| Show II Roses Ruses and Romance yO Henry Ravenel the traveler artist and nOlI poet pool threw his magn- magn zinc to the thc floor Sammy Drown Brown brokers broker's clerk who sat b by the window Jumped hat What is It ho he asked The critics been hammering your our stock down 1 Romance Is dead lead said nel neI lightly tightly When Ravenel spoke lightly he hc was g generally serious He picked up the tho magazine and fluttered its leaves Even a Philistine like you ou Sammy Samm said Ravenel seriously a to tono no that Insured him to be bespeaking bespeaking speaking lightly ought to Un tin- Now here lere Is a magazine maga magn zinc zine that once printed Poe Poo and nd Lowell and Whitman and Bret Harte and Du flu and Lanier I-a- I nier and and well well that gives you jou ou th the Idea The current r has this literary feast east to set before you you- ou An article on the stokers and coal bunkers of or battleships an expose of or the methods method employed em- em plo in making liverwurst a a. continued stor story o of a Standard Preferred Pre Pro erred International Baking Powder Powder Powder Pow Pow- der deal In Wall all Street a poem on the b bear ar that the President missed d. d another mother story by a n young woman who spent a week as ns a aspy aspy spy making overalls o on the n l Side Sloe another fiction story that reeks of oC the garage ansi ami a certain lain tain make of at automobile Of or course the tho title contains the thc words Cupid and Chauffeur nn an article on naval strategy Il Illustrated 11 tl with cuts of ot the Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish Armada and the thc new Staten Slaten Island ferryboats another r story tory of a n political boss who won the tho love o of at a Fifth A Avenue belle beltt by blackening her eye and r refusing to vote for or an ordinance it doesn't say sav whether It was in he Street Cleaning Department or Con and nineteen pages hv fry v the editors bragging about the tho circulation The whole thing Sammy Is an obituary on RamI Rom Ro- Ro m mI s nc nce Sammy Drown Brown sat lIat at comfortably In the leather b by the open window Ills suit was a n. vehement ve va- brown with visible checks b beautifully matched in shade le by bythe bythe bythe the ends o of four cigars that his hla vest rest pocket poorly concealed Light tan were his shoes gray ra his socks sky blue Ik-blu Ik his apparent linen snowy and and adamantine adamantine ada arla- mantine hl his 1111 collar n lIh t which a il block black h hd 1111 d l and md spread his wings Sammy's face face face- least Important Important was round and pleasant nud pinkIsh and in his hI eyes yOU vou saw aw no 10 haven for rIco floe Ing Romance That window o of apartment opened upon an nn old full of nf ancient trees tre and Th The Tho house towered tn above on ono one side of at It a high brick wall fended It from rom the street opposite 1 s wi an nn old r l mansIon Flood stood hidden half n 11 i th shade shide of or the summer nc foll-nc oll I. I Tho The house was wasa a castle bul besieged d Th The city howled and roared and antl shrieked and beat upon tt Its it double doors and shook white fluttering chec checks cs T ove the wa offering terms of at surrender Tho gray dust settled upon the trees the tho siege was wall pressed hotter hot hot- Let ter lint hut tho drawbridge was not lowered o furth further r will th lan Inn of or r serve lived an It old rr man who loved 10 Its It's honi honie and ana dirt did not wish Ish to tos s l it That Is all 11 ll the romance of or h hp io castlo Three or four fou times limes every we epIc k Sammy to apartment nt He belonged to th the club for th the former owns IJ-owns 1 Iad ad ad been bern conspicuous thou though h had hart been vulgarized hv h s Ho Hn had hat ro 11 tears tean for tor H par Romance The song of or orth th th T was th tho on th that t tr r reached h his hart It a and n when It r me mo Io to matters matteu equine quine anti and bat bat- tine score cor h he lie w S f is something of ofa n a pink edition H r lov d to tn sit Hit n In Ith tim th T the leather an hv flAven le And PR didn't mind T Sammy 8 seemed to h his s talk and then the brokers broker's bro kers ker's lerk was a p sieh ich a R rf nf f modernity and hI h ya I sordid 11 t that nat Ja t Rl liked ed to us use him himas us as a Ill loll lell you vou wha what's hns s 's the tho m n-n n mAt vr r 1 with you vou i 1 n Id Sammy mm with f the shrewdness hat t business had taught him The magazine h his has turned down som mo o of your poetry 1111 That why you OU are arc sore oro soret t t it t It would be That 3 a good guess fu I IM Wall Street rt or In a l campaign n for li of ot a R womans woman's Maid Haid Ravenel quIetly Now ow o hero IR is a poP poem tf nU ou will Al Allow al low me to call It of oC of my ray myown own I In this number of the magazine maga maga- mag-I mag zinc zine Read U It to me mp fIR It Sammy So I t M wl a Hond r of or nf i e-i m k 14 hal bad Just uM MOM hIon n out lut she he he win win- flow dow w was no than I Achilles No one Is There is bound to be a spot Somebody Somebody- Other or must take hold hoM of or us somewhere when she us Inthe in the or that makes us Invulnerable lie JIe read rend aloud this verse In the magazine The Four notion nol One rose I twined within your our hair hair hair- White rose rose that of worth And ono one you OU placed upon your breast breast- Red fled rose loves love's seal of birth You ou plucked l another from Its S stem stem stem- te m- m Tea rose ros that means for aye ayo And one you gave that gave that bore for forme formo mo me moThe The TIle of oC memory That's a crackerjack said Samm Sammy admiringly There are aro five more verses said Neild patiently sardonic One naturally pauses at tho the end endor of or each Of Ot course course- Oh letS lef have the tho rest ol old I man nian shouted ted Sammy con contritely tr I 1 t mean maan to cut you off ocr Im I'm not much of oC u L poetry expert you know I never saw a poem that didn't look like It ought to 11 I lave ave terminal facilities at the end of Ut t o every r verse Reel lIed off oct tho the rest of it Ravenel sighed and laid the thc magazine down n. All right said Sammy Samm cheerfully well have it next ime time Ill I'll bo be of off now Got Gota a date at five e o'clock Ho lie took a last look at ut the shaded shad shad- ed green garden and left whistling whis In an ot off lee key Icey an air from a roofless rootless farce arce comely comedy The next afternoon Ravenel while poll polishing hinR a n ragged line lInc of or new sonnet reclined by tho the window window window win win- dow overlooking the besieged garden of or the thc baron aron Suddenly he lie sat up spilling two rhymes and a syllable or two Through the trees ono one window of the old mansion could be bc seen In Its window draped In flowing white leaned tho the angel angel an angel an- an gel of or all his dreams of or romance and poes poesy You ny fre fresh h as a drop of or dew graceful s as a spray o of clematis conferring upon tho the garden galen hemmed in b by tho the roaring traffic the air all of a n. princess's how bower r beautiful as any flower sung ung by poet poet thus thus Ravenel saw her for the first time She She- lingered lin lin- lin gored for or a while and nd then disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared within leaving a n few tew poLes notes of a n birdlike ripple o of son sonIn sonto sons sons' his hla entranced ears ear to In r reich ch through h ti the rattle of at cabs and tho the snarling of or the electric cars Thus ThuR as If Ir to challenge tho the poets poet's flaunt at romance and to io punish hIm hm for his to the undying spirit of or youth and an ani beauty this vision had lied dawned I upon him with a thrilling and ac- ac power that in an instant th the atoms of oC entire world were redistributed The laden 8 that passed the house in which she lived rumbled a n deep double-bass double to the tune tuno of at love lo The rile newsboys newsboys' were ere the notes o of singing ing birds that garden en was the pleasance of ot the tho the janitor was an nn ogre one himself a knight ready with sword lance Janee or lute luto Thus does docs romance show herself herself herself her her- self amid forests of or brick and stone atone when she gets lost in the tho city and there has to be bo sent out outa a general alarm io to find inti her again At four tour In the tho afternoon Ravnel Ravenel Rave Rave- nel looked out across cross the tho garden In the window of at his hla hopes 1 set pet four tour small vases con con- taming a n great full blown rose rose rose- red and white And as he ho gazed she she- leaned above them naming haming them with her s sand and seeming to direct her eyes pens pens- ely ively toward his hie own o window And tad then as thought she had caught his 1115 respectful but bul ardent regard she melted awa away leaving ing tho the fragrant emblems on the win win- Yes emblems emblems' emblems ho ho ho would be un- un worth If It he ho had not understood She he had read rend his poem pom The Four Roses Roses' it had reached her heart hart and this was its romantic an an- Of or course couise she must kno know that Ravenel the poet lived there across her garden Jarden Ills His picture too she must havo have seen in the magazines The delicate tender modest flattering flattering- message messas could not be ignored noticed beside the roses rose a email pot flowering containing a n plant Without shame he brought his opera glasses an and employed employed em em- thum from rom the cover of at his window curtain A nutmeg geranium With Vilh tho the true truo poetic instinct he lie dragged a n book of or useless mation from rom his shelves and tore open the loaves at t The Language of Flowers Geranium Nutmeg l I expect a m meeting e et in g. g So Romance never does things b by halves If IZ she comes back to you she sho brings gifts and her koit- koit hag and will sit alt In your our chim chim- ncy ney corner if It you will let her And nd now Ra smiled The lover r smiles when he thinks he Ita has won The Tho woman who lov loves ceases to smile with victor victory Ho He ends a battle she he begins hers What hat hat a n pretty idea to set the four our roses In her window for tor him to see sec She must have a n sweet poetic soul BOllI And now to contrive the tho meeting I A whistling an and nf of I precluded ed the tho c coming ml of i I Sammy Brown Drown I i Ha enel smiled again agnIn Even Sammy Brown Bronn was hono shone upon I IJ II by the flung far of tho the rays re re- re Sammy with his hi ultra I clothes his horseshoe pin nis nisI plump face hi his trite slang his liis uncomprehending admiration of oci the brokers broker's clerk made madean madean an nn excellent foil roll to tho the new right bright unseen visitor to the poets poet's sombre apartment Sammy went to his old seat scat by the tho window and looked out over the dusty green reen rolla foliage e In the garden Then he he looked at his Ills watch and rose hastily B By grabs ho exclaimed Twenty after four I cant can't sta stay old ohl man Ive I've got sot a n date at four four- thirty Why t hy did vou you come como then asked Ravene with B sarcastic Jocularity if you had hod an cn engagement engage engage- ment at that time tinie I thou thought ht you business s men kept better account of or your our minutes and seconds than t that Ii at Sammy hesitated in the doorway and turned pinker Fact is vy he ho explained as ns to a J. J customer whose margin is la exhausted I 1 didn't know I had till I came canto Ill I'll tell you ou old man theres there's a no dandy girl in that old house next door that Im I'm dead gone Jonc on I put It straight straight were ero re enga engaged pd The rhe old man says nit but but that dont don't go Ho Ito I keeps her pretty clo close cioe e. e I can see Edith's J w window from yours here hero She gives me a n tip when she's going gain shopping and I J meet her Its It's thirty four today Maybe I ought to have explained sootier sooner but I know its it's all right with you you you-so ou so o 1011 long How do you you get l your tip as you call it asked Ravenel na los los- law Inc a little spontaneity from rom his smile smite Roses said Samm Sammy briefly Four of ot cm em today Means four o'clock at tho the corner oC of vay av and Twenty T the geranium persisted Ravened Haven clutching at tt the end of ot flying Romances Romance's trailing robe Means Mans past half shouted Samm Sammy Sam Sam- m mv my from irom the tho hall ee cc You to- to murrow j |
