The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY 2. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public LedgsE.l
In the Celebrity Belt.


Windsor, VT, Aug. 13.-Half a mile
out of Fairlee Friday afternoon
black cat cut diagonally across the
ROAD in front of the Blue swallow.
Adelaide gazed upon its sinking form
with apprehension but / laughed at
her fears. I pointed out the fact that
the cat was not wholly black, that il
had a few white hairs and that it had
not crossed the highway directly in
said, we've laid that black cat-ata-
curry. You will recall that one crossed
the read ahead of US the Sunday we
drove to Arden and nothing happened
Near White River Junction another
black eat crossed the road. 1t had no
white markings and it passed directly
in front of the car. I tried to laugh
away the incident in a burst of gay
persiflage; but l drove very carefully
thereafter, and the remainder of the
ride into Windsor was spoiled for both
OF u.s. We parked the ear for the
night and 1t came out of sthe garage
sunday morning apparently perform
ing up to the advertising promul-
gated by its manufacturer. But as 1
eased it into second speed in front of
the hotel l heard what seemed to be a
keg of loose railway spikes falling off
mountain side. The noise seemed
to proceed from the rear of the car.
There were additional sounds, eompar-
able to those produced by a garden
rake In violent contact with the key
garage again and a mechanic dug his
way into the differentiaL He came
out very much soiled and with a hand
full of loose teeth. At the garage they
thought they could get the necessary
parts by Monday morning; and they
may be able to do SO. l went over to
the telegraph office and wired for
money, and We settled down for two
Gays of enforced sojeurn in the cele-
brity belt.
This section of the celebrity belt
gets its impetus from the so-ealled
artists colony at Cornish, N. H, just
across the Connecticut river and only
little more than a mile distant. L
had read great deal about the Cor
nlsh colony. 1t has been to writer's
Tor the magazine sections of the Sum
DAY newspapers what the Kansas date
| ine has been to reporters in the mid
die west So l pressed the natives for
| details. I wanted the names of the
artists who live in the colony, ]
learned they were Winston Churchill
and Maxfield Parrish. 1 therefore
me demurrer to the phrase, Cor
nlsh Artists Colony" and ask that its
further use be epjoined. Mr.. Church.
Ill and Mr.. Parrish are artists. They
approximate the nadir of American
achievement in fiction and decorative
art: But my contention is that two
l stand by 1t, MIR. Churchill belongs
to the Windsor Golf club. Presum-
ably, he plays occasionally. If SO,
God help him! No wealth of artistic
achievement, no consciousness OF
creature luxuFies AUD comforts, can
compensate him for the agony of
playing the Windsor course. 1t is
new-and its natural horrors are be-
vested in this portable typewriter.
Compared to it the Cobbs Creek golf
course is gentle exercise for oetoge-
narlans- When started out to plaH
1t 1 asked the professional if I could
nave caddy. He said they had a
caddy, but he did not come to the
club Saturday afternoons. So 1 went
off alone. To say I played it were
exagseration. something in which I
seldom indulge. I got as far as the
eighth; there was nothing left to pick
up. 1 quit cold. At the hotel a club
member asked me how I got along
"Oh, not so we'll" I nonchalantly re-
piled. THE best I could do was a
49," I didn't tell him the 80 was on
the fourth hole. What was the use
If there is talk in Windsor about the
Philadelphia newspaper man who
course, I can't help it; I shan't be
heie to stop it.
Marie Dressler once picked Windsor
as place of summer residence and
was game for several seasons. Only
recently. in fact, did she sever the
property ties which bound her to
the town, selling one of her places to
the golf club and permitting her own
personal residence to pass into the
hands of non-professionals She
staged her entrance lavishly and in
good taste, erecting a modest but
beautiful house on the outskirts of the
village. Nobody in Windsor knows
exactly what Miss Dressler was trying
to do; but the fact that she provided
sumptuous quarters for 500 hens in
dicates she may have been thinking of
the poultry business. At any rate, her
place was the last word in luxury ana
comfort for both poultry and people.
There is talk in Windsor about Marie,