II. » - WEDNESDAY, MARCH ¥, 1 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. : MAIN STREET | The Story of Carol Kennicott &) SINCLAIR LEWIS ¥ 3 t brown velvet frock, the catsup stain on her best georgette crepe blouse. She wailed, "I haven't a single solit- three or four years later, were only |ary thing that's fit to be seen in," In embryo. But of this fast coming |and enjoyed herself very much in- revolt Carol had premonitions. She | deed. : knew from some lost magazine arti- Kennicott went about casually lett cle that in Dublin were Innovators |ing people know that he was "going called The Irish Players. She knew |to run down to the Cities and see confusedly that a man named Gordon | some shows." As the train plodded through the Craig had painted scenery--or had he written plays? She felt that in the | gray prairie, on a windless day with turbulence of the drama she was dis- | the smoke from the engine clinging covering a history more important |to the fields in giant cotton-rolls, in than the commonplace chronicles|a low and writhing wall which shut which dealt with senators and their | off the snowy fields, she did not look pompous puerilities, She had a sen-|put .of the window. She closed her sation of familiarity; a dream of sitt- | eyes and hummed, and did not know that she was humming, ing in a Brussels cafe and going af- terward to a tiny gay theater under She was the young poet attacking a cathedral wall. fame and Paris, The advertisement in the Minnea- In the Minneapolis station the polis papér leaped from the page to crowd of lumberjacks, farmers, and her eyes: Swedish families with innumerous The Cosmos School of Music, Ora-| children and grandparents and paper tory, and Dramatic Art announces a | parcels, their foggy crowding and programme of four one-act plays by | their clamor confused her. She felt | Schnitsler, Shaw, Yeats, and Lord 'rustic in this once familiar city, after { Dunsany. a year and a half of Gopher Prairie. : She had to be there! She begged {She Was certain that Kennicott was Kenuicott to' "run down to the Cii- [taking the wrong trolley-car. By ies" with her. dusk, the liquor warehouses, Heb "Well, I don't know, Be fun to Fale clothing-shops, and lodging- J - ouses on lower Hennepin Avenue take in a show, but why the deuce were smoky, hideous, illtempered. IIL. The little Theaters, which were to give piquancy to American drama al as AN AN ae TES at TW Ma RR TN TAR RE \ ON aad, \\ IN A hl Ey \ do you want to see those darn for- elgn plays, given by a lot of ama- teurs? Why don't you walt for a regular play, later on? There's go- ing to be some corkers coming: 'Lot- tie of Two-Gun Rancho,' and 'Cops and Crooke'--real Broadway stuff, ban. He was a superior Person. used She was battered by the noise and shuttling of the rush-hour traffic. When a clerk in an overcoat too closely fitted at the waist stared at her, she moved nearer to Kennicott's arm, The clerk was flippant and ur- When Children C with the New York casts. What's this a Shildon RR JOBE YOU want br oan, 3 this Jo this tumult, Was he laughing at them warm aad "county" with Lied to Her Husband.' That doesn't For a moment she wanted the sec- OGE ; listen so bad. Sounds racy. And, uh, ure quiet of Gopher Prairie well, I could go to the motor show, I In the hotel-lobby she was self- A light, dry, suppose. I'd like to see this new Hup conscious. She was not used to ho- that supersedes roadster. Well od tels; she remembered with jealousy She never knew which attraction |, = often Juanita 'Haydock talked made him decide. of the famous hotels in Chicago. She She had four days of delightful could not face the traveling sales- It's a waste of time to tell a wo- | worry--over the hole in her one men, baronial in large leather chairs man that's it's a wastq of time to) good silk petticoat, the loss of a She wanted people to believe that her string of beads from her chitfon and husband and she were accustomed to luxury and chil} elegance; she was faintly angry at him for the vulgar way in which, after signing the regis ter "Dr. W. P. Kennicott & wife," he bellowed at the clerk, "Got a nice room with bath for us, olg man?" She gazed aboft haughtily, but as she discovered that no one was inter- ested in her she felt foolish, and as- hamed of her irritation. | She asserted, This silly lobby 18 too florid", and simultaneously she (Admired ¥: the onyx columns wita VIRGINIA CIGARETTES in the handy package of twenty-five Cigarettes for - Ar re Ags, ety of maga-| ° Wsstand. The hidden ively. She saw a man lke a Buropean dipilo- topcoat 4 also in packets of len AT POPULAR PRICES have a cocktail!" she chanted. While Kennioott labored over or- dering it was annoying to see him permit the waiter to be imperti- nent, but as the cocktail elevated hor to & bridge among colored stars, as the oysters came in--no' canned oy- sters in the Gopher Prairie fashion, but on the half-sheM--she cried, "If you only knew how wonderful it is not to have had to plan this dinner, and order it at the butcher's and fuss levator. and think about it, and then watch , | Bea cook dt! I feel so free. And tc have new kinds of food, and diffar- ent patterns of dishes and Mnen, and worry about whethér the pud- All the newest creations in fine footwear in Black, Tan, Patent, Kid and Gunmetal Oxfords and | or 2 strap 1 Cots sootinls OF, lo. Tad Pumps with high, low or sport heels. To ve Conn RUBBERS TO FIT ALL STYLES OF SHOES | be) | The Sawyer Shoe Store 84 Princess St. The Late James Potter. Saturday evening Brockvile lost a - good \ . 1g en, mies had net|of the office. His wife Wed March|she to survived by two sisters and|with one son and a daughter, Mr, been in the best of health for some | 3» 1921, and he is survived by one {one brother, namely, Mrs, R. Pear-| Walter Osborne and Miss Ethel Os months but was able to discharge |5°0: George Potter. son, Brockville; Mrs, Harvey Ed-|borne, at home. W. H. Osborne, his duties as gateman at the G.T.R. -- wards, Buffalo, N.Y., and David Kel-| Brockville is a brother, crossing at Willis street. The Late Heary J. Kelly. ly, Peterboro. The deceaged was an Anglican in The late James Potter was born at| The' death occurred suddenly on Sep i religion, a member of Trinity ¢hurch, Gananoque sixty-two years ago. He|!Tiday at Napanee of Henry W. Kel- |The Late George Frederick Osborne.| Addison. Was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs UV; Merchant. Death was dus to| At his home In Glen Bibe (he John Potter. He moved. to Brock. | Peart failure. He had been in his|death occurred on Sunday of George ville forty yoars ago, and entered |*CCUStomed health when stricken | Frederick Osborne, a highly es- : with the fatal attack. teemed resident, whe succumbed to The late Henry W, Kelly was born a lagering iliness. The late Mr. Osborne was born at -|Glen Fibe, son of the late Mr. and Mrs Wiliam Osborre, and resided all his life there following the oc- cupation of farmer in which he was with a capanity of 9,243,700 very successful. He was widely power have been ] known. ; A new kitchen chair has an arm His wife, who before her marriage wide enough to be used as a table, was Miss Sarah Percival, auarvives,|under which is a swinging drawer, CASCARETS 10° For | "His Master's Voice- Victor Records for March § ih! BR Rk EE if 8) R I Rance Orchestra Munro's Jardin de Danse POPULAR SONGS for the Sunrise Home Town § I i Is ~~ Victrola itind ay Cn. Tomtted, 4 " ' if tonight will empty your Lowes letely by morning asad you Splendid. . work while sleep." © iio