Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-05

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patchy galvanized iron cornice; the
building beside 1t was crowned with
battlements and pyranids~ofs brick
capped with blocks OF red sandstone
She escaped from Main Street., filed
home.
She wouldn't have cared, she in
sisted. if the people had besn comely.
She had noted a young man loafing
before a shop. n unwaAhed, hand,
holding the cord OF an awning; q mid
dle-aged q who had O way Of star
Ing at women as though he had been
married too long and too prosaicaly:
an old farmer, solid, wholesome. but
not clean-his face like 4 POTATO
fresh from the earth. None Of them
had shaved for three days. J,
II they can't build shrines, oft here
IN tho prairie, surely there's nothing
70 prevent their buying safety-razors!"
She fought herself: IT must be
wrong. People do live here. It can't
be as ugly as-as I know It n! I must
be wrong. But I can't do It. I can't
60 through with It."
She came home too seriously wor.
ried for hysteria; and when she found
kennicott waiting for her, and exult.
ing, Have a walk? Well, like ths
town? Great lawns and trees, eh ?"
she was able to say, with q. self-pro-
tective maturity new to her, TITS very
interesting"
LII.
The train which brought Carol to
Gopher Prairie also brought Mis1 Bea
Sorenson.
Miss Boa was a stalwart, corn-npl.
ored. laughing young woman, and The
was bored by farm-work. She desNr.
ed the excitements Of city-life, and
the way to enjoy city-lhe was; SHE
had decided to "go get a job as hired
girl in Gopher Prairie" She content.
eddy lugged her pesteboard telescope
M~alr1quist, maid Of all work in the
residence of Mrs. Luke Dawson.
Well, so you come to town. said
Tina
va. Ay get a yob,' said Bea-'
we'll. + You got a fella now"
"Ya- YIN jacobson
well. I'm glat to see you. How
much you want q veek?" Z
Sex dollar"
Or. Kennicott, I t'ink he marry a girl
from de Cities. Maybe she ply dat.
Veil. You go take a walk"
"YA." said Bea..
So, It CHANGED that Carol Kennicott
and Bea Sorenson We're viewing Main
Street at the same time. :
Bea had never before been in a
town larger than Scandal Crossing,
which has sixty-seven inhabitants.
AS h marched UP the street she
was meditating that 1t didn't hardy
seem like it was possible there could
be 80 many folks oil in M place at
the sa1ne timeA Ny: It would take
years to get acquainted with them all.
And swell people too! A fine big gen.
tleman in a new pink shirt with a. lia-
mond, and not no washed-out blue
denim working shirt. A lovely lady
in a longery dress (but It must be
an awful hard dress to- waSh). And
the stores!
Not just three of them. like there
were at Scandal Crossing, but moro
than four whole blocksi
The Bon Ton Store-big as four
barns-my! 1t would simply car a
person to go in there, with sever or
eight clerks all looking at you. And
the mems suits. on figures just like
huamn. And Axel Egge's. like home,
lots OF Swedes. and Norskes in there,
and a card Of dandy buttons. like
r0bies.
a drug store with a soda fountain
that was just huge. awful long. and
all lpve,y marble: and on II there was
q Kteat tbig lamp with the biksest
shade you ever saw-all different
kinds cclored glass stuck together:
and the soda spouts. they were silver.
and they right out OF the bottom OF
the lampstand! Behind the fountain
there were glass shelves. and bottles
OF new kinds OF soft drinks. that no-
body ever heard OF. Suppose q feila
took you there!
A" hotel awful high, higher than
Oscar Toilefson's new red barn: three
stories, one right on ton OF another:
you7shad y stick your head back to
look clear. up to the top. There was
a swell travelling man In th4re-prob-
ably been to Chicago. lots Of times.
here! There was q lady going BY,
you wouldn't. hardly say she was any
poider than Bea herself: she wore a
dandy new gray suit and black pumps.
She almost looked like she was look