Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-02-25

VIII. that not even the MOI tai ache
of longing can Withstand it. So vague
iy she began TO apprehend a coming
time when, instead of flying from her
sorrow. it might be to a state more
unhappy yet. she would be able 10 face
IL. even to OUTAGE it unafraid, it's
, master and her own.
However. that was only toward the
end
Meanwhile SAe was faithful to her
word, faithfully regulated her life in
accordance with the scheme suggested
by Fosdiek. She started a portrait OF
Ada Meyer and worked at il steadily
every morning. and in amazingly few
sittings managed 10 make the painted
canvas body forth the impish charm
of that lady. her Irresistible gay inn
pudence. This in spite of the fact
that Ada posed poorly and pervaded
the studio with an atmosphere of in
fectious responsibility that was most
demoraiizing to serious-minded
artist-and did Priscilla no end OF
good.
In the afternoon she labored more
| soberly hut no less successfully upon
composition employing two profess
Sional models a mother and daughter
painting famously Well with do
cison new IN her WORK With dash
ing technique whose secrets she had
newly surprised and whose manipVIa-
tion proved an abiding Joy.
In between there we're luneheons NJ
| Avignon, nel's, the Ritz. with The
women of her world. and others with
professional workers like herself In
dingy. amusing little holes of raStau-
rants with which that part OF Green
witch Village Immediately adjacent 10
her studio was ritldled. And after the
| light failed there were teas motoring
and bridge parties. dinner. the theater,
dances
Alike 10 work and TO play she gave
herself without reserve. entering with
unwonted animation Though nobody
| thought II feverish) into whatever di-
version the hour offered. And If at
| times there was an undernote OF sad
ness in her laughter. Swallowed visit
! funess In her eyes. WEAKNESS In her
gesture, she was the first 10 notice
] and swift 10 dissemble. So that none
! remarked any change In her. more
/ than an access Of l0velneSs aud
| charm at once elusive and insistent.
| and she was moro than ever sought
after. mportuned, courted. wooed.
dozen conquests were added to her
score in that too hrief lull. Bur she
seemed altogether unaware of them,
save as friends, and moved sedately
among them, adorably pretty, tantaiz-
inglv desirable, cxasperatngly de
tached. In those days she liked all
men and loved none -. none but
one
Not Philip Fosdick.
With herself she was honest and
unpretendng: II Mario was never for
her she was for no one else.
She was patient in confidence Of ulti-
mate emancipation. Already she had
gained much. The question Of her
sanity no longer hafassed her. More ;
she had ceased to dream of Leonora.
OR rather she no longer remembered
what she dreamed She Weakened every
morning from n night whose dream
content was hlank-if she had dream.
ed al all. She was far from satisfied
however. that she hal ceased 10 dream
II seemed to her that she had ceased
merely TO remember. For in spite Of
the cessation of her dreaming the
sense of the llaison persisted never
had she felt more near 10 feonnra.
more intimately a sharer in her psychic
life
Now and again there would come
without warning, without any encour-
agement of conscious wish or thought,
feeling 81 identity with that other.
of understanding, OF personal partici-
patton in Leonoras happiness, that
| brought strange exaltation of spirit.
| paradoXically akin TO that happiness
which life refused her. And at such
times she would experience indefinite,
teasing glimpses into Leonora's pres
ent Observation-Disclosures no sooner
granted than snatched away, of a life
half known, half foreign, like stir of
shadow shapes In the depths of the
darE mirror of her unconscious mind.
tTO BE Continued