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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAl... Thursday, September 24, 1931 Repressed Emotion• The word libido is used as a single word to express the emotional craving or wish psychiatrists believe to be behind all human aetlvltles, the repression of which leads to psychoneurosis. Copyright by Jl:dna 'Ferber. CHAPTER XIII-Continued , -19- She went through It an(l stood it, miraculously, until one grotesquerie proved too much for her strained nerves and broke them. But she went Into the Indian house, and saw Cim sitting beside the Indian woman, and as she looked at his beautiful weak face she thought, I wish that I had never found him that day when he was lost on the prairie long ago. He came toward her, his head lowered with that familiar look, his fine eyes hidden by the !Ins. "Look at me I" Sabra commanded, In the voicE' of Felice Venable. The boy raised his eyes. She looked at him, her face stony. Ruby Big Elk came toward her with the leisurely, Insolent, scuffling step. The two women gazed at each other; rather, their looks clashed, llll:e swords held high. They· did not shake hands. There were races, there were prizes, there was dancing. In the oln Indian days the bucks had raced on foot for a prize that was a pony tethered at a distance and won by the fleetest to reach him, mount, and r!ne him back to the starting point. Today the prize was a magnificent motor car that stood glittering In the open field half a mile distant. Sabra thought, I am dying, I am dying. And Donna. This squaw Is her sister-In-law. :Miss Dignum's on the Hudson. Ruby's handsome head rig-ht had bought the young couple the house just across the road from Big Elk'sa one-story red brick bungalow, substantial, ugly. They showed Sabra and Yancey through it. Tt was furnished complete. Mongrel Spanish furniture In the living room-red plush, fring-e, brass nail heads as big as twenty-dollar gold pieces. An upright plano. An oak dining room set. A fine bathroom with heavy rich bath towels neatly hung on the racks. A ahlning stained oak bedroom set with a rose-colored ta1feta spreoad. Sabra felt a wave of nausea. Cim's face was smlllng, radiant. Yancey was joking and laughing with the Inflians. In the kitchen sat a white girl In a ginghnm dress and a kitchen apron. The girl's hair was so light a yellow as to appear almost white. Her unintellig-ent eyes were palest blue. ITer skin was so fair as to be quite colorless. In the midst of the roomful of dark Indian faceos the white face of the new Cravat blfed girl seemed to swim In a hazy blob before Sabra's eyes. But she held on. She felt Ruby's scornful dark eyes on her. Sabra had a feeling as though she had been disemboweled and now was a hollow thing, an empty shell that moved and walked and talked. Dinner. White servants and negro !Servants to wait on them. A long table seating a score or more, and many such tables. Bowls and plate plied with food all down the length of it. Piles of crisp pork, roasted In the Indian fashion over hot embers sunk In a pit In the yard, and skewered with a sharp pointed stick. Bowls of dried corn. Great fat, black ripe olives. Tinned lobster. Chicken. Piles of dead ripe stra wherries. Vast plateaus of angel-food cake covered with snow fields of Icing. Sabra went through the motions of eating. Sometimes she put a morsel Into her mouth and actually swal· lowed it. There was a great clatter of knives and forks and dishes. Everything was eaten out of one plate. Platters and bowls were replenished. Sabra found herself seated beside Mrs. Big Elk. On her other side was Yancey. He was eating ann laughing and talking. lllrs. Big Elk was being almost comically polite, solicitous. She pressed this tidbit, that dainty, on her stony guest. Down the center of the table, at Intervals, were huge bowls piled with a sort of pastry stuff'ed with forcemeat. It was like a great ravioli, and piles of It vanished beneath the onslaught of appreciative guests. "For God's sake, pretend to eat something, Sabra," Yan<"ey murmured, under his breath. "It's done now. They consider it an insult. Try to eat I something." She stirred the pastry and chopped meat that had been put on her plate. "Good," said ?11rs. Big l~lk, beside her, and pointed at the mass with one dusky maculate finger. Sabra lifted her fork to her lips and swallowed a bit of it. It was de· lic!ous-splcy, rich, appetizing. "Yes," she said, and thought, I am being wonderful. This Is killing me. "Yes, It Is very good. This meat-this stuffingIs lt chopped or ground through a grinder?" The huge Indian woman bE>side her turned her expressionless ::;aze on Sabra. Ponderously she shook her head from side to side In negation. "Naw," she answered, politely. "Chawed.'' The clatter of a fork dropped to the plate, a clash among the cupg and saucers. Sahra Cravat hn<l fainted. • • • • • • • Osage-, Olda., was a city. 'Vhere, scar<'<'iY two def':Hles ago. prairie ant! sky had ml't the eye with here a bu1falo wallow, therr nn Indian encampment, you now saw 11 twenty· By Edna FerLer story hotel: the Savoy-Bixby. The Italian head waiter bent from the waist and murmured In your ear his secret about the veal saute with mush· rooms or the spaghetti Caruso du jour. Sahra Cravat, congresswoman from Oklahoma, lunching lu the Louis XIV room with the members o! the \Vomen's State Republican committee, would say, looking up at him with those intelligent dark eyes, "I'll leave it to you, Nick. Only quickly. We haven't much time." Niccolo Mazza· rlnl would say yes. he understood. No one had much time In Osage, Okla. Twenty-llve years earlier anybody who was anybody in Oklahoma had diluted on his or her eastern connec· tlons. Iowa. If necessary, was East. They had been a little ashamed of the Run. Bragged about the splendors of the homes from which they .had come. Now it was considered the height of chic to be able to say that your par· ents had come through In a <"Overed wagon. Grandparents were still rather rare In Oklahoma. As for the Run of '8!+--lt was Osage's ?.Ia.vf!ower. At the huge dinner given In Sabra Cravat's honor when she was elected congresswoman, and from which they tried to exclude Sol Levy over Sabra's Ylgor· ous (and triumphant) protest. the chairman o! the committee on arrangements explained It all to Sol, patron· lzlngly, "You see, we're inviting only people who came to Oklahoma In the Run." "Well, sure,'' said the former peddler, genially. "That's all right. I walked." The Levy Mercantile company's bu!Jding now occupied an entire s<]uare block and was fifteen stories high. In the huge plate-glass windows on Paw· huska avenue postured ladies waxen and coquettish, as on Fifth avenue. The daughter of 1\frs. Pat Leary (nee Crook Nose) always caused quite a flutter when she came In, for ac<"US· tomed though Osage was to money and the spending of It, the Learys' Ia vishness was something spectacular. Hand-made silk underwear. the sheerest of cobweb French sto<'kings, model hats, dresses-well, In the matter of gowns It was no good trying to Influence Maude Leary or her mother. They frankly wantNI bead~. spang-les, and pa!llettes on a foundation of crude color. The saleswomen were polite and acquiescent, but they cocked an eyebrow at one another. Squaw stutr. Now that little Cravat girl-Felice CraYat, Cimarron Cravat's daughterwas different. She !nsiste~ on plain, smart tailored things. Young though she was, she was Oklahoma state woman tennis champion. She always said she looked a freak In finf'fy things-like a boy dressed up In girl's clothes. She had long, lean, muscular arms and a sm·prlsing breadth of shoulder, was slim flanked and practically stomachless. She had a curl· OtiS trick or holding her head down and looklu!!: up at you under her lashes and when she did that you for· got her boyishness, for her lashes were like fern fronds, and her eyes, In her dark face, an astounning ocean gray. She was a good sport, too. She didn't seem to mind the fact that her mother, when she accompanied her, wore the blanket and was hatless. just like any poor Kaw, Instead of being one of the richest of the o~nges. She was rather handsome for a squaw, in big, Insolent, slow-moyiug way. Felice Cravat, en~ry one agreed, was a chip of the old block, and by that they did not mean her father. They were thinking of Yancey Cravat--old Cimarron, her grandfather. who was now something of a legend In Osage and throughout Oklahoma. Young Cim and his Osa~e wife had had a second 'child-a boy-and they hall called him Yancey, after the old boy. Young Yancey was a bewillleringlr handHome mixture of a dozen types and forbears-Indian, Spanish, French. Southeru, Southwest. With that long narrow fac·e, the dolichocephalic head, people said he Joked lil'e the king of Spain-witlwut that dreadful Haps· burg jaw. Others said he was the Image of his grandmother, Sabra Cravat. Still others contended that he was his Indian mother ove~ ag-aininsolence and all. A third would eome alon~ and say, "You're crazy. He's old Yancey, born again. I guess you don't remember him. There, look, that's what I mean! The way he closes his eyes as If he were ~leepy, Rnd then when he does look at you straight you feel as If you'd been struek b~· lightning. They say he's so smart that the Osages believe he's one of their old gods come baek to earth ·• Mrs. 'l'racy Wyatt (she who had been Donna Cruvat) hart tt·il'd to adopt one of her brother's children, being herself childless, but Cim and bis wife Uuby Big Elk had never consented to this. She was a case, that Donna Cravat, Oklahoma was agreed about that. She could get away with things that an~· other woman would be shot for. \Vhen old Tracy \Vyatt had divorced his wife to marry this girl local feeling had been very mucl.J agaiu~t her. Every one had turned to the abandoned middlc-a_gcd wife with attentions and sympathy, but she lmd met their warmth and frieu\!:1· a Block System for Citiea Philadelphia was the first of modern municipalities whose plan was prepared for a particular site, and the rectangular plan there adopted has guided city planning In America ever since. 1WNU ness with such vitriol that they fell back In terror and finally came to believe the stories of how she had deviled and nagged old Tracy all through their marriage. 'riley actually came to feel that he had been just!· fled In deserting her and taking to wife this young and fascinating girl. Certainly he seemed to take a new leage on life, lost five inches around the waist line, played polo, regained something of the high color and· good spirits of his old dray-driving days, and made a great hit in London dur· lng the season when Donna was presented at court. Besides, there was no withstanding the Wyatt money. Even in a countr~· blase of millionaires Tra<"Y Wyatt's fortune was something to marvel about. The name of Wyatt seemed to be everywhere. As you rode In trains you saw the shining round black fianlts of oil cars. thousands of them, and painted on them In letters of white, "Wyatt Oils." Motor- A Chip of the Old Block. ing through Oklahoma and the whole of the Southwe;;t you passed miles of W~·att oil tanks, whole silent cities ot monoliths, like something grimly Egyp· tlnn, squatting eunuch-like on the prairies. As for the Wyatt bous~r-lt wasn't a house at all, hut a combination of the palace of Versailles and the Gr~d Central station In New York. It occupied grounds about the size of the dnrhy of Luxembourg, and on the grounds, once barren plain, had been set great trees brou~ht from Enj1:land. A mile of avenue, planted In elms, led up to the mansion, and each elm, bought, transported, and stuck In the ground. had cost fifteen hundred dof. Iars. There were rare plants, farm!'<, forests, lakes, tennis courts, golf links, polo fields, race tracks, airdromes, swimming pools. Whole paneled rooms had been brought from France. In the bathrooms were electric cab· !nets, and sunken tubs of rare marhle, and shower baths glass enclosed. These bathrooms were the size of bedrooms, and the bedrooms the size of ballrooms, and the ballrooms as big as an auditorium. There was an Ice plant and cooling .system that could chill the air of every room In the house, even on the hottest Oklahoma windy day. 'l'he kitchen range looked like a house in' Itself, nnd the kitchen looked like that of the Biltmore, only larger. When you entered the dining room you felt that here should be seated solemn diplomats in gold braid signing world treaties. and having their portraits painted doing it. Sixty gardeners manned the grounds. The house servants would have peopled a village. Sabra Cravat rarely came to visit her daughter's house, and when she did the very sim[)li<"ity of her slim straight little figure in Its dark blue georgette or black crepe was startling in the midst of these marble columns and vast corridors and royal hangIngs. She did <"orne O<"casionally, and on tho~e occasions you found her In the great central a(lal'tment that was like a thl'one room, standing there be· fore the portraits of her son's two c·hildren, Felice and Yancey Cravat. I•'ailing to posses;s either of the chi!· dren for her own, Donna bad bad them painted and bung there, one either side of the enormous fireplace. She had meant them to be a gift to her mother, but Sabra CraYat had refused to take them. "Don't you lil•e them, Sabra darling? They're the best things Segovia has ever done. Is it because they're modern 7 I think they look like the kids-don't you?" '"l'hey're just wonderful." "Well, then?" "I'd have to build a house for them. now would they look in the sitting room of the house on Kihekah! No, let me come here and look at them now and then. That way they're al· ways a fresh surprise to me." Certainly they were ruther surprisIng, those portraits. Rather, one of them was. Segovia had got little Feli<"e well enough, but he had made the mistake of pa1ntlng her in Span· ish costume, and somehow her angular contours· and boyish frame had not lent themselves to these gorgeous lace and satin trappings. The boy, Yancey, had refused to <lress up for the occasion-hRd, indeed, been Impatient of posing at all. Seg-ovia had caught him quickly and br!lllantly, with startling results. He wore a pair of loose, rather grimy white tennis pants, a white woolly sweater with a hole In the elbow, and was hatless. In his right hand-that slim, beautiful, speak· ing hand-he held a limp, half-smoked cigarette, Its blue-gray smoke spiraling faintly, its dull red eye the only note of color in the picture. Yet the whole portrait was colorful, moving, alive. The boy's pose was so Insolent, so lithe, so careless. The eyes followed you. He was a person. "Looks like Ruhy, don't you think?" Donna bad said, when first she had shown It to her mother. "~o !" Sabra had replied, with enormous vigor. "Not at all. Your father." "Well-mayb~r-u little." "A little! You're crazy! Look at his eyes. His hands. Of course they're not as beautiful as your father's hands wer~r-are • .. ." It had been five years since Sabra had heard news of her husband, Yancey Cravat. And now, for the first time, she felt that he was dead, though she had never admitted this. In spite of his years she had heard that Yancey had gone to France during the war. The American and the English armies had rejected him, so he bad dyed his graying hair, lied about his age, thrown hack his still magnificent shoulders, and somehow, by his eyes, his volre, his hands, or a combination of all these, had hypnotized them Into taking him. An unofficial report had listed him among the missing after the carnage had ceased in the shambles that had heen a wooded plateau called the Argonne. "He Isn't dead," Sabra had· said, almost calmly. "When Yancey Cravat dies he'll be on the front page, and the world will know it." But a year had gone by. The Oklahoma Wigwam now Issued a mornin~ as well as an afternoon edi· tlon and was known as the most powerful newspaper In the Southwest. When Sabra was in town she made a practice of driving down to the office at eleven every night, remaining there for an hour looking over the layout, reading the wet galley proof of the night's news lead, scanning the A. P. wires. Her entrance was in the na· ture of the passage of royalty, an1l when she came into the city room the staff all but saluted. True, she wasn't there very much, except In the sum· mer. when congress was not in session. The sight of a woman on the fioot· of the congre~sional house was stili something of a nowlty. Sentimental America had shrunk from the thought of women in active politics. ·woman's place was in the home, and American womanhood was too exquisite a flower to be subjected to the harsh atmos· phere of the assembly fioor and th!! committee room. Sahra stumped the state and devel oped a surprising gift of oratory. Perhaps it was not altogether whnt she said that counted in her favor. ***************************************************** Odd Organization for Preservation of Trees !lien of the Trees Is the name of an organization of Afrleun scouts founded by Hichard E. St. Barbe Baker, formerly assistant <"onservutor or forests in the Kenya colony, The natiYes, the Klkusu tribe, are Bantu in origin and many of the old tribal cus· tom~ are rc·tuined. Certain trees are held sa<"red and ~acrifices are made to thell' 1\Ir. Baker, on his arrival In till> c·olonj. found that large areas of ror· Pst had 'leen desti'Oyed hy fire and to make way for cultivation. He assembled the c..tiefs and explained to then' tht- value of forests to man and proposed that i"-Stead of being forest de~troyers the:· become forest planters. Many or the qatiyes lmmedi<ltely responded ami the \Vatu wa !Ifill, or ~[en of the Tl'CC"ii, was organize1l. 'fhe lladge is a small brass disk bearing the design of a \1·ee; the colors are green and whlte. Later on a simple ritual and initiation ceremony were evolved. Like the Boy Scouts, th,~ members are expected to do a good deed each day. The entire nrganlzR· tion Is known as the Forest, which Is divided Into di~tricts, each named after the dominant species of tt·ee growIng In it. 'fhe dlstri<"ts are divided Into hranehe!<, eaf'h ruled by a forest guide. An lmvortant part of the work Is the planting of a forest nursery, where more than 80,000 young trees haYe been raised. Mrs. Hamilton'• Lon&' Life Ell7.alleth Schuyler Hamilton. wife of Alexander Hamilton, lived from 1757 to 1854, a period of 97 years. Both she and her husband are burie•l in Trinity churc·hynrd, New York city. They had eight children, four sons ant! four dau;;hters. Service. Her appearance must have had something to do with It. A slim, straight, dlgn!fled woman, yet touchingly !em· lnlne. Her voice not loud, but clear. Her white hair was shingled and beautifully waved and beneath this her soft dark eyes took on an added depth and brilliance. Her eyebrows had remained black and thick, still further enhancing her finest feature. Her dress was always dark, becoming, smart, and her silken ankles above the slim slippers with their cut-steel buckles were those of a young girl. 'l'he aristocratic Marcy feet and ankles. In Washington she was quite a belle among the old boys In congress and even the senate. The opposition party tried to blackmail her with publ!clty about certain unproYed Items in the life of her dead (or missing) husband Yancey Cravat: a two-gun man, a desperado, a killer, a drunkard, a squaw man. Then they started on young Cim and his Osage Indian wife, but Sabra and Donna were too quick for them. Donna Wyatt leased a handsome house ln Dupont circlE', staffed it, brought Tracy Wyatt's Yast wealth and Influence to bear, and plaBned a coup so brilliant that lt routed the enemy forever. She brought her handsome, sleepy-eyed brother Clm and his wife Ruby Big Elk, and the youngsters Felice and Yancey to the house in Dupont circle, and together she and Sabra gave a reception for them to which they Invited a group so precious that it actually came. Sabra and Donna. exquisitely dressed, stood In line at the head of the magnificent room, and between them stood Ruby Big Elk In her dress of creamy white doeskin all embroid· ered in beads from shoulder to hem. She was an imposing figure, massive but not offensively fat as were many of the older Osage women, and her black abundant hair had taken on a mist of graY, "My daughter-in-law, Mrs. Cimarron CraYat. of the Osage Indian tribe." "lily son's wife, Ruby Big Etk-:\Irs. Cimarron Crayat." "My sister-in-law, Mrs. Cimarron Cravat. A full-blood Osage In· dian. . • • Yes, indeed. We think so, too." And, "How do you do?" said Ruby, ln her calm, Insolent way. For the benefit of those who had not quite been able to encomJ:,'ass the In· dian woman In her native dress Ruby's next public appearance was made In a Paris gown of white. She became the rage, was considered picturesque, and left Washington in dlsgu.st, her work done. No one bnt her husband, whom she loved with a dogl!ke devotion, could have Induced her to go through this ceremony. The opposition retired, vanquished. Donna and Tracy Wyatt then hired a special train in which they took fifty eastern potentates on a tour of Oklahoma. One vague and not very bright Washington matron, of great social prestige, Impressed with what she saw, voiced her opinion to young Yancey Cravat, quite confused as to his identity and seeing only an attrac· Uve and very handsome young male seated beside her at a country club luncheon. "I had no idea Oklahoma was like this. I thought It was all oil and dirty Indians." "There ts quite a lot of oil, but we're not all dirty." ""'e?" "I'm an Indian." Osage, Okla., was now just as much like New York as Osage could manage to make it. They built twenty-story office buildings in a city that bad hundreds of miles of prairie to spread ln. Tracy Wyatt built the first skyscraper -the Wyatt building. It was pointed out and adYertised all over the fiat pra!l'ie state. Then Pat LE'ary, dane· lng an rrish jig of jealousy, built the Leary building, twenty-three stories high. But the sweet fruits of triumph soon turned to ashes in his month. The Wyatt building's foundations were not built to stand the added strain of five full stories. So he had built a five-story tower, slim and tapering, a taunting finger pointing to the sky. Again Tracy Wyatt owned the tallest building In Oklahoma. On the roof of the Levy Mercantile company's building Sol had had bullt a penthouse after his '>Wn plans. It was the only one or its kind In all Oklahoma. That small part of OsaJ:e which did not make an annual pll· grimage to New York was slightly bewll de red by Sol Levy's roof life. They fed one another with scraps of gossip got from serYants, clerks, stenographers who claimed to have seen the place at one time or another. It was, these said, filled with the rarest ot carpets, rugs, books, hangings. Super radio, super phonograph, super player plano. Music hungry. There he lived, alone, In luxury, of the town, yet no part of it. Money was now the only standard. It Pat Leary had sixty-two million dollars on Tuesday he was Oldahoma'l leading citizen. If Tracy Wyatt had seventy-eight million dollars on Wednesday then Tracy Wyatt wa11 Olr· lahoma's leading cltlzeD <TO Bll CONTI~tllilU .• Chance Happenin~r Luck Is generally described as something that happens seemingly by chance. It may be an event, either good or evil, which afl'ects the Interest or happenings of an ln~lvldual, but this happening Is entirely casual. Luck, however, carries the Idea of good luck only. Tallest Known Man There have been reports among the less civilized tribes and among certain savage peoples that men have measured as much as 15 feet. From actual records that hR ve been complied, the greatest hel~ht found was that of Toplnard's Finlander. who measured 112 inches-9 feet 4 Inches. Famoua English Forest By Its association with Robin Hood, the most romantic forest In }<}ngland is, perhaps, Sherwood. On Its verge Is a curious amphitheater called Robin Hood's hill, and In the forest may still be seen a very old hollow oak tree called Robin Hood's larder. One of the ancient oak!!. entirely hollow, called the Major oak, can shelter In Its hollow trunk a dozen or fourteen pi'Ople at once. Old French Institution The Academ!e des Jeux Floreamc Is at Toulouse, France. The first noral games were held at Toulouse In May, 1324, at the summons of a guild of troubadours, who Invited the lords and their friends to assemble In the garden of "Gay Sci· ence" 1\lld recite their works. In 1694 the Academie des Jeux Floreaux was constituted an academy by letters patent. At present It is especially Interested In Pro•vencal poetry. Circumventin~r Colic A pretty little party from Pittsburgh, who always wears a straight flush and who can't understand the ways of a man with a maid, brings her problem to Oral Hygiene. "~fy boy friend," she boasts. "is as fine as they come, hut whenever he calls he Invariably waits 15 minutes he· fore kissing me. Now, what's his system. please7" "Perhaps," grins the editor. "he has learned how long It takes the paint to dry?"-Pathfinder Magazine. Drum Signaling The Smithsonian Institution says. "In the eastern Belgian Kong() tribes, particularly the Batela, have evolved a system of telegraphy through use of a wooden drum, tht> system of signals approaching that of ll code. The drum vibrations are not articulated as In human speech: rather the message Is recognized through Intensity of volume, rhythm, kind of drum used, time of day, etc. In a j•VJgle environment much lnfot·· matlon may thus be signaled." "Knight of the Road" Claude Duval, famous highwayman, was born In Normandy In 1643. He was sent to Paris in 16;:17, where he remained until he went tn Elngland in attendance on the duke of Richmond at the Restoration. He soon took to the road nnd became famous fOO' his daring and gallantry. He was captured In 1670 In London and within a week was executed at Tyburn. His body was laid In state in a tavern and was viewed by huge crowds b(jfore the exhibition was stopped by a judge's order. Ac1o STOMACH ExcESS acid is the common cause of indigestion. It results in pain and sourness about two hours after eatThe quick corrective is an alkali wl:iich neutralizes acid. The best corrective is Phillips Milk of Magnesia. It bas remained standard with phYllic!ans in the 50 years since its mvent10n. One spoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes instantly many times its volume in acid. Harmless, and tasteless, and yet its action is quick. You will never. rely on crude methods, once you learn how quickly this method acts. Be sure to get the genuine. mg. ' |