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CHAPTER 1
All this, :that I'm going to tell you,
started about four years ago. You
may have forgotten how things were
then, but I haven'tt. I'm a contrac-
tor, junior partner in the Craig -Bor-
land Engineering Company, in New
York, and in my business there was
nothing going on. We sat for three
years with our feet on our- desks
reading magazines.
It -got so. bad) that when' Craig, my
partner, came ,into the office one
day with a comical, sto{'y about a guy
who wanted a concrete chicken coop
builtt, sdilew'here out in Conneetieut,
we looked -at each other shifty -eyed
for a minute, and then without say-
ing a word we put on our (hats and
walked over to :the railroad' station
to take the train. We wanted that
coop' so• bad we could hardly wait to
talk to the male.
After the coop was built. Craig dug
in at his farm upstate, -and that lett
me all alone. --__ --
It was about four -thirty on e, 'fall
afternoon. when. I decided to call it
a -day and go home.'' The office is in
a remodelled loft on East 35th Street.
We own the whole building. The
house is on East 84th Street, and it's
a (house; not an apartment.
But -„I, had forgotten it was .Wednes-
day, Doris' afternoon at home. It
was the usual mob: a couple of Dor-
is' cousins, :three women from the So-
cial Center, a woman just back• from
Russia, a couple of women who •have
boxes at the opera, and half a dozen
husbands and sons. They were all
Social Register. ,
Me, I'm Social Register too, but I
wasn't until I mairried Doris and I'm
a. traitor to the mind that took • me
in. These friends of Doris', I don't
like them, and they don't like me.
1. . went around, though, and shook
hands, and didn't. tumble that any-
thing unusual was going on until I
slaw Lorentz. ' Lorentz 'had been Dor=
is' staging teacher before slie mar-
ried me, and .he has been in Europe
since then and this ,was the first :I
knew he was back. And his name,
fol' some reason, dii'dnft seem to get
mentioned much around our house.
You see, Doris is opera -struck, and
one of the things that began to make
trouble between us within a month .
of the wedding was the great career
she gave 'up to :marry me. I kept
telling her I didn't 'Want her to give
up her career, to go on studying. But
she would ootne back with a lot of
stuff about a womtans float duty be-
ing' to her home, and when Randolph.
came, and 'after him Evelyn, I be-
gan to say - she had probably been
right, at that. But that only, made it
worse.
They left 'about six -thirty. I pour-
ed two drinks, and set one beside her
and said here's .how:-..Slie -kept leak-
ing- out the window, and in a minute
or two' saw the drink and,,stared at
it like she couldn'timagine what it
was. That was a bad sign., because
Doris like's d'rink.,as well as you or b
do. .
."Oh, no. Thanks just the same,""
she said.
"You feel bad?"
"Oh, no It's not -that." • •
She ,pointed at her throat.
_.."Oh?.. Bad_ for...the•--v tete--her?' _ I
said. 7 't
"Ruinous." '•
She kept looking at me: with• that
sad, orphan look which she always
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cause she wanted to go back to sing-
ing, but site wasn't satisfied just to
do that. She had to .harpoon me witn
It, and harpoon me where it hurt.
And, in the second place, all we had
between- us and starvation was the
dough I had salted away in a good
hank, enough to last at least three
more years, and after that the house,
and after that my share of the Orai--
Borland Building, ante after- that a
oourple of other pieces of property
the firm lead, if things'- got that bad.
I hadenever asked Doris to cut down
by one cent on the household ex-
penses or give up antthing at all. I
means, it was a lot of money, and I
began to get sore.
"Doris, :bre yqur age. You're only
trying to snake a bum out of me, and
I'm not going to buy it."
"You have to thwart me, don't you,
Leonard? Always."
There it goes. I knew it. So -I
thwart you. How long have you had
-this idea?". •
-I've been- thittt1 t about it quite
some time." •
"About two months, hey?"
"Two menthe? Why two Months?"
"It a seems funny . that this, egg
comes back ,from Europe and right
away you decide to resume your car-
eer." •
"How wrong you are. Oh, how
wrong you are." •
"And by the time be; gets his forty
a week, or whatever it is he takes,
and all the rest of his cuts, you'll
be taken for a swell ride. There
won't be much left "for the husband
and kiddies."
"Pin- not paying Lorentz anything."
. What?"
"I've explained to shim. About -our
-circumstances." •
• I hit ,the roof then: I wanted to
know what busines's she .had telling
him about our circumstances or any-
thing else. I ,said .I wouldn't be un-
der otbligations to him, anti that if
she was going to have film she had
to pay him.
But I lost the fight, 'just as I al-
ways did. I wished I could stand up
against her, bait I ':couldn't.
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That eight t she undressed in the
dressingcroom, and when she came
out she' went to the door of the nurs-
ery, where the kids had slept, before
they got old enough to have a room
"I've decided to sleep in here
for a while, Leonard. I've got the
exercises to do when I get up and-
all'•sorts of things. There's no rea-
son wthy you should be disturbed:''..,
"Any way you like."
'<Ctr-perhaps you would:' be more
comfortable in "there." '
Yes, I •,even did that. I slept that
night .in the nursery, and took up .may'
abode there from then on. What T
ought t to do wasgo in and sockher
g
in the jaw, I knew that.
So for the next• three months'. there
was nothing but vocalizing all over
the place, and then it turned out `she
was ready for a recital. For a month
we .got ready for the recital, and the
less said about it the better.,Never
'Mind what the hall cost and the ad-
vertising cost, and that part. What
I hated was dtrumining up the crowd.
I don't know if you know' how a high-
toned Social tRegistterite, like Doris
eleesewhatishe gets -reedy to give a
recital to show off .her technique. She
calls up all her friends and sandbags
them to buy tickets at $2 a ticket.
„And not only does' she call up her
"It seems funny that this egg comes back from Europe and right;
away you decide to resume your career."
gets on her face when ,she's getting
ready to be her worst, as though I
were, far, far away and she could
hardly see me through the mist, and
then she went back to looking ,out
the 'window. "I've decided to resume
my career, Leonard."
"Well, gee! That's great!:'
"It's going to mean giving'up-ev-
erything. . And it's going -to ._ mean
work, just slaving drudgery from
morning to night,."
"I guess singing's no cinch, at
that."
"But -something has to be done."
"Yeah? t Done about what?"
"About everything. We can't go on
like this, Leonard. Don't yob see?, I
know you do the •bests you can and
that you can't get work when there
is no work. But something has to
be. done. ' If you can't earn a .111ring,
then I'll have to."
Now, to you maybe that sounds
like to game little wife stepping up
beside her husband. to help him fight
when the fighting was tough. It
wash't that, at .all. In the first place,
Doris had high -hatted me ever since
we had been) married} on account of
my llamily, , on (account.- of everything
she could think ot But, one tiling
eh'e hadn't been able to take .away
from Me. I was the one. Who went
out and . got the Adugh, aired plenty
of it. And tthia retralsti. that at last
s(he had found a way to 'high -hat Me.
':even on that.
'She wine 'going back to .e1MMly nS he.
IM•til•`. .loaf. yin
„And?„
"She told hint he had to come and
give me a 'review, and he promised
to do it. But the fool told him it
was tomorrow instead of today, and,
Leonard, you'll :have to call him up
and tell him."
"Why do I have to call him alp?"
"Leonard, the's the most important
man in town -it's jusrti a stroke of
blind luck that he promised to give
me a review, and I can't lose it just
because of a silly mistake over the
day." . .
I went into the bedroom and pick-
ed ... up. the -.phone book. ,He wasn't
in it. I called information. They
said they would (have to have the ad-
dress.
Doris began screamting_ at me from
the dressing -room: "He lives on
Central Park West! In the "tame
building as Louisel" .
I gave the address. They said they
were very sorry but it was a. private
number and they- wontdn' lie able to
give it to me.
(Doris was yelling at me before I
even hung up: "Then you'll have to
go over there!" " . • .
So I hustled on the 'rest of my
clothes; and jumped , ,In a cab and
went "over there. I apologized for
callling so early, and mumbled some-
thing about Louise Bronson 'and how
anxious we were to have his opinion
on my wife's voice, and for a minute
Hertz set and stared at me; Then
he ,cut me off, and cut me off sharp:.
"My dear fellow, I can't go to every
recital at the drop of a hat. If no-
tices were sent out my paper will
send somebody over, and...there was
no need whatever for you to come to
me about it" .
• "Louise Bronson-", •
"Yes, Louise said something to me
about a recital, 'but .I don't let., her
tun my department, either."
Then ..I, saw we weren't alone.
Througgi the double door was 'a
breakfast room, and two women were
in there, listening. One oia them, in
a kimono, seemed to be his wife. The
other one had a hat on and looked'
like a guest. I couldn't see her face
but she was leaning toward the wife,
whispering somlethin and tau hing.
g g h
I felt 'my face "get hot.• .I said I
was sorry, and got out .of there as•
fast asI could grab my -hat.-
Tthe recital didn't- here :any. , Tht
place was peeked with stooges, ' and
they clapped and 4it didn't mean a^
thing. I sal with Randolph and, Ev-
elyn, and we . clapped. too,' and' after
it was over and about --a ton of flow-
ers had gone up, and my fttowers• too,
we went backstage with ''the whole
mob to tell Doris how 'swell she was,
and ,you would have tho, t it- was
just , a happy family earls, elan as
soon as, y. face wasn't red, any •more,
.from tht k g about the critic, It got
red from .something else. About a
third of that audience were children.
That was how they had got back at
us, those people we had sandbagged.
They bought tickets, but Qjley sent
their children -with nursemaids.
Doris took our children home and
I went out and ate, and then went
over to the office. .About two•thirty
the phone rang. -
"Mr. Borland?"
-'"Spealtife,
"This is Cecil Carver," .
She spoke is though I'd know who
Cecil Carver was, but I never heard
the, name .before. "Yes, "Miss Cat::
Vet'? What can I do for you?" "Per -
hate. 1 ought to explain. I'm a sing-
er. I happened to be visiting up in
Central Park West thie m•orning'when
you called, and 1 heard what was
said."
(Continued Next ' Week)
friends, tine her husband calls up his
friends4. and all her. sisters and her
cousins old her aunts call up their
friends, -and those friends have to
come through, or- else it's an un-
friendly act. Ob.: yes, culture than its
practical side when you start up Park
Avenue with it. ,
I don't know when I tumbled to it
that Doris was no good. But some
time in the middle of all the •excite-
mtent"lt jest ta'l'e to me one day that
she couldn't sing, that she never could.
sing, .that it was all Aust a pipe
dream. I tried to shake it off, to tell
myaeLf that I didn:t know anything
about it, because that was one thing
which had always been taken for
granted in our house; that she could
have a Career if she wanted it.
But I couldn't shake it off. I just
knew she was no good, and didn't
know how I knew it. .
The recital was in February, at
eleven o'clock of a 'Priday morning.
About nine o'clock I was in the nurs-
ery, getting into the cutaway coat
and gray striped pants that Doris
said I had to wear, when 'titre rihlbne
rang in the bedroom and I heard: Dor-
is answer. In a minute or twno •she
came in. a -
"Stop that for a minute, Leonard
and listen to me. Louise Bronson
just coaled ,up. She was ttalirtng :last
night with Iludo:210 Irel'itz:" Hertz:
'`Was a critic Ott 'Otte of the nejdnpa-
pe,ts. "You know, he's reated' to
der."
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Soil and Seed .
Pasture Factors
(Qo i intle'd• froib POO :6).
ttberre sbouldpt't the any of that' Oa -
seem So we a _the grand food,
pulled or apkers, tried• e t paper teas.
Afterwards-notng allowed fio, as-
sist in the wash Up -I attended a
private view of the little girl'e pres-
ents; and a fine lot they were, !thirty. -
three of • them, spread out on a `talbll+e.
People have all been• determined that
the kids should have a good time
again tblis year, no matter what Chap'
pens. Then I retired from t -he scene
and came back to a round of duties
here in my own wee place; for,
.Qhristmas or no, _things must be
washed and mended, anti letters writ-'
ten.. It's a queer life.
In the evening I once more, slipped
into my ancient evening frock, which
has.. not -seen daylight since last
Christmas. Up the. road (with gifts
in a lamentable paper bag which
struck quite the wrong note, I am
sure!) to fetch "Gran" and go on to
the barrister's for another lovely
meal. .rust five of us in a charming
dining room, with the soft dight of
candles , being very kind to my poor
old -black dace and near -pearls: and
Rink gardenias.
Forgetting.._.pne's,. Matinera
What dear people they are, to be
sure! Again, that lodely gesture of
pulling the stranger right into the
little circle. I ask you, how cottl'd• I
help "having a (happy ,Ohristnlas? Welt
-it did me good toesia down to a
proper dinner once in a while, with
beautiful" things -around and the table
shining with silver and glass. We
all felt that it would be excellent for
us, and it was. In these days of
hastily snatched meals one's manners
go to pieces, I fear; and some , day
we eha_ll need manners again, of
course. it,
I took occasion to remark: "If I do
anything peculiar with knives and
forks, please don't notice! I once
Wrote a book on etiquette -if you can••
believe it -but I can't remember a
single thing I piit"'in'-it!" However,
everything ran smoothly, and I don't
think I disgraced myself. "Oh, that's
nothing," the barrister's wife had re -
Marked.. "I always put my bread 'in.
the gravy nowadays." We didn't on
this occasion; but it just goes to
show that we don't waste much in
these times. Nobody is too pernick-
ety. . ..
. After dinner we popped on our
coats and went off to 'another party,
where • there Was just everybody.
Three children had got up an im-
promptu show, and rows of chairs
were set out for the audience. To y
slight ' emlbtarrassment I was..,..... t
among "the mothers,:' and our even'
ing frocks made a brave..,array in :lie'
front row. Itt was all highly expo ing
and those kids did well, though I
think' they were sometimes a,. trifle
disconcerted by the sudden screams
of -laughter- from the grown-ups. • We
had two recitations -very well deliv-
ered -a step dance (with cart -wheels
in true professional style) and two
plays; one concerned with- a• restaur-
ant, into which oddly -dressed beggars
wandered, in a surprising manner so-
liciting alms from the diners; and
another with a scene in a tobaccon-
ist's sthop, where there was a. spot of
,bother about cigarettes, which went
upin price .P'r ce to "eight -and -six for two."
These infants certainly do think of
the most extraoj•dinary things, but
nobody could complain that they
aren't topical. There *as even some
up -tie -date business of finding cigar-
ettes "under ,the 'counter." I liked
the little touch of the customer who
fell flat on ,his • back (and staked
there, -overcoat and all) at . the eightt%
and -six point of -the little drama. No-
body helped these kids,-they--w-erked;
out -the whole thing 'tor themselves.
•Up Till Midnight'
We hadn't the heart to send, them
to 'bed, so they stayed up with us.tilt-
midn•ight, at which point the prostrate
customer -a pluitup little maid of
n•iri,e-came up to our- table and said,
witfi en -gaging frankness: "Mother,
I'M practically asleep. • I really don't
know what I'm saying!" We were all
beginning to feel, that way, so the
party soon broke up. We came out
into a lovely starry night, with a
real snap pi' ,Christmas cold in the
air, and the. world all black and sil-
ver grey. I suppose there • will be
snow soon. Incidentally, one of the
party, an amusing man, rooked at me
and observed: "No-boc!y would think
to see you tonight, that you go to
work on a bicycle!" Personally, I
think it tvotild .be a little eccentric to'
turn up at a party looking as if one
went to work on a bicycle.
You knew, it is impossible to judge
•war conditions by one's early reac-
tions.- You people, by new, tare get-
ting a new slant on things, with trou-
ble roping e n e<art rho home; but after a
while Coinething happens t0 one's
mental outlook. It gets a sort of
"second wind," you'll find. Things
bw.gin to drop back into a more or•
Owing to the close relationship of
shay and pasture, much care should
be taken in obtaining vigorous stands
of grasses and clovers which will 're
salt in good yields of high quality hay
followed by productive pasturage for
st-period of years, states N. 'J. Thom-
as. Stout ,Speoialist, • Ontario Agricul-
tural College, Guelph.
Decili•ing that Ontario's pasture
problem is largely a hay -pasture prob-
lem, the O.A.C. expert states that by
improving the hay crop through bet-
ter soil management and -selection of
seed mixturos adapted'.._to his special
conditions, the fa.rmet• automatically
improves his pasture. Unsuitable seed
mixtures• have been chiefly respons-
ible for the large acreage* of worn out,
thin, weedy pastures now present in
this province, says 'Mr. Thomas.
Soil .type, drainage and length of
time to be left seeded clown, should
be eonatidered when selecting a mix-
ture of seeds. A red clover, alslke
and timothy mixture is only good for
one year. The clovers disappear ledv-
ing a thin stand of timothy -a rela-
tively poor pasture plant. Soon weeds
appear -and at the end of eight to 10
years the timothy runs out leaving a
thin, weedy, unprocluctive blue grass
sod. If six to 10 pounds of alfalfa
were added, productivity would be
maintained over a Much longer per-
iod.
Yields of shay tend pasture decline
tp uelr-'more rapidly on sandy soils
than on heavy soils. This necessi-
tates more frequent renovation, or
top dressing with manures, dr fey
fertilizers, to maintain soil 'fettility,
Gone In the Wind
Solomon, where is thy throne?
It.. is gope In the wind.
Babylon, where Is thy might?
11 Is gone in the wind. .
lake the swift shadows •bf: noon,
Like the dreams 'of the blintd,
Vanish the glories and pompe
Of the`e'arth. ht the wired.
- , -dames Clarence Mangan.
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Prohibited WithOut
Order.,.af Natioriul War ,i4allmor ,$oar4
to Employers astd EvrtP14y'ee <
An employer who was not paying h1
employees a cost of living bonus prior
to February 15; 1942, may not .start to
pay such a bonus on or after that date,
nor may an employer who has been paying
such a bonus now increase it unless he has, -
specific permission from a War Labour
Board. -
Whether in the,. future a bonus may be
paid or changed in amount will depend on
the National War -Labour Board's an-
nouncement in May 1942, with respect to
any change in the cost of living index
between October 1941, and April -1942,•:
unless in a particular case a War L�our
Board has given specific permission to do
otherwise.
By Order of the
National War Labour Board
HUMPHREY MITCHELL
Minister of Labour
and_Chairman
Ottawa, Canada
February 16, 1942
dered pattern. Nothing is the same,
but one manages: For instance,' if
one is sensiltle it becomes second na-
ture to do without many things that
onibe seemed . absolutely essentia!a,
They don't count any more. Pie 'car
is laid cup; well, one Must take a bus,
a sttrtet car, or just walk. There are
fewer things for the house; but
haven't most of us got a thousand too
many, anyway? Meals are simpler
and more monotonous,°, but if you're
'hungry you eat what is there aerie en-
joy it. Many"friendts-have-gone-•atratt '
butoneto know and appreciate
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people one did .not know before.
Even heartache isn't the lonesome
thing it once was. There are 'too
many -heartaches for that. • However
badly you fedi, the chances are that
somebody in the next street feels just
the same, and would help you if it
were possible. In a w,ay, I suppose,
we have reverted, in. some degree, to
a state of savagery; savages live in
constant- fear and physical discomfort
and regard. Was normal. But against
that we hav-e ,Tunny civilized acquire-
ments 'that eemain; and these, I think
become accentuated -ass compensation:.
Human kindness and consideration
haven't failed es, aiYT--'we slip back
Into the gentler ways as soon as we
get the chance. ,
. Still Have Our _troubles
' I am- silly enough to pretend that
everybody behaves like an angel of
mercy, of course. We still have our
backbiters land•; grumtblers and other
tedious individuals .of normal
civiliz-ed life. But they don't cut much of a,
dash in these days. Last week I wash
in..a. roomful 'of people when one of .1
this species . came in, olooking sourly i
on a world 'which had upset, his per -1
stela! comfort; grizzling, at some ab-
sent • person,' whining because some.;
thing he liked was missing; in• fact,
giving a general- display of Complete;
selfisbnees.-- 'Nobotly 'made any com- 1
mens; but as soon as the doth -closed
behind him we all looked, at one an:;
other, and a woman in the corner
spoke for us all: "As ie.i-t natters!"
Our general• feeling was that this
poor, miserable Old fellow (who would
probably he a lot healthier by now if
he had lived -a harder and simpler
life), just didn't fit in, anyluhere in a
world where: for the most part. folk
have got" together• to help each other
along.
Heaps Of Lovely f,ifts
There kava been fewer Christmi
cards this year, I noticed, but friends
have turned • up handsomely with
gifts. And that is no mean achieve-
ment, for p.rieea-especially here -
are terrible. Eight shilling, for a
nail -brush that 100d to cost eighteen
pence, if you please...acrd eleven -and -
six (nearly three dollars; for an ord-
inary stilt Itandkerehief-tb say'noth-
ing of the -coupon required. 'There
was a time when we, were inclined
to give a rattier -snooty look at that
unimaginative ,box of handkerchiefs,
but it's a very different matter'"now.
We open it with hushed wonder, and.
then "-gasp: "Oh, my. dealt. •you.
shouldn't have done this! •• Why, it.
means coupons!" I have had a little
fireside chair 'given 'me, and I just y
hate to think what it 'must have cost. •
Most of us have fallen -back on cig-
arettes, painstakingly accumulated
uh man w
thto eelte•: Boot's are stilt
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great favorites, of et arse, and there
has been a great run on powder -
puffs, though these .meed ' coupong.
There are calendars too, and boices .
of shortbread; .but chocolates are
very scarce. But no matter what the
gift, there is always the little note
whish means so. much: the jolly feel-
ing that one is remembered. Even- a
cake of soap is a real gift 'when It is '
meant to be; and somebody sent nie
leg of cold chickens, .two mince pies
and a quarter -pound of fresh butter.
A poor old• -woman in a badly -bashed
part of London sent me a card and a
letter, and I value that as much as
anything. Bless them all, the dears! •
And so another Christmas has
come and goge.. It has been a tonic.
Tomorrow morning -_l. hop on that
bicycle again and put my ,nose back
to the grindstone, all the better for
the tiny rest and the good cheer, for
the , night of all this unselfishness in
folk whose hearts, sometimes, must'
be very lonely and sad. As one:pass-
es the houses_ one can seeholly be-. _.
dtind the pictures and. colored stream-
ers across the ceiling, and sometimes
a little Christmas tree standing in
the window. Not too bad, is it? '
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