June 9, 2018:—I have given up art teaching in a separate studio of my own and have been, for some time, merely writing verses and loafing about and peering into the town, often with old Sparrow Short. This comes about because I have sent my few pupils over to him. He is a most likable fellow. He puts on no airs whatever. We find we have a great ocean of common opinions and identical prejudices in the field of art and an equal love of feeding crumbs1 to the English sparrows and other such birds and we keep off ground where we would be hostile in argument. I think I did the town a good turn when I persuaded such people as showed symptoms of studying with me, to study with him. In return he urges me to give criticisms in his life classes when I feel the urge to impart to youth, or when he is out loafing, or helping2 193decorate some of the newly revamped yellow halls, particularly the Hall of Velaska. The latest occasion when I took over his place came about because he was locked up for days without anyone to go his bail3 all for alleged4 treason to the World Government. At last Boone lets him out, by going bond, with a roaring lecture, which is replied to in kind, they say, with no show of gratitude6 whatever. But the privilege of being out on bond is precarious7 and liable to be withdrawn8 to one waiting trial for World Treason and Short keeps me in sight for emergencies. Sparrow Short is, of course, passionately9 loyal to the Star Spangled Banner and Washington’s Farewell Address but that is considered only one half of patriotism10 and called “World-Anarchy” now. Most of the people who study under him do not care what his views may be on any subject but art. He is the best teacher and that is enough for them. And, as a matter of fact, in expressing his international views which he does out of teaching hours, he is a roaring baby and unworthy of the attention of grown up politicians. But I tell him that even grown ups in politics should not be too much censured11 for misunderstanding him. People, like Short, who fight for 194individuality and whose whole object as teachers is to promote the diversity of their pupils, cannot see why the world cannot be one great art class. They are, indeed, in strong contrast with state builders, who build with men in masses and blocks.
This morning Short takes me around to the Hall of Velaska, when it is absolutely deserted13 except by ourselves, and shows me with pride the pictures he has given the hall. These pictures are so set in the walls, they seem painted there, and the whole color scheme that Short has long planned holds them together. There is a defiant14 touch of Singaporian green in it, sometimes with the glisten15 of the hated green glass, but the place is otherwise in the most quiet and inoffensive taste.
The first picture is the one that he had long planned for the World’s Fair, till it was debarred on account of its subject:—the portrait of Mara of Singapore, when she was the age of Juliet. Next is what Short calls a Fairy Fashion-plate, a gown to be worn at the funeral of an exceedingly wealthy bumblebee. If we are to believe our guide, Mr. Short, here is depicted16 an occasion when one must wear a look of grief and resignation and an appropriate costume. Short explains that all bootlicking 195fairies consider it good form to blacken the face on such occasions. They will not blacken their faces for bumblebees who are poor. But, when a deal of honey is left to sustain the mourners, it has become a convenient manner of expressing grief for the honeyeater to steal an ink bottle off a writing table and spill the ink all over one’s self. One looks more crestfallen17 than in any conventional black. So this fairy manikin is dressed in gray dove’s feathers and ink poured on her in streaks18 and her little face is all smudged with it. Soon she will hurry home, take a complete bath, and eat the honey.
The Boy and the Ostrichissimus:—The Ostrichissimus is a bird about three times the size of the ostrich19 and with ostrich plumes20 all over it, and some of them so long behind, it has not the insulting shape of the ostrich. A more graceful21 neck helps also. Its head is not so bald. The Ostrichissimus is driven with a silk cord, passed through the mouth, for a bridle22. The boy driving holds on tight with both knees and is a little scared but enjoying himself immensely. They are hurrying across the Sahara desert.
The Devil is Making Candy:—Short explains that this is a picture with a purpose. 196The Devil, in a cook’s costume, is bending over the usual candy kettle. Peeping in at the door are those that wait for his candy. These are the usual run of sinners, types that appear in sermon pictures, the miser23 with his gold and the Magdalene with her painted jaws24, etc. The devil looks exceedingly sly but Short explains that there is nothing for him to look sly about. It is only fudge. The Devil tests it by dipping in his finger, which, of course, he can do without burning himself. “Yet,” says Short, “I would not eat after the Devil’s fingers. Would you?”
The Sewing Machine of Fate:—Fate is an old woman among the stars, big as a sign of the zodiac. She is crouched25 in a heap over a sewing machine. It is a little too small for her clumsy hands but she can use it. Forever and forever, with eyes that never lift from the plunging26 needle, she bends over her task, sending through new cloth from the looms27 of time. When this cloth has passed under the needle, it is written with characters that can never be snipped28 out. This inscription29 is all she lives for. Yet, like the inscriptions30 of the temples of Yucatan, it is forever unreadable except to ghosts, hobgoblins, spooks, and such like creatures, with whom sensible people have nothing to do.
197There is one great blank space on the wall, for the portrait of the mythical31 queen of the revels32 in this particular Yellow Hall, Sally Mary Ann Velaska Harris, familiarly called “Velaska.”
Sunday, June 15:—I find myself this morning in the loft33 of the gigantic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul with Surto Hurdenburg. His face is still painted blue by mother nature, as a reminder34 of his long struggles with alcohol. But there are new unquenchable fires within. He looks like a broken down but repentant35 Bill Sykes. He takes the sermon with great literalness, as I know, by his asides to me.
St. Friend’s voice is much more quavering and old than last Sunday. He is living in the reaction from that tremendous physical outlay36. It is as though we were endowed with a special sense of hearing and were listening from celestial37 parapets to the cry of a sick man on the earth.
Such is the magnificence and medievalism of the old church, so brilliant are its windows, so austere38 its pillars and niches39 for the saints, and the images of those saints, that it seems to have been built a thousand instead of a hundred years ago. Yet here are not only images of St. Peter and St. Paul, but of a 198long line of saints, as beautiful as America itself all the way to yesterday. Here are Saint Francis and Swedenborg, and Johnny Appleseed before whom candles are burning:—Hunter Kelly, in his aspect of St. Scribe of the Shrines40, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mary Baker41 Eddy42, and the first Mother Grey, founder43 of the flower religion and Jane Addams and that tremendous and divine jester and poet and sage44, Abraham Lincoln. There are a hundred other niches with the American saints and world saints and a hundred others waiting for the saints of tomorrow.
But Surto Hurdenburg is listening to the sermon. Here is a fragment thereof:—
“The solution of the problem of the social evil can be given in four words: ‘THE PROUD CITIZEN WOMAN.’
“Springfield has no tenements45 but until the life of the United States outside of Springfield has its larger hours of leisure and more green clear spaces in which to cultivate codes and fine observances between boy and girl, the custom of selling the young girls to the slaughter46 will leap over double Gothic walls and invade those groves47 and parks we call ‘Springfield.’ We have the beginning 199of chivalry48 in many ways, such as the public school honor pageants49 and athletic50 honor tournaments and all the fine codes of Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the First, in connection therewith. We still need more sense of honor, honor beyond the point of Bayard and the Cid.
“There is only one issue for sweethearts:—honor or dishonor, citizen or slave. So it has been from the beginning of time, so it will continue till woman’s redemption and complete emancipation51. The fantastic Hindu would die ten thousand deaths before he would break caste.
“The stubborn Mohammedan or Jew will yet be torn to shreds52 before he will consent to offer to an idol53. Not all the tides of the world cynicism has changed these. The Japanese would cut out his tongue before he would speak a slighting word against the flag or honor of Japan or do a work in her despite. Are these people to be mocked for having a code?
“By standing12 by those Don Quixotic notions they prove they are men, not cattle. America, led by such orchard54 cities as Springfield and the other capitals that are turning their streets into parks of worship, should have one patriotism, 200one caste rule, one religion, the religion of honoring woman as a comrade citizen.
“The Yellow Dance Halls are deceits. They dance lies. Their unwritten laws are poisonous Singaporian devices that in the end make beasts of boys and girls and take cocaine55 for granted. And in the sporting, boastful excitement of cocaine, ill things are born, vendettas56 that only yesterday brought mortal bloodshed upon our streets and tricks that shamed us before the ages.
“The election is coming Tuesday, the Yellow Dance Hall Parade, tomorrow. Let us remember that this referendum election has been brought about by the signatures of the entire Board of Education, of over half the City Council and of a completely representative host of citizens of all families and clans57 and faiths. If we who have signed that paper win our petition, it is the last and third call and the voters will grant that The Yellow Dance Halls be banished58 from our city forever. Tomorrow the Yellow Parade is coming. There will be every effort on the part of the yellow claque to laugh down the seriousness of the issue. Let no friend of this Cathedral take part in that parade. Let all 201good citizens, at every spare moment from this hour to the election, go forth59 to urge their immediate60 kith and kin5 and fellow clansmen to turn out at the polls and vote for the banishment61 of these places and let my friends who have taken the especial Oath of the Strict Observance consider this election their charge and let them leave nothing undone62 that will secure a full showing at the polls of the voters of whatever persuasion63. The only way to lose this election is by staying at home.”
The voice of the aged64 and weary St. Friend rises almost to a shriek65. He pauses many times for breath but goes on, clinging to the pulpit as he may, exhausted66 by vigil and anger:—
“The Yellow Halls, where all public gambling67 is carried on and all election money passes! The Yellow Halls, where, despite the legislation of a clearly established majority, through a hundred years, the gold and alcohol from far beneath the gilded68 roofs, is brought forth from mouldy hiding places and doled69 out to corrupt70 the electorate71 and thwart72 the clearly recorded will of the people. How long shall we endure these secret multimillionaires and secret wine kings and secret cocaine kings, despising every phase of thoroughbred 202and honor-bound American Democracy? Despite all the doings of the month of May, not one hiding place of their gold has been unearthed73, not one case of their wine has been dug up and confiscated74 by the Federal Government.
“Yet their children know these secret treasuries75 and meet in these halls to corrupt all the other children of the city. From way below gilded roofs the poison venders ascend76 by tortuous77 and shameful78 passages and go forth to dance and destroy and defeat the plain will of the people as recorded in initiative, referendum, and recall, and elections at the polls and guild79 elections:—and even, at the height of their folly80, to whisper Singaporian treason.”
And so St. Friend has done and Surto Hurdenburg beside me takes him with exceeding literalness and goes forth to agitate81 and organize even more zealously82 till this battle is over.
Monday, June 16:—Such is the protean83 character of human nature that at least one third of that congregation of yesterday, having their costumes already prepared, think it is a pity not to use them, and are in the parade 203this afternoon, which comes immediately after business hours, at four o’clock.
The parade is led by Velaska, and her minions84 are scattering85 giant asters from her yellow barge86. She is an unknown and wears a yellow mask. All this is a tradition of these parades. The pantomime acts and dances, the width and length of the block, made up of a thousand clowns and jesters with baubles87, go by; and Falstaffs without number. Because of the vacuum-cleaned streets and streets not so hard as of old underfoot, endless dancing and delicate and crisp and diaphanous88 effects can be secured and kept effective. But it is all yellow, not orange:—from Bacchus and Ariadne to the April gods and goddesses of all of Asia. Three great ballets, the New York, the New Orleans and the St. Louis, are imported to dance their way down the streets. The parade follows the exact route of the other and pours north on Sixth defiantly89 past the Cathedral, where I am watching it as it ends. The crowd has begun to clear away. There is a rabble90 of automobiles91. Then there is a queer hush93. The auto92 horns stop blowing.
There comes the palanquin of the Man of Singapore, followed by that of his daughter, Mara:—such familiar sights to a certain number 204of Springfield citizens, that the element they add to the day’s pageantry is nominal94, but to those sensitive on the issue it is everything politically. The Boone Ax reporters scan once more, for the thousandth time, the unreadable faces of the two, searching out the Mystery of Asia. The man bows to his friends and the girl does the same and, according to those who have seen them many times before, their aspect is not one hair’s breadth changed from former occasions. The blazing green, in the name of the Green Glass Buddha95 of Singapore is, if anything, a rest to the eyes after the uncanny yellow in the name of other less mysterious gods.
I am most of all impressed with the fact, seeing him for the first time, that the Man from Singapore is, after all, in his Asiatic way, a superb gentleman. His daughter seems to me the most high bred of gazelle-like ladies, which, indeed, I had known from her child portrait by Sparrow Short and by Short’s careful report of her ways.
So it is hard for the honest puritans of The Boone Ax, even those who were not born yesterday, to find legitimate96 place for a new denouncing of the Professor of Malay Arts and Letters and his daughter. And so the late 205evening edition of The Boone Ax calls them “the two strangers.” That is all.
I have a jolly evening with Old Sparrow Short in the Tom Strong Lunch Room. There with many others, friends of the halls, Short is quite frank over the issue of tomorrow and prattles97 away at the pessimists98. He feels, for a certainty, all needed is that everyone there glow and enthuse. Coffee Kusuko owns most of the Yellow Halls, of course. That means he uses them any way Slick Slack Kopensky and Mayo Sims direct, at a crisis, and tonight the talk at the neighboring tables is all for the Yellow people and as loud as possible to be skillful. This is true in the Drug Stores of Smith as well, no doubt, for they are in the same combination.
Then later in the evening we go together to take Avanel to the Hall of Velaska, somewhat to the astonishment99 of Short, who knows she hates him. But she wants to give him a chance at her approval, through his pictures. When the revellers sight my lady, the leers fade, and the boa constrictor dances of Singapore subside100. And the gray head of Short puts them somewhat on their dignity, even if they merely regard Avanel with spite. But so 206many of them are sage and solemn with her and bow so carefully!
“They are trying too hard,” says Avanel.
Sparrow Short shows us the mottoes he has painted high on the walls:
“Good Cheer Can Save the Soul.”
“Let us Cultivate the Patience of Humor.”
“The Touch of Humor is in all Successful Politics.”
“No Man is Too Awkward to Dance.” (But he has never danced in his life!)
Then he shows us the picture of Velaska, the mythical muse102 of the Hall. Velaska is expecting her lover. She is dressed in the heaviest and most pretentious103 of yellow silks; were it not for her veil, there would be no harmony. But it is iridescent104, covers her from head to foot, blending and modifying all.
She wears her yellow mask. Short says:—“Her lover will not see her face till the dawn, when she lays aside her veil also.”
He is quite proud of his picture. Avanel is politely interested and no more. The picture gives me the headache, I am sure it is the poorest thing Short has done. He thinks it is the flag of liberty, almost equal to the 207Star Spangled Banner, and the Declaration of Independence, and Washington’s Farewell Address. Avanel dances with many loving and devoted105 boys. Avanel admires enthusiastically all the other pictures of Short and his decorations. But it is plain, when the evening is over, they still hate each other.
Tuesday, June 17:—Today “Velaska” and her train are voted out “for good and all.” Blue-faced Surto Hurdenburg and a thousand like him have gone from house to house, talking incessantly106. Morality is always keener in the followers107 than the leaders, and Hurdenburg and his kind worked among the sharp strong-minded semi-obscure people, just a little better than themselves, whose edge is not dulled by many successes or the paradoxes108 and mixed alliances that come about through the long possession of power.
Some Yellow Dance Hall people charge that Drug Store Smith, Coffee Kusuko, and Slick Slack Kopensky pocketed the campaign fund of the dug-up gold, to bury it in their own pits.
The “dead game sports” of the city roar themselves purple about a “tyrannical minority” and “horrible puritanism” despite the 208heaviest majority against them that the laughing city ever polled on any issue. They try to spread the wild rumor109 that “tobacco and coffee will go next and then the theatre.”
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