The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1921, Page 11

The Story of Carol Kennicott BY SINCLAIR LEWIS Harcourt, Brace & Hows, Inc. (Starts on Page ‘The teacher took her Carol never became a prominent suffragist, Indeed only recognized position was as an able addreaser of envelopes. But she was casually adopted by this family of friendly women who, when they Were not being mobbed or arrested took dancing lessons or pi nicking up the Chesapeake Canal or talked about the politics of the Amor jean Federation of Labor With the congressman's secretary ters. quarters. to head went Jo teacher Caro! leased a small | Mat. Here she found home, her own place and her own people. She had. tho it absorbed most of her salary, an excellent nurse for Hugh, She herself put him to bed and played with bim on holidays, There were Walks with him, there were motion. Tess evenings of reading, but chiefly Washington was associated with peo- pie, scores of them, sitting about the fat, talking, talking, talking, not al ways wisely but always excitedly. It Was not at all the “artist's: studio” of which, because of its persistence in fiction, she had dreamed. Most ‘of them were in offices all day, and thought more in card-catalogues or Statistics than in mass and But they played, veryesimply, and they saw no reason why anything which exists cannot also be acknow! edged. was sometimes shocked quite as she had shocked Gopher Prairie by these girls with their cigerets and elfish knowledge, When they were Most eager about soviets or canoeing, ahe listened, longed to have some spe- eial learning which would distin. guish her, gnd sighed that her ad Wenture had come so late. Kenni- ott and Main Street had drained Sher self-reliance: the presence of Hugh made her feel temporary. Some | had been made timorous by Gopher while Harry day—oh, she'd have to take him back J road colar. | shops, dripping soot from eaves noke in and doorway, rolled out greasy coil Other towns she came to know by & prairie village where the wind blew all day long, and the mud Was two feet thick in spring, and in or the flying sand scarred new «i houses and dust cove the few flowers set out in pots ow England mill-towns with the hands living in rows of cottages like blocks of lava, A rich farmingcenter in New Jersey, off the railroad, furiously pious, ruled by olt men, unbeliev y ignorant old men, sitting about the grocery talking of James G Biaine. A Southern town, full of {the magnolias and white columns which Carel had accepted as proof of romance, but hating the negroes, obsequious to the Old Families, A Western mining-settlement like a tu¢ mor. A booming semi-city with parkas and clever architects, visited by tw mous pianists and unctuoys lectur ers, but irritable from a struggle be tween union labor and the manufac turers’ association, so that in even }the gayest of the new houses there was a ceaseless and intimidating heresy-hunt. anecdote v | | ‘The chart which plots Curot’s! progress ix not easy to read. The lines are broken and uncertain of 4) rection; often instead of rising they sink in wavering scrawl; and the colors are watery blue and pink and the dim gray of rubbed pencil marks. | A few lines are traceable. { Unhappy women are given to pro | tecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church Jana new-thought religions, or by « | fog of vagueness. Carol had hidden | in none of these refuges from reality, |but she, who was tender and merry | Prairie, Even her flight had been! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WER GOOD THING Buy UNCLE Toms CHRISTMAS PRESENT TODAY = CAN You were Harry and Juanita Haydock. She ran to them, she kissed Juanita. confided, “Hadn't ox pected to come to Washington—had 1 GUESS I's “THAT '™ In NO HURRY! to open fields and the right to climb | bnt the temporary courage of panic? to go to New York for some buying about hay-lofis. | The thing she gained in Washington | -—didn’t have your address along A OLD STANDBYS=1 WANT TO GET HIM SOMETHING ORIGINAL- (we ~ LL, HERE ay MEN MUST GET AWFUL BESIDES You KNOW WHAT WONDERFUL PRESENTS HE ALWAYS SENDS 0S— AND ALways JusT WHAT WE WANT- T SMOKE A PIPE= H “BACCO ASHES BW’ RUGS GO WAND I HAND= LOOK AT “TH! TSH’ DUMS THAT PUFF PILLS AND But the fact that she could never|was not information about office | just got in this morning—wondered be eminent among these scoffing en-| systems and Jabor unions but re-| how in the world we could get hold thusiasts did not keep her from be |newed courage, that amiable con img proud of them, from defending | tempt called poise. Her glimpse of them in imaginary conversations | tasks involving millions of people with Kennicott, who grunted Ashe | and a score of nations reduced Main could hear his voice), “THey’re| Street from bloated importance to simply a bunch of wild, impractical! its actual pettiness, She could never theorists sittin’ round chewing the | again be quite so awed by the power rag.” and “I haven't got the time| with which she herself had endowed to chase after a lot of these fool; the Vidas and Blaussera and Bogarts. fads; I'm too busy putting aside al From her work and from her as Btake for our old age.” jseclation with women who had or Most of the men who came to the | ganized suffrage associations In how Yat. whether they were army offi. | tile cities, or had defended political cers or radicals who hated the army, | prisoners. Wiad the easy centleneas, the accept. | an impersonal attitude; mw that she @nce of wong without embarrassed |had been as touchily personal as banter. for which whe had longed in Maud Dyer. Gopher Prairie. Yel they seemed to| And why, she began to ask. did be as efficient as the Sam Clarks.|she rage at individuals? Not mdi concluded that it wus because | vidu but institutions are the ene re of secure reputation, not | mies, and they most afflict the dis in by the fire of provincial | ciples who the most generously serve es. Kennicott had asserted them. They insinuate their tyranny that the villager’s lack of courtesy is | under a hundred guises and pompous due to his poverty. “We're no mil-|names, auch as Polite Society, the ionaire dudes.” he boasted. Yet | Family, the Church, Sound Business, these army and navy men, these bu-| the Party, the Country, the Superior she caught something of | Feau experts, and organizers of mul Wludinous leagues, were cheerful on “three or four thousand a year, while Kennicott had. outside of his land @peculations, six thousand or more, and Sam had Nor could she upon inquiry learn ‘that many of this reckless race died fm the poorhouse. That Institution fs reserved for men like Kennicott Who. after devoting fifty years to “putting asid#a stake.” incontinent Ty invest the stake in spurious oil | Blocks. Iv She was encouraged to believe that White Race; and the only defense | against them, Carol beheld, is unem- j dittered laughter. * CHAPTER XXXVIIT 1 She Had llved in Washington for & year. She was tired of the office. It was tolerable, far more tolerable jthan housework, but it was not ad venturous. | She was having tea and cinnamon | towat, alone at a small round table jon the balcony of Rauscher’s Con | fiserie. Four debutantes clattered tn. She had felt young and dissipated, of you." | She was definitely sorry to hear | that they were to leave at nine that evening, and she clung to them as long as she could. Bhe took them to St. Mark's for dinner, Stooped her elbows on the table, she heard with excitement that y Bogart {had the f_u, but of course he was [too goldarn mean to die of it." _ | “WH wrote me that Mr. Blaulser |had gone away. How did he get on?” “Pine! Fine! Great town. There was a spirited fellow, all right She dixcovered that she now had no opinions whatever about Mr Blausser, and she said sympathet cally, “Will you keep up Ue town boosting campaign? Harry fumbled, “Well, we've dropped it Just temporarily, but jwure, you bet! Say, did the doo write you about the luck B. J. Gougerling had hunting ducks down in Texan?” When the news had been told and thetr enthusiarm had slackened she looked about and was proud to be able to point out a nenator, to ex plain the cleverness of the canopied garden. She fancied that a man with dinnercoat and waxed mus | tache glanced supercitiously at Har i ry's highly form-fitting bright brown jeult and Juanita’s tan «lik frock which was doubtful at the seams She glared back, defending her own. daring the world not to appreciate | them. Then, waving to them, he loxt them down the long train shed. She fstood reading the list of stations to the pubiic lon real he had not been abnormal in view-| had thought rather well of her biack | Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Chicago. Be; 4ng Gopher Prairie as unduly tedious And slatternly. She found the same {faith not only in girls escaped from Tdomesticity but Also in demure old Viadies who. tragically deprived of esteemed husbands and huge houses, yet managed to make a very | comfortable thing of it by living in gmail flats and having time to read. But she also learned that by com op Gopher Prairie was a mode! of daring color, clever planning, and frenzied Intellectuality. From teacher-housemate she had a sardonic description of a Middiewestern rai} Foad-division town, of the same size as Gopher Prairie but devoid of lawns and trees, a town where the tracks sprawied along the cinder- scabbed Main Street, and the rail- old | her| and leafgreen suit, but as she watched them, thin of ankle, soft under the chin, seventeen or eigh teen at most, smoking cigareta with the correct ennui and talking of “bedroom farces” and to “run up to New York and see something racy,” she became old and rustic and plain, and desirous of re |treating from these hard, brilliant Idren to a life easier and more sympathetic. When they flickered out and one child gave orders to a chauffeur, Carol was not a defiant Philosopher but a faded government clerk from Gopher Prairie, Minne. sota. She atarted dejectedly up Connec- ticut Avenue. She stopped, her heart stopped. Coming toward her ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barte “THE C HARM” Now, shush,” he whispered cautiously, “we're here!” Mike Mole was a most friend, because he was such a fine digger, and not only that, but knew so many of the gnomes’ secrets and hiding places, 80 told the Twins worry “I have tunnels dug everywhere, he assured them, “and the ‘gnomes don't know it, but I have secret pas wages under every one of their streets and houses. PEpownie, followed Mike thru his hit ‘orkucrew, curlicew halls this nd that way and every way if north and south and then i again without any reason or wherefore, until finally the mole stopped “Now shush? tiotsly. * re there! Right Gnotme village again. The chief thing first in to get your Shoes, And if you get them, keep them. If you should forget another time about saying the forbidden words and sud Gently find yourselves upside down, Wish yourselves back into Brownie il he not to he whispered cau under valuable |land at once before the gnomes can | wretched. steal the Shoes from your feet.” | “Where are we whispered Nancy. “Under Crookabone’s cellar,” an lewered the Mole. “Now I'm going to dig up thru his floor id when I }eall, come after me.” | Mike disappeared then and they all waited, After while they heard a }faint “st, at,” over their heads, and é Just follow me.” jone after the other they scrambled | qty untike that of the languishing $0 Nancy and Nick and Kip, the|up after him as fast as they could| Young man in the velvet jacket play go. “The Magic Green Shoes and ‘the key are in the jam cupboard, but |1 can't open it,” said Mike, | Kip pricked up his ears. } said he. “Nothing in earth or fairy. jland can keep a Brownie from jam. I know a charm.” Ang he began Apples, peaches, quinces, cherries, Apricots and elderberrtes: Open the door with greatest haste, That your flavors we may taste!’ Instantly the little door swung open. {To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) their desire | “Here's where I come in, T wens,” | |yond Chicago—? She naw the lakes jand stubble fields, heard the rhythm | Of insects and the creak of a buggy | was greeted by Sam Clark's “Well, | well, how's the little lady?” Nobody in | enough for her to fret about her sins aa Sam did. But that night they had at the flat) a man just back from Finland. | | mu | She was on the Powhatan roof with the captain. At a table, some what vociferously buying improbable |*soft drinks” for two fluffy giris, |was a man with a large famillar | back “Ob! 1 think I know him,” ehe murmured. | “Who? There? Percy Breenahan.” “Yes. You've met. him? sort of a man in he?” “He's a good-hearted {atot. I rather like him, and 1. believe that as a janlesman of motors he's a wonder | But he’s a nuisance in the aeronautic | section ‘Tries «0 hard to be useful | b he doesn't know anything—he doesn’t know anything Rather | pathetic: rich man poking sround| and trying to be useful. Do you | want to speak to him?” | “No—no—I don’t think #0.” | | Oh, Bremnahan, | What ur | She was at a motion-picture show. |The film was a highly advertised jand abysmal thing smacking of sim | pering hairdressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back etreets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum. It pretended | to deal with the life of studios, The | leading man did a portrait which was la masiorplece. He also saw visions in pipesmoke, and was very brave | and poor and pu He had ringleta, | and his masterpiece was strangely | | like an enlarged photograph. | Carol prepared to leave. | | On the screen, in the role of a |compouer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour. | She was startled, incredulous, then | Looking straight out at |her, wearing a beret and a velvet Jacket, was Erik Valborg, |" He had a pale part, which he | played neither well nor badly, She | speculated, “I could have made so much of him-—" She did not finish | her speculation, | | She went home and read Kenni- cott's letters, They had seemed stiff land undetailed, but now there strode | from them @ personality, a person jing a dummy piano in @ canvas| | room. IV « Kennicott first came to see her tn November, thirteen months after her in Washington, When he dd that he was coming abe ‘was not at all sure that ah wi rl to see him. She was glad that he had made the decision himself. | She had leave from the office for |two days. She watched him marching from the train, solid, assured, carrying hie heavy sult-case, and she was diffident—he was such @ bulky per- | arrival announce Washington cared | 7 You REMGMGBER / CHEAP HEMP THAT SPILL ASHES On SMITH, A SHORT TIMG AGO \ PROMOTED YOY FROM THE RANKS ANO PUT You IN CHARGE OF THIS DOPARTMaNT, [Asa Weer, You Won't Do} HAT — MUCH Too SMA IT HAS GRowN ur ar * * Page * Or By Ma sf bel of Geattle _ « + o ATW x 546 BALLARD “But rtm 1 don't know about the Ballard part of Seattle, Davie,” Pemry said, when the two stories of the Zephyr in the storms were finished. “Well, can't you wailt™ David | retorted tmpolitely. “I'm coming | to that part of It, only I like the | storm kind best, and I thought you would. “I was going to tell you about a | Christmas dinner, one about a steamer, too, f you'd only let me remember them, just as I—I/ think of them. “The land that is what we call Ballard now used to be a raw. mill site. It was all wet and) «yampy and rocky and thing, so when Henry Yesler got thru sawing up the timber they} had cut off of it, he just left it| for a while, “And then Judge Burke and Mr, John Leary and Capt. Ballard, bought it. That was in 1881. “They bought it, and then they just sort of left it and must have forgotten all about it. Then one day the captain was coming in,on his boat and he said to himself “'T believe I'll go over there every: | + and have a look at that land.” “So when he got to the landing ———— hkclichaliel They kissed each} kind you like.” They spent half an hour at the son to handie. other questioningly, and said at the) looking fine; | how's the baby?” and “You're look-| but he gave no sign of kissing her same time, “You're he called Judge Burke and told him to get « crowd of men and he would take them all over on his boat and see what sort of place It really was. “Judge Burke fost bustied. He dashed into stores and offices, got the men he wanted and in a little while 20 of them started across Salmon bay to see what they could see. ’ “And Capt. Ballard mid he Goesn't see now why he ever took the boat in there, because he didn't know the channel at all. “And when they got there there was just an old tumbled down logging camp and stumps and mud. “Well, and then they tried to grow hops out there, but nothing would grow, the land was #0 poor. “And then they tried clearing it up and putting in a bridge to it and selling it for town lots and when the engineers were making Ballard ave. they told Capt. Ballard: “We think these rocks are falling all the way thru to China, this mud ts so deep. Woe think we'd better stop.’ (To Be Continued) flat, with Hugh. She waa fluster: ing awfully well, dear; how is every-| again, thing?” He grumbled, “T don fn on any plans you've made or your friends or anything, but if you've got time for it, I'd like to chase around Wa in some restaurants and shows and | | stuff, and forget work for a while.” She realized, in the taxicab, that he was wearing a soft gray suit, a soft easy hat, a flippant tie “Like the new outfit? Got ‘em tn "t want to putt | hington, and take | just As he moved about the small roo! she realized that he had had his n tan shoes polished to a brassy lust There was a recent cut on his ch He must have shaved on the before coming ton, It was pleasant portant she was, how many peo she recognized, a8 she took him the Capitol, as sho told him axked and she obligingly fuessed) Chicago. Gosh, 1 hope they're the| how many feet it was to the top of train into Washing to feel how tm HOOPLE HAS 'EM (Copyright, 171, Beattie Star) Rather than go shopping, #ome-| sometimes in the movies. times I'd make a hat or two with! Once a great artist told me that materials gleaned from the 100 boxes | work is the secret of genius. To of millinery in my wardrobe. at (Ket o working, and never to care ; how much, my nerves and my patience was the | jong cae tonic yptigets pePyps sie see ye nad ae greed god bs result which one has definitely imesh page “| planned beforehand. signs. More than one morning I've |” m4 : gee . “tried on” until I have come close|,, 1 ink that this rule for perfeo- he tuletane |tion applies to trades and crafts as : well as to art. I.often fancy that So much morale does success tn | halen seat {1/1 would have made good at keeping T ao enjoved making a few bata|® D&XeFY had Fate so directed me. now and then, and I was so good at — merging x" tae. Oat” ay it, that I decided to go into the mil. |Schedule for the day, before I get Unery business if my movie career /OUt of bed, to findAoo often that the ean ngpe it om A |iuncheon T had expected to take in While 1 admit that T enjoy acting |* !wxurious hotel has to be snatch. lbetter than anything else in this|¢? im my car on the road to the | world, 1 do other things with much | *tUdios. jenthusiasm, Cooking, dancing, swim-| ‘That hurts Motherdear more than ming or making beds gives mo some |it does me, Once, after we had had joy. As long as there's a right | strenuous morning of fittings for and a wrong way to do things,|“Love Lorn,” I was due at the there's the fun of discovery and ac. | Studios at 2 for some short retakes. complishment. How to take a tea! I stopped at a bakery, bought stain from table linen can be made | some Vienna rolls, and nibbled them an art. And whatever I learn, I use| without butter as we rode along. } | | | | Confessions of a Movie Star CHAPTER XXXVI—CISSY SHELDON STARTLES ME ‘That was my only refreshment be- tween an early breakfast and a late dinner. Cissy, when he heard, didn’t think it a joking matter. “May! This life will do for um men. But for you—please—please let me take you out of it!” I shook my head, but less em phatically than, usual when Cissy pleads. I was very tired that after- noon. Cissy seized his advantage, “You're so tiny! You're enty started in the game! It's terrible! You don’t know, yet. 1 don’t want you to know what it's like.” “For one thing, I've learned that I'm never going to have time to play?" “May, you could play, If you'd let me take you out of this game and put you in a home—in the country —with gardens and horses and—" I interrupted him with: “Cyrus Sheldon, you're a wizard! You've almost made me forget that I do not believe in love!" (To Be Continued) the dome, as she pointed out Sena- tor LaFollette and the vice-president, and at lunch-time showed herself an habitue by leading him thru the cata combs to the senate restaurant She realized that he was slightly more bald, ‘The familiar way in which his hair was parted on the |left side agitated her. She looked down at hi# hands, and the fact that his nails were as ill-treated as ever ed her more than his pleading shoe-shine “You'd Ifke to motor ters, such as whether they still were married, But he did not ask ques- returning, He cleared his throat and observed, “Oh say, been trying out the old camera. Don't you think these are pretty good?" He tossed over to her thirty prints of Gopher Prairie and the country about. Without defense, she was thrown into it, She remembered that he b&d lured her with photo- graphs in courtship days; she made a note of his sameness, his satis- down to afternoon, tons, and he said nothing about her | Mount Vernon th wouldn't you?” he said, It was the one thing he had planned. He was delighted that it seemed to be a perfectly well bred and Washingtonian thing to do. He shyly held her hand on the way, and told her the news: they were excavating the basement for the new schoolbullding, Vida “made him tired the way she always looked at the Maje,” poor Chet Dashaway hag been killed in a motor accident out on the € He did not coax her to like him, At Mount Vernon he admired the paneled Mbrary and Washington's dental tools he knew that he would want oys. ters, that he would have heard of Harvey's apropos of Grant and Blaine, and she took him there. At dinner his hearty voico, his holiday enjoyment of everything, turned info nervousness in his desite to know a number of interesting mat- , ed ms ow er in Instant relief! Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of “Pape's Cold Compound” tak- en every two hours until three doses are taken usually breaks any cold right up. The first dose opens clogged-up nostrilg and air passages of head; ple to the faction with the tactics which had proved good before: but she forgot it In the familiar places. She was seeing the sun-speckled ferns among birches on the shore of Minnie mashie, wind-rippled miles of wheat, the porch of their own house where Hugh had played, Main Street where she knew every window and every face. 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