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THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA RANDE, OREGON O
Shturday, April 28, 1945
Page Six
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WHEN I saw the inside of the
" American House I felt n Jlttlc
cheated. The carpets wore red
nd groon, to be sure, but their
roses had been worn almost be
yond recognition, and, although
ornate, the wicker suite In the
parlor won too hard to suggest
easeful living. The tin tub fell
short of my expectations I had
cxncctcd a kind of Roman bath
and the sign CAUTION above the
faucets belied stories of extrava
gance. The dumb-waiter, which I
had pictured as a kind of agile
automaton, proved to be no more
than a crude framework (topped
by an enormous knot), which
moved with creaks and tremors.
' Still there was the furnace, a
great black monster, sending out
long tentacles into the darkness
of the collar. There was hot water
in season. There wore two tele
phones, one for local calls, the
other for long distance. And there
was the electric bell. You hod
only tc press a button in any of
the upper rooms and a gilt arrow
moved unsteadily in a glass-covered
rase in the office. The mech
anism was out of adjustment, and
no one downstairs could be sure
what room was calling, but the
buzz as impressive.
Otherwise the place was undis
tinguished. The kitchen was In
the basement of the old house. Its
concrete floor and gray sheathing
gave it a moist, tasteless look. It
held a huge, square stove with a
rusted top, bearing a copper tank,
grown green like boats below the
watcrline; a table covered with
oilcloth that looked as though it
had been scaled; a row for pots
and o rack for knives and cleav
ers; a high milk closet, screened
with mosquito netting; a large
pump with a long, perpendicular
handle, which filled the tank in
the attic; and a dink, also rusted,
with a shelf above it where a row
of lamps stood.
A T the head of the kitchen stairs
was the serving room, once
half of tlio whole first floor. On
By MRS. ANNE CABOT
Big lino nnd nno-hiilf inch vio
lets in lovely similes of purple
two unci onc-hiilf inch green
liuvcs done in cross stitch make
the most colorful design imag
inable. Use the emliioideiy on
guest pillowcases, on guest tow
els or on a lavender or pale
green linen or cotton tea cloth.
To obtain two transfers for the
violet cross slilch designs (pat
tern No. 57211 color chart for
working, send IS cents in coin,
plus 1 cent postage, your name,
address and the pattern numlu r
Indians' Friend
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the back, two windows looked out
over the yard; on the side, two
high ones over the Landing; and
on the front the two that had
faced the village were now
painted gray, like the walls. Be
tween them were shelves slacked
with heavy, white dishes plates,
cups, nappies, butter chips tiered
up like silver dollars. . . .
A swinging door opened into
the dining room not too easily
because of the uneven meeting of
the floors. Here in each corner
was a tublc set for six and In the
center a larger one, which we
came to know as the Transient
Table. All of them were swathed
in cheesecloth, and above each
hung a spiral of flypaper.
Across the hull was the onico,
running the depth of the entire
building, old part and new. It
was finished in brown sheathing.
One row of armchairs, leather
seated, lined the front; another
formed a semi-cw :lc around the
Htove, which stood in the middle
of the room. The desk was in the
back corner. On it were n cigar,
case, a clipper, a contraption for
cutting plug tobacco, a circular
inkwell with a wire helix, n paper
weight of polished copper, and a
register with a mottled leather
cover. Opposite the desk were a
safe, a row of tin wash basins, a
rolfcr towel, and a chocolate-colored
water tank with a red rose
above lis spigot.
On the second floor were the
to Anne Cabot, La Grande Kvc
ning Observer, 70!) Mission St.,
San Francisco, Calif.
e Washington
Merry-Go-Ilound
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Krancisco conference. Pat worked
it through his pal Senator Ken
neth McKcllar of Tennessee, head
of the senate appropriations com
mitto. McKcllar call.'d Secretary
Stotlinius and asked that Senator
MrCM'ian be sent out to San
I'Vancisco as an observer for the
senate appropriations committee.
Since Stcltinius iuvds appropria
tions next year he obliged.
Official Records
Water turned off, April 27:
Lester H. Seiber, 1512 Y ave
nue; Mrs. II. C. Stratton, 102
Hemlock street.
Wider turned on:
Duke Seniles, 2707 Depot
stieet; '. II. I.ange, 20II-". C''i'e
a-enlle.
SON IS BORN
Word has been received here
of the birth of a son lo Cpl. and
Mrs. Kllory (Hud) Cooper, on Ap
r.l 20, at Sioux Kails, S. Dak.
The grandparents are Mrs. Ada
May Cooper of Portland, former
Iv of l.a Clranile, and Mr. and
Mrs. W. II. Miller of Fertile,
Minn.
Cpl. Cooper attended I. a
Grande schools and Fastern Ore
gon college, and for the past six
months has been attending an
i.ritiv air force school in Sioux
Falls.
His brother. Leonard Cooper, is
;.n ensign in Ihe naval air corps
in Philadelpia.
A mature g;an.t Sequoia tree
spreads lis ntols over an area of
I between two and tbiee acres.
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parlor, the bathroom, the linen
closet, and four bedrooms. The
parlor was directly at the head of
the stairs, facing the village. It
was our greatest disappointment.
Though my mother had never
passed on any stories,- we had
heard them, just the same. There
had been parlies in that parlor,
wild parties, parties that had
lasted until 12 o'clock. There had
been wine and cigars. People had
played cards, perhaps even gam
bled there. Yet H had turned out
to be only a small, dingy room,
with stiff, varnished furniture
primly placed,
'"PHE bedrooms In the house were
furnished alike throughout.
Each hart a bed, a commode, a
straight cimr, and a bureau with
a swingir g mirror all highly
varnished The floors were cov
ered with Mr aw matting, and the
walls wci papered with brown
"oatmeal." Tito rooms were fairly
large, but they differed in con
tour, for t'iH'se on the back of the
third and fourth floors were cut
off by the ropt and distorted by
dormers. ;
Our roomi were on the corner
of the second lloor. The one my
parents shared was toward the
village. Ours looked out over the
back yard, now muddy and rutted.
It had five windows one on the
back; one, painted over like those
in the serving room, facing the
hall; and three on the side. Of
these, two were so high chat you
had to stand on tiptoe to sec out,
and the third was a porthole.
We drew lots for the walls, but
we divided the closet less peace
fully. It was a very small closet,
well cut into by the chimney.
There were 12 hooks in it, and a
nail.
'I shall have the nuu, ' buo
said. "I'm the oldest."
Thai started us off.
"How old you are doesnt have
anything to do with it," Julia In
sisted. I bac'ted her up noisily.
"Girls, girls," my mother cMlcd.
"No quarreling! You'll just hvn
to mannge pomehow. It's only for
a little while, anyway."
Hoor Mama! bhe really be
lieved it.
(To He Continued)
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