U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [62]
SOLDIERS GUARD CONVENTION
-148-the Titanic left Southampton on April 10th on its maiden operation is to be performed against the wishes of the New York Life according to " Kimmel" Why they know I'm Kimmel in Niles I'm George to everyone even mother and sister when we meet on the streets
I'm going to Maxim's
Where fun and frolic beams
With all the girls I'll chatter
I'll laugh and kiss and flatter
Lolo, Dodo, Joujou.
Cloclo, Margot, Froufrou
TITANIC LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD
SINKING
personal y I am not sure that the twelvehour day is bad for employees especial y when they insist on working that long in order to make more money
Still all my song shall be
Nearer My God to thee
Nearer to thee
it was now about one AM, a beautiful starlight night with no moon. The sea was as calm as a pond, just a gentle heave as the boat dipped up and down in the swel , an ideal night except for the bitter cold. In the distance the Titanic looked an enormous length, its great hulk outlined in black against the starry sky, every porthole and saloon blazing with light
ASK METHODISM TO OUST TRINITY
the bride's gown is of charmeuse satin with a chiffon veiled lace waist. The veil is of crepe lisse edged with point de venise a departure from the conventional bridal veil and the bouquet is to be lilies of the valley and gardenias Lolo, Dodo, Joujou, Cloclo, Margot, Froufrou
I'm going to Maxim's
And you can go to . . .
-149-the Titanic slowly tilted straight on end with the stern vertical y upward and as it did so the lights in the cabins and saloons which had not flickered for a moment since we left, died out, came on again for a single flash and final y went out altogether. Meanwhile the machinery rattled through the vessel with a rattle and a groaning that could be heard for miles. Then with a quiet slanting dive
JANEY
"But it's so interesting, mommer," Janey would say when her mother bewailed the fact that she had to work.
"In my day it wasn't considered ladylike, it was thought to be demeaning.""But it isn't now," Janey would say getting into a temper. Then it would be a great relief to get out of the stuffy house and the stuffy treeshaded streets of Georgetown and to stop by for Alice Dick and go down town to the moving pictures and to see the pic-tures of foreign countries, and the crowds on F Street and to stop in at a drugstore for a soda afterwards, before getting on the Georgetown car, and to sit up at the foun-tain talking about the picture they'd seen and Olive Thomas and Charley Chaplin and John Bunny. She began to read the paper every day and to take an interest in politics. She began to feel that there was a great throb-bing arclighted world somewhere outside and that only living in Georgetown where everything was so poky and oldfashiohed, and Mommer and Popper were so poky and oldfashioned, kept her from breaking into it. Postcards from Joe made her feel like that too. He
was a sailor on the battleship Connecticut. There'd be a picture of the waterfront at Havana or the harbor of Marseil e or Vil efranche or a photograph of a girl in peasant costume inside a tinsel horseshoe and a few lines
-150-hoping she was wel and liked her job, never a word about himself. She wrote him long letters ful of questions about himself and foreign countries but he never answered them. Stil it gave her a sort of feeling of adventure to get the postcards. Whenever she saw a navy man on the street or marines from Quantico she thought of Joe and wondered how he was getting on. The sight of a gob lurching along in blue with his cap on one side took a funny twist at her heart.
Sundays Alice almost always came out to Georgetown. The house was different now, Joe gone, her mother and father older and quieter, Francie and El en blooming out into pretty giggly highschool girls, popular with the boys in the neighborhood, going out to parties, al the time complaining because they didn't have any money to spend. Sitting at the table with them, helping