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Show Frilay, September MAGNA TIMES. MAGNAUTAH 4, l: Scenes and Persons in the Current Kevs i By Edna Ferber flwdctt to W S' WNDSarrtaa. i2) ouiluing now occupied uu enure square block and was fifteen stories winDinner. White servants and high. In the huge plate-glas- s negro servants to wait on them. A dows on Pawbuaka avenue postured long table seating a score or more, ladles waxen and coquettish, as on and man; such tables. Bowls and Fifth avenue.. The daughter of Mrs. Pat Lear; plates piled with food ill down the length of It Piles of pork, roasted (nee Crook Ncse) always caused flutter when she came In, In Indian fashion over hot embers vquite sunk In S pit In the yard, and for accustomed though Osage was skewered with a sharp pointed to money and the spending of it stick. Bowls of dried corn. Great the Learys lavishneas was somesilk fat black ripe olives. Tinned lob- thing spectacular. Hand-mad- e ster. Chicken. Plies of dead ripe underwear, the sheerest of cobweb strawberries. Test plateaus of ange- French model stockings, bats, l-food cake covered with snow dresses well. In the matter of fields of Icing. gowns It was no good trying to InSabra went through the motions fluence Maude Leary or her mothof eating. Sometimes she put a er. They frankly wanted beads, morsel Into her month and actuall; spangles, and paillettes on a founswallowed-I- t There was a great dation of --crude color.The salesclatter of knives and forks and women were polite and acquiescent dishes. Everything was eaten out but they cocked an eyebrow at one of one plate. Platters and bowls another. Squaw stuff. Now that were replenished. Sabra found her- litle Cravat girl Felice Cravat, Ciself seated beside Mrs. Big Elk. marron Cravats daughter was difOn her other side was Yance;. He ferent She Insisted on plain, was eating and laughing and talk- smart tailored things. Oklahoma ing. Mra Big Elk was being almost state woman tennis champion. She She always said she looked a freak In comical!; polite, solicitous pressed this tidbit, that dalnt;, on fluffy things like a boy dressed her ston; guest up In girl's clothes. She bad long, Down the center of the table, at lean, muscular arms and a surprisInterval's, were huge bowls piled ing breadth of shoulder, was slim with a sort ef paltry stuffed with flanked and practically atomachlesa. forcemeat - It was liks a great She bad a curious Trick of holding ravioli, and pllea of It vanished be- her he&d down and looking np at neath the onslaught tf appreciative you under her lashes and when sba did that yon forgot her boyishness, guest a For God'a sake, pretend to eat for her lashes were like fern something, Sabra," Yancey mur- fronds, and her eyes, tu her dark mured, under hla breath. Its done face, an astounding ocean gray. now. They consider It an Insult She was a good sport, too. She didn't seem to mind the fact that Try to eat something. She stirred the pastry and her mother, when she accompanied ehopied meat that had been put her, wore the blanket and was baton her plate. less, Just like any poor Kaw, In"Good. said Mrs. Big Elk, be- stead of being one Of the richest side her, and pointed at the mass of the Osagea. She was rather with one dusky maculate finger. handsome for a squaw, In a big. Ing Sabra lifted her fork to her lips solent, way. Felice and swallowed a hit of It It was Cravat, every one agreed, was a delicious spicy, rich, appetising. chip of the old block, and by that "Yes, she said, and thought I am they did not mean her father. They being wonderful. This Is killing were thinking of Yancey Cravat me. Yes, It la very good. This old Cimarron, her grandfather, who meat this stuffing is It chopped was now something of a legend In or ground through a grinder? Osage and throughout Oklahoma. The huge Indian womnn beside Young Clm and bis Osage wlfe'hhd her turned her expressionless gaze had a second child a boy and on Sabra. Ponderously she shook they had called him Yancey, after her head from side to side In ne- the old boy. Young Yancey was a gation. bewllderingly handsome mixture of Naw." she answered, politely, a dozen types and forbears InChawed." dian, Spanish, French, Southern, The clattef of a fork dropped to Southwest. With that long narrow the pTSte, a clash among the cups face, the dolichocephalic head, peoand saucers. Sabra Cravat had ple said he looked like the king of fainted. Spain without that dreadful Haps-burg g I t m Jaw; Others said he wss the Osage, Obla., was a city. Image of his grandmother, Sabra Where, scarcely two decade ago; Cravat. Still others contended that prairie and sky had met the eye he was his Indian mother over with here a buffalo wallow, there again insolence and all. A third an radian encampment; you now would come along-an- d say. Youre saw a twenty-stor- y hotel: the crazy. Hes old Yancey, horn again. The Italian head waiter I guess you don't remember him. bent from the waist and murmured There, look, thats what I mean! In your ear bis secret about the The way he closes his eyes as If veal saute with mushrooms or the he were sleepy, and then when he spaghetti Caruso du Jour. Sabra does look at you straight you feel Cravat, congresswoman from Okla- as If youd been struck by lightXIV ning. They say he's so smart that homa, lunching in the room with the members of the the Osages believe hes one of their Womens State Itepuhllcan coo. nlt-te- old gods come back to earth." would say, looking up at him Mrs. Tracy Wyatt (she who had with those intelligent dark eyes. been Donna Cravat) had tried to Ill leave it to you, Nick. Only adopt one of her brothers children, quickly. We havent jnuch time. being herself childless, hut Cim N'lccolo Mazzarlnl would say yes, and bis wife Ruby Big Elk had he understood. No one had much, never consented to this. She was time In Osage. Okla. a case, that Donna Cravat, OklaTwenty-fiv- e years earlier any- homa was agreed about that. She body who was anjbody in Okla"ould get away with things that homa had dilated on his or her jy other womnn would be shot eastern connections. Iowa, If for. When old Tracy Wyatt had was East divorced bis wife to marry this They had been a little ashamed girl local feeling4 had been very of the Him. Bragged about the much against her. Every one had splendors of the homea from which turned to the abandoned middle-agethey had come. wife with attentions and symNow tt was considered the height but she had met their pathy, of chic to he able to say that your warmth and friendliness with such parents bad come through in a vitriol that they fell back in tercovered wagon. Grandparents were ror and Anally came to believe the stories of how she had deviled and nagged old Tracy all through their marriage. They actually cable to feerthat he bad been Justified In deserting her and taking to wife this young and fascinating girL Certainly be seemed to take a new lease on life, lost five Inches around the waist line, played polo, regained something of the high color g and good spirits of his old days, and mad; a great hit in London during the season when Donna was presented at court Besides, there was no withstanding the Wyatt money. Even In a counTracy try blase of millionaires something to Wyatts fortune-w- as marvel about The name of Wyatt seemed to be everywhere. As yon rode In trains yon saw the shining round black flanks of oil cars, thousands of them, and painted on them in letters of white, Wyatt Oils." Motoring through Oklahoma and the whole of the Southwest you passed miles of Wyatt oil tanks, whole silent cities of monoliths, like something grimly Egyp-tioon the squatting eunuch-likThe Covered Wagon My Folks prairies. As - for the Wyatt house it Crossed ths Prairies In." wasnt a house at all. but a comstill rather rare In Oklahoma. As bination of the pulace of Verfor the Run of "89 tt was Osage's sailles and the Grand ntral staAt the huge dinner tion In New York. It occupied Mayflower. given In Sabra Cravat's honor when grounds about the size of the duchy she was elected congresswoman, of Luxembourg, and on the grounds, and from which they tried to once barren plain,' bad "been set elude Sol Levy over Sabras vigor- great trees brought fram England. ous (and triumphant) protest, the A mite "of avenue, planted In chairman of the committee on ar- elms, led up to the mansion and rangements explained it all toSol. each elm, bought, transported, and, stuck In the ground, bad cost fifpatronizingly. You see, we're Inviting only peo- teen hundred dollars There were ple who came to Oklahoma In the rare plants, farms forests lakes Run. tennis courts golf links polo fields Well, sure," said the former race tracks airdromes swimming peddler, genially. That'a all right pools. Whole paneled rooms had 1 walked." . been brought froiq. Francs In' the The Levy Mercantile company's bathrooms were electric cabinets , CHAPTER XIII Continued 21 slow-movin- - g -- ! ! e, . nee-essnr- d dray-drivin- e ana sunken tubs of rare marble, noon edition ami was known as sod shower baths glaaa enclosed. ths most powerful newspaper Tn These bathrooms were tbs size of the Southwest. When Sabrs was bedrooms end the bedrooms the In town she made practice of size of ballrooms and the ball- driving down to the office at eleven rooms as big as an auditorium. every night, remaining there for There waa an Ice plant and cooling an hour looking over tbe layout," system that could chill the air of reading the wet galley proof of the every room In the house, even on night's news lead, scanning he A. the hottest Oklahoma windy day. P. wires. Her entrance was tn the The kitchen range looked like a nature ofhe passage of royalty, house In Itself, and the kitchen and when she came Into the city looked tike that of the Blltmore. room the staff all hot sainted. only larger. When yon entered the True, she wasnt there very much, dining room yon felt that here except tn the summer, when conshould be seated solemn diplomats gress was not In session. In gold braid signing world treaties Tbe sight of a woman on the and having tbelr portraits painted floor of the .congressional bouse -- doing It Sixty gardeners manned the grounds The house servants would hart peopled a village. Sabra Cravat rarely, came to visit her daughters house. "and when she did the very simplicity of her slim straight little figure In its dark XU 1 View of Hankow, China, . where thousands have perished In floods that threaten to destroy tha big dty. 2 Clubhouse and 18th green at tha Beverly Country club, Chicago, scent of the national amateur golf tournament 8 Count Karolyl who formed a government for Hungary after tha resignation of Count Bethlen and hla ministry, was still something of novelty. Sentimental America bad shrunk from the thought of women in active politics. Woman's place waa in tha home, and American womanhood waa too exquisite a flower to be subjected to the harsh atmosphere of the assembly floor and tha committee room. 8abra stumped the state and developed a surprising gift of ora tory. Perhaps It was not altogether what she said that counted In her , W. favor. Her appearance must have A do It. with had something to ,)!' slim, straight, dignified woman, yet Her voice touchingly feminine. i not loud, but clear. Her white hair was shingled and beantlfnlly i r waved and beneath this her soft i dark eyes took on an added depth ( ; and brilliance. Her eyebrows bad n i, i remained black aud thick, still , ( I 7 V further enhancing her finest feaUL 4 ' ture. Her dress was always dark, ' ' k t becoming, smart and her silken anf . kles above the slim slippers with it buckles were those their of a young girL The aristocratic - - ( tl!I Marcy feet and ankles. In Washington she was quite a . belle among the old boys In conthe senate. even The and gress This group of Seminole Indiana from Dade county, 'Florida, has gone all the way np to Toronto to take MS opposition party tried to blackmail tn the Canadian National exhibition. They were photographed during their brief atop In Washington. her with publicity about certain unpart A Chip of the Old Block. proved Items In tbe life of her dead (or missing) husband, Yancey Crablue georgette or black crepe waa vat: ROBERT M. GROVE a two-guman, a desperado, marIn of these midst the startling a drunkard, a squaw man. a killer, ble columns and vast corridors and Then -they started on young Clm royal hangings She did come oc- and hla Osage Indian wife, but Sacasionally, and on those occasions bra and Donna were too qnlck for you found her In the great central them . apartment that was like a throne Donna leased a handsome room, standing there- - before the house In Wyatt S" I II , t t Dupont circle, staffed it, 14 ?1 two sons her of children, brought Tracy ' portraits ' 'v ' .X vast wealth Wyatt's A " . Felice and Yancey Cravat. Falling and influence to fbear, and planned to possess either of the children a ! so brilliant that It routed for her own, Donna had bad them thecoup V She brought enemy forever. 1 e painted and hung there, one either her hn ml koine, sleepy-eye- d brother side of the enormous fireplace. She Clm and bit wife Big Elk, Ruby Yp had meant .them to be a gift to and the youngsters Felice end Yan4 W I ' J, hyr mother, hut Sabra Cravat bad cey to the house In Dupont circle, 1 refused to take them. and together she and Sabra gave a V . Dont you like them, Sabra dar- reception for them to which they ling? They're the best things Invited a group so precious that tt ( r V x Segovia has ever done. Is it be actually came. ... I think modern? cause theyre they Sabra and Donna, exquisitely look like the kids dont you?" stood In line at the head dressed, - "Theyre Just wonderfuL - of the magnificent room, and be? "Well, then? tween them stood Ruby Big Elk f ii I'd have to build a house for in her dress of creamy them. IIow would they look In the all embroidered in beads from sitting mom of the house on Kibe-kah- ? shoulder to hem. She was an imand come here No, let me look at them now and then. That posing figure, massive but not fat as were many of the way theyre . always a fresh sur- Osage women, t and her black abunme. to prise dant hair had taken on a mist of A . v surCertainly they were rather Dray. Rather, prising, those portraits. Mrs. Clmar-fo-n My daughter-in-law- , i one of them was. - Segovia had got of the Osage Indian tnuat, little Felice well enough, but he tribe." had made the mistake of painting ana My sons wife. Ruby Big Elk k, her In Spanish costume, and some- Mrs. Cimarron Cravat" Moses Robert how her angular contours and boythe Grove, mighty . Mrs, Cimarish frame had not lent themselves ron MyCravat. t .. of tha world champion Osage to these gorgeous lace and satin Indian. . . A Athletics, became a shareholder Hi We . Indeed. Yes, trappings. The boy, Yancey, had think so, too." tha American league record of 18 refused to dress up for ths occaAnd, IIow do yon do? said consecutive pitching victories by desion had, Indeed, been Impatient In her calm. Insolent ways feating the White Sox. Connie 1 of posing at alL Segovia had Ruby, For the fire-babenefit of those who bad trarler tied the caught him quickly and brilliantly, not quite been able to encompssa Macks with startling results. He wore a the Indian woman In her native mark set In 1912 by Smoky Joe" i, Wood of ths Boston Red Sox and t pair of loose, rather grimy white dress Ruby's next public appeartennis pants, a white woolly sweat- ance was made In a Paris of equalled the same year by Walter er with a hole. In The elbow, and white. She became the gownwas Johnsoiyof Washington. rage, In band his was batless. right considered and left picturesque, that slim, beautiful, speaking hand Washington in disgust her 'work be held a Ump, done. No one bat her husband, ENVOY FROM BOLIVIA Its blue-grasmoke whom-scigarette, he loved with a doglike spiraling faintly. Its dull red devotion, could have Induced her eye the only note of color In to go through this ceremony. V Yet the whole the picture. Here la a reproduction of tbe bicentennial stamp, selected by tbs The opposition retired, vanportrait was colorful, moving, alive. District of Colombia commission sponsoring the Washington bicentennial , The boys pose was so insolent, so quished. Donna and JTracy Wyatt then celebration which will be observed In 1932. President Hoover received lithe, so careless. The eyes folhired a special train In which they from Marshall E. C. Snyder of the district commission the first book of lowed yon. He was a person. took fifty eastern potentates on a these stamps to coma off tbs press. Looks tike Ruby, dont yon tour of Oklahoma. One vague and think? Donna had said, when first not matron, very Washington bright she had shown It to her mother. of great social prestige, Impressed V?) No! Sabra had replied, with with what she daw, voiced her opinenormous vigor. Not at alL Your ion to young Yancey Cravat, quite father." confused as to hla Identity and Well maybe a little." aeetng only an attractive and very seated beA little Youre craxyt Look handsome yonng male at a country club luncheon. at bis eyes. His bands. Of course sideI her had no Idea Oklahoma was theyre not as beautiful as your like this. I thought It was all oil fathers hands were are . . . It had been five years since Sa- and dirty Indiana." There is quite a lot of oil, bat bra had heard news of her husall dirty." band. Yancey Cravat And now, were not Yr- for the first time, she'Yelt that he I'm an Indian." was dead, though she had never (TO BB CONTINUED.! admitted this. In spite of his years she had heard that Yancey had Word Hu Mae; Massing gone to France during the war. Tbe Chinese word for blessing or The American and ths English luck is pronounced fu, and armies had rejected him. so he had good the Chinese character expressing tt dyed hla graying hair, lied about Is a favorite one with the Chinese his age, thrown back hla still magnificent shoulders, and somehow, people for embroidering on linen or on the walls of by bts eyes, his voice, bis hands, or theirhaving placed bouses. It should be borne a combination of all these, had Luis 0. Abelll has been appointed In mind that the word fu means hypnotized tbe in Into taking him. minister from Bolivia to the United In when this written blessing only An unofficial report had listed him States, succeeding Dies de Medina, among the missing after ths car- way. There are dozens of characters having thjs same pronuncia- who has been made adviser to tha nage had reased Id tbs shambles that bad been s wooded plateau tion, all written differently, and hav- foreign office at La Pax ing utterly .different meaning. called the Argonne. Hs Isn't dead, Sabra bad said, Washington Star. When almost calmly. Yancey ' Manicurist, (seeing man with Barlia Buys Paper Umbrellas Cravat dies hell be on tbe front scratched face) badly Oh, dear, 1 will It It.' In and world know the ..Vhen Berlin can rains page, you This young woman la trying an ancient East Indian remedy for inBut a year bad gone by. drop a coin In a slot and gr a pa- - feel responsible for that poor mans The Oklahoma Wigwam now les- per umbrella with a wooden handle. condition. Yesterday hla wife came somnia. If she follows ths blsck line from start to finish n few times i to me to have her nails she la sura to fan asleep If ths remedy Is genuine. s-d a morning as well as an after Cappers Weekly. pointed." Seminole Indians Go to Canadian Exhibition Y Y' I- I, V l. cot-ste- J ?On. sCY. Washington Bicentennial Stamp n ?vv w .emsao :r nirv ' W O' J 7mc:r.!v.: ' 3 .il.i1 )" R'v.1.- white-doeski- 1 sister-in-law- left-hand- full-blood- - v ll ,T IOX- half-smoke- d y If You Have Insomnia, Try This Cure 1 fr Self-Aacatl- ag |