Dream Waltz
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By Fannie Hurst
(© by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
{WNU Service)
HEN Leonard was twenty-
one, he composed a dream
waltz, It was published,
caught on, and for a consid-
erable while the entire land was danc-
ing to it and humming.
Incidentally, it made quite a pile of
money for Leonard, epabling him to
plan a trip to Greece there to satisfy
some sort of a congenital bunger in his
middle west soul, to say nothing of
the fact that, for at least a six-month,
he was quite a celebrity, His home
town honored him; even New York
bowed to him upon his arrival there
to take ship, and for one brief sec-
ond in his scheme of things, the gods
took notice of a lean gangling fellow
with a shock of blond hair, who hailed
from a town called Granite City, and
through whose commonplace looking
cranium had wafted the haunting mel-
ody of a dream.
Everywhere he
months, the melody went with him,
following him like a wisp of lovely
smoke. In restaurants, when he en-
tered, the orchestra played him his
dream waltz; on dance floors, youth,
with drugged looking eyes, moved
rhythmically to it. Even on street
corners, barrel organs sent his dream
waltz tumbling into the street din.
They were short, excited melodius
months, dominated by the subtle aura
of success,
It was in New York, while waiting
to take the ship for the Aegean Is.
lands, that he met a slip of a girl from
Brooklyn endowed with the absurdly
incongruous and beautiful name of
Hesper. She was a fiat- voiced, satin-
skinned, colloquial, quick-minded, city-
minded, city-turned " tle plece, one of
hordes who milled through the dally
scene, but to Leonard, from the mo-
ment he clapped eyes on her seated
on a high stool beside him at an Ice
cream counter, a nymph who must
have slipped out of the surf of the
ocean surrounding Manhattan.
Their courtship was quick, citifled
and ended in marriage. The trip to
the Aegean, of course, was shelved,
first because Hesper preferred to pur-
chase furniture with the money and
secondly, because any spot she chose
to be, became the ‘Aegean to
Leonard.
They were married on a Monday,
had fitted up a pert little filing cabi-
net of a flat by the following Monday,
and in another week were neatly ad
justed Into a well-oiled routine of the
butcher, the baker, the refrigerator de-
froster; the du the subway,
the vermin exterminator.
Nor was the transition of hoj
plans difficult for Leonard.
was more delectable, if
rriage than she had
oT Built like a doll, her quick pink
tongue, her darting adorably wayward
eve, her flashing little temper, her Ir-
resistable remorse were as elusive, as
maddening, as appetizing to him, as
had been the elusive strains of his
waltz before he captured them all
For a twelve month they lived, these
two children, into the cave
of thelr Manhattan flat, the deliciously
irresponsible, uninhibited lives of play.
boy and playgirl.
Then the fund
of the dream waltz began
way of all vogues, and
become the business it
manage to be upon occasion,
What subsequently happened,
much more gradually than It seems In
the telling. The first dimming of the
luster of the vivaciousness that was
Hesper's did not come until those first
strangely solemn days when it became
necessary for little household,
builded on the dream waltz, to sit
solemnly down and take note of its
budget. And then, almost before they
could catch thelr breath over the nar
row margin of their resources, Hes-
per's twin girls were born and ten
months thereafter, a boy, and ten
months after that, another,
Thereupon, this story takes its all
too usual course. The gradual conflict
of wear and tear, worry and financial
strain upon beauty, youth and hope.
For almost a year, battling with the
haunting desires for melody that still
lay tormented in the hinterlands of his
mind, Leonard, borrowing, devising,
scheming to meet his hudget, strove
to recapture some ‘of the quality that
had poured into the dream waltz,
At the end of fourteen months, he
was clerking In a haberdashery. At
the end of five years, he was clerking
in haberdashery.
With a finality that struck terror to
his soul, his house had settled, his
Hesper had settled, his routine had
settled,
A bitter, slatternly, violently ma-
ternal Hesper ruled his household now,
It mattered not that when she met
him, Hesper, at ten dollars a week,
had been salesgirl in the basement of
a department store. The years, piling
up their woes and disappointment, also
piled up in the wife of Leonard, fes
tering hallucinations of having sacri.
ficed herself.
Strangely, there was no repudiation
in Leonard. What Hesper said of him
in vituperative moods, was true, He
had brought no fulfilment to his mar.
riage. His promise, his Inspiration,
his melody of spirit, had petered out,
Hesper, who thought she had married
success, had married a clerk.
It hurt Leonard to see her beauty
fade out beneath the lines of bitter.
ness, and to know that the lugging of
went for those few
isles
mb waiter,
ws and
Hesper
ble, In
court-
WISE
poss
capture «
the
to
is gave out, vogue
go the
serious can
came
the
a
her Reavy children was dragging her
figure into sway-back lines.
Even the old struggle for compo-
sition was gone, With the enforced
sale of his piano, he had for a few
months locked himself up evenings to
try and strum for melody on a bat-
tered guitar, That woke the bables,
The slow corroding processes of frus-
tration began to eat into the heart of
Leonard.
At forty, gray and with a stoop, he
was any morning the strap-hanger
caught In the obscene shambles of the
subway eight o'clock rush; he was any
flat dweller, turning his pasty face
homeward at six o'clock, once more a
wedged sardine in the evening sub-
way rush; a qualified member of the
routinized world of the flat, the shop,
the dally grind.
Sunday mornings he wheeled out his
babies, cleaned out his pipes, tinkered
with a homemade radio, buried his
face under sheets of the Sunday pa-
pers to escape the perpetual wanglings
of Hesper, who wore dust caps
while she did housework.
Sunday afternoons, particularly
his boys began to grow up, he walked
with them to the zoos of the public
parks or occasionally took them skiff
riding on the small lakes, His neck
had grown thin, his arms had grown
more gangling, his eyes had
look like glass that had been breathed
on.
Yet withal, the man out whom
had flowered the mystic sweetness of
the dream waltz, moved ahead in the
trance of his life, Husband of a wife,
Father of children. Head of a house-
hold. Taxpayer on a tiny scale. Sub-
scriber to a morning newspaper.
erer with his radio.
ready-made propaganda of the politi-
cal and soclal world in which he lived.
Any man on Any street in
Middle man. Average man.
the street.
His twins g
manding
of
Man
older and more de-
and more critical of the par-
ent who had thus thrust them Into
ways of mediocrity, when at school
there were children who came from
larger flats, and wore better frocks,
His boys grew older, and in many re
spects, terrifyingly wise In city ways.
His wife grew dimmer and more the
scold.
And yet, to all intents and purposes,
the little family in the usual little flat,
in the usual mediocrity of its middle
class routine, was fulfilling its destiny.
Hesper, the mother, had given
of her body and her vitality that there
might be life. Leonard, the provider,
who sought to Instill within his family,
right and living. Yeariings,
growing into thelr maturity under the
family roof.
Straw-foot,
ocrity., Standardization,
At fifty, Leonard, with
fshed melodies dormant
was reconciled to all this
way, was the querulous Hesper,
And then night something hap-
pened which changed the complexion
of life for Leonard to such an extent,
that he could never again feel drab
nd hopeless and trapped by the ma
chinery of his life. A small, I:
infin i , fillin
to overllowink: the
ture something to care some
thing to dream about.
His eldest boy, a slender, rather sen-
sitive-faced youngster brought him a
drawing he had made on a sheet of
paper. A precocious, really extraor
dinary portrait of a young girl, ex-
ecuted with vitality, Imagination and
beauty.
Captured into th
per, laid in cunning gifted stroke,
by line, was all the quality that
eighteen years before Leonard in an
other way had poured into the dream
waltz. Life was not done!
rew
who
doing
hay-foot !
the
withis
So,
in her
one
cup making
about ;
at face on the pa-
iine
English Kings Prodigal
in Territorial Grants
Under the early charters granted by
the English kings to the coloniés In
the New world, Connecticnt was en-
titled to a sweep of territory as wide
as the present width of
extending all the way across the con
tinent. Presently Connecticut's claims
came in conflict with grants to New
York and Pennsylvania, and these dis
putes were finally decided in favor of
the latter states, But Connecticut
maintained its claims from the west.
ern boundary of Pennsylvania until
after the Revolutionary war,
The peace terms had given the Unit-
ed Stdtes the title to land extending
to the Mississippi, but the general gov.
ernment prevailed on the old states
to yield to It their peculiar claims on
the western lands, so that ultimately
these might be organized as new states,
Jetween 1784 and 1802, Massachu-
setts, Connecticut, Virginia, North Car-
olina, South Carolina and Georgia
made cessions of western lands. Con:
necticut ceded the greater part of its
claims on September 13, 1786, but re
northern part of what is now the state
of Ohio, running along the shore of
Lake Erie west 120 miles from the
Pennsylvania border, and extending
south to the forty first paraliel
north latitude. This territory soon
came to be called
Western Reserve” or simply “The
Western Reserve” It comprised the
present counties of Ashtabula, Trum-
bull, Lake, Geauga, Portage, Cuya-
hoga, Medina, Lorain, Huron and Erle,
and the greater part of Summit and
the northern pads of Mahoning and
Ashland.
In 1800, however, Connecticut finally
ceded to the federal government the
jurisdiction over the Reserve, which
was incorporated with the Northwest
territory, and goon afterward was In-
cluded In the lands which were ad
mitted as the «ate of Ohlo
A ” Ae
a a ———
OAs
IS many a yarn which Dame
Fashion is spinning these days in
answer to the call of the mode for
| smart knitted apparel. It is not only
that knitted togs in thelr modern ver-
glons are so good to look upon, bul
i the fact of their belng so thoroughly
practical gives them a place In the
heart of the sports world which none
other can occupy.
As knitted fashions stand today
they acknowledge no superior when it
comes to Jltra-chie and beguiling
charm, This, together with the fact
that a knitted costume stands any
amount of wear and tear without los
ing that wellgroomed appearance
which every prideful woman coverts,
accounts for the increasing enthusiasm
expressed for outfits which are knitted
or fashioned of knitted fabrics.
Straight from la belle Paris come
the two knitted costumes pictured
The sult to the eft is of looseknlt
jersey In green and white, with the
scarf and corsage In the same colors
Its bellhop Jacket, which stops at the
walstline, with the fiat
stitched pleats in the skirt testify that
when It comes to sivie deinlls there
is no point missed by designers of
knitted modes.
The costume shown to the right Is
a Paquin model as is also the sult just
described. This sports ensemble
chooses to combine red wool with Scot.
tish check. The bolero which milady
carries on her arm ready for wear In
the outdoors is of the same. [It Is
characteristic of French costumes as
styled for spring and the coming sum-
mer that they acceht color at the top,
a treatment which has been most
strikingly accomplished in the present
instance,
For novelty, versatility and galety
it is the swenter which carries the day
together
b a
40 WEB Ry
iter,
loose open
Some of
with highest honors, The swer
crocheted or knitted In
mesh, Is a topnotch fashion,
them are that they look to be
little more than of fishnetting. It's
quite the swagger thing to wear one of
these openwork sweaters over one's
sleeveless sports dress. Match it to
the color of your frock or have it In
striking contrast, as you will,
The new skirts with built-up waist-
lines have brought fuck-in sweaters to
the fo Necklines, too, come In for a
great deal of attention In sweater de
signing, frills, fic bots and
all sorts of dressmaker details adding
a plguant touch to the
Very
displayed, those
notably lovely.
outfit recently sho of a
skirt knitted In simple stitch with ‘a
row of open stiteh marking the separa
tion between the gored sections which
achieved a snug fit about the hips with
a slight flare the knees
swenter blouse accented an extremely
lacy stitch. The sleeved bolero
matched the skirt. A beret, a bell, a
scarf and an envelope pocketbook
knitted and crocheted In
stitch and design added notes of in
terest. All In pure white, this many-
inone costume made a striking ap
pearance.
open
re.
hg effects, Ja
made
eiaborate
wn consisted
below
open
using rayon chenille with excellent re
suits as the chenille crochets softly
and prettily, being particularly effec
tive in pasiel colorings. Women who
wield the crochet needle readily are
adding a touch of distinction to their
bought sweaters by crocheting a shell
stitch chenille adge about neckline and
sleeven ns well as finishing various
hemlines, adding perhaps a few cro
cheted buttons in decorative manner.
{2 1932 Western Newspaper Union)
SAILOR HAT IS IN
SPRING SPOTLIGHT
A visit to the hat shops would indi
cate that Dame Fashion has decreed
| almost any kind of bonnet as long as
some conditions are followed,
Right out in the spotlight Is the
| sailor with its brim and hat band of
ribbon or leather, sometimes of con
{ trasting color. The colors are quite
gay, the crowns are, on the whole, shal:
low, and the bring narrow. While the
straws fairly blossom on the shelves
there are popular arrays of knitted
hats, some with straw brims and
| some knitted of wonl and straw. There
is a natty little hat popular for sports
that sits like a pancake on top of the
| head and comes in bright sports colors
| The hats sport any variety of small
and striking ornaments of a contrast:
ing color.
Irish Lace Lends Nice
Touch to Spring Frock
Crocheted Irish lace lis lending a
chaste touch to many a spring frock
| of printed crepe, plain black or beige
crepe or a plain navy blue woolen
it is used In collars, vests, cuffs and
on the ends of ties. It is even used
| to trim some of the smartest and most
expensive of the new spring hats
Perhaps If a housewife Is frugal she
will begin r. mmaging around in old
trunks in the attic, is she has an attic,
and some of the old Irish lace she
finds there may be the means of mak.
ing lovely an otherwise ordinary dress
this spring.
Anchor Clips
If you wish to be very smart you
will £0 tn for things nautical, such,
for instance, as clips in the form of
anchors and stars In silver or gold
finished metal, or In red, white and
blue enamels.
ran ma———
COWL NECKLINE
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
craze for the hand crocheted
has spread to include street,
sportd and Informal afteroonn cos
fumes, As it Is getting a bit late for
wool, a number of the Paris houses are
making these blouses in mercerized
crochet for wear under the newer
suits, Schiaparelll and other Paris
designers are sponsoring them in
sleeveless nnd cape versions, some lit.
tle more than a giet, perfectly plain
except, perhaps, a ting bow at the
neckline, or with the round neckline
built somewhat high and unornament.
ed, or with a cowl neckline, as illus
trated. This cowl neckilne appears
to be the latest, and a very soft,
charming effect It gives when worn
under the open Jacket. These band
crocheted sweaters or blouses are so
easy to do, women everywhere are
making them, They are lovely In pas
tel tones or In white,
blouse
Beauty Talks
By
MARJORIE DUNCAN
Famous Beauty Expert
Every Item Deserves Attention
UDGETS are becoming more and
more popular because their effi
ciency and value has been brought
home—repeatedly, Few home bulld
ers, for instance, can be accused of
putting all thelr eggs in one bagket—
financially speaking. 'Tis sheer folly
to spend all of one’s savings on a rug
for instance, when the windows neec
repairing and the chairs need recover
ing. And so on.
Yet a greater group than we Imagine
still continue to concentrate on one
phase of the beauty ensemble, Some
timeg it Is the best feature that re
ceives special attention (and women
are wish to heighten their
‘chilefest charm.") More often, of
ittention is focused on the fea-
wise to
n for that, either,
But the wisest plan and the one
that makes for the utmost in beau~
ty is the “budgeting for beauty”
system.
I nave known to
half hour on the crown
exclusion of all other
And while their hair was
lustrous, they did
probably
picture of careful grooming,
women
beauty
lowly
The
part of the picture marks a very sharp
contrast and emphasizes the unlovell-
ness of the uncared for portions.
If you have heard this preachment
before,
Budget
you tw
en be sure to devote enough
our hal
your skin t}
¥
LO
Get out In the open—re-
important
neck, shoulders,
unit,
ands, the hands for th
on. An unbalanced oh
result, je fair to every
for the ©
and so
the
of beauty and
goes to make up the whole,
18 beauty ensemble,
To ire youwill hb
time to that pa
perfect than to the
your
ture is
har
monioy
he u
rt of the pict
is not
factors
But do give a
You can work out
according to your own needs,
1y wish to concen
ror your skin,
portions of ensemble,
your own budget
certain days you ma
trate on your hal
point in this sermon
neglect any phase of beauty.
own needs, then set about en
neing vour loveliness snd preserving
gifts nature Las endowed
you with,
* . »
Choosing Perfume
Ps RFUME is a delicate art,
jelightful touch, the
one's personality.
mastered it. Perhaps one
sing a scent for her.
your own personality. Age
Type too. Many a miss of sweet
gixteen made herself ridiculous
the application of a heavy odor
suitable to a matron thrice her years.
And, likewise, a mature woman using
a very delicate whiff of a perfume
does not achieve the desired effect
As for type, picture the tall, dark-eyed
ruby-ipped Oriental wearing a wee
bit of lilac or rose. Inconsistent, isn’t
it? Or the petite, fair and frail china-
doll type surrounding herself with a
heavy, intense scent. A conflict there
—not a complement to her restful, cool
personality and charm. Color is an
important factor, too, for most blondes
are flattered by the delicate flower
odors, and brunettes can wear the
more Intense perfumes to advantage.
But before color is considered, temper
ament and personality have to be ta
ken into account,
To achieve the ultimate Sattering ef-
fect remember these subtle secrets for
applying perfume. They date back to
the Greek and Roman eras. when per
fuming was a daily ritual, Remem-
ber that a wee bit is all that is neces-
sary. A good perfume (and that is
the only kind worth buying) should
have lasting qualities. An infinitesi
mal drop behind the ears, a touch on
the lids and brows, a bit on the palms
of your hand. Become a devotee ef
the atomizer. It is an economical way
of spreading the subtle scent--distrib-
uting evenly—without waste,
Let there be a very delicate
breath of ume about you, like
a soft, spring breeze, a faint warm
wind—now Tow
enough to favorably impress peo-
ple “to remember you by.”
The fastidions woman of means may
choose several different perfumes—to
express mood, oceasion—io comple
ment her costume, For sporis, a8 per
fume with the tang of the woods in
it. For evening an exquisite, exotic
scent. Always its chief function
shonld be to express and enhance ber
own personality, That is the first rule
to remember ‘when your thoughts turn
to perfume. Make it the final, pleas.
antes: touch to the loveliness that is
you.
(©. 193%, Bell Syndicate.) ~WRU Bervies,
hns
wo directed. Five particles of
40d velvety. Your face looks
Sr ER 1 Ar
and pletures; Washington Praying at Vais
a gop oft prt i adl defects suth ps Phimglas.
spots, tan and freckles Ssappenr. Bin is iia
2 brivgs out the hidden :
remove wrinkles use one vunes Buxlite
Agents Wantedfiell Bicentennial ecards
ley Forge; sure, easy seller send today. Nae
tional Bpecialty A Pub. Co., U ion Cl ity, NI,
Beautiful Gindiolus Mixture: 160 Iarge bulbs
$1.50; smaller sized $1, prepaid, price list
free. Donald James, Camp Hill, Pa
Inventor Has Idea of
Houses by the Quart
jultors, collar studs, the backs of
hairbrushes, and all kinds of things
are already made from milk, and
now comes an Inventor who proposes
to turn the cow into a provider of
building materials for houses, He
clams that casein, or solidified milk,
is an ideal substance for the purpose,
gince it is easy to work and would
make It possible to erect soundproof
and draught-proof bulidings,
His villas are to be planned on
novel lines. Instead of digging down
for the foundat he is going to
erect a large mast, The house hangs
from a framework erected round this
and provided w
The idea is n turn it just
as you like in order to bring any
room at will into the sunshine or the
ghade,
It is to be
er the new
few people
they will be
pote oud
lons,
ith ball bearings.
that you ca
doubted, wheth-
idea will on, for
desire dwellings in whi
permanently
Tit-Bits,
though,
catch
{eh
the
“
up
Bones
alif., where
ried thelr
cuts through,
drove
medline
mnting
Uncover Indians’
Near Moun tain View, (
once the Fisher Ind
dead, a new higl
symbole of the p
the tribe
ians bt
from its
ground, wid crews work on the
new Bayshor ighway cently un-
in-
JOTiars
JOTLATH,
covered the gras sf five of the
lia buried with
ness and
Hunting
her rem-
side the
and othe
them lo insure their happ
Happy
and ot
lone
aiong
comfort
Ground.
nants
right-of-way.
The
were
For Police Dogs, Maybe
Virginia's dad was pointing out to
her different things in an old picture
of Camp Kn At was a
group of tents which he told
her were “pup tents,” She seemed
very much interested and sald:
“Why dad, were they for the police
dogs in the army? '—Indianapolis
News,
one side
You are fortunate of you find any
body interested in hearing you relate
reminiscences of your boyhood.
Mothers! 8
BEWARE OF
Be on the look-out for the common
enemy of children. Watch for such
symploms as picking at nostd
g of teeth, poor appetite
ightening dreams. Fapel these
intestinal parasites with Comstock’
Dead Shot Worm Pellets. Easy for
the most semsitive child to take.
COMSTOCK'S
WORM AT PELLETS
nestor KRTeJy wi Comtock int
Tut's Caricature Found
Some ancient-time scuiptor oon
ceived the idea that a bust of King
Tut-Ankh-Amen at shaving time
would create a laugh. It is doing so
now, for an amusing caricature of
the king, his beard bristling and
soapy, has been discovered at his
burial place at Tek-el-Amarna, ac-
cording to a roport from Cairo,
Egypt. A painting outfit also found,
may have been the King's own.
His Good Deed
The amateur gardener was show.
ing the beauties of his greenhouse.
“This” he sald, pointing to a flow.
er, “belongs to the petunia family.”
“Does it?" commented the sweet
young thing, “I suppose you're mind.
ing it while they're away.”
w. N. v, BALT MORE, NO. 18-1932,