Show X xa 7 X it 1 ot 4 it 0 AOA AO A B by EDNA FERBER C doubleday re rage A co 4 iol 4 A CHAPTER XI continued 14 no selina admitted but those italian villas and french chateaux in ili north chicago suburbs tire it rood good deal like a n lace evening gown in the arizona desert it keep you ou cool in the daytime and it be warm enough ali nt night I 1 suppose it native architecture Is evolved from bul building laing for the local climate and the needs of the community keeping belli beau ty in mind ns as you go we dont need turrets and towers any mi more than we need drawbridges draw bridges and moats its ita ell right to keep them I 1 suppose where here they grew up in a country where the feudal system meant that any lay your next door neighbor might take it into ills his liend to call tits ills gank gang around him ant and sneak up to steal your our wife and les and gold drinking cups dirk was interested Inter filed nud and amused talks with ills his mother were likely to affect him thus Wl ints your idea of a reil real chicago house housa mother selina answered quickly hs it if she imd had thought often about it ns as if site she would hp have liked just stich a dwelling d oiling on the site of the old dejong farmhouse in which they the now were seated I 1 so BO comfortably well it would need big por clies for the lie hot days and nights sos to catch tile lie prevailing southwest winds from the prairies tit in the summer n porch that would bp be swung clear around to the east cast too or a terrace oil 01 another porch east so that it if the precious old lake breeze should come up tip lust just when yon ou think youre flying of the heat as it sometimes does you ou could catch that too it ought to be built the house lio iise I 1 mean rather and tight lind and solid against our cold winters and northeastern northeasters north easters then sleeping porches of course theres a grant grand american institution for youl sou england may liap have its afternoon tea on the terrace and spain may have its patio and france its ita courtyard and italy its per pergola goin vine no covered but americas got the sleeping porch the screened in fit open air sleeping porch and I 1 wonder if the man who first thought of that would got get precedence on judgment lay day over oer the men who invented the airplane the talking inn machine and the telephone after nil all he had nothing in mind but the health of the human race after which grand period Selina grinned nt at dirk and dirk grinned at selina and tile the two giggled together there by the fireplace alre companionably 11 1 mother lother youre oure simply wonder wonderful fu I 1 I 1 only your tour natle native chicago dwelling du elling seems to oe mostly porch selina waved such carping criticism away with a barele cn reles s hand oil oh well any house that lias has enough porches find and two or three bathrooms and rt nt least eight closets can be lived in corn com no matter what else it has or got next lay lav they were more serious the college and the tural career seemed to be settled things bilings selina wits was content happy dirk was as troubled about the expense lie ile spoke of it at breakfast next morning in dirks break breakfast its mother had lind had hers hours before and now ns as lie he drank ills his coffee was ns sitting g wath etli him film n moment and glancing nt at the paper lint flint had find come in ili the rural mall dell cry PI site she tin had been out in the holds fields nes seeing the transplanting of young oung tomato seedlings from hotbed to field she wore more tin an old gray sweater buttoned up tight for the air was still sharp on her head wits MS n buttered battered black felt soft hat an old one of dirks much like the one she had bad worn to the alny ain market that lay ten tell years 3 ears ago F ive ie been th thinking inking lie he began the expense oxton e pigs 11 do it selina said calmly ive been wanting to put them in for three or four years sears its august lIem idea hogs I 1 should liae have said eald ile he echoed hoesl rather faintly high elligh bred hogs worth w orth their weight in silver tills this minute and will be for years to come I 1 wont go in for them exten Avely just enough to make an architect out of air fr dirk dejong 11 then at the expression in ills his face dont look so pained son theres nothing revolting reciting about a hog ties a handsome impressive looking animal the hog when lie treated like one ile he looked dejected id rather not go to school on hogs she took off the felt hat and tossed it over oer to the lie old couch by the lie winlow window smoothed her hair back with the flat of her palm you saw chilt alint tile the soft dark hair was liberally sprinkled nith gray now but the eyes were mero bright and clear ns as ever eer you know this Is what they call a an ing farm as vegetable farms go were out of debt the lands in good shape the crop promises well if we dont have another rainy cold faring like last years im leavin hail ngn a grand little when I 1 see pee tile the plantation actually yielding that I 1 planted ten years senis ngo ago im as happy as if id stumbled on n gold mine I 1 think sometimes of the way was your fn an tier her objected to my mv planting the alie first one april like this in tile the country coun t with everything eer thing coming up green anti new in the rich block black loam 1 I cant tell tall you and when I 1 know that it goes to market as aa food the best kind of food that keeps deepa peoples bodies clean ind anil clear and flexible and strong 1 I 1 like to think of bables babies mothers saying now nov eat your spinach every scrap or you cant have any dessert I 1 carrots ninke make your eyes ees bright your sour potato potatoes I 1 moke inke you stion gl selina flushed ft a little yes but how about hogs do you feel that wily way about lines flogs certainly said selina briskly she pushed toward film a little blue and white platter that lay on oil tile the white cloth near her elbow have n bit more bacon dirk one of these nice curly slivers that are so crisp ive finished fint shed my breakfast bieak fast I 1 mother lie rose the following autumn saw him n student of architecture at cornell ile he worked ked hard studied even hiring during ills vocation vacation ile he would conie come homo home to tile the heat and humidity of the illinois summers and spend hours each lay day in ill ills own room that lie lind fitted up with it a long iong worktable work table and it drawing board ills HI T square was tit at hand hala two trl ailiin tn rles a 45 and n 00 ills his coin compass pas a pair of dividers selina sometimes stood behind him watching him as lie carefully worked on tile tracing paper ills co contempt for the local ture tuie was now complete especially lid did lie he leold hot forth on the subject of the apartment houses that were mushrooming ion ining on every street in chicago from alyde park paik on the south to on the north chicago Clil cago was very elegant in speaking of 0 these never colled called them fi dots fits always apartments in front of each of these there were usually six sit to a building W was if stuck a little glass enclosed ed cubicle known as a sun parlor in these sometimes you ou hear bieard them bliem spoken of grandly its as solar funis chicago dwell dw ellers ellera took refuge front from tile the leaden skies aldes the heavy take lake atmosphere the gray mist and fog and smoke that so frequently swathed the city in gloom they were done in yellow or rose ere cre tonnes silk bilk lampshades lamp shades glowed therein and flower laden boxes in these frank little boxes chicago read its paper sewed played bridge even ate its breakfast it never pulled down ahn shades dirk fumed not only arp are they hideous in themselves them selve stuck on n the front of those houses like three pairs of spectacles but the lack of decent privacy I 1 they do everything but battle bathe in em have they never heard eard the advice given people who live hi in glass hous houses esl by ills his junior year ear he was waa talking in a large way wai about the reaux beaux arts but selina did not laugh at tills this perhaps she thought who en can n t p 11 I 1 after a year ear or 01 two in an office here wily why not another year ear of study in parts paris if he needs it though it was wag lier her busiest time on the farm selina hellna went to ithaca for his graduation in 1913 ile he was twenty t two 0 and tin slie she was calmly sure the best looking ninn man in ills his class undeniably he aie was a figure to please the eye ee toll tall well built as his father lind had bees and blond too like tits his father except for ills his eyes ees these were brown not so dark as Sell Se linas nas but with some 0 of the soft liquid quality of her glance they strengthened his face somehow gave him an ardent look of which lie he was not conscious women feeling the ardor of that dark glance turned upon them were likely to credit him with feelings toward themselves of which lie he wits was quite innocent they tild did not know that the glance and its effect were mere inere matters of pigmentation and eye conformation then too tile the gaze of a man who talks little Is always more effective than that of one who Is loquacious selina in her fier black silk dress and her plain black hat and her E shoes was rather a quaint little figure among all those vivacious bevelled bev oiled and beribboned main mammas nut but a distinctive tive little figure too dirk need not be ashamed of her she eyed the rather paunchy prosperous middle aged fathers and thought with a pang how much handsomer pervus would have been than any of these if only he could have anve lived to see tills this day thon involuntarily she he wondered it if this day v would ever have occurred had pervus lived chided cherif for thinking thus when lie returned to chicago dirk went into the office of hollis sprague Sp architects hut his work there wits was little more than that of draughtsman and ills weekly stipend could hardly be dignified by the term of salary but lie he lad had large ideas about architecture and he found expression pres slon for tits ills suppressed feelings on oil its his weekends week ends spent with selina at the farm Il baroque laroque was the word with which lie he dismissed the lie new hotel north ile he said tile the new lincoln park bandstand bands land looked like an igloo lie HP said bald that the city council ought to order the potter palmer mansion destroyed its as a blot on the landscape and waxed profane on the subject of the past east face of the public library building downtown never mind selina him happily it was all thrown up so hils hastily tilY remember member Ilc tint just yester lay or the day before chicago was nn an indian fort with tepees where towers are now and mud wallows callow a in pince of asphalt beauty needs to perfect it perhaps weve been waiting uniting nil all these years scars for just sue such I 1 youngsters ns its you and maybe some day ill be drying driving down michigan boulevard with a distinguished distin gill bed visitor hoehr pool perhaps why not lets say itself poo tile famous sculptor toi tol and hell say who designed that lint bull building ding the one chilt Is so strong anti and yet set so light so gay and graceful and yet so reticent and ill say pay oh that I 1 one of the he earlier efforts ts 1 of my son dirk alik dejong De Tong nut dirk pulled tit nt tits hi pipe moodily shook ills liend head oil oh you sou dont know mother its so po d d slow first tiling thing you ou know IU IT be thirty and what am I 1 II 11 I 1 an office boy or little more than that nt at Ilo lils dibi during ing tits his university years sears dirk dills had seen much of the lie arnolds eugene and paula Is iula but it sometimes seemed to selina that lie he avoided these meetings those lio fri parties anti and weekends week ends slie site was content that tills should be 16 so for shed she gue guessed sed that tile lie mattei of money held of him film back slip she thought it was well that lie he should realize the lie difference now eugene lad had his own car one of he five in the lie arnold garage paula too hild had hers her fascination for dirk was strong knew kne that too in tile the last year sear or two to lie he lad had talked very ery little of paula and that kne knew w meant that lie was hard hit sometimes paula and hugene eugene drove droe out to the lie farm eugene would appear in rakish cap loose london knickers queer brogans brigans with tin an english look about them a carefully careless looseness nebout the hang and nt fit of his jacket paula lid did not affect sports clothes for herself she was not the type she said slim dark vivacious lackous la clous she wore slinky clothes crepes cerepes c chiffons iler her eyes were languorous lovely she worshiped luxury and said so sn ill have hae to marry money site she declared now that these finished calling poor grandpa a beef baron and CLAR I 1 s you like me better than any man you know taken I 1 dont know liow how many millions away from him were practically on the streets you look it from dirk and was wag bitterness beneath his light tone well its true trite all tills this silly muck raking in the he past ten years sears or more poor eatherl of course granddad giand dad was pur ty rough let me tell you sou f rend some of the accounts of that last indictment the 1010 1910 one and I 1 must say I 1 gathered that dear old aug made jesse jaenis look like a philanthropist I 1 should think nt at his age lied hed be a little acir sc scaled ir after all when youre over seventy youre soure likely to have some doubts and fears about punish mant in the next net world hut but not a grund giand old id pirate like grandfather blell sack knel and burn and plunder until he goes down with the ship and it looks to me ns as if the old boat had I a pretty strong list to starboard right now father siss says himself that unless it war N nr breaks or something which annil at nil likely the packing industry Is going to spring a leak elaborate figure of ipe speech och murmured eugene the four of them paula dirk eugene and selina were sitting on the wide screened porch ahn selina had had nd built nt at the southwest corner of the house paula was of course in tile the couch swing occasionally she phe touched one slim languid foot to the loor floor and gave indolent impetus to the couch it Is rather it might as well finish it then darling aggs been the grand old captain right through the vange dads never been more than a pretty bum buin second mate and as for you gene my love loe cabin boy bov would be s understand me big eugene had gone into the business a year sear before what can yon son expect retorted eugene of a lad ind that I 1 lates ites salt pork and every cery other kind of pig meat lie do despised pIed the yards and all tant went with it selina got up and walked to the th end of the porch theres Th orea adam coming in with the last load for UK the lay hell bo be driving into town now cornelius started nn an hour ago she went down the steps on her wily way to oversee the loading of adam adain liras wagon at the botton bottom or of tile the stol steeg she turned wily why cant you two stay to supper you can quarrel Iti arrel comi fort ably right through the lie meal und imd drive items home in tile the cool of 0 tile the evening ning ill stay said paula thanks it if have ull till kinds of vegetables cooked and uncooked and let me lue go out into the holds fields and pick oil ei im myself self like hnud 0 ainsle antoinette fo ette or tiny liny of those elioso make believe rustic rusti g kals is in lier her french heeled and hor pliny silk stockings site sin went out into tile the rich black furrows of tile fields dirk carrying tle the basket ilio blie ordered first then nut whore where la Is it Is that you dig for it idiot said dirk 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