Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1925 — Page 12

12

CHICKIE

Chickie (Helena), only (laughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tufts c Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janina Knowles and Aiijy Heaton, sends Chickie a costly pin with a love note and arranges so her father does not lose on his oil investment, Jake tells Chickie he considers Barry’s feeling only a boy’s love, and that he will be waiting when Barry has lilted her. Chickie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson because of her lengthy engagement, and at Bess Abbotfe wedding subtly tries to urge Barry to think of their marriage ae a present nossibility, even though he believes he cannot afford it. He is hopeful when Ua Moore’s father expects to engage him to represent locally the Gulf Steamship Company ' of Sian Francisco, and wires for him. In Barry’s absence. Mary’s brother. Jimmie Blake, renews his attentions. Barry returns with the deal unsettled. and Ila Invites him to tour the world with her party. When Chickie accuses him of loving Ila. a quarrel follows and he leaves town. He does not answer her telegram written in desperation when she realizes she must endure the consequences of their love. Her parents, ignorant of her plight, favor Jake as a suitor for CMckie. She hears Barry sailed with Ha. before receiving the telegram. Mary's conventional ideas disturb Cmckie. GO ON WITH THE STORY By Elinore Meherln "Any old time! Oh! Mary—such a thing to say! It’s no crime for married people to have children. But they aren’t crowding the world out with them, are they? If they have two, why, they have a family! They're doing a great and glorious service to the race " Mary grinned. "True enough, true enough! You win! But at that, Chickie, do you think a girl like Lily Tassnmn, or any one, for that matter, has the right to bring a child here with no care for Its future?” “No. But it shouldn’t be thought a crime, should it. She shouldn’t be stoned to death, should she?” "It Is a crime, though. A child has certain rights. Life isn’t so easy or delightful under the best conditions. We take a might-y responsibility launching any one here ” “Being married doesn’.t alter that, Mary ” “Yes, it does. It gives two to meet tho responsibility.” "Oh, Mary—suppose the father died beforehand —suppose that—then Ihere’d only be one to meet It ” "Well —you don't count on that —a child has a. right to a name, anyway, and to two parents ” "Oh, yes! And it has a right to money and food and education. Lots of them don’t get it. And if the father dies, we don’t blame the child, do we, and call it frightful names, and say it has no right to live?” She was straining forward now, pressing little Edward —a fever in her eyes. Mary looked atjier Intently and the wild blood spattered across Chickie’s face. She tried to speak. Her lips worked. And suddenly she put the baby on the floor,. She leaned against the wall and began to cry. “Chickie! For the love of heaven!" Mary's arms were about her waist. Mary said, fearfully: "Chickie—why, what s the matter?” "Nothing, Mary! Nothing. ’A terrible thing. I saw ' a terrible thing. Kathryn Armour hanging to her bed. Oh—awful. She tried to commit suicide ” "Kathryn Armour? Who is she?" "You k now—l told you—you know -—the new girl. She came to work last month —you know —’’ <<No—you didn’t tell me. Hanging to the bed? You saw her? Dead—why did you see her?” "No—she’s going to live. Oh, I went there. Just came from there rills aft or noon. We knew —Janina and I knew something was wrong. When she didn’t come to work we went to her room. We found her — like that. Oh, I can’t get over It. That’s what makes me feel so. I didn’t mean to tell you.”

"Lord! Oh, isn’t that awful? She’s groin? to have a child, Chickle?” "Yes, she is. She told me and she told Janina. And then she got to brooding over it and what her mother and father would say. And what all her friends would say. So she tried to kill herself. "And she’ll try again. I know she will. ' Jut if people didn’t look at it so—i; they would let her have it and ■act think it such a crime, wouldn’t that be better, Mary?" Mary kept saying stupidly: "Poor thing! You saw her? Isn’t that frightful—frightful. She’s going to live—” "Yes—and she doesn’t know what to do or where to turn or what’s to become of her afterwards or of the Ohild. And she says the child will blame her and hate her ’’ “Yes it will —of course it will. Poor thing—too bad she didn't die—too bad. Now- she has to go through it all ” v Chickie wiped her face. She stood at the mantel and powdered her nose. She said: "Get me a drink, Mary.” Her cheeks were white. They were very white. She followed Mary Into the hall. She said, brokenly: "Yes —she would be better dead!”

Puzzle a Day

r— —-

Here is a star -with eleven vacant i<24des. Fill them with digits from it to 12 so that the 4 circles on each at the # sides will total--2 7. No jnumber may be used twice, but one (digit may be left out.. Last puzzle answer: Ninety dogs with 40 days’ supply <of food. 90 times 40 equals 3,600 dally dog meals; 90 plus 60 equals 150 dogs, 40 minus 16 equals 24 >. days; 160 times 24 equals 3,600 dally dog meals; 90 minus 40 equals 50 dogs, 40 plus 32 equals 72 days, 60 time* 72 efuals 3,600 daily dog ‘meals.

CHAPTER LXXXVIII. The World’s Opinion. HICKIE recalled with a quiver of alarm the intert She had almost given herself away, standing there against the wall—crying—making up that wild tale. She was afraid to meet Mary again. The next afternoon, as sho came from work, Tommy Blake stopped her: "Mother wants to see you. Chickie. Right away!” "Wants to see me? Why?” “Search me! She toldvme to wait for you.” \

Chickie trembled. But’ she went through the dilapidated garden where she and Mary romped and had tea parties and buried the sparrows that the cat killed. She passed the stunted palm and the old breath of heaven tree, picking a branch of the tiny white flowers. She did the same thing that longago Sunday when she came to ask Martha about the Blessed Damozel and if a kiss was wrong. It was a little after five. This was Martha Blake’s best hour. Her table was laid, her dinner cooking. She used to sit in the roomy, oldfashioned kitchen In a low wicker chair reading until Jimmy came. Now as Chickie pushed the screen door Martha’s rich, mellow face sharpened., She brought out frozen raspberries’ and slices of a light, creamy cake. "A long time, Chickie. dear, since you’ve paid your old visit. I want to know about that young girl. Mary told me this morning.” Chickie's heart stopped. For a palsied moment she could not even remember the name she had given to Mary. Martha said: "Why, I mean the girl who tried to hang herself.” Chickie closed her eyes: "She’s better. A little. You mean Kathryn Armour?” "Poor child!” Martha shook her head. "I want to go and see her Chickie.” f "See her? Oh—” "Yes. I’ve been thinking all day about her—poor girl. Someone should help her. Will you take me to see her, Chickie?” "See her! I can’t! Oh—she's gone! She went away. She went this morning. She went to the country. Left a note. Oh, I can’t take you to see her, Mrs. Blake. I don’t know where she's gone. The note just said for us not to bother. She’d get along somehow. So I suppose she will. She doesn’t care now what happens. Oh, she's desperate, I suppose. She’ll try that agftln. I think so. I think she means to try it again—” "We must find her, Chickie. She can come here. She can have Mary’s room ” Chickie pushed the berries from her. Her lips twitched. Tears*ran into the corners of her mouth. "I don’t think we can, Mrs. Blake. She just didn’t tell a soul w*here she was going. She didn’t want us to know.” Martha kept shaking her head, her eyes full of sadness. "Too bad—too bdd ” "You feel sorry for her? But won’t she be better dead?" "Why do you say that, Chickie? No one is ever better dead ” “Mary thought so! Mary said it was a terrible crime to bring a child here without a father." “It is a terrible thing ” “Well—” Chickie doubled her hands, driving the nails into her flesh. "Well—Kathryn was sweet. Oh—she would be good to It. She would love It. Why is it such a

and now comes ~ > SHOE STORE! k MERCHANTS SANK BLOli-'QOWNSTAJRA, M l Meridian and Washington iSts.

She fails to obtain any sympathy from her friend Mary.

crime, Mrs. Blake, because Kathryn was to have a child and it’s so wonderful that Mary has one? That’s what made Kathryn bitter. She loved the man; loved him terribly. She thought they had the right. I don’t know—of course. But It seems queer tl.at a thing can be so holy and beautiful after a few words are said and so shameful and hidecus without those words —”

"Ah no, Chickie! That’s not it at all Marriage isn’t Instituted to make an immoral thing moral, as some people seem to think. It is Imitituted to safeguard the race—the child. We must do this. It Isn’t a question of right and wrong at all. There is no evil and no shame in a fin 6 human emotion. Marriage doesn’t alter this. It Is merely a question of experience. And marriage is the device that helps us to meet honorably the consequences of our deeds." "If that were true, Mrs. Blake, I should think there could be another device—a better one—and when a girl like Kathryn was to have a child, it wouldn’t be thought a crime and she wouldn’t be frightened off the earth. They'd let her have the child. But even you say it is an awful thing—just awful—” "Yes, Chickie, it is awful to bring a little, helpless thing here when we know the struggle before it Is so cruel; it Is awful to bring a child here that the world will not receive , . "That’s the world's sin, I should think—not the girl’s— ’’ • • • M r "" ARTHA smiled: "I think so, too, Chickie. But rather the world’s blindness. Some day we ll have a different attitude to this race of ours—to all chlldr >n. We will do homage to motherhood. The coming of the child will In itself legalize the union which produced it. We will awaken to the absurdity of placing at the threshold .of birth a paltry human placard reading: shalt not pass!’ "Life laughs at th’is and ignores it. The child comes! It is above the law. Its right to be—to live—is the simple fact of its arrival. Its coming Is mockery, complete and sublime, of our barriers.” Without raising her eyes, but keeping her hand over her mouth to hide Its tightness, its pitiful working: "That won’t make it any easier for a girl like Kathryn or that Lily Tassman, will it?. It seems hard that they should have to pay, and so many g’rls do the same thing and get away with It. “They don’t get away with it, Chickie. A woman never does! Life is not mocked or cheated, but these girls are. They drain one shallow cup after another, and in none is any vintage that satisfies.” “Oh you don't know,* Mrs. Blake! Why, they do get away with it. And they’re just as happy as any one else in the world. I know. Why, I've been to house parties and all the girls came with their steadies ” "Steady, Chickie? What do you mean?” "Oh—the fellows they go with all the time and that other girls aren’t sut posed to flirt with ” Martha ran her hand across her eyes: "Well—steady—that used to be servant girl talk ’’ "It’s slang, I suppose. But these couples went everywhere together, and there were week-ends galore. Some of them thought that as long as they were engaged and were to be

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

married anyway It was all right. Lots of them are married now and as happy as any one else. So Ihey do get away with ltl And others don't want to marry—they want tq be free. They get away with p, too. They have' everything they want and they go everywhere, and it’s just one good time after another. You don’t know ” "No, I don't know, Chickie! Still I say they don’t get away with It. A few years of this, and what have they? They come to the hollow fortleo and look back upon emptines- i —they look forward to destitution of the heart and of the spirit. Saddest of all. Chickie, they are Isolated; they have no connection with their kind, no link In the great immortality of the race.” "What good is that, Mrs. Blake? Janina says old-fashioned women are pawns that life uses for its own ends. She says the women of the past were duped. Life beat them over rough, hard places, and the lash she uses Is love. And they run along with their backs breaking under their burdens. And in their hearts they wonder what It's all about and they envy women who are free, but they won't admit it. They get themselves Into this blind alley and get out. So they rationalize their stupidity and call it nobility or virtue —” • • M' "1 ARTHA chuckled, her dark, beautiful face lighting. “Inu_J deed! Rationalize our studpidity! I suppose my stupidity means Jimmy and Mary anad Tommy, eto. But In ten years, Chickie, how shall Janina rationalize her license? Tell me that. I can look at my children, and It is easy to rationalize such stupidity as mine. Janina will look at her empty hands. What shall she rationalize?” "Yes, but suppose your children weren’t so good—suppose one of them did an awful thing that broke your heart? You wouldn't have any more compensation than Janina will have." Mrs. Blake went on earnestly: “Only a coward, Chickie, run" from a fight because there’s a chance to lose. We have to take that chance —be brave to meet it ” (To Be Continued) Copyright. Kin* Feature Syndicate)

B unions W 1 B Quick, safe, sure relief. |f J B Prevent shoe pressure. At drug and shoe rents Sf DrSchoiis zznm Zino-pads

Bettel'ThanPiHs Tor Liver IBs.

WET WASH WITH THE FLAT WORK Neatly Ironed and Folded Family Wasli Laundry 831-37 E. Wash. * LI. 7338.

Reed Fibre Furniture 15 to 40% Off CAPITOL •FURNITURE CO. 811 E. Washington St.

“THREE Grover s POINT A X a eni Ve SHOE” Mode Bros.rrr,

Good Refrigerators Are Sold Cheap at GORDONS, 127-129 E. Washington

14-oz. Embossed Gold Patterns, 15c Thi EaKence of Good TaM Martin Rosenberger Wall Paper Company 810 N. Delaware 421 W. Washington

HI-QUALITY BABY CHIX CALI. OR WRITE BOYERS’ HATCHERY THORNTOWN. IND. OR 143 N. DELAWARE

CLOTHING ON CREDIT ASKIN & MARINE CO. 127 W. WASHINGTON ST.

Liberal Allowances Given for Your Old Furniture MESSENGER’S E. Washington and Delaware Ota.

NEW Lower Prices 110 S. Meridian St.

Beds, Springs The Excel Furn.Co. Mattresses of/ 0

Safe Deposit Boxes, $3.00

Save in Haste and Spend at Leisure This is not just as the old adage goes, but it is applicable to financial problems. Experience has taught that we will he in need of money when we least expect, hut we all know, even if time is kind to us, our working years are limited, and that comfort in our latter years depends on our early saving. Have you begun to save systematically? This is a good time. We Pay 4 1 / 2% on Savings Meyer-Kiser Bank 128 East Washington Street

Winkler “The Busy Dentists” Because We Save You From % to J / 3

DR. W. H. HANNING DR. F. A. HANNING DR. W. C. WINKLER Proprietors DR. C. C. BRIGGS DR. F. M. WALTERS DR. B. PARKER Associate Dentists 2 Dental Nurses In attendance

9 sk v^y

Hanning Bros. & Winkler S. W. Corner Washington and Pennayivanla Streets Rooms 2,3, 4 and 5, 2d Floor Neyv Kreage Bldg.

?jV “My value is ■ the same at k cash in hand—r anywhere \ . any time.” —Say* A. K. Diamond

Bankrupt Stock Sale Men’s QO Straw Hats /OC HAMMERMAN 340 W. Washington

NORMAN’S FURNITURE CO. “The Bluebird Store” 237-241 E. With. 8t

White Furniture Cos. Tom Quinn Jk. Wolf * Better Furniture—Lowest Prices—Personal Service. 84S-840-847-849 W. Washington St. For Furniture—

BUSINESS WANTS YOU Prepare definitely and you can go to work at once. For particulars eee, write or telephone Fred W. Case. Prln. P#nnylTania and Vermont, Flrat Door North Y. IV. C. A., Indianapolis.

Screen Doors, Screen Windows, Wire Screen, Lawn Mowers, Hose, Reels, Sprinklers, Inside and Outside Paints VONNEGUT’S 120-124 E. Wash. St.

BANKERS TRUST CO. Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts.

We are always busy because of the fact that any organization which adopts the straightforward policy of "Honest Work AND Honest Price” and adheres strictly to that policy is assured success. The law of averages is in its favor. If you will investigate you will find that we save you from 25 to 35% -—not on junk, but on dentistry that is as goc-d as it is possible to obtain—and guaranteed to you.

Lawn Seats Most substantially made, rigid and firm. Painted green. 4-Ft. size $6.75 6-Ft. size $7.75

Charles Mayer & Cos. 29-31 W. Washington St. Established 1840

CONSULT I>fP Curve DR. KLAIBER & CO. p™" T'”,. Optometrist# and Eyesight Specialist# your eves Oom--712-713 ODD FELLOW BUILDING plete a# #4 Your Vision Tested Free low as

Do Not Suffer With Your Eye#

Baby M Chicks Everitt’s Seed Store 83? W. Wash. St. 3-8 N. Alabama St. Tel. MA In 4740. Tel. U neoln 4050.

Three Store# Service Complete at Eaeh 7 N. 1111 nolo St. 133 NTPenn. St. Conneravtlle, Ind.

Notice to Our Many Friends and Patrons You can now keep your hardwood floors cleaned and polished with little or no effort with the Regina Electric Floor Cleaner and Polisher

Just a small attachment, weighing only three pounds that does a better job than the ordinary 40 to 50-pound floor polisher.

Our salesmen will call upon you In the near future to demonstrate this great labor saving devloe. REGINA CORPORATION 480 Century Bldg. Phone, Lincoln 4485

Dependable Drug Stores

All Outdoors Invites | Kodak ’ picture chances are everyj .Vwhere. And the kodak you \ good account of itself, and a good account of the trip. All summer, you’ll need R kodak, so let us fit you out now ' ur kodak man

A Camera for the Youngsters—or for You No. 2 Brownie , Pictures 2 1 /^x3 1 /^ Aluminum body, covered with Imitation llather. This sturdy little camera is East-man-made and carefully tested. Priced $2.75.

24-Hour Developing Service

ToyoHats Panama, The new folding summer, unbreakable, imita- , N Wg tion Panama A Light as a feather, you can fold it, crush it, but you can, P not break It. There’s comfort Y R % and style in every one.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1925

Awnings to Keep the House Cool Ready to hang. Easy direotlond accompany each one. Mode of cool green and white striped material with scalloped curtain, steel frame and galvanized .fit. ’ tings. I M 2Yz Feet ##•••■>92.so 3 Feet $2.65 3i/ 2 Feet $2.75 4 Feet .......$3.00

SMART APPAREL On Easy Terms FEDERAL CLOTHING STORES 131 W. Washington St.

The Be#t, Automobile Polish Is “GUARD OF LUSTRE" It Leaves a Dry Surface Gathers No Dust Circle 0831 SAM TRATTNER 141 8. Illinois St.

This small polisher develops 30 pounds pressure and due to the air effect on the polish gives the floor a higher polished finish.

No. 2A Folding Brownie With Kodex Shutter y SIO.OO Pictures 2 1 /^x4 l 4 It is easy to operate, handy in size and smart in appearance. Kodak Film—The dependable kind In the yellow box. We have your size. Btock up at our kodak counter.