The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 11

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1921. AIN STREE The Story of Carol Kennicott BY SINCLAIR LEWIS Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Ina ave (Continued From Saturday) — | said to old Bara? Chucked him in eM ul the ribs and said, ‘Say, boy, what our fhe dad vicarious happiness in the|do you want to go to Denver for? tha return of Major Raymond Wuther.| Wait ‘ll I get time and I'l move the epee. He was well, but still weak | mountains here. Any mountain will from having been gassed? he had|be tickled to death to locate h been discharged and he came home| once we get the White Way int” an ihe first of the war veterans, It} The town welcomed Mr, Riaumer was rumored that he surprised Vida|as fully as Carol snubbed him. He by coming unannounced, that Vida| Was the guest of honor at the Com fainted when she saw bim, and for | mercial Club Banquet at the Mi @ Right and day would not share|Mashie House, an occasion wm with the town, When Carol saw| menus printed in gold (ut injuds ida was hazy about every-|ctously proof.read), for free clears. ‘except Raymie, and never went soft damp slabs of Lake Superior ‘yo far from him that she could not | whitefish served as fillet of sole, slip her hand under his. Without) drenched cigarashea gradually fill understanding why, Carol was! ing the saucers of coffee cups, and qyoubled by this intensity. And Ray. | oratorical references to Pep, Punch, qlesurely this was not Raymie,|Go, Vigor, Enterprise, Red Blood beg a sterner brother of his, this|HeMen, Pair Women, map with the tight biouse, the shoul | try. James J. Hill, the Blue Sky der emblems, the trim legs in boots RAS g =. = | Green Fiekls, the Bountiful Harvest His face seemed different, his lips | Increasing Population, Fair Return more tight He was not Raymie;! he was Major Kennicott and Carol were grateful when he divulged that Paris wasn't| tion of the State, Senator Knute half as pretty as Minneapolis, that| Nelson, One Hundred Per Cent all of the American sokiiers had been | Americaniam, and Pointing with distinguished by their morality when Pride. SPPisaetzeRe FA en eave, Kennicott waa reepectful|" Harry Haydock, as chairman. sas he inquired whether the Germans | troduced Honest Jim Blauwer geod aeroplanes, and what a|I am proud te say, my fellow cith salient Was, and a cootie, and Going | #¢s, that in his brief stay here Mr West. | Blausser has become my warm per a week Major Wutherspoon was ull manager of the Bon Ton. | booster, and I advise you all to very Hafry Haydock was going to devote | carefully attend to. the hints of a Dimeelf to the half-dozen branch }|man who knows how to achieve,” stores which he was establishing at| Mr. Blaueser reared up like an ‘eroseroads hamlets. Harry would/clepbant with a camel's neck—red De the town’s rich man in the com | faced. red eyed, heavy fisted. slight ing generation, and Major Wuther.|ly belching—a born leader, divinely would rise with him, and Vida | intended to be a congressman but was jubilant, tho she was regretful | deflected to the more lucrative hon at having to give up most of her | Ors Of realestate. He smiled on his Red Cross work. Ray still needed | Warm personal friends and fellow Bursing, she explained. | Doosters, and boomed When Carol saw him with Mia uni} “T certainly was astonished tn the form off, in @ pepperand-salt euit | *treets of our lovely little city, the and a new gray felt hat, she was | other day @mppomnted. He was not Major of critter that God ever made—mean. Wutherspoon: he was Raymie. | er thant the horned toad or the Texas For a month small boys followed | lallepaluma! (Laughter) And do you him down the street, and everybody |Kiow what the animile was? He q@alled him Major, but that was pres | W8s 8 knocker! (Laughter and ap ently shortened to Maje, and the | plause.) imal boys did not look up from their) “I want to tell you good people, Marbles a» he went by jand it's just sure as God made 1 | little apples, the thing that distm ‘The town was booming, as a re|suishes our American common @alt of the war price of wheat. wealth from the pikers and tin-horns ‘The wheat money did not remain! im other countries is our Punch You gu the pockets of the farmers; the|take a genuwine, honest-to Gu ho. tonws existed to take care of ali that.|™0 Americanibus and there ain't Jowa farmers were selling their land ®"y thing he's afraid to tackle. Snap at four hundred dollars an acre and | 42d speed are his middle name! He'll coming info Minnesota. But who Put her across éf he has to ride from ever bought or sold or mortgaged,| hell to breakfast, and believe me, the townemen invited themaelves to! !'m mighty goed and sorry for Ue the feast—millers, realestate men, | Soob that’s so unlucky as to get in lawyers, merchants, and Dr. Will | his way, because that poor slob ix ott. They bought land at a/ *0inmg to wonder where he was at 4 and fifty, sold it next day| hen Old Mr. Cyclone hit town! hundred and seventy, and|(laughter) _ “Now, frien‘s, there's some folks #0 yellow and «mall and so few in the aah Red ee SEbE Roa RAGE Fak FFFS F @ “ram. |"y we can't make Gopher Prairié, Commer. | God biess her! Prairie | polis or St. Paul or Duluth. But & wheatcenter but also | lemme tell you right here and now for factories, sum-| that there ain't a town under the and «tate Institutions In charge of the campaign was Mr. James Biausser, who had recently come to town to speculate in Iand. Mr. Blausser was known ans a lustier. He liked to be called Hon- em Jim. He was a bulky, gauche, Boisy, humorous man, with narrow ay [better chance to take a jump and go scooting right up into the two-hundred-thousand class than | little old G. P.t |bedy that’s got such cold kiamets [that he's afraid to tag after Biausser on the Big Going Up ~ eyes, a rustic complexion, large red|we don't want him here! Way I|purpie and gold ‘The amateur hands. and brilliant clothes. He was) tigger it, you folks are just patriotic | haseball-team hired a sembprofes Attentive to all women. He was the| enough so that you ain't going to| gional piteher from Dex Moines, and first man in town who had not been| stand for any guy meering and sensitive enough to feel Carol's aloof-| knocking his own town, no matter fess. He put his arm about her| how much of a amart Alfck he ls shoulder while he condescended to| and just on the side I want to add Kennicott, “Nice 1 wifey, I'l! my,|that this Farmers’ Nonpartisan League and the whole bunch of so | claliste are right in the same cate gory, or, as the fellow mays, In the same scatercory, n ning This Way Out, Exit, Beat It While the Going’s |}Good, This Means You, for came to the house without try-| knockers of prosperity and me YS paw her. He touched her|richt# of property! arm, let his fist brush her side. She| hated the man, and she was afraid | folks, even Of him. She wondered if he had|state, fairest and richest of heard of Prik, and was taking ad-| glorious union, that stand up or vantage. She «poke ill of him at| their hind legs and claim that the Rome and in public places, but Ken.| East and Europe pot it all over the Micott and the other powers insisted, | colden Northwestiand. Now let me doc,” and when she answered, not warmly, “Thank you ver} much for the imprimatur.” he blew on her eck, and did not know that he had Deen insulted. He was a iayer-on of hands. He ight here in this fair all the good a place to #ve in as’ London and Rome and—and all the rest of low that ever hit this burs. And he’s pretty cute, tox Hear whdt he K)}} ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS 2 Roberts Barton “ DARK A VOICE IN THE hands in the passage with their feet | the distance. Then the « te slammed. Sticking up in the air and the gnomes | All waa still in the me. Coming after them as quickly as they| Kip spoke firnt. his is a nies Could run, for the Cat's eye .had/fix, I'll say,” he remarked His turned red and warned them of the | voice sounded choked and odd, just eecape. Crookabone was first on the spot. as yours might if you were trying to carry on @ conversation and stand “Oh, ho” he cried, pointing a skinny | upon your head in the corner at the Qnger. “So here you are! I call this | same time | 7 Tweekanose, pull off Nancy's} What had we better do?” asked take hold Nick in disn Pim Pim now ump, you lay ay. “We can't help Mr. your daddy's watch has wheels, car- Tying with them the wonderful treas- * (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) God's Coun: | the | on Investments, Alien Agitators Who | Wutherapoon; and| Threaten the Security of Our Insti: | | tutions, the Hearthstone the Founda. | jwonal friend as well as my fellow | I met the meanest kind | And if there's any-/| “Maybe he ix kind of a roughmeck.|nail that lie right here ahd now but you got to hand it to him; he’sg’Ah-ha.’ says they, ‘# Jim Blansser got more git-up-and-git than any fel-Pis claiming that Ganher Prairie tw as| CHRISTMAS CARDS YET ? sere te, m | "em! ton itt only live thing in Europe is our boys that don—t | #tra: the | that and American burg would stand for one main ther in U | thin and you on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and | bulling and trying to get your goat you tell him that no twofieted en terpriving Westerner would have New York for a gift! “Now the pommt of this le: fm nly insisting that Gopher Prai going to be Minnesota's pride, | the | North Star State, but also and fur | ther | the | much refinement and culture, as any | just as big as Minne | bore on the whole bloomin’ erpanes | of ¢ j sees. get me, that goest t Half an hour tater Chairman Hay- biue canopy of heaven that’s got &| ack moved « vote of thanks to Mr.| running Bila umeer. | The hoostery campaign was on. | Th moet) known as Ji | rrorganiaed, then | comme: made a schedule of games with every town for fifty miles about s accompanied it as “Watch Gopher Prairie ¢ with Smile.” lost | Team.” 7 | Then, “Fellow citizens, there's a lot of] ont in a White Way were In fashion They were compored of ornamented posts wigh clusters of high-powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street. The Daunt lem confenwed: “White Way In In stalled—Town Lit Up Like Froad way—Speech by Hon. James Blaus pa Hat | Th | book Ia In the Ring.” | 1D GOES ON WITH THE CAPTAIN'S STORY ¢ Commercial Club issued a “What do you mean by “‘The| awfuller, because way out pn the let prepared by a great and ex pensive literary person from a Min Narrows,’ Davie?" Peggy tnter-| deep water like that when a | neapolis advertising headed cigarettes in a Care wone | fame | anor |to b tire | Gopher Prairie were models of dig | nity, comfort, and culture, with|| up there once and daddy said, lawns and gardens known far and ns oa . the boat around just new? wide; that the Gopher Prairie schoots || Fiddles, that's McNeil's island) 4 y..+ cant pattard said, ‘she and public library, in its neat and | over there; that's where Roy | turned around.’ . commodious buliding, were cele. | | brate | Gop | flour in | roun | where’er men ate bread and butter, | for Whe land | compared favorably with Minneapolis the € | ermal make wooden automobtle-wheels, wher could matt fail rowf town Jereaned a | discover no more pictures nor inter: Blau on Jim Miausser and get away with oomt Minniemashie DOINGS OF THE DIFFS THE SEATTLE STAR Tom Dashes Off One ‘TOM, DO YOUANOW WE You t HAVEN'T ORDERED ANY. | WAS LOOKING AT SOME WE RECEIVED LAST YEAR TO GET A SUGGES TION- —— THINK | the Big Burgs, is he? How does the] EVERETT TRUE | poor fish know? says they Well, | tell you how I knew! I've seen | I've done Europe from soup utes! ‘They can’t spring that stuff | And let me tell you that the are fighting there ne Lon wpent three days, sixteen | ight hours a day, giving London one and let me tell you it's nothing but a bunch of fog outof-date buildings that no live over, ute, You may not believe it, but | * ain't one first-class skyscraper | he whole works, And the same | goes for that crowd of crabs/ snobs Down East, and next time hear some zob from Yahooville brightest ray in the glory of the more that it Is right now, and Little Ones in, and it's got as} jod's Green Footstool, and that | © town sought that efficient afd orn variety public and by provided ial Club with uniforms of! ‘The cith “rooters,” in with banners lettered ow.” and the band playing “Smile, Smi Whether the team won the Dauntless loyally shrieked, | Roys, and Boost Together— | opher Prairie on the Map. nt Record of Our Matchless octal ear, G glory of glories, the town White Ways} in the Middlewent Come On You Twin Cities—Our agency, a red man who smoked long amber holder | read the booklet with a certain jer, She learned that Plover and Lakes were world od for thetr uteous wooded es and gamey pike ant bass not © equaled elsewhere in the en country; that the residences of young that the | her Prairie milia made the best the,country: that the sur | ling farm lands were renowned, | J throughout the state thru? their incomparable No. 1 Hard “Well, the tide sort of humped) wind her up here at this point at and Holstein-Friesian ecattle;|1 up under the boat with a big,| every day? that the stores in Gopher Prairie | awful swell, and the wind was! ren one other time the cap- and Chicago in thelr abu blowing like everything right in) tain was making his trip thru luxuries and necessities and the other direction and I guess "The Narrows’ and there was a courteous attention of the skil Gan stenmas Oba’: knalr Whkt to sad dks tak rth d |clerks, She learned, in brief, that |] 4 rd é worse storm than that one. The “ ” ‘ “ge, this was the one Logical Location a OF WES wey we ee. wind blew and the tide swelled ‘Oh !” he cried, pointing a skinny finger. “So here yo are!¢ hol": 2D q y fing YOU | for factories and wholesale houses | “And all at once she lunged | and washed in opposite directions J map nare wnere Toman’ (0 eo: t2|] and ‘dipped and lunged, and| and it was like two great, terrible, There they were, Nancy and Nickyures.. Nancy and Nick conld still| saia Carol. se around she turned ina great wash | huge giants fighting, and the and Kip, standing helplessly on their |hear Crookabone's mocking laugh in| Kennjcott was triumphant when|| and sworl of waves, all the way | steamer was a little helpless thing tommercial Club did capture one | shy factory which planned to| but | 1 Carol saw the promoter she not feel that his coming much ered—and a year after, when he| town to 1, she could not be ul in- | could | ot But lots had The price third wer, YOU MUST LAY AWAKE NIGHTS! TRYING TO SPEND MONEY PAIR OF SCISSORS? | LM TIRED OF.S2eiInG rupted the story David was tell ing about Capt. Ballardeand the steamer Zephyr. boat was skimming along in “The Narrows.’* + “Aw, Peg! you know where that | iW; doh't you know when we went | Gardner escaped,’ and he told us we were in “The Narrows’ and took a good pilot to gake a boat | around like a skiddy auto on a wet pavement, only much, much very sor-| beautiful as Mr. \ Dauntless said, Retired farmers were moving into | over, and she could go. Kennicott had bogged her, | Way and the new factory. in courtship days, to convert the|ed, “By golly, I’ve done all I could, 1 AS 1 Do THAT WE CAN'T GIVE PRESENTS TOALLOUR FRIENDS THIS YEAR AND WE WANT TO REMEMBER THEM Some WAY ~- HOW “To SEND "EM A CARD "EH? NOT SUCHA BAD IDEA~ { ) NY i tl AN ALATNCAN Page 544 it is about the | | storm is raging | scartest thing that can ba “You sald the “Inside the cabin there was an Englishman and when the captain came down after the boat had righted herself and was on her way again, this jpglishman said, ‘Ah, captain, did—did you turn “The Englishman smiled and said, ‘Ah! Ah! I see! sort of wound her up as it were. Ah! —qe you tum her ground and it Well, that's the place. | that got In thelr way.” (To Be Continued) ee | If it was now as Blausser and the then her work was and now I expect you to play the game. Here you been complaining for years about us being so poky, and now when Blausser comes along and does stir up excitement and beautify the town like you've always wanted somebody to, why, you say beauty. CHAPTER XXXVI 1 ek to its) “It's all my fault.” sobbed Nancy. | eating food nor gracious voices nor| Kennicott was not so inhumanly {he’s a roughneck, and you won't place in my celjar until 1 can | “Oh, T wish I hadn't forgotten! We'll | amusing conversation nor questing | patient that he could continue to. f ump on the band-wagon.” find a better place for it.” |never get back to Brownieland! And| minds. She could, she asserted, en | ive Carol's heresies, to woo her as! Once, when Kennicott ‘#fmounced The words took longer than the| who'll help Mr. Pim Pim dig the giit-| dure a shabby but modest town! the|he had on the venture to California. |at noon-dinner, “What do you know deen. And before you gould poke |t stuff for the Christmas toy town shabby and xhe| he tried to be inconspicuous, but|about this! They say there's a the axhes out of the edok-stove the| “And think of the ehimney-eweep| could not endure nurae|#he was betrayed by her failure to|chance we may get another factory @hormes had skipped back to theirjand the toy maker!’ said a voice in mp Perry, and warm to the| glow over the boosting. Kennicott eream-separator works!" he added, ugly, dark, undérground .village|the dark. ‘They'll have to be saved, | neighborliness of Sam Clark, but she | believed in it; demanded that she|“You might try to look interested, which had more hiding places than | too?’ > could not it applauding Honest Jim | say patriotic things about the White|even if you ain't!" The baby was He snort-| frightened by the Jovian roar; ran wailing to hide his face in Carol's UP A CARD WITH Some LITTLE ORIGINAL VERSE ON (T- SOMETHING THAT| papeR- fib WRITE A EXPRESSES OUR OWN GIVE MEA PIECE OF “THAT WILL typ tizyuy LZ |! | ' HT Up SS Many of the popular ios ly confused. | the leas she has to do. | Giri aspirants for movie | sheet has but to di royal train | Jand. crown and * before the | jcamera. And dainty maidens wish- | Jing an “easy job” believe that it | doesn’t take much longer to make a | play than the time required to pro- | | Jeet it upon the screen. | How many umes have I wished that I could succes j that simple achedule! T have always wished it in mid |summer, when other schoolgiris of | my are having “a long va tion. Why, even knitting a sw in the cool of a garden appe me. But Vacations are always tn my |future, My plays lap’ over. While I am acting one role I am preparing for tM next. | Our producer doesn't are for | serials, but he did tnvent for me a | succession of unrelated tales with |Me word “love in every tale. I | was to play them because I was the “ Is to} lap; and Kennicott had to make him: xelf humble an@ court both mother and child. The dim injustice of not being pnderstood even by his son left | him ffritable, He felt injured. An event which did not directly | touch them brought down his wrath, In the early autumn, news came | from Wakamin that the sheriff had |forbidden an organizer for the Na tional Nonpartisan League to speak anywhert in the county. The or ganizer had defied the sheriff, and announced that in a fem days he would address a farmers’ political meeting. That night, the news ran a mob of a hundred business men led by the sheriff—the tame yillage Jatreet and the smug. village ‘faces | ruddied by the light of bobbing lan. |terna, the mob flowing between the |aquatty rows of shops—had taken the organizer from his hotel, ridden [him on a fence-rail, put him on a freight, train, and warned him not | to return. " story was threshed out in Dyer's drug store, with Sam k, Kennicott, and Carol present That's the way to trent those fel lows——only they ought to have) liynehed him!’ declared Sam, and | Kennicott and Dave Dyer joined in a proud “You bet!" Carol walked out hastily, Kenni- \ he Dav | ESA SOUVENIR GILT CHAIR MRS. HOOPLE. GOT AT \THE ST LOUIS WORLDS | | \FAIR AND SHE NEVER || }\ALLOWED ANYBODY. \ = Buster WRECKS THE PRIZE RELIC ==: 4 I'VE BEEN ROBBED & TAXED & ALL THAT VVE GOT COLD CHILLS FROM ALL MY BILLS AMD FIND “TIMES PRETTY TouGH= 4 BENT AND ALMOST BROKE BUT STILL HAVE JUST ENOUGH TO MAIL A MERRY CHRISTMAS CARD FROM “Tom & HELEN DUFF UP YOUR OTHER SHIRT BUS, AN PULL FREIGHT: YouD BE SAFER IN AN AFRICAN JUNGLE wITH{ Confessions of a Movie Star (Copyright, 1921, Beattle Star) scene. As soon finished, 1 study w First 1 nario. resting in bed. disc the definite id director. invention. And then there were my costumes | to design, order and fit | ginning, I rejoiced exceedingly in my long shopping tours but very soon | they became trying ordeals. of tracted huge sums from my attrac movie make-up, The cost tive salary | erease paint and pale yellowish pow- der, Thru he was bubbling and would soon boil over. on had a hunch kind of hard role?" “AML these organizers, yes, and a whole lot of the German and Square- head farmers themselves, they're se- devil patriotic, pro-German pacifists, that's what they are “Did this organizer say anything ditious as erman ot on pro stagey. “So the whole thing was fllegal— the sheriff! and led by how do you expect obey your law law t but this trouble, down what's as “Love in Leash” threw myself into the of “Love Lorn.” Id follow “Love in Idleness.” to visualize the my Motherdear read the | fray 1 according to |script and we stopped frequently to | in public. business take T wanted his permission to | introduce certain business of my own had I pictured ruins the garments I had to get rving her. supper-time she knew When thé baby was abed, and they sat composedly in canvas chairs he experimented, “I you thought Sam was that fellow they kicked out of Wakamin.” “Wasn't Sam rather needlessly he- the porch, the D your life! give him a chance!" if the officer of the hes them to break it? a new kind of logic “Maybe it wasn't exactly regular, the odds? fellow would try Whenever to a question of defending Americanism and our constitutional CHAPTER XXXIV—“LOVE” IN ALL MY PLAYS about; spit of uninformed first love, he & movie star's existence are curious. | told Motherdear Dick had not been in the first cast, The ordinary tmpression seems to “Bonded Love,” but he and Cissy | be that the more successful a star ia,|and I made a great hit with Mo-|worked, the jbut once. property | Masters in the second, Sometimes T/over the costumes which, if clean honors | think it was because ‘we acted a lit |fancy that a princess of the silver |tle play within @ play—in [clothing at half price, was | that | insist After that ace. | losses of costuming. part while| I must have|ing to up with the mirers. In the be- | with town. wardrobe sub- tease Dick. an actress reconciled to qainary procedure.” that can't estly? you townsmen of and shops. Of course, disloyal, non- petition or bad music, jeals ‘pro-English.’ They didn't His laugh was anarchists.’ them ‘red Precisely these aliens to our opponents! Is it | ourselves! They knew Mrs, RBogurt a to stir up it comes right call rights, it’s justifiable to set aside « ued TH’ BREAKING RACKET = NOWI SEE WHAT TH’ making out large checks for ex= quisite costumes which I would wear In some studios where I have | able, promise to be usable, every | creas® paint comes out, he sells the But some studio superintendents it is wiser to pay the stars well and let them stand the Even a frock which survives the annot be worn by a movie star It would be most annoy- be recognized by |dress, and- followed—even by ad planning my warntrobe for “Love Lorn” T had a bright idea, TF was to be a simple country maiden’ Dick as the tempter—from I decided to use a little blue lawn frock which had rather fascinated |Jimmy Alcott ttmt happy summer in jthe Vermont mountains, It would Tt might provoke him or surprise him into a semblance of his old frank self. . (To Be Continued) “What editorial did he get that from?” she wondered, as she pro tested, “See here, my beloved, why you Tories declare war hom You don’t oppose this organ- izer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive the money you make out of mortgages and wheat since we're at war with Germany, anything that any one of us doesn’t like is ‘pro German,’ whether it’s business com. ri If we were * fighting England, you'd call the rad When this war igvover, T suppose you'll be callin: eternal art it is—such a glittery de lightful art—finding hard names for How we do sanctify our efforts to keep them from get- ting the holy dollars we want for The churches have al | ways done it, and the political ora tors—and T suppose I do it when T ‘Puritan’ and Mr. Stowbody a ‘capitalist.’ business men are going to beat all the rest of us at it, with your simple hearted, energetic, pompous-—" (Continued Tomorrow) If the one's What a But you