Show A 1 I try to say is it all jo 10 and it all n sl-out Us just for a few or it all right for to admire that little hollow Uck of your I loved him I when he it all But it's no use telling what you're not going to think bout You think about it that puch Probably i-f biew that She could see how I f vas empty like one of those crabs you find on the She celebrated my birthday by giving me a raise and sending me to do demonstration in That two years in Chicago was t Comedy A little comedy i was good for me just though there was plenty of heartburn and I don't mean just i what wc got from the antipasto at Enrico's Like when we started calling the apartment the r School for or when Molly the gold lame dress out of a cedar She'd saved it all that the Assembly We covered some cushions with 1 I wasn't going to let anyone else if wear Molly said of course I must live with her and Pat Kenzie in their new place at Tuscan fur-l studios off Michigan Ave-l rue with a yard full of stone winter were when Molly and i would sit by the fire and get on with our knitting while Pat was most likely out dancing at the her favorite place to give swains a I liked the Ivanhoe too on account of the Sir Walter Scott decorations which made me think of the Lady of the but Molly and I were in a It was good to be able to talk to somebody about but I wouldn't tell even Molly very far under the Mac sent me a clipping from the Ledger when Wyn got married that I could of got along without knowing the exact I guess Ronnie got the Eight of and not plated But I was after I saw those lovely kids in the station I wonder if a nice girl like Ronnie hasn't slowed up the Strafford family for quite a few just because she's a nice well-bred girl and nothing Mark tells me something about the of the It sounds like counting stitches when you turn the heel of a Still and if I was a Family I'd like to knit some genes into it that wants to get Wyn's genes had a little hankering that they could have been taken Now I wouldn't be surprised the family will have to wait for Wynnewood Strafford They'll get along in Kitty Foyle and Wyn Strafford in Ginger Rogers as Dennis Morgan as and Enrico's spaghetti joint on the It was a f. good chance for me to help them I was getting 28 a week I felt badly to be paid so much j more than those All three of ts were at me in the Salon and Molly in and Pat had been switched to h Wc had the alarm clock I'm but besides that was the play a troupe of girls learn they live We called I because she of took She said she was never sure which one was the Comedy Pat o but I course it was You don't i Set fed so many laughs unless there 1 men in the picture somewhere kA Pat had a whole rodeo of them for Looking after her good training in what you call though once and ft while it would get tiresome sitting through a movie because Pat wanted to entertain a boy friend at the Naturally we dc-i the usual forms of female I if Pat had a special Date on 1 Molly and I would come into the living room wearing wrappers or hair curlers or cold anything at all so as to look If any one of us was out in the she sense enough to phone before coming just in Wc took turns on cooking tod marketing and the ironing board wd in the bed Wc in two in the big Double Murphy and one on the 3 Some of the best evenings that the meantime with pink coats and What was Molly and me got a day olf lo go down to Manitou to see the class graduate at They were a solemn looking it was a funeral compared to the high school show in I was in a mixed partly showing off because I was a Career Woman and a Skin You Love to partly I had an inferiority because I figured those kids had something I would never I wanted to hear the Baccalaureate which I thought would sum up the whole of the college education and I could make out where I'd been sold I guess the kids in the class had been too stupefied by Commencement to worry but Molly and I were all fresh from a long restful ride on the train and our minds were wide Uncle and Auntie had some of the old gang up to Thanksgiving Avenue for a porch It was too bad not to sec polite old he always thumped his tail when people Uncle was in fine spirits because he had the lawn shaved down to the quick and all the hangnails pared off of it Even when most likely Trudy spilled mayonnaise on his ice cream he didn't get to Lena's fried chicken never tasted so and we had the old gag about giving an extra leg because he was one Even Bernie was I had to laugh how I used to imagine he was my Swedish lied up u idea of being General in of the army and working the State Dairy He was full of some new idea that would spin the milk round in a churn until it was all homeopathic or homogeneous or That would make it the same all the way through and no Top of the for would they want to do away wiM the Top of the I u s the only part that's any I ti hadn't thought of Good 1 1 I bet by time he's an awful lot of thing- I c hasn't thought Socially there'll always be Top of the I poor Bernie won't be among thee present The one who will be is I don't make cracks at college educating when I sec what it did for It was grand to find one of the you could really talk He me he'd made a switch in his been doing pre-medical and was g ing to study doctoring in Account of his aluminum leg he wouldn't be so good for regular practise but he had a chance to re search in infant He tola me a lot of interesting dope aboul relative mortalities and what could be done by radio wave and and so He said one thing that came right in and hung up its hat in my you've got wonderful hands for I hadn't thought about it but I guess the demonstrating work had educated my hands quite a lot When Fedor came town he took me down to see the paralysis and that's how I started going there Sundays to help with the chil When Pat Kenzie got Peg joined the School for She was working in a but we weren't sure if she was a legitimate pupil for she was on the toboggan about an advanced young cashier who didn't believe in bet his parents didn't said She didn't like him because he had to keep tossing his head to throw the hair off his In private life he was a But we could see poor Peg had to work this financial bohemian rough her system and I guess we'd learned not to do other people's moralizing for we called invited Peg down to the Dunes for a but some of the old Manitou inhibitions must have kicked up and she wanted Molly and I to go along as Anyway Molly and I had a nice quiet The Dunes is the only place except Griscom Street where I ever had what you might call my own back yard to sit even if it's the side of a sand It's funny to see that surf and then find it's fresh When it got to be meal times Sheepdog would sit down and play piano ana Peg listen to him in a so it turned out that most of our chaperoning was cooking the meals for Peg washed up because she said musicians have to be careful of their Molly got sore after while and told Peg a pity he don't believe iu marriage because you'd certainly make a good old fashioned When liquor came back they put a revolving bar in the Room down at the old like a little I always loved that partly because that perfume in the lobby had memories for Molly and I would go there j sometimes and ride round and round just one Scotch taken in a circle gives as much kick as three sitting solid in a Peg went back to Manitou where she but there was usually a Bride on the waiting list Fedor came up to see I could hear his artificial leg bumping on the and we'd drink beer and I'd wish Molly would fall for He got me interested in the hospital work and that cured my feeling cynicaL Then sent me on the to check up our demonstrations all the way out to the Coast and That was Pearl Velour's but Pearl was going to be There seemed to be plenty of people who believed in it even if Sheepdog didn't Copyright 1939 by |