Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-26
RESTLESS LOVE
g BY Samuel MoI1OiN 1929
RELEASED az CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

The whole group would rise and ride
with its leaders. Groups did that.
The leaders of her group, the admit
tedly best OF them. wandered almost
writer's Of plays and stories ano
motion pictures, critics and column
nists. c~aricaturists and what not.
Young men and women who were
nimble Of fancy. quick and keen OF
| speech. All with the great gift Of
effectiveness Yet al were
simple enough folk. What they had
done others could do. Others VINO
belonged. She lunched with any and
various Of them almost daily at the
Mackinac. off Times Square; a pleas
ant little hosiery which continued,
year in and year out. with all uptown
New York roaring about II, to seem
n club.
But others Of the worlds that
whirl and clash in the cosmos that
is New York were hers. too : the
swarthy Italian district just below
Washington square. where you ate
spaghetti and ravioli and slipped
(yesD chianti; Greenwich Village, a
little 10 the west, all tca-rooms and
little theaters and studios; the pic
turesque East Side. with its million
or so of squat exiles from the ghettos
OF Europe, its street pianos push
carts. its teeming dirty children, its
Yiddish and Chinese theaters; Har-
lem, where the negroes swarmed in
exotic color, raising u question that
New York leaves. as il leaves all its
laundering questions. unanswered;
the vast railway stations and tho
| steamship piers where much OF the
| outside universe seems 10 flow in and
out every day like the tides Of the
sea: the theater district. with its
| careless living clouds hy day and it,
nervous gay pillars Of fire by night.
There were other worlds Of which she
and her kind we're but vaguely aware
the infiltering garment trades
I end the enormous broodinE power OF
Wall and Broad streets and other
stubborn facts Of BUSINESS life. But
her set rather frowncd on business
As il looked carelessly, condescend-
ingly. on all the millions Of undIstin-
guished folk who were 81 unwise Or
so unfortunate rs to dwell m the
other cities and lesser places ~ that
dim hinterland known As the United
Sites.
The voice Al her rar had p home
IL tank. els this Miss Bagot? Stel-
n Bagot? Perhaps you'll remember
me. Homer Pew
Homer Pew? She knit her brows.
Oh. Of course. from Ackland. She
hadn't seen him for years. but re-
called him now as a good looking
boy Of about her own age. They'd
been in high school nj the same
time. She remembered his brother
more clearly. A tall Young Yankee
p country editor who'd seemed IN
able 70 get out OF The village rut.
This one now said he was hoping
for a little chat with her. And
something further. limited nc with a
touch of embarrassment, about need
ing advice. Again her brows drew
together. One more f~orlorn stranc-
er from the country trying to break
in. They were always reaching nj
you. IL was one Of the penalties
Of belonging; you had to be pa
tient with aspiring outsiders. Still
he was from the home town. The
Pews had always outweighed the
Bagots, locally. Rather interesting
as the topsy-turvy world ran, e
reach down a helping hand to him
And anyway. she'd have to be civil.
She suggested that they dine to
gether at the Mackinac, and ther
had to tell him where i was. Anus
ing, Very likely he'd be abashed
She thought. as she chatted pleas
antly: "I'm still young enough, 81
provincial enough. TO get n littl'
kick out of this. Probably hi
clothes'll be funny. I'll Introduce
him to a few Of the big people tina
drop in there. and observe how HI
takes il. But maybe he Won't ever
know the names. Hmmi"
Sitting. a slender, attractive fig
ure, in the lounge mt the Mack
mac. Stella smoked a cigarette anC
watched the diners as they came in
She was the prompt sort Severa
Of the men stopped to pass the tins
Of day with her. SO that when tn.
young man who was an unmistak
able Pew appeared he found n kronI
about her, and for a moment stcoC
modestly aside.
She saw him. and cried n cheer
full 'rHelloi" Then. very casually
all but moved TO chuckle aloud tina
her little stage should he 80 nesti,
set r. impress him. she made hir
known to her friends. Y vas