heard the advice given people who live
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; ri R A L enterprise
said so.
In glass houseel”
PAG E J
“I'll
have
to
m
arry
money,”
she
de
By his Junior year he w *s talking
dared.
“Now
that
they've
finished
In ». large way about the Beaux Arts
But Selina did not laugh at thia "Per calling p o o r g r a n d p a a beef-baron and
taken 1 don t know bow many millions j
haps,’’ she thought. "W ho cun te ll!
(hy suffer from headaches?
A fte r a year or two In an office here,
swey from Id in , we’re practically on
the streets."
why not another year of study In Purls
"You look I t ! " from D irk ; and there
I f he needs it.“
Though it was her busiest time on was bitterness beneath his fight tone
“W ell, It's true
A ll this slUy muck
the farm Selina went to Ith a c a fo r his
graduation In 1913. H e was twenty, raking In the past ten years or more.
Poor fa th e r!
O f course, granddad
two and, she was calmly sure, the best
was pur-ty rough, let me tell you
I
looking man In his class. Undeniably
read some of the accounts of that last
be was a fltnire to please the eye;
Indictm ent— the 1910 one— and I must
tall, well-built, us his fath er had been,
say I gathered that dear old Aug made
and blond, too, like his father, except
Jesse James look like a philanthropist.
(or his eyes
These were brow n--not
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I should think, at his age, he'd be a
so dark as Selina's, but with some of
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Albany, Oregon
little scared. A fte r all, when you're
the soft liquid quality of her glance.
1 hey strengthened his face, somehow; over seventy you're likely to have
r .o „ > & S T % ,r a
some doubts and feurs about punish
gave him an ardent look of which he
WNU (HrWc
ment In ths next world.
But not a
was not conscious.
Women, feeling
(hat wns absurdly thickAngered In Its
grnnd old pirate lik e grandfather
the ardor of that dark glaoce turned
fur-llned glove.
H
e
'll
sack
and
burn
and
plunder
until
upon them, were likely to credit Uho
"It's cold driving. Button up tight.
(.Continued)
he goes down w ith the ship. And It
with feelings toward themselves of
W here’ll we stop fo r your hag?"
looks to me as If the old boat bad a
three or rour years, ir s
Angus, which he was quite Innocent. They
H e climbed into the seat beside her-
pretty strong list to starboard right
Hempel's Idea. Hogs, I should have did not know that the glance and Its
D irk could laugh at that picture
H e r manipulation e f the wheel was
said."
But he protested, too. "But there'«
effect were mere matters of pigm enta now. F ath er says himself that unless
witchcraft. The roadster slid In and
a war breaks, nr something, which
H e echoed, “Hogs!" rather faintly.
no native architecture, so what's to
tion ant» eye-conformation. Ttlen, too,
out of traffic like a fluid thing, nn
Isn’t at all likely, the parking Industry
he done!
You wouldn’t call those
“High-bred
hogs. T hey’re worth the gaxe of a man who talks little Is
Is going to spring a leak."
enamel stream, silent as a sw ift cur
their weight In (diver this minute, am! always more effective than that o f one
smoke-blackened old stone and brick
"Elaborate figure of speech.” mur
rent In a river. W hen his house was
will be for years to come. I won’t go who Is loquacious.
piles w ith th e ir Iron fences and their
reached, " I ’m coming up," she said.
mured Eugene. T he four of them—
in for them extensively. Just enough
Selina, In her black silk dress, and
conservatories and cupolas and ginger
“I suppose you haven't any tea?”
Pauls, D irk , Eugene nnd Selina— were
bread exactly native, would you?"
to make an architect out of Mr. D irk her plain black hat, and her sensible
sitting on the wide screened porch that
“Gosh, no!
W hat do you think I
“No,” Selina adm itted, “but those
DeJong.” Then, at the expression In shoea, was rather a quaint little figure
an,,ng al, those v ii,.clous, bevoVed* ' X “
am I
a
young man In an English
Italian villas ar.d French chateaux in
his face: “Don't look so pained, son
-You
Like
Me
Better
Than
Any
Man
novel
corner of the house. Paula «-as. of
north Chicago suburbs are a good deal
There's nothing revolting about a hog nnd berlbboned mammas. But a dis
You Know."
"Now, don't he provincial and Chl-
course. In the couch swing. Occasion
like a lace evening gown In the Art- ■ — he’» a handsome. Impress!ve-lookin; tinctive little figure, too. D irk need
ally she touched one slim languid foot
cagolsh. D irk ."
They climbed the
not
be
ashamed
of
her.
She
eyed
the
animal,
the
hog,
when
he
Isn’t
trente
!
have
a
lot
of
m
oney!"
tona desert.
I t wouldn’t keep you l
three flights o f stairs.
She looked
to the floor and gave Indolent impetus
lik
e
one.”
rather paunchy, prosperous, iniddle-
cool in the daytime, und it wouldn't I
Perhaps not simply because he had
to the couch.
about. H e r glance was not disapprov
be warm enough at night. I suppose
a
lot
of
money
But
It
certainly
would.
I
H e looked dejected. " I ’d rather not nged fathers and thought, w ith a pang,
" It Is, rather, Isn't It?
M ight as
ing
“This I sd T so bad. Who did It?
bow much handsomer Pervus would
a native architecture Is evolved from
go to school on— hogs."
i She d id !
Very nice. But o f course
well finish I t then. Darling Aug's been be a factor, among other things.”
have
been
than
any
of
these.
I
f
only
building for the local clim ate and the
She took off the fe lt hat and tossed
Six months later Paula Arnold was 1 you ought to have your own smart
the grand old captain right through
he
could
have
lived
to
see
this
day.
needs of the commun^y, keeping beau
It over to the old couch by the win
married to Theodore A. Storm, a man
little apartment, w ith a Jap to do you
the vl'age.
Dad's never been more
ty In mind as you go. W e don't need
dow; smoothed her hair back with the Then. Involuntarily, she wondered If
of fifty, a friend o f her father's, head
up. To do that for you, for example."
than a p retty bum second mate. And
turrets and towers any more than we
flat of her paltn. Yon saw that the this day would ever have occurred,
k es, grimly. H e was packing his
as fo r you. Gene my love, cabin boy of so many companies, stockholder In
need draw-bridges and moats. I t ’s all
soft dark hair was liberally sprinkled had Pervus lived. Chided herself for
bag— not throwing clothes Into It, but
would be, y ’understand me, big.” so many hanks, director of so many
thinking
thus.
right to keep them, I suppose, where
with gray now, but the eyes were
folding them deftly, neatly, as the son
Eugene had gone Into the business a corporations that even old Aug Hem-
When he returned to Chicago, D irk
they grew up, In a country where the
pel seemed a recluse from business In
bright and clear as ever.
of a wise mother parks.
“M y sal
year before.
feudal system meant that any day
went
Into
the
office
of
H
ullls
A
comparison.
She never called him ary d Just about keep him In w hite
“ You know, Soblg, this is what they
"W hat can you expect,” retorted
Sprague,
architects.
But
his
work
your next-door neighbor might take it
Teddy. No one ever did: Theodore linen house-coats."
call a paying farm — as vegetable farms
Eugene, “of a lad that hates salt pork?
Into his head to call hla gang around
Storm was a large man— not exactly
go. W e re out of debt, the lauds In there was little more than th a i of
And every other kind of pig meat?"
"I'm golug to send you some things
him and sneak up to stenl your w ife
st</ut, perhaps, but flabby. H is Inches for your room, D irk ."
good shape, the crop promises well If draughtsman, and his weekly stlpefigl
H e despised the yards and all that
could hardly be dignified b y 'th e term
sod tapestries and gold, drinking cup*.’
saved
him
from
grossness.
H
e
had
went w ith I t
we don't have another rainy cold
“F o r Uod's sake don’t I”
But he hnd large Ideals
D irk was Interested and amused.
a large white serious face, fine thick
spring like last year’s. I'm having a of salary.
Selina got up and walked to the
“ W hy not?"
about
architecture
and
lie
found
ex
Talks w ith hla mother were likely to
dark hair, graying at the temples
end of the porch.
“T h ere’s Adam
grand time. When I see the nsparugus
“T w o kinds o f women In the world.
affect him thus. “ W h a t’s your Idea of
W ithin three years Paula had two
plantation actually yielding, that I pression for his suppressed feelings 00 coming In w ith the last loud for the
I learned that at college. Those who
a real Chicago house, mother?”
day. He'll be driving Into town now. 'children, a boy and a girl. " T h e re ! send men things fo r their rooms und
planted ten years ago, I ’m as happy as his week-ends spent with SellnH at the
(arm.
Selina answered quickly, as If she
Cornelius started an hour ago." She That s done,” she said. H e r marriage
those that don't.”
I f I'd stumbled on a gold mine" I
"Baroque" was the word w ith whieh
was a great mistake and she knew It
had thought often about I t ; as If she
went down the steps on her way to
think, sometimes, of the way your fa
"You're very rude."
he
dismissed
the
new
Beachside
ho
would have liked Just such a dwelling
oversee the loading of Adam Bras’ F o r the war, coining In 1914, a few
ther objected to my planting the first
“You asked me.
T h e re !
I ’m all
tel, north. H e said the new Llqcoln
months Hfter her wedding, sent the set.” H e snapped the lock of his hag.
on the site of the old DeJong farm
wagon. At the bottom of the steps
one. A pril, like this, In the country,
Uempel-Arnold Interests sky-rocketing
house In which they now were seated
she turned. “ W hy can’t you two stay
"I'm sorry I can't give you anything.)
with every thing coming up green and park bandstand looked like an Igloo.
He said that the city council ough< to
M illions of pounds of American beef I huven’t a thing. N ot even a glass of
so comfortably. “ W ell. It would need
to supper?
You can quarrel com-
new hi the rich black loam— I can’t
and pork were shipped to Europe. In
big porches fo r the hot days and
wine and a— what Is It they say In
tell you. And when I know that It goes
two yeurs the Hempel fortune wns books?— oh, yeh— a biscuit."
nights so’s to catch the prevailing
to m arket as food— the best kind of
greater than It ever hud been. Paula
southwest winds from the prairies IS
food, that keeps people’s bodies clean
In the roadster again Paula m ain
was up to her eyes In re lie f work for
the summer— a porch that would be
and clear and flexible and strong! I
tained s tierce and steady speed for
Bleeding Belgium.
swung clear around to the east, too—
like to think of babies’ mothers say
the remainder o f the drive.
D irk had not seen her In months.
or a terrace or another porch east so
ing:
‘Now eat your spinach, every
"W e call the place Stormwood,"
She
telephoned
him
unexpectedly
one
that I f the precious old lake breeze
I aula told him. “ And nobody outside
scrap, or you can't have any dessert I
Frldhy afternoon In his office at H o l the dear fam ily knows how flttlng that
should come up Just when you think
Carrots make your eyes bright.
lis A Sprague's.
you’re dying o f the heat, as It some
Is Don’t scowl. I ’m not going to tell
Finish your potato. Pototoes
"Come out and spend Saturday snd you my m arital woes. And don't you
times doe«, you could catch that. too.
m ake.you s tro n g !'"
It ought to he b uilt— the house. I
Bunday w ith us, won’t you? W e’re say I asked for It. . . . How's the
Selina laughed, flushed a little.
running sway to the country this a ft Job?”
mean— rather gquariah and tight and
“Yes, but how about hogs? Do you
solid agalnat our cold winters and
ernoon. I'm so sick of Bleeding Bel
feel that way about hogs?”
gium, you can't Imagine. I ’m sending
northeasters. Then sleeping porches,
’Certainly," said Selina, briskly. She
(Continued on page 4)
the children out this morning. 1 can't
of course. T here’s a grand American
pushed toward him a little blue-and
Institution fo r you!
England may
get
a
Way
so
early.
I
’ll-
call
for
you
w hite p la tter that lay on the white
In the roadster this afternoon at four U ’ ArfH P A ID for fa lse te eth , den-
bare Its afternoon tea on the terrace,
cloth near her elbow. “H a v e a bit
tai
__
<»l g old, plstinum and ______
discarded
and drive you out myself.”
•nd Spain may have. Its patio, and
more bacon, D irk . One o f these nice
jewelry, Hoke Sm elting and Refining
France it* courtyard, and Ita ly Its
" I don't think I — "
curly slivers that are so crisp.
Co., Oti------
Jtsego. M ich,
pergola, vine-covered; but America's
T ’ve finished my breakfast, Moth
“I ’ll call fo r yon at four. IT l be at
got the sleeping porch— the screened-
er." H e rose.
the corb. Don't keep me waiting, w ill
ln open-air sleeping porch, und I
The short
you 7”
T he follow ing autumn saw him
•houldn't wonder I f the man who Aral
student of architecture at Cornell. He
thought of that would get precedence,
worked hard, studied even during his
Chapter X II
on Judgment day, over the men who
vacation.
Has the wire core, is readily ad
Invented the airplane, the talking ma
H e would come home to the heat
In town D irk lived In a large front
chine, and tiie telephone. A fte r all,
fortnbly right through the meal and
and hum idity of the Illino is summers
room nnd alcove on tho third floor of justed and bolds so tenaciously
order the Potter Palm er mansion de
he had nothing In mind but the health
drive home In the cool of the eve
and spend hours each day In hla own
» handsome old-fashioned three-story- that it is most desirable for sum
stroyed us a blot on the landscape,
of the human race.”
A fte r which
nlng."
* ,
room th a t he had fitted up w ith
and-basement house.
H e used the mer sports.
and
waxed
profane
on
the
subject
ef
grand period Selina grinned at IMrk.
“IT l atay,” said Paula, “thanks. I f
long w ork-table and a drawing board.
front room as a living room, tha alcove
the east face of the Public Library
und D irk grinned at Selina and the
you'll have all kinds of vegetables,
H la T-square was at hpnd; two trlan-
Ask to see samples.
us a bedroom. H e and Selina had fur
building, downtown.
two giggled together there by the fire ff'aa— « <5 and a 60; his compass; a
cooked and uncooked.
And let me nlshed It together, discarding all of
“ Never mind,” Selina assured him.
place, companlonably.
go out into ^he fields and pick ’em
p air of dividers.
Selina sometimes
the room's original belongings except
happily,
“i t was all thrown up do
“Mother, you're lim p ly wonderful I—
m yself like Maud M u lle r o- M arie An
stood behind him watching him as he
the bed, a table, and one fat comfort
hastily.
Remember that Just ye»t*f-
otdy ‘ your native Chicago dwelling
tolnette or any of those make-believe able faded old arm chair whose bro
carefully worked on the tracing paper.
*lay, or, the day before, Chicago was
rustic gals."
•eeroa to be mostly porch."
H I» contempt fo r the local architec
cade surface hinted a past grandeur,
an Indian fort, w ith tepees where tow
In her French-heeled slippers and
Selina waved such carping criticism
ture was now complete. Especially
When he hkd got bis books ranged In
ers are now, and mud wallows ha her film y silk stockings she went out
•w a y w ith a careless hand. “Oh, well, did he hold forth on the subject of the
open shelves along one wall, soft-shad
place of asphalt. Beauty needs time
Into the rich black furrows of the ed lamps on table and desk, the place
any house that has enough porches,
apartm ent houses that were mush
to perfect IL
Perhaps we’ve been
fields, D irk carrying the basket.
and two or three bathrooms and at
rooming on every street In Chicago
looked more than liv a b le ; lived In.
waiting afl these years for Just eyeh
leust eight cloeeta can be lived In com from H yde Park on the south to
“Asparagus,”
she
ordered
first.
During the process o f furnishing Se
youngsters as you. And maybe Some Then, "But where Is It? Is that It 1
fortably, no m a tte r w hat else It has or Evanston on the north. Chicago was
lina got into the way of coming Into
day I ’ll be driving down Michigan hbu
hasn't got.”
“ You dig for It, Idiot," said D irk
very elegant In speaking o f these;
town for a day or two to prowl the
levard with a distinguished visitor—
stooping, and taking from his basket auction rooms and the second-hand
never called them "flats"; always
Next day they w ere more serious
Roelf Pool, perhaps. W hy not? L e t t '
the queerly curved sharp knife or stores. She had a genius for this sort
T ie eastern college and the architec apartments. In front of each of these
say Roelf P00L the famous sculptor.
spud used for cutting the asparagus of thing; hated the spick-and-span var
(th ere were usually six to a building)
tural career seemed to be settled
Optom etrist
And he'll say, ‘Who designed that
shoots. "Cut the shoot* three or four nish and veneer o f the new furniture
was stuck a little glass-enclosed cubi
things.
Selina was content, happy.
building— the one that la so strong
Inches
below
the
surface."
cle known as a sun-parlor. In these
D irk was troubled about the expense.
to be got In the regular way.
and yet so light? So gey and graceful j
Optician
“Oh, let me do I t !” Slie was down
He spoke of It at breakfast next morn (sometimes you heard them spoken o f ,' and yet so re tic e n t!’ And I ’ll say, ’Oh, '
She enjoyed these rare trips Inte
on her silken knees In the dirt, mined
ALBA
NY
ing (D irk ’s b re a k fa s t; his mother bad grandly, as solariums) Chicago dwell
OREGON.
to w n ; made a holiday of them. D irk
that I T hat's one o f the earlier efforts
a goodly patch o f the fine, tender
had bers hours before and now ns he ers took refuge from the leaden skies,
would take her to the theater and she
of my «on, D irk DeJong.’ "
shoots,
gave
It
up
and
snt
watching
the
heavy
lake
atmosphere,
the
gray
drank his coffee, was sitting w ith him
wonld sit entranced. 8trungely enough,
But D irk pulled at his pipe mood
D
irk's
expert
manipulation
of
the
mist
and
fog
and
smoke
that
so
fre
h ruoinent and glancing at the paper
considering tbe lock of what the world
ily ; shook his head. “Ob, you don’t
knife. "L e t’s have radishes, a mb corn
tbut bad come In the rural mall deliv quently swathed the city In gloom.
call* romsDce nnd adventure In her
know, mother.
It's so d— d slow.
and tomatoes and lettuce and peas
ery). She had been out in the fields T hey were done In yellow or rose cre
LAWYER AND NOTARY
life, she did not like the motion pic
First thing yon know TH be thirty. ^nd artichoke» and— "
tonnes.
Silk
lampshades
glowed
there
overseeing the transplanting o f young
tures. “All the difference In the w orld,”
And what am I I
An office boy— or
“Artichokes grow In California, not
HALSRr, O hkoon
in, and flower-laden boxes. In these
tomato seedlings from hotbed to field
she wonld say, “between the movlea
little more than th a t— at H o llis’.’’
Illinois.”
She wore an old gray sweater buttoned frank little boxes Chicago read Its pa
nnd
the
th
rill
I
get
out
o
f
a
play
at
During his university years D irk had
per, sewed, played bridge, even ate
up tight, for the a ir was still sharp
H e was more than usually uncom tbe theater
My, yes! L ike fooling
seen much of the Arnolds, Eugene and
I t never pulled down
<>n her head wus a battered black felt Its breakfast.
municative, and noticeably moody,
with paper doll* when you could be
Pauls,
but
it
sometimes
seemed
to
•o ft hat (an old one of D irk 's ) much the shades.
Paula, remarked IL
"W hy the
playing with a real live baby.”
Selina that he avoided these meetings—
" T e rr ib le !” D irk fumed. “N ot only
Ilk» the one she had worn to the H a y
Othello brow?”
The day was marvelously mild for
these parties and week-ends. She w « i
are
they
hideous
In
themselves,
stuck
market that day ten years ago.
"You didn’t mean that rot, did you?
March In Chicago
Spring, usually »0
rontent
that
this
should
be
so,
for
she
I ve been thinking,” he begun, “the on the front o f those houses like three
Motor Hearse.
»bout marrying a rich man. You were
coy In this region, had flung herself at Efficient Service.
(’□eased that the m atter of money held
pairs of spectacle«J but the lack of
*xi'en»e— "
Joking,
weren't
you?”
Ladv Attendant.
him back. She thought It was weM that
them head first. As tbe massive re
They do everything
' I ’lgaTl do It,” Selina said, calmly. decent privacy!
“I wasn't. I'd hate being poor, or
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he should realise the difference now.
volving door of D irk's office building
“I va been wanting to put them In for , but bathe In 'em. H ave they “ever
even Just moderately rich. I ’m used
Eugene had his own cat—-one of five
fanned him into the street he sew
to money— loads of It.
I ’m twenty-
In the Arnold garage. Pauls, too, had
Paula In her long low sporting road
four. And Pin looking around.”
hers.
H e r fascination for D irk was
ster at the curb. She waa dressed In
H
e
kicked
an
Innocent
beet-top
with
strong Selina knew that, too. In the
W - L. W R IG H T
black. A ll fem inine fashionable snd
his boot. "You like me better than
last year or two he had talked very
Mortician
& Funeral Director
inlddle-claas
Chicago
was
dressed
In
any man you know.”
little o f Paula and that. Belina knew,
black.
A ll feminine fashionable and I
Halsey and H arrltb tirg
“O
f
course
1
do.
Just
my
luqk.”
,
to plea««1 young and old alik* must meant that he was hard hit.
middle-class America was dressed In
C a ll D. T a y l o r . Halsey, or
"W ell, th e n !”
Boinetlmes Paula and Eugene drone
black. Tw o years o f w ar had robbed
W. L. W m iu h I . H arrisburg
bo perfeotly flavored with the fines' out t® the farm . Eugene would appeM
“ W ell, then, let’s take these weg-
Parts of Its husbands, brothers, sons
f uit flavors. lee cream p»r ex In rakish rap, loose London knlrker*. glblea in.”
A ll Paris w alked In block. America,
She made a pretense of liftin g the
cellence— that dies ns ours—must queer hrogans w ith an English loek
untouched, gnyly borrowed the »mart
heavy
basket.
D
irk
snatched
It
rough
about them, • c a r e f u lly careless loose
be properly Irozeo.
Delicious, ness about the bang and fit of his ly out of her hand so that she gave habiliments of mourning and now
-Michigan boulevard and F ifth avenue
oooling and refreshing, it always Jacket. Paula did not affect sports a little cry and looked ruefully down walked demurely In the glo o m of crepe I
rc ivsa the fatigued end often re clothes fo r herself. She was not the at the red mark on her palm. He and chiffon; black Jinta, black gloves,,
type, she said. Slim, dark, vlvscleas. caught her by the shoulder— even
black slippers. Only black was “good" ,
lieves bea lacks.
»he wore slinky clothes— crepes, chif shook her a little
"Look here, Pauls
this year.
fons.
H e r eyes were languorous, Do you mean to tell me you'd marry
Pauls smiled up at him, patted th e j
'ovely.
She worshiped luxury and I s man almnlv because he happened to
leather seat hes'de her w ith mje hand
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