Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-11
EVENING EDITION.

-, IN at n quarter to eight Then ,ih
= shv avalanche arrived the entire
aritsocracy OF Gopher Prairie: allsper-
sons engaged in a profession, pr Earn
ing more than Twenty-Five hundred
dollars a year, or possessed OF grand
parents born in America.
Even while they were removing
their overshoes they were eeping at
the new decorations. Carol saw
Dave Dyer secretively turn over the
gold pillows to find a pricc-tag, and
bear,l Mr.. julius F]ickerbnugh. the
attorney, gasp, well, I'll be, switch
ed" as he viewed the vermilion print
hanging against the Japanese obi. She
vas amused. But her high spirits
slackened as she beheld them form
in dress parade, in a long, silent. un-
easv circle clear round the living
room. She felt that she had been
masically whisked back to her. first
party. at Sam Clark's. ttl
Have ] got to lift them, like 40
many pigs of iron? i don't know
that I can make them happy, but ia
make them hectic"
A silver flame in The darklinE cir
Gle, she whirled around, drew them
with her smile, and sang want my
party to be noisy and unidentified!
This is the christening Of my house,
HnO i WauL yOu ~ llClp LAX .lldVc d UaO
influence on it. so that It will be a
giddy house. For me, won't you all
Join in an old-faskioned square
dance? And Mr.. Dyer will call"
She had a record on the phono-
Z graph; Dave Dyer was capering I'm
the center of the floor, loosc-jointed,
, lean, small, rusty headed, pointed
OF nose. clapping his hands and shout
ing, Swing y pardners-alamun lef!"
Even the millionaire Dawsons and
Ezra Stowbody and Professor. Geo.
slightly foolish: and by rushing about
the room and being coy and coaxing
to all persons over forty-five, Carol
got them into a waltz and a Virginia
Reel. But when she left them to dis
enjoy themselves in their own way
Harry Hayjock put Il one-step record
on the monograph, the younger pep
pie took the floor. and all the feldeTs
snaked back to their chairs, with
Don't believe I'll try this m myself.
but I do enjoy watching the young
sters dance"
Hat Of them were silent: half re-
sumcd the discussions of that 3safter-
noon. in the store. Ezra. Stowbody
hunted for something to say. ibid a.
Nawn and offered to Lyman Cass. the
owner of the flour-mili, How a. you
folks like the new furnace, Lynn?
Huh? So" s
''Oh, let them alone. Don't pesfsr
Them They must like 1t, sor they
wouldn't do it." Carol warned her
self. But they gazed at her so ex-
p%ectantly when she flickered past that
she was reconvinced that in their de-
bauches of responsibility they had
lost the power of play as we'll as the
power of im%personal thought. Even
the dancers were gradually crushed
by the invisible force of fifty perfect
ly pure and well-behaved and mega
tive minds; and thay sat down, two
by two. In twenty minutes the party
was again elevated to the decorum ~
4 prayer-meeting.
Il We're going to do something ex-
citing" Carol exclaimed to her new
, confidante, Vida Sherwin. She saw
that in the growing quiet her voice
had carried cross the room. Nat
Hicks, Ella. stowbody, and Dave Dyer
were ~abstracted, fingers and lips
slightly moving. She knew with a
cold certainty thai Dave was rehears-
ing his stunt" about the Norwegian
catching the hen, Ella running over
he first lines Of can Cd Sweetheart
of Nine and Nat thinking Of his
+ popular parody on Mark Antony's ora,
ton.
But I will not have anybody use
the word stunt in my house, she
!, whispered to Miss Sherwin.
That's good. I tell you: why not
have Raymond Wutherspoon sing?'
"Raymie?N WHY, my dear, he's the
+ most sentimen entail yearner in town.
;, Continued Tomorrow Evening.