The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-18
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cause 7 didn't get any az re prizes
But I vas one q those who had
10 stand ID vhen our names we're
read out IS Gammsgams for High
Moral Tone was never -
ashamed A. tire graduates sat
on sort of grsndstand butt up
on the stage None Of rs were
used 10 such high heels and each
Eirl a. sire stood Up pretty nearly
took a dive. The pure and slo-
ouent blood spoke that time a.
night and 7 wondered 4 Freddie
Vas ErinninE
Encles speech vas awful too.
He had 70 get in something about
Standing with Reluctant Feet.
There weren't any reluctant feet
when the board Of education got
through with Ia and the reception
for parents and families was over.
The gang got together out al
Clubfoot Lake where they had a
dance platform night by the water
and Gammagams were no longer
responsible for community ideals.
II was queer 10 feel all Of a sud
den so grown-up in our heads and
yet so light on our feet. Those
wide swishy dresses do make your
legs feel independent. But 1t was
really a very orderly little party.
somehow we felt the world hadn't
changed as much as we thought
it was going to. There was fell
low there from Peoria who boot
legged a Jug Of rum and We all
had shot in our coke which
frightened us bit
The music in the pavilion vas
big Nictrola. which tangled up
every now and then with the me-
ohanical piano in the Log Cabin
dump. Sometimes Id sit out with
Fedor while Molly was dancing
and I told him she was the pref
test of the crowd because she
hadn't had her hair shingled like
most of US What I like" he
said. is the way she parts it with
that little bend in the middle Of
the parting. That's really subtle
I didn't tell him Molly has cow
HEX. Nicolai himself couldn't part
II straight. love it, it's so much
a part of herself and her unexpect-
edness.
We must have run grooves in
that Blue Room record. Dancing
is wonderful training for girls. it's
the first way to learn to guess
what man is going to do before
he does it. You find yourself
laughing and say I'm having fun
With the right kind Of partner you
don't have to follow" you know
with perfect sureness every move
he'll make. You know 1t sooner
than he does.
Clubfoot isn't much Of lake,
at least not by eastern standards,
but there's a good-sized moon that
rises over the icehouse and puts
yellow stripe across the water.
Freddie thought it would be nice
to go swimming and see If we
could find where the moon really
came from. but we had Fedor
along and that was always a good
excuse for anything we didn't feel
like doing.
Besides, I said, Psttyshells will
be sitting up for me, and he's get
ting old.
/ Pattyshells wasn't the only one
who was getting old, l could tell
it in Pop by the way he grabbed
about changes in Philly. The L
stairs were too much for him. but
once and a while we'd get on a
trolley car and make the long ride
downtown for him to visit his
haunts. I wish Id listened more
to things he said, I could have
learned a lot about the old town.
In his big cricketing days he as
ISOLATED so much with gentry and
went around TO the swell taverns,
places like Bookbinder's and Booth
by's and he loved to remember
some particular Fish-house Punch
that laid them out in rows; and
where To get Delaware shad and
pepperpot and those little pink
oyster-crabs and the Reading Ter
minal scrspple. But like all kids
my mind was mostly inside my
own head and I was thinking
about me. Molly Scharf and l
kept up big correspondence
about what we were going to do
at college that fall.
ITO Re Continued
c. L. Sholes. printer and editor,