Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-06-08
Csyusbt 1904, Sy Itoia MsyytsH

preCiate music d bit. All you can I'M
derstand are a few oily, dauby daubs
or 4 pen and ink sketch. but If you had
only heard him
III l had heard him l don't think
that I should have flown to the win
dow and warbled back an answer up
New York air shaft"
Il don't care" Phillppa's tone was
lofty and her attitude belligerent. Il
didn't care a rap about him personally,
and hadn't the slightest idea what he
looked Ike but the voice was divine.
II was the voice OF Manrico calling
and Leonora answered 1t for arts
sake"
well, LeonOra had better attend to
her cleaning up and mind her own
business Now, she hasn't any cause
for complaint at all, because Manrico
raises his hat TO her in the elevator and
says 'HowdyY Ia neighborly fashion.
Are you sure 1t was ManricoW
"Oh. yes. He looks It," Philippa
spoke. with vague enthusiasm. And
Lafayette says that he Is the new one
In the studio over ours"
We'll, you had better send Lafayette
a little printed slip TO post up In his
elevator:
Students may sing grand opera
duets through the air shaft. but any
promlscuous greetings In elevator will
be followed by eviction
Il suppose the poor fellow was SO
10
how completely l fulfilled bis ideal Of
Leonora that he lost his presence Of
mind" Philippa could be as sweetly,
simply and contentedly vain as Narcis-
suS among the water lilies.
Presence Of mind IS never lost"
Elizabeth added high light daintily
TO the left eye Of an Italian fruit yend
er on the canvas before her. 1t is
misIaid AS long as he didn't lose his
heart he needn't worry"
Phllippa laughed and ran her fingers
teasingly over the plano keys.
Il think he Is worrying" she said.
But there were no more duets
through the air shaft. If the occupant
of studio 5. on the third floor, happened
TO be practicing her trills and quaverS
the occupant OF studio II, on the fourth
door, sat by his open window and lis
tened, and when q full, rich tenor float
cd down from studio II Phllippa would
tiptoe to the window and listen also
and be glad and proud in way. be-
cause somewhere in the golden tomor-
rows Of hope success lay snugly and
surely tucked away for the tall, brown
eyed boy who dared to greet Leonora
In the elevator
He had dared only once. Long
after even Elizabeth deigned TO bow q
comradely good day TO him Philppa
passed on her own way, slim, AFRO
CANT, blond young person in gray val
vet and squirrel furs. Elizabeth pse-
served graceful posture on the heu-
tral fence Warning factions were not
In her line, but when she was sending
out invitations for the monthly Dutch
picnic In studio she did not think II
amiBs to send one up TO studio H.
Phnippa was passing club sand
w1ches when Bobbie Clarkson intro
ducsd her TO the tall, brown eyed boy.
she did not drop the tray. She merely
smiled most graciously and asked II
Mr. Eliot liked club sandwiches made
Of q celestial combination OF chicken
salad. chopped almonds, olives. deviled
ham and tabasco sauce.
II appeared that Mr.. Eliot did. In
fact. he paced after the dispenser Of
celestial sandwiches all around the
studio IN q deliberate, determined, man
overheard fashion, most disconcerting
TO the dispenser, until he finally cor
nered her in the japanese alcoye and
forcibly finished up the remaining
sandwiches himself.
And be never even said a word
about the duet" philippe answered
later when she sat, Ike Hindoo Idol
In d pink kimono on the bed and
thoughtfully reviewed the evening
He's a gentleman and a scholar, and
Bobbie says he's all right; solid, old
Maryland family and all that sort Of
thing; first names Marbury-M -Marbury
Eliot. He has only been in New York
a couple of months, and he dOesn't
like II very well. He thinks it's lone
some He says we're conservative and
clannlsh."
There's q good remedy. Tell him
10 be a clam unto himself"
PhInppa shied a pillow at the scoR
er.
Goose" she said Cant you see
He wants 10 belong to my clan. Tn
going To the CZarga concert with hin
tomorrow"
"Seef OF course | see" quoth Eliza
beth. one philippa Yates, founder
of the Society For the Prevention o.
Lonesomeness to Strangers In Ne@
York, providing said strangers are gep
tlemen and scholars, from solid ole
families. and can sing duets and ca
club sandwiches for arts sake. SO,
the end
But Philippa only smiled and was 81
lent. 1t had been a most entertainin.
and interesting twenty minutes spen
in the Japanese corner. Ones poiDs q
view on life IN general may Rltsp con
siderably even In twenty minutes.
Ii was two weeks after the Czarg'
rOncert Philippa came out OF tn
Metropolitan Opera House as EliO
swung up Broadway. II had begun I
snow at sundOwn, and there was tn
lull in traffic that comes on the gres
white way between dinner time AM
the hour when the curtain rises Sh
was tucking couple Of III TroVs
tore" tickets into her hand bag whel
he greeted her.
They're for Beth and me-" she tol,
him happily. We live on strawberP,
jam and crackers when the opera La II
full blast DO you know | never q
there but l wonder when my turn WI