Evening star., 1921-10-16


much attention. 1t sounded
like = scraping on the win
dow ledge. And if hadn't
been busy counting the number
Of motions to this pull-the-strinE
stunt should have stopped and taken
a look. But you mustn't. Stop,
mean. Tha.'s what the professor
says. and wnen' / part with a whole
twenty-five for expert advice you
bet I'm going to follow 1t.
You see, the professor told me
20 start with twenty times and add
rve day until I'd worked up to
forty. and then taper back to twenty.
Thirty was my mark this day and
uas nearly there whe nthere came
chis acraping noise once more. And
say, I wasn't costumed to give any
public exhibition. Hardly.
You get me. expect Morning
exercises. May sound foolish. but I
lust gotta have 'em. on account of
my restless disposition and early
bringing up. Do you know how
used to start the day when I was a
Etrl back In Minnesota? At Dodge's
Clearing. to be exact? I'm afraid it
through the whole list, but my be-
tore breakfast activities included
such things as chopping an armful of
wood, building fire In the kitchen
from the spring. feeding Old Bill. the
white horse, milking two cows. and
other little tricks that Nav Dodge
insisted were good for a growing
girl.
Some might think that now I'd
nj n fnr oil hv n
the pillow an hour or SO extra every
morning. That's the way IneI fig
ures to get even for all the early toll
hat was wished on her. But we have
different temperaments., Inez and 1.
She can seem to get all the exercise
she needs by chewing gum. while have
co thrash around. First ] tried fol-
lowing a diagram I found in a health
magazine. but that got kind of
rnonotonous and l hunted up this
physical culture specialist who in
vented these little games for me.
=: * S
4 Nd say, when you've pulled the
string thirty times or more hand
running, you've worked up a circu-
Iation. Try 1t once. Knees and arms
out as you make the squat, and
hands sharply to your hips as you
come up. You'll look like human
jumping Jack. but you'll feel fine
afterward. That is, if you're not
too lame. And gradually you can
take on the rest of the program.
That's how 1 keep myself down to
into my part as the Flapper every
night. What I'd like better would
he a five-mile romp through real
delds and real woods. but when you're
living on Park avenue it can't be
oil Ns.rl,$
air can by staging my jumping
.jack act in front of a big south win
dow pulled all the way down from
the top. OF course, l had to have
the shade fixed so it could be run
Up over the lower half from the
nottom. and it was hunch that
somebody was Scrabbling around on
'he 1ire-escape behind that shade
that made me finally stop and stretch
my ear
nre of your neighbors here in New
York? Especially if you live in one
Of these big apartment houses that
cover nearly a whole block Ours
Is that kind. It's built around = big
court in the middle, where there are
a few dusty cedars and a dry foun-
tain, the taxis drive in around this
circle and unload at the carriage
entrance. Some of the apartments
have windows opening only on the
Eels had sense enough to pick one
with outside exposure. We have all
the air there is between us and New
Jersey, and these clear fall mornings
we can almost see Miss Liberty turn
Ing her back on the home of the
brave and the land where the free
.unch once fiourished but doesn't
any more.
I suppose there are enough folks
living in this one building to populate
rwo places like Tamarack Junction.
And out there would have known
most of 'em by their first names; how
many times they'd been married. IL
any; what church they took of or let
alone, and whether they had the Sat
urday night bath habit or saved 1t up
for Fourth of July.
But here in this leveu-story struc-
tural steel hive all I know by sight
are the elevator boys and the day
and night door men, who nod to me
friendly. in. the hope OF getting an
ether tip. OF course. I get glimpses
II people in the vestibule and riding
Up and down. but I can't tell whether
they're regular neighbors of ours or
visiting piano tuners. There are par
-ies living over It's and on either side.
but were Just as we'll acqua inted with
'sm as though they Inhabited Pata-
-onia. Finland or Moza mbiqU.. occa-
stonally we hear a dull thud. and we
guess that the people upstairs have
dropped something, but we don't
know what or WHY and don't try to