Evening star., 1928-04-22
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE
BY Lucian Cary

Everybody looked in and stood
around and told her what was the mat
Ter with her drawings. Her figures
weren't solid-they were Just Wispy.
And she was smudger And her de-
sign was weak And she couldn't draw
ANYTHING the way 1t was--she was al
WAYS working out some way not TO
have to draw hand. Jane would ad-
nit everything they said, and then
she'd hold UP the drawing and say,
.Stil. there's something nice about It,
don't you think?' And they would all
say, Yes, but
Jane Just laughed. She didn't take
herself too seriously, and so she was
free to take any suggestions she thought
were good and forget the rest. And
when she got ready she slipped out one
day, without saying anything to any
body, and called on three art editors.
She came home with three short stories
to illustrate. and she illustrated them
in three days and got $3.50.
" A FTER that. she had all the work
she could do The money just
poured in. I suppose the things she
did were quite trivial. never thought
much Of them. But they were pleasant
to look at Jane had a gift for the
smart thing-the smart thing in clothes
and the inSides of houses and the out
sides OF motor cars. And she could
make two or three drawings in morn
ing. AS Hiram said, she just wrote
them off And the checks came in by
every mail.
Jane took 1t so we'll most of them
couldn't hate her for 1t. She wasn't
the least upstage about it. She didn't
think she was an artist. It's just a
trick, she said to me. like cutting a
dress so it will hang right. But think
what 1t means to us--it means We can
have a place in the country where
the children can have all outdoors to
play In. East Twenty eighth street Is
all right for me and JIMMY shall
always love 1t. want to keep that top
floor OF AIMS. IL she'll let me. But it's
no place for kids
That's Just what meant to her--a
pleasing trick by which she could make
enough money TO bring up the children
the way she wanted TO. But 1t wasn't
long before saw that wasn't what 1t
meant to Jimmy He went around
looking as tightly strung as he'd looked
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ing 10 hours a day TO get $50 week
together to send out TO Jane. His face
was a sardonic mask and he wasn't
talking to anybody.
He came in here one night to see
me. He said. 'Pluma, just can't stand
it. 1 didn't ask him what he couldn't
stand.
wasn't it enough. he said. that
the babies and the cooking and the
cleaning and sewing never made her
seem tired or driven or cross, like ether
women? I was never meant to be an
illustrator and never wanted TO be one.
But she made 1t worth while. I'd have
done anything to earn the money for
what she did. And now she's made
monkey out of me. with her $500 a
week.
why. $500 Is the most money I
ever made In a month. And I'll never
be able to make more. Not much more
If one OF the three art editors who
really see my stuff should die, or quit
his job, I'd be up against 1t. And
she's got everybody in New York ask
ing for her stuff She's found a house
out in Deep Harbor that she wants TO
buy She can get 1t for three thousand
down. And she's got almost enough al
ready. She's got over $4,000 in the
bank. I've got eight or nine hundred.
and the only reason I've got that Is
because she has paid all the bills for
the last two months.
where do come in? What do ]
matter? I'm just Jane Ogilvie's hus-