The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR LITTLE SPITFIRE By Jean YESTERDAY: Something ts jwrong with Adelaide when she returns home. The doctor is un- able to tell what her sickness is, and Adelaide gets progressively worse, = Randall ; : She clung to the bannister for @ moment, wondering what this invasion meant, Then she saw their faces; lovely sad faces, with a soft high light of kindness on both as though one reflected the other. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NOTES OF TODAY Arnaocs Return To City s Mrs. Albert Arnao and chil-| The Junior Woman’s Club held) Paul Mesa, Andrew Elwood, Sa-| dren, Faith and Albert Jr., have | their Social meeting at the club-|muel Russell. i jreturned to the city after a visit} house on Division street Thurs-/ Misses, jwith relati in Birmi Atal cape aa by her ister jattendance on-hand to enjoy the Louise Castillo, Consuelo Miss Mollie Wagoner, who will|¢a'd games played. - _|mona, Mary Agnes Kelly, |make her home with the Arnao| A __ beautiful bracelet was | Rodriguez, Alce Curry, Clara} jawarded, as first prize, to Miss! Yates, Louise Hawkes, Louise} E. Whalton,! Car- | Jr. Woman’s Club Entertained Good |Clinic Card Party Suuccess Attendance At Regular Social Meeting Peclared | Mrs. Stephen W. Douglass won the high score prize, a lovely | | tray, at the Clinic Benefit Card | day afternon, with a rather large | Ophelia Lester, Solita Cobo,'Anna Party held last evening in the’ Ada | Women to be vitally interested in | a Se the business of the Kingdom. There were six tables set up in the Rainbow Room, and all re- ported an enjoyable time A second Card Party im the for the Clinic, will be held Fri- “May I know who you are, Rev. Riviere comes to Key | day, July 12th. ‘| please?” asked the older woman - !family.- Chapter 26 Alce Curry, and the consolation | Ketchum, Isabel Kelly, Marjorie |\West after a most successful! Prizes for this party wene do-- : The Wick Women» MB: ARNOLD'S: Dorothy was 2 an excellent nurse. Brenda rousing at two with a panicky feeling that she had deserted Adelaide too long, peeped into the door and saw the thi t woman lifting Mrs, Rosttetor effortlessly in one arm while she shook and smoothed the pillows, straight- ened the wrinkled sheet with the other hand. Adelaide was mur- muring contentedly. It was during this time of trouble—for Adelaide was grave- ly ill, not so much from any spe- cific disease but from sheer weak- ness—that Brenda came really to know and love The Shortest Street. It was as though one roof shel- tered all the families, one topic concerned them all. Judge Harper and Hugh came twice a day to in- uire for Adelaide. They brought lowers, fruit — anything they could think of which might make her illness more bearable to the Patient, the nursing easier for those who cared for her. ~The Misses Ponsonby whom ae hardly knew slipped in out like gentle wraiths, dust- ing the, living room (grief for her employer had made Grenadine doubly careless), quietly taking chasge of Adelaide’s small per- mail, and generally making ‘themselves useful. And out from their seclusion came two women Previously known to Brenda only as “the Wicks.” Isobel had described them to Brenda the week after her ar- rival. “Not that I've seen them,” she hastened to say, “Nobody in this house has ever laid eyes on them but Adelaide. They’re recluses. The only exercise they take is in their own back yard after dark, and they've let the hedges grow so high that nobody can see them even then. They do all their order- ing by telephone. Even the de- livery men have orders to put their packages on the back porch and go away.” “But—but what made them like that?” Brenda’s eyes were wide. “A tragedy. It seems that the man Miss Wick was engaged to was driving out to dinner with her father, and both were killed in an accident. It was a double bereav to the girl, you see, r peeainally became r daughter’s melan- and refused to see people just as Miss Wick did.” “Real melancholia?” “Not in the pathological sense, I believe, though it well may have become so by now. It started with Mrs. Wick having to keep callers away from the girl, and ended by her getting the same twist, I sup- Pose. “How long ago was this?” “Seventeen years.” Brenda was dumbfounded. “You don’t mean to tell me that for all that time a perfectly sound and healthy girl had shut herself away from her friends—from sun- shine and fresh air—” “She can’t be a young girl now,” Isobel argued. “And I greatly doubt if she was sound and healthy or she wouldn’t have behaved so. Why are you so sur- prised, Brenda? Aren’t we for- ever reading in the papers of some rson who stayed in bed for ‘orty ‘bea because he'd quarreled with his wife, or took a vow not to eat bread, or something, until some fancied wrong was recti- fied?” =< ‘yes. But those are just peo- rare the newspapers. The Wicks ive'on The Shortest Street!” Cross-Section Of Life a green eyes narrowed into laughter. “My dear child, The Shortest Street is just a little Piece of the world—a cross sec- tion of life, maybe, though I do our isolation brings out any Queerness we may have.” And now the Wicks, mother and daughter, had sidled out of their own front door late one afternoon and walked boldly to the old Burn- ham house and entered without 0 much as ringing or knocking. It chanced that Brenda was just coming downstairs after sit- ting a long time with Adelaide. She stared in amazement at the two women who stood quietly looking at her. She had an im- elon that they were dressed | b’ for a costume party of some sort. Both had long hair, done up in ce bundles on top of their eads. They were stiftly corseted, their shoes were high and but- toned. Brenda's incredulous eyes lingered on those shoes, and she asked herself where on earth they got them! Their clothes were of a strangely unfamiliar cut. gently. ¢ Brende- Burnham?\-She sailed warren nite of iene. ‘And yi wine atace jurnham,” murmured the caller. “Frances, do you hear that? You have the Burnham mouth, my dear, Your mother, whose husband built this house, | “My grandmother,” Brenda cor- rected. “Mother had no dimples.” ee =, hee your | Bee i mother’ ‘es, suppose it was. Anne Burnh: Frances, this in am’s niece, I am right, am I not? Anne Burnham,” went on the sad, gen- tle voice, “used to be my closest friend before—before she left The Street. But I must explain our er- rand here. We have heard that Mrs. Rosttetor is ill. She does not, of coe eee by inheritance or right of primary occupation, belong to The Street. Still, she is a neighbor, and seriously ill, May we be of assistance?” Brenda was bewildered. She had entirely forgotten the Wicks. Her native courtesy impelled her to treat these queer gentle wo- men with the utmost graciousness, At the same time, she could not risk an invasion of the house by those of whose conduct she could not be sure. *HAE The younger woman saw her perplexity and spoke for the first time, and in the same almost*in- audible voice as her mother. “Mother is Mrs. Wick, and ’'m Frances,” she explained, “We live between Miss Ormond and Mrs. Arnold.” A Daring Idea RENDA. rallied her forces, She realized dimly that this was quite as likely to be a crisis in the lives of the callers asin Adelaide’s | ess, She said: 2) “Shall we go into the livi room where we can talk?” An when they were all seated, she told the whole story in the utmost detail. “It'll do *em good,” she thought, “to get their mini on something besides themselves.” So she spoke of diets and ice bags, doctors’ calls, and the diffi- culty of meeee a house in time of illness. She described Isobel, Eric and Mac; even Grenadine. She saat ae i kindness the stricken family had received, even mentioning the flowers that had come that day, and the jelly Maud ‘they drank it all ia thirsily, 1 ey it A seemed to pitying Brenda. that a had been parched for py such trivial news of their id. When the girl had finished her re- cital, she looked at them with a smile. “So you see we are in good ne Wick’ th ~drooped. Irs, ick’s mout! “Yes, I see. You don’t need us, that is certain. We'd hoped to be of some help, Frances and L” She | paused a moment, then leaned | forward and spoke with urgency. “Can’t you think of somethi no matter how simple, or how di ficult—we could do to be of serv- ice?” A daring idea seized Brenda’s imagination. Mac told her after- ward that no one else on The Street would ever have had the courage to propose it. “There's one thing that we sim- ply can’t get around to,” she said in a matter-of-fact tone. “That’s | paying the bills downtown: light, and gas, and water and all, you know. The men are so tired with helping us, or so busy making up arrears, that we haven't felt like | asking them.” A bleak light dawned in Mrs. Wick’s eyes. “You can certainly send checks!” Brenda shook her head. “Ade- | laide—Mrs. Rosttetor would have B relepes when ae found it os ie never anything check. And," -contigeat Brenda shamelessly, “we have only cash in the house, anyway, since Mrs, | Rosttetor is too ill to She paused a moment and then went on. “Of course I shouldn't have spoken of it if you hadn't ea pe Poche tee natin any "—she put a signi accent on the word—“for us, We won't say any more about it. Do ser pa it is getting colder out? She could see mother and daughter look at each other. It seemed to her that some si Passed from Frances to the older | woman. At any rate Mrs. Wick sighed, and said: “Give me the my dear, and I'll see that they are attended to.” “You won’t—won’t send your own checks? It really would up- set Mrs. Rosttetor seriously— > Aauat oan int smile curved the grave lips of her caller. st “T will pay them in cash, Please | make your mind easy about that!” | GEKELER TO PREACH ON- FIFTH COLUMN Rev.. J. C. Gekeler, pastor of oS MARRIAGE LICENSES | Juan Calleja On Visit <= | prize, a‘€uban fan, was won by | Gwynn, Margaret White, : i aa Miss Salita€obo. Delicious re-|Domenech: p©!! -}~ by * leaving ‘on’ thé bog yésehaay for Present. |Miami for a féw days visit with} Mesdames Lawrence Gutie- Cabot, E. E. Ward, Joe g |Albert J. Mills, Merrill Roberts,|Lacedonia and Miss Vilna Al-| |Raymond Curry, J. L. Menendez, ; fonso. there _will go to Clewiston for a |visit with a ‘sén. | Dorothy Albury Leaves —~- = ee Miss Dorothy Albury left yes-| ‘ 1 ee 7 1 |terday for a visit with her sister, | “Pecslly. the royal poincianas, RIVJERE IN FIRST A Gesis which. now blooming in pro-| i Miss Rosemary, in Miami and to} a — . = | SERMONS TOMORROW | meet with friends who will be} 2 | visiting there. | Shirley Decker Here Rev. A. C. Riviere, recently Te | Miss Shirley Decker, formerly ! appointed to the pastorage of the | Returns To Marathon | of Key West, but now of Cald- 5 5 | Miss Isabelle Duffy, who had | well, N. J., where she makes her | First Methodist (Stone) Church | |been visiting with relatives in the | home with her mother, Mrs. Wil-: Will o¢cupy his pulpit for the| |city and was the guest of her} liam Decker, is a visitor in the first time tomorrow morning and sister-in-law, Mrs. Victor Moffat,! city and guest of Miss Mary | has selected the subject, “The left yesterday for Marathon. | Falk. | Father's Business” for his open- | ae | ao {ing message. At the evening hour On New York Visit | Returns To Tennessee ** he will speak from the subject, | Miss Mabel E. Perez, left on| Mrs. B. C. ‘Ellenberg’ and <Compel Them”. Both those the early bus yesterday to. visit | daughter. Willie Ruth, and son, timely messages deal with the jin Maryknoll,. N. -¥., with rela-| Carl,who haye been visiting with urgency of the gospel and the/ tives and friends for a while. relatives in Key West and.guests /. ity for christian men and | ie A CI |of Mrs,, Ellenberg’s daughter, - | {Visiting Cpa) | "| Mrs, M. A, Smith, left yesterday ; —uuueetemmemmmmes | |. Mr. and ‘Mrs. "Edward Vignold |for her home in Marshtown, West's Outstanding” hand children, Ernest, Jack and | Tenn. , jo “RE | | Mary Agnes, accompanied by Mr. | Lets For New York » | LA CONCHA HOTEL , | Vignold’s: aunt, 3 Mrs. ee | Mics. M. A. Smith, who has been; Beautiful—Air-Conditioned | Ascher, arrived = over | in Key West since the arrival of: Rainbow Room and Cocktail |highway Thursday for a visi | the Destroyer. Patrol, leét yester- ! Lounge DINING and DANCING | Strictly Fireproof Garage | | with Mrs. Vignold’s parents, Mr. ae raat { %. y for New York to join her [pad ee ater arene enket husband who is attached to the street. Destroyer Williams. |e Lozier, Marjorie Lowe,:Mrs. J. ; L. Granger, Mrs. Alfred G. Lu-| Mrs. Riviere and two charming | a s {rrez, Wiliam V. Albury, Evelio|cignani, -and Barbara Curry. | children, they, have taken up re-| relatives and friends, and from} Lanes: | Hine co hiox Marguerite |sidence a a pat Peggy |Pastorate over a period of four | freshments,were enjoyed by all, Guests were:Mrs. Glady's De [years at Tarbough Memorial ‘Church at Miami. ‘Together: with monton Street and express them- | selves as being. delighted as being | jin Key West. Rev.° Riviere is} looking forward to a very suc- cessful year at Stone Church. HERE’S WHY Yor Sou IS SAFE SCIENTIFIC GLARE PROTECTION In this chart (B) shows the visibility curve of the naked eye; (C) is that of the eye looking (A) how Ray-Ban’s scienti |Dr. Parramore To Join Wife Dr. J. B. Parramore, head of |the Monroe Clinic, yesterday on |the morning bus for Atlanta for \a visit -with Mrs. Parramore who lis visiting relatives there, and will return to Jacksonville for a | Hear From Gandolfos | Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gandolfo |sent greetings to their many friends here from Iowa, Loui- siana, in messages today, at | which point they are vacationing. | They state that they will be i Open The Year Around — FIRST — Presbyterian Church jstudy of various diseases. home in a week or two. Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696° LOVERS OF GOD and | Mrs. Baker To Ohio LOVERS OF COUNTRY | Mrs. J. Ronald Baker, left on jthe 11 o'clock bus yesterday for! | Ashtabula, Ohio, where she will) ;spend the summer with her aunt, ‘Mrs. S. G. Swanson and cousins, |Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Parsons. | Motorcylists Here Albe Ellard and Athur Abel, jfrom Cullman Ga., were motor- leycle visitors in the city Thurs- |day, meeting friends from their home state and enjoying the sights. They visited all the} | points of interest, and had an ex- cellent time. Hear Dr, Gekeler’s Morning Sermon, The Fifth Column SERVICES AT 11 AND 8 Southernmost Church in U. S. FOLLOW THE CROWD MONDAY TO HOLTSBERG'’S. Batiste Ensembles. 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