The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-03-07

r,ed association Of him with II. That
all thoughts and memories OF hi'n
must necessarily be painful, she mao
taken for granted.
But with this sudden lighting up OF
hope, she flung the closed door Wlu'
and called her husband back into hcr
thoughts. This hard thing mat Sh"
was going 20 do-thls thing that meaht
~slecplcss nights. and fcvcrishly active
dnys-was an expression simply OF
her love for him-a sacriiiclal offering
to be laid before the shrine OF him
In her heart.
Yet, the fnct thar Roses heart was
racing and her nerves were ungling
with a newly welcomed sense OF her
lovers spiritual presence, did not pre-
vent her flying along west on Ran
dolph street and south again on the
west side OF State. with a very clear
" visualizcd purpose. Half an hour
later she hailed n passing cab ana u"'
posted IN II one dressmaklng form, n
huge bundle Of paper cambric-in
black. white and w~ashed.out blue, ana
her own weary but still excited and
cxultant self.
II was after eight o'clock when she
reached her room. Rehearsal was nj
eight.thirty and she had had nothing
10 eat since noon. But she stole the
time, nevertheless, to tear the wrap
pings on her form" and gaze on It's
respectable nakedness for WI or three
minutes with n contcmpla;ive eye
Then. r~eluctantly-it was the first
time she had left that room with re
luctance-she turned out the light and
hurried on 10 the little lunch room
that lay on the way TO the dance hall.
II was during that first rehearsal
which she so narrowly missed being
late for, that she got the general
schemes for both sets Of costumes
| She began studying the girls for their
individual peculiarities OF style. Each
one of the costumes she made was GO
ing to be for n particular girl.
At last when n shout from Gal.
| DIullu uIblNtN I'I w NHt lt'l UNIV
she had missed nm entrance cue alto.
gether, In her %entranced absorption In
these visions OF hers, and had caused
that objectionable thing, a stage walt
she resolutely clampcd down the lie
upc her Imagination and, until they
were dismissed, devoted herself TO the
rehearsal.
But the pressure kept mounting
higher and higher, and she found her
self furiously impatient to get away
back TO her own private wonderland
the squnlid little room down the
street, that had three bolts Of cam
brio In II and n dresSmakpr's name
quin-the raw materials for her magic
Rose couldn't draw n hit. Sh,
hadn't the falntest impulse 10 make {
beginning by putting a picture dowr
on paper and making n dress from 4
afterward. She couldn't have told jusi
why she had bought those three shade,
OF paper cambria.
What she had felt. OF course, at tn,
very outset, was the need OF something
TO indicate. roughly, the darks ant
lights In her design. And, short Of tho
wild extravaganza OF slashlng into the
fabrics themselves and making he,
mistakes at their expense, she could
think OF nothing better than the
scheme she chose.
Rehearsal was dismissed a NttIs
early that night, and she was back ir
her 20 by eleven. Arrived there
she took Off her outer clothes, sa,
down cross.legged on the floor. and
went TO work.
When NJ last. with n little sigh, and
a TREMENDOUSLY smiling acknowledge
ment Of fatigue, she got up and looked
Mt her watch, II was four o'clock In
tho morning. She'd had one of those
experiences Of which every artist chr
remember n few In his life, when II Is
impossible for anything 10 go wrong
when the vision ~mIraculously betters
Itself In the execution when the only
difficulty is that which the hands have
IN the purely mechanical operation OF
keeping uD,