Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1925 — Page 12

-CHICKIE

Chtckte (Helena) Is the only daughter ol Jonathan and Jennie Bryce of Indianapolis. To start life anew after her child dies and Barry Dunne, her sweetheart, jilts her to marry wealthy Ila Moore, Chickle goes to Chicago for employment. Sarah Willon the Abbott sisters, Amy Heaton, Stella Wilson, Mary Blake McPike, Janina Knowles and wealthy Jake Munson are Chickie'a home-town friendß. Jimmie Blake a childhood sweetheart, who still loves Chickle. accepts a position in Honolulu. Chickie refuses the friendship of Edgar Manx, fellow boarder at Mrs. Daisy Brack. Eloise Maxwell, Betty and Doris Ordin and Bobby. Jones , work with Chickie in the office of * Korp Willman. Chickie goes to his Winnetka homo as companion for his daughter. Barbara. Lee. his son. loves Chickie. , _ , Their sister Edith (Mrs. Dirks Potter* recretly loves Timmy, an actor. Chickle is asked to be bridesmaid at the weddin gos Barbara and Paul Scott. At the rehearsal. Myra King recognizes Chickie and tells Edith of Chickie's past life. Edith orders Chickie to leave. , ~ , .. , Lee attempts suicide when Chickie confirms the story. ... I . ~ Chickle accepts a position in the . office of George Edgemanwb—e Luts Lamarck, friends of the WillaiJ.iis. has a studio. While Edgemai* is away Lamarck tells Chickie that her past means nothing to him. She has trouble in evading his attentions, hut the climax comes when he offers her a costly bracelt and insinuates that because of him she is receiving more salary than the work is. worth. She ♦ears up her check and leaves He pursues her and Wildle defends her against his drunken attack. Chickie visits a hospital where old Julie a news peddler. Is recovermg from an accident. - GO ON WIT HTHE STORY Fy Elinore Meherln “Look over in the corner —” The first thing Chickie saw was a pair of black eyes, brilliant as stars, then a mass of dark, glossy curls. It seemed the head and forehead of a very young, beautiful boy. Then the patient turned, half sitting up and resting on an elbow. Not a boy, but a little, slim girl, who seemed about 15 and whose mouth an short, resolute chin gave her a look stoical and defiant, like that sometimes sepn on children who have been whipped, but not convinced. Eva said: “We’re just in time —” for at that moment a nurse brought in a bundle wrapped in a blanket and laid it on the bed at the girl’s side. / Chickie's face grew pale. She said, trembling: “Not hers, is it?” “Who’s do you suppose?” "Oh—she just seemed so terribly young. I’d never suppose she was married—” "Sorry part of it. She isn’t. Want to see it?” Chickie yanked her collar, for she was suddenly warm and breathing hard. "No! No, Eva! She won’t want us staring.” Eva said: “She's fond of me,” and. walking down the long aisle, stooped over the girl with a warm: “Get’s sweeter every day, Elena. How are you?” The girl had the baby hugged against her, she was looking down at it, pressing its hand on her breast, tier cheeks colored when Eva spoke, hut she didn’t smile at all. When Eva said: “Let us see it—” she glanced suspiciously at Chickie, hesitated, but finally turned it a little, opening the blanket. Oh —it was much bigger than Chickie's baby. It had hair, too — black and curly. Hut It wasn’t a little, unprotesting thing with scarce

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a flicker to call its life. It was ruddy and plump. Suddenly, opening its mouth, it yawned mightily. Something in that twisting of its lips struck along Chickie’es nerves. She had an overpowering wish to sink on her knees, hide her face against the chlM’s. She touched the baby’s hand. She leaned down, whispering to the girl. “It’s lovely.” The girl saw into Chickie's eyes. They were brimming. She eald Impulsively: "You can kiss him.” Then Chickie walked unsteadily to the corridor where Eva waited. The large, easy face had a twinkle: “Stay out of hospitals in future if you can’t do any better than that—” Chickle was unable to answer* She was seeing one who forged against a beating wind, head down; one who stopped suddenly and laid a still form on the ground, blowing a breath between its blue, unstirring lips. Ah —if the child had lived; if it were -with her now; if she had It to guard; it to raise against the world’s protest? She stopped abruptly and wiped her face. She murmured: “Eva —what becomes of a child like that?” Eva shrugged: "Peddled about, mostly. Sometimes they’re adopted.’’ “They leave them here? How can they do that?” “It’s the only thing to do, isn’t it?” Chickie’s hands were clammy. She rubbed her handkerchief In a ball between them. "Is It? But that girl seems to want it.” “There’s the thrill for you. She does want it. They hardly ever do. She’s going to take it. It’s hers. We can’t stop her. You can see what she’s walking into, can’t you—a girl of 16 with a child —no home —no job.” Eva told the girl’s story. Elena Castenada belonged to an old Spanish family. The girls were all pretty and full of fire. They were poor but stern and proud. One of the sisters was married. At fifteen Elena came from Detroit, where she had been raised, to Chicago, getting a job as alteration hand in a department store. She fell in love. No one knew the man. And no threat of disowning or disgrace could force his name from the gii , Elena. When the married sister found out she offered to take Elena in if she would get rid of the child. If Elena would leave the babby, the sister would allow her to live in her home. The girl refused so that now she wouldn’t even turn her face from the wall when her sister came to visit. She was afraid they would steal the baby—she was even suspicious that the nurses might give it away while she slept. Chickie felt weak and almost unable to breathe. Shas said faintly: "I suppose she some money saved —’’ "Oh—you do! Altering ladles’ gowns is very profitable to the apprentice—” “If ahe hasn’t, what is she to do?” “Sad life, isn’t it?"

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A Visit to the Maternity Ward of a Hospital Touches Chickie Deeply

"You don’t suppose they’ll allow her to leave the hospital, not knowing what is to become of her?” “When they leave —they leave! We haven’t any follow-up squad. What do you think this is? A prison?” Chickie said hoarsely: “It’s not right—we can’t stand by and do nothing ” Eva stood on the steps. “That’s Just what we can do. And nothing else. There are two or three a month like Elena. Can’t help them all, can you? What good does it do to help one?” Chickle was as weighted with this forbidding fate awaiting Elena Castenada as though it were her own. She saw the pathetic, beautiful of the girl’s face; the childish pride when she said: "You can kiss him!” It seemed to her frightful that she and Eva would stand with folded hands and allow Elena to go out into this brutal aloneless. It seemed to her that she was a hundred years older in poise and confidence. And it was bitter enough for her. She went along the street, stumbling, biting her lips. That night she didn’t sleep. Her thoughts filled with quixotic schemes for aiding. She would send an anonymous letter to Elena with SIOO of the $250 she had in the bank. Or she would rent the vacant room upstairs and ask Mrs. Janis to let Elena come. Then she would get a job. Why —she would support her for a while. She was carried away with the reckless fervor. Oh —her own trouble was not as awful as this —older —six years older —how tragic life can be— Monday morning Chickie got up before 6. She had pasted on a card three adds. And one of these she was certain was going to be her Job —and a peach of a job— CHAPTER XXXIV FTotsam Before 9 o'clock Monday morning Chickie waited in the 6mall, graypapered office of Jones & Jones, attorneys. She had read this ad with a glow of hope. Three applicants were ahead of her. One was a plump, blonde girl In a pink sport suit and a large picture hat trimmed with pansies; then there was, very rigid against the wall, a tailored business person, one of those women who are 35 at 20, and still 35 at 50; the third was' a slim midget with a neat air and very knowing, eager face. Chickie, pretending to read a book, surveyed these rivals anxiously and found them surveying her. A girl with drab hair and nostrils so wide it gave her whole face a greedy aspect, now opened the door

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to an inner office. She motioned to the applicant In the picture hat. The girl flushed, looking very young and alluring. Chickle thought: “She won’t get it—why did she wear such a hat—but It’s so warm here—” She had scarcely time to finish this brief Judgment when the girl swept back to the room, her cheeks scarlet. She made a bolt for the outer door. The same thing happened to the midget, only she returned with a grin from ear to ear. The severe applicant was tailed. A long moment elapsed. Chickle was allowed to apply. “Miss Hatchet," as Chickie christened her predecessor, sat vigorously at a table taking dictation from a flustered, un-happy-looking man while directly facing the door, behind a small railing, was a straight-featured woman with a wide mouth literally crammed with very long, heavy teeth. She watched as Chickle entered, then reached for a pencil stuck in her hair: “Your name? You’ve had experience in legal work? No? sorry, you won’t do.” No courteous: “We may give you a chance. You may hear from us.” No “sit and rest yourself a bit.” Not a word. Chickle walked unsteadily to the door. In the hall the midget waited for the elevator. She burst into a laugh at the sight of Chickie: “You, too! What a scream! I suppose the fright gets it.” Chickie said whimsically: “Sweet and gracious, wasn’t It? I never was bounced out on my ear like that before.” "Perhaps it’s your first experience with a Jealous wife. She’s the Joneses of the firm. The husband is the “and.” I knew what to expect, but I thought I was inoffensive enough to get by. They say she throws a fit if he even looks at a pretty girl. I should worry with a dollar in my purse! Do you need the job?” “In a way—yes.” “Touch luck. I’ve laid off all summer; and that’s the only one worth looking up—” “Oh—l saw another —” “I'd like to bet it’s the one that said, "must have personality plus, also initiative.” “Yes.” “I’ll say you need the plus, all right, to sell their fake oil units. That’s the job. I went there last week. Well—so long. I’ll have a little more vacation." Chickle was a little dismayed with this breezy dismissal of her chances. But it was a fine amber day toward the end of September. The air was

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full of sweetness and there was still the third ad. She walked through the shopping district, stopping for a brief, caressing glance at the wondrous colors of evening gowns newly imported. The shops here fascinated her, especially that one that had such a summery air, with birds in cages, so that when you entered a flash of song and a dart of yellow met you. The address was blocks beyond this. Her buoyance sank as she reached the street piled with fruit boxes: crates of vegetables of squawking chickens stacked at the curbs. She went on to the middle of the block, breathing gingerly. At the address she had marked, an enormous butcher dray was now parked and two men lifted out whole beeves, lambs and pig, slinging them over their shoulders. Drips of red went down slowly, smudging the sidewalk. Chickie gulped, taking in the raw, fleshy odor, but she followed the men Into the darkened area. They hung the meat. In a corner on a small platform was a door with the glass painted white and “Office” written black and large. Chickle almost ran to it, more in the hope of getting a free breath than from any eagerness to begin work in these surroundings. A thin man in a sack coat, wno looked more like a discouraged, underfed preacher than a wholesale butcher, admitted her. He said: “Well—you come about tne ad—l can’t exactly say— ’’ He seemed very uncomfortable. In the corner, just hanging her coat on a hook, was a poor looking, sallow girl. She eyed Chickie, almost with appeal, brushed, a heavy bottle fly that kept circling about her head. Finally the man said: "But you might leave your name and address. Miss Nelson isn't sure she can do the work.” The sallow girl sat very still, her eyes glued" on a note book. There was something dramatic and hopeless in her quiet. Chickie's ready imagination took fire. She said on a sudden impulse: "I couldn’t do the work at all. I’ve never had experience. I’d rather not consider it.” She went out quickly, scarcely pausing till she was well Into the breeze and sunlight again. It surprised her to find her nerves quivering. Jobs like that—fill up your lungs with heavy odorous breaths—get your feet In those red smudges on the sidewalk? She was glad Miss Nelson seemed to want the place so wretchedly. Well—that was the last of the list. Another week of idleness—going on two months now. Chickie swung her purse. It wasn't going to last. Why —lt couldn’t! Plenty of work — So she went to the bank and drew out SIOO in currency. She had a breathlessly, choky feeling doing this. Yet she felt herself very tall,

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wondered how she should offer this money to Elena Castenada, wondered If the girl would resent her efforts She would have! If anyone had come to her and said, "l know of a nice room, you can stay as long as you like,” If anyone had said that to her she would have turned cold aa steel. She would have smiled and thanked them so that they would be filled with mortification. But she was different from Elena, fffilckle knew this. She wns young enough—yes. But for that thing she did. she and she only was responsible. She would allow no other to be held accountable for this would have trailed It all in unbearable shame. Her own heart; her own spirit—swept though it might have been more by the sacrificial urge of a girl’s first love than by lte own wild wish —had yet poured itself out freely and of Its own spontaneous prompting. This was its one Justification. She would have burned to hear herself catalogued as "betrayed.” But this Elena was ouch a child thing. And it was different having no home to go to and not eo much as the money to buy her dinner. Chlokie had never been desperate like that. She grew excited and more Impatient and fervid than In the night. Eva was Just dressing to go on duty. She turned with lazy surprise when Chickie walked into her room

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