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tnu AUiimt. tibKALd', t rUiAX,' JANUAKY 6,1922.
Through
a Glass
Darkly
FANNIE HURST
iVAV.ViV.V.V.V'i
Uoprrlgbv. UUk. bf Th Maealei ammonia, lu.
C'oiixlileniM.v after tlie Kuropeun In
vasions of tlio Iluns find (iiitlis caiiio
the u li'Nt conMilt i'hMo Invasions of
Anvriran-tiiinle Klines. Aiiierlciin innile
mllllmiiili'ea hiiiI tourist. Essential
enough Id- n ut llu; tu t Is tuii'Diilal
estates it ml countless counts t ho llrst
two, but what nf the rrnillfiit-ncckod
genus tourist out of t'hlllicothe or
Altoona. Koot;ul or I'.looily tJulcli,
lio sn-uil nn iiiitimil million of Amer
ican diJInr on picture postcards of tin;
Loaning iiii'l KIITel towers mitl the
doves of Si. Mini;; another tinnuiil
million up the Muttorhoni, ih.wn the
catacouihs mill on the Lion of Lucerne;
till another miscellaneous tiilll'ion or
Ho on French kid nloves anil Wet lace;
Roman pearls ami Anderson seconds;
Ewlss chalet boxen ii nil mosaic ln'cast
plns; Chlmitl; Curlslail mid bad cor
als; MouJIn Koiiki'; (hi! Coliseum by
moonlight mill Komlnlas by the hour?
There nn quicksands In the tour
ist's hour-tjliiss. Life Is short and nrt
Vns long until Cooks lassoed the
world v. lih a larlat-long excursionist's
ticket and I'.aeilekcr compressed the
thousand halls of the Louvre Into nine
ty' homeopathic pu:cs; catalogued the
tinlverso itnd asterisked the American
tlan and running-water of two con
tinents. On hoard the Iloumanla, under a
ouUiern sky so blue thut It quivered
ttt the verge of sea-Kreen, half a thou
and first-class lourlsti crowded to the
lee railing of the promenade deck, edg
ing, Jamming and leveling field glasses
U a remote line against the blue, bo
thin that a school of porpols might
liavt ben seen slicing the water with
"their flns.
"Miss Esther Lefkovltch, tiptoeing,
Quivering, and her quick eyes framed
to a frame of blowing curls and a
pongee tourist's cup, grasped her left
neighbor's leveled held glasses and
thrust them Into her futher's hand.
"See, papal Land I Lnndl Here,
look through Mr. Danzlger'a field
glasses."
( "Humph I Humph I See, Bertha,
uch a speck should be land."
"See, mama I Here, you look, too.
See, we're coming to Madeira. Fun
chat Is the name of the town where
the boat stops for two hours. Isn't It,
Mr. FmnzlgerT Try to remember thut.
mama Funchal, where they make the
hand embroidery."
'"Funchnir'
"No, no, mama ; you've got them tip
side down. See, like this. Anybody
could tell, Mr. Dunalger, by the way
- hold our field sinuses, that this Is
our first trip to Kurope."
"If anybody should ask you, Esther,
your papa and me crossed to America
tvhen we vfna both little enough to be
Such . Expensive Pollteneaa as Mr.
Danzlger'a I Can Get Cheaper."
Carried lu arms an$ not 6n such a
grand boat like this, neither, let me
tell you." ' ' , s.
Miss Lefkovltch smiled through a
quick flush.
"I; didnl mean that kind of a
trip. Here, you see, you hold them
like this, mama ; just like this."
Mrs. Lefkovltch leaned her ample
fmitv forward, focused, leaned far
ther to the leeward, her llpa wry with
effort and as If she tasted quince,
"Where V
' "There, mama, right ahead."
"Here, Mrs. Lefkovltch, let mt ad-
Just the lenses for you."
"Ho, no, Mr. Danzlger; for myself
I can seek Oo sway 1"
"Mams I And Mr. Danxiger trying
to be pouts to you."
. "Such expensive politeness . as lit.
9SerLl caa get chesper,"
"Matnar "
"Just what I say I mean."
Mr. Dantlnger plunged bis hsnds
Into his Scetcn tweed pockets, snd be
oeath the visor of his Scotch tweed
traveler's rap smiled down st Miss
Lefkovltch clashing there beside ber
mother the rich raspberry red of
theme.
"Your mama's sll right. Mls Ea
thei. She tin t going to let any of the
fellows on this bout get too fresh with
her, are you, Mrs-. Lefkovltch?"
She would venture no reply, but
passed the field gluxses, via her daugh
ter, back to him.
"1 teJI you. Aaron. Gott set dank, If
that black line hut we see out there
Is land under o..r feet. Just see how
far away It looks."
Mr. Lefkovltch thrust forward a
face covered with n stubble, of biftcli
and gray beard. A smile broke through
It like the uhlie grin of a fuun show
ing throut'h bracKen.
Humph I" he said. "Miunn. I till
you but thai Is a silit for you."
I'.ent were his shoulders, as if across
bis luck lay a p'i' k tilled vi;h yecrs.
Four ileeinles pi es "oil there Imd been
a puck there a literal pink of the
small pioils 11 housewife buys at her
ist nop. Time nml the Ineli-for-lnch
dozedness that had Mnopc bis shoul
ders had metamorphosed that pack
on the l ack hit a plaie glass em
porium with mahogany Imiers. occupy
ing twenty-live based feet of the most
expensive I'.rondwuy frontage in the
world.
1'ut evert Atlas relieved of his vault
would, for sheer physiological reasons,
huve to face the world stoop-shouldered.
So Aaron Ijef'iovltch. with his
latter years llnht, still let bis head
rest lll:e a ball In the valley between
his shoulders.
"That such a piece of string out
there, Ilcrthn, should be land I"
"I tell you, It ain't none tin) soon
for me. Fnough of sea I've got. Never
so long until I die can I forget them
three rough days, Aaron. Like my j
own feelings wasn't enough, I had to j
have you yet on my neck and crying I
like a tni by I should Tny down by you !
to die."
"Ach now, Hertha, never In my life
did I ask such a thing."
"Enough to see Is enough, let me
tell you. Like I sny ten times a day,
If not for you wanting Europe and to
meet new people. Esther, your papa
and me would ten times over rather
be home lu our comfortable flat In
New - York. Ain't It, Aaron? Ten
limes inure as this I Ain't It, Aaron?"
"Ja, riertlm, but enough of your
life you've lived on land not to be so
restless on sea a few days."
"On laud, Aaron, nmny things can't
happen wliat nippens oil sea."
The tall end of her glance, pointed
and dnrtlngly quick, was for Mr. Dan- j
rlger and h!.T arm, which lay uloi.g her
daughter's In un approach to a caress.
Mr. Lefkovltch turned from the rail
ing and the white froth of water kick
ing out from the ship's huge flank
und the quiet swlsh-swush of a quiet
sen, and quirked his left eye with
llghtnlng-quick nml vulpine slyness
toward Mr. Danrlger.
"Tonight, Innrlger, OfHcer Chllds
says we enn have our last little game
up In the lounge room, so through the
windows we can see the Gibraltar
when she comes In sight."
"Aaron, I "
"Ach now, Bertha ; tomorrow don't
we land In Nuples for good? I ask
you, the Inst night docs It make any
difference a little gume more or less?"
"I wish alreudy this minute It was
time to get off the boat In Naples."
"Ach now, ISertha, my Inst night on
the boat I What you bet when I got
up twin y I put on my winning clothes?
I got on today enough winning clothes,
Panzfger, to beat you If you are ten
times so lucky like always."
"That talk, Aaron, don't get no
wheres with me. Lose Just so much
as you like. I don't worry no more.
That's hov disgusted me and the
ladles on this boat feel about how all
you men lose your shirts off your
backs to Mr. Danxiger. Full here my
chair, Esther;' that's bow disgusted 1
feel. The shirt off your back you can
lose."
"Mams!" -
Miss Lefkovltch lowered maiden
eyes before the allusion, assisted her
parent to th& steamer chair and
packed the rug close' about ber fp&nk
I y.d 1st endd ankles.
"Mama, you you mustn't say such
hlngs?" -. ,. ' M
"Nice talk don't go ho more with
your papa,' Esther. I'm ashamed
enough, too, that even In front of you
I got to talk to him plain, like 1 feej."
"Hut such s feeling I got In my
, bones ' for winning tonight. Bertha,
you Bhbuld know."
"AU the feelings what you got In
your bones, Aaron, Is rheumatism for
me to rub," ". ,. .:-
"Eh, Danzlger, tonight right off
your back I win your shirt. Eh, you
Boogher. you f '
. Mr, Dapzlger relaxed his straight
figure against the Jutting end bf a life
boat, blew away a wreath of cigarette
smoke and gazed seaward. He was
groomed, full of good polnfa, nor lack
ing In the ready Binile that wins. Gray
Were his eyes, with fine crow's feet of
laughter about them. Polished, even
a bit too highly his fingernails snd
mannera, hla black patent leather
boots and black patent leather hair.
Th smile In aJHta undaunted amiabil
ity bs turned futt" upon Mrs. Lefko
vltch, bis fine teeth flashing wbltely.
"Come now, Mrs. Lefkovltch. I'll
prove It by sny of you. Is It me or
the old gentleman out for the game
tonight 7 I've got Miss Esther for
proof. Is It me or the old gentleman ?
Mlas Lefkovltch turned scorching eyes
towsrd her father.
"Of - coarse. Its paps, every time.
Without fall Just ss soon ss me snd
Mj Paixlgej'grr-eTBjjjb.ojJj gtes
ed up on top deck after supper to en
joy the event), up he comes snd
drsgs him right down to that old
game to that old game I"
"Hear, Mrs. Lefkovltch, how Miss
Esther olds the old gentleman, too.'
"Truth la truth. Mr. Imnzlger. That
my husband on a first pleasure trip
be takes from bis business In twenty
five years, s man that all hla life has
had to work from dark until dark to
get up to where he Is now, should lo
four hundred and eighty dollars to s
young man wt.nt everybody on the
boat says Is full of luck up to his
teeth, ain't no Title tiling."
"But Mrs. lefkovltch"
"Ach Bertha"
"Mama " i
"And on top of It nil to tell his
wife, until she hears It straight from
the other ladles, that It Is nnjy four
dollars and eighty cents what he lost.
I ask you. Mr. Dnn;:lger. is it right?"
"Aih now. Bertha. I didn't"
"Yon did. Aaron, tight down In our
stateroom when you came in that
night and I ns'icd you. 'Four dollars
and eighty cents, Bertha,' you said.
Just like thut. I'.l :ht away, when you
went to your hunk that night with
your pants' pocket under the mattress.
I ouht to have sil. peeled.''
"But Bu'th.i "
"Is that so nice. Mr. Dan.ler? I
tell you for a young man what .pre
tends he like. so iru'!; to he with luy
(laughter, that he should play enrds
every night with her pi pa and win
away like that It it m.iUes me feel
lad enough, I can tell you."
'Mainul"
".la, and you! Ain't jou said your
Keif. Esther, how at night when It gets
prettiest for the young jirls nml the
young men to hit oul under the nioou
bhine, how always when card time
comes you tlud yourself left by your
self? Tell iniiniit, Rather, ain't you
Mild It?"
"Ach now, Berthn, wait till we land
at Naples toniurnlw nud I get you
an Kyctaliaii policeman to tell your
troubles to."
"I'd like to see once Abe Kutz do to
you tricks like that, Esther. There's
a young man tor you 1 always say
could lenrn the whole world manners."
"Come, Danzlger, I Jay you for no
stakes. Just n little game of freeze
out, eh? No stakes, eh?"
"But, papa, Mr. Danzlger and I were
going up on top deck this morning
and watch Madeira till we land."
"Ach no, Esther, like u good girl
you stay and watch It by luama a
little, eh? See, out there already how
big the land gets. Stay by .mama
and In half an hour we be up again,
eh, Dunz'ger? A little freeze-out I No
stakes. Bertha, no stakes 1"
"Don't make out of me a fool,
Aaron ; It only makes me madder.''
"See, Dnnzlger, what a henpecker of
a Imiih wiij 1 fcut."
Mr. I ;inzlger placed a pot affection
ately between the older tuau's shoul-der-bludes.
"Y'our old gentleman here Is surely
a card, Mrs. Lefkovltch. Hope to die
If In the seventeen times I've crossed
I've struck a churacter thut can mutcli
up to him."
"For you, Mr. DuuKlKr, two cards,
I laics he U with four hundred und
eighty"
"Mumn 1"
"See, Mrs. Lefkovltch, how your
daughter takes up for mo."
"Come, Danzlger! Esther, you stay
here by nininu a little."
"Don't be so considerate of me all
of a sudden, Aaron. Enough by my
self I've sut on this bout."
"Come, Danzlger 1"
"Aw, papa t"
"Never mind. Miss Esther; when we
land I'm going to take you riding up
the funicular at Funchal and show
you the scenefy of your life. They're
nifty little Islunds, the Madeiras. I've
been right through thein cleur to the
Canaries."
"Come, Danzlger, and no stakes."
"Now, Mrs. Lefkovltch, Just you
wait and see If be don't win the
spades right off the cards. Coming,
Lefkovltch, coming."
And they were off arm In arm down
the well-washed luxuriously wide
deck,' past lines of steamer chairs
Joined together with an endless chain
of gossip, occupants tilted backward
until the soles stood upright and the
mind rectified.
Left there and standing blde ber
recumbent parent, Miss Lefkovltch
cast down upon her . a glance that
wavered with tears.
"Honest, mania, you you're Just
the limit.". .
"The limit I am, am I. because a ntx
of a young man nobody knows who
he is, can't come along and pull the
wool over my eyes like he con over
my daughter's and her papa's." - - ; -
"He's one of the swellest fellows on
this boat, that's w hat he Is, . If you
want to know' It.' Everybody knows
that he knows all the swells of Chi
cago, the Bambergers and all of them."
"Such talk don't go with me. So do
I kuQvy all the swells of New York,
the Felsenthals and Schlmms, when I
see them ride on Fifth avenue In their
automobiles and see In the newspa
pers the Van Itfppens" pictures."
"You and your old fogy Ideas don't
don't understand, mama." ' .
"I teil yon, Esther, sometimes Tm
glad F am an old fogy when I see
where all your fine Ideas get us. You
wanted to come to Europe and we
came. Since papa canafford to do
what he likes and your brother Mlchle
Is old enough to watch the business,
I don't want I should deprive my
daughter of anything what she wants,
but I tell you, Esther, If I was a young
girl with a young man like Abe-
"Mama, please I"
"I mean what I say. You thought
on this trip to Europe such fine new
people you could meet. But not one
boy on this boat hsve I sees what can
stand op" for a feloutf tj Ai Kjtx.-
I tell you, Either, even la the nfght
when 1 lay down In that hot bunk nf
mine, how that boy's face comes tight
In front of me the way be looked at
you from the pier when this bout
salted off. I tell you. Just with his
whole face he was In love."
"(ih. I'm I'm not saying anything
against Abe. am 1, mama? What
Will
'Oh, I'm I'm Hot Cay.o Anything
Against Al;, Am I, Mrma?' !
what do you kicp bringing liim up
for?"
"Because I got eyes what Kce. Be
cause I got eyes w!iat see if you go
.lie whole world over, another boy like
he you won't find. A fine young
business man that would treat you like
.i queen. I tell you. Esther, the quick
er you get sueh n nonsense as meet
wig the swells on a trip to Europe out
f your head, the le:ter. Abe maybe
iln't so swell, but all I ever heard
you could say against him was his big
'nrs and "
"Mama, please don't keep harping
ou on him."
"I ain't, Esther, 1 ain't". Like your
Inpn says, I should be the last one
ever to force nry- children to get mar
ried. But take my word, Esther; the
best tbl ig what can happen to you
on this trlji Is you should write, him
to meet r.s In l'arls like he wants you
should. I tell you, Esther, If you enn
make up your mind to want him bad
enough to ask lit m to meet ua In
I'nris, that, I Kay. Is the best thing
whr.t can happen on this trip."
"Oh, maniu, you you make me so
mad. If I If I want to write to Abe
to meet us In Europe. I I don't need
you to always keep telling me about
It. I I came away to to get away
from that crowd of boys at home. I "
"To pick up with such sporty kind
of men like this Danzlger from Chi
cujto, I guess. I tell you, Kstlter, I
think"
"I can't help what you think, mnma.
Bnpa und I like him alrlghty. He's
been all over. He knows more about
the world than you and papa and Alte
and me put together. He's going to
show us Switzerland and the Ittvleru
if he can change his ticket."
"And If you want to know It, I I
like him. I like him whether you like
him or not. Maybe If you and papa
would would leave me alone with him
for a minute, he he might get to like
me, too. I I like hltn so there I I
Just do!"
Her voice slipped upward and she
sat down hard and suddenly on the"
extension of the mother's steamer
chair, her lips quivering as If wounded
and her eyes with a hint of tears In
them turned away from the mirth of
the promenude deck.
"If you want to know It, I I like
him so there I"
Under the eaves of the steamer
hood, Mrs. Lefkovltch's face crumpled
Into Incredulity.
."- "Esther, you I A little sporty nix
like him, what travels more as he at
tends to business. That's what I need
yet, my daughter what could have a
man like Abe"
"You got to quit colling htm a nix,
mama. He's Just a prince, that's what
be is. Papa says he spends more money
In one day on this boat than all the
other cheap skate fellows put together.
Papa saw hlra with his own eyes give
away a five dollar gold piece to a poor
sick fellow In the steerage."
'"j'ai'T Snowy fknow. But I never
In my life thought much "
"He'd let cards alone pretty quick,
let me tell you, mama. If all the cheap
skates on this boat who lost their few
dollars that first night wouldn't always
be after hlra trying to win them back."
"Four hundred and "eighty r"
"Look, mama, look! Oh, mama, we
we we've been missing It. Oh ! Oh I"
In sudden proximity green as sward,
and as If a volcanic shudder ;had
spewed It up through the sea. the Isle
of Madeira, lipped by waves and under
the luscious kiss of a southern sun, lay
with Its fertile flanks to seaward. Vil
lages, toy size, perched on the slopes
In an attitude of sliding off. Vine
yards and , geo met lie truck gardens
lay to the sun. In the background a
mountain lost ita head In mist,
"Oh, mama, Isn't It Isn't It gor
geous?" "Ja. And you say, Esther, In Ma
deira Is where we get the hand em
broidery so cheap?"
"Yes, yes, and see. mama, that dar
ling little white town."
"Ach, how I wish my boy Mlchle
could see It with me. I tell foe
I BH'ther ain't got much pleasure If "
' "See, mam, see-the "beautiful way
the ocean "aefida the wave running- up'
n the banks.? - ;
"I tell you, Esther, and please" God
some day you'll need themr such a re
lief tt would be to me If I could get yon
sheets and pillow-cases here already
made up. That Mrs. Kroa from Mil
waukee, who Is on this boat, says she
got all her daughter's rousseau right
here on"
"Oh, mama, mama, see thnt town
around the bend look how big! I bet
that's Funchal. Look, mama. Just
around those beautiful hills."
"Sheets and plllow-cnses already "
But her daughter was off toward the
captain's bridge, a stiff breeze lashing
her skirts bnck against her body, chin
tilted, hat clutched and lithesome
limbs outlined. A cloud of flying fish
rose off the vrter, piloting the bont
liind'.vitrd. Beyond the l estinv.l deck,
Its ehntler and obset vat tons inlng'lng.
rnd far beyond tin npprouehiir: c!ty
v.l leh nestled in the curving nriu of
the harbor, ll.e purple mountain faded
iiilo cloud.
A city of romance, of bund-made
cobbled street and o-..Icdc..'3 with
bells Jiii'tllng riulit ineiiily, Funchal
tlmnns in the sun 1. be a nsauy-iiiitfd
lh'anl. Natives; the color of o!d gUd
i bout In voices the qual'ty of old Iron
to iui-omluj ten-is!:. Ivipettiiil sum
mer lies like a Blush of pleasure up
the lazy Incline of Main street and
over all Fiinchnl. Its gardens bchiu 1
and u crllow in ' whitewashed walls,
lire of a Ihnuv.nd scent n and a tiioii
Hiind colors. Years and years have
l.'l't lblun and gray Spanish nioss
thick upon the face of Madeira like a
beard of old ago. But tin; heart of her
I:? yi i:i. f.nd her Portuguese trail like
children Air behind tl.o caravan of civ
ilization. Out in the harbor the white ship
Bouuiunin cast anchor for want of a
quay, and tent rowbonts of sightseeing
cargoes cutting across the quiet water,
natives 'naked and diving foi pennies
in their wake. Then a more or less
tllCicult landing nt the foot of a steep
sided dock up a perpendicular ladder
of stone steps and Into the sun-aud-shadow
streets of Funchal.
Mrs. Lefkovltch grasped her hus
band's coal-sleeve, steadying herself
with some dilliculty. Past her streamed
the Koumunla's passenger list, Buede
kered, sun-goggled und loving the land.
"Aaron, like my legs would wobble
right off, that's how I feel."
"Now, now, Beithu I ain't bo steady
myself If you hung on me like that."
"No, but thein three rough duys
when we first started, you could hung
on me, I tell you. When my legs
wasn't even so steudy us they arc
now."
Trees closed over them, cacti and
the heavy fronds of palms.
"Mama pupa ! Just see. Isn't It
J'.it perfect? Oti, Mr. Dnnzlger, r.o
wonder you raved uud raved about
Madeira."
"Just wait. If you think this Is go
ing some, Miss Esther. Walt until
we go up the mountainside on the
funicular and come down on sledges."
"Whew, give nie my fan out of your
pocket, Anron. I don't want to sny
nothing right In the sturt, but I tell
you I ain't stuck on the smells here.
Mrs. Kron and her husband was right
to stay on the ship if "
"Mama!"
"Oh, . come now, Mrs. Lefkovltch ;
this smell Isn't so bud."
"There's nobody, Mr. Danzlger, can
tell me better us my own nose what
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- "There's no., tjse .. talking, fiflsa
Rather: vonr team don'f think mnrh,
of us Chicago bdyc .She's all to the?
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"It ain't Chicago I don't think so
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an
Buswrse A
f -SALttt
4