Evening star., 1941-04-19
The Coming
Tower
The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
Saturday, April IL.

The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys.
Saturday, April IL.
Lay till past noon this day. and
so up and played and conversed and
read until -four, and then T. Ban-
berger come in his costly new motor
carre, and drove me TO the station,
where I waited until Timmy came
home from Wallingford, where he
tells me that they have a great
school, in that the gymnasium is
large, and the athletic field larger,
and they have II tennis courts. So
home, and read Robert Nathans
They Went On Together" which
struck me as a book that might be
called 1T Can Happen Here, and 1t
Is Happening Almost Everywhere
Else"
Sunday, April 13.
Up pretty early, and finally found
my tennis shoes, with the marks of
a warm October day still on them.
So to the court, which was softer
than my service, albeit regardless
of who my partner may have been,
won two sets. So home, in as fms
a fettle as l have been this year,
and after luncheon read soms
mighty woeful things about the war.
which I think are Woeful, in spite
of this one and that one saying that
each day means that things are so
much worse for Hitler. So Miss
Phyllis Perlman come to call, and in
the evening played at rummy with
my wife and Anthony.
Monday, April Il
To the early train, and 1t came
over me with great sadness that 1t
was 76 years ago this night that
Abraham Lincoln went to Ford's
Theater, and every time 1 realize
that he was but Sc years of age, it
comes as a shock, and a certainty
that his assassination was a far
greater calamity to the South than
to the North. 1t come on to be
mighty warm day, which 1 like. So
/ finished my stint in time to meet
| three of my children on the train,
they having come to be shod, and so
| home, and walked about in the warm
sunshine, and there we're a few
green shoots on the trees My wife
/ i'll with bronchitis, and I to bed by
| 8, and read little, but SO many
insects came in through the win
dows that I turned out the light
early, vowing to install screens to-
morrow.
Tuesday, April Is.
To the late train and espied r.
Irwin the Newtown master of the
three arts, such as drawing, singing
and -adroitness, and not ILL
natured in conversation or banter,
neither So to the Office, on a day
filled with April's golden laughter.
And we discussed my children and
his grandchildren, and to the SUBJ
way, and thought of how Longfel-
low must have told grave Alice and
laughing Allegra and Edith with
golden hair not to come near papa
while he was working, and then
only for an hour, whereas any pause
| in my days occupations would be
known as the fathers 20 minutes,
and as to hearing in the chamber
above me the patter of little feet,
there is only the attic above me, and
there are no little feet, but eight big
ones. and not barefoot, neither. So
home on an early train, and wished
that I had a swim suit by me, to
plunge into the sound, but did not,
but went home for bath, and after
supper pretty early to bed.
Wednesday, April 16.
Wakened late, and had time to
garb myself with care, and to have
breakfast with a fair amount of
| leisure, and felt like doing no work
Soever. but did it natheless, and I
wished that I loved to work, foras-
much as then I should do less, it be-
ing fear of laziness that drives me,
much as the coward, fearing cow
ardice, may do many acts of bravery
or what paSSeth for it. Home, and
played catch with my boy, but no
longer can throw so swiftly that ne
cannot catch the ball. To bed
early, what with slight ache in my
pitching arm.
Thursday, April IL.
Walked at 5, as jocund day was
standing f1atfooted on the sunny
hilltop, and feared to fall asleep
again lest I oversleep, I having
promised to wake Tim at 7, so that
he would be ready to leave for the
circus at 7:45, so as to be certain to
reach it by 2 in the afternoon. So
drove him to Stevens, and then I
to the early train, and to the city
but became engroSsed in the news
papers and was aStounded when we
arrived at the Terminal And I
wonder what word my son means
when he says that he is embroiled
IN book. So to the Office all day,
and Joshua BolleS comes to see me
whose father was editor of the New
Milford Gazette, and who wrote
fine book about life with his father.
AT various petty chores, and some
writing, too, until o'clock, and got
TO the train with not half a minute
to spare. So home, and stopped out
Of doors to watch the sunset. and
hoped that the figurative sun would
never set on the British Empire. So
did little work after supper, and
to bed by 10 o'clock.
Friday, April Is.
Up at 6, and out in my shift for
a walk, and marked how greener the
trees seemed than yesterday, and I
think that the Greenfield Hill dog
wood will bloom earlier this year
than ever. So went back to bed.
and read until 7, some bulletins from
the Fairfield County Farm Bureau,
about eliminating woodchucks. So
to the city, and there all day, and
to dinner with Henry Curran. and
home by the 10 o'clock train.
F. P. A.
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