Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-25
ut MUST I've that I'm homesick."
- Posie addressed the Mediterra
mean. NO snow at Christmas
j that's what's doing IL, And

ut MUST I've that TIM homesick.
Posie addressed the Mediterra'
mean. NO snow at Christmas
j that's what's doing IL, And
yet, how silly 10 he homesick.
when I've come se far Ia I've happy.
Her mind went back To the last
Christmas boys returning from
Princeton, red wreaths in the win
6ows. dances PARTIES. Last year she
had bren a dehutante, with not care
in the world save which frock she
should wear and which eff her heaux
she should favor. This year she was n
little American girl alone in the south
OF France.
Nothing 10 he alarmed over" the
doctors had said. hut il would I've
wiser 20 send her away for the
Winter
Then a friend had suggested com
hinir= health with self Improvement.
why not learn a language" Go to
Cannes and speak French
She had Jumped at the chance. Can.
rcs had spelled romance-a kind of
rernetuai grand opera. blue skies
flashing seas. orange groves. guitars
perhaps an adorer who would threat.
en- to shoot himself IL she rejected
him. II would I've dauhly funny with
out n family Ia watch over her.
That spot on her lung had seemed
the open sesame 10 adventure-it WAS
the price for becoming cosmopolitan.
She had left her birthplace with tho
feeling that she didn't greatly care
II she never again saw IL. Even the
Princeton boys had lost their fasci
nation 'Good-bv. Angel Face" they
had wruny her hands. Angel Face"
had been Roh's name for her--the rest
of them had borrowed IL
Not one Of them had proposed tn
her. She had hoped Bob would. Ia the
very last. 1t would have been salts
faction To have heen allowed 10 refuse
him. Because he hadn't. it had been
a. though he had refused her.
So she had sailed with scarcely
regret. a Miss Columbus in search "f
Europe. Regret had come later. when
she had discovered her loneliness In
her present mood. on this foreign eve
before Christmas. loneliness seemed
the only thing she had discovered.
Rising from the bench on the Crois.
ette--the Fashionable promenade about
the Bay af Cannes--she began To
Saurter back toward the harbor. The
Eroisette was deserted. She realized
the reason. hut she was reckless
The few strangers who passed hur.
ried by with mufiierS pressed against
their mouths. II was the hour after
sunset when the dazzled air. which
had given health all day. had become
dangerous a. the breath ut swamp
An npalescen haze hung over every.
thinS-an uncanny twilight brought
with II "A sudden drop in temperature
The sea had turned maekerel gray.
the sky livid. Palm gardens. mount.
ing up hills that tined the shore.
looked fantastic and nightmarish
The one cheerful spot in. the blur
OF vagueness was the brill a n,ly
lighted Casino. A mile away through
the drifting melancholy. its shining
windows winked and beckoned. People
were dAncin- there No snow al Christ.
mas-nct soul with whom to talk.
I'm cranky and wicked she
scolded herself. I'm mad clean
through with everything and every.
body. There's not a speck Of peace
OF good viii in my heart"
CHE had reasons for being mad:
nothing had turned out as fancy
had painted. No adorer had threat.
ened TO shoot himself for her. She was
further from beng loved than ever.
Even nm the Riviera Prince Charm.
inss do not scrape acaua infance with
unchaperoned girls who can produce
no social sponsors. Daddy's money