The Vegetable or, From President to Postman

The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

This is the living room of Jerry Frosts house. It is evening. The room (and, by implication, the house) is small and stuffyits an awful bother to raise these old-fashioned windows; some of them stick, and besides its extravagant to let in much cold air, here in the middle of March. I cant say much for the furniture, either. Some of its instalment stuff, imitation leather with the grain painted on as an after-effect, and some of its dingily, depressingly old. That bookcase held Ben Hur when it was a best-seller, and its now trying to digest A Library of the Worlds Best Literature and the Wit and Humor of the United States in Six Volumes. That couch would be dangerous to sit upon without a map showing the location of all craters, hillocks, and thistle-patches. And three dead but shamefully unburied clocks stare eyelessly before them from their perches around the walls. Those wallsGod! The history of American photography hangs upon them. Photographs of children with{4} puffed dresses and depressing leers, taken in the Fauntleroy nineties, of babies with toothless mouths and idiotic eyes, of young men with the hair cuts of 85 and 90 and 02, and with neckties that loop, hoist, snag, or flare in conformity to some esoteric, antiquated standard of middle-class dandyism. And the girls! Youd have to laugh at the girls! Imitation Gibson girls, mostly; you can trace their histories around the room, as each of them withered and stated. Heres one in the look-at-her-little-toes-arent-they-darling period, and here she is later when she was a little bother of ten. Look! This is the way she was when she was after a husband. She might be worse. Theres a certain young charm or something, but in the next picture you can see what five years of general housework have done to her. You wouldnt turn your eyes half a degree to watch her in the street. And that was taken six years agonow shes thirty and already an old woman. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 60962
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Release Date: Dec 19, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English