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

PAGE FOUR LITTLE SPITEIRE By Jean YESTERDAY: The Shortest Street is a community in itself, Brenda learns. Since her family formerly lived there The Street will want to celebrate Brenda's coming. Adelaide proceeds to telephone everyone except Hugh Saltus, a famous artist of wi she disapproves. acta Chapter Four The Reception eS thinks Hugh Saltus treated his wife badly and forced her to leave,” Isobel told Brenda. “But why? Why does she think so, I mean?” Isobel grinned. “Because he's an artist, my dear. Adelaide dis- trusts artists on general prin- ciples. She had a boarder who fet, owing her a big bill. He said he was a ‘black and white.’ That's what Adelaide always calls him anyway: ‘that black and white that skipped without paying his bill’ She’s not awfully keen on writers either,” she continued warningly. strictly commercial like like Mac.” Brenda noticed the invol- untary softening of her voice at the mention of that name. “If you hadn’t been a Burnham, and the niece of your aunt, I doubt if she'd have taken you in here.” Brenda’s small chin rose a trifle. It was not for anyone named Rosttetor to refuse a Burnham anything! Isobel, reading her thoughts, grinned again. “But Adelaide owns the house, you know,” she reminded the newcomer. “She paid hard cash for it. Even if everybody in The Street—with exception of Hugh Saltus, of course—is prepared to fall on his face at the sight of a Burnham, the fact remains that this is a boardinghouse and you're just one of the boarders in it.” She spoke deliberately, half hoping to lure Brenda into a dis. lay of temper such as Mac had Binted at. She wanted desperate- ly to find flaws in this girl's char- acter. Beside the pretty and dainty person Brenda was, Isobel felt more than usually awkward and gauche. She was convinced that Brenda was badly spoiled. It would be a trifle gratifying to have her fly into a passion now over Adelaide’s aversion to writ- ers. Instead Brenda murmured: “Thank you for reminding me of that, Isobel. I expect I needed | G; it. As for the writing part, I hope to convince Adelaide it’s an inno- cent occupation.” Her mind went back to Saltus. “Does everybody on The Street feel that way to- ward him? I mean—is he more or less an outcast here? Hugh Saltus, I mean?” “We-ell ” Isobel considered the subject. “Mac and Eric like him. They’ze always dropping into his studio. Poor old Dr. Wil- gon sneaks over there whenever his daughter's vigilance is relaxed. But m: They th ter, eve aren’t r¢ isn’t that they reser just that Hugh w subject with the: If stretching her arms wear! T calling it a day! "Night, Brenda The next few days saw much running back and forth between the houses on The Shortest Street. Conferences were held in living rooms, in bedrooms, the most im- portant of all in kitchens. There was, blessedly, no servant prob- lem on The Street. Most house- keepers ruled over and were ruled by a dusky servitor who had been in service for a score of years. If death (and it was only death that Femoved the cooks of The Short- est Street) deprived a family of its faithful retainer, there was al- ways a daughter or a niece ready to step into the waiting place. Mrs. Rosttetor’s Grenadine was the daughter of Pearl who had tied the sashes of the little Burn- ham girls forty years ago. There- fore menus and guest lists were as closely scrutinized in The Street’s kitchens as they were in the parlors, and mistresses and maids conferred long and tire- lessly. ‘m ‘Social Sponsor’ | by! THE end an evening recep- tion was decided upon. “So the gentlemen can all at- tend,” said Miss Wilson elegantly. In Miss Wilson's world there were no men, only géntlemen; and she had a way of pronouncing the word which called up visions of conservatories, and bouquets in silver holders, and lace - edged handkerchiefs, “and even the schottische,” Isobel said, “though | I wouldn't recognize the dance if | T saw it!” There was to be what Miss Wil- son called a “collation,” too; chicken patties, tiny sweet Pickles, hot biscuits and preserves, a quivering tomato aspic, iced coffee and, to top it all, brick ice- cream and chocolate layer cake. Brenda, accustomed to the more sophisticated suppers of New York, gasped at this menu. “Cocktails?” she had asked Mac somewhat timidly. He smiled and shook his head. “My dear child. The Street frowns on the Demon Rum.” “Is Hugh Saltus to be invited?” the guest of honor further de- manded. “Not unless they're | Randall “Oh, yes, he’s to be asked; but leave it to Adelaide to ice the in- vitation so he’s sure to rei it” “Oh, I ho words burst from her before she realized their undue emphasis. Mac looked surprised. “Do you know Saltus?” 4 She shook her head, smiling. “But I know his clever cartoons! T've been looking forward to meeting him.”. “In that case, ll invite him myself,” Mac promised. He was as good as his word, and when the evening of the party came, Hugh Saltus, to Adelaide’s secret indignation, arrived with the earliest of the guests. He was a tall, loose-joined man with a singularly sweet smile, and, con- tradictorily, cynical eyes. “T-hear you're He ee be my |}social sponsor, Miss Burnham,” | he said. “I’ve been wanting to see the inside of this house ever since I moved onto The Street; but for }some reason Ive not been in- | cluded in this closed corporation.” |He sent an amused glance about the big room, crowded now with his neighbors. “Mac said you in- |terceded for me, and got me an invitation for tonight.” She smiled at him charmingly. “But it’s I who have wanted to meet you! Your cartoons have in- terested me ever since I was old enough to understand them.” They fell into friendly talk. | Brenda was delighted to find in the artist a witty conversational- ist, and a person of varied inter- ests. She promised herself many hours with Saltus and told him so quite frankly. “You're a Burnham,” he sighed. “TI suppose you can smash the rules. I can’t, you know.” “What on earth do you mean?” He glanced toward Mrs. Rost- tetor, surveying them disapprov- ingly. No Love Lost ‘M NOT popular with your landlady—nor with any of the women on The Shortest Street. Don’t ask me why: I could cite far too many reasons, I suppose. But Mac and Dr. Wilson — the Judge—they drop into my studio now and then for a cigarette and | a talk.” He looked at her smiling- ly, eyebrows lifted. “T’'d love to come sometime, if I may.” Brenda spoke composedly. Fresh from New York and more particularly from weeks ape in reenwich Village, she did not | soe the importance of The | Street’s disapproval of Saltus. The evening on the whole was |a_ heart-warming occasion to the jgirl. There were many present who remembered her mother and her Aunt Anne. It amused and in- | terested her to hear them spoken | of as if they were still blue-sashed little girls, busy with books and toys. Old Judge Harper related with many a chuckle an episode jof Aunt Anne's girlhood; Mr. Van- |Ness had kind things to say of ndfather Bu m. b The nm the 1 glass >, seemed to 1e hospitable, friend- ly spirit of the occasion. Before {she realized it, she had promised to lunch with Dr. Wilson and his daughter, to dine next week with the Harpers, to spend a whole day at the VanNesses. .. . “I’ve hon- estly lost track,” she said at last when one of the two timid spin- sters who lived across the street sidled up to put in a request for her company soon. “Dear Miss Ponsonby, I’ve honestly lost track of what I'm to do for the next ten | days! Will you be very kind to me jand let me get straightened out before I let you know? You're all so_kind to me!” Isobel Burke, watching her nar- rowly for any sign of condescen- jsion or boredom, had to admit that the girl from New York was enjoying herself. Brenda’s cheeks | were flushed, her dimples were visible almost constantly. The heat had curled her hair tightly about her white forehead, and her eyes shone like blue stars at the compliments. “Nice child, isn’t she?” Eric commented, coming to stand by Isobel. “I think she’s going to be a distinct addition to our little |household, eh, Isobel?” He sent jhera a tinged ever so slight- ly with friendly malice. “Mac has done nothing but beam in her di- rection all evening. Better tell her you've staked out a claim there, my dear!” She sighed unconsciously. “She's Mac's sort all right. Hugh’s, too, | it appears. Why, oh, why, wasn’t | born with a pes of dimples and | curls like a baby cherub’s?” “And a temper like Old Nick’s,” Eric chuckled, watching Brenda’s smile change as Mac murmured something in her ear. “My word, she doesn’t apes to have any love for our advertising man, does | she? In spite of his own—shall we say—inclination toward her!” They watched the little scene with interest: Mac’s urgent, hur- ried words; Brenda’s quick dis- pleasure; the young-man’s. event- ual departure, his lean face color- ing with anger. “What could he have said to her?”.Isabel speculated. “She was like a gay little girl.at a birthday party a minute ago; now she looks simply furious!” Continued tomorrow he won't!” The | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Final Show Tonight At Monroe 1 | | -- SOCIETY :-: | Players Hold 'Tryouts Tonight |Alamni Reunion | Thursday Night The Key West Art Center will; The annual reunion of Key! be the scene of preliminary try-| West High School Alumni Asso- outs tonight at 8 o’clock for th caer anitt aoe Seated witht Fae ERetet nies od ott il celebrated wit! al Navy Relief play to be staged a mcdlcc habe = the High School Auditorium | banquet about the end of June. Every-jevening, 8:00 o'clock, in the/ one interested in participating in Rainbow Dining Room of La Con- this and in subsequent plays of j cha Hotel. the Key West Players is cordial-' Members of the association are Ae gies se mgs jurged to make reservations for A committee is meeting at the |this affair before tomorrow aft- residence of Mrs. Rob Roy Rick-;ernoon, 1:00 o'clock. These can etts this afternoon to select the! be made with either Mrs. Nell play to be brought to life by the Rose Lopez, Catherine street, or Players for the benefit of the yy. i Navy Relief Fund. The play will | Miss Leuise Ketchum on Eaton be selected from the following: “Three Men On A Horse”, “Brok- en Dishes”, “The Torchbearers” and “Let Us Be Gay”. Those unable to attend DIVORCE ACTION meeting tonight and who are desirous of working with the; Papers in the divorce case of Key West Players in any of their Lester B. Staubitz against Geor- j interesting phases are urged - to! gana Veronica Staubitz, were én- contact President J. H. Gerberd- tered in the office. of Clerk R ing at the Naval Station. C. Sawyer, of Circuit Court, yes- terday. | Another suit for divorce was NOTES OF TODAY entered in the court by F. B. Cox versus Harriett H. Cox. Visits Parents ; Final decree was entered in Jerome Berkowitz, son of Mr.| the divorce suit of Ernest God- |and Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz of Key win ee Josephine Alfonso West, who is making his home in Godwin, and recorded yesterday the Eva street. Warner, Miami, arrived here Sunday for} a week’s vacation, accompanied by his sister, Miss Anita Ber- kowitz, student at Florida State College for Women, who is home i= the summer vacation. Returns To Chicago Frank Piodela| who was home ,to attend the funeral services for his father, Jose Guillermo Piodela yesterday afternoon, left this ‘morning on the 7 o'clock bus for his home in Chicago. On Business Trip Arthur Mulberg and Leo Cook were passengers on the morning |bus going to Miami on _ business and expect to return this evening or tomorrow. Returns To Tollgate Alvin Costar, keeper of the toll bridge for the Overseas Highway at Big Pine Key, who had been spending a brief vacation in the afternoon. i | | TRANSPORTATION j | Steamship Agwidale, of the |Clyde-Mallory Lines, is due to arrive in port this afternoon | from, New York to Key West and {Tampa. The vessel has 150 tons of freight for this port. \KING LEOPOLD | CAPITUATES (Continued irom Page One) i was known, also, that the Belgian troops had been fighting for four |days without proper food and |supplies and that many com- {panies were practically without | ammunition. | Despite the latter ameliorating ‘opinions ,most censureship of the | king’s action came in connection i ' NOW YOU TELL ONE (Ry Associated Press) OUT FOR THE COUNT BILLINGS, Mont.—Who says the west is tamed and now? Willard E. Fraser, area census manager, says that more than half of 350 cnumerators in east ern Montana had to use horse: |to reach.ranches and farms. One enumerator hitched a trail-} er behind his car and took a horse along. When the car bogged down, the census man galloped over the hills counting noses. Another census agent got iost | for a day and froze his face. ‘SHE CAN'T TIE ‘EM FLAGSTAFF, Ariz—A woman campaign to put one: ties around the necks of college boys} at Arizona State Teachers Col- lege isn't getting anywhere. Mrs. Margaret “Mother” Han- ley, head of the dining hall for 30 years, first tried threats. Then, she collected several dozen ties and hung them at the dining hall entrance, where they could be grabbed on the run. None.got used. city, returned this morning to his! With his failure to warn the Al-; So Mother Hanley gave up. post on the early bus. Enjoyed Visit Here J. C. Clark and family, who had been on a sightseeing visit and had a delightful experience visiting the places of interest [lies of his wishes. | No immediate knowledge of the results of this turn of events has jcome from the fronts. Nazi broadcasts declare that the Brit- jish and French troops in the '“bottleneck” area will have to |HE NEEDED STIMULANT | LYNCHBURG, Va.—Policeman 'E. R. Puckett’s prisoner fainted. The man had tossed a glass jug of whisky over the rail of a high viaduct, and lost consciousness here, and were guests at the La | Surrender in a matter of days or! when he saw the jug fall intact Concha Hotel, left over the high- way this morning for their home in Pensacola. Transferred To Zinnia W. A. Worshen, member of the {personnel of the Coast Guard vessel Ivy, was this transferred from that vessel to the Tender Zinnia. Berkowitzs On Visit Sidney Berkowitz, who has been attending the Naval Train- ing Station at New Orleans for ‘length upon the difficulties en- woman in Greece. last countered by recent graduates in tory note forwarded by a Greek two weeks, arrived home ‘perhaps hours. ;WORK FOR YOUTH | SUBJECT OF SPEECH | {Continued from Page One) ernoon by a talk delivered by jhim to the advanced students of Mrs. Grace Crosby’s W. P. A. Adult Education class, in the , High School building. In his talk Mr. Little dwelt at into a narrow stream, instead of smashing on the pavement. After reviving him, Puckett found the jug in a muddy miil- race, the corncob stopper still firmly in place. morning |urated in Key West Monday aft-/ WASN'T GREEK TO HER ASHLAND, Ore.—The Greeks probably have a word for every- thing but money orders. Postmaster J. H. Fuller re- ceived for payment a $200 postal order issued here in 1906 to a The explana- night for a vacation accompanied | securing their first job, and made bank said the woman had not by Mrs. Berkowitz. This will be|a number of suggestions regard-|known all these years what the the first time in two years that/ing ways to overcome the re-'green slip of paper represented. the entire family has been to- gether, said M. E. Berkowitz, the father, this morning. W .L. WILLKIE SAYS F.D.R. SHOULD RUN (Continued from Page One) should be the Democratic nomi- nee for President in 1940.” “It might be that Mr. velt is the only man capable of \beating the Republicans,” con- tinued Willkie’s article, “but there are millions of Democrats who would like to see somebody luctance of many employers to hire inexperienced workers. | In this connection he stated that his office, coincident with \high School graduation day, plan- |ned to contact all the potential jemployers of this area in an ef- jfort to persuade them to make a place in their business for one or more students so that the prac- jtical experience in employment |Secured without delay. | Mr. Little advised those pres- ent to register with the State |Employment Service as their first step in seeking employ- Payment will be complicated | by the time element but eventual remittance is expected, Postmas- ter Fuller said. HOOSEGOW WANTED DISNEY, Okla—Disney, boom |town beside Grand River dam, is having more jail trouble. Eighteen months agg prisoners simply were taken to a black oak Roose- which is so important may be tree and their arms were hand- cuffed around it, but Mrs. Mabel Bassett, state commisioner of |corrections, said this was too in- human. So the merchants took up 'a collection to build a bona fide else try. And there are millions ment. “Many employers are now jail. ‘of Democrats who will vote Re- publican if he runs.” “Mr. Roosevelt is the cham- pion New Dealer,” said Willkie, “the outstanding advocate of the iphilosophy which holds that the government's control over the in- dividual shall be extended and intensified. That is what the »New Deal means, and it is the {most vital issue of the national campaign ahead. “filling their vacancies through our office”, said Mr. Little, “and ‘by registering with us it is pos- sible that the young man or woman seeking their first job will be saved many of the heart- aches and disappointments usually encountered in an aim- less search for employment. “Every person registering with the State Employment Service is interviewed by experienced job Town officials ran out of money |before floor and partitions were install@d ‘and asked the county to finish the job. The attorney general's |ruled the commissioners spend money on a_ jail outside the county seat. Disney is an unincorporated town and can’t collect taxes. office can’t located |SHE IS A LULU 4 “With Mr. Roosevelt in the placement officials in order to! ROCHESTER, Ind” — In 19 (fight, defending this philosophy,jobtain his or her qualifications | months, Mrs. Edward Altum: of |near Monterey became a bride, we can obtain a clean-cut ver- | dict. jand aptitudes. This saves the If any other candidate is employer a great deal of time in mother, mother-in-law and named by the Democrats, the big, |interviewing unqualified appli- grandmother. limportant issue will be clouded | ints and at the same time saves! Then Mrs. Lulu Medbourn, she by other considerations. . .We the job seeker many disappoint-| married Altum in September, than Tony Galento.” 1 1100 Margaret! would all rather beat the champ / ments.” i Mr. Little offered the assist-| 1938. Subsequently two sons and a ' TUESDAY, MAY 28. 1948 1 | ONE MAN’S MEAT ! TO DIR. Be Ss ;“But I want it tough and bloody red, With gore and gall all dripping; 'No fairies dancing in the glen, Vor -silvery moonbeams o'er the fen, want so bees at i ping; Til take the poetry of iThe awful groans of night Whose oaths of agony ping; ‘ll leave you, | Who ‘joy dew, And _ maiden’s | tripping; ;Give me the man with gasping lung, | Whose throat clutched, black tongue hung With blood, forced out like gripping”. “Oh, yes, I like poetry”, I said, !“But I want to sleep when I go to bed, Vithout bad dreams mans whipping”. flowers sip- fight, men are rip- the moon and love to to write of June and light fantastic his is by vise- of some ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Below are the Answers to Today's _ Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 — Swallowing their pr Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Charles Curtis and Charles G. Dawes. “—or give me death”. Egypt. Anglo-Egyptian Su- dan, Eritrea, 2nd Arabia. New Mexico and Arizona Henrik Ibsen. Samuel L. Clemens. Henbert Hoover and Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. In 1913. class were attending a meeting, in the basement. The speaker of the evening was among those who lost hats. NOTES FOR KANSAS TOURISTS TOPEKA, Kas.—It is legal to banquet.on snakes, lizards, centi- pedes, scorpions and other rep- tiles at home, but its’ against the law to eat ‘em in public in Kan- The oddity was discovered by Franklin Corrick, while revising at _THE WEATHER Observation taken at timid | “Oh, yes, I like poetry”, he said, | Highest last 24 hour | Lowest last night | Mean |Normal a Precipitation |Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches {Total rainfall since | inches Deticiency inches Totaj rainfall since Jan. inches Deficiency inches Wind Direction and Velocity SE—7 miles per hour Reletive Humidity &4 | Barometer at 7 30 a m. todey Sea level, 29.98 (1015 u Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 7 Sunset Moonris« Moonset Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Ba May May 1 smece since January x High Low (Till 7:30 p. m Key West and V cloudy tonight and Partly Wednescay nity risk of shower. much chang gentle to ly southerly Florida cloudy tonigh occasional showers north portion north and Wednesday temperature mudcratc Partly cloudy % Wednesazy im extreme tonight and im west-central porthons not much change mm and NEW YORK bers of the crew Steamship Ewa ase upon the arri the ship charged with mutiny which start ed aimost im ly after the ship left ¢ New York harber on a round-the-world trp were ‘ <a hes LF CALL \ == ao PRIZE SCTe — Tose os state statutes, The law provides , a penalty of from 30 days to nine months in jail or a $25 fine. Until 1925 a law authorized mayors and township trustees to conscript “all able-bodied male persons between the ages of 12 and 65 for the purpose of de- stroying locusts or migratory grasshoppers”. The law was en- acted in 1877 but eliminated in 1925. | “There is absolutely no telling ance of his office in securing So-|daughter by a former marriage at the present writing whether cial Security account numbers, | were wed. All three couples had Mr. Roosevelt will run for office: which are required by many | children and Mrs. Altum herself a third time, or not. But so far employers before putting an em- gave birth to a daughter. every political move that he has ployee to work, and concluded} imade in the current campaign ‘his talk with a number of sug-|\OF ALL PLACES! Scout troop in this city have been has been a move in that direc- \gestions along vocational lines. | PUEBLO, Colo.—A thief broke invited to a meeting tomorrow, The United States . maintains’ tion, a tpove to keep the way linto the cloakroom of a church Wednesday, afternoon, at the,250 refuges for all forms of wild open should he decide to try Peasants own one-sixteenth of and stole five hats and an over- home of their troop leader, Mrs. life. sit” ‘all arable land in Italy. \coat while members of the men’s The meeting, which will as- semble at 4:00 o'clock, has been GIRL SCOUTS TO MEET TOMORROW ws s'con stick, uas ics Former members of the Girl rade next Thursday evening.