Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

ing: Now eat your snInacb ovarv
scrap or you can't have any DESSERT
carrots make your eyes bright.
Finish your potato. Potatoes
make you strongP"
Selma laughed, flushed a little.
= s' but how about hogs2 Do Won
reel that way about hogs?"
Certainly" said Selma, brisklv. She
pushed toward him a little blue-and.
white platter that lay OF the white
cloth near her elbow. "Have a bit
more bacon, Dirk. One of these nice
curly slivers that are so crisp"
I've finished my breakfast. Moth
err" He rose.
The following autumn saw him
student Of architecture at Cornell He
worked hard, studied even during his
vacation.
lie would come home to the heat
and humidity Of the Illinois summers
and spend hours each day In his own
room that he had fitted up with
long workable and drawing board.
His T-square was at hand; two TRAN
gies-a 40 and 60; his compass;
PAIR or dividers. Selma sometimes
stood behind him watching him as he
carefully worked on the tracing paper.
His contempt for the local architec-
ture was now complete Especially
did he hold forth on the subject of the
apartment houses that were mush-
rooming on every street in Chicago
| from rly H.
Evanston on the north. Chicago was
very elegant In speaking Of these:
never called them flats; always
apartments. In front of each of these
| (there were usually six to building)
was stuck little glass-enclosed cubi-
Gle known as sun-parlor. In these
sometimes you heard them spoken of.
| grandly, as solariums) Chicago dwell
ers took refuge from the leaden skies.
the heavy lake atmosphere, the gray
mist and fog and smoke that so fire.
quently swathed the city In gloom.
They were done III yellow or rose Gre
tonnes Silk lampshades glowed there
| in, and flower-laden boxes In these
frank little boxes Chicago read it's pa
per, sewed, played bridge, even ate
it's breakfast. 1t never pulled down
| the shades.
"Terrible!" Dirk fumed mot only
are they hideous in themselves, stuck
on the front of those houses like three
pairs of spectacles; but the lack of
decent privacy! They do everything
but battle in 'em. Have they never
heard the advice given people who live
in glass housesr"
BY his junior year he was talking
in large way about the Beaux Arts.
But Selma did not laugh at this. per
haps," she thought. "Who can tell
| After a year or two In an Office here,
why not another year of study in Paris
If he needs It."
Though it was her busiest time on
| the farm Selma went to Ithaca for his
| graduation in 1913. He was twenty
| two and, she was calmly sure, the best
looking man in his class. Undeniably
he was a figure to please the eye;
tall, well-built, as his father had been,
and blond, too, like his father, except
for his eyes. These were brown-not
so dark as Selina's, but with some OF
the soft liquid quality Of her glance.
They strengthened his face, somehow |;
gave him an ardent look of which he
was not conscious. Women, feeling
the ardor of that dark glance turned
upon them, were likely to credit him
with feelings toward themselves of
| which he was quite innocent. They
did not know that the glance and its
| effect were mere matters Of pigmenta-
| ton and eye-conformation. Then, too,
the gaze of man who talks little is
always more effective than that of one
who Is loquacious.
Selma, in her black silk dress, and
her plain black hat, and her sensible
shoes, was rather quaint little figure
among all those vivacious, bevoiled,
and beribboned mammas. But a dis
tinctive little figure, too. Dirk need
not be ashamed of her. She eyed the
rather paunchy, prosperous, middle
aged fathers and thought, with pang,
how much handsomer Pervus would
have been than any Of these, If only
he could have lived to see this day.
Then, involuntarily, she wondered II
this day would ever have occurred,
had Pervus lived. Chided herself for
thinking thus.
When he returned to Chicago, Dirk
went into the Office of Hollis &
Sprague, architects. But his work
there was little more than that OF
draughtsman, and his weekly stipend
could hardly be dignifed by the term
of salary. But he had large ideas
about architecture and he found ex-
pressicn for his suppressed feelings on
hts week-ends spent with Selma at the
farm.
"Raroque" was the word with which
he dismissed the new Beachside no
tel north. He said the new Lincoln
park bandstand looked like an igioo.
He said that the city council ought to
order the Potter Palmer mansion de-
stroved as a blot on the landscape,
and waxed profane on the subject OF
the east face of the Public Library
building. downtown