PL ay ti or sideways or whichever way the days. A tentative schedule for|/aw says for ’em to run. the season is published elsewhere} But right recent, everybody seems to be sorta gettin’ woke up on this page. at about the same time, and we are like Rip Van Winkle—the powder was wet and his pants was ragged—and we been dream-! in’, but not gettin’ any place. And now, if we will take a coupla stretches, and a hitch in ee jour belt and get over our ideas that somebody is gonna feed us, and look after us every minute, = TTTTiiTitiiiiitiiiiti CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOUND “|FOUND — Small black Puppy,|#2¢ we go to work, maybe our o iy |Map did us some good, after all. ben A ceaagand Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. white feet, male. J. H. Kerr, Reynolds street. decl-1tx WHO KNOWS? t | 1. Are the Haitians and Do-j| minicans of the same race? 2. Who is the Prime Minister ‘of Great Britain? 3. What changes did President , Vargas make in Brazilian law in| assuming the dictatorship? } |. 4. What is the pay of members; of Congress? 5. How many members has! tthe A. F. of L. and the C. I. 0.? | .6. What proportion of the pop- | ulation of Brazil is of Italian ori- gin? | | 7. What proportion of the loans} made by the RFC have been re- paid? 8. What is the size of the Jap- ;anese Navy? } 9. Is General Hugh S. 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