The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1920, Page 2

The Memento Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 4 Ca) pudlished by special arrange ment with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. | Mia Lynnette P'Armande turned | her back on Broadway. This was| but tit for tat, because Broadway had aften done the game thing toe Mies D'Armande, Still, the “tate” seemed to have it, for the ex leading lady of the “Reaping the Whirlwind” company had everything to ask of Broadway, while there was no vice versa, So Miss Lynnette IYArmande turn- ed the back of her chair to her win- dow that overlooked Broadway, and sat down to stitch In time the liste thread heel of a black atlk stooking. The tumult and glitter of the roar ing Broadway beneath ber window had na charm for her; what she greatly desired was the atifiing alr of « dreaingwoom en that Mirylaad street and the roar af an audience gathered im that capricious quarter In the meantime, those stocking» must net be neglected, Silk dow wear oUt 0, but—atter all, tam’t it Just the enty goods there ia? tion of Mexia today had) The Hotel Thalia looks on Broad 2,000, Leases were as high way as Maratnen looks on the rea an acre and going up $100 Tt wanda like @ gloomy cliff above Rooms are unobtainable at the whirlpool where the tides of two hotel equipping its halk STOAt Uhorofares olash, Here the ‘with narrow mattresses and a ypliywrbands gather at the end of ‘and renting them for $10 wir wanderings, te loosen the 4 if you ask for @ bed the buakim and dust the sock, Thick fn clerk tries to sell you @ lease|the streets around it are booking “anly 16 miles from the well.” offices, theatres, agents, sehools, and = ‘at. is @ riot of Jack London |the lehoterpalaces to which those eosmopo! w booted and) thorny paths lead. ci a ae jc heres with ee tara o bay added furcoal: pro of the dim and dusty Thalia i oa ne you seem to haye found yourself in some great ark or caravan ahout to sail, oF fly, or roll away on wheols About the house lingers a sense of unrest, of expectation, of transient Ress, even of anxiety and apprehen sion, The halla are @ lahyrinth Without a guide, you wander like @ lost soul in a Sam Lloyd puzsla ng any corner, & drosaing- @ culdesae may bring you UP short. You meet alarming trage diane stalking in bathrobes in search of rumored bathrooms, From hundreds of reoms come the bum STRIKE Town of Mexia on the “Boom as Well “Comes in” With Gusher MOEXTA, Texas, Nov, 24-—On, the Aladdin, had rubbed Mexia Mexia was just an Bast town of 4,000 persons who ttle more than mild as a “wild cat” drilling out- laboriously drove its bit Into a two and one-half miles to the came to Iife with e jerk & coatiess, hatless “roughneck” 2 drilling outfit ran down into a drug store, telephone, called & aumber got her the hillside ederous Tiqukt t in the alr with @ force warped the dorrick, SKY HIGH i Ea a ul ite. i { rf ‘Mexia paused somewhat today for “ghow down.” With the well reported 1,500 feet) oft and the bit eight feet in the: i sand, EB. A. Humphreys.) of the well, fying from an airplane, announced & Seeree’ Wa owe it i i I orite mark, semi: | and periods z Taye {Geral kingdom was not for that swirl of petalous whiteness. You saw the filmy, brief skirt of Miss Rosalie Ray as she made a complete heelsover-head turn in her far out of the graceful, strong kick, with which she, at this exciting moment, ‘sent flying, high and far, the yellow silk garter that each evening spun |Wyon the delighted audience below. You saw, toa amid the black- clothed, manly masculine patrons of select vaudeville, 9 hundred hands rained with the hope of staying the / flight of the brilliant aerial token Forty weeks of the begt circuits this act had brought Miss Rosalie Ray. for each of two years. She did other things during her 12 minutes ov ;4 song and dance, imitations of two lor three actors who are but imita- |tions of themselves, and a balancing |feat with a step-ladder and feather iduster; but when the blousom-decked ‘swing was let down from the flies, and Miss Rosalie sprang smiling into the seat, with the golden circlet con- (spleuous in the place whence it was | soon to slide and become a soaring and coveted guerdon—then it was that the audience rove in its seat as a single man—or presumably so- and indorsed the specialty that made Mis# Ray's name a favorite in the booking offices. | At the end of the two years Miss Hay suddenly annoynced to her dear friend, Misw D'Armande, that she was going to spend the summer at an antediluvian village on the north whore of Long island, and that the stage would see her no more. Beventeen minutes after Miss Lyn- nette D’Armande had expremed her wish to know the whereabouts of her old chum there were sharp raps at her door, Doubt not that It was Rosalie Ray, ‘At the shrill command to enter, she did so, with something of a tired flutter, and dropped a heavy hand bag on the floor. Upon my word, it was Kowalle, in @ loose, travel-stained automobileless coat, closely tied brown veil with yard-long flying ends, gray walking suit and tan ox |ford# with lavender overgaiters, ‘When she threw off her veil and hat you saw a pretty enough face, pow flushed and disturbed by some using Hairbak once week since August her hair has grown five inches in length, and ig now twice as thick as before she began using it. Daily are proving to Sed ceomcen well known ttle business and so- circles that Hairbak Makes Hair Grow Free Trial ‘Treatment and Examination call at 1020 Alaske Bidg. * Open Evenings Until 8:30 ‘| Norton, Rogue & Manhe, ce unusual brightness, A heavy auburn hair, hastily put up, was es that du thelr ur clety, Th wa simultancous yt stood on the same foot daya Very much lik malutations of soldiers ere in foreign wilds are inguishes the aul between the strollers at the corners of their crinecroas roads. “I've got the hallroom two flights up above yours,” said I came straight to see you before go 1 didn't know you were here till they told me." ing up “I've been tn since April” said Lynnetta, ing on the road with @ ‘Patal loli tance’ company, We open next week 1 thought you'd quit the stage, Len Tell me about your in Blizabeth, seit.” Rosalie settied herwelf with a akill ful wriggke on the top of Mins D'Armande’s wardrobe trunk, and leaned her bend against the papered wall, From jeng habit peripatetic leading ladies and thelr sisters make thenwelves as comfort ablo as though the dempest armehalis embraced them, “I'm going to tefl you, Lann,” she mid, with @ strangely Yet carelessly resigned look on her dd then tomorrow ot Broadway tall again, and wear same more paint off the chairs in the agents’ effioes, anybody had told mo any time in the youthtal face. “ TH strike the lagt three months up to afternoon that Td ever “Leave-your-name-and address’ rot of the booking bunch again, given ‘em the real Mrs. Fiske laugh. Loan mee handkerchief, Lawn. Gee! but these Long Island taing are T've got enough soft coal cinders on my face to go and play Topsy without using the cork, And, «peaking of corke—got anything to fierce. drink, Lyan™ Mina D'Armande epened a door of the wash stand and took out @ bot de “There's nearty @ pint ef Man: hattan, There's a cluster of carna ene in the drinking “Yea, lynn, | quit the end of last season, cause 1 was nick of the be pitied. It's girls and work hard to rise hear a let of around on chor & week. Piffie! row in the chorus that not heal. ie ing for the ‘chanes’ emotion, and restlew, lance eyes with disontent marring their sisters in #0 4 brief clinch, two } dabs and they bettie, Bave the ‘Thanks! That hits the spot, The same to you, My ;| first drink ta three monthal pecially beenuse my heart and soul homes that are honestly ambitious) sion, but never do get there, pathy sloshed ‘There ain't & sor “It there’s any tears to shed, tet ‘om fall for the getrees that gets a salary of from $40 to $54 9 week for taking @ leading part in 4 bum show She knows she'll never do any bet \ ut ehe hangs on for years, hop- THE SEATTLE STAR HUMOR PATHOS ROMANCE study up on elocution, and try to get a clase in the fall, ‘There waa an old widow lady with @ cottage near lthe beach whe sometimes rented @ pile ef dull eapiug in orinkly, waving strand 1 Or two just for company, and ead ourting lock# from the eon: | me in, fhe had another fining combs and pins. bow toothe Rey, Arthur Lyle. The moeting of the two waa not You, he wae the hoaddiner, You're j marked by the effusion vooal, «ym-/on, Lynn, I'l tell you all of it Ino asticnl, ovoulatory and eateohetion! | minute. It's only a one-get play greetings of} “The first time he I felt myself going © spoke, he had me, rent from the men in audiences, | He was tall and al and you never | beard him come tn the room, but you jfelt him He had @ face like a ple ture of @ knight--tike ene ef the Hound Table bunch—and a voloe Hike @ cello solo, And his mannerst “Lynn, if you'd take Johg Drew tn hin best drawing-room no and compare the two, you'd have John arrested for disturbing the peace “I'l spare you the particulars but in lease than @ month Arthur and I were engaged. [le proached at @ Ite one night stand of & Methodint chureh, There was to be & parson age the size of q lunchwagon, and hens and honeywuckles when we wore jarried. Arthur used to preach te me @ goed deal shout hraven, but he never could get my mind quite off thowe honeysuckias and bens “No; I did't tell him 1'@ been en the stage I hated the business and all that went with It} Ud out it out forever, and I didn't see any use of otirring things up. | was a good irl, and | dint have anything to coufema, except being an elecution ist, and was about all the mtirain © would stand. layen, I war 1 mang in the cholr and at tended the sewing society, and rpoit od that ‘Annie Laurie’ thing with the whistling stuat in it, ta @ man ner bordering upon the profemsional. Jan the weekly Village paper reported it, And Arthur and [ went rowing. and walking in the weods, and clam ming, end that poky ttt village stomed to. me the best place tn the world, I'd have been happy to live there always, too, it— “But one morning old Mra Gurley the wklow lady, fot goxsipy while I was helping her string beans on the back poreh, and began to wush ip formation, a folks whe rent out thelr rooma usually do Mr, Lyle was hor idea ef @ #int on earth ae he wan ming, too Bhe went ever afl bis virtues and graces, and wound up by telling me that arthur had had an extremely romantic love affair, net long before that had end od unbapplly, Bho didn't seem to be on to the detail, bug she knew that he had been hit pretty hard. He was paler and thinner, ake maid, and be had some Kind of @ semembianer or keopmke of the lady in @ little rosewood box that he kept looked in hip desk drawer tn bis study ote of walked on. the fhest Me wae ing of the old @ the short or of travel the weloomes Romlia, “but the Inet of “And Im thus ean mrdonie and 4 o'clock this listen to that Td have silage, but——" the wtage at 1 quit it be te And eo 1 hate we hear from good mrong one. in the profes « you know of it, I will be per You “My dear Ida’ saye Arthus—of course t went by my real Game, while | was in Soundport--this for mer affection was a spiritual ene, in fact. Althe the lady aroused my deepest sentiments and was, ae I thought, my ideal woman, | never met her, and never spoke to her, It was an ideal love My leve for you, while no lows ideal, is different, You wouldn't lot that come between us’ ‘Was she pretty? I asked. and their #16 @ Wboster can: that never oomedy dignified compared with the idiotic things I've had to do in the thirty-centera, “But what I hated most wea the/and men—the men leering your price. And the fixed on you, ready to Oh, how I hate ‘ei ‘Well, about myself, am I, Ly “I had two hundred the summer me that ever was, port Bales Regimental ing @t you across tables, trying to buy rou with Wursburger or Extra Dry, according to their estimate of audiences, clapping, yelling, snarling, crowding, writhing, gloating-—like @ lot of wild beasts, with their eyes you come in reach of their claws, Tm not telling you much up, and 1 cut the stage the first of I went over on Long Inland and found the sweetest little right an the water, ing to spend the summer there, and | gignature of &. W. Or limited to each’ p ¢, to Stem & wrace—and soul,’ says Arthur. ‘And this keepeake that you keep under lock and key, and moon over at Umes, is that a remembrance from her? *‘A memento,’ says Arthur, ‘that I have treasured, “Did she send # to you? “It came to me from her,’ axys he *"In @ roundabout way? I asked, " ‘Somewhat roundabout,’ says he, ‘wnd yet rather direct,’ “Why didn't you ever T asked. ‘Were your po: eo different?’ “ ‘She was far above me,’ says Ar Now, Ida,’ he goes on, ‘this and blather men in tho eat you up if her? one in life no? dollarg mved eniled Gourd rERLarive nna SROMO. QUT- 1 was Ko an “Whe S beere” the 200 ‘Take © NINE Attention!_-U. S. Army Goods Sale and Wednesday uesda 10 ss eameronemene naman = $ 5b ts ova or khaki,....... cor tip bair; 6 paire . Army il ‘eet conditi ny * Koast 0 Corn Bi tice an: used... Bale Conducted by CAMP LEWIS WIRELESS Barpins Reta Store, 904 Third Avenue, next te Blore and Wi Bridge Botw. Ord 100 16x16 Khaki eres osimate ¥ $125... ud Bacon low pri hou; Mo Tol tind Wasceratty, of os f Tanta, 16 cuuces, ol Mm Army 9 seen * oe. 36, ype bas Just announced ‘now amasing euls ow 4 a! Reged phy aye) Sate, Watch for no- t4 Flys end Tarpayline, new Tet eee eememmmnmnes ex $10.00 ana to $40.00 Army Supplies ison Street tern Aven. Jealous, are yout’ Joust says 1, "Why, man, | aro you talking about? = 1t makes mo think ten Umen a» much | of you as I did before I knew about it” | "And it aid, Lann—tt you ean un: | tand tt, That ideal wae 4) jhew ane on me, but it struck me as! jbolng the most beautiful and glori: | oun thing I've ever heard of, Phipk | of 4 man jJoving a worman he'd never even spoken to, and being faithful just to what hts mind and heart pic tured hert Oh, it sounded great to me. The men I'd always known lcome at you, with either diamonds, lknockout drops or a raise of salary |—-and their idealal—well, we'll say lan mors. "Yea, tt made me think more of Arthur than I did before, I couldn't be Jealous of that faraway divinity lthat he used to worship, for I war |moing to have him myvelf, And T be }qun to look upon him as nt on earth, just an lady Gurley dia “About four o'clock this afternoon @ man came to the house for Arthur }to go and see somebody that was sick among his chufeh bunch, Old lady Guriey was taking her after neon snore on a couch, so Uhat left me pretty mueh alone “In passing by Arthurs study I looked in, and gw his bunch of keyn | hanging in the drawer of hin desk, where he'd forgotten ‘em. Well, 1} fuens we're all to the Mra. Bluebeard now and then, ain't we, Lyant 1! made up my mind I'd have @ look at| that memento he kept so seeret. Not | that I cared what it was—it was just curiosity. “While I was opening the drawer T tragined one or two things it) might ba, I thought it might be «| |dried rosebud he'd dropped down to him from a baleeny, or maybe « pio ture of her he'd eut eut of 4 mage | xine, whe being po high up in the word. “lt opened the Grawer, and there | was the rusewood casket about the! size of a gent’s collar box. I found| the little key in the & nd unlocked it 4 took ene look at that mem hea I mt to my ream packed my trunk. I threw a things Into my grip, gaye my hair a | flirt ov two with a sidecomb, put on my hat, and went in apd gave the old lady's foot @ kick. I'd tied awfully hard to use proper and cor reet language while | was there for Arthur's sake, and I had the babit down pat, tut it left me then. ” ‘Bop sawing gourds,’ says I, ‘and sit up and take notice, The ghost's aboul to walk, I'm going away from here, and I owe you eight dollars. 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