Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-27
EVENING EDITION.

a sYECenyN convex w UAAy a.. "~N
arhibited Is many titles and authors
as possible, hating only to appeal,
.Havs von. read his last book7 Don't
q think he's a terribly stfong
She was dizzy. But when no insist
cd. you've been a, librarian: tell me;
do I read too much fiction! she ad-
yised him loftily, rather d1scursively.
Ha had. she indicated, mover studied.
Ne had skipped froni n emotion to
another. Espeesally--she hesttated,
then flung it at hlm-hc must not
guess at Recommendations; he must ems
dure the nuisancc>of stopping to reach
for the dictionary.
I'm talking like q cranky teacher"
she sighed.
damned dictionary right through"
| He crossed his legs and bent over,
| clutching his ankle with both handle.
II know what you mean. I've been
rushing from picture to picture, like
n. kid let loose in an art gallery for
, the first time. o. sec, it's 50 awful
| recent that I've. found there was a
| world-well, a world whore beautiful
| Till I was nineteen. Dad is a good
| farmer, " nothing else. Do you
know why he first sent me OF to learn
tailoring? I wanted to study draw
ing, and lie had a cousin that'd made
a lot Of money tailoring out In Da-
kota, and he said tailoring was a lot
like drawing. 80 he sent me, down to
a punk hole called Curlew. to work
in a tailor shop. Up to that time I'd
only had three months schooling a
yea-walked to school two miles.
through snow up to my knees-and
Dad never would stand for my having
a single book except schoolbooks.
!" never read a novel TILL I got
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Han out
Of the library at curlew.' I thought
it was the loveliest, thing in the
Away and then Pope's translation Of
Homer. Some combination, All right!
When Invent to MiRneapoliA just two
years ago, l guess I'd read pretty
much everything in that Curiew IL
brAry, but. I'd never heard Of Roesetti
or John aargent or Balzac or
Brahms. But Yump. III study.
oring. this pressing and repairine!"
II don't see why a surgeon should
spend very much time ccbblinE
shoes,
But what it I find ! can't really
draw and design? After flushing
around In New York or Chicago. I'd
feel like a fool If 1 had to go back
to work In q gents furnishings sere!"
please say fhabeFdashery.'"
"Haberdashery? All right. I'll
remember" He shrugged and spread
his fingers wide.
She was humbled by his humility;
she put away in her mind, to take
out and worry owe later, a specula.-
who was naive. She urged What il
you do have to go back? Most OF us
do! We can't all be artists-myself,
for instance. We have to darn socks,
and yet we're not content to think Of
nothing but socks and darning-cotten.
I'd demand all | could get-whether
I finally settled down to designing
frocks or building temples or press
ing pants. What Hf o do drop
back? You'll have had the adventure.
Don't be too m9ek toward life! Go!
You're young, you're unmarried. Try
everything! Don't listen to Nat Hicks
, n Sam Clark and be q steady
: young man'-in order to help then,
:, make money You're still u blessed
t innocent. Go and play till the Good
T People capture you!"
: But l don't just want to play. ]
want to make something beautiful,
God! And I don't know enough. do
you get 1t? Do you understand :? NO
body else ever has! DO you under-
: stand"
YES"
; E&s"And So But here's what both.
! ers me: I like 2fabfics:S dinky thing
like that; little drawings and eleean,
= words. But look over there at those
: fields. Big! New! Don't It seem
, kind OF O shame to leave this ana &c
! back TO the East and Europe, and
: do what all those people have been
doing so long? Being careful abou,
! wofds when there millions Of bush
= = els of WHEAT here! Beading this fel-
low Pater. When I've helped Dad tc
clear fielda!"
ITS good to cieAt fi~lds But til
b not for you. It's one Of our favoritt
+ American myths that broad p'eint
. necessarily make ;.road minds. anc
high mountains make high purpose.
: thought that myself, when I frs
came to the prairie. 'Bis--ncw.' oh
a ! n want to deny the prairie flu.
= ture. 1t will b. n asniticcn.. I:ur
bullied by 1t, Ct IL war ON behalf q,
Main Street, be 3utiied and Lu,lied b,
the faith that t;le future is alrrad,
mere In the present, and that all If u!
e must stay AMI worship Wirnt-siac ok,
and insist that This is Gods Country
= and never, Of courae. 10 anything
original or g~ay-co!or4.i that woult
a Help 70 MAKE mat futureH ANYWAY
you don't belong here. Sam Ciarl
= and Nat Hicks. that's what our III,
: newuess has preduccd. &c! Befcr,
J it's too late. as II has been for-fo.
scme OF us. Young man. gu East an,
Grow up with the revniut;oni The,
!, perhaps you may como back. and tel
> Sam and Nat and ma what to do will
tho land we've been clearing
We'll listen-if. We don't lynch 70,
first"
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