The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-06

feai4 wOllu oe II yol cohd apply the
electric aai iron and iron her out
She was barefoot and dressed only in
onepieoe wrapper With a safety
pm about forty five degrees down to
keep her out OF The tolls of an en-
ragged public uniniJn- she had a
bandana over her TOn-gray locks that
looked as thOG2h it had been carried
around matter Of seyentecn months
by Slav section hand and utilized
again without antisep;ieizing and she
suppersedsh sEsek hs sleane so full
of knots and twists that il made me
dizzy 20 hook at H. Her line was
beads and for n nickel you could buy
as many an strung as YOU can get of
beans in Shelbmne's restaurant for
quarter with ketsup thrown in for
the swiping. Somehow that old wo-
man epitomize'l the southwest to me
1.-The country o yeeteryear. the trag-
edy OF the people who have gone and 4
who are really needed to make this
country consistent. Pood old woman
Set her down al Broadway and Forty
second street and she'd 30 bughousel
as a bat. Ii seemed hard to believed
| that she was human creature-that /
she lived in the same world say with
some of the women I've known-who
simply didn'tshaveaa rag TO their
names unless they had seventeen
/ crepe de ehepe lite things hung up
in the front room wardrobe and were
at the mercy Of cruel world If It
deyolved upon them 10 cook anything
beyond dish Of fudge and dill
pickle, IT was far cry indeed from
poor old granny to the massaged
heroine of a Robert w Chambers
novel say again, truly this world is
very very added
There was no dining car ON the
train Folks who 80 to California by
way of the Santa Fe, eat at the Fred
Harvey restaurants. Out in the
| southwestern deserts. hundreds of
/ miles from anywhere this man Har-
yey has built a line. of public eating
. places that make the New York caba.
/. rets look like a chain OF all.night
3 lunch carts They are massive stuc
, co buildings the size of a Vermont
I summer hotel and the trains are
5 timed so that they stop morning noon
/. and night for twenty-five minutes
4 while you pile OUT and feed your face
/ You leave the train, cross over the
e tracts and up the steps on to yeran.
y das wide enough to turn an automo.
k bile around. You herd with the rest
/. Of the furnishing into the high cool
$ dining rooms and in a profusion Of
SPARKLING silver and snow-whte linen
YOU sit down to show what beast
YOU are. iThe moment YOU drop your
i hat under the chair a flock OF young
q ladies' in black who look like the
h french ladies' Made Of the movies
scatter thrDagh the dining room bear
# ng platters OF food Within three
+ minutes after YOU make a grab foi
d your chair YOU have your plate filled
y with mama from Kansas City Soup
ID lish, choice OF three kinds of meat
. two kinds Of vegetables. two helping,
y Of dessert and chaser OF ice tea OF
~ cold milk are set before you within
I. fifteen minutes and you spend The
II. other ten buying chewing gun
70 to aid digestion You feel arount
d feebly for your lid and siagger to ID,
,r pay booth expecting to be trimmed
N for about ten bits. Yet all you hay.
o. to cough up Is seyenty-hve cents auC
AZ in thirty minutes from tie time thu
,r train slowed down you are out on TIT
,e desert again ssmOding Havana II
ID the smoking car and hearing the trav
I'd cling statesmen in the seat opposite
RS resite some OF the bright savings o
as his twoyear-old kid.
Or How does Fred Harvey do Il? Nol
ne can search me. Some say his res
I'd taurants don't pay and are assistc,
I'd financially by the Santa Fe as part o
IA their service to attract travellers Bu
H. | doubt IT, think he gets by be
he "ause he's reduced packing the pul
go lic graw TO science He serves goo
es wholesome food by scientific manag,
ment to the multitude. depending o
he volume for his profit Back east II 20
he can ham sandwich and a cup {
10 coffee in a railroad station II cost
m. you so much you can't afford q stree
ST car TO take YOU TO your residence q
IN your journeys end and The method
ID. behind the kitchen doors would banl
as rupt Chi'ds restaurant in two day
pt Harvey isn't hog and he gives ser
,e. ice. It's great system-and
Die moral
m. Night came three times while wa
ed on that desert. | had heard n ],
of about the mystery and the spell
ed such time and wondered what It W.
off like ! found out.
,ur It was the second evening goir
We across the Painted Desert OF Arizor
,ss that remember best. The mou
EN- tains were very far away then The
IN. were no more rivers. There W.
he Just sand and space and solitude an
nat cactus. And when the porter had II
les berth made up and had crawled
nd behind the curtains shutting ont Il
yo- car lamps, | raised the screen in Il
nd window and sat there with my brail
ug stuck out into the aimosphere-ar
Ike saw God
Fps ! know such a statement will gi'
lily pain in the neck to the boys in Il
ife barbershops and cigar stores. NevC
- theless the statement stands.
,ad There was a full moon on this mig
len but il wasn't the moon that made n
ere feel cheap and insignificant and SINS
the lit was the stars. suppose it's Il
ich strange condition OF the atmosphe
igs over the desert that does it--but Il