The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1921, Page 13

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1921, THE SEATTLE STAR Copyright, 19 0, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Inc. ANY More! he 1 M IN STREE i : DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Take and Give $ i lnhicetbomennn i 7 OH, HELEN! he WHO SAID I DIDNT 1 SOLD rr TO SOLD IT FOR THREE 1 BouGuT A ANDO WHAT SENT THEM TO : et WHERE 1S i} OW, | DION” WANT IT AMY MORE? | A SECONDHAND DOLLARS ? PAIR OF KID DiD You DO os MOTHa The Story of Carol Kennicott 312 LIGHT OVERCOAT | THINK You Wie weer Mt sp FoR bea A ae oa -anaagehe bee hell AS A PRESENT BY SINCLAIR LEWIS : oF hs P_\ WANTED IT btrtreedl cgi seibheas FRom You! : : ° (Continued From Page 6) ble their own flatulent lapdogs? ‘| @ seat and waddied out. The station] The ancient stale inequa or nt holsted a dead calf aboard the | something different in history, un. b ge-car, There were no ke the tedious maturity of other \ activities in Schoenstrom. In| empires? What future and what t t of the Carel could h horse ki his si a I's head ached with the riddle © gting a roof sscent of Se > one side of on ‘oad, It was a aw the prairie, flat in giant rn ¢ in long bumm« width ness of it, w 1 expanded | pirit an hour a one-story shops covered with ¢ nh to frighten her, It spread i or with elapboards painted | out so; it went on so uncontrollably yellow. The bulld+/she could never know it, Kennioott assorted. tempo- } was closeted in his detective story ay joking, am a ningcamp | With the Joneliness whith come: “a . street in the motion-plctures, The essingly in the midst of nee an railroad station was a one-room my people she tried to frame box, a mirey cattle-pen on one | problems, to look at the prairie ob- side and a crim On the other, The cupola on the ric t over; it was a an Poof, resembled a br aidered | prickly with ¢ an with a small, vicious, pc 1 FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS NeW Nn wheat-elovator jectively YES, IF AT FIRST You 1 DON'T SUCCEED, TRY jevator, with its| The grass besitle the raltroad had a shingled | been bur Me Ou, I GUESS IT WILL= WHAT IS (T THAT YOURE TRYING WEVE BEEN TRYIN’ ALL AFTERNOON T DIN YA DON'T SUCCEED Tu FIRST TMB You arred stalks of we Beyond the undeviat ng barbed-wire ocd. Th miy habitable structur fences we clumps of ge od. “ ? "THEM B s Eas coin Were tUCMMNE Vedinrick| Only thie thin hekes ohoe ams nee GONNA SEE MUST "TRY N' TRY het car TW WALL AN’ Cath church and rectory at the from the plains wheat lands of Main Street of autumn, a arol picked at Kennicott's sl “You wou town, woul, acres to a eve. | field, prickly and gray near by but n't call this a not-so-bad;in the blurred distance like tawny you? velve ‘ r dipping } These Dutch burgs are kind of | locks. The long rows of wheat shocks slow, Still, at that See that fel | m idiers in worn yellow low coming out of the general store | tabard: The newly plowed fields there, getting into the big car? I) were black banners fallen on the met hi once He owns about half It was & martial tm the town, besid the store. Raus ity, vigorous, a little harsh, un. kukie, his name is He owns a lot of mortgages, and he gambles in farm-lands. Good nut on him, that oaks with pa JY fellow. Why, they say he's worth | short wild grass; and every mil three or four hundred thousand dol-/two was a chain of cobalt slews. lars! Got a dandy great big yellow | with the flicker of blackbirds’ wt: a pers ) kindly gar¢ . brick House with tiled walks and a/ across them fSerden and everything, other end of All this working land was turned town—can't seo it from here—I've | into exuberance by the light ne OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN THAT WE STAND Goop FOR THAT they could burn up these shacks, and | declared. Sh THIRD “TIME gone past it when I've driven thru| sunshine was dizzy on open stubble;|@ few tinny church steeples BY CONDO here. Yes sir!” shadows from immense cumulus | from the mass. It was a fre ; . “Then, if he has all that, there's/ clouds were. forever eliding across Camp, It was not a place to live in en Lg oe A AaB 2 No excuse whatever for this place! low mounds; and the sky was. wider | NOt possibly, not conceivably YES iT SAYS THAT IN hsp oS x i = <a If his three hundred thousand went and loftier and more resolutely blue} The people—they'd be as drab a ==] CONTRACT, BUT IT DOGSN’T MEAN] F SY sir teee te ree where he an the sky o€ gion. ahe| theie house, ar fat no thet Be /HERE! EMTHER\ AW, SHUT UP! , Z \N MY HAND! 5 couldn't stay there, She wout - — BREAKAGE ! ; nate a rear v tage : non Why ae. 8 By ve Sentry a land Bas te wrench loose from this m : 7 - . ~ " YOU MEN KEEP Y PLAYED OUTA NOUR CHIN IS I COULDNT WIN A jo the farmers and the townpeople ig she crooned and fice. 4 WELL, THEN » Iet_ the Baran Beep Rr” “ce youd eden Rennlcott Startled her by| she peeped at him. She was at NMJ Guess THAT'S / QUIET OR TLL TURN! OUTA “TURN we must say I don : ckling, you realize the town! once helpless before his mature fix nN i Ey ipometines, Currie. Let him} ‘They |efter the’ heat te Gopher ‘Praiet | once nelpless before hie mature fix. Ace 1 can Do. | T MAKE A BROOM || HOLD'EM! can’t help themselves! He's a dumb | Homer Sr ab Gk As conus na — THANX You. | | old Dutchman, and probably the | am sleet diate late’ Tae ter "thelr . 7 { TRUMP INSTEAD rr r Priest can twist him around hig fin-| That one word—home—it terrified | hace, came up with flushed face, and ' ger, but when it comes to picking|her. Had she really bound & . gloated, “Here we feed farming land, he’s a regular) to live, inescapably, in this town \ oF cLuBs! | ARE WE PLAYIN’ ae ACCORDING To HO wit” jeatied Gopher Prairie? And this| | She cdg map onl “I see. He's their symbol of beau- | thick~man beside her, who dared to| 1 y* Tee ie ean eeladenn esd S OR MARQUIS OF ; ty. The town erects him, instead | define her future, he was a stranger!) TD® houses naions with wooden co RY of erecting buildings.” [She turned in her seat, ‘stared at | Quik” Old red mansions with wootwn Come Pack HERG, MY QUEENSBU “Honestly, don't know what you're | him. Who was he? Why was he sit ierees Fat *, or new bungalows FPRIGNDS, L WANT TO friving at. You're kind of played! ting with her? He wasn't of her out, after this jong trip. You'll feel kind! His neck was heavy: his speech better when you get home and have | was heavy; he was 12 or 13 years &® good bath, and put on the blue; older than she; and about him w Regligee. T ‘* some Vampire cos | none of the magic of shared ad with concrete foundations imitating stone. | Now the train was passing the n.| elevator, the grim storage tanks for mA AEE TAM tume, you witch!” {tures and eagerness. She could not} %l @ creamery, a lumber yard, @ He squeezed her arm, looked at/ believe that she had ever siept in| *tck yard muddy and mpled and = her knowingly. his arms. That was one of the|*tinking. Now they were stopping They moved on from the desert| dreams which you had but did not| ®t 4 squat red frame station, the stillness of the Sehoenstrom station. | officially admit. platform ‘crowded with unshaven The train creaked, banged, swayed.| She told herself how good he was,|{Fmers and with loafers—unadven The air was nauseatingly thick.| how dependable and un | tureus people with dead eyes. She Kennicott turned her face from the | She touched his ear, smoothed the| 4% here. She could not go on. It} Window, rested her head on his| plane of his solid jaw, and, turning| Was the end-—the end of Son oe joulder. She was coaxed from her | away again, concentrated upon lik.| She sat with closed eyes, long af = At * unhappy mood. But she came out|ing his town. It wouldn't be like | PU%h past Kennicoit, hide somewhere | ryrp & a ag eurenoed Glaastoe ok A of it unwillingly, and when Kenni-| these barren settlements. It couldn’t| /™ the train, flee on toward the Pa ‘ mil MY COM@LAINT (8 THe S4me cott was satisfied that he had cor-}bet Why, it had 3.090 population. | “Hic g's calle: oF so: taapali AS You MADE — rected all her worries andhad opened | That was a great many people.| Something large arose in her soul! : Z ° &@ magazine of sffron detective | There would be 600 houses or more.| 24 commanded, “Stop it! Stop be SUCK AROUN Stories she sat upright And— The lakes near it would be |! ® whining ba ope seed SPT T gq] ANO HE'te FIK Here—she meditated—is the new.|#o lovely. She'd seen them in pho.| Wickly; she er (AE aha rope! By Sey |, vs BoTH VP IN est empire of the world. the North-|tosraphs. They had looked charm.|fil to be hereat last? | By A HUReX I! ern Middlewest; a land of dairy|ime . . . hadn't they? ch oat ung onogea ogo ge And she was is things } herds and exquisite lakes, of new| As the train left Wahkeenyan she| herself like the place, Automobiles and tar-paper shanties|Degan nervously to watch for the | BNE pe o> gomntomnnso aa, ae nd silos like red towers, of clumsy | !akew—the entrance to all her future), oot O° oe the two bags which speech and a hope that is boundiess. | life. But when she discovered them, | po ied. Tiley were Beta hesk by} ‘An empire which feeds a quarter of |to the left of the track, her onty in| ipo ay m4 alte meat the world—yet its work is merely-be-| Pression of them was that they res] toe wow Ene Of Slim ee thee | 4 gun. They are pioneers, there | Sembied the photographs lehe was actually at the dramatic ‘ Sweaty wayfarers, for all thelr tele} A mile from wet Praisie ‘i001 cesant of the bride's homecoming phones and bank.accounts and auto.| track mounts a curving low ridge, | The pani to thet a alted. She felt] matic pianos and cooperative|4nd ahe could see the town as «| She ous ci) glk dinios -eettationk Ue leagues. And for all its fat richnesx,| Whole. With a passionate jerk she beer » Hg theese: pane 7a the tode theirs is a pioneer land. What ix| Pushed up the window, looked out,! gh tl gh ~ eho pose thre Get its future? she wondered. A future| the arched fingers of her left hand| | Kennleott stooped to peer | | of cities. and factory smut where| trembling on the sill, her righthand| "flows He slyly exulted: | (em e a now are loping empty fields? Homes| @t her breast. me down to welcome us. Sam| a t universal and secure? Or placid cha-| And she saw that Gopher Prairie | © Clark and the missus and Dave * teaux ringed with sullen huts? Youth! was merely an enlargement of all! Hyer and Jack Elder, and, yes air, | free to find knowledge and laughter? the hamlets which they had been! parry Haydock and Juanita, and a| + prillingness to sift the sanctified) passing. Only to the eyes of a Ken-| whole crowd! I guess they seo us ies? Or creamy-skinned fat women, |nicott was It exceptional. The hud-/ now, Yuh, yuh sure, they sce us!i| @ oe smeared with grease and chalk, gor-| dled low wooden houses broke the| gee “em wavion"” | geous in the skins of beasts and/ plains scarcely more than would | ghe obediently bent her head to! * bel C ancdJ the bioody feathers of slain birds, | hazel thicket. The fields swept up| took out at them. She had hold of a a ia x Playing bridge with puffy pink-|to it, past it. It was unprotected herself, She was ready to love them QQ Hailed jeweled fingers, women who! and unprotecting; there was no dig-| gut she was embarrassed by the| Page 494 after much expenditure of labor and) nity in it nor any hope of greatness« artiness of the cheering group.| bad temper stit! grotesquely resem-|Only the tall red grain elevator and| yyom the vestibule she waved to 1859 WHEN A WOMAN TELLS | By RUTH AGNES ABELING ; | (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) CHAPTER LXI—TOM CARRIES ME HOME ‘When I dared look around and|was going the right way. I won-;physician came and thumbed once more had my bearings I discov. |dered idly how they knew. The hand | head and examined my scalp, ered ahead of me the lights of the/on my shoulder strained a little] No injury,” I heard him say jelty. |more tightly. It almost hurt, yet I| then— ‘ Ee As we traveled they grew more did not care. salt ———————= | them, but she clung a second to the “So they want me to begin at “Now, those leaders couldn't PH] distinct. I had a feeling of safety.| Finally the car turned into a drive: ae ee a; | sleeve of the brakeman who helped |] the beginning, do they?” the first | take a young man along just be. I was in the back seat of a large y. We were home! The hand on | the evening before rushed at C ) ADV ENTURES | her down before she had the courage |} souceman chuckled, looking at| cause he wanted to go. No, sir, ||C4f and someone was there with me.|my shoulder reldased its grip for | tic held, incapable of INoviniEan | to ¢ into the cataract of band. a | 1f you went with one of those |! ‘id not try to discover who It was, | just a second and then I was lifted | oi) of a feeling, half fear ana i fo) — THE TWINS shaking people, people whom she|| daddy you wen! though there was something vaguely /and carried into the house, up the | jealousy : Clwe Roberts Bartan could not tell apart. She had the “Well, that takes me hack to) wagon trains which brought the familiar about the figure. stairs and to my own rooms, Did/?” oe i jimpression that all the men had 1859. I had heard a lot about the ly settlers to the coast—elther I lay still, I didn't want to, talk}the arms that held me draw more|, Presently Mrs. Ames appeal |coarse voices, 1 damp hands, | toothbrush mustaches, bald spot land Mesonic watch charms. at mills starting up in the Puget! family or you had to prove that and evidently the person with me | tightly for just a second before they |*#¢ doorway between our roommy: thought I was unconscious or asleep. | released me to my wicker lounge? | How do you feel?" she 1 felt a firm hand on my shoulder! Was the face I saw something like |She neared my bed. West Coast, gold in California, big | you had to belong to some leader's She knew that they were welcom- |] Sound country, talk of gold on the | you were’ worth something. and another was steadying the | Tom's? Whoever it was, stopped a] I tried to speak, but my ing her. Their hands, their smiles,|[/ Fraser river, and all that “When we came up with this | leather pillow against which 1|moment to talk to someone else—it | seemed paralyzed. their shouts, their affectionate eyes “But I suspect that the thing| party they were a day or #0 out ned. | 80 nded like Tom's voice, I thought.| She smiled. overcame — her. She stammered, At length I felt pavement under! But I was tired. My head burt. I] “I think, in spite of some of drew me most were the tales | on the prairies. They had made y . x “Thank you, oh, thank you!” Ea SOO Crew. Cie. Sgnme eae | Ow the pean soendiieay the car. We were in the city, Ijwanted only to rest. bad things which wave happ One of the men was clamoring at|} that came back about the big/ camp ‘for the night and I went j Started to talk. 1 wanted to tell them| Shortly someone was fussing with |you, you must be under the Kennicott, “I brought my machine|] game, Beard and buffalo, ante-| up to a Mr. Raines and told him [where to take me, but my voice was|my shoes, my clothing, my hands|a good ange she said; "do yo ;sone. The car was rumbling along/and face and then mechanically I! know how you reached home jand I contented myself with the | moved over the floor to the softness |night—who brought you?" | thought that th knew where tojof my bed. How I loved it! It} With a weary movement I |go. The feeling of vagueness was | seemed suddenly to have taken on ajcated that I didn't. returning again and I felt that noth-|/new glory and to be a very superior] “It was Tom.” Lila was jdown to take you home, doc.” | Tienes and deer, welves and wild-| 1 wanted to join his party. i sph 40 Dae vate pee cats, it sounded interesting. | “While we were talking, I saw in. That big Paige over there. Some “I always had been fond of | flocks and flocks of prairie chick Boat, too, believe me! Sam can show /f} hunting. I was a good shot and | ens; they seemed not afraid of | speed to any of these Marmons from as I say it sounded interesting ' anything. jing mattered very much. |sort of piace. smiling. oe c he waa in the motor|{ t me, that West Coast. | “Why don't you shoot some of I felt the car turning a corner. It! I was disturbed once more when a (To Be Continued) nen she he mo iiss a ot ss mnsor a “ did she distinguish the three peo- “I told my family goodbye and} these birds for food? 1 asked. spouse, Lies about marr I'm} She held his hand tightly and stared | jiggled while he turned the key, ple who were to accompaty. them. started off with my gun, a little) «pink they'd be any good? not changed... And this town—O my | ahead as the car swung round a cor- mpered in... . It was mex The owner, now at the wheel, was|| money and a boy friend. | he aubes God! I can’t go thru with it, This|ner and stopped in the street before! day before either of them me | the essence of decent seif-satistac “We had no desire to try to| sei I told him; ‘there }/ Junk » |a prosaic frame house in a small} bered that in their honeymoon ¢ | tion; a baldish, largish, leveleyed make the trip across the plains wm , . | Her husband bent over her, “You! parched lawn, they had planned that he shi ‘t any finer meat than a |man, rugged of neck, but sleek and|{ “lone; our plan was to find a party | look like you were in a brown study. | ary) carry her over the sill. round of face—face like the back | starting out and hire ourselves irie chicken.’ Seared? T don't expect you to think| A concrete sidewalk with a “park-| In hallway and front parlor she] |of a spoon bowl, He was chuckling|] out to one of the leaders and baal | ‘Just then we saw one light on J! Gopher Prairie is a paradise, after| ing’ of grass and mud. A square| was conscious of dinginess and Tie) . ro . a4 | + oa ‘ get transportation and make a lit-| a fence. | St. Paul. I don’t expect you to be| smug brown house, rather damp. A| gubri SS and airlessness, ; When the Twins heard Cukie|I've always wanted a pink, pear, at her, “Have you got us all straight wet | , & S xpect y rs , ra p. A|gubriousness and a . la Cotton-Spinner say that he had! “gut,” said Nancy, “how can yous 7" |] tle while we worked our way | Mr. Raines smiled and said, y about it, at first. But you'll) narrow conerete walk up to it. Sickly | she insisted, “I'll make it all jolly. eaten the Fairy Queen's pink pearl, k i r ‘ haq| “Course she has! Trust Carrie to|] across the countr, | ‘Suppose you try to shoot one and to like it So much—life’s so| yellow leaves in a window with dried} As she followed Kennicott and 2 Say couldn't speak for amazement.) °%.*t 1t when you sald you had! ‘uines straight and get ‘em darn} “Well, we came upon a man | we'lf see here and best people on earth."| wings of box-elder seeds and snags| bags up to their bedroom she quae: e-jeaten it? You haven't got eyes In- | quick. I bet she could tell you every || who was starting out with a blg/ ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I'll shoot She was| date in history! boasted her hus-|J train of his own, that left hand one in the head. The idea! That such an ugly, sh less, conceited member of the Wig-|side of you, have you | She whispered to him (while Mrs.| of wool from the cottonwoods, A] vered to herself the song of the | | Clark considerately turned away),| screened porch with pillars of thin| little gods of the hearth: giefin family should dare to touch | getting #0 accustomed to the sea-| band here were 22 wagons for pro-| and I did; 1 ra nicked off the #)« love you for understanding. I'm) painted pine surmounted by xcrolls|1 have my own home, the lovely pearl that Silver Wing, |ereatures having all sorts of quee the man looked at her reas. visions with either big ox teams | top of his pene just--I'm beastly over-sensitive, Too| and brackets and bumps of jigsawed| To do what I please with, the ry Queen’s messenger, had |accomplishments, that she would and with a certainty that||} or horses to draw them, besides | “Mr Raines. was cranes | many books, It's my lack of shoul-| wood. ) shrubbery to shut off the} To do what I please with, dropped into the sea by mistake! |not have been surprised if he had person whom could || the eight wagons for the women | ry another one heen der muscleé and sense, Give me time, | public guze. A lugubrious bay win.|My den for me and my mate and i a Phere they were, bound hand answered that he had. trust #he confessedy As a matter of ||} and children ' (To Be Continued) | dear dow to the right of the porch, Win- cubs, curtains of starehed cheap lace Img a pink marble table with a My own! She was close in her hui foot by the long white threads t He, ha, ha! That's a good joke,” | fact I haven't got anybody straight. ‘ en HT Te ere y\ “You bet! All the time you want!" | dow Cukie hed so quickly and unsus-| laughed Cukie, blowing himself up| “Course you haven't child. bn rama sn She laid the back of his hand| reve pectingly woven around them. And|into 4 ball again as he hall a habit | ell, I'm Sam Clark, dealer in a ries against her cheek, snuggled near| conch shell and a Family Bible. arms; she clung to him; whatever Rothing did @ bit of gooe. Their of doing. “No, I haven't eyes in. | hardware, sporting goods, cream sep.|@way, 18 Mra. Sam‘ Clark; and this)met* | him, She was ready for her new) “You'll find it old-fashioned—what| strangeness and slowness. and Mhagic Green Shoes and the Silver but I gan tufn my tummy out-jarators, and almost any kind of} hungry looking squirt up here beside | Agee rs sine repptenio) a | home do you call it*=Mid-Victorian, I] sularity she might find im Wadge were of no use at all now Seer” heavy junk you can think of, You|me is Dave Dyer, who keeps his|in the heavy traffic of thr ords) Kennecott had told her of that,/ left it as it is, so you could make}none of thut mattered so hat they were tied so securely. And what do you think, that silly|can cail me Sam—anyway, I’m go-|drug store running by not. filling re the Minniemashie House Free] with his widowed mother as. house-|any changes you felt were neces | she could slip her hands What are you going to do with old cotton-spinner coughed out his|ing to call you Carrie, seein’s ‘s|your hubby's prescriptions right— | ‘Bus. ‘ keeper, he had occupied an old| sary Kennicott sounded doubtful/ his coat, run her fingers over r" asked Nancy, finally, wonder- stomach, Just as he sald, wrong-side| you've been and gone and married| fact you might say he's the guy that| “I shall like Mr. Clark . . . I|house, “but nice and roomy, and| for the first time since he had come| warm smoothness of the ing what Cap'n Pennywinkle, the out, and the pink pearl rolled out| this poor fish of a bum medic that| put the ‘shun’ in ‘p iption.’ Sot) can't call him ‘Sam't They're all so| well heated, best furnace I could) back to his own, hack of his waistcoat, seem fairy policeman, would say when he on the bottom of the ocean. we p round he Carol smited| Well, leave us take the bonny bride| friendly.” She need at the| find on the market.” His mother It's a real home! She was|to creep into his body, find in heard where the wonderful pearl) “Oh, obf’ exclaimed the Twins, | tay , and wished that dhe called) home. Say, doc, I'll sell you the) houses; tried not to nee what she|had left Carol her love, and gone|moved by his humility, She gaily|strength, find in the courage re Never had they seen anything #0| people by their given names more|Candersen place for three thousand| saw; gave way in: “Why do th ack to Lac-qui-Meurt, motioned good-bye to the Clarks. He| kindness of her man a shelter gro ‘Oh, just keep it and look at It surprising. easily. “The fat cranky lady back|plunks. Better be thinking about) stories lie so? They always make! It would be wonderful, she exulted,| unlocked the door—he was leaving | the perplexing world, every ‘whip-stiteh,” grinned Cukle. “F (To Be Continued) there beside you, who Is pretending| building a new home for Carrie.) the bride's homecoming a bower of| not to have to live in Other People’s|the choice of a maid to her, id) “Sweet, so sweet." she wh (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) [that she can’t hear me giving her! Prettiest frau in G. P., if you asks like pink and I Uke pearis, therefore, | roses. Complete trust in noble} Houses, but to make her own shrine.| there was no one in the house, She] (Continued