Grand Forks herald., 1921-12-12

work for four years, picking out the
pupils for debates. and drilling them,
and nagging at them to get them to
look up references, and begging them
years, to set up a couple Of good de-
bates! And she comes rushing in,
and expects in one year to change the
whole town into lollypop paradise
with everybody stopping everything
! else to grow tulips and drink tea And
it's a comfy honey old town, tool"
| She had such an outburst after each
Of Carols comprehension better
Thanatopsis programs, for Shavian
plays, for more human schools-but
she never betrayed herself, and al
ways she was penitent. " I'D !. I, Il
Vida was, and always would be, a
reformer, a liberal.$44 She believed that
details could excitingly be altered, but
that things-in-general were comely
and kind and immutable. Carol was,
, without understanding or accepting it,
a revolutionist, a. radical, and there
fore possessed Of Constructive ideas"
which only the destroyer can have,
since the reformer believes that all
the essential constructing has already
been done. After years of intimacy
1t was this unexpressed opposition
more than the fancied loss Of Kenni-
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fascinated.
But the birth of Hugh revived the
; transcendental emotion. She was in
dignant that Carol should not be ut
terly fulfilled in having borne Kenni-
colts child. She admitted that Carol
seemed to have affection and immac-
ulate care for the baby, but she be-
gan to identify herself now with Ken
nicott, and in this phase to feel that
she had endured, quito too much from
Carols instability.
! She recalled certain other women
who had come from the Outside and
had not appreciated Gopher Prairie
She remembered the rector's wife who
had been chilly to callers and who
was rumored throughout the town to
have said, "Re-ah-ly cawn't endure
this bucolic heartiness in the re-
sponses." The woman was positively
known to have worn handkerchief
in her bodice \as padding-oh, the
town had simply roared at her. OF
course the rector and she were got rid
Of in a. few months. =
Ihen there was the mysterious
woman with the dyed hair and PEN
ciled eyebrows, who wore tight Eng.
lish dresses, like basoues. who smell
ed of stale musk, who flirted with the
men and got them to advance money
for her expenses in a lawsuit, who
laughed az Yida's reading at a school
entertainWent. and went off owing a
hotel-bill' and the three hundred dol.
lars she had borrowed.
! I a Vida insisted that she loved Carol
! but with some satisfaction she com
pared her to these traducers of the
| town.
i Vida had enjoyed Raymie Wuther.
spoons singing In the Episcopal choir:
she had thoroughly reviewed the
weather with him at Methodist so
| ciables and in the Bon Ton. But she
did not really know him till she NOV.
ed to Mrs Gurrey's clearinghouse,
II was five years after her affair with
.kennicott. She was thirty-nine. Raw
mie perhaps}a a year younger.
She said to him. and sincerely. my,
You can do anything, with ydur brains
and tact and that heavenly voice, Yo.,
were SO good in The Girl from Kan
kekee.' You made me feel terribly
stupid. II you'd gone on the stage.
believe you'd be just as good as any.
body IN Minneapolis. But still. I'm
not sorry you stuck to business. It's
! such Il constructive career
DO you really think so z. syearned
Raymie, across the apple sauce.
It was the first time that either 81
them had found a dependable intel.
lectual companionship. They look ed
down on Willis Woodford the BANG
clerk, and his anxious babycentric
wife. the silent Lyman Casses. the
slangy travelling man. and the resl
Of Mrs Gurrey's unenlightened guests
They sat opposite, and they sat late
They We're exhilarated to find thai
they agreed in confession Of faith:
People like Sam Clark. and Harry
Haydock aren't earnest about musie
and pictures and eloquent sermone
and really refined movies, but then
on the other hand, people like Caro-
'Kennicott put too much stress on aIl
this art. Folks ought to Appreciate
lovely things. but just the same, they
got to be practical and---they gbt Ia
look at things in a practical way.".
Smiling. passing each other fht
pressed glass, pickle-dish, seeing Mrs
Gurrey's iinty supper-clott, irradiat.
ed by the light OF intimacy, Vida and
iaymie talked about Carols rose.
colorei turban. Carols sweetness
Carols new low shoes. Carols erron.
Aous theory that there was no need
OF strict discipline in school. Carois
amiability Inn the Bon Ton. c,aroi.c
flow Sof wild ideas. which, honestly,