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Sketch Of An Old Woman BARBER WILHELMSEL
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Wilhelmina together. I knew what they meant. Making no ex-) For dessert, we had pies, cakes, cuses, I simply set down. Mother's has two oceanic fronts to pro-preserved and fresh fruits, ce face told me of her sympathy. tect, one in the Atlantic and the cream, ants, and tea and coffee. Serem could-not stop whisper other in the Pacific, while Great like to eat Serena said. "When ing. She bent towards mother and Britain has the immense line of can't sleep at night I get up and whispered, so londly that I heard her Empire communication run-eat a pic or a rabbit" When at her across the room, “As soon as ning from the North Sex toast she got up to clear the table Old Dave dies, you and me get New Zealand, through the for dessert, my mother and Kitty us some pretty boys and go danc- Mediterranegr or round the
She gazed at him resent- "The old coot!" ben. Cape of Good Hope, while se too.
"Sit down," she ordered them fully. Japan has only the single tersely. You act like Pm an old lurching erect, she said loudly, "front" facing the Pacific.
"You girls smoke if you want. I legs, bought some cigarettes. They're feebly. on the mantel-Is-goin' into
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Auntie" protested, Kitty parity is, in fact, a demand noting through her nose. - for "equality of security," but "Is that so?” with an angry She thudded ponderously away. for decisive supremacy in the Pacific. There is no reason to tass of her head, Serena placked A few seconds later there came suppose that either of these up her purple skirt and put out a cry.
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tinue to insist on the ratio of small for her, with huge boc Serena stering frightenedly into kles of glass diamonds. Rolls of the mirror. "It buzus,” she whim-{ five to Japan's three, by agree-
bulged her fesh-coloured pered. There was a thick coating ment or without agreement.
"Pretty of whitish dust over her clothes Japan, on the other hand, is stockings out of shape. afraid that an Anglo-American nice legs yet. sin't they. Dave and her mouth was a glistening dances. I asked him. I'm a-goin" cay of the funeral. She didn't Abruptly turning crimson amear. Mother dashed a to buy me an auto, too, and gët me understand that David was dead, combination, especially if sup- ported by Russia, might force on me, "Oh, land saker alive, the towel under the fancet and hurja good-looking young fellow to that's what I think it was Com ing back from her tzia. coming "But what on earth are, you home' and finding him not there, coyly, and ran lumbering into the A box of corn-starch stood on the her to abandon or limit her ex boy seen me do that!" she cried riedly scrubbed the greasy lips drive me around."
yard""" she's probably realising that he's pansion on the mainland.
kitchen
rim of the wash-basin, and beside building out in
Mother, asked her.
rone, and suffering, poor old "Kow. It a small tin can- her desire to expel non-Asiatic Dave
shocked. WAS Powers from influence in the greeny." he chided her, but be
Yes, we must go to her.” "Bicycle enamel !”
"Tm putting on another bed-thing. the room. You know how it is when But I was not to learn what PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS Far East. Japan demands naval set down his moustache-cup 2nd Kitty, reading the label
· Sometimes a Serena had found in Iowa. Not parity as necessary both to na- tional honour and to ensure ab-fingered his trim silver moustache can "Oh, Auntie, what have you a body's dancing.
two little been doing?”
boy gets too much whisky in him. a week later the fish-peddler's wife cor Well, if he does, I figure he can telephoned to say that she WHA Her tears turning the solute security from possible where it curled into
rings at the ends. "By George!" pressure or attack from the he exclaimed, laughing in spite of starch on her cheeks to paste, stay here. What's to know the dead. I got hold of that Kitty my difference where he sleeps it off?" and asked her to come and pend himself, with his eyes twinkling Serena dropped her head to
I wanted to She winked. "My, the hell we to things,” she recounted indig To him, his wife was still the mother's breast. Where Purse May Decide
lively, teasing girl he had married pink up my mouth, like I seen you used to raise to our dances back nantly, in Italian-English, “but she
do," she sobbed. She wept like home! Just after harvest-time won't have a thing to do with it, Probably no Japanese delega-forty-odd years before
I can't understand it. Mrs. Hanks we used to have 'en." tion or Government could re- After dinner we went into the child.
On the living-room
She smiled vaguely, her thoughts always used to speak of you folks main in power if it accepted by living-room.
Serena Hanks was not the only far away. It was the only sweet, as friends of hers. I thought tender smile I ever saw on her maybe you'd come over and do it.” treaty any lower ratio" than mantel between a gilt Venus with a clock for her belly and a glass
"There was a big yellow lips. that of parity.
"I'll come,” Mother sild. "At this moment there seems dome housing a stuffed pheasant, unpleasant thing in
You could smell the hay. It was the Italian woman who to be little hope of agreement lay a stereoscope, and Dave took it bourhood. Mother took a house in me a better section of the city the
Us girls used to sneak into the told us what had happened. Serena.. about "quantitive" limitation down for Wilhelmina and
bedrocku, and the boys would go had come home from Iowa; two checked
sharply. moment var lease was him between these opposing points Serena of view. Eventually the govern-"Don't be an old fool." she said though I did not forget her, I did around the back way and climb weeks early. Night after night. since she had returned, every light ing factor is likely to be the "Start the phonograph. You two not see the old woman for 10 years into the window. My
Then the Italian fish-peddler who
Returning to us, she blinked in the house had burned and the be easier for young ones dance." Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- purse. It may
Old Dave had lived across the street from and laid a finger to her lips combination phonograph-wireless burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Full Japan to acquiesce in the ratio It was a command.
if Great Britain and the United stood bent-kneed and bewildered, telephoned to say that Dave was "Come out in the Etchen. I gut had roared until two and three
something else to show you." ~: to'clock in the morning Bombay, Marseilles & London.
In the kitchen she locked the shades were never drawn at the Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-States in practice each lay his fingers going up unsurely to dead, at 72, and that Serena want-
the.... white Lying on burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall down 5 keels to 3. But in this his moustache. Wilhelmina and Iled us to come to the funeral
doors and drew down the window-windows. Sometimes the neigh- 15,000 30th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London. revived era of power politics, regarded me another with 323-
shades. Swinging open the oven boars glimpsed one or two couples 17,000. 13th June Bombay, Marseilles & London
financial resolution is as import-picion. I detested her because she cushions of his exffin, Old Dave 17,000 27th Jane Bombay, Marseilles & London.
ant as naval morale, and Japan was cheap and she despised me was as-i-remembered him, except door, she took out a covered pot aside, dancing. Oftener. though, 14,500 11th July Bombay, Marselles & London.
may decide to put the issue to because I was young. "Gee, Aunt that he seemed to have shrunk and, reaching into it, held up six there was nobody.
Then, - through Wilhelmina, the test of practice before Sreens, we can't dance to them The brown skin over his cheek crisp thousand-dollar bills
Hel stretched taut
"Good gracious!"-Mother ex-Serena had learned of the public abandoning her attempt at old pieces." the girl whined per bones was
looked, as be had looked in life, claimed.
dance-halla. At one of them she ¡parity.
“I went down and took it out of met a middle-aged man with dyed If quantitive". agreement is "Old Dave's too tight-fisted to gentle and trim and dean. Theref
willie were 20 in the church; neighbours the bank the morning Old Dave hair and gold teeth, who told her out of reach it may well be bay me any zew
the grocer from the corner store, died. Can't never tell what might that he was a moving-picture possible to reach agreement as you go ahead and dance."
Wikelmina and Kitty Wilhel-{ SAILINGS to "qualitative" limits on maxi- We danced, Serena glaring at u
[her all of the time. Either she berikhan tonnage and gunnage. greedily while we moved clumsily mina, with a sailor in tow, smell happen, with all these slick-law- actor. From then on he was with “You won't have it on hand long went with him to the dance-halls That would reduce the cost of back and forth across the carpeting of gin and looking older than yes It's best to have it on hand.”
We rode out to the if you leave it lying around like or he came to her house in the 8,000 31st Jan. Singapore, Penang Rangoon and competition, and prevent all she had drank a quart or more of
evening. He took her rings from naval nations having contin- the rank wine, and her little eyes cemetery in shining limousines this," I warned her.
A
She nodded sagely. "That her and three thousand dollars in ¡nously to renew their navies rolled. Under her gaze I could hired from the undertaker owing to new types and inven- think of nothing but Wilhelmina's squad of Civil War veterans from damned Kitty's honeying around cash. His name was Rudolph Orr. tions being adopted elsewhere bony imees rubbing against mine, the Old Soldiers' Home waited be for it already, but I'm too smart Kitty later married him, so there for her None of the carpenters, was no mystery about his part in which make existing vessels and I got out of step. I swing side the open grave,
Serena blubbered loudly leaning useless.
her around, and we danced Into Now is the time to visit,
her. She mistrusted only: The last time Rodolph came to in Europe the position if not the den.
Out of the tail of my on me It was all I could do to she seemed to think, could steal the sig
wamen "Kitty won't get a red Serena's house the phonograph Australia & New Zealand based but fundamentally sound the awe mother and Whisper feet. Her sharp little eyes never easy is less acute. The much-eye I saw Serena lean towards keep from being toppled of my Anglo-German Naval Agreement to her. Wilmeeny." screamed for a moment stopped flickering cent of it. She can keep them ground out times all night. It was has exorcised the spectre of Kitty a moment later, her voice back and forth. I bent my head boys of her, and fast chippy of as machine which automatically I got plenty of my ownTM: She nobody noticed anything unusual. that naval competition which strident above the scratchy music to catch her hoarse whisper. "See Wilhelmina can keep her boys too-changed its records, so at first Budged, mega, but, about, zoom of the next day, was a principal provocation to of the machine, you stay out here that there fag she asked
On a
"The postman's coming for dinit occurred to the Italian wothan the World War. The political where we can keep an eye on you. behind her black glove
tripod at the head of the grave,
New one since that the same, records were being {policies of France and Great you two!” Britain rule mutual naval I coudl not dance; after that where the minister stood, spread ner to-morrOW. →→→ NEW rivalry and hostility out of the loathed Serena and Kitty and an American flag of red and white you was here handsome as a hog played over and over again in the carnations and bine bachelor-but Land sakes alive," she burst out some order. She, ventured across itons.
"I went down to the flower I ain't forget to show you my the street, after a while, and rang No one answered to prevent war and aggression In Mediterranean.
for to end it on terms which are store and had 'em write down duds Leading us to a chiffonier the door-bell.
Then, peering in at a window, The position in the Mediter-just and fair to all, there is how I wanted that should be, a in the bedroom, she pulled out ranean is more difficult to bound to be a sauve qui peut long time ago way back when drawer after drawer stuffed with
or you and your Ma were living next clothing-gaudy dresses, tinted she saw that the light
silk underwear, Lace stocking assess, because. of the Abys-jiuto alliances, or isolation. sinian crisis, though it is cer-competitive building, according door.”
The service over, Wilhelmina silver slippers, a gold urban with tain that for financial reasons as each nation believes its own alone neither France nor Italy national interest is best served scurried off with her exilor and vermilion plume want to spend more on naval Interim Gathering left Kitty to go home with Serena shopping while Old Dave was to
brown preparation than they need. So the present Naval Confer-The old woman, however, refused bed sick," she said.
zad pink Chad managed Here, also, in default of fundia-ence is likely to be, funda her, asking us, to come with her pretty? They're for my trip mental agreement about policy, mentally, an interim gathering. instead. On the way, in the auto-
tad carry- the purse will call the tune. It will probably
reach agree mobile, she forgot her tears and mother, beyond
Wait till you see But when I mention the ment on minor points, and es-turned gay,
stood beside the Abyssinian crisis I bring in the pecially on qualitative limits to the house she exclaimed, and we months When I come back
dead per- biggest and most uncertain fac-the size of ships and guns. But wondered what could have hap house'll be ready for me. I'm
bury County, just a piece from son, and Seren tor of all. If it ends, as I hope the ultimate question, whether pened to it. A great deal was-goin' hack to the town in Woodbed. I had never it will end, in proof that the navies and their satellite ser- happening to it, we found, when Sioux City in Iowa, where I grew frightening, but, except for the
Workmen, their idea of collective security has vices are to be used merely as we got there. enough vitality in practical ac-instruments of national policy faces white from plaster dust, I'm goin' to put me an ad fact that she did not blink ber tion to prevent provoked ag- or as the instruments for the were knocking out the partition vertisement in the paper: All her eyes or shut her mouth, she looked
Serena Osterhans when she was gression from achieving its prevention of war and the ser- between the den and the living old friends that used to kno girl I'm going to say, come dow ends, while yet opening the way,vice of peace, will be determin-room.
and see her the Winton House, to the satisfaction of legitimate ed, not by the Conference, but
The Winton House, that's the national needs by revisions of by events going on elsewhere ment
hotel Land, the part the status quo by pacific means, If the League succeeds, the you, she laughed. "I'm ma ja few principle affecting naval United States, the
armaments will have emerged factor in the world, to, into practical diplomatic life. wholly devoted to a Common naval action, rein highly-armed isolat forced from the air, is or gradually come to conside be the ultimate the co-opez ought power behind the collect tern and if enough nava came to support syste
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