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than most OF US ever know. Usually
one or the other runs away.
This boy hadn't run away. He was
dead in love with his wife. He was
taking the big chance, because they
had TO get out Of that light -housekeep-
ing room. All he wanted was 10 bring
her down to New York. Ann said he
talked and talked and talked about her.
Shed come as soon as he had the fare
and 500 ahead. He had to make
money. He couldn't leave her there for
more than a few weeks-cooped up
with two babies and not able TO run
doEn 10 the grocery store at the corner
unless she took them both with her.
Besides, he said, she had talent.
She must have her chance. And she
couldn't have it until they had enough
money 10 have somebody in TO take
care OF the babies.
Ann thought that was the most pa
thetic part Of this illusion about her.
Ann pictured the kind Of girl he'd
married-a frail, once pretty little
dumbbell And we wondered what
would happen when the boy had lit
tie success and met other girls and saw
his wife beside them. He was the kind
TO take falling in love with another
woman hard.
For 1t seemed the boy had some
thing. Hiram said So Nowadays,
when they want TO praise a drawing,
they say It's amusing; or, If they Ike
IL a lot. that It's SOLID. Hiram said the
boys figures we're solid. He really
made figureS--people with bones and
muscles. Which meant that Hiram
spent hours and hours tipping him of
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his Paris address and asking me to
write him and tell him how Jane was
because he couldn't endure not know
ing. and begging me, on my honor, not
to tell Jane he'd written"
Well" I said. did you tell his wife?"
Did I? Nobody needs TO trust my
honor against heartache. I ran over
as fast as / could and gave her the
letter. And she cried and ! cried and
1t was lovely. After that. she began
to have people in again and be little
gay and even give dinner party now
and then. Shes such a tremendous
person-so fun Of life-she couldn't
pine away. no matter what.
THAT man stayed away for two
years-two long years. The first We
knew of his coming back was the story
in the papers about his show a. the
Orlando galleries.
I'VE figured that Jimmy would come
over-hed pretty nearly have to come
for the show. And the day before the
show opened the afternoon papars said
he'd arrived. I thought he'd be down
here that night. But he didn't come.
She didn't want to 60 to the opening
the next afternoon. She wasn't sure
she could stand meeting him in front
OF crowd He hadn't asked her. He
hadn't given a word or sign. But /
made her go. and, of course. I went
with her.
THAT biggest room of Orlando's was
jammed Everybody in New York was
there. got only a glimpse of the
canvaSeS-juSt enough to see they were
nearly all portraits. And such a chat
ter. Is there any place in the world
where people talk so much as 1T an art
exhibit on the opening day? 1t took
US an hour to get to Jimmy. And when
he looked up and saw her, it wasn't she
that couldn't stand tit was he. !
thought he was going to collapse.
JANE he said. "'are you going TO
forgive Jme?' For q moment. they
stood there. looking at zach other, and
then she said, Yes, JimNqy.'
And then they tried 10 smile and
carry it of until they SHOULD be alone,
and they just couldn't. + saw the tears
start in Jimm7's eyes and the next
moment they were clinging TO each
other and everybody in that room
stopped chattering and stared.
II suppose" Pluma went on. you
can imagine the party there vas in
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But he wants you" said. Il think
he'd 20 70 seven-ffty."
MS Just possible" ! said, that he'd
pay a Thousand dollars. II you say 80.
III put it up TO him"
Then, for the first time, she turned
and loked at me.
Cant you see I'm painting?" she
said
SO left and went downstairs.
7 FOUND Puma Gogg alone in her
sitting room, and she said it was
almost tea time and wouldn't I stay.
It's a strange room-thst sitting room
full Of souvenirs The walls are
almost covered with sketches and
framed programs and books. But you
don't see much. For one thing, the
windows are completely curtained III
black, and there's no light, except the
lamp beside her chair and the bit o.
flames In the crate. For another. you
can't help looking at Pluma Gogg when
she talks.
She's an old lady now. with white
hair. But her face is Just as expressive
as it used 10 BE- IN her nuSic-haH days;
and those tawny eyes have still the
same FIRE in them; the same love Of life
and laughter. told her what Jane
Ogilyie had said.
PigTna Cogg laughed.
That's quite like Jane" Puma said.
"Ehes magnificent. isn't shef"
I wish you'd tell me just what she s
like I've got 10 find some way OF
bringing her down stage"
do you know i7eF huEbsnd2"
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same, Ann said she didn't care how
hard Jimmy had to work--it was worth
It. Some of the rest thought she ought
to get job and hire nurse and help
out Jimmy was making living, but
he had to scramble every minute to do
it. And no artist can do that very
long.
I'VE used to discuss 1t as passionate
ly as II 1t were our own problem and
our talk was going to settle 1t. or
course. Jane settled 1t In her own
way. She up and had another baby.
1t was ten-pound baby, OF course.
A little girl
Jimmy got a studio uptown. He'd
worked with two little boys in the
house. but a baby besides was too
much After a year and a half he
had begun TO get an occasional story
to illustrate from one Of the magazines
that pay well. And In his first six
months of working in studio away
from home he made the grade. Hiram
told me he'd never be a popular illus
traitor. But he did certain kind OF
thing in solid. painstaking way. and
he'd established himself with three or
four art editors. so that he could
count on an order from each OF them
every few weeks. There was no
reason why he shouldn't make o hum
dred dollars week regularly, and
though that isn't wealth for man
with wife and three children, with
studio rent to pay and artists ma
terials to buy. 1t was great deal more
than he'd been making two years back
in Chicago.
X X
"IANE had been talking about draw
ing again. She hadn't drawn
line since she'd left the art school to
marry Jimmy. But she said living in
place where everybody was drawing
all the time made her want TO try
again. All artists wives talk like that,
so nobody took her seriously.
But one night l was up in their
living room that had been Jimmy's
studio. Ann was there, and Hiram.
and George Weed. the cartoonist. Jane
was looking through a pile Of mag
azines. lying full length on the floor
and resting on her elbows and not even
listening to the talk.
AT last she said, half to herself.
Evening star., 1928-04-22
By STEPHEN LEACoCK.

TT Is only quite recently that I have
taken up golf In fact. have only
played for three or four years. and
seldom more than ten games In a
week, or at most four In day. j
have only had a proper golf vest for
two years. only bought spoon
this year and I am not going to get
Scotch socks till next year.
In short, / am still beginner, !
have once. Ii is true. had the distinc-
tion "of making a hole In one" in
other words. OF hitting the ball into the
pot. or can, or receptacle In one shot.
That Is to say after l had hit a ball
was found in the can and my ball was
not found. II Is what we call circum-
stantial evidence--the same thing that
people are hanged for.
Under such circumstances, should
have little TO teach anybody about golf.
But 1t has occurred to me that from o
certain angle my opinions may be Of
value. I. at least. bring to bear on the
game all the resources OF a trained
mind. and all the equipment Of a COM
plete education.
In particular, I may be able to help
the ordinary golfer. or "goofer
prefer gopher showing him some-
thing of the application of mathematics
to golf.
Many a player is perhaps ncedlessly
discouraged by not being able to calcu-
late properly the chances and prob
abilities of progress in the game. Take,
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East Twenty-eignth Street that night.
We all had to forgive Jimmy, as long
as Jane had
1T turned out to be the hest one
man show Orlando ever had. I never
heard Of a mans getting both the
critics and the buyers the way Jimmy
did. Andrew Forster's review said that
Jimmy's work made him feel in spite
Of himself, that Jimmy might. If he
kept on growing, become the first real
portrait painter these United States
had ever produced. Orlando sold seven
teen Of these twenty-five canvases il
a month"
HDLUMA," I said. who was this
chap" I couldn't think Of any
painter who had gone big-not any
James.
Pluma got up and walked to the end
of the room and pulled the cord Of
the middle pair Of black velvet cur
tsins. I saw that they didn't cover q
window, but the space between the
two windows. And IN the space was a
portrait Of Pluma Gogg in a black
dress. knew who had done t.
Whether you like what he does nor not.
who paints like that.
Michael Carmichael" said.
"Yes." said Pluna, James Michael
Carmichael"
Pluhna sat down again and smiled.
feeling quite pleased With herself for
not letting me guess Who Jane Ogilvie's
husband was
What" I said. has all this got 10
do with the way she treated me about
that sketch?"
Everything" Puma said. She
doesn't do Illustrations any more. Why
should she? Jimmy makes plenty Of
money. They live in the country. as
she always wanted TO, and she comes in
here to paint"
Can she paint?"
she says she can't. so far. But she
says she's going 70. before she gets
through And I just feel she's the sort
of person who can do anything she
puts her mind to-
What I want to know" I said. lis
what James Michael Carmichael Is go
ing to do. if she does learn to paint"
Pluma Gogg laughed.
Heaven knows" she said. Il don't"
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to the tricks of the illustrators trade
and introducing him to art editors.
One of the newspapers was running
daily sketch on the back page that
year. They paid $l0 apiece. Jimmy
drew as many as 20 the first week try
ing to make that page. think he sold
two. And the next week Hiram got
him work to do for some little maga-
zine. There was no use sending him
TO the people who pay we'll. He didn' I
know enough and he wasn't clever.
Meanwhile. he was managing some
how to scrape up $50 to send his wife
every week, and living himself on what
was left.
GIT took him six months to save up
Sloo and send his wife the fare
to New York and pay the first months
rent on the top floor of AIMS house.
He was bound to have thst--two large
rooms. with fireplaces and hall bed
room and bath and kitchenette.
He was going to furnish it with
packing cases. But Ann got everybody
together. and we loaned him furniture.
l went up to see 1t after Ann had got
through. Jimmy was walking up and
down, the tears running down his
cheeks. 1t was quite charming and
comfortable. Ann had raided the
neighborhood for him, and everything
was ready for his wife, from the pots
and pans in the kitchenette to the fires
all laid in the CRATES, She'd even
found a crib for the younger baby.
We all sat back-a little proud of
ourselves for what We had done for
him and a little sad that his wife was
coming. 1t is a great satisfaction to
help a lonely boy like that. But no
body expected TO like his wife.
And then she came. She wasn't
any of the things we'd known before
hand she would be- She was Jane
Ogilvie. She wasn't frail or tired or
querulous She was big. She was the
kind OF big person who seems to do
things without effort. She was the
kind of woman who could stand at
the kitchen stove with a tired baby
under one arm and Groom in a deep
contralto voice.
She had hated the lighthouse
keeping room and the loneliness and
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for example. the simple problem OF
going around in bogey." The ordinary
average player. such as I am now be-
coming--something between beginner
and an expert--necessarily wonders 20
himself: shall ever be able to go
around in bogey: will the time ever
come when shall make. not one hole
in bogey. but all the holeS?"
To this according to my calculations
the answer Is overwhelmingly yes.
The thing is a mere matter of time and
patience.
Let me explain for the few people
who never play golf (such as night
watchmen. night clerks in hotels. night
operators. astronomers and negroes
that sbogey" is an imaginary player
who does each hole at golf In the
fewest strokes that first-claSs player
with ordinary luck ought TO need for
that hole.
NOW, an ordinary player finds 1t
l quite usual 10 do one hole out OF
the nine "in bogey"-aS We golfers, or
rather. s'us goofers.' call it-but he
wonders whether IL will ever be his fate
TO do all the nine holes of the course
to take n nine-hole course for his sake
in bogey To which We answer again.
with absolute assurance. he WILL
The thing is simple instance OF
what is called the mathematical theory
OF probability. II a player usually and
generally makes one hole in hogey. or
comes close 20 1t, his chance Of making
any one particular hole in bogey Is
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Citv of Savannah Soon to Have Wilson Memorial

Virginia. While at the latter university
he dropped the Thomas" from his
name.
Returning to his boyhood state in
1882. Wilson formed law partnership
with T.. /. Renick under the name Of
Renick & Wilson and they opened an
ONCE In Room 10 Of the building at IS
Marietta street In Atlanta. Wilson later
gave up the practice OF law and became
an educator.
Hts practice of law In Georgia took
Wilson ON a legal mission TO Rome. Ca,
where he met Ellen Arson In April.
1888 Her father was DIR, S, Edward
Arson. pastor of the First Presbyterian
Chutch al Rome, The meeting occur
red at the church on Sunday. the day
after Wilson arrived IN that city,
Their friendship grew rapidly and.
when they met in Asheville, N, C., i'll
September. 1888, Wilson became en-
gagged To Ellen Axson. This meeting
occurred when Wilson stopped In AShe~
Vile while en- route from Atlanta to
Baltimore, Miss AXSon had been called
home by the serious illness Of her father
and she was waiting between trains.
A short time after this Wilson went
to Johns Hopkins University 20 take
post graduate course The following
year Ellen Arson went TO New York 10
continue her studies In painting,
After he completed his course at
Johns Hopkins, Wilson accepted posi-
ton as instructor IN history at bryn
MAwr College lie then came 10 Sa~
vannah for his marriage to Ellen AN
son. who had left New York and come
to Savannah to live with her grand
father In the manse, Her father died
some time before, 80 she came tn her
native city az Savannah, where she was
born May Ia 1850 To await the time
when she would become the bride of
Wilson,
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band. And hate her, hate her, ]
tell you. hate her.
He went on and on in that strain.
and I let him talk. 1t was the only
way he'd ever find out where he stood
or know what he wanted-to get 1t all
of his chest. When he got quleted
down, asked him what he wanted.
"I want to paint. I've wanted to
paint ever since / was a little boy. 1t
was all ever wanted. until I met Jane.
You don't think l draw little pictures
that just barely get by from choice, do
you?'
Il said. very quietly. Well. Jimmy.
Why don't you paint?'
. He looked at me for about minute
Just looked at me- And then ne
picked up his hat and he said. I will
paint and walked out of the door.
and that was the last saw OF him for
long. long time.
Jane came running in the next
afternoon with letter. She put it in
my hand. and / read it, All 1t said
was. Jane. / can't stand 1t any longer
I'm sailing this afternoon. / shan't
write to you. probably shan't come
back
"All the life had gone out OF her.
She was completely sunk She looked
at me so piteously and said, Puma
who Is she'?"
pLUNfA GOGG smiled to herself.
That's the woman of it." she
explained. When you come down to
1t. none of us can really believe a man
viii actually leave. except for smother
woman. told Jane what Jimmy's
note meant. She was shocked down to
the ground to hear that she hadn t
understood him any better.
She went home and cried all night.
But she took 1t pretty well.
Jane settled down. after a couple
Of weeks. to live pretty much as she d
lived before. She kept herself busy with
her house and her children and her
drawing.
she said to me. I love Jimmy. And
maybe I'm a fool. but I can't help
thinking maybe he'll come back. He'll
stay in Paris and paint till he's found
himself
II had a letter from him, a couple
OF weeks after that. letter giving me
Evening star., 1928-04-22

The name Independent adopted when
the church was first organized. indi-
Gated, that the church was independent
of the Church In Scotland. When other
Presbyterian churches were formed In
the State and the Presbyterian Synod
N Georgia was organized, the church
remained independent and did not ANIL
late with the synod. Although In It's
work II Is closely associated with other
churches. IL Is still not member OF the
synod. II was In this church that the
music for the hymn, From dreenlsnd's
Icy Mountains" and other hymns we're
written by Lowell Mason while he was
It's organiSt.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born II
the manse OF the First Presbyterian
Church OF Staunton, Va. December 28
1855, while his father was pastor there
Hts boyhood and early manhood were
spent In Georgia and he WAS married
In this State. AS boy Wilson lived II
Augusta. where his father was pastor
Of the First Presbyterian Church. He
attended a private school taught bj
Joseph r.. Derry, who had been a Con-
federhtA 0fiicer This was just after
the close OF the war between the States,
Wilson's classmates included boys
who later become famous. Among
them we're Joseph II. Lamar, who be-
came "a Justice Of the United States STU
preme Court, Thomas II. Gibson, who
later went TO Beirut. Syria. as United
States consul william A. Keener. who
became dean Of the Law School or CO.
Iumbla University. and Pleasant A. Sto~
vail. now editor and publisher Of the
Savannah Press, who was appointed
Minister 10 Switzerland by Wilson when
he became President Mrs. Htovall, nj
aunt Of Pleasant A sstoVall, taught VII
son IN Sunday school
Al the age of u Wilson went To Co
iumbia, y. c., when his father was APP
pointed a professor In the Theological
Seminary. lie attended Davidson Col
lege, near Charlotte. NJ O., and later
moved Ia Wilmington, NJ, O., with his
father sud family, The fiev. Mr. vii
son was living In Wilmington when
Woodrow Wilson was married. Wilson
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known as the Woodrow Wilson and
Ellen A1g0n Memorial room.
The contractor VIII be instructed 10
use, IN the construction and interior
flnish of the room, all movable material
and interior fttings and furnishings OF
the manse parlof, Ito the end that the
old may be reproduced IN the new With
AS complete iidelity an circumstances
win permit"
Upon the walls of the room and on
the exterior wall at the northwest cor
ner, the location ~ the pari0r, tablets
vii be placed recording the fact that
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were married or
this spot The tablets viii he placed
10 that those who enter the bliiding
and paAsersby viii have the historic fact
recalled ~ their minds. The room Will
he occupied by the beginners depart
nlsnt.
Evening star., 1928-04-22
By JACK ]. COOK.
Savannah, Ga.

D@FAfAilaf4s tLd.
MEMORIAL 70 the late Presi-
n dent Wilson and Ellen Louie
IA Arson Is 10 be established IN
u Savannah by the Independent
Presbyterian Church. In the
fnan1e " which the Arson Wilson we'd
cling TOOK place June ~. 1885. Ofnciat-
ing a. the marriage we're Or. ] b. X.
Arson. pastor Of the Independent
Cnurcn sno grandfather Of the bride
ENC DR.. Joseph Ruggies Wilson. ahso
PRESBYTERIAN minister and father of
the bridegroom
The ulsnse iG ~ be- torn 0oEn and on
the site viii he erected the Sunday
sebsol bUiioing of The church The
EaanSe h. ~ the rear u the church,
which az the first of the denomination
established In Georgia. The first
building VAS erected oiI property defde0
" TIE church by King George ii of
England This structure was intimately
connected with events 10 The early his
tory u Savannah
The frat provincial congress u
Georgia. after organization on July =.
1875. adjourned W The chpfcn " near
DY J1nn Joachim Zubiy, the pastor
preach, ard during the siege ~ 6ayan-
nan the church was used az hospital
III q oonfssgrstion which destroyed .
large part VI Savannah in 1895 the
church 1as burned Pour years later
fhf congTtgatlon ulobsc W new
church III another location and on MAJ
y 1919 the flrbt church 81 the present
Elte. st CgletlFDTpe afeHus aDd Bnl
street. xae erected A. This time an
ofi8es historic event Ma about W 0efuT
a.. ai the very hour " the dedlcatloH
fbs steamship Savannah "ss st tiii
aoek. with steam up ready ~ bsRit
iss trip st the first Steamer " cross tiii
Atlantic Ocean
The new building wss nl9deled sfssl
o. Martins in the Fields ~ Jrsfalgaj
satisTe London ard Was built ~ Store
This structure suffered from flte ahicl
devastated ppItlon ~ the city u
1899 The work ~ rebuilding u "a
begun In $50 end Inc dedication sely
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tees were held June IA, 1891. The pres
ent building iS an exact reproduction OF
the ediflce erected In 1919.
The mause. which was not burned
was completed In 1857. and in the Fall
Ot that year became the residence Of
DF AEs0n. who was just beginning his
psst0Tate IN Savannah. T'hf FIRST manse
" the Independent Presbyterian
Church Was built in 1915, on the site
where the post office now stands and on
the same block in which John Wesley
preached.
In the new Sunday school building
The Independent Church win preserve
the record ~ The marriage 0f the late
President and the first Mr. Wilson. by
making 8 memorial u The room occupy
Ing the identicsI location II the psrl0r
iG which they weTe married, II VIII be
Evening star., 1928-04-22
THOUGHT it was careless of Jane
OEilyie not TO answer my first let
ter. But you know how artists
ere. So I wrote her again and

Y THOUGHT ii was careless OF Jane
Ogilvie not to answer my first let
ter. But you know how artists
i ere. So wrote her again and
told her we'd be glad to pay $500
for the little sketch we wanted.
She didn't answer that either. So /
wired her. She didn't answer the wire.
So I got taXicab and went down there.
You know Pluma Gogg'Se Half the
illustrators in the world live in those
SrownStone houses she has on East
Twen;y-eighth street,
Plunla GogS is a New England old
maid With Carmencita background.
If YOU know what I mean, When 4
story about an artist or sn opera singer
or an actress or a manager or an angel
breaks. the reporters all run to Plun1a
Co9g. They know she knowS--N Size
happens 10 want to tell,
Jane Oellvie didn't answer the bell
over her name in the veStibule. So i
rang somebody else's bell TO set the
outside door unlocked and walked up
stairs and knocked. Somebody said,
Gene in" and / went in
/ saw big handsome woman in
snock. with a palette on her arm
painting at an easel Her model was
a girl in ballet costume With her hand
The big woman didn't so much as
turn her head TO look at me. She went
right on painting. So l waited !
waited about FIVE minutes.
who are you?" she said.
Brown" said. of Brown &
Brown
And who" she asked. are Brown
e. Brown"
/ didn't get mad thought, if she
wanted TO be insulting, ID let her. I
wanted that sketch.
We're an advertising agency" ! said.
"Rather a well known one"
SO" she said, you're the man that's
been pestering me about that sketch.
Yes" / said. We've got a client
who has set his heart on having q
sketch by Jane Ogilvie. Hes willing 10
pay $500. He wants Just little thing
as / wrote you-the kind Of thing
you'd do in an hour-one Of those smart
things you do so we'll"
Tell him TO so to Wallace Crawley
or Henry Morgan. They Go that sort
Of thing better than ever did"
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While British army estimates for laaA
show decrease of $a.a7a,0O0 from
those of last year. the amount required
for salaries and similar expenses VIII
Jump from So, 600 10 sAs.iia,0oo.
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was graduated from Princeton u9iNer-
siv IN 1919. and afterward vas grad
uated IN law from the University OF