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Josephine: A Woman with a Past
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The Saturday Evening Post (6 September 1930)
Driving slowly through New Haven1, two of the young girls became alert. Josephine and Lillian darted2 soft frank glances into strolling groups of three or four undergraduates, into larger groups on corners, which swung about as one man to stare at their receding3 heads. Believing that they recognized an acquaintance in a solitary4 loiterer, they waved wildly, whereupon the youth’s mouth fell open, and as they turned the next corner he made a dazed dilatory5 gesture with his hand. They laughed. ‘We’ll send him a post card when we get back to school tonight, to see if it really was him.’
Adele Craw, sitting on one of the little seats, kept on talking to Miss Chambers6, the chaperon. Glancing sideways at her, Lillian winked7 at Josephine without batting an eye, but Josephine had gone into a reverie.
This was New Haven — city of her adolescent dreams, of glittering proms where she would move on air among men as intangible as the tunes10 they danced to. City sacred as Mecca, shining as Paris, hidden as Timbuktu. Twice a year the life-blood of Chicago, her home, flowed into it, and twice a year flowed back, bringing Christmas or bringing summer. Bingo, bingo, bingo, that’s the lingo11; love of mine, I pine for one of your glances; the darling boy on the left there; underneath12 the stars I wait.
Seeing it for the first time, she found herself surprisingly unmoved — the men they passed seemed young and rather bored with the possibilities of the day, glad of anything to stare at; seemed undynamic and purposeless against the background of bare elms, lakes of dirty snow and buildings crowded together under the February sky. A wisp of hope, a well-turned-out derby-crowned man, hurrying with stick and suitcase towards the station, caught her attention, but his reciprocal glance was too startled, too
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