The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1921, Page 11

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1921. | MAIN STREET The Story of Carol Kennicott BY SINCLAIR LEWIS ‘ Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Inc. | Rss acckes ° (Continued “— Yesterday) normal barbaric life Carol would have been the most enthusiastic cit izen of Gopher Prairie, She was relieved to be assured that she did not want bookish conversation alone; that she did not expect the town to become a Bohemia She was content now, not criticize) But in September, when the year was at its richest, custom dictated that it was time to return to town; to remove the children from the waste occupation of learning che earth, and send them back to lea noon the low sun was a solemnity | sons about the number of potatoes of radial bands, like @ heavenly fan) which @n a delightful world un- of beaten gold; the limitless circle) troubled by commission-houses or | shortages in fretght-cars) William sold to John. The women who had cheerfully gone bathing all summer looked doubtful when Carol begged, “Let's keep up an outdoor life this Farmers panted = thru | Winter; let's slide and skate.” Their behind cultivators and| hearts shut again till spring, and sweating flanks of horses,| the nine months of cliques and ra ‘she waited for Kennteott tn|iatore and dainty refreshments be- gan all over, mm Carol had started a salon. Since Kennicott, Vida Sherwin, undershower was foliand Guy Pollock were her only dust storm which turned | tions, and since Kennicott would yellow with the hint of 4/ have preferred Sam Clark to all the black | poets and radicals in the entire Gro the first days of June she @ove with Kennicott on his calls. fe identified him with the virtle land; she admired him as she saw with what respect the farmers eteyed him. She was out in the early chill, after a hasty cup of coffee, reaching open country as the fresh sun came up in that un ‘ world. Meadow larks called Ferom the tops of thin split fence ‘The wild roses smelied clean. ‘As they returned in late after. She aid of the grain was & green sea immed with fog, and the willow were palmy isles. July the close heat blank: ei them. The tortured earth : We would all gather together 1 32 Hi reel i [ Ht | i i g 92 Fe HEE i F a ff H i j nny i HE BERG i il lal ne rt HL § i z f . " 3 3 i, i ef goss tsi : Now I'l go away—Nick, you may take down the detour mwas Nancy who discovered that things were happening to der and she called Nick The tired little flounder boy been just talking when he he had to go to sleep in to grow up. Twins watched Flatty curious this is what they saw. First one of the little fish boy's sides, not the one he was = on, but the upper one, begun be brown on one side and white on the other!” “Just walt and see,” said a sober yolce nearby, “You've something to learn about flounders.” It was Grandaddy Jellyfish just swimming away. Next the Twins noticed Flatty’s fins. They were changing shape. Instead of a top and bottom fin, they were now both side fins, and matched exactly. But the most amazing thing of all happened then. Flatty’s underneath eye began to travel. It traveled ‘round on top of him and settled down right beside the other eye at one corner of his mouth, and there it stayed, Suddenly both eyes open- ed. “Now I'm grown,” he an- nounced. “My underneath side has} become my tummy, and my upper “er eb | side is. my back. Now I'll go away. ‘Flat Pies hows, p ite underneath, ‘when tour ee eis ‘he And tries to wwinn, he'll | "Glo Be Continued) Wonder if his underneath wide is brown, too,” said Nancy. “If t he'll be lopsided.” Was too wound asleep by time omar a@ word she said. : . He lifted up a of Vatty's thin body. LITTLA HOME HERE MRS, PAXTON ! Mi Eph and im about two minutes would be hav- dance contra dances. None of these of. We covered our hides days; no tight skirts like could take three or four our skirts and then not edge, One of the boys Hai seule el ir iff Lettie HE efFERES ii i z of the superiority she felt toward Mrs. Lyman Cass’ plutocratic par lor. She was at home here. She noted with tenderness all the make born again—should again become amusing to live in, ‘This was thelr philosophy com- lete . , . in the era of aeroplanes and syndicalism: The Baptist church (and, some what less, the Methodist, Congrega- tional, and Presbyterian Churches) is the perfect, the divinely ordained! standard in music,. oratory, philan- thropy, and ethies. “We don't need all this new-fangled science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that’s ruin. ing our young men in colleges, What we need is to get back to the true Word of God, and a good, sound belief in hell, like we used| to have it preached to us.” ‘The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent of the Lord and of the Baptist Church tn temporal affairs, All soctalists ought to be hanged. “Harold Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good mérals in his novels, and folks say he’s made prett’ near @ million dol- lars out of ‘em.” People who make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked, Europeans are still wickeder. It doesn't hurt any to drink @ glass of beer on a warm day, but anybody who touches wine is head- ed straight for hell. Virgins are not so virginal as they used to be, Nobody needs drug-store ice cream; pie ig good enough for any- body. The farmers want too much for DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ‘YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL ED, You'RE ALL RIGHT You KNOW HOW INTERESTED 1AM A IN FURNACES - HAHA! Wid | EVERETT TRUE Page 510 THE WAR CRY “Oh—oh-—oh?” cried Pegsy, “I thought you sald Alan did only her understanding lUttle smile. “Sometimes, often, in fact, & whipping ts the very lovingest, kindest thing you can give @ boy. “Alan had given a good pony awny to get a chance to help that Indian, Ke cut bis halr, traded for a regular boys’ suit of clother for him and guve him a white man's name, “71 call you Columbus,’ he said, ‘Columbus is your name from now on. Understand?’ “But of course he couldn't un- jerstand. “If he tried te run away he would be lost or destroyed by wolves or die of starvation. some way he must learn that he must obey Alan's voice; and he helped nobody, of all himself, by howling ‘walling all night. “Bo Alan whipped him and he’ lay still and hushed. And next morning he went contentedly on with the settlers and they had no More trouble, Columbus had dis “A few days after that Ben's came to a stream which the followed a long way. In they wound and finally to a beautiful little prairie beside the stream. “It was*growing late and the men decided to stop there for the night. The clear stream rippled between grassy banks, the horses contentedly dropped thelr noses into the soft grass and found their supper ready made. “And the settlers were just pre- paring to eat their own supper be- fore darkness sheuld come, when far away they heard the long, blood-curling war ery of a band of Indians. “Which way was that? asked someone. “At once every one listened— Ustened. “Once more thé ery sounded, throaty and terrible, and nearer than before.” (To Be Continued) ewkkek punsspssnssateussspneesnsnssssnseersnsnrensens-sesssennaiasnslstsinseesmneeerensrestescesa tases] their wheat. The owners of the elevator com pany expect too much for the sab aries they pay. ‘There would be no more trouble or discontent in the world if every- body worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm, Iv ’ Carol's hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to escape, and she went home with # headache. Next day she saw Miles Bjorn- stam on the street. “Just back from Montana. Great sunyner, Pumped my lungs chuck> i full of Rocky Mountain air. Now for another whirl at sassing the bosses of Gopher je.” She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboard. / (Continued Tomorrow) FEDERAL TAXES alone, from automobile owners, dealers and manufacturers amount to $148,720,- 800, eye PENNSYLVANIA'S AUTO license fees may be incroased next year 50 to 100 ner cant. You HAD OR DID Yorr=, I You SEE THAT WILLHOLD A I GOOD SUPPLY OF COAL AT ONE TIME - SHE OUGHT To BY ALLMAN 7a iy — HEAT UP THIS PLACE FINE THIS WINTER ~ | IMAGINE. IT Zrwuac Vere nev IN YOUR OTHER SUIT’? “Two AM, 1S A SWEET “TIME ‘To DISCOVER TWAT, NOW ANT IT 2 = WELL BY BLOSSER WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING I was happy that night. I felt as if my topsy turvy world had once more been set aright. And I was glad somehow that I had not asked Tom to explain all of the things about which I had been torturing myself—the doubts about him and Grace, for explanations would have taken some of the bloom off of the affair. I wanted to belleye in him, just because he said thus was thus! I had reverted to type. I had wanted my man to be a sort of supreme be- ing! And further, I didn't want to do battle for myself any longer— there was extreme joy in knowing that hereafter I should have some- one who loved me to share in every- thing. ° ‘With the thought of my “mile post” in mind I plunged into my waste basket when I reached my room. I had kept my door locked and had taken care of my room my- self to avoid a chance meeting with Grace, so I had hope of the scraps of paper being there. And they were there! WILL RADIUM AT LAST OPEN THE DOOR OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN? If ick and want ¢: Welland Keep Wall) write for it and Why ti bri tooo was. rings 0 ‘* from Constipation, heu- Sciatic: Gout, Neuritia, Nervou! ee fontratto system, causing on, overcoming th ing, off impuritie: ing the tissues and nerve: mal condition—and the next you know you are getting wi Sold on a ‘Opow' are Thoroughly ing you. before the appli ours. Nothing to do but ‘0 trouble of expense, and mi ful fact about’ the appliance so reasonable it he reach of all, both} it is wok Athi 00 lprmatter how hed your ailment | or how long standing, we will Pleased to have try it at ou: you try tisk, full information write to: day—no' | Hance tomorrow, yi A “ull Rania wt thing my PY el ‘You | e Oy (Copyright 1991 by Seattle Star) I eat down at my desk, and with the paste pot put the note back to gether again. I should keep it for ever, I promised myself. The sun was flooding my room with gold when I awakened the next ~. It seemed “ike a good omen. At the breakfast table, when I reached it, were Mr. and Mrs. Ames. It had been the first time since I had known them that they had breakfasted together. They were quite as happy as I, and since we were all smiling, no one thought to question the other's joy. After breakfast I went back to my room. ‘Way down in the bottom of my trunk there were some frivolous silken garments and some of the finest French voile with old blue vel- vet ribbon shoulder straps. These I brought out and fingered them lovingly, Finally I started to change the clothing. There was a white Canton crepe CHAPTER LXXVII—TOM AND I ARE HAPPILY MARRIED Gress that I had worn little, It wat sashed in old blue, with « butterfly bow at the back. This was the drem I selected. It was just 1 o'clock when the maid brought to my door a long green box. The tiny pink rose buds that it contained I fastened into the folds of the wide blue sash at my waist. And soon, below my window, heard the honking of an automobile horn. I rushed down and, with long cloak drawn around me, climbed into the low seat of the roadster, ‘with Tom's help. We knelt there fo moment—Tom and I, and then he kissed me. As we climbed back into the read ster a new platinum band was gleam ing on the third finger of my left hand. (To Be Continued) Yeast Vitamon Greatest of All Beauty Secrets Banishes Skin Eruptions and Beauties the Complexion EASY AND ECONOMICAL TO TAKE clear yourjof tl rin, con- neral conditioner Pimples, botle 1 sonics it All Owl D Stores and Other Druggists Are Positively Guaranteed to Put On Firm Flesh, Clear the Skin and Increase Energy When Taken With Every Meal or Back