Life — March 15, 1929 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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16 Fesruary 20—All a- flutter this morning over the arrival of the many purchases which I did make yesterday, until Sam, inspired by the number of boxes and packages, plus the knowledge that during the past week I have under- gone reconstruction work on teeth, feet, eyes and hair, did remark that a casual observer might think I had signed up with Commander Byrd in- stead of being bound only for Aiken, S.C. But I know no more satisfac. tory pastime than lifting new evening slippers, stockings, nightgowns, toilet articles—and in especial a hat made for one in Heaven—out of their origi- nal wrappings, nor docs the fact that T have usually laid out for them more than T can afford detract from the pleasurable excitement. To luncheon with Marge Boothby at a public, stoi- by Baird Leonard Life cally eating nought but oysters and an artichoke, and on the way to our table I did pass George Willis seated with a woman not his wife, and whose ap- pearance suggested that she could never be ‘his wife, so, albeit I caught his eye, I did float by as though I were non-existent. To the playhouse after- wards to see Katharine Cornell in “The Age of Innocence”, and when finally, after an act or two of politeness and repression, Newland Archer took the Countess Olenska in his arms, a woman behind me fervently murmured “Thank God!” and Marge and I did feel much the same about it ourselves. Arrived home, I did find awaiting me a huge box of roses with a card bear- ing the simple inscription, “Good sol- diers never die, they only fade away”, and it did not take a soothsayer to tell me that they came from George Willis. Fesruary 21—Awake betimes, not- ing in the journals that Yale Univer- sity is devoting a vast sum to the study of human behavior, and I do wish I could get them to begin with Sam as an individual laboratory specimen, the main thing I should like to find ow about him being why he does come home only ten minutes before we are due to start out for dinner and expec not only to dress with case and dis patch but also that I should do a pa. tient Griselda and listen calmly to a long and not too thrilling story whils he is struggling with his tie. I should like furthermore to know why, in the face of violent protests, he persists in using my pen, which to me is as per. sonal as a toothbrush, but albeit | might learn the motive for such a piece of malpractice, I am confident that nought but a threat of divorce will move him to discontinue it. A great snow falling this day, so stopped at home, feeling like work on a prize novel or essay, and were the projec a plan to make the eighteenth amend. ment more effective, I had an excel lent scheme to hand which would (Continned on Page 37) ) Thoughts of a young lady in love. comicbooks.com