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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09

Pollocks,' Adams thought follow
ing this progress. I hope it'll
sour on EN- before breakfast. De-
livered the Andersons'. Now he's
getting out ours. Listen to the darn
brute! What's he care who wants
to Sleep" His complaint was Of the
horse, who casually shifted weight
with a cHnk of steel shoes on the worn
brick pavement of the street, and
then heartily shook himself in his
harness, perhaL to dislodge a fly
far ahead Of its season. Light had
just filmed the windows; and with
that the first sparrow woke, chirped
instantly, and reused neighbors in
the trees Of the small yard. including
a loud-voiced robin. Vociferations
began irregularly, but were soon
unanimous.
Sleep? Dang likely now. amt IT.
Night sounds were becoming day
sounds; the far-away hooting Of
freight-engines seemed brisker than
an hour ago in the dark \ cheerful
whistler passed the house, even more
careless of sleepers than the milk
mans horse had been; then a group
of colored wOrkmen came by. and al
though it was impossible to b. sure
whether they were hOmeward bound
from night-wOrk or on their way to
daywork, at least it was certain that
they were jocose. Loose, aboriginal
Iar1obrey- y1~arnIaI +tov,, If o,1 La-4
on the air long after they had gone
by.
The sick-room night-Hght, shielded
from his eyes by a newspaper propped
against a water-pitcher. still showed
thin glimmering that had grown of
fensive to Adams. In his wandering
and enfeebled thoughts. which were
much more often imaginings than
reasonings, the attempt Of the night
light to resist the dawn reminded him
of something unpleasant though he
could not discover just what the un-
pleasant. though he could not dis
cover Just what the unpleasant thing
was. Here was a puzzle that fri
teted him the more because he could
not. solve it. vet always seemed just
ou LuC punt ~ a oOluLAoH- however
he may have lost nothing cheerful
by remaining in the dark upon the
matter; for if he had been c little
sharper in this introspection he might
have concluded that the squaIor of
the night-Igrt, in its seeming effort
to show against the forerunning Of
the sun itself, had stimulated some
half-buried perception within him to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09
RALSTON ATTACKS
REPUBLICAN AIMS
Senator-EIect Speaks in Spring
field, iii.
By Times Special


SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan ma
tional isolation is a thing of the past,
Samuel NJ. Ralston, United States Sen
ator-elect from Indiana, said in an
address at the Jackson day banquet
here last night
mo nation any longer can hold it
self out of the reach of the world. if
if so desires" the speaker said '''This
Nation is fourteen times closer to ev-
cry point of the world than it was at
the breaking out Of the World War.
Oceans have become but ponds ard
mountains but ridges"
The idea Of isolation must become
obsolete, Ralston insisted Just Cas in
dividuaIs owe something to one an
other in the daily relationships Of life.
so do nations. he said. European ma
tions arc Frustrated commercially, and
it is TO the United States they look
for assistance in getting on their feet.
In the past thirty-five years practi-
caIly all important constructive pieces
of legislation have been enacted by
the Democratic party, Ralston as
serted.
THE Republican party's hobby dur
ing this time has been the high pro-
tective tariff. the basic idea of which
is calculated to limit the vision Of its
advocates and to disassociate them
from sympathy with the human ele-
ment in world AFFAIRS Railston said.
This is why, in my opinion, the Re
publican party has ceased to have an
international mind"
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back her head to foreshorten the faoe
sauciness, then one of smiling weari-
ness, then one Of scornful liberation.
and all very piquant; but as the door
opened she hurriedly resumed the
practical, and occupied her hands in
the arrangement of her plentiful
brownish hair.
They were pretty hands. of a. shape
liness delicate and fine. THE best
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09
ALICE ADAMS
Continued From Page y
by BOOTH HARRINGTON
Copyright, 1921. by Doubleday. Page & Co.

passengers distant trolley lines and then howed
curve PARKWAY metallic STRINGS could be heard from fac
tories in the sooty suburbs the plain outside the cy west
and south switch engines chugged and snorted ng and
everywhere in the air there seemed to be faint vomnou hum
of nnumerabe wires trembling overhead vibration of
chinery underground.
In his youth Adams might have been less resenf of sounds
such these when they nerfered with his nights sleep
during illness he might have taken pride them proof
of his citizenship Give town but SIS he merely hated them
because they kept him awake They ressed his nerves. he
put and did almost everything else for that
He heard the milk drive into the beneath
his windows stop house. The mkman
round to the back porch while the horse moved slowly ahead
gate there e gone into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09

rather than pathetic. as she entered
the pretty room where her daughter,
half dressed, sat before a dressing
table and played with the reflections
of a three-leafed mirror framed in
blue enamel. That is, just before
the moment Of her mothers entrance,
Alice had been playing with the
mirrors reflections - posturing her
arms and her expressions, clasping
her hands behind her neck, and fitting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09
BY AL POSEN

pose she deserved it, though rspose
was anything but her habit, being sell
dom seen upon her except at home.
On exhibition she led a life of ges-
lures, the unkind said to make her
lovely hands more memorable: but all
of her usually accompanied the ges-
lures of the hands, the shoulders ever
giving them their impulses first, and
even her feet being called upon, at
the same time for eloquence.
Go Be Continued9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09

things she's gotr' a cold-blooded girl
friend said Of them. and meant to in
clude Ances mind and character in
the implied list of possessions sur
passed by the notable hands. How
ever that may have been, the rest of
her was we'll enough. She was often
called "a right pretty girl"-tenper-
ate praise meaning a girl rather pref
ty than otherwise. and this she de-
served. to say the least Even in re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-09
CHAPTER IL

In fact the agitation of Mrs. Adams
was genuine, but so well under her
control that it's traces vanished during
the three short steps she took to
cross the narrow han between her
husbands dog and the one opposite.
Her expression was matter-of course,