The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-15

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With the poster for Fiuffed oats.'7
When Carol had walked for se
minutes she had completely covered
Die town. east and west. north and
,outh: and she stood at the corner
4 Main Street and Washington Ave
hue and dcspaired.
Main street with It's two-story
lrick shops. Its story-and-a.haif
wooden residences. Its muddy ex.
Ranse from concrete walk TO walk.
b audible OF Fords and humber
p gonS WAS too small 10 absorb her.
he broad. straight. unenucing
kashcs OF the streets let In the
krasping prairie on every side. She
lined the vastness and tho empti.
ess az the land. The skeleton iron
ndmili on the farm a few blocks
ME- az the north end OF Main
treet. was like the ribs of dead
|ow. she thought OF the coming Of
he Northern winter. when the un.
protected houses would crouch to-
sether IN terror OF storms gaJloping
but Of that Wild waste. They were
shelters for sparrowa not homes for
warm laughing people.
She told herself that down the
street the leaves were splcndor.
The naples were orange. the oaks
"a solid tint Of raspberry. And the
owns had been nurscd with love.
sut the thought would not hold A.
best the trees resemhled q thinned
wccdlot~ There was no park to rest
the eyes. And since not Gopher
Prairie but wakamin was the coun-
y seat. there was no court house
pith its grounds
She glanced thru the ny specked
sindows OF the most pretentious
Pilding In sight. the one place
hich welcomed strangers and deter.
mined their opinion of the cha /,
md luxury OF Gopher Prairie--the
Gnnaxhic House. II was = tall
lean shabby structure. three stories
&of yellow xtrcakei wood. the corners
covered with sanded pine slabs pur.
porting TO symbolic stone In The
oteI office she could see = stretch
bare unclcan floor. line OF rick.
~ chairs with brass cuspidors be-
veen. q writing desk with adver.
sements In mothcr-ofpearl letters
pom the glass covered back. The
ming room beyond was a jungle OF
aimed tahiccioths and catsup bot.
r..
She looked no more At the Minnie
Ashie House.
A man In cuffless shirt sleeves
|tfh pink arm garters. wearing a
men collar. but no tie. yawncd his
ay from Dyer's Drug store across
the hotel He leaned against the
all. scratched . while. sighed. and
!, o bored way goSsipcd with a man
lted back in chair. A lumber
Va on. Its long green box filled with
ArEe spools OF barbcd wire fencing.
rcaked down the block. A Ford. In
evcrsa. sounded As tho II were shah.
nx to pieces. then recovered and
Attled away. In the Greek candy
tore was the whine Of \ peanut
1t(ry and the oily .smen OF nuts
There vac no other sound or sign
ef life
shs wanted to run. f1setng frvm
~ encroaching prair1s. demanding
1e security Of = great city. Her
reams Of creating a beautiful town
ere ludicrous- <ooxin9 out from
kry drab wall. she felt forbid
ng spirit which she could never
>nQuer.
She tralied down the street on one
De-. back on the other. glancing into
<e cross streets II was a private
hing Main Street tour. She was.
Thin 10 minutes beholding not
liz the heart OF place called Co
er Prairie. but II, 900 towns from
bany to San Diego:
Dyer's Drug Store. corner build
OF regular and unreal blocks of
Iftcia1 stone. Inside the store. a
vIkxsy marble soda fountain with an
y xctric lamp OF red and green and
8died yellow mosaic shade. Paved
6Jkr heaps OF toothbrushes and
bombs and packages Of shaving soap.
9heIves Of soap cartons. teething
dngx, garden seeds. ana patent
|<dIcihes In yellow packages-nos-
rums for consumption. for WON
- dss~ases"--notorious mixtures
opium and alcohol. In the very
op to which her husband sent pa.
nts for the filling Of prescriptions.
From a second-story window the
In wv. r. Kennicott, Phys. and
1rgeon." gilt on black sand
"A small wooden motion picture