The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR B YESTERDAY: Jan enjoys her evening at the beach ballroom with Derek, That same evening Rose comes home intoxicated, Lance is furious but demands that Rose kiss him. Chapter 17 ‘Swell Fight’ ERS was, Rose reflected, not an unusual story. A run-away marriage at seventeen to a boy of twenty. Too much love, too much quarreling and too little money. Disillusionment and di- vorce at nineteen. A determina- tion to make all men pay for the hurt one man had caused her. Burning her fingers, learning, hardening. Working as model in wholesale houses, then shops, then salons. Learning clothes and how to wear them. The growing greed for possessions, Then Her- man Cornwall. Herman had been a sagging, paunchy fifty. He had fat hands and light, suspicious eyes. But he had enormous amounts of money and he wanted to marry her. Well, she’d stuck it eight years. At first the clothes, the summer house, the winter house, the servants, the traveling, had made it worth- while. Then they hadn’t. There were men who attracted her, but her greed for possessions pre- vented her from attempting this sort of escape, for Herman was very watchful and Herman was exceedingly jealous, If she hadn’t mixed her drinks that night and told him she’d never consent to have a child, mever under any circumstances. His scourging denunciation struck fire to the pitch-soaked kindling of repression in her and she had shrieked her hate at him. He permitted her to divorce him at Reno after she’d signed a set- tlement. Such a little settlement considering Herman's vast wealth, Rose belted the robe tighter about her lovely slim w: and sought the healing solace of a warm scented bath A little later, hearing her come down the stairway, Jan slipped into the kitchen and waited until the front door closed. Lance rang his buzzer and she trotted up to him, dreading to face him. “Did Rose just go out?” he de- manded the moment she entered. “Yes. To the Club, probably. It’s a@ grand day for swimming and} sunning.” Lance looked as if he hadn't slept at all. “She promised to take me for a drive,” he muttered. “She must have forgotten or may. be she went to get the car.” “Lance—” *Well, what is it?” he asked ir- ritably. “Nothing, I gu “Oh, I know what's eating you. You think I'm a fool. You and Norma. You don’t know, either of you, what it is for a man to hun- ger for beauty . . . to ache to hold @ woman like Rose in your arms. Sure, I’m a fool! I know it.” He wheeled the chair around so his back was toward her. His face, 80 perfectly planed, thin and hol- low now, yet still po: of a pale, compelling beauty, twitched with feverish emotion. “I wonder, Jan, if those doctors who patched me up knew every- thing. Surgery is advancing every day. There might be a man sume- where in this world who could do something with these knees of mine. Damn it, Jan, 1 want to live! Why do I have to be con- demned to this chair for the rest of my life?” Compassion hed hot against her eyelids while compa on wrung her. There was nothing to answer. She wanted to go over to him and put her s . young arms around him, e sensed he wouldn’t want this. It was not her arms he wanted. She went out quietly. Johnny came out of his room, a sheepish look on his face. “Jan, forgive me for last night, will rou? ~ I'm sorry as the devil. ‘ou're just too good for a guy like me.” “I think so. with him serenely. “I accept your apology and I forgive you. Now run along and toot your horn. Tm busy.” He hesitated, opened his mouth, shut it. Her composed smile, her careless, indulgent one, dismissed him and his offense as completely | unimportant. He desired, sudden- ly, to grab her and kiss her, dis- turb her. He was furious with her. He ran down the steps and slammed the front door. Opening the linen closet at the end of the hallway, Jan took out clean sheets and a pillowcase and went up on the roof to change Derek's bed. She found Neptune, paws tucked under him, curled up on the blanket asleep. She hugged his limp, warm body, slid her fin- gers through his furry ruff, then set him down on the rag rug be- side the cot. He yawned and stretched and blinked amber eyes before springing up to his favor- ite place on the parapet overlook- ing the beach front below. As Jan lifted the top blanket tc she noted it was ple! rated with Neptune’ WHAT. NO BUTTER? (By Associated Press) URBANA, Iil—Budgets kept by 472 Illinois farm families have disclosed that the average person in that group la: ed 42 dozen egg: poultry, 86 pounds also showed that each homemak er in the group served about 4,- 692 meals, at a cost of 12 cents each, The food bill per family too,” she agreed} H TIDE. “So this is where he spends his nights,” she said, wondering if Derek petted him. She must ask sometime, for Neptune, outward- ly true-blue, paying no heed to anyone when his mistress was about, might be secretly cheating. And if he were, she smiled, the pefson sharing his love must be the right sort. The little tent smelled of ciga- rettes and soap and clean mascu- linity. Pausing when the bed- making was done, Jan suddenly dropped onto the rough army blanket and laid her cheek against Derek’s pillow, As if this act accomplished a joining to- gether of memory she closed her eyes and warmed herself by thinking of how Derek looked when he swung off to work this morning. Burned to the color of coffee, inured to beating sun, he jeans, sneakers, and a jaunty of- ficer’s cap. From his waist to his flaming hair he was as evenly brown as if he'd been painted by a spray gun. Also, he’d picked up an astounding vocabulary of fish- erman’s lingo and delighted in trying it out on her at breakfast themselves. A great deal of the bitterness had gone out of his talk and man- ner. A few days ago he’d asked her to play for him and he’d lis- tened without growing dark and urged him to play. He refused, but his refusal was only a shrug, no outburst of words. Encour- aged, she asked, “Just what do you harbor against Chopin? You said once you couldn’t bear him.” “T can’t. His music hurts me, haunts me. I lived a long time ago only to perfect myself in the play- ing of his Polonaise in A Flat | Major.” A OTHER time, setting his +4 teeth into his favorite sub- ject, the chaos and hopelessness lof the world, the growing deca- Tm A Misiit’ checked him with: “Derek, it’s the misfits who rant on soap boxes. Busy people, hap- Py people, useful people, haven’t the time nor the desire to tell the world how lousy it is!” He'd thought a while. Then: “Maybe you've got something there, Jan. I'm a misfit if there ever was one! But it isn’t my fault.” “Perhaps not, but if you keep jon being a misfit it’s certainly jyour fault.” | “Is this fitting in, then? This xisting to eat and sleep and 1a- bor with my hands?” “You can look out of your tent at night and see the stars,” she said. “You can watch the sunrise | and sunset and look at that ocean out there and realize how little {and unimportant you are. You }can dream.” | _ “Philosophy is cold. Y’know, | Jan, it’s a funny thing—I hate the jidea of manual labor, but I—I like it. It does something to me. Something good, genuine, earthy. I'm earning my salt and inciden- ally my own self-respect. Lord, sound like an Horatio Alger hero!” |_ Lying on his cot, relaxed, feel- ing the salt breeze fan her skin, thoughts ana words all ran to- gether, blurring. With a sigh she |poked her nose over the edge of jthe pillow and fell into sound sleep. | Derek, stealing guiltily through |the house two hours later, think- ng he had escaped detection, found her there. One arm was crooked under her head, the | other dangled off the edge of the jcot. Smali and childish and de- | fenseless she seemed in sleep. Her | lashes lay thick and dusky against her soft golden cheek; her sensi- |tively-curved pink lips pouted | with dreams; her hair sprawled | yellow over the pillow. His eyes, watching so intently, woke her. “I must have fallen asleep,” she murmured drowsily, sitting up, rubbing her temples. | Then she had a good look at him, | A small shriek escaped her. | “Derek! For heaven's sake, | what happened to you?” He grinned and hung his head a little while she stared, terrified. For one eye was turning black and swelling shut, a good-sized lump distorted his jaw, and there was blood on his cheek. “It was a swell fight,” he de- |clared. “But, Jan, Cap fired me.” “Tell me all,” she ordered. “I'l | bet you started the fight.” “I did.” he agreed, defiant. “I | was helping a guy pull in a whop- |ping big barracuda and Cap |grabbed the pole away from me and hollered I didn’t know any- {thing and never would and if it weren't for you he’d knock the daylights out of me and toss me overboard!” |_ “Oh, Derek, you didn’t hit him? |He’s an old man.” “No, I didn’t hit him, but I burned up and told him a few things about his rotten old tubs and the first mate got in on it— he’s always hated me, anyhow— and then a couple of other fel- lows took sidés and it turned into | |a free-for-all,” he related. alps .jit was fun. I feel slorioust | haven't had a fist fight for yearal” To be continued. THE HEIGHT OF EASE (By Associated Press) IRONTON, O.—An unidentified | Fan). now wore only a paif of blue | when they had the kitchen to | fierce and violent. Timidly she | |dence of civilization, she had | i | | At Jaye | will be entertained with a dance} |this evening at Raul’s Club on | Roosevelt Boulevard by the Key ! West Junior Chamber of Com- | merce. All enlisted men of the 265th Coast Artillery, Florida National | Guard, have been extended an} ‘invitation to attend and camp | Ayalas Spent | Weekend Here i | Nelson Ayala and his sister-in- | | law, Sarah Ayala, of Tampa, ar-} rived in Key West last week for |a short visit. Mr. Ayala left for | | Havana on the S. S. Cuba last; Guardsmen Are Honored Guests ees’ Dance Tonight Guardsmen and their ladies{authorities are cooperating with the Jaycees to make the event a success by providing transporta- tion for the boys to the club. Local girls are requested to at- tend this affair and assure the boys of an enjoyable evening. Local Jaycees are offering to provide girls transportation to and from the dance and those wishing to be called for are re- ‘ quested to call either Joe Allen, 51 or 659-R or Joe Pinder 72 or 869-R. Junior Chamber of Commerce |; is desirous of making this event); jan annual one in providing rec- Treation for those who come to Key West for the encampment. | Thursday and returned Sunday, ‘ leaving to meet Mrs. Ayala in} | Miami Monday morning. | Mrs. Emma Ayala and daugh- | ter, Emma Neil, left with Mrs. | |Sarah Ayala to Miami, where| |they entrained for a visit Houston, Texas, to be spent with | | Mr. and Mrs Dawson. ' \Mrs. Estelle Curry i Miss Corinne Curry, Mr. and! Mrs. Joseph Marucci, Jr., and | {Miss Sylvia Marruci motored; down from Miami last night and | are the house guests of Mrs. Es- | telle F. Curry, 221 Duval street. | Miss Curry is a student nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in | Miami. ART..Ae Lord Married Couple Yesterday Judge Raymond R. Lord yes- to;terday married Elmer R. Ayers, ; 34, a seaman attached to the Key West neutrality patrol, and Miss Jennie Uroff, 30, of Ariz. A marriage license was taken out yesterday by Roland Roig, 35, and Miss Amparo Villareal, 21, both of Key West. Miss White On Miami Visit Miss Margaret White, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell White, left over the highway Sunday for Miami, where she will visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Man- son. Junior Women Meet Thursday ores and = happenings in H connecuon with growing Art} ame wera ney Art Center. | MEMBERS OF THE ART CEN- | fn, ana te stall, are aeeply! grieving the loss of a novice! aniena ana fellow citizen, Pro-j tessor William C. Duncan, who | passed away so unexpectedly fast | |week. No one has given more sumulation to the work of tne Center, particularly with respect .o tne elforts to aeveiop art ap- preciation among the cnilaren of sey West. Those. who are fa- mullar with the Art classes, botn | at the Center and at Kooseveit ;>ummer Camp at the Harris School, have come to realize more and more what Professor Duncan nas meant to the children who have come under his encourag- ing intluence. An evidence of! this was shown last winter when; the Art Center arranged a dis-! play of a special children’s ex- nibition. During the two week: aisplay, Professor Duncan saw to it that every class in his school visited the gallery; one hundred percent attendance for his pu- pils. The impress on a commun- ity of such a sterling leader as was Professor Duncan is one of those rare blessings which car-| ries on and is never lost. It be- comes the duty of his followers to hew- ta. the line he so clearly defined while yet amongst them and be thankful for the privilege of such an opportunity. ANNOUNCEMENT LAST | WEEK of the coming exhibition, | “Country Cross-Section”, just !gives no idea of the swell show now hanging at the Center. Oils and watercolors form a cross-sec- tion of American Painters. Cer- tainly no one in town should miss | jthis unusually fine collection. ‘about as the “American Renais- ‘sance”.. Also don’t fail to vote for jthe picture you like the most as there will be presented a water- color painting by a Key West art- jist to a Key West voter on a ‘lucky draw of votes. CHILDREN’S SKETCH CLASS meeting each Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock has a registration of 42. Instructor Wilcox asked the class to suggest a subject—the answer from several was “ a slice of watermelon"—so they drew one from memory. EVERYTHING POSSIBLE is !being done at the Art Center to get the Art Reference Library in working order before next New furniture is taking man snored peacefully for more! shape in the design studio and a than 12 hours a few inches from librarian will be appointed this ace of a two foot-wide Week to start the sorting and in- the edge bridge beam over the middle of !dexing of a wealth of material the Ohio river. With utmost deli- already accumulated. To sponsor cacy two painters awakened him. the cost of such expansion was was $227 was purchased. about $565, of which $338, members payimg annual furnished by the farm and So, speak to your friends of fa- more dues. about cilities, the Center needs joining up and helping See what everyone is talking | ohso Another in the series of semi- monthly social hours sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club is scheduled for this Thursday, July 25, at the clubhouse on Division street. Members and guests will assemble for cards at 5:00 p. m. Mrs. Joseph Lopez, president, named Mrs. Raymond Curry and Mrs. Nell Roberts as hostesses for the day. BIRD COMMUTERS (Ry Associated Press) HOUSTON, Tex.—-C. E. Bueh- ner, businessman who bands birds as a hobby, says many of his feathered friends are pretty regular commuters. “I have rec- ords of birds that were banded one year and then set loose”, he says. “The next two years they came back within several days of the previous dates”. Some statisticians figure that ie modern woman secretary must have a knowledge of 871 miscellaneous duties, 250 of which she performs daily. with the good work. Like a po- litical party, a community Art Center needs a majority of the people behind it to succeed. More members have come in recently than in. almost any period so far. KEY WEST PLAYERS will hold meetings at the Art Center the first and third Tuesdays of; the month, beginning, August 6. CYRIL MARSHALL, president of the Key West Community Art Center Corporation, is calling the monthly meeting of the ex- ecutive committee for Monday 8 o'clock. This is the mid-sum- mer meeting and very important, as plans for the coming season are generally prepared at this time. Committee chairmen are equested to attend. THE OTHER DAY a gentleman from Michigan calling at the Center said he wanted to look up a friend on his way back home. Said he lives in a small town in Florida and so far no information agency had been able to direct him as to where it was. The gal- lery attendant handed him the Florida Guide Book on the desk. He had never seen the guide; in a few minutes he was going through it and in no time found the small farm town, and what is more, the best roads to it, its general character and_ history. When he left he took a copy of the guide book and was mighty glad to get it. More people should see this remarkable guide book of Florida. James Newill—Louise Stanley SKY BANDITS Also, Comedy and_ Serial | PRIZE NITE — TONIGHT e Phoenix, | World’s Fair, N. Y.—Gloria Goddard, one of the attendants at the cigar stand in the Tampa room .of the main bi ling of the Florida State Exhibit at the New Fair, adds to the it of the Florida area as, arrayed in a costume made of Tampa cigars from head dress to boots, she poses for a picture the famous “Tropical Garden’ which is such an attractive feature of the. Florida exhibit SHORT SHORT-STORIES THE CIGARETTE SMOKER OF YESTERDAY—It wasn’t so very long ago that the cigarette smoker was associated with the ‘barroom loafer. The late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, when chief justice of Massachusetts, was once presiding in a big to- bacco case wherein a lawyer was arguing and ventured to assert that any man who smoked cig- arets was either a fool or a dude. “Well”, commented Holmes, sol- emnly, from the bench, “you may be right. Nobody has ever ac-j cused me of being a dude”. HEINE’S WAY — Like most men of genius the poet Heine looked at things in a unique way. “By the dates I learned in barely he used to say, “I con- nected my friends with historic events. When I saw my Greek} tailor, I thought of the battle of Marathon; when I saw the well-dressed banker Gumpel; I thought of the destruction of Jerusalem”. A ROMANTIC EARL—A gen- eration or so ago, England’s Earl of Derwentwater, sought the hand of Charlotte, Countess of Newburgh, proposing not nor twice nor three times but persisting fifteen times. But the lady, a widow, persisted in her refusals until one evening the Earl clambered down the chim- ney into her sleeping quarters— chimneys were very large and roomy those days—and pointed out to the countess that she was hopelessly compromised by his presence in her room at that hour, extorting consent ° before he left for their immediate mar- riage. |the Franco-German War of 1870 lmany Frenchmen complained |bitterly that England had not in- 'tervened on behalf of France. The French ambassador himself, |talking to an English lady, re- |proached England with: “But jevening, August 5, at the Center, after all, it was only what we, might have expected. We always |believed that you were a nation of shopkeepers, and now we | know you are”. “And we”, re- ‘plied the English lady, “always believed that you were a nation of soldiers, and now we know you are not—”. MONROE THEATER Walter Hudson—Ida Lupino THE LIGHT THAT FAILED and HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES Matinee—Baleony 10c, Or- chestra 1520; Night—15-25¢ _ ess If you intend children we Repragaetinretayoty BRITAIN AND, FRANCE—In> PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the items on Signature of the writers must accompany the letters and will ABOUT STRAY DOGS Editor, Key West Citizen, Dear Sir: | Cannot something be done about the dozens of stray dogs which range through downtown Key West day and night? Not only is it cruel for hungry dogs to be permitted to be at large but a very real and very grave |menace to traffic. On three occasions I have seen near-accidents caused by a driver stopping short in his anxiety not to run over not one but some- times half a dozen canines in the middle of the street. Because of careless attitude of city officials, the police or whatnot, must such a danger and annoyance to local drivers and tourists be allowed? Unless these dogs have homes found for them, they should be mercifully put away before they are the cause of a tragic accident. Certainly residents of the down-| |town districts would be over- joyed at getting a night's sleep, free from the noise of dogfights and barking. Possibly a thorough house-| cleaning at the next election might help Key West? HOME OWNER. Key West, Fla. July 22, 1940. CLASSIFIED COLUMN’ will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of one-cent (Ic) a werd mum for the first insertion in every aimstance 1s twenty-five | cents (25c). | street address as well as their te : j results. | Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in ad- 1 ¥ 2 TUESDAY - SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL | Former Editor of The Cities Constable Day West Vic ginia gave a hitch-hiker and at the end of the pedestrian showed his gra by pulling a lady's pimk slip from his grip saying: “Give Your wife; 1 swiped & from Store in Welch The tad the painful du! his thankful passenger to cunsta Judge John A Raw Dallas, Texas, sometime his temper, but is willing make amends when he does a recent trial he shouted k from the bench at one of t lawyers, and then fined hims $5 for contempt of court. Bloodhounds puzzied when they failed to follow trail of Andrew Hewitt, whe escaped from the state prisor New Mexico. Hewitt was tured later and explained mystery by saying he had a bag of pepper which he tered along his trail LEGALS ee ee ee oe i. ils fee Sele Con TE rise of Peenete orm 5 Te : Remeron According to preliminary , Philadelphis slightly in“ population sinc census of 1930 was tak cago gained only 8.116. York City gained near! million to reach a presen ulation of 7,380,259. 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