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'3 $&*? c>p;p;^q;c';c:p:o;o;c:o LONGED FOR A HOME :* BR FANNIE HURST * yjf.J »I II y-ygt-fl|U»ifET-< rftv^P^Wip1^ ,n >• w^JIIU, y IW1 THE M'iSNKY PLAINDEALER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1931 MifPS? " *>£•$••? - mw V-^! ^•4<5 :;;s^; V.. v>. IWENTY-FIVE years la a long time to be heart, bone, and fiber part of a business, and then at the end of it feel frustration. ' * Thdt however was (the case with Charles Brennon, 'superintendent, pro* prietor, manager. and general manager of the Hotel Savoy, the first-rate hotel of a .city of considerably over t^ro hundred thousand Inhabitants. «Brennon had personally built up his hotel to its important proportions, dl- 'vTdf ng It successf ully into * two sections : The Annex, or family wing, and the hotel proper, which invited the patronage of transients and those who Were availing themselves of the town's famous curath'e waters, which were renowned • for their medicinal qualities. . And eo If happened, that the Savoy catered to three distinct groups. Families. Commercial men and women. Rheumatic patients. • One might have thought that such Variety of patronage would hate lent interest and even glamour to Brennon's role of hotel man, and in a way it did, yet this same fact in Itself was a factor in the ultimate sense of frustration 'that time and again, as to* grew older and more deeply entrenched in his work, swept and depressed him. What struck most painfully into the sense of loneliness which was more and more oppressing htm in his daily life among the crowd, was the fact that of all the hundreds who dally Billed in and out of his hostelry; lived there; entertained there; dined there; wined there, he alone seemed, the fcomelesijf one. He alone, among all Ihe* coming and going, seemed to be the one who was neither coming nor going. Even the families in the Annex were usually there on a temporary basis; awaiting the completion of a new hOme; pending a marriage; taking a year off between Changes of permanent "\fldress. • In fact, it was the families la the. Annex that'Contributed most of all to • the growing unrest that was Brennon's. The unit of these little groups Was so snug. Even sitting around .With them of an evening in the lobby And then seeing them troop off together to their rooms, their suites, their apartments, gave him that cold alien sense he was more than ever to dread. Hnshandsand - wives trailing off together. Brothers and sisters bantering their way up to bed. Pairs of people sharing the Intimacies of family life; of domestic life. Then, in the commercial and transient wings, men and women on tfceir way to homes. Men and women eager for; .mail from homes, anxious Sget back to domestic groups; awaltat some remote point by eager •loved ones. Then Brennon himself, doomed, as he was beginning to put it, to the impersonal detached existence of the hotel. When Brennon went to his fooms nights there was the paraphernalia of hotel. Bed turned down by Impersonal chambermaid hands. Night light turned on by those same employed hands. Carafe of hotel water. Bowl of hotel flowers. Cold. Impersonal. And all under the same roof. ' Families waiting to tuck themselves Into homes. Transients eager to re- -f^prn to homes. Twenty-five years of hotel life had ,)*ade something of a self-pitier out Of IJrepnon. He felt sorry over the eold detached quality of his exist- •«tice. He felt left out. Left over. ^Chilled. But it was not until after twenty- >' ".five years of It that consciously he began to set about doing something about it. Well-off in worldly goods *y now, content within his own mind that he had proved himself capable of success, thought of retirement now began to grip him. Retirement ^nd, fifty-three, a suddenly flourishing :jp)pe and ambition for ma'rriage. • i Into a life peculiarly unremarkable •here w*miicn were concerned, this : 5 ||ew phase\entered, taking him by •;-r#torm. In hiV success and maturity, r Hrerinon wanted marriage and domesttcity; domesticity as far removed as . jpt>ssil>le from the lobby, the grillroom, :^r the thoroughfare. • s These elements might have enteral inore surely into his reckoning except 1 for the fact that" at fifty-three, Brennon fell in love; fell- In lore to such Sli extent that had the widow Smeade ' stipulated that they live their lives ~ <Wit atop an omnibus. Brennon would have consented. Fortunately, how- '* «ver, the desires of the widow Rmeade were simple, intelligent ones that 'fitted in nicely with his scheme. A . ^hotel dweller herself, for fourteen years past, it was with a certain re ttef that she fell in with the plans of Brennon to divorce themselves as fast . SW possible from the more noisome unvate existence of the public hos- • telry. .1 > . *• The Savoy was offered for sale, apd frought a price far handsomer than had anticipated. >5sfi At fifty-four, feeling younger than be £ad in twenty years, married to a tevely, well-preserved woman of Ms pnssionate choice, he was in rtie Wossed position of giving expression t» the desires that J»ad so long rankled him. • * fhe Brennons chose a house on one of the private, restricted, residential streets of the town, furnished it to the Queen's and their* oWr. tastes, created a garden about It. stocked their garage with cars, hired servants, and set about the delightful business of making their housea home in every senae of the word. And the new Mrs. Brennon had a knack; Under her firm and'authentic touch, the home took on life, so to speak. In all his previous frustrated dream?, Brennon admitted- to himself, he had never quite succeeded in visualising the kind of perfection this woman brought to the creating of a home. Privacy, lovely furnishings, small personal touches of flowers in bowls arranged . by her; color schemes worked oat according to her knowledge of his taste; the bed folded back by her loving hands because she knew the way he liked his pillows piled. Sentimental,, if you will, but where his new happiness was; concerned, Brennon was unashamedly that. It was not until after five vears of their cloudless marriage that Bretonon end his wife took their first trip out into the world which flowed about this home. Th^y went to a city Some four hundred miles removed from, theirs, there to ehjoy the theaters and $qi&* certs of the latger metropolis. It Was while they were at the "Grand bote! there and enjoying what they were pleased t6 call their second (honeymoon, that the opportunity to purchase the hostelry at an absurdly low price literally feH into Brennon's lap. At first the idea was preposterous and both he and his wlSTe turned willing hacks upon the entire idea; But strangely. In the case of both of them, the Idea simply would not be downed. After all, the new, Mrs. Brennon had lived fourteen years In the light ahd glamour of hotel life - mnd there was something about it--something about it-- As for Brennon, he was' the old racehorse pawing the turf. Time and time again he turned his face away, only to scent back again, hypnotized. The Inevitable happened. For seven years Brennon and his wife have occupied a six-room suite in their hotel, the Orand. During that time the Institution has more than tripled its patronage and Its success redounds to the credit of Brennon, Meanwhile, he and his wife promise themsehres, with optimism, that one of These days they will turn their backs op the shallowness of hotel life, and really create themselves a home, - (ffi, 1931. McClnrp N"W>ri«p#r SyUdlcatO . (\V.\T Service.)* ; , LIGHTS • ntUMI^L of NEW YORK MOVIE "BIG NOISE" IS COUNT CUTELLI AQ Comforts of Homii \,£or Washington Snakes jiii elaborate new reptile house, embodying "all the comforts of home" for snakes, has been formally opened at the'5 National Zoological park in Washington.- - r--a----- There, In glass-fronted cages, the public can oh&uxe reptiles of the world under theTmost favorable conditions. In neach case the vegetation, temperature, humidity and light of its occupants' natural habitat has been carefully simulated. The buflding Is of Spanish design, and Its opening brought fulfillment to Dr.- William Mann's dreams of many years, according to the United Press, lie has supervised personally every detail of its construction in his capacity as zoo director. The temperature In each cage will be controlled by Individual thermostats. Thus a rattlesnake will be provided the mild warmth of summer in the north, a boa constrietojr will delight in the humid heat of the tropics, and lizard will have the JQ0-degree temperature of the sun-baked Arizona desert, Not only will this safeguard the reptiles' health (snakes are as subject to .pneujnonla as men), but they will be much more Interesting to watch. Most snakes in captivity are sluggish because the temperature Is too low. Heat makes them lively. Another health measure is the installation of special glass In many of the skylights over the cages, so the reptiles may have a dally quota of ultra-violet ' rays. Their diet is watched carefully, too, and In some of .the second-story rooms pf the building a "commissary department" hafM been arranged. Files, baby chickens and guinea pigs will be raised tlK^re to suit the taste of the most fastidious snake. The public's welfare has beejLJis well taken cttre of as that of ffie reptiles. The ventilation systems of tire cages and the rest of the building are distinctly separate. No Waiting ^ "My girl gave me a surprise last night when I called to tal^e her out to a dance," said jjimpson. "What was that?" asked his fellow clerk. "She was all dressed up In a newevening gown," Simpson enlightened him. " "You say she was all dressed when you got there?" asked the other. "Yes, I said so," came from the young lover. "Why do you ask in that tone of voice?" "Well, that wasn't a surprise,** re. torted the other. *^hat was a giddy tetwn** The use of leisure its a difficult thing. The majority of us, when freedom Is given Into our hands,t fly _to the excitement of some form of recreation. We must be "doing' sometliing:--preferably something pliy&ical; if we are not. we "ar^'-lost and without resource. This Is. wh;. holidays sometimes imll, and leave us at a'loss. ' There Is a New York woman of wealth and position w^ho never has had a high regard for regulations of the order which appear to her a bit stupid and unnecessary. Up to recent times, of course, men have made laws and women have made customs, and the fact is that the average women, being really much more independent of thought than any man, is governed mainly by her owii sense of the fitness of things rather than by any legal code. That may not be clear . to you, but I know what I mean. At any rate, for various reasons, this,, wotnan had not been abroad in ntUier a long time, but' decided U* spend a season in Europe. She discovered that "she had to obtain a h passport. Used to special consideration, she did not see why she had to take frut such a document, she being a nice person Whom any country should jbe glad to entertain, and, ME she did h^ve to take It out, she didn't see wh.^ there was so much red tape to be unraveled. Finally she got the passport and showed it to her husband. He, being a man, was considerably startled when he looked it Over, ; . "This picture is you, all right,!! be said, "but they must have made a Mistake; The description doesn't fit you in the least. Your eyes, for example, are light bine. This describes them as hasel." "Yes," said his wl£e «almljr. nI always have wanted haiel eyes." "What has that got to do with ItT' said the man. "Your eyes are,blue." "Don't be silly." said his wife. "When they insisted upon my describing myself, I thought of just how I had always wished to look, so I Just pretended I looked that wayT 'lt's a very good description." When last seen, the husband looked aa if he were about to have apoplexy. Custom officers have told me that women are qnich more successful smugglers than men, because man, the poor goop, trying to bring in more than fhe permitted number of cigars or the remains of what he was not able to drink on the boat, usually is thinking about the law and looks as guilty as if somebody had.j^st caught him robbing a hen roost/while the little woman, being firmly of tlie opinion that it is right and proper for her to bring in anything she desires, looks as tranquil and innocent as a big-eyed fawn. . ... *. *» » There Is in New York-a very tall artist whose chum lis a little fellow The two are Inveterate practical Jokers and the things they .can think Hp are weird inv the extreme. It was these two whq bought a park bench, got a bill of gale for It, carried It .around the.'nark. and aj most drovjfe a .desk sergeant to apoplexy the fourth time a patrolman brought them In. .Recently they have evolved a new stunt. They board a subway as pretended strangers. The little fellow £,oe8 lntq one car and the big fellow gets a seat In the car ahead- After the train has started the little felloW walks forward. When he gets to where the big fellow is seated, he stops, takes out his handkerchief, puts one hand on the big fellow's head, presses the handkerchief firmly against his nose with the other hand, and. In the kindly tone of a parent' addressing a child, says: ~ "Blow!" The big fellow trumpets, after which which the little fellow puts the hand' kerchief back In his pocket and continues through the train, leaving his companion calm, but the other passengers in a state jot mme perturbation. ( • • • A book entitled "Peacock Alley" ts soon to he published by Harper's. It was written by James R. McCarthy in collaboration with John Rutherford, the latter name being being a nom de plume.". It is a history of the site of the old Waldorf, now occupied by the Empire State building, and of those persons who were identified In one way or another with 'he famous hotel. • • • Le Roy P. Ward is the architect of the new King's County hospital, and Kenny brothers are the brick -contractors, Frank Kenny is an old Notre Dame man and a number of ttoe South Bend football players. work-for • him during the vacation months to keep In shape for gridiron work In the autumn One oT his foremen is the father, of Johu Law, former Notre Dame star. l . .. Forty-Fourth street and Sixth avenue become -a crowded corner of Manhattan. Just above there on the avenue are a lot of employment agencies. On the corner, they^re excavating for a new building; Crowds of the unemployed standi around and watch the steam shovels at work. . It has become really dangerous to sit around with ydur friends. A lot of them appear to have succumbed to an educational complex. They want you to play spelling games,. one of those games where somebody mentions a letter, and the next one adds a let ter, and so on around the room untn somebody completes the word. When you complete a word, you drop out. In the first place, certain of my friends " "have charged that I keep my spelling in my wife's name, and in the second place, I don't like spelHng-games and never did. , And, if they don't start a spelling game, they begin on definitions. That's just as bad. Who cares about the difference between- bfennia 1 and biannual? And. by the way, what do<M "moiety" mean? *<©. 183l. Bell Svndlot*.>--WHt)~S«rTlC». There's Hardly a Noise That He Cannot Imitate. ,s MMinpat it' 'p' SLOCUMLAKE " |?ew York.--The real "big;'noise" behind the talking pictures^has come to light at last. He is Count Cutelli, an Italian nobleman; who /"can bark like a dog, cry' like a "baby, roar like a Mon, crow like a rooster, whistle like a steamboat--in fact, there's hardly a noise that he cannot Imitate. He does it by no other mechanical means thaji his own hqman mechanism --tlwoat, nose, hiouth, tongue and teeth. ./ ' When, in filming a picture, there's^ pressing need for a realistic shore, or pertiaps the howl of a hurricane at sea, or the cr<!«te of a/frog, likely as not the director will send a hurry call for the count. In his repertoire he claims' to have 99 different sounds, any one of which he will make to order. He can Imitaie any insect and reproduce the sounds 0# "wild beasts and birds. He can imitate motorbqat, steamboat, siren, and an airplane In the distance, close to, and stunting. He imitates fireworks, telegraph, wire- ^ less, a .^Seeding automobile, niotor/' cycle, subiiiLarlne engines, ."horse* ^qihg intoa tr<>t, th^n galloplng off hito the distance. "I began to Imitate sounds when 1. was a snmll boy In Sicily,'* he says In the American Magazine. "Then I became a sea captain and learned the sounds of the sea. Later I went to war and fought on the African desert. Then I went on the stage at Palermo* Just for the fun of It. I gave sWie of my sound imitations,' and the audiences seemed to like them. Finally ! came to America. Gloria Swanson's manager called me. He had heard my imitations over the radio. He asked me to cry like a baby as I had ovrer the radio. I did so for a screen test. It registered 1 so realistically that I was engaged. I had found an outlet for my childhood hobby." 7 WEST SIDE GARAGE . ' Otto Adams, Prop. General Automobile Repairing' " ' ' Tel. 185 --.i. ^ : -* Res. Phone, 639-R-2 Lift Your He*d Yob can't look backward and travel forward. Your head must be set, >onr eye steadfast In the direction you are plannipg to go. If you would climb upward, you must look upward, think upward, and live upward.--<Jri"t. The Log Roll«r : ^ny an autobiography ' Is more than a novel with the anthOr'i" favorite character as the hero.--W-a*hliigton Star. Watch "Waterspout" Take Cloud's Moisture Seattle, Wash.--Pedestrians stopped and looked upward, golfers hesitated in their play, workmen put down their tools momentarily when a musical humming persist^ and then *sp%>t>a« tors saw what was generally said to have been one Of the most peculiar sights ever seen In the skies hereabouts. A queer cloud, appearing like an "aerial waterspout." descended upon a darker cloud below until the point of , the cone seemed to enter the«dark cloud and dr»w its sustenance from its interior, The spiral .grew larger, while the black cloud diminished in size. Then the coije rose until it disappeared in a heavy bank of clonda The h utnmlng sound ended with Its disappearance. - ' Observers were unahle., to tell exactly what It was,-but believed it was in the nature of a cyclone? Grandmother at 30 May Be Greatgrandma at 50 Horning, Pa:--Mrs. Nevada Martial!, who was a grandmother when she w;as thirty years old, may . be a great-grandmother at fifty. Mrs. Marshall was married when she was twelve and became a mother at fourteen. Sarah Ann, a granddaughter, Is almost five. "If she marries as young as her mother and grandmother, I may be a great-grandmother before Fm fifty," Mrs. Marshall said. Sarah Ann Is the daughter of George Marshall, Jr.; who married at sixteen. - Mrs. Marshall, although married, could not purchaap. tobacco for her husband because of a law prohibiting sale to minors. > Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss and son, Billy, Were callers at Crystal Lake Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John ^lomgren were callers at Woodstock Thursday. " Mrs. Earl Coftverse and daughter accompanied Mr. and Mrs. TTm. Davis and daughter to Belvidere Friday- Mrs. Jack Geary and son returned home Thursday evening, af£er spending the past week in Chicago. Mr. and^Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Crystal Lake called on. home folks at Oak Glenn farm Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss and daughter, Vivian, ©f Libertyville were Sunday evening callers at the home of the former's parents liere. - j Vinnie Bacon, of Roseville spent last Wednesday evening at the hom$ j of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. Mrs. Clara Smith, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.„J. D. Williams of Ci*ys - tal Lake, motored to Edison Park Wednesday where they visited Mrs. Emily Smith. They also called on i$j$; George Block and Mrs. -Ed Gold7 in'g at Norwood Park. ! Mr. and Mrs. George Roessleih of ••.Cmjy. spent Sunday at the hoine of J Mr,, and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Schaffer* of Mc- j Henry spent Tuesday at the home of Henry Geary. Mr. and Mrs. George Lundgren, Mrand Mrs. Axel Ltindgren and Miss Stevens of Wauconda and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter of Volo were Sunday guests at the Johh Blomgren home. • Harry Matthews and son, and Matt" Colell and William Darrell spent l^st Friday at Trevor, Wis. J M iss Pearl Foss of Libertyville spent Thursday at the home of her parents here. Mrs. John R. Knox and Mrs. H. J. Schaffer of McHenry spent Thursday evening at the home of their father here. , - Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boehmer at Wauconda Saturday. Nearly everyone from this community attended the, carnival at Wauconda during its stay therie last. week. Mrs. Emily Smith and daughter, Ruth France?, of *Edison Park spent two days last week with Mrs. Clara | Smith. ~ Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks were callers at McHenry last Tuesday. ^lr. and Mrs.'Harry Matthews and sons and Mr- and Mrs. Willard t)arrell were callers at Carv Saturday. Mrs. Clara Smith and guests, Mrs. Smily Smith and daughter, were supper guests at the home of Mr. arid Mrs. J. D. Williams at Crystal Lakej on Saturday- M.rs. Dugan and son, of Lake Bluff were callers at the Wv E. Brooks home Tuesday". Willard Darrell attended an agency meeting of the Life "and Casualty Co. t>f Chicago, in Chicago, Thursday., in the evening he attended the entertainment given at the home of M. AKern at Lexington Saddle farm near "Palatine. . H. L. Brooks was a caller at Lake Zurich last Tuesday. Dan Nellis spent last Friday at Trevor, Wis. #' Mr. and Mrs- H. L. Brooks spent Monday at ETgin. Eugene Geary returned home Sun-, day, after spending three weeks at the H. J. SchaflFer home at McHenry. Miss Lillian Tiilmarsh of Wauconda spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and" Mrs. H. L. Brooks. „ Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son of Crystal Lake spent Sunday &t the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. . !M-V A quart wf DILLS lor or your pantry shelf will '(tome sevetal quarts of "^elicious Star Brand i Fieklcs at this very lawprioS^' 'Special this week only. • •%S\21c aWANSOOWN Cake FJour * Enc ore Queen QUves 27c ANN PAGE - • • Grape Jelly • : 4 I7C jN.b.c. , ' Snowpeak Cookies'. " tk 19c Budweiser Malt FLAVORED* ^AN 43 c **• -tK • SPECIAL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY -FfRESlOE Marshmaliows Silverbrook Butter 2 ;klgbs. 25C 2-LB. JAR lb. 30c Ffesh Fruits and Vegetables y Jonathon Eating Applea 3 lbs- Solid, Crisp Head liettuce ; • - ^ 2 for Fancy Bananas, lb ' 5^ Libby's Bartlett Pears, No, 2Vi can'. 2 for 49£ A&P Food Stores M I D D L E W E S T E R N D I V I S I O N - I !.«• Crrut Atlaiilic ami I'.k ifif Tra ( ump.niv Giant Mooring Mast Now Is Ready for Dirigible Akron, s Ohio.--A giant movable mooring mast to drag the mammoth dirigible Akron tn arjd out of the (*ood.vear-Zeppelin corporation airdock has been tested and pronounced fit. - Powered with a 240-horse power gasoline entrine, the mast is 76 feet high, wtighs 200 tons, and attains full speed ^ locomotion .at two. miles per hour. Although originally designed by British engineers, the "Iroji horse" was made mobile by United States naval eipests. " For Sale All kinds of mellons, tomatoes and other vegetables at my taf^adjoining Hebron High School, Hebron, ILL Delbert Rousey Phone 785 Hebron A Complete Job of tiUEASI^G $£.25 c General automotive repair work, oiling, greasing, etc. We invite you to visit our new place and solicit your age. ridwley & Schneider | DeVaux Sales and Service Jtittction Route 20 and U. S. 12 McHearyV lfi» USE THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS FOR QUICK RESULTS Beggar Gets Valuable Shoes From Wonum Berllu. (iflrinany.--A cabinet maker's wife here had nothing to.off^r a beggar bjat a pair of her husband's old shoes, which, unknown to her, con tafned his entire savings, l,.ri00 marks (*3P0.. Th» begj»nr did not inspect them; isold them to a second-hand dealer. The dealer read the owner's story In the newspapers, turned over the' 'shoes and the money to the police, who returned them to the rlghf owner. --~7 • Long Walk Unbalanced Mind, Says Stabler New York.--Hjs walk from Chicago to New York had unbalanced his nerves, Sheila Kalesen. porter, explained in Tombs court as he was held without bail for. the grand jury .on a charge of stabbing Charles Dean," assistant trust officer of the Empire Trust company. Kalesen had walked from Chicago in the hope of realizing on sorue oil stock. He is accused of stabbing f)ean when told the stock I V f, ^ - ' ecret Societies many secret societies Iadiaiv There wer among the IndjRm*. On the plains the "iajcg^r -numbeap^f these were war societies. .Somfl^ealt with Sealing, some with religious mysteries', others with Special subjects interesting to their (Jegree of civilization. Ob • Dark Night? 'fWtfer kiss a rouged girl, says a lecturer. Are we supposed to look fore we lip?--Kansas City Star. SATURDAY, SUNDAY LABOR DAY FEATURING COUNT 0RL0FF AND HIS _ RECORDING BAND WONDERFUL MUSIC AfiD A WONDERFUL FLOOR! We leave it to you to supply the wonderful girl! But when you do, you have a perfect evening in store for yourselffe, Dancing Wed.-Sat.Suib 'S#S?