Page 18 ROSE | FROM PAGE 8 day with minus negativity. Everything was boint to be “Yes” today. A feel good day, as in” Yes Dorothy,” there is a land called Oz. “Yes Virginia,” there is a Santa Claus.” Yes Marie,” they ate your cake. Even without your royal frosting. I arrived at my favorite spot; it was at the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets, between Filene’s and Raymond’s department stores. I had a good view from this corner, to keep a watchful eye out for a patrol officer, who may ask if you had your license. You had to be 12 years old to obtain one. The skills of an “artful dodger” came early those days. With due deference to a protagonist of another story, from a different era. “Shine Sir?” I asked, as my first THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, June 19, 2020 My second customer was quite customer walked by. “Yes, I think I will,” he replied. His shoes had not been cleaned for quite a while, and the heels were run down. His pants lacked a crease, and a button on his jacket was missing. He projected the image of the underpaid clerk in a second rate store. However, this was a kindly man, one that may give you a tip. I finished quickly and tapped the side of my shine box to indicate completion. “Thanks kid, good job,” he said, and flipped me two quarters, the second as a tip. I was right about the poor soul. a different story. His shoes were newer and costly, his suit neatly pressed, and his tie was in a perfect Windsor knot. He was reading the stock market results from the previous day from a newspaper. He had nothing to say and he was the epitome of rampant hubris. There was not going to be a tip from this “dandy.” I was right about the lack of a tip. The cognitive powers of class distinction and social habits were the tangible lessons attained prematurely by shoeshine boys, on the mean streets of a city awash in apathy. I was a little hungry and was thinking about walking over to Joe & Nemo’s for a ten cent hot In Loving Memory Doris Umbro November 7, 1934 (Spinney) April 27, 2012 IF ONLY MY PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED, YOU MAY HAVE BEEN STRONGER, IF ONLY I MAY HAVE HELD YOU, FOR A FEW MOMENTS LONGER, LIFE WAS OUR PASSION, ALL THROUGH THOSE YEARS, WE HAD A FEW LA UGHS, AND SHED A FEW TEARS, WE SANG ALL THE LOVE SONGS, AND DANCED EVERY DANCE, FOR LOVE WAS OUR STORY, NEVER LEFT THAT TO CHANCE. I THINK OF YOU OFTEN, AND DREAM OF YOU MORE, AND KNOW YOU ARE WAITING, ON THAT DISTANT SHORE, I RIDE EVERY MOONBEAM, IN SEARCH OF YOUR STAR, AND LOOK UP TO HEAVEN, I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, WHERE THEY SING EVERY SONG, WHERE THEY DANCE EVERY DANCE, FOR LOVE WAS OUR STORY, NEVER LEFT THAT TO CHANCE. Forever in our hearts, Your loving husband, Richard, Daughter, Lynne, Family & Friends. Space for Lease 3 Large Rooms, each with Large Walk-in Storage Area. or Aerobics Studio. Located at Route 1 South at Walnut Street. Rollerworld Plaza, Route 1 South, 425 Broadway, Saugus. Call Michelle at: 781-233-9507 dog, and as I was on my knees arranging my equipment, I noticed a women’s reflection through the store window in front of me. Her gaze was affixed directly at the exposed coupons in my shoes. Immune to embarrassment at this point, I pretended not to notice. “Young man, can you shine my shoes?” she asked. I turned in her direction and replied, “Yes Ma’am, I can.” I had shined women’s shoes before, I was not surprised. Her shoes were of high quality leather that came high to the ankle, and had a fashionable heel. Her skirt was long and draped to an appropriate length in relation to her shoe tops. Her waist-length jacket was trimmed in fur, something like on display in the window of I.J. Fox, a downtown Furrier. In her hand she was holding a round black satin box, with gold ribbon. Imprinted on the box in gold lettering was “French Shop.” This indicated that it was purchased in an exclusive shop on the seventh floor of Filene’s Department Store: where women of high fashion and financial means sat in stuffed chairs to watch models walk up and down, wearing the garment they were interested in buying. She asked all the questions a woman will ask: How old are you; where do you go to school; how many brothers and sisters in your family; do you give your mother money? Family-oriented questions in a pleasant manner. Unlike men, who rarely talked, save for an occasional grunt or incoherent mumble. “What is your name?” she asked. “Richard,” I replied. “But they all call me Richie.” A smile came to her face, a benevolent smile, one that captures the warmth and grace of a woman. “What is your name?” I asked. She laughed openly at the boyish innocence of my question, momentarily disarming her inherent composure. “Rose,” she said, smiling once more. I finished her shoes; they had a lustrous sheen. “They look beautiful,” she said, and from her purse she pressed into my hand five one dollar bills. Mesmerized and wideeyed by her generosity, I stuttered, “Thank you” several times. With a maternal-like pat to my cheek, as she was leaving, she said, “Now be sure to get home before dark.” I watched her for a long time as she walked down Washington Street, where women very discreetly turned their heads in admiration, some with jaundiced eyes of jealousy. She disappeared into that huddled mass of the good, the bad, the perfect and imperfect; caught up in the exciting vibrance of Saturday morning shopping. I never saw her again. Now, there is a special time in everyone’s life when a rose fashions a memory. A school child creates a colorful rose with crayROSE | SEE PAGE 19 ~ Legal Notice ~ COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT Middlesex Probate and Family Court 208 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 Docket No. MI19D0865DR DIVORCE/SEPARATE SUPPORT SUMMONS Esthere Dornevil, Plaintiff vs. Kempes Previlon, Defendant To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Esthere Dornevil, 156 Bowdoin St., Malden, MA 02148 a copy of your answer to the complaint of Divorce which is herewith served upon you, within 20 days after service of this summons upon you, exclusive the day of service. If you fail to do so, the Court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer to the complaint in the office of the Register of this Court at the above named court either before service upon plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney or within a reasonable time thereafter. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. WITNESS, Hon. Maureen H. Monks, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 10, 2020 TARA E. DeCRISTOFARO REGISTER OF PROBATE June 19, 2020
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