.. and I could afford Red Seal records ...
and have my largest room for a library....
Middle-class comfort was upon me ... good plumbing ... electric light
... laundry sent out ... no more washing of my one shirt overnight and
hanging it up to dry on the back of a chair, while I slept ... and
putting it on, next morning, crinkly and still damp.
I was already seduced, if there hadn't been that something in me which I
myself could not control!
* * * * *
It was when I caught Mackworth on the streets of his town and in his
newspaper office that I discovered the man himself.
In our country, especially in the Middle West, everybody watches
everybody else for the least lapse in the democratic spirit.
Though he was truly democratic at heart, Mackworth laid it on in
theatric outward appearance, in true line with the Kansas tradition of a
sockless Jerry Simpson, who went without socks, as the adjective
implies, and made Congress on that one platform of his sartorial lack
... of William Roscoe Stubbs, who rode into the office of governor
partly on the fact that his daughter could make salt-rising bread ... a
form of bread-making cultivated by the hardy pioneers of the state, and
now no longer necessary.
Mackworth was "in-legged" ... that is, his legs on the insides rubbed
together from the crotch to the knees .
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