La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 25, 1945, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, April 23;lld45. Page Six TUB LA GRANDE EVENING OfiSEHVEIt, LA GRANDE, OREGCM U FBiik l , . VIHOINK C'HSEl niSTHIBUICD. 1945, EA EHVICf.UC.J ! I , lVfY father was a doctor and -1 proud of his calling, but he liked to fancy himself a business man as well. The secret of good bargaining, he used to assure us, lay in detecting latent possibili ties. So, in moking his rounds in our little Maine village, he was forever spotting something a wood lot, a blueberry pasture, once even a chalk pond and hurrying oil to buy it before anyone could get ahead of him. The rush was quite unnecessary, for he seldom had a competitor and, once the property was his, never an n- si stent buyer, But this did not deter him. Late one March afternoon in the year 1009 my mother and I were alone In the sitting room, waiting for him to come home from his office. She was sewing and at the same time helping me wan my arithmetic. "If five times two is ten, then five must go into ten twice. Can't , you see that, Lucy?" she said i "Yes, Mama." But I couldn't, ' quite. My mother was a very hand some woman. She had thick, - chestnut hair, which she twisted ' into a Figure Eight, and dark eyes with heavy brows and lashes. Her figure was slight and trim. "Surely these three big girls can't belong to you," strangers often protested when they met her. We girls used to get a little tired of hearing it. But not my father, lie beamed as though every time were the first. As though it were a compliment to him, really. My mother herself had no vanity, nor did she allow us girls to develop any. "If you bohavo as well as you look," he used to say. Though she had a way of not finishing some of her sentences, she always made her meaning clear. "Then if five times three Is fif teen," she went on. i "Here's Papa," I said, grateful for the interruption. "He's coming up tho driveway." He wasn't i wearing any gloves, I noticed, and his overcoat was unbuttoned. Ordinarily my father had no patience with people who exposed 'themselves. ;T FROWNED smugly, catching his eye. But ho didn't seem to get my meaning. Ho come right on through the stormhousc and into tho entry. "I heard some news today," he said. "What was it?" my mother asked, looking up. News was rare in our village, especially at this season. "The American House Is for sale," he told her. "Tho whole place, fully equipped, for $1500." The American House was the village hotel. It had been closed for almost two years. "Oh," my mother said, looking disappointed. She had obviously hoped for something more. That a patient had paid a bill in cash, muybe. "I can't Imagine who would buy it," sho went on. "If ever there was an eyesore." The American House was n monstrosity. Built of frame and painted a bilious yellow, it rose bluntly above our low, gabled dwellings. The front was bad enough, This hod a covered piazza, shading the lower floor liko a visor; then three rows of windows, looking bore nnd shame less without uny blinds; then a Illustrated by George Scarbo. My mother jynve him a quick glance. "No one in town knows the first thing about running a hotel' she said. "All it takes in a little ellicicncy," he assured her. roof, liko a high forehead. But viewed from any other unfile the place was a geometric nightmure. "Eyesore! my fulher protested from the doorway. "Why, It's a first-class bnrgain." My mother gave him a quick glance. "No one In town knows the first thing about running a hotel," sho said. "All it takes is n little efTl clency," he assured her, turning to hong up his coat. A red spot had appeared on each of my mother's cheeks. "You look tired," she said. "Your prac tice Is getting more than you can handle." lie crossed the room, touched me lightly on the hend In pass ing, and sat down in the wicker rocker by the window. It crackled under his weight. "Oh, I'm not so busy," he answered lightly. TVTY mother put down her scw- ing. "That place needs a lot of repair, inside and out," she said. "Anyone who bought it would have to lay out a good deal of money." "I've got $2500," he told her. I looked closely at my mother. Her checks were (laming, but she spoke without losing her com posure. "It's every cent you have in the world," she reminded him. "As long as it is in the bank . . ." Sho had begun to sew again, and her needle was Hying. "What's the good of idle money when you can invest it at 10 per cent?" he demanded. Actually money meant nothing to him. He never carried more than a hand ful of change. My mother sighed. Tho chalk pond had been bad enough and tho woodlot that had turned out to bo 20 miles from a highway. But a hotel. That hotel. . . . "If any place ever had a history," she said. My father must have been re membering that. "We wouldn't even have to go inside it," he promised. "I know where I can get a manager on a cfl-operative basis. With him there tho placo would run itself." My mother frowned over her stitches. "It isn't Just its repu tation," she said. "It's the pros pects. No one has ever made a go of it since the mines closed." "Maybe no one has made a go of it," he granted. "But times have changed. Think of the tour ist trade. The road from the Junction is going to be graveled, and by summer automobiles will be coming through here every day." Our nearest city war the Junc tion, IS miles to the east. Two trains passed through it every day. Its sidewalks were paved and Its streets were lighted with gas. It had a hotel and two drug stores. The Court House was there, and the County Jail. You could often see as many as five automobiles on its streets at the same time, some bearing banners of cities as remote as 40 miles. "With that new road, wo'd have more business than we could pos sibly h audi e," he continued. "Why, it's a sure thing." . She sighed again. Sho W03 beaten and she knew it. "I sup pose you will go ahead," she told him. "But I am not going to have anything to do with any hotel," sho added with a vehemence that was not native to her. "That oao, of all places." (To Be Continued), By arrangement with Dxtcll, Sloan and Pcarcc Corde' Hags 5 74 4 5 7 13 By Mns. AMHK CAnOT Crochet thrm in wlnU or t; Ith to wear with your eott.m hnt-wcathor .stivrt tit rssrs .A nur printed rayon rupc altrr noon and "date" frocks. Hitg in unper ilhisti ation is IM'v by 17'v inches and requires (i spools of eonlt tte each containing 75 yai d:,. Oi it may he crocheted of one large .spool of Itixconl, nhlainabte, in your department Moio. 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