Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-30
Daily ShOIt Story
High, Low and MiddIe-Brow

Nor Hemingway. They re good
writers. though
& "ENaCtly Pe0r, hov'~ Connie
ever going tn get married, with
Mary around ."
"Thiuk she'll scare OF the,
boy>e" y
a don't think Connie viii
ever meet ans And the puppy
lu,e-aHIir> she had here are all
washed up ~ she was only
going of with some nice kids
picture neat 10 her heart! It's
important, Peter
Important IT, life.
Imagine me THCkpffNinE around
In this tough old world all these
wears without YOU II Mary
Nrenn does that child ont of a
husband Ill-Ill come back
and haunt her But, that wind.
YOU know That blow eth whittier
IL H>te>t'--shc may pick up u
husband On the train going up"
TRJ SIS TO LETTERS
Blt She ddrt AUNT Constance
G0f CHAT oHt OF her- letters she
Trusted t1 ,et'cr- ior four month,
or So n3 chem -ho got on the
THu 5 went auJ >aW for her
,cli She c1Wo back dl~gruntlcd
"~hc met some Young men
f down no The office Aunt Con-
>1anc. sand to Juclo p,cor. land
apparently they're rather nice
Young men. bat noihing seems
+ 10 have spanked between them
and Connie. Anyhow, they never
come around
What about the boys from
here and around here Who'Ne
gone ON there tovliNe?"
+ Aunt Constance snQrtrd
"She dug 'em out and asked
EN- rouud-mO>t OF 'cm-tn
cocktail parties and things: but
do YOU know what happened?
She'd never acknowledge il, hut
l could kind of listen between
sentences and hear plainly
enough; ~ home they had
seemed nice run-Of the-mill boys
She could have good time with.
and meet other boys through,
and fill mp parties with, and 80
keep things going. But there
she was Just little ashamed
Of them"
MARY" said Uncle Peter
"NarN," Aunt CON st an c @
sighed MARY talked Ia them
about III Greco. and Pica>so's
later manner. and didn't they
/ think Wagner MAS vulgar. and
why didn't people read Branch
| tahell any more; and they
didn't come back" She wrinklcd
her sturdy, handsome Counie-
nance And Connie didn't want
them 10.
LOOK ALL NIGHT
II gathered that She had
tried 10 find a mental highway
they and Nary'S II < n row
1
Portable cOmpanionship. hut she
hadn't succeeded; that she tried
10 wishiul-think some of them
into asking ttrr-tt, tn m kt1uIT
or n picture or something and
hadn't had any better luck
here, and then had given up.
II gathered that she misses
what these boys stood for, but
doesn't miss il much--iS too
thrilled at what Mary and her
friends stand for, and at being
allowed 10 range mp alongside
and stand with en- Connie.
WHO'S got more sense ina
minute than that Mary Nrcnn's
got iu-Nou should see the
friends she has, Or. rather, YOU
should kuow thcm--ihey look
all right.
They're intelligent, educated,
they've been around. they've got
good jobs. It's Just that they're
all arid. They're sort of dead
on their feet. You could never
imagine one at EN- marrying
anybody hut another one of EN-.
} They never talk about anything
, hut Ari--With capital \.
Arts all right, reckon. in its
place. like roast beef. or tatting
;, ar collecting butterflies, or any
: thing else: hat Art with cap
= ital A-Oh, wei. I tion't know
= hut it, aW fully had for Connie.
= I've got 20 do something about
: it,"
= You" said Uncle Potter DO
q something about ii: What
n could YOU do 80
HITLER DOES IT
n II don't know. That's the
Y heck of i'll inst don't know"
a IL WAS IlIfIUr Ipp4IpUfit win