Evening star. [volume], May 13, 1936, Page A-13, Image 13

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k --DAILY SHORT STORY
NO QUARTER
By Judith Parker.
'THERE was a
bunch of us
sitting around In
the lounge of a
Connecticut avenue
elub ' swapping
yams. A log fire
glowing in the fire
place. and the tall
windows behind
their drapes glis
tened with rain
drops against the
black of the night.
The talk had some
how gotten around
to the topic of
lame.
There was a si
lence for a few
moments, one of
those silences when
vou can feel every
body else thinking
of what to say
next. McGurk was
leaning back in a
iMArrlr ehdir H H
jjg and make grotesque
m figures out of them.
3* "The pathetic
■ part of it was that
H he believed so very
^ sincerely ttiat what
he was doing was
^ real art on a new
departure. The Bo
{ hemian bug had
f gotten him where
> the hair was short.
I and pretty soon he
began to show evi
dence of having a
few more wheels
loose in his head
than most of the
others.
"Then came the
inevitable day when
he ran out of
money, since he
hadn't touched a
gg scalpel for months,
and nobody showed
any interest in the
new art. He was
They went in for long hair
looking at the licking tongues of the
flames as they wrapped themselves
•round the top log in the grate.
"I wish somebody would ring for a
drink.’’ he said. Jones pushed the
burner under the library table. ‘ Speak
ing about the subject of fame.” Mc
Gurk continued, “it's certainly odd
what some persons consider fame! I
know a story that makes me under
itand what they mean by 'there's no
accounting for people.' ” Nobody
bothered to answer, but we knew Mc
Gurk would tell the tale.
■'I used to live in a small city in
New England," he went on, "which
was not small enough to rank with
what is known as a whistle stop, nor
large enough to be called a metropo
lis. You know, just a comfortable
alzed burg where you came to know
•very person in town by sight if you
kept your eyes open.
•■T'HERE was one section of the city
1 where all the small-time artists
fathered and built up their own pecu
liar versions of Greenwich Village,
with a lot of crazy ideas thrown in
for good measure. I doubt if any of
them had ever been within shooting
distance of New York in his life.
"Naturally, their ideas were mostly
What they had got out of books and
from the papers. If you took a walk
through their section you would have
been reminded of Paris in the
nineties.
"They went in for long hair, gar
rets and everything else In the best
Bohemian tradition. Maybe they
didn't realize that they were 20 years
behind the times, but that's not the
point of the story.
"You get an aggregation of that sort
together anywhere and you're bound
to get some queer results. And the
funniest part of it is that at heart
most of them will be actually serious
about whatever they're doing. There
were sculptors, painters, musicians,
writers and whatnot in that colony.
Lord knows what mast of them lived
' on. but they seemed to manage some
how.
"There was one of that mad crowd
Who was known only as Paul. He had
been a fairly decent sculptor until he
mixed up with the gang in the col
ony and absorbed a lot of their In
sane ideas. He was a young fellow
and he was one of the mo6t intense
persons I’ve ever met.
* * * *
* yV FTER he'd been down in the
colony about six months he gave
ep his sculpture altogether and worked
out an entirely new art form for him
self. Instead of working in clay or
stone he would take baling w-ire and
tin cans and pieces of odd metal
laughed at, and he began to brood
in that intense way of his. The up
shot pf it was that he decided to com
mit suicide.
* * * *
"UE JUMPED into the water one
^ * day. firmly resolved to die. The
bridge tender jumped in after him
and dragged him ashore. The story
caused a little flutter in his end of
town and, strange to say, he sold a
couple of his grotesque creations on
the strength of the notoriety. Im
mediately he began to be hopeful
again. Maybe he was beginning to
be appreciated at last!
“A month went by, and he didn't
get rid of anything else. He went into
a huddle with himself, and the next
morning his landlady, hearing the
crash of the chair when he kicked
it over, found Paul twisting on the
end of a rope tied to a rafter in his
garret. f
"She cut him down before he had
time to strangle. Again the story
leaked out. and Paul did a fairly good
business with curious people who hap
pened around to poke their noses in
some one else's business.
"Thereafter Paul became a tradi
tion in the colony. When he couldn’t
sell any of his screwy masterpieces
some one was sure to find Paul just
before he expired by his own hand.
He must have been clever at that!
And he was versatile, too.
"His repertoire included death by
knives, guns, rope, drowning and
razors. He would have tried jump
ing out a window, but the burg didn't
boast of a skyscraper tall enough to
furnish a spectacular leap, and be
sides it might have finished his tra
dition for good!”
* * * *
V/rcGITRK took a drink the butler
A A brought and continued:
"Most of the boys in the speakeasy
he usually visited trying to sell his
stuff knew him and his story by heart.
One day he staggered in, looking sick.
‘Give me a drink.' he cried. 'I almost
died!’ Nobody in the crowd was rude
enough to ask him why he didn't.
They .iust looked at him. ready for
a laugh.
"He just sat there and stared mood
ily into the glass of beer the bar
tender brought him, and tears came to
his eyes.
‘‘‘Licked!’ this professional suicide
sobbed into his beer. 'Licked by a
quarter!’ The boys listened for the
rest of the gag.
“ 'If I had had another quarter,’ he
moaned, looking about the room sad
ly, ‘the gas would have stayed on
long enough for me to have gotten
out of this vale of tears I'”
(Copyright. 1936.)
MINNEAPOLIS LAWYER
ONLY SENATE CANDIDATE
Attorney General Rules He Alone
Piled Properly for “Short
Term.*’
the Assoclat.eG Press.
ST. PAUL, May 13—Because he
Used unusual care in specifying what
he wanted. It appeared likely today
that Guy Howard. 53-year-old Min
neapolis lawyer who never before has
, held public office, would be elected
United States Senator from Minne
sota next Fall.
Howard was the only candidate to
file for the "short term,” Attorney
General H. H. Peterson ruled. The
short term, overlooked by most of
the other aspirants to the seat now
held by Senator Elmer Benson, ex
tends from November 3, the general
election date, to January 3, 1937, when
the new Congress convenes, the at
torney general said.
His ruling was in accord with How
ard's own contention that there were
both "short" term and "long” term
tenatorial posts to be filled next year.
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Daughter Gives Alarm.
After chaining the warden to his of
fice table, 13 prisoners, including a
murdered, escaped from jaU in Veru
lam. South Africa, but the warden's
daughter, although knocked down in
the fray, gave the alarm.
Railway Museum Opened.
A railway museum was recently
dedicated in Tokio, japan.
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LIVING COST ADVANCES
SLIGHTLY IN APRIL
Figure Is Two-Tenths of X Per
Cent Higher Than March,
Survey Shows.
By thr Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 13.—The Na
tional Industrial Conference Board,
a research organisation supported by
large corporations, disclosed in a sur
vey yesterday an advance of .3 of 1
per cent in the coet of living for the
wage earner during April, compared
with March.
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the cost of living, as measured by
the index, is 1.3 per cent higher
than a year ago, 17.9 per cent higher
than in April of 1933, the low point
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The largest Increase from March
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WIFE TO APPEAL ORDER
TO SUPPORT HUSBAND
To Take Tight to “Highest Court,”
if Neceeary, New York
Woman Says.
By thr Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, May 13.—Mra. Sadie
Picker, who was ordered by Domestic
Relations Court Thursday to sup
port her estranged husband, a home
relief recipient, yesterday said she
would contest the order to the high
est court if necessary.
Mrs. Picfcr, who said that she mar
ried her husband “for companion
ship" and that he never worked while1
they lived together, expressed the
opinion that it was "a very degrad
ing thing for a wife to have to sup
port a husband.”
Mrs. Picker disputed her husband's
contention that she earned between
$75 and $100 a week conducting an
electrolysis business in her home. She
said her income was near $18 or $23
a week.
HEART TUMOR REMOVED
Patient Recovering After Delicate
Operation.
DENVER, May 13 OP).—Martin
Hillman, 25, of Reedley. Calif., was
reported recovering yesterday from
an operation for the removal of a
tumor from his heart.
The operation was performed Sat
urday, but physicians made no an
nouncement concerning it until Hill
man showed definite signs of recovery.
An incision was made through the
chest by dividing the ribs and the |
lower part of the heart was lifted
to expose the tumor to view. The
operation took about 2 hours, physi
cians said. |
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