The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 28, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR . afll Chapter 36 The Skies Fall TE feeling of being partly anesthetized began to pass. Had Eric always been like this— unreasonable, absurb, even a little childish? She felt as though she were dealing with young Robert in one of his impossible moods. There was a maternal note of eloved BY LOUISE PLATT HAUCK life with Bob, did that “tingling awareness that gives meaning to life” amount to? She might easily have had it with Bob himself. If so, it would have disappeared by this time, been replaced by habit, by the pattern of their mutual days. It would have disappeared with Eric, in time. The rapt girl of years ago would never have ey WEST WOMEN Juniors Tomorrow Their Homes and Gardens| picae 5 tate By MYRTLE COSGROVE MRS. LOUIS CASS BRINTON AND HER HOME It always a compliment jwhen retired army and navy of- is THE KEY WEST CITIZEN |Social Hour For Mrs. Max Eastman To Ascist Players Mrs. Alvin Costar and Miss| The Key West Players were} Madge Sands will be hostesses at | Presented with a “bit 0’ good, the Junior Woman’s Club social |News” last evening when they! |hour tomorrow afternoon, start-|learned that Mrs. Max Eastman jing at 5:00 o'clock at the club-|2@4 volunteered to work with | Ihouse on Division street. | them: on the coming production; i jof “Squaring .The Circle” during | | Susan LaKin, president, asks|her stay in the city. | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940 | Anneberg, student at the Uni- | versity of Kansas, can skate on LAWRENCE, Kans. — Frank /his hands and play a trombone | while standing on his head. | MONROE THEATER ITCH aso Anne Shirley—Edw. Ellis CAREER and Satisfaction or Money Back If the FIRST bottle of Imperial Lotion fails to satisfy in the relief of itching DANCING CO-ED latinee—! Oc, Or- ony of Ec: Rash, T , Scabii Logs apiiteseres = Ringworm, ‘Toe Ttch. toney returned: Simply repeat invisible Im) ACROBATIC STUDENT ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Below are the Answers to Today’s Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 | | | 1. Henry Horner. 2. A Swedish religious mystic, who taught a_ religious system based on his | | | | admitted that. The wiser woman of today knew it past all doubting. {ficers come here to make their that as good a membership ‘turn- And what, with Eric, would have | ‘homes, for it graciously implies, |OUt aS Possible be on hand, and | Mrs. Eastman will conduct} personal instruction for members} revelations. The semi-colon. own |} chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c LSS Eee rial Lotion elps heal. as needed while nature ; ag fotii + ® = Ten inches, on the average. | taken its place? ithat, after seeing what the world |that the members invite guests, |°f the cast, assisting in estab-| Be | ppbbbdcdcbue--seccecccccecesccseccsccoccossccooes patience in her voice as she an- swered him. “Pats had no children, Eric. Be- sides—Pats and I are two differ- ent persons. I haven’t the slight- est intention of leaving Bob. Whatever I may have felt for you, Eric, years ago—” “Sue!” “Whatever I may feel for you even now,” she went on bravely, “it isn’t enough! I know now it never was enough. I—let me be perfectly hones‘ with you, Eric. I was deeply infatuated with you then. I think that’s the right word. Enough of the old feeling lingered to make me—to stir me when I saw you this afternoon. I suppose you'll always be to me a figure of romance. I don’t mind at all tell- »ing you that I shall never feel toward Bob as I did—as I do tow- ard you. But that’s not love, Eric; or if it is, it’s not the right kind of love. “Listen,” she bade him smiling- ly. “Bob and I have been through almost every kind of experience that can come to a husband and wife; been through them to- gether. We've had money and we've been without it. We've lived in houses with parquet floors, and houses with board so splintery I've had to cover them with carpets clear up to the walls, I’ve borne Bob's children—” | He was very white and he put| up a hand for silence. “The simpl nd us' nals of the m d woman, Sue. Don’t, for heaven's dramatize them. Any vife go through what you scribing. But that’s not love! There’s just one significant and important thing in all you've told me; that is, that you've never felt for Trenton what you feel for me. That pulls the underpinning | from the admirable domestic structure you've been showing me, my dear. It’s all over with— it’s in the past. As for the chil- dren, if Trenton objects to your having them all the time, surely @ compromise can be ged! Half the year with him, half with —us.” “Let’s not have any gense about him crisply. n't dream of leaving Bob—much less divide the children’s time between us. The soc 3 understand that the easier it will be for us both. Shal! we go now?” ‘Extra Sweet’ .r" was good to be home again! The children greet turously, Bob was sc have her back. § only a week but budget of domestic r for her Robert had lost a front tooth Little Susan—“and Dad was sup- posed to be watching her. Mother. ‘cause I was at Sunday School!” —had wandered away and was gone until nearly five in the after- noon; had been discovered in the park, overlooking the river. “And Dad was so scared he didn’t eat any dinner at all, and Susan prom- ised cross-your-heart-and-hope- to-die she'd never do it again.” “Allen was here day before yesterday, ob told her later. “Spent the night. I thought he'd be all broke he took it v quietly. D’you know, Sue, I think—” “Oh. 1 do, too!” she said radi- antly. “Only I got it at the other end of the line—from Barbara. Of course it will be some time yet; Barbara wili probably stay with Forest until fall. But after that! Bob, won't it be splendid to see old Allen happy at last? With children of his own, and a wife} who really loves him!” The strange New York week was beginning to seem unreal. Sometimes she wondered if she had really had_that incredible talk with Eric. But yes, she re- membered the touch of gray on his temples, the grooming of his hands which struck her as being a trifle too fastidious—or was it only in contrast to Bob’s? Bob was forever tinkering with the engine of his car, forever fixing the wheel of Susan’s doll buggy. forever seizing the trowel from her own hands in the evening and helping her with her self-im- posed garden tasks. The change in Bob’s hands was almost the measure of the change in Bob himself, she mused: The immaculate young man who had very nearly pushed her over the river bluff years ago had palms as smooth, nails as meticulously cared for, as Eric’s own. But how many useful tasks had engaged them since then! Sue had a ten- der memory of Bob, leaving his desk in Queen City to fit a troubled farm woman with com- fortable shoes; Bob, who had once declared that in his estima- tion a shoe clerls was the lowest form of masculine life! As she moved through the rou- tine of her days during the fort- night following her return from New York, she had a sense of layers of sophistry, of specious opinions, falling away from her very soul. What, in comparison to the content and usefulness of, her re was a tidy NAVY NOTES By BYRD VP SQUADRON 53 has sched- uled two softball games today. “You're extra sweet these days, Sue, seems to me,” Bob said to her one evening. “Ifa week away from us has this affect on you, 1 advocate bigger and oftener weeks!” “Maybe it gave me a better perspective,” she said simply. “Maybe I needed to go away from all I have to realize what a rich woman I am.” “Don’t regret marrying me, Sue? Think of the old brick dining room we lived in, after the smash! Think of that big barn in Queen City we called a house! Think of having to pick up and move on every few years or so, just when you've begun to feel at home!” “I'm thinking of it,” she an- swered placidly. “Thinking of a lots of-other things, too, Bob,” she added with significance, Talk For Two AND that was the evening be- “} fore the skies fell, and the world reeled under her feet, and the happiness she and Bob nad built so sturdily together seemed threatened with final destruction. They were at dinner the next night, and Bob and the two children. Dessert—it was Boh’s favorite peach shortcake served with thick cream—had just been put on the table when the door- bell rang. “Young Fellison from the of- fice,” Bob predicted. “He said he might drop around to consult me about something this evening.” “Ask him to come in and have some of this shortcake,” Sue bade him hospitably. But the maid, nounced another name: raday from New York! The room began to swing in slow circles in front of Sue's eyes. Eric! Eric, of course! It was ex- actly the mad, the impossible thing he would do! Why, or, why hadn’t she foreseen it—prepared for it? But how could she pre- pare for it, ran her frantic thoughts. “Farraday? You don’t suppose it’s that_writer fellow we used to know, Sue? Ellis—Enoch—what’s his name?” Bob looked up, pleased. She rose. “I'll see.” The maid spoke again. “It’s Mr. Trenton he asked for, ma’am.” “Me?” Bob was frankly di- verted. “What on earth would be want to see me for? Guess it can’t be the same fellow. Save my shortcake for me. Sue!” He put down his napkin and disappeared across the hall. heard_his greeting Far- returning, an- Mr. Far- ‘a Sue!” And then a low, rapid murmur that made her heart stand still. The children finished their meal and ran off to play. Sue sat staring at her untouched dessert until the maid sidled in to see if she might clear the table. “What shall I do? What shall I do?” she whispered to herself. Her first impulse was to go boldly into the living room and interrupt whatever Eric might be saying. If she had only had the sense to do that at first! By now he must be half way through his revelation. Bob would not tol- erate a break until he had heard it all. She went into the little study across the hall from the living room. Without hesitation her feet led her to the window where she could see the river. Suddenly she threw back her head proudly. “After all, what can he say? Only that I thought 1 loved him years ago; that I came back to Bob when I heard of the business fail- ure; that I refused to listen to Eric in New York two weeks ago. Nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to disturb Bob!” But she knew her husband’s pride too well to console herself long with this thought. He would read in that frantic return, pity; and Bob would have none of pity. Sue tried to pull herself to- gether. At best Bob would be angry, would be hurt. When he had heard her version, realized how even just. in the last few days she had begun to realize how deep and warm her love for him ran, he would say: “Forget it, Sue!” and give her one of his tenderest kisses. How long they were talking, Eric and Bob! What could even Eric find to say in all this time! She bent her head, striving to disentangle words from the angry rumble of Beb’s voice. She would know how to deal with Bob’s anger. But there was only the low, rapid murmur which meant that Eric was still talking. She shivered a little in the warm sum- mer evening. Suddenly there was a new sound: the front screen closing quietly, almost silently. Eric gone at last, thank heaven! But how strange that Bob hadn't called her in before he left! There was— there was something ominous about the way she had been ig- nored from first to last in this visit of Eric’s! The first between the Ensigns of the Squadron and the Chief Petty Officers. They will be played this afternoon at the Naval Sta- tion. Subscribe to The Citizen, jhas to offer, Key West looks best to them. . .Among the late addi- !tions to the military colony are Colonel and Mrs, Louis Cass |Brinton, who last Spring erected jan attractive home at 1330 John- son street. . .They have taken the best of the Cape Cod colonial- itype of architecture and cleverly | jadapted it to meet climatic condi- jtions. . .Snug and compact as a New England house should be, it nevertheless harmonizes perfect- lly with its tropical setting of palms and flowers. . .The Brinton home has aptly been called “The Treasure Box”, for every nook and corner is filled with treasures garnered from many lands. . furnishings of the roomfhs are a beautiful combination of the do- imestic and exotic. Amid the fine old pieces of mahogany are scores of Oriental objects of art—a feast \for the eyes. . .Notable are the {tables. There is a nest of them y carved teakwood, another brilliantly lacquered. In front of ¢ Victorian sofa, a fam- lily heirloom, is a striking Chin- ese chow bench used for serving coffee. . .A rare ox blood pot- pourri jar and a blue Chinese Buddha provide vivid spots of are several unique a pair of burnished brass and a number of delicate figurines that were picked up in Europe. . .A wall bracket of teak- wood contains dainty bits o: ivory, intricately and exquisitely carved, . .One seldom sees so lovely a collection of glass as that which Mrs. Brinton has gleaned from her trave With a knack of showing her cherished pa sions to the best advantage, e has arranged them on _ shelves Jacross a window in the living 'room where the unvarying north- ern light enhances the brilliant hues. Most interesting of the s a candy jar shaped. like Bell which came from the Philadelphia Centennial in 11876. t only is Mrs. Brinton a native of Key West, but her fam- ily have lived here for genera- tions. . .Raymond Guthrie, her |grandfather, left Scotland in 1840, settled here and married Miss Johnson, a_ British subject from Nassau. . .Previous to the building of the U. S. Naval Sta- tion, their home was located at Eaton and Thomas streets. . .They had one daughter, Harriet. . .In the days of 49 thousands flocked {to California to seek gold. . Mr. |Guthrie in order to avoid the long, dangerous trek across the plains, went by way of the \Isthmus of Panama. Although he | was successful in reaching the land of his desire, he died shortly | .. after from chagres fever contract- ed in Panama. . .Claude Babcock, Mrs. Brinton’s father, was a des- cendant of the Babcock family, who came to Rhode Island from England. in 1642. During the Civil War, he was an_ officer jaboard the U.S.S. Seminole, un- der Admiral Farragut, who was at that time engaged in blockad- ing southern ports. . .When the |struggle between the states drew to a close, Mr. Babco¢k married |Harriet Guthrie, whom he had met while his ship was stationed at Key West. . .Shortly after his jmarriage he left the navy and built a large home on Duvai \street. next to where Kress’ store |now stands. Here Mrs. Brinton |was born. . .When the big fire of | 1886 started in the old San Car- {los Hall, Babcock’s was the first residence to burn. .-.Mr. Babcock, who resumed hi® profession of civil engineering after the war, engaged in a number of enterpris- es, all tending to develop Key West. . .Ir. 1866 he assisted in the establishment of a telegraph line Beware Coughs from common co! | Increase soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam- | ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you | have tried, tell to sell | you @ bo fo of Onconlision with the understan that are to like the way it quickly the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS The}. \lishing fundamentals of acting. | |She brings a vast experience! = \from the play-acting world to! to Cuba by the International | the local players, being one of! Ocean Telegraph Co. . .Later,} | | |the original organizing members} |with Mr. McClintock he became/of the famous Provincetown | interested in the salt j pans. . ./Players, and acted in the plays Around 1870, he, together with | that Eugene O’Neill wrote for} William Curry and the late Cap-|that group. Later she starred on |tain Cosgrove, Sr., purchased the | Broadway in those same plays. brig, “Tropic Bird”, and estab- | A short business meeting of lished a freight and passenger | the organization will be held service between Key West and/next Tuesday night, following | New York. . .Two years later he| which Mrs. Eastman will give in- | ;was instrumental in procuring | dividual instruction. She has in-| permission from Washington to! structed that everyone come pre- | have the native coral rock quar-|pared to act a small episode or | ried at Fort Taylor for building|mood, such as “vainly waiting |the Convent of Mary Immaculate for a girl’. This type instruction In 1878 he was placed in|is considered quite valuable to charge of the construction of|the group and all are looking}; Fowey Rock lighthouse. . .For | forward to the experience. more than 30 years, Mrs. Brinton | thas been stationed with the Reals To Have colonel in practically every port |in this country and the Isthmus Dance Tomorrow of Panama. She has also travel-| Gian ge ed extensively in Europe, Central| Floor show and dinner dance America and the West Indies, . .|Scheduled for tomorrow evening | |Home and garden is her hobby. |at Raul's Club on Roosevelt Bou ‘She is a marvelous housekeper | levard. Splendid program has | whose motto appears to be: “Aj been arranged. F ; place for everything and every-| Music for this affair will thing in its place”. . She spends | furnished by Ray Baldwin’s Na- many hours in her garden whose | tive Hawaiian Orche: beauty is testimony to her loving | solicitude. . .She has unusual ex- ecutive ability and a gift of |adaptibility that is of immeasur- lable value to the wife of a mili-| tary man. . .She is fond of out-| door life snd excels in swimming . . She is interested in civic af- fairs and is a member of the Woman’s and Garden Clubs, and the Community Art Center. . Love for and interest in her. fel-| low man is Mrs. Brinton’s out- standing characteristic. She likes the personal touch so diffi- cult to attain in large cities: hence the desire to make Key West her home. . .Her love of people finds its outlet in being of serv- ice to the handicapped. . .She is tremendously interested in any remedial work and has accom- plished splendid results with the blind She became interested while stationed at the Isthmus of Panama. Desirous of helping a little blind girl, she learned | Braille, the wonderful system of raised characters that enables the | blind to read. This was the be- ginning cf a most worthwhile work, which she has carried on for the past twelve years. . -Dur- | ing this time she has assisted a number of blind boys and girls to obtain an education and to fill their niche in life. . .Mrs. Charles Travelli, who heads the F. J.| seeece ° Travelli Endowment Fund of Bos- | ton, has been of the utmost as- | Par AS | sistance to Mrs. Brinton in her | Fras oped Wed Blas | mission. This fund gives $80,-| preston Foster—Irene Hervey 000 annually to the needy. Onei'mISSING EVIDENCE hundred and twenty scholarships | also | jalone are given to college boys. | COMEDY and SERIAL | if desired. be | Negro Spirituals In Stone Church Musical Special musical program First M. E. (Stone) Church Fri- day evening will feature a negro! chorus singing negro _ spirituals, ; folk gongs and plantation melo- dies. j Program will last a full hour} and a half with musical numbe by the A.M.E. Zion Church Choir and the Island City Choral Club. i ‘Sea Food Supper |At Stone Charch A sea food supper will be given by the First M.E. (Stone) Church } in the annex on Eaton street on Friday. beginning at 5 o’clock. Tickets for the supper can be lobtained at he parsonage, 411 Si- monton street. ROYAL PALM DeLUXE Local Sightseeing Tours TAXI SERVICE Key West Representative of THE ROYAL PALM HOTEL in Havana, Cuba ROYAL PALM TAXI CO. Ralph DuBreuil, Prop. 629 Duval St. Phone 9149 |It is interesting to learn that a| eweccenneccovscnacecesce protege of Mrs. Brinton was giv- en one of these scholarships. . . Although she has been here scarcely a year, Mrs. Brinton has jalready teken up her work among the blind of Key West. 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