Show ski by EDNA FERBER D doubleday Diu bledy page co service Gibli cabbages ages Is beautiful said old klaas when lie heard this cabbages Is beautiful I 1 betulia betchan bet clia selina during the years of the boys adolescence had never urged him to a decision about ills his future that she decided would come As the farm prospered and the pressure of necessity lifted she tried in various ingenious ways to extract from him some unconscious sign of definite preference tor for this calling that profession fes sion until dirk was sixteen she had been content to let him develop as naturally as possible and to absorb impressions unconsciously consciously iiii from the traps slid she so guilefully left about him there was a shed which lie was free to use as it workshop fitted up with all sorts of tools ile he did not use it much after the first few weeks lie he was pleasantly and mildly interested in all things held by none selina had thought of roelf when they were fitting up the workshop tile the pools had bad heard from roelf boelt just once since his flight from the farm A letter had bad come from france selina bad sever never heard from him but one day years later she had come running to dirk with an illustrated magazine in her hand look I 1 she cried and pointed to a picture lie had rarely seen her so excited so stirred the illustration showed a photographic reproduction of a piece of sculpture a womans comans figure egure it was called the seine A figure sinuous snakelike snake like graceful revolting vol ting beautiful terrible the face alluring insatiable generous treacherous all at once it was the seine that fed the fertile valley land the seine that claimed a thousand bloated lifeless floating things the red eyed hay hag of 1793 the dimpling coquette of beneath the illustration a line or two kielt rooi pool salon Ameri american caLL future its goeltl selina had cried roelf little roelf pool P 1 tears in he her r eyes dirk had been politely interested but then tie lie had never known him really ue he had heard his mother speak of him but at sei seventeen enteen dirk and selina talked of the year to come lie was going to tr r 1 t 9 id at eighteen it had been midwest university for dirk a university but to what un university hersity and what did lie want to study we e 11 hard bird to say eay kind of a general course there on selina i had bad said yes general era ot or couise if a person wanted to be an arch architect iteck why I 1 suppose cornell cordell would lie be the place or harvard for foi law or boston tech for engineering or oh yeh it if a tellow fellow wanted any ot of those things good idea though to take a kind ot of g general en rai course until you founds out exactly what you wanted to do languages and literature and that kind of thing at i eighteen it had been ia i midwest university for dirk high prairie heard beard 1 tb that 1 t dirk dejong was solas going away to 0 college I 1 ege A neighbors son on said going to wisconsin agricultural course there my ily gosh nol DOI dirk had answered he told this to laughing but she had riot not laughed id like to take that course myself if you must know they say its wont won darful 11 she looked lic at him suddenly dirk you like to take it would you youl to go to madison I 1 me ain Is that what like lie ili stared alet me I 1 no I 1 i un less leis you Lyou want we me to mother then I 1 would gladly I 1 hate your working like alk e ahls 1 ills on the farm while lille I 1 zo co off |