Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
CHAPTER FIVE

THE BIG green bus swung
around the corner into Riverside
drive and Phil Parrish frightened
his arm around his bride. Their two
heads bent back in unison as they
looked at the tall apartment houses
at their right.
"Some day We'll live in a place
like that, honey" he promised her,
pointing to one of the tallest.
Eleanor said, Lets forget house
hunting, Phil. Don't you remem-
Der? This is the night we decided
to call it off to do a little honey
incoming. Let's look at the river
instead"
1T might be the Nile," he said,
looking not at the black satin Hud-
son that flowed beside them, but
down at the eyes of the girl.
You make it a real Bohemia,
Phil. Don't ever let me wake up
and find life is like l was afraid it
was"
Were the kind of people who
can make it what we want it to be-.
Look here, that's Grants Tomb on
the left and Columbia is over
here to the right"
Eleanor's eyes followed his ges-
lures obediently. She said, do
people on honeymoons ever eat,
Phil? I forgot to get any lunch to-
day."
my poor angel! Wen go
straight back tothe Village on this
bus. You can get the best food in
New York there" he said not quite
correctly, but adding, land the Viii
lage is within our purse"
"Phil-today saw an ad for an
apartment on let me see :.
Blame street. The rent was only
forty a month for a large lifting
room, one bedroom and kitchenette
and bath. Could be look at it to-
night? It's in the Village"
You've been looking at places
all day. Let's skip :"
mo, let's see it, Phil. I'm dying
to have place of our own. We're
spending too much money now for
room rent and meals out"
Il don't know if you'll like living
in the Village" he said obviously.
I'VE can't afford the places in
nice neighborhoods. And besides,
the Village doesn't seem prosaical-
ly poor. Let's look at this one,"
When Eleanor saw the big room
facing a court, she didn't see the
cracks in the floor, the stains on
the wall, the dreary view. She
didn't hear the cries and screams
and noisy laughter out of doors; she
saw the quaint fireplace, the high
ceilings, the large small-paned win
dow and was enchanted. The noises
out OF doors were part Of the SYM
phony of the city.
please, please, let's take it.
Phil, darling. We can do wonders
with it. l have enough furniture
from our place at home to furnish
the bedroom. You could paint the
furniture and I'll put up chintz
Grapes. And it will cost practically
nothing to do wonderful things
with this big living room. Pleased"
So the Parishes went to live IN
a tenement and called it Bohemia.
Eleanor had told him she could
do wonders with the rooms. And
she did. She shopped in bargain
easements, at warehouse sales. and
auctions. One by one she trans
formed the bare rooms with her
treasures. A box spring raised on
wooden blocks, and covered with a
Mexican blanket made a lounge.
Coarse, generously pleated home
spun in bright orange and green
hung at the sides of the paned win.
dow. Bowls of brass and conner
that Eleanor polished until the
metals were filled with greens pur-
chased cheaply in the flower mar
ket.
A deep-blue rug, picked up for a
song at a warehouse, covered the
cracks in the floor, and bright-hued
paper travel posters of European
scenes covered the spots on the