The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1921, Page 13

THE SEHATTI STAN bd Seccccceccocore wesw pi “gy . Hy M IN : DOINGS OF THE DUFFS She'll Decide What It Is Later BY ALLMAN “ A ] e if wre Zp ‘a rreager ZA Z ‘ 8 S REE I : I'M GOING To | | THERE, 17'S DONE ! war ARE You Doms] - Or ( WHATIS Jr yrs: :. . . > 4 | FINISH THIS THING | DON’ NOW JUST | OWN HER iL —— fat) 5 ) 1 IN KNO The Story of Carol Kennicott i | hg a } TWO OCLOCK IN 1) WANTED ‘To w?: 2 WY SINC 3 3 |i RE kad fe Ft | WHO NLL GIVE IT f » THE MORNING P } FINASH THIS —_J7 |) BUT ISNT IT SINCLAIR LEWIS ° Bust! | TO BUT | THINK IT / \ « sciieaetgaiiln 5 y) Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Ir " : I ( OxiviAy? —., y— CHRIST MAS PRESENT , . Brace & Hows, Ine, ie ; LOOKS PRETTY NIFTY- i aay 7 VM GOING TO SEND F a sf ae guerre THIS TO SOME ONE (Continued From Yesterday) Brstty Yreuetnd ‘to have to live with fix . Pinner was over and they were] aly as perfect as I wa: « ¢ her friend# at the flat He’ grinned, She liked his grin der Was With them, sit. | N pe ent, inescapable. He was thrilled by old negro coach Jure it, She stam. !™4n, admirals, aeroplanes, the build M had you check your bag at the | eventdally Rolls Royce, Lynn you'd stay, I'm dreadfully | Room, a trical man we haven't room to put you | Amer for the try-out of . ep at the flat We ought to have | Play wh Lincoln died gen about & room for you before, the cloaks of Italian officers, the Pont you think you better call up| arrows at which clerke buy (heir Villard or the Washington | S©xtunches at noon, th barges on puny |the Chesapeake Canal, and the fact He peered at her cloudily, With | that District of Columbia cars had em mords he asked, without speech | beth District and Maryland licenses i he Afiewered, whether she was also) She resolutely took him to her 3 to the Willard of the Wash favorite white and green cottages . fagion. But sbe tried to look as tho/®"¢ Georgian houses, He admitted WERes AGS Z om fhedid not know that they were | that fanlights, and white shutters Y @@ating anything of the sort, She | %##inst rosy brick, were more home BILL You Soa have hated him had he deen | lke than a pain wooden box. » He mast, DROPPED! about i But he was neither | Yolw teered, “Il see how you mean. FALLEN nor angry. However im.| They make me think of these pic | — J he may Save been with hor | tures of an old-fashioned Chriatmas AND YU, a Dandness he sald readity Oh, if you keep at it long enough | | a *Y¥ee, guess I better do that. Ex. ¥° ‘i have Sam and me reading po- | F que me a eecond. Then how about | *tfY and everything. Oh say, d’ I tell q Ing & taxi (Gosh, ien't it the you about this fierce green Jack Ke Timit the way these taxi shuffers | Eiter's had his machine painted? around a corner? Got more } % TE eiwing thal 2 eaves aed pa They were at dinner fag up to your flat for a while? Like| He hinted, “Before you showed 1 : to meet your friends—must be fine, ‘hore places today, I'd already ma Iwomen—and I might take a look anda? ™Y mind that when I built the ; Hugh sleeps. Like to know /M¢™ house we used to talk about, I'd : SeMhe breathes. Don't think he/|{!% it the way you wanted ‘it, I'm 2 ‘adenoids, but 1 better make sure, | DF&ttY practical about foundations l@r He patted her shoulder. and radiation and stuff like that. but a Tat the fiat they found her two|! Etess I don't know a whole lot Sy Fasermates and « giri who had been at aves “4 , rae i . peg Asie Soe . it ocourx to me wih a Eile catnaty. “te ‘uaeeen ar oe sudden shock that I don’t either! : “Well—anyway—you let me plan the garage and the plumbing, and You do the rest, if you ever—I mean if you ever want to.” Doubtfully, “That's sweet of you.” “Look bere, Carrie; you think I'm going to ask you to love me. I'm not. And I'm, not going to ark you to come back to Gopher Prairie! She gaped it's been a whale of a fight Rut T guess I've got myself to see that the humors of strike: he told the secretary to do when her eyes were tired typing; and the teacher asked mot as the husband of @ friend) as a physician—whether there! “anything to this inocukition for | I never appreciated how lucky I was | to have 4 girl with imagination and vely feet to play with 1 you maybe run away and see the South with me? If you w to, you could just~-you could just [pretend you were my sister and } 1 get an extra nurse for Hugh! I'l get the best dog-gene nurse in Wast ington EVERETT TRUE FLAT IRONS DISK PANS HAND PAINTED BROOMS GRINDS7ONES WASH Bold! } colloquialismys seemed to Carol | jax than their habitual slang. | an older brother he kissed geod-night in the midst of the) 0 won't ever © GP va - you want to come back to it. I It was in the Villa Margherita, t ‘8 tergbly nice,” said her house-| needn't say I'm crazy to have you, | the palms of the Charlie and waited for confidences. Rut 1 won't ask you. I just want/4nd the metallic harbor, that got none. nor did her own! you to know how I walt for She could find nothing defi-| Every mail I look for a letter to agonize about. She felt that! when I get one I'm kind cony, enchanted by the moon glitter was no longer analyzing and to open it, I'm hoping se much she cried, “Shall I go back to Gophe forces, but swept on by| you're coming back. Evenings Frairie with you? Decide for me , You know I didn't open the cotinge |I'm Ured of deciding and undecid He came to the flat for breakfast,/down at the lake at all, thie past Mad washed the dishes. That was her| summer. Simply coukin't «tand all cccasion for spite. Back home | the others laughing and swimming, | @eciding. A hie never thought of washing dishes!| and you not there. I used to sit on | spite of thin took him to the obvious! the porch, in town, and I—i cou think I want you to ¢ “eights"—the Treasury, the Monu-| get over th> tecling that you yet the Corcoran Gallery, the Pan-| pty run up to the drug store She could Building. the Lincoln/ would be right back. and till after T want L SAY, JOHNS CHUCK IN A PAIR OF 1. with the Potomac beyond | i: got dark I'd catch myself watching, | you get there, I'll do everything | G SON > t "A Or MY the Arlington hills and the! locking up the street, and you never|can to keep you happy, but I'l! make LD STRADS, tod, WHILE You'RE PERFUMING @lumns of the Lee Mansion. For| came, and the house was #0 empty | lots of breaks, so I want you to take NEIGHBOR HOOD —— THEY MAY IMPROVE THE alt his willingness to play there was and still that { didn't lke to go in| time and think it over." « —~ over him a melancholy which piqued/ And sometimes I fell asleep there,| She was relieved. She atil! had a r itis normally expressionless | in my chalr, and didn't wake up titi|chance to seize splendid indefinite had depths to them now, and / after midnight. and the house 40h, | freedoms, She might go-—oh, she'd ess. As they walked thru|the devil! Piease get me, Carrie. 1/ Se Europe, somehow, before she was vu on f aloofness melted When th ton the uprfer bal No. You've got to do your own of fact, in eymoom, 1 don't ne home. Not tisfied when Ce tS yette Square, looking past the} just want you to know how welcome | recaptured. But also had. a C + 4 7 nm statue at the lovely tranquil| you'll be if you ever do come, But | firmer reapect for Kennicott. She ‘ ri 4 a ‘ facade of the White House, he| I'm not asking you to.” [had fancied that her life might make F 7 Fesh HAIR ConBINGS, OLD Mghed, “I wish I'd had a shot at) “You're—— It’s awfully——” a story. She knew that there was jeapey SHOES, RUBBERS, ¢ Places like this. When I was in the| “‘Nother thing. I'm going to be | Nothing herote or obviously dramat ” > GREASY RAGS, CTC @.. Thad to earn part of my way,/ frank. I haven't always been abso jin it, no magic of rare hours, ner) © thy ees ete, Te And when I wasn't doing that or|iutely, uh, absolutely, proper. I've; Valiant challenge, but it seemed R % eo | rm ere ~ Studying, I guess I was rqughhous-| always loved you more than any. | her that she was of some signifiensce Te, ETC, ing. My gang were a t buneh | thing elxe in the world, yeu and the | because she was for bumming around and raising | kid. But sorretimes when you ‘were | the ordinary life of Cain. Maybe if I'd been caught earty | chilly to me T’d get lonely and sore, | articulate and protest and sent to concerts and all that-——-| and pike out and—— er intend. | occurred to he Would 1 have been what you call | ed——” a story of W Intelligent? | “She rescued him with a pitying,|#he entered only so much as he en “Oh, my dear, don't ‘be humble!) “It's all right. Let's forget it.” } tered Into hers: that bre vy , You are intelligent! For instance,| “But before we were married you nents ate ED WURGLER WHO DELIVERS WASHINGS FOR HIS WIFE. TODAY You're the most thoro doctor. ' said if your husband ever did any roftt treacherous de PURCHASED A NEW WASH BOARD FOR HER CHRISTMAS PRESEN’ He was edging about something he | thing wrong, you'd want him to tell | *ires for sympathy Wished to nay. He pounced on it you.” ‘Thue she brooded “You did like those pictures of € “Did_I? I can't remember. And | maxing sea, holdin P. pretty well, after all, didn’t yout’ | I’can’f seem to think. Ob, my dear “Yes, of course.” I do know how generously you're! “Bhe was tn Washington: Kennic “Wouldn't be so bad to have a tryimg to make me happy. The only | was in pher Prairie, writing a eee Glimpse of the old town, wos 3s | thing ie—-— I can't think. I don't | dryly ax ever about water-pipes ai rattle * Cc f ° ° ily ioe ee was toe Seepeocaa| orton man Sect tin! Haesienae | ar onfessions of a Movie Star iat please understand me! That} what I want you to do! Geta two-| She was. talking at dinner to a * wt . mean that I withdraw all my ;weeks’ leave from your office.|generaliasima of suffrage. Shouk + (Copyright, 1921, Seattle Star) €riticisms. The fact that I might! Weather's beginning to get chilly | she return? like @ glimpses of old friends hasn't |here. Let's run down to Charleston| ‘The leader spoke wear & ve CHAPTER XXXVII—INSPIRATION VERSUS PERSPIRATION Sny particular relation to the ques- id Savannah and maybe Florida.” j. “My dear, I'm perfectly selfish We of the studios were having a,;when we took our places, ready to}that some of them would come * ols | tien of whether Gopher Prairie; “A second honeymoon?” indeciaive.| can’t quit visualize the 1 t 4 ta t a ad day aps because the sum-|be “discov around to talk to me. I didn't wan? Oughtn’t to have festivals and: lamb | ly. you seband, A it seem . oa - : In a few minutes “the glim went ither did I wish gables under which we oking at the # hand. |to be ‘0. Don't even call it that. Cali| that your baby will do to 1 to Cissy. | te blim. accordin, only spot where I could Hastily, “No, rio! Sure not. I it a second wooing. I won't ask the schools here as in "age 547 nd’stand.” Janything. TI just want the chance|racks at home.” po Page S47 * e “factory” in reece dt yi Nearing pc t t oa ry ae bape. “But I know it must have been! to chase around with you I guess ‘Then you think T'd be t go TELL SOME MORE, DAVE state r depres " M a gs peygok ity . . kegs . ¥ pied t! man 4 silliest irae ees ceca @ eas “Perey,” Davie: betes: in. ti “Yeh, David aaid, “that's part ; oars a. Me me are lost in waiting. But ne of our prettiest and si noueineneened a ieee wees we ‘pel aapesecaenngh 7 Sa ia a ae company called our studios “the often come on as suddenly w girls had married a steady, » el r v 4 a descriptive ti The as they go out. We would have to} serious member of the company the h T mean you ever notice how the pioneers | right on working at it, too; 1 don’t t structure looks more I wanted to get | night befo: Doubtless their wede away m Cissy. It was too warm /|ding had set Cissy and Dick and remain within ca Ci| ADVENTURES Just wouldn't give up? Lots of) believe just believi When I say that I'm I that the only thing T cor 9 | women is whether they'r o oF THE TW NS prove useful in buildin times I've noticed it apd I we do it. It's keeping at it, too a * to lis to another proposal. to their topic Clive Roberts Barton |Jitical power for w if we'll ever a to anything| “Tell me some more ‘bout the 2 ppeadoonnad BE 1 to slip away to the back| “They'll get along,” commented Shall I be frank? Fem ok eoar tiaiva eke! Se o8 ‘h-ckatat thats Dake eneins an a "a rth & move tee where I nd the only | Coleridge, the Englishman. “She'll | 1 say ‘you’ I don't mean 6 ‘ : 1 fis * Bove | draft present that morning |make a better wife than a girl with I'm nc of thousands e around | nughed . —— Tees ' If 1 could work, I could prac. | mind! who Washington and New “When the ls didn't Ae TR NEE In 4 manufacturing prac: |# 0 cote pth a suas, ae ogre : ; ene ey plant tru form next a raliroad |t# Some frames which the car] “A model wife ought to have com: satlatiad ot homme nad eeine s'aiahiE ot ee: OR re D'T tell you about that Christ embankment: or as to walle, it might | Penters had built for a new set made|mon sense and ‘an education,” Cissy tthe: heaveneaeieneh- at alt sort ‘Tacoma, the pioneers didn’t give nner he told me about?" have . storage house; as to|* screen behind which I could ic |proclaimed, “but for me—not tog from timid mothers of fifty in cotten up, t just plugs way and ‘ell it.” roof rmous green ¢ So protected, I made fw at myself | many opinions. gloves, to girls just out Vassar got one of their own. And when “well, Christmas the boat The e 15 at around t in a handy mirror, T was not trying | “Oh! thought I. 1 did not have | who organize strikes in thelr own | «4 whole town nearly t pag ee gs ate na | {four sides of an open court with one |t9 amuse myself, T was practicing | opinions. I knew that very wells 4 lfatherst factories! All of you are OO PENS SUR Ee ak Poenrasht sala aay nbc inee agli sca block or unit taken up by the en- | ¢xpressior conscientiously 48! But 1 expected to have a good many B oe aay ly eg as ar aan rg they pitched in and built her up| so the captain planned to have a [ltrance and offices. The entrance |ever I had practiced sonatas {of them when I ceased to be a little “di a few of you can take my pl cain, (Of course, Portland and} fine old Christmas dinner for all was guarded by a direct descendant 1 sat down on tho floor with my |girl Cissy’s wife mustn't have be one virtue (only one): | 4 and ali those helped), bu yt bd ‘officers of Janus, His delight in life as well |back against the freme of a cc opinions? § I have gi up father and mother F ‘ med shee va ret } es oe Tees t ; ligne fix as his occupation, wis to keep | Presently I heard several men talk-| & had an inkling of why it had ‘i and children for the love of God. bella ic Sty ¢ ; ane. , : strangers out Jing on the other side gf the wall, I} been impossible for me to fall in love f ¢ “Here's the test for you: Do you “It was just that same way] ings with the evergreens and [/ «it's inspirat versus perspira- | was about to cough to notify them of | with Cissy F ’ come to ‘conquer the East,’ as peo. with that Ballard land. The en-| things and good smells were trav Ition this morning,” groaned Cissy |my presence and then I lized (To Be Continved f e ple say, or do you come to conquer gineera laughed at the men for! eqn, rouhd from’ the ‘galley || - " Lh satilanaahicobate ’ yourself? spending time and money on it} Giatd the bo Sicthan’ sou druggist always ie pleased when he's,, . . 1 think I can.” | “It's #0 much more complicated but when that fellow sald the * le 1d ‘deetor and maybe ask Mrs Tho she should return * she rejoiced, “I've come U than any of you know-—#o much more |} rocks were falling clear thru to] know), when they all sat down tof] pogart why she wears a widow's veil/she would not be utter ea titude toward the Gam complicated than I knew when T put China, the captain just laughed! the table that looks like a dead crow | She was glad of her rebellion, The|T can love it, now.” 2 on Ground Grippers and started out and wald: ° | Everything was all ready with [| The woman. leader straightened. | prairie was no longer empty land.in » was, perhaps, rather proud of. of fruit and nuts and And you have one thing. You t the sun-glare; it was the living tawny | herself for having acquired so mucht nd and the great plat 1 baby to hug. That's my tempta-} beast whieh she had fought and made | tolerance its roast fowl was put [| Uon. [ dream of babies—of a baby-—| beautiful by fighting: and in the vil-| She awe world, ‘The final com “Keep right on, we're going to to reform the | plication m ‘conquering Washington w York’ i that the The Twins had found ther wondersul shoes again. paved sever ‘ » in the mnberia ping tortured by or ‘conquering e's homes on each side. of | ‘ “ w ore the cap eak around parks see | lage streets were shadows of her de-|after a d e that a © ja ote ound the Shoes and key missing he| Conquerors must ‘beyond all thing down before the captain neak aroun | : J , ae os Repco in yf as io 1B op s " on fl vm ing nm not conquer! It myst have been so . s looked big 1 arted to carve—and yin (The children tn Du- | si and the sound of her marching, Ella towbody and the Widow Crookabor a r er #0) stamped his foot #0 hard th ¢ 4 f K j | ; 1 sre dipper ged tia deed Gk abe Con lt O ‘ound 26 inchen and the {eaay in the good old daya when if thoughtful ” David stopped to giggle. “It | pont Circle are like yppy-earden), | and the seeds of mystery and great @apboard opened upon hearing Kip's}other gnomes had to come and dig|*tthors dreamed only of sellihg a | “I ‘apect it's believing,” she sald #0 blooming tough he couldn't) And tho antis call me "unsoxed tears c een aaking: Oe, ae ‘ _- open po e Coton tagger . ome and Asi hundred thousand volumes, and|— goftiy, “as grandmother tells us, | deng in it.” | Carol was thinking, in panic. | Ix myth. This is how people keep up charm, and instead of grabbing |him ou : i “ | Her active hatred of Gopher Prairie | the tradition of the perfect home- culptors of being feted in big houses (Po Be Continued) ughtn't Hugh to have country air? nd even the Uplifters like me had |1 won't let him become a yokel. T|had run out, She saw it now as aj town, the happy boyhood, the bril- simple-hearted ambition to be elect | ————————! #1 tt + —————————nnd }oan guide him away from street: | toiling new settlement. With sym: |liant college friends. We forget so. | ed to impértant offices and invited to| —e i corner loafing. . « « I think I|pathy she remembered Kennicott’s! I've been forgetting that Main Street go round lecturing. Tut we meddlers | jolly un etartat which|and bank, and ask why it is, and} can.” defense of its citizens as “a lot of doesn't think it's in the least lonely | who first laid down the law that it} On her way home: ‘Now that! pretty good folks, working hard and] and pitiful, It thinks it's God's Own | them, Kip and Nancy and Nick made} Folks up on the earth had to grab | don't you & dive for something on the lowest |their sugar-bowls and teaspoons to wheif. keep them from flying out of the Yer, you know what had happened, | windows. My dears! ‘Thanks to Mike Mole, the Thére goes another earthquake!" fateful pre iave upset everything. Now the one | thumi ita nose at hb Twins had found their dear, wonder-|they exclaimed. “Hold on ting Tat \e Glaeatatut to fi Sf us| Carol amiled Ingratiatingly, to in jhad to be that way, If enough of | ve made a precedent, joined the | trying to bring up their families the) Country, It isn’t waiting for me, ful Gr in and Kip had | everybody,” ‘a chvlous ancnene. ‘The er who| dicate that she was indeed one who|us do politely opough, then | union and gone out on one strike and | best they ean.” She recalled tenderly | 1t doesn’t care." found } But Crookabone did not know the “ry popular with wealthy patrons |desired to sacrifice, but she sighed, | we'll become civilized in Merely twen-| learned personal solidarity, I won't} the young awkwardness of Main} But the next evening she again if Mancy and Nick slipped the Shoes| worst until Tweekanowe and Jiga-| (ype pretty sure that he has soft-|“ don’t know; I'm afraid I'm not) ty thousand years or 40, tbstead of | be o afraid. Will won't always be} Street and the makeshifts of the lt.) saw Gopher Prairie as her home, OM at once and they all scampered|bump and Snip Scissors all ru: ened his philosophy to ple them, | heroic, 1 certainly wasn't out home, | having to wait the two hundred thou- | gesisting my running away. Some| tle brown cottages; she pitied their | waiting for her in the sunset, rim potive ” |wand years that my cynical anthro-| day I really will go to Bu | ope With | shabbiness and isolation; had com-}med round with splendor, ion for their assertion of culture, 1s expressed in 1 b id cried, am thru the hole, the way they|in at once and the author who is making lota| Why didn't I do bi come, pulling a lump of coal] “The chimney-sweep is gone and|o¢ money-—poor things, I've he vay t a matter of heroism, M dlewe nds allow. . . +. Hasy| him + or without him pa ter | pole er lucrative home-work for| “I’ve lived with people who are | eve in| pleasant She did not return for five months | eur thern to conceal the opening. |so ix the toy-maker! If we are not|‘am apologizing for it to the shabby |of endurance. Your M a: | i Had they known it, the eat’s-eye|careful the Twins will see to it that| pitter-enders; I've seen ‘em ashamed | doublePuritan—prairie Puritan on | wives: asking people to define their| not afraid to go to jail, I could im | pers, for their pretens 8. more; five months crammed | with Wer the gate at the entrance to|Santa Claus gets ‘round to the chil-|or une meck luggage they got from|top of New England Puritan; bluff] jobs. That's the most dangerous] vite a Miles Bjornstam to dinner }even as trumpeted in “boosting.” She| greedy accumulation of sounds and Gnome owed wuddenly red, |dren after all, and there will be | movie right frontieraman on the surface, but in| doctrine I know |without being afraid of the Hay®| saw Main Street in the dusty prairie | colors to take back for the long still atin she ammmen iki t}real Christer | “No you want to sacrifice yourself |its heart it still has the {deat of| Carol was meditating, "I will AY: I think T could, unset, a line of frontier shanties | days, Simething had gone v they| “Yes,” answered, Crookabone, “and|in such a topsy-turvy world, where| Plymouth Rock in a sleet#torm. | back} I will go on asking. questions Ke back the wouyd of Yvette with solemn lonely, people waiting for] _ She had «pent nearly two years im 4 Were at a loss to find ov they have gone back to Brownle-| popularity makes you unpopular with | There's one attack you can make on | I've alw ne it, and always failed | ¢ 's songs and Elman s Viniio, net, polgrin and. Sone ak Ri Bead Baines 3 And the only | it, perhaps the only kind that accom: |at it, and it’s all T can do. I'm|Thoy'll be only the loveli n she departed for Gopher plishes, much’ anywhere: you can|going to ask Ezra Stowbody why|the thrumming of crickets in the | She remembered that Kennicott and] Prairie, in June, her second baby wag A ‘ z * at one x after | he’s opposed to the nationalization of | stubble on an autumn day Sam Clark fad listened to her songs, | stirring within her. that evening to get some be « ue idualiat ia the person who gives | k on looking at one thing after) bh opr y . a > dae oe bis, vod When ‘he cispusse ri nea sort Star) jeean ‘his. individualism to serve alanother In your home and ds, and usk Dawe Dyer why a] “I can laugh now and be serene|and she wanted to run to them and (Continued Tomorrow) a Crookabone never knew that he'd |land to help Pim Pim. We'll have to|the' people you lov Neen hoodwinked again until he went /«top them, if Onsible,” failure je cheap und the only ehureh | ratire