Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-23

n.y. how to speak italian, how to grow
roses and who knows what else.'
The English girl was sincerely crate.
full to Peter, She said. ."To know the
way, to practice the methods-these are
the sure steps toward results: but YOU
must not think toto mvsoIf toc
seriously. as INV brother nrobahlv toli
you. l think II is nil MS nothing com
pared to the skill of beinp n woman.
fit womon--o woman whose ono aim
is to be n woman"
"you h,r. ..,.;.oa :. ,, ,;, po.
,,tti" ,,h. ;,,e ,,ao;n a..u,meu IL sniu ieter,
his heovv brows ss fres;eS 20 snarLi.
behind n hedge.
rL. -, .r, A..
:. he glri tossed inc Dall up ana caught
~ IN her whlte sklrt spread from knee
20 Knee as sIe SAT cross -legsed upon the
euge OF the Benhams lawn. Ihis lawn
pesan asaih AFTER the interruption OF
gehtly down TO line OF tress at the
potion or the hill that half hides the
little town OF Becon. with its nesting
req prlcK houses with their chimney pots
ana root tempered by the smoke of
Goals on nome hres.
They lived peaceably together with :
out any bold assertions of indiyidu
ality, none of them doing any out
rage to the countryside, as Peter, con
trasting 1t with an American town
hia saia' beyond the village Were
the cuaih Gowns Where grass was llghi
green and the heather deeper color,
ana narrow roads were as white as
l1urkS OF crayoh: ana trees standing
alone were like feathery plumes stuck
mere ana 'herc into the rolling country
ey some giant hand. Somewhere. still
turther ON, was the sea into which the
bright sky fell like, blue black curtain
necked with clouds or feathery white
Peter, with half closed eyes, gazed
out across this magnificence of quiet
space toward the distant backbone OF
chalk ridge where ancient Britons
once drove their cattle into caves and
Druid priests had once held solemn
rites. He was quite unconscious of
Murieis attention hxed upon him
somewhat as faithful dog watches
master; he had been in many Of his
own dreams IN these ten days am
might we'll be forgiven for failing Ia
notice that something of violence wns
going on within this English girl,
whose outlines, like those of volcano.
were still clear and cold against the
sky, exposing nothing of the fires and
steam which may blow their surround
ings into fragments.
The most that Muriel had ever said
was that Peter was one Of tbo "nico
Americans. patsonizinp COMMIT !.
mcnt which had made him tell tho pirl
and her mother that bc was crat;t;od
Mt that Judgment expressed by .'tbo
better tvnc of English - Uo i;d nv NV
know thnt by the processes ,vithin H., ,h.
Benham sisters lovely head sha bad ,n
weighed corefuliv his nbvsicoI cue anrann mau
once. noting his high hronyoJ fon
head his stroipLt nose his Iou, 'pae ps.,
creeks md the thin judicial Ina ina" ,h;ah hirb'
had baon m inheritonca ~ .hp Mh'un
ever since Justicc DeyVoifo 'hs hsJ iahllS hnS
nojntod hv ConIsv Sbo Iau 5tFi,
him os ono wnmII ir5ae nn' Juust"
md sotistied Ind metb6J,.aiiu "m animal
nn 70 bis nIothos 'eahS passeo
" 49,, y. u.s. s -,,.I
reter clotnes are FAMOUS for their
tnnws boE ba s,oooois Mo one quite
tbrougb somr exnonsiwe,u fostin fStPitessiIs
and unimaginatiye tailor 90 n'mnh at
his own brand of distinction in dross
Evening clothes or bathwrap MAJORS
uniform or lounging tlannels, 1t is al-
ways the same; Peters clothes and
Peter are one. An envious broker in
New York named Moore once said that