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Show pnAV. SKmMBE2,J925 ,UU5TRAT10NS f ifW k AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 Chapter XI Lont Dirk's Freshman year rL f0r him, no heartening, C wllow talk! before the L i the book-lined study of We 'hose wisdom was lulitnre of classic lore and Lb u to he an Inspiration to (MA Midwest proiessu ur thdr lectures in me cinnrwui ..j wn delivering them In 1 1 or twenty years and .. j.ii.,r thpm until death Wets' meeting should remove lit younger professors and In-n In-n la natty gray salts ,and r Miored ties made a point of mpedantle In the classroom and DTtrdld It.- They rosed at be-i be-i the fellows ; would dashlng-tblt dashlng-tblt of slang to create a laugh it boys and an adoring titter it gtrls. Dirk somehow pre-tb pre-tb pedants to these. When ud to jive an Informal talk to b before some university event mold start by saying. "Now lis-jlihs-" At the dances they iot iboTe "rufhlng" the pretty of Dirk's classes were con-by con-by women professors. They rdl on toward middle age, or ; desiccated women. Only their 'treillve. Their clothes were 't tadeflnlte dark stuff, brown or 9; their hair lifeless; their .oil, bony, unvltal. They had 'um and classes and classes. M of fresh young faces that ti briefly only to be replaced stber roomful of fresh young like round white pencil marks total momentarily on a slate, i be iponged off to give way to round white marks. Of the two out the elder wag occasion-tely occasion-tely to flare Into sudden life; t to the ashes of a burned-out She had humor and a certain : wit, qualities that had man-iirtcutously man-iirtcutously to survive even the, ud numhlng effects of thirty In the classroom. A fine mind, iwlistlc, hampered by the re-raf re-raf tf a conventional community tm of a conRpnltal spinster. the guidance of these Dirk ud grew rptles. Miss Eu-i Eu-i HoUtngswood had a way - of i!ztn( every third or fifth sylla-tofta! sylla-tofta! her voire down hard on Sad himself uniting for that and shrinkinz from It as sedge-hammer blow. It hurt I4ge droned. She approached ttli maddening uh-uh-uh-oh. fnWi-nh-uh face of the uh-uh-JKHMtrlcal situation of the uh- Aifted restlpviy in his chair. Ms hands clenched into fists. Nfuge in watching the shad-bj shad-bj oak brunch outside the , patch of sunlight against tooard behind her. Pt the early spring Dirk and things over again, seated w wn nreplare In the High talked Tk and I Pr,lrl FarmhouM.' r 4rmh,..l c bun, ; "nn ,iad had KlaWofV. 11 rivp '' hefore Wltllrt "lm,,"ntMl to worship. "ilt h.f, I,,rk's absence .t :;lf 'tlong "to to T, w"',ry '"''""""old ftany ' "'r,,lrl "ever 1 s"" Helina enter- faffiexl tUere Before" EeT fi"re tirose" wra-ter wra-ter evenings old friends and new. So-blg So-blg was there, the plump earth-grimed baby who rolled and tumbled In thfe fields while his young mother wiped the sweat from her face to look at him with fond eyes. Dirk DeJong of ten years hence was there. Simeon Peake, dapper, soft-spoken. Ironic, In his shiny boots and hlB hat always a little on one side. Pervus DeJong, a blue-shirted giant with strong tender hands tnd little fine golden hairs on the backs of them. In strange contrast to these was the patient, tireless figure of Uaartje Pool standing In the doorway of Roelf's little shed, her arms tucked In her apron for warmth. "You make fun, huhr she said, wistfully, "you and Roelf. You make fun." And Roelf, the dark vivid boy, misunderstood. misunder-stood. Roeif, the genius. He was always one of the company. Oh, Selina DeJong never was lonely on these winter evening before her fire. She and Dirk sat there one fine sharp evening In early April. It was Saturday. Of late Dirk had not nl-wsyg nl-wsyg come to the farm for the weekend. week-end. Eugene and Paula Arnold had been home for the Easter holidays. Julie Arnold had Invited Dirk to the gay parties at the Prairie avenue house. He had even spent two entire week-ends there. After the brocaded luxury of the Prairie avenue house his farm bedroom seemed almost star-tllngly star-tllngly stark and bare. Selina frankly enjoyed Dirk's somewhat some-what fragmentary accounts of these visits; extracted from them as much vicarious pleasure as he had had in the reality more, probably. "Now, tell me what you had to eat," she would say, sociably, like a child. "What did you have for dinner, for example? Was It grand? Julie tells me they have a butler now, Well ! I can't wait till I hear Aug Hempel on the subject." He would tell her of the grandeurs of the Arnold menage. She would interrupt in-terrupt and exclaim: "Mayonnaise! On fruit! Oh, I don't believe I'd like that. You did ! Well, 111 have It for" you next week when you come home.. HI get the recipe from Julie." He didn't think he'd be home next week. One of the fellows he'd met at the Arnolds' had Invited him to their place out north, on the lake. He had a boat. "That'll be lovely !" Selina exclaimed, after an almost unnotlceable moment of silence silence with panic In It. Til try not to fuss and be worried like an old hen every minute of the time I think you're on the water. . . . Now, do go on, Soblg. First fruit with mayonnaise, h'm? What kind of soup?" He was not a naturally talkative person. per-son. There was nothing surly about his silence. It was a taciturn streak inherited from his Dutch ancestry. This time, though, he was more voluble volu-ble than usual. "Paula . . ." came again and again lnt'o his conversation. "Paula . . . Paula . . ." and again ' Paula." He "did" not seem conscious of the repetition, but Sellna's quick ear caught it. "I haven't seen her," Selina said, "since she went away to school the first year. She must be let's see she's a year older than you are. She's nineteen going on twenty. Last time I saw her" I thought she was a dark scrawny little thing. Too bnd she didn't Inherit Julie's lovely gold coloring color-ing and good looks, Instead of Eugene, Eu-gene, who doesn't need 'eth." "She Isn't r said Dirk, hotly. "She's dark and slim and sort of uu sensuous" sensu-ous" Selina started visibly, and raised her hand quickly to her mouth to hide a smile "like Cleopatra. Her eyes are big and kind jf slanting not squlnty I don't mean, but slanting up a little at the corners. Out out, kind of, so that they look bigger than most people's." "My eyes used to be considered rather rath-er fine," said Selina, mischievously; but he did not hear. "She makes all the other girls look sort of blowsy." He was silent a moment. mo-ment. Selina was silent, too, and it was not a happy silence. Dirk spoke again, suddenly, as though continuing aloud a train of thought, "-all but her hands." Selina made her voice Bound natural, not sharply Inquisitive. "What's the ttartwwfrn "Her ?iaBds,T Wf . .J pondered a moment, his brows J knitted. At last, siowiy, -w en, i mm i know. They're brown, and awfully thin and sort of grabby. I mean It makes me nervous to wath them. Andhn the rest of her Is cool they're hot when you touch them." Het looked at his mother's hands that were busy with some sewing. The stuff on which she was working was a bit of satin ribbon; part of a hood intended to grace the head of Oeertje Pool Vander Sljde's second baby.' She had difficulty fukeeplngjjisridu8h fingers from carnVonllie Tsotf su face of the satin. Manual work, water, wa-ter, sun, and wind had tanned those hands, hardened them, enlarged the knuckles, spread them, roughened them;.. Yet how sure they were, and strong. TindcoTahr reliable ind "Yen-" der. Suddenly, looking at them. Dirk said. "Now your hands. I love your hands. Mother." She put down her work hastily, yet quietly, so that the sudden rush of happy grateful tears In her eyes should not sully the pink satin ribbon. She was flushed, like a girl. "Do you, Soblg?" she said. After a moment she took up her sewing again. Her face looked young, eager, fresh, like the face of the girt who had found cabbages so beautiful that night when she bounced along the rutty Halsted road wlth'Klaas Pool, many years ago. It came Into her face, that look, when she was happy, exhilarated,' excited. That was why those who loved her and brought that look- Into her face thought her beautiful, while those who did not love her never saw the look and consequently considered her a plain woman. There was another silence between the two. Then : "Mother, what would you think of my going east neit fall, to take a course In architecture?" ' "Would you like that, Dirk?" "Yes. I think so yes." "Then I'd like It better than anything any-thing In the world. I It makes me happy Just to think of It." "It would cost an awful lot" "I'll manage. I'll manage. . What made you decide on architecture?" architec-ture?" "I don't know, eiactly. The new buildings at the university Gothic, you know are sueh a contrast to the old. Then Paula and I w ere talking the other day. She hates their house on Prairie terrible old lumpy gray stone pile, with the black of the L C. trains nil over it. She wants her father fa-ther to build north an Italian, villa or French chateau. Something of that sort. So many of her friends are moving mov-ing to the North shore, away from these hideous South-side and North-side North-side Chicago houses with their stoops, and their bay windows, and their terrible ter-rible turrets. I'gh !H "Well, now, do you know," Selina remonstrated mildly, "I like 'em. I suppose I'm wrong, but to me they seem sort of natural and solid and unpretentious, like the clothes that old August Hempel wears, so squarecnt and baggy. Those houses look dignified digni-fied to me, and fitting. They may be ugly probably are but, anyway, they're not ridiculous. They have a certain rugged grandeur. They're Chicago. Chi-cago. Those French and Italian gimmicky gim-micky tilings they they're incongruous; incongru-ous; It's as If Abraham Lincoln were to appear suddenly In pink satin knee breeches and buckled shoes, and lace m flies nt hl.s wrists." Dirk coil Id laugh at that picture. But he -protested, -too.' "But there's no niitlve architecture, so what's to be done! You wouldn't call those smoke-blackened old stone and brick piles with their Iron fences and their conservatories iind cupolas and gingerbread ginger-bread exactly native, would you?" "No." Selina admitted, "but those Italian rlllim and French chatenux In north Chicago suburbs are a good deal like a lace evening gown In the Arizona Ari-zona desert. It . wouldn't keep you cool In the daytime, and it wouldn't be warm enough at night. I suppose a native architecture Is evolved from building for the local climate and the needs of the community, keeping beauty beau-ty In mind as you go. We don't need turrets and towers any more than we need draw-bridges and moats. It's all right to keep them, I suppose, where they grew up. In a country where the feudal system meant that any day your next-door neighbor might take It Into his head to call his gang around him and sneak up to steal your wffi-and wffi-and tapestries and gold drinking cups." Dirk was interested and amused Talks with his mother were likely to affect him thus, "What's your Idea of a real Chicago house, morher?". Selina answered quickly, as if she had thought often about it; as If she would have liked Just such a dwelling on the site of the old DeJong farm house in which they now were seated so comfortably. "Well, It would need big porches for the hot days and nights so's to catch the prevailing southwest winds from the prairies in the summer a porch that would be swung clear around to the east, too--or a terrace or another porch east so that If the precious old lake breeze should come up Just when you think you're dying of the heat, as it sometimes some-times does, you could catch that, too. It ought to be built the house. I mean rather squarish and tight and solid against our cold winters ami northeasters. Then sleeping porches, of course. There's a grand American Institution for you! England may have Its afternoon tea on the terrace, and Spain may have its patio, and France Its courtyard, and Italy It--pergola, vine-covered; but Americas got the sleeping porch the screened-in screened-in open-air sleeping porch, and I shouldn't wonder if the man who first thought of that would get precedence, on Judgment day, over the men who Invented the airplane, the talking machine, ma-chine, and the telephone. After all. he had7 nothing In wttKr bnt' thr t -the -human -race." After which grand period Selina grinned at Dirk, and Dirk grinned at Selina and the two giggled together there by the fireplace, fire-place, companlonably. "Mother, you're simply wonderful ! only your native' Chicago dwelling seems to" be mostly porch." . Selina' waved such carping criticism away with a careless hand.-"Ofl. well, any house that has enough porches, and two or three bathrooms and at leasJt eight closets can be lived in com- f.riuMy; tin matter whaf else it Baa or han't got." Next day they were more serious. The eastern college and the architectural architec-tural 'career seemed to be settled thing. Selluu was content.. haiiy. f Dirk -was Troubled about the expense. tie spoke of it at breakfast next morning morn-ing (l'trk's breakfast; his mother had had hers hours before and now as he drank his coffee, was sitting with him a moment and glancing at the paier that hud come In the rural mall delivery). deliv-ery). She had been out In the fields overseeing the transplanting of young tomuto seedlings from hotbed to field. She wore an old gray sweater buttoned up tight, for the air was still sharp. On her head was a battered black felt soft hat (an old one of Dirk's) much like the one she had worn to the Hay-market Hay-market that day ten years ago. "I've been thinking." he began, "the expense" "Plgsii do It." Selina said, calmly. "I've been wanting to put them in for three or .four years, It's August Hempel'M idea. Hogs, I should have said." . He echoed, "Hogs!" rather faintly. "High bred hogs. They're worth their weight in silver this minute, and will lie for years to come. I won't go In for them extensively. Just enough to make an architect out of Mr. Dirk DeJong." Then, at the expression In his face: "Don't look si pained, son. There's nothing revolting about a hog he's a handsome. Impressive-looking animal, the hog, when he Isn't treated like one." He looked dejecved. "I'd rather not go to school on hogs." She took ff the felt hat and tossed It over to ttie old couch by the window; win-dow; smoothed her hair back with the flat of her palm. You saw that the soft dark hair was liberally sprinkled with gray now, but the eyes were bright and clear as ever. -"Yon fcmrav XobfVr this Is what they call n paying farm as vegetable farms go. We're out of debt, the land's In good shape, the crop promises well If we don't have another rainy cold spring like last year's. I'm having a grand time. When I see the asparagus plantation actually yielding, that I planted ten years ago, Fm as happy as If I'd stumbled on a gold mine. I think; sometimes, of the Way your father fa-ther objected to my planting the first one. April, like this, i the country, with everything coming up green and new In the rich black loam I can't tell you. And when I know that It goes to market as food the best kind of food, that keeps people's bodies clean nnd clear and flexible and strong! I like to think of babies' mothers saying say-ing : 'Now eat your spinach, every scrap, or you can't have any dessert! . , , ' Carrots make your eyes bright . T Finish your potato. Potatoes nmke you strong!"' Selina laughed, flushed a little. "Yes, but how about hogs? Do you feel that way about hogs?" "Certainly," said Selina, briskly. She pushed toward him a little blue-and-uhlte platter that lay on the white doth near her elbow. "Have a bit more bacon, Dirk. One of these nice curly slivers that are so crisp." "I've finished my breakfast, Mother." Moth-er." He rose. The following autumn saw him a -tudent of architecture at Cornel'.. He worked hard, studied even during his aeatlon. He would come home to the heat and humidity of the Illinois summers and spend hours each day in his own room that he had fitted up with a P ug work-table and a drawing board. His T-square was at hand; two triangles trian-gles a 45 nnd a (V); his compass; a pair of dividers. Selina sometimes stood behind him watching him as he carefully worked on the tracing paper. His contempt for the local architecture architec-ture was now complete. Especially did he hold forth on the subject of the apartment houses that were mushrooming mush-rooming on every street In Chicago from Hyde Park on the south to Uvanston -on the north. vChlcitgi? was very elegant In speaking of these; never called them "flats"; always Wlmb AFTER 1141 ' 1 nR!fc I EVERY Oli MEAL M""" "W KB - mm -m affords "benetat as well. at pleasure.. Healthful exercise (be the teeth aa4 a spur to digestion. A long lasting refreshment, soothing to nerves and stomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched Aili' by hands, fall of flavor. I ,:-! apartments In front of each of these (there were usually six to a building) was stuck a little glass-enclosed cubicle cubi-cle known as a sun-parlor. In these (sometimes you heard them spoken of, grandly, as solarlums) Chicago dwellers dwell-ers took refuge from the leaden skies, the heavy lake atmosphere, the gray mist and fog and smoke that so frequently fre-quently swathed the city in gloom. They were done In yellow or rose cretonnes. cre-tonnes. Silk lampshades glowed therein, there-in, and flower-laden boxes. In these frank little boxes Chicago read Its paper, pa-per, sewed, played bridge, even ate Its breakfast. It never pulled down the shades. , "Terrible!" Dirk fumed. "Not only are they hideous In themselves, stuck on the front of those houses like three pairs of spectacles; but the lack of decent privacy! They do everything but bathe in 'em. Have they never heard the advice given people who live In glass houses!" P.y his Junior year he was talking In a large way about the Beaux Arts, liut Selina did not laugh at this. "Perhaps," "Per-haps," she thought. "Who can tell! After a year or two In an office here, why not another year of study In Paris If he needs It." Though it was her busiest time on the farm Selina went to Ithaca for his graduation In 1913. He was twenty- two and, she was calmly sure, the best looking man In his class. Undeniably he was a figure to please the eye; tall, well-built, ns his father bad been, and blond, too, like his father, except for bis eyes. These were brown jot so dark as Sellna's, but with some of the soft liquid quality of her glance. They strengthened his face, somehow; gave him an ardent look of. which 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 he was quite Innocent. They did not know that the glance and Its effect were mere matters of pigments' flon and eye-conformation. Then, too, the gaze of a man who talks little Is always more effective than that of one who Is loquacious. Selina, In her black silk dress, and her plain black hat, and her sensible shoes, was rather a quaint little figure among all those vivacious, bevolled, and herihhoned mammas. Itut a dls tlnctlve little figure, too. Dirk need not be ashamed of her. She eyed the rather paunt-hy, prosperous, middle-aged middle-aged fathers nnd thought, with a pang, how much handsomer Pervus would have been than any of these. If only he could have lived to see this day, Then, Involuntarily, she wondered If this day would ever have occurred, had Pervus lived. Chlded herself for thinking thus., (To Be Continued) Small things are big things when you consider henv important they are in the bathroom! If there is nn toothbrush holder, brushes are neveTih the same laee. If there is no glass holder, the glass is always getting broken. If cheap accessories are used the kind that rust and corrode soon after purchase linen and walls soon become stained. Modern, white bathroom "Jewelry" makes the 'bathroom attractive and comfortable. The added convenience, of having "a place for everything every-thing and even-thing in its place" can be had at moderate'eost. Visit our sales room and see how easily and :" " inexprnsif eh-tt"ar-;hnrfr-thkbathroftm-"- "Jc'welcrv" that "will complete rmir bathroom." " M. S. LOTT Plumbing, Heating and Electrical Engineers Phone 23 " MAIN STREET LEHI, UTAH FOR SALE. YOUNO PIGS at leorge P. 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Roundy, Manager. 9-12-3t Or Mayb Harder "Hit may b bard fo a rich man to enter de Kingdom of Heaven," raid Rastus to the preacher, "but hit's Just as hard fo' a po' man to stay on de earth." New fork American, o Compromise Called For One-half of the world Is so busy making money that It doesn't realize how. nusy the other hall hi trying to get along without any; Washington Star. LEGAL ADVERTISING M. A. Serial No. 036276 APPLICATION FOR MINERAL PATENT In the United States Land Office , Salt Lake City, Utah. Notice is hereby given that the Utah Centennial Mining Company, a corporation, by its duly authorized agent and Attorney in Fact, L. L. Nelson, . whose postofflce address Is Provo. Utah, has made application for patent for the Florence, Silver Plume, South Humbug and Uncle Sam, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, lodes. Mineral Survey Sur-vey No. 6832 In the American Fork Mining District, Utah County, State of Utah, described with magnetic variation var-iation at. 16 degrees, 55 minutes east, as follows, to-wit: Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the Florence Flor-ence lode (from which U. S. M. M. No. 2 bears N. 42 degrees 22 minutes W. 3723.3 feet) and running thence N. 53 degrees 17 minutes E. 1500 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence 8. 56 degrees 45 minutes min-utes E. 600 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S. 24 degrees 32 minutes E. 599.7 ft to Cor. No. 3 Silver Plume lode; thence N. 53 degrees 17 minutes E. 258.4 ft. to Cor. No. 2 Uncle Sam No. 6 lode; ihence S.-.45..degrees 10 minutes min-utes E. 1500 rt. to Cor. No. S; thence S. B3 degrees 17 minutes W. 1529.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3 Uncle Sara No. 3 lode; thence S. 43 degrees 39 minutes W. 1434.2 ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 57 degrees 15 minutes W. 1258.7 ft. to Cor. No. 1 Uncle Sam No. 2 lode (Identical (Iden-tical with Cor. 4 Uncle 6am No. 1 lode) and from which, U. S. M. M. No. 2 bears N. 26 degrees 36 minutes min-utes W. 5485.4 ft.; thence N. 45 degrees 10 minutes. W. 610.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1 Uncle Sam No. 1 lode and from which U. S. M. M. No. 2 bears N. 24 degrees 19 minutes 43 seconds W. 4910.4 ft.; thence N. 24 degrees de-grees 32 minutes W. 599.7 ft. to Cor. No. 1 Souti Humbug lodo and from which U. S. M. M. No. 2 bears N. 24 degrees 18 minutes W. 4310.77 ft.; thence N. 55 degrees 32 minutes E, 1500 ft. to Cor. No. 4 Florence lode (Identical with Cor. No. 1 Silver Plume lode) and from which I S. M. M. No. 2 bears N. 44 degrees 21 minutes min-utes W. 4307.1 ft.; thence N. 56 degrees de-grees 45 minutes W. 600 ft. to Cor. No. 1 Florence lode, the place of begin nlng. Said lode mining claims are located In the unsurveyed part of T. 3. S., R. 3 B., S. L. Mer., and contain a net area of 173.041 acres. th areas In conflict with Sur. 6168 "A" Wagner lode having been excluded. The nearest known locations are the aforesaid excluded claims and the Giddy. Shell No. 3 lode,flur. 5939. and Silver' King Xo.'rTode." SuV:"6168ar " Said claims are an 'reccirded In the ' office of the County Recorder of Utah County, at Provo, Utah. I direct that the foregoing notice be published In the American Fork Citizen, a weekly newspaper publish, ed at American Fork. Utah, and be- ling the newspaper published nearest Bald elalms. for a period of 60 days. ELI F, TAYLOR. Register. First Publication August 8 1925. -lAst Publication October 10, 1925. E. D. DUNN. Attorney, Salt Lake i City, Utah- . " ... |