Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
SYNOPSIS,

Carol Milford graduates from Blodg-
EFT college near Minneapolis, goes to
chicago for a year., and returns to work
in q library In st. Paul: EThroush col
Carol harbors a desire to go to a small
er community, where she might do a
little uplift work. and spread the COS
pei of ''culture' as she sees it, Then
she meets DR.. Will Kennicott OF Gopher
Prairie.
Carol and DIR. Kennicott are married.
and when they reach Gopher Prairie;
Carol finds it the usual small town, ana
tries not to be disappointed.
Carol finds a maid. Bea Sorenson, be-
gins houseke eping and also plans to
reform the village.
Carol gives a housewarming, and
the elite Of the village.
CHAPTER VU.-Continued.
h badgered another group into
going ski ng. They shouted and threw
~Snowballs, and informed her that it
vas such fun. and they'd have anoth-
err skiing expedition right away and
they jollily returned home and never
thereafter lett their manuals of
bridge.
Carol was discouraged. She was
! grateful when kennicott invited her
to go rabbit hunting in the woods.
She waded down Silly cloisters be-
tween burn, stump n icy oak,
through drifts marked with a million
hieroglyphics Of rabbit and o u and
bird. h squea'ed as he leaped on
a pile OF brush and tired at the a b
bit which a. out. He belonged there,
masculine in REFER and sweater and
high-laced boots. That night she ate
prodigiously of steak and fried. pota-
toes, h produced electric sparks by
touching his ear with her finger-tipi
h slept twelve hours; and aWoke to
think how glorious was this brave
land.
She rose to a radiance of sun or
snow. Snug in her furs she trotted
uptown. Frosted shingles smoked
against a sky colored like flax-blos-
SONS, sleigh-bel's clinked. shouts OF
greeting were loud in the thin bright
air, and everywhere was a rhythmic
sound Of wood-sawing. 1t vas Satur.
day. and the neighbors' sons wer,
getting up the winter fuel. BEHIND
walls Of corded wood in back yard:
their sawbucks stood in depresdons
scattered with canary-yellow flake:
of sawdust. The frames Of theil
buck-saws were c~herry-red, the blade.
blued steel. and the fresh cut end!
of the sticks-poplar, maple, iron
wood. birch-were marked with en-
graved rings OF growth. The boy:
wore shoe-packs. blue flannel shirts
with enormous pearl buttons. ant
J m~ackinaws of crimson. lemon yellow
/. and foxy brown.
: Carol cried Zine day!" to the boys
she came in a glow, to Rowland {
Gould's grocery. her Collar white Will
frost from her breath: she bough
a can of tomatoes as though it wer
Orient fruit; ard returned home plan
4 ming to surprise kennicott with al
omelet creole for dinner.
So brilliant was the snoW-glare tina
when she entered the house she say
the door-knobs. the newspaper o n tn,
table, every white surface as dazzlinl
mauve, and her head was dizzy in tn,
!, pyrotechnfc dimness.! When her eye
drunk with health. mistress of life
} The world was so luminous that sh,
sat down al her rickety little desk il
the living room to make a poem
, tShe got no farther than ~.The SIX,
: is bright, the sun is warm, there nee
will be another stormy
In the mid Afternoon of the sam
day Kennicott was called into tn
country. 1t was ,Bea's evening out
: Carol was alone from three till mid
, night. h wearied OF reading pur
!, love stories in the magazines and sa
by a radiator. beginning to brood.
Thus she CHANGED to discover tina
| she had nothing to do.
II.
I She had. she meditated, passe,
through the novelty OF seeing tn
town and meeting people. of skatin
and sliding and hunting. Bea wa
: competent; there was no Household
labor except sewing and darntng an
gossdpy assistance to Bea in bed-mak
ing. She couldn't satisfy he ingen
uity in planning meals. At Dahl
Oleson's Meat Market you didn't Civ
orders-you woefully inquired whethe
! there was anything today beside
steak and pork and nam. The cuts Q
. beef were not cuts. They were hacks
Lamb chops were IS exotic as sharks
fins. The meat-dealers shipped thei
/ best to the city. with its higher prices
. In all the shops there WAS the sam
lack OF choice. She could not fin
a g~iass-headed picture-nall In town
J she did not hunt for the sort Of veil
, ing she wanted-she took what sh
! Guild get; and only ut Rowland
|, Gould's was there ouch a luxuryra
canned ASPARAGUS. Routine care wa
ALI she could devote 10 the HOUSE
Only by such fussirg az the Wfdo,
Bogartis could she make It fill he
II time