The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-29

y. remember among the heroes OF
h,tuu that Pcndennis had fair side
WHISPERS tingcd slightly with red; also
.r,. Fanny Squeers loved Nicholas
Xirtla1y because he had straight legs.
IL sort " legs not at all common at
B.A.nuys Hall We are not Informed
psr,,eu.urly regarding Gregory Comp
ION, ,ogs in Gertrude Atherton's story
- ap.rrh Of the Devil' tFrederick A.
s,ok,s Company. We presume that
they were lean and nlmble and flled
with a supcrlative energy, like the rest
~, his pcrson Gregory's jaw Is the
feature upon which the story par
...tl,rlv insists II is mentioned re-
ro,,.d.y and with great respect. The
,.r,u. and the Jaw OF Gregory were
sulea they worked tremendously to-
,s,her Il Is 70 be read in one place
.s,, Grccorv's law seemed to be a
yard lons
r-,.-e 10 reason TO believe that Greg
ory'. veins contained some OF the blood
y, the oneida Indians. Mrs. Compton,
,,s ,po,her. who had arrived in Mon
lana soon after the log house was built.
was A large. dark. silent woman. she
bsa come from northern New York. and
e "a probable that the Oneida blood got
into the family In the early part OF the
.,rb,Aenth century. Gregory was SWIFT
n, Zoo, and had the soft tread or the
,a,.1sr His eyes were long and mar
-,v hts nose aquiline. The girls In
py,.o considered him n more roman
rio esnre than the heroes OF magazine
cotton lie had no difficulty in marry
ing Ida Hook. the most beautiful Cir
g., Rp,te Cupid's arrow transhxed them
both at a picnic.
r5a,s ewes we're large and oval and
blue gray. and were set Ike Cailiope's
The Ids we're so broad and white anc
,he lashes so silky and obliaue that th'
critical faculty Of man was drugged Il
d,mlv president" Her nose was "o
a type unsung in marble" but at tlme'
,he dl,ating nostrils made Il look thir
and patr,clan. Her skin was the coiol
o, warm milk. her lips and cheeks
roral chat rarest and most seductive
o, natures reds" not excepting I'M
blush of peaches and the glow OF roses
her little teeth enamelled Ike por
cela,n." There was no help for Greg
Dry; his Jaw could not save him; m
was reduced TO a mere proving IN
s.,n,t protected with fatal instantane
ry from its mapping ego" and so the!
were married.
The story is arttul IN presenting m
.ejuctions OF this period. Ida ha
spent So for bottle OF cologne. Ther
was a .Thlatant moon" It was "a sou
oulckcning scene" They had straye'
INTO a canyon. The cologne sheu a.
Oriantsl perfume tistifying its price
Ida's grammar was faulty. Her oreedin
was not OF the best. But this was
time for the elemental" emotions, IN
primitive instincts" Mrs. Atherto
often terminates her sentimental pas
= sages IN a playful manner. She say
hare: The dutlful old searchligh
merely whipped up the ancestral memo
ries IN Gregory's subconsclous Drain
moreover, gave him courage he mao
owe with such passion and tenderness
that Ida, for once elemental, chung I
him 20 long and 40 ardently that tn
gr,nning moon whisked off his beam !
disgust and retired behind big blac
cloud-which burst shortly afterwar
and washed out the car tracks. Atte
they we're married Gregory though
that Ida was not good enough for hin
Ho was some time in learning better
Ida. too. thought that she had mad
mistake. Her own ego was ran
pant" the story says. II also say
mat the holdest imaginations and II
mos. romantic hearts arc sequcstere
n the American big business men
today. Gregory was such ma
Gregory Compton had grown to ms
turity In the most romantic subdivisio
~ ~. United States, since Californ
rad retired 70 the position OF class
Montana. her long winter surface