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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1923)
Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield | (Continued From Yeaterday.i SYNOPSIS. Neale Crittenden. 15 years old. Is a typi cal, red-blooded American boy living with his parents in Union Hill, a small village near New York City. He has completed three years in preparatory school. Yaca ^ tion time arrives and. with bis mother gone to visit relatives, he and his father debate as to how Neale shall spend his vacation. In Franco Marine Allen. 11 years old. is living with her American parents in the home of Anna Ktehergary. a French woman. Marise’s father is foreign agent for an American business firm. Old tleanne Amigorena French peasant woman. Is employed by the Allens as a servant. Marine Is deeply Interested in the study of French and music. During vacation Neale becomes an omnivorous rentier anti spends much time In his fa ther’s library. He rides a bicycle for recreation. One day he rides to NUtley, a village some distance away, and there runs across his old boyhood friend, Don Roberts, who is playing tennis with two girl friends, Polly and Natalie Underhill. Although Neale has never played tennis, he accepts an Invitation to join in the game. On the evening of the third day, a letter from "West Adams arrived, an nouncing that Jenny -was up and around, and the farmhouse was read'/ for Neale. The evening after that. Neale was undressing In the slant eeilinged big-beamed, whitewashed bedroom, as familiar to him as his room at Union Hill—but uncontami natcd with any of the new, troubling sensations. The air of the hills blew in at the window. Neale felt that it was a different air. He began to feel a difference in himself, but fell asleep in the midst of this perception. The next morning, scorning the mill, the barn-yard, the brook, he climbed to the highest hack-pasture where the young white birches and quivering aspens, skirmishers of the unconquer ed forest, were leading the way in the reeonquest of the fields man had taken from them. Here he lay down and pre pared to nurse his sorrow. . . . “Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws in a drain. . . .” But wlmt was this? What was this? As unexpectedly as the impudent little miek had sprung out of the ground to carry off his shinny ball, so did a cheerful little imp of high spirits up In his heart, leaping and skipping to meet the glory of the great sun pour ing down its mellow gold upon him j,through tlie flickering, tricksy aspen w leaves. He lay hack on the soft, deep moss, his hands clasped under his head. Huge, jovial-looking clouds floated, piled up in strong, rounded masses against the summer sky. Miles oft In the valley he could see the Hoosick river winding its way among the green, green hills. He was warm ed, cool, alive. . . .and, oh, yes, there was no use in pretending otherwise, mighty well pleased to be alive. The first Tuesday :n September found him back at a desk' at Hadley with all the grinding and polishing wheels of that well-appointed edu cational mill at work on the corners of his individuality, bent on turning out the 00 young seniors smooth and identical, the perfection of the Hadley type. And since this was the last year, the faculty speeded up the iiunt and all the pack put their noses to the ground and ran their legs off in pursuit of mathematics and science. The pace was cruelly hot, and it was specially hard for Neale because he had yielded to the captain's entreaties and had come out for the football team. Neale found liimself dropping far below the rating he had maintained in the lower classes. He begun to pant and strain as he had the first year. It was a gruelling race; but temper amentally he liked races and his wind got better as the months went by-. He cut out all superfluities—no danc ing—no reading for amusement ex cept on Sunday mornings, and then only short poems about Vagabondla and the Open Hoad. Work, work, work through every waking hour. By April he had risen to sixth in his class, and felt grimly sure of holding his stride to the end. On the night of Kaster Monday, PREMIUM SODA CRACKERS The delightful flavor of these cnp saltec crackers is delicious with grated cheesa and deviled meats. They are made by the bakers of Uneeda . Biscuit The National Soda Cracker NATIONAL ( BISCUIT COMPANY Neale was bent over hia desk with a green eyeshade, trying various com binations to solve a problem in analyt ical geometry, when hls father knock ed at the door, walked In and sat down on the lied. This was so re markable that Neale knew something was up. One of the things that Neale had always taken for granted in hls homelife was that his room was prac tically Inviolate when he was In it. His father and Ills mother respected hls privacy in this as In other things with scrupulous exactitude. It was a little corner of the world which w'as hls, where he could come out from his tightly-clutched shell, and move about freely with no fear of intruders spying on his nakedness. The security of this privacy had been one of the W'ell squared stones Neale had found ready to hls hand, when slowly, rather later than most boys, he began to build. Hence It was now apparent to him that father must have something on his chest. He looked up, nodded and greeted him with, "Hello, Dad.” "Hello, Neale," said father quite as casually. "Don’t want to interrupt your studies. How late do you expect to keep at them?" "Sometime between 11 and 12, I guess. His Nibs gave us gome stink ers, and I haven’t touched the German prose yet.” "That would be pretty late for me. We d better take a few minutes now. The fact is, Neale, we mustn’t let you slide along any more without some sort of an Idea what you are going to do next.” Neale having no idea hevond that night's work, said nothing. "The work you're doing this year has given your mother and me a great deal of pleasure,” father went on. "Your marks are getting better and better. 1 did think of putting you through an engineering school, but I notice you seem to do better at the liberal subjects. Have you set your heart on any college in particular?” "I'm not sure I want to go to any college.” Oh, now for a break into the Open Road, and a flaming neckerchief and far lands! Mr. Crittenden looked thoughtful. "I’ll admit it's a waste of time for some, but I don’t think it would be for you. I understand your wish to get to work, and begin to make your own way, but it’s wiser not to start with too little preparation. And tliere’s no need for it yet. It's no hardship for me. It's a real pleasure for us to be able to help you to an educa tion.” Neal chewed his pen hard. Presently father went on, "Of course, I should like to have you go to my old college, Williams, but mother feels—we both feci—that It would be a pity to break up the family circle. What would you think of Columbia? They say since it as moved up to Morningslde Heights there is more college life—and of course it's one of the leading univer sities.” Another pause, so long that Neale felt bound to say something. "Oh, I guess I would like Columbia as well as any,” he Anally brought out. Father looked at him several min utes. Then he stood up, "We needn't settle It tonight, of course. Think it over: we'll talk It over again.” But of course they never did. They never talked anything over. The sub ject was not raised again. Neverthe less it was somehow understood In the family that Neale was going to enter Columbia. And Neale made no pro test. To tell the truth, as spring ad vanced and all his classmates began talking over their plans for next year, the uniformity of having a rec ognized respectable destination was not disagreeable. It saved talk, and useless talk about his affairs was one of the things Neale detested. Till he could he really independent and do as he liked without suffering the igno miny of having people know about it and talk him over, it might he better just to slide along the grooves pro vided, get the usual labels stuck on you. Tt couldn't do you arty harm. They'd soak oft easy enough, later on. CHAPTER XV. With June came examinations at Hadley, lanig, long experience and concentration on the subject had taught Hadley administrators exactly how to time their training so that when examinations came, the boys would be in the pink of condition. Two weeks later they would be stale, horri bly, sickeningly stale, hut nobody at Hadley eared a continental what hap pened two weeks after examinations. That was no business of theirs. Weary, but still docilely answering the crack of the ring master's ques tions, the thoroughly disciplined troupe of trained boys went through subject after subject, with the auto matic rear and plunge of circus-riders breaking paper hoops. That was all right. Those were only the Hadley examinations. They expected to he able to pass those. •> (Continued In (lie Morning Bee.t Adele Garrison “My Husband’s Love” The Way Madge Speedily Won Her liaftle with Katie. In the course of long and neces sarily close study of Katie's tempera ment I have learned two things to which she Invariably reacts with en thusiasm, no matter what the stale of her mind when she receives them. One is the prospect of excitement of any kind. The other is an appeal for aid. I also have learned the fu tility of trying to gloss over Mother Graham's aggravating treatment of her, although I think Katie, in her calm moments, realizes that my mother-in-law’s seeming resentment against her is but a magnificent gesture of discipline which the older woman has now neither strength nor opportunity to wield. Armed with these weapons. I had my offensive arranged, even as I closed the kitchen door after me, and released my grasp upon the girl's tense arm. I must give her no time to reflect further upon the familiar but offensive epithet, "Ape of a girl,” which I was sure she had heard Mother Graham utter but a minute before. "I know you heard Mother Gra ham. Katie,” I began rapidly before she could speak. "And I don’t blame you for being angry, but”—I hur ried my words as I saw Katie snatch at her apron and throw It over her head, her Invariable prelude to an hysterical outburst of tears—"but— I wish you would pass it over just this once more, at least until I know whether Mrs. Durkee is going to live or not." The shaking apron stretched itself into tense quiet, and then, after a second's pause, catne down with an emphatic jerk. Katie's eyes, blinking with the first tears of her arrested brain storm, looked with wide, curi ous interest into mine. “Vot dat you say?” she queried ex citedly. "Missis Durkee, she die?" "1 don’t know," I returned, my heart heavy with the knowledge that she waa speaking only the truth. "But she Is ill. and must go to a hospital for a possible operation.” "Den she die all right," Katie com mented, with the pessimism of her kind toward hospitals. "Oh, dot poor, sweet Missis Durkee. and she so goo'! I tell you I feel awful bad by her." Genuine grief showed through her grotesque phrasing, and I hastened to reassure her with the hope which had lightened my own heart. “I am very sure she will be all right, Katie,” X said. “I have just wired Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. Graham's brother-in-law, asking him to oper ate, and am awaiting a reply from him." Katie’s eyes opened wider than ever. "Dot big doctor vot va* in var und got sooch nice medals?" she demanded excitedly. "The same doctor." I returned, smiling at her childlike enthusiasm, and remembering her hero worship of my famous brotherln-law when he had visited us before. "Oh hi" she carolled Joyously. “Eef dot doctor coom, den Missis Durkee she live all right. Say!”—a brand new thought evidently had aesalled her, and I could fairly see It ram bling through her brain cells—“Eef do beeg Doctor Bralthwaite coom on her. he vill coom to house, not?” I seized the opportunity. “Yes, Katie, that is why I wanted to get you into the kitchen so quick ly. Both Dr. Draithwalte and his wife will make a visit here in all probability. And you know how ex cited Mother Graham gets at the prospect of visitors. She hasn't seen her daughter and son-in-law in a long time, and she is so happily upset over it that she doesn't know what site is saying or doing. You mustn't mind her.” “I no see how eet make her happy to call me bad name,” Katie answered sullenly. “Nor do I, Katie,” I acquiesced heartily and truthfully, but wlfh a low voice and a wry face for my doughty mother-ln-Iaw's probable ap proach. "But you ought to know by this time that she doesn't mean a word of what she saya. It's Just a bad habit-" ‘‘You spank babee's legs mit leetle svitch ven he get bad habits,” Katie began morosely, and then her sense of humor got the better of her rancor. "Eef old vomens could only have leetle Batches shoost same as babee boys, everything all right. But you no \orry. Missis Graham. I no keeck oop any shindy. His house got to get dean all ofer, and old vomaus und me go no time to acrap.'' And with a long breath of relief. I realized that housedeaning for visitors would sink all differences be tween Katie and irvy mother-in-law. Graduate of Seminary Answers Gall at Wewela Hpedal Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Wewela, S. D., July J.—Rev. Otto F’innet of Norfolk. Neb., who has just been graduated from the Concordia Theological seminary at St. Louis, has accepted a call to the Evangelical Lutheran church here. He also will have charge of the congregation* at Colome, Carter and Clearfield. S. U., and Burton. Neb. ADI KBTIHKMENT. Do Your Feet Hurt? When shoes pinch or corns and bunions ache, get a package of Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic, healing powder to he shaken into the shoes. It takes the sting out of Corns, Bun ions and Calluses, and gives instant relief to Smarting. Aching, Swollen i Feet. At night when your feet ache ' and burn from excessive dancing or walking, sprinkle some Allen’s Foot Ease in the footbath and you will solve your foot troubles. Over 3,500,000 pound* of powder for th* F*et were ueed by our Army and Navy iurinr the war. Sold everywhere. Trial Package and a Poot-Eaac Walking- Ikill Sent FRKK Add re** ALLKN'S rOOT-K.ASE, leBay, X. T. / Omaha Firms Stand Back of Omaha Goods ONWARD OMAHA We Prosper Individually As Our City and Trade Territory Prospers “Buy in Omaha”—the gateway to an immensely wealthy empire —with ample facilities to han die its trade, to supply its needs. r Cylinder Reboring We rebore Cylinders for Steam Engines, Air Pumps and Am monia Compressions, P. Melchiors & Son 417 S. 13th St. JA 2530 mm CARL JOHNSON Contractor Builder of Better Homes "22 Year*’ Experience” HA 1704 3627 California St. STANDARD BLUE PRINT CO. COMMERCIAL BLUE PRINTING Dopondahlo Supplies for Architects, Enfinees and Technical Schools Tel. 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Is located in full view of the public and Is in operation during afternoons and eve nings. Frosted pipes offer on appeal ing sight to the many persons who stop at the stand In quest of refresh ing drinks and Ice cream. Cooling colls have been placed un der the counter and these In turn cool water In which bottles containing soft drinks are Immersed. By a system of underground piping. the one Baker machine Is used also to cool soft drinks wfclch are served In the dancing pavilion. Neliph Golden Jubilee. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Rep. Nellgh, Neb., July 1.—The golden jubilee of the founding of N'eligh will be observed at the Antelope county fair, to be held here the second week in September. The jubilee will be ob served Friday, September 14, the last day of the fair. Siberia comprises one-ninth of all the land surface of the globe. The United States, Great Britain and all F.urope, except Russia, could be put Into Siberia, with a corner to spare. 51,016 Stockholders I in U. P., Gray Asserts The Union Pacific system of rail roads has 51,016 stockholders, accord ing to a statement issued by C. R. Gray, president. Approximately 43 per cent of the stockholders are women and most of the stockholders are persons of moderate means, says Mr. Gray. The average holding, according to the statement. Is 63 shares of a par value of $100 each. No one person, firm, corporation or Institution owns as much as 2 per cent of the capital stock, the statement adds. Stockholders reside in every state in the union and in Alaska, canal zone, Guam. Hawaii, Philippine is lands. "Thus,” says Mr. Gray, "Union Pa cific stock, like a country's trade, fol lows the flag. The widespread dis tribution conclusively answers the statement that the railroads are owned and controlled by a few per sons. "To an extent not generally recog nized, the railways are owned by the public. This subject comes home to every household when it is considered that life insurance policy holders and savings hank deposieors are partners in the operation and development of our railways.” Brisk Trade Reported at Walk-Over Boot Shop Sale Backward spring Is responsible for the shoe sale now In progress at the Walk over Boot shop, according to O. E. Nelson, manager. The sale this year Is earlier than usual. Mr. Nelson rejKjrts a brisk response from the shoe-buying public. Russia has the largest number of women, 1.229 to 1,000 men. Child Vehicles j Much in Demand Complete Line of Velocipedes and Kiddie Cars on Die* play at Store. One of the most complete displays of velocipedes, kiddle cars and Juve nile bicycles ever shown in this part of the country can be seen at the new store of the Nebraska Motorcycle and Bicycle company, 1512 Howard street. This firm specializes in chil dren's vehicles of the better grade and its long experience with this kind of merchandise enables it to offer quality goods of lasting character at prices well within the reach of the average man's pocketbook. Velocipedes are in greater demand than ever before, according to James Van Avery, manager of the firm. He states that the most popular type nowadays is made of strong bicycle tubing with ball bearing wheels and heavy rubber tires. Such a veloci pede will last for years and withstand the abuse and hard knocks that chil dren are bound to give their play things. Coaster wagons and scooters of many types are shown. Perhaps the most interesting of all are the toy autos, of which the firm carries a large stock. These are patterned after the real automobiles of various makes and some of them are complete in every detail. London now lays claim to the world's largest res'aurant. which ia able to serve 4.000 people simultan eously. It Is situated Just off Picca dilly Circus, and employ* 900 wait resses. * . V EXCELSIOR-HENDERSON MOTORCYCLES Part* and Supplies Mail Ordera Filled Promptly Neb. Motorcycle and Bicycle Co. 1512 Howard Si. AT laallc M57 I -* * ___ ^ Omaha Tire Sc Repair Company Oldaat Tira Houaa la Omaha Diamond and Goodrich Tiraa 2201 Farnam St. AT 1532 S— I— - / The Gift That la Different —at— LOWEN’S ART AND , GIFT SHOP Picturaa, Unpi, Pottariea, Bridge Pritaa a Specialty 4707 S. 24th St. MA 0259 % - * Rid* a Harlay-Davidaon VICTOR H ROOS "Th* Cycle Man” 2703 Leavenworth St. Omaha Phan* HA rney 2406 »■ •» Dr. Frances H. Turner CHIROPRACTOR X-Ray Service, Comfortable Adjusting Tables for Adults and Children You have tried the rest now try the beat. Officee 826-326 Rrandeis Theater Bldg. 17th and Douglas Ste., Omaha, Neb. Phone AT lantic 3636 To Demonstrate Our Painless Method of Extracting Tooth No Pain—or—No Pay If You Present This Ad (Bee) DR. 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