Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-18
SYNOPSIS.

u. ~ ~ SYNOPSIS. .
" Carol Milford graduates from .Blodg-i
ct college near Minneapolis. goes to
chicago for a year. and returns TO work,
IN "a Library in st. Paul: Through col,
lege,. and three years of library work.
Carol harbors a desire to go to a small;
little up1ift work. and spread the COS,
psi Of 'culture' as she sees it,: Then.
She meets DR.. Will kennicott Of Gopher.
Carol and DR.. Kennicott are married,
and when they reach Gopher Prairie;
carol finds 1t the usual small town, and
tries not to be Disappointed.
Carol finds a maid, Bea Sorenson. be-
gins housekeeping and also plans TO
reform" the village.
Carol gives a housewarming. and
invites the;'"eIiter Of the village.
She begins TO feel that the village
things she does. ~
CHAPTER X.-Continued.
Their supper was the feast OF two
girls. Carol was in the dining-room
in a frock of b ack satin edged with
gold. and Bea. in blue gfngham and
an apron. dined in the Kitchen: but
h door was open between, and Carol
was inquiring, did you see any ducks
in Dahl's Window" and Bea chant
ing. mo. ma'am. Say. We have a
swell time, dis afternoon. Tina she
havo' coffee and knackebrod. and her
fella % dere, and We yoost laughed
and laughed, and her feIla. say he
vos president n he going to make
me queen of Finland, and Ay stick
a fodder in my hair and say Az bane
going to go to var-oh, We vos SO fool
ish and We laugh SOL
When Carol sat. 1T the piano again
she did not think Of her husband but
Of the 'bo~ok-drugged hermit. Guy Pol
lock. She wished that Pollock would
come calling.
'Tf a girl really kissed him. he'd
creep out of his den and be human.
If VIII were as literatc as Guy, or
Guy were as executive as WILL I think
l could endure even Gopher Prairie.
ITS so hard to mother Will. I
could be maternal with Guy. Is
that what want. something to moth
or. 9. man or a baby or a>itown? I
will have a. baby. Some day. But to
have him isolated shere an his rccep-
tive. years ~ &.2a
And so to bed. ys 5
Have I found my real level in Boa
n Kitchen gossip?
"Oh. l do miss you, Will. But it
will be pleasant to turn over in bed
as often as / want to, without worry
AAS ""nAhS w ~.
Am l really this settled thing
called a married woman feel so
unmarried tonight: So free. To think
! that there was once a Mrs. kennicott
who let herself worry over a town
called Gopher Prairie when there was
a whole world outside it!
: "Of course Will is going to like
poetry"
III.
A hl,olr Cohp,1o ~. n ,v Ts.n,,l, La-.s
Of ponderous timber weighing down
on the earth; an ~irresolute dropping
of snow spacks upon the trampfed
wastes. Gloom burt nc yelling of an
gularity. The lines OF roofs and side
walks sharp and inescapable.
The second day OF, Kennicott's alb
sence
She fled from the creepy house for
a walk. 1t was thirty below zero
spaces between houses the win,
caught her. 1t stung. it gnawed al
nose and ears M aching cheeks. and
she fastened from shelter to shelter
catching her breath in the lee Of q
barn. grateful for the protection OF
a. billboard covered with ragged pos.
ters showing layer under layer OF
aste-sfneared green n streaky red
The grove OF oaks at the end o
ILHotSLIGCGn u NH, HuULlnH
am6w-shoes,, and she struggled pas
the earth-banked cottages to the oper
country, to farmland allow hill cor:
rngated with hard snow. In her loose
i nutria coat: seal toques virginia. cheek.
unmarked by lines OF village jealous.
les, she WAS as out Of place on this
dreary hill side as. scarlet tanageI
on an ice-floe. She looked down or
Gopher Prairie. The snow. stretch.
ing without break from streets to de.
! youring prairie beyond. wiped out The
towns pretense Of being a shelter. The
houses were black spec:ss on q white
sheet. Her heart shivered with tina,
still loneliness as her body shiveret
with tile wind.
She ran back into the huddle q
streets, all the while protesting tina;
she wanted d city's yellow glare o,
shop-windows and restaurants. or thu
I. primitive forest with hooded ,furs and
d rifle. or a BARNARD warm ant
steamy. noisy with hens and catt,e
certainly not these dun houses. thes,
n yards choked with winter ash-piIes
these roads OF dirty o and clotte<
frozen mud. The azest OF winter wa,
gone. Three months more, TIN May
the cold might drag on. with tn,
SNOW ever filthier. the weakened bod,
less resistant. She wondered why tn,
good catizens insistsd on adaias tn,