Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1925 — Page 14

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CHICKIE

The Sequel to

Chickie (HcC.ena) is the only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce oi Indianapolis. To start life anew after her child dies and Barry Dunne, her sweetheart. Jilts her to marry wealth 11a Moore, Chickio goes to Chicago for employment. Sarah Dillon, the Abbott sisters, Amy Heaton. Stella Wilson, Mary Blake McPike. Janina KnovJ“ wealthy Jake Munson are Chlckle home-town friends. . .... , . Jimmie Blake, a childhood sweetheart, who still loves Chickie, accepts a position in Honolulu. . . _ Chickie goes to the home of her employer, Norp Willman. as companion for his daughter. Barbara. Dee. his son. loves Chickie. Myra King recognizes Chickie and tells their sister Edith (Mrs. Dirks Potter) ot her past life. Edith orders (fhickie to leave. Lee attempts suicide when Chickie confirms the story. She accepts a position in the office of George Edgeman. where Luis Lamarck. friend of the Willmans. has a studio. While Edgeman is away. Lamarck tells Chickie that her past means nothing to him. The climax comes when he insinuates that because of him she is receiving more salary than the work Is worth. She tears up her check and leaves. , Chickie returns home with her parents and begins training a9 a nurse. Jake gives Chickie time to consider his proposal of marriage Chickie excites the interest of Dr. David Ramm. and Kenneth Harmon, young interne, discards his fiancee, Edith Underwood, for Chickie. She is elected editor of the senior Journal, but her joy is blighted when Miss Simonds. an official, learns that all the students Know 01 Chiciue s past life and asks her to resign to uphold the morals of the other nurses. GO ON WITH THE STORY

By Ell no re Mehcrln “Ho! Downfall! You call It that! It was no more a downfall than marriage Is and I looked at it as that sacred. And It was. All the sin Is because it didn't turn out rigljt and I was fooled. You call me a person of doubtful character. But I’m not. I never was. It doesn’t make me of unsound morality because I loved. You don’t know. You can’t judge. "My child had a perfect right to be. It had every right that God can know. Only man could snd it wrong. Why they have to make laws to create a wrong where none exists. And that’s so! And what difference Is there between my child and the child of marilage? What difference between married emotions and unmarrid emotions? Why don’t you answer? I can tell you! Ho a fig leaf!” Suddenly she laiughed —a half sobbing, hysterical laugh. Miss Simonds blanched. She rubbed her finger slowly across the envelope. “This* is where our views differ, Miss Bryce. You seem to think you had a perfect right to follow out your own selfish desires and give no thought to consequences. You did a thing that if dome by all would shake the foundations of the entire moral world. These conventions are for the protection of the home and the young race. If we disregard marriage what is" to become of the children of the world? Are they to he fatherless because you or will not wait for the law's sanction? Is it any justification that your love is sacred when it is at the same time utterly selfish?” The shot went to the heart. Chickie was stunned and nodded as though she didn’t quite know what she was doing. ”Yes that s true—the child shouldn’t suffer. That’s the wrong—” But she desperate and rallied even from this. She kept repeating. "That’s the wrong.” And therd went flashing through her mind and every tortured nerve, Images she had seen of these children; and things she had thought in all these aching years. She poured them out now like a living fire. There was no stopping her. Miss Simonds put up her hand. Chickie flurtg her head back and. kept on: “But that’s the world’s sin, Miss Simonds, and not mine. The world should not treat a baby so. It should be glad to have them. It should protect them and recognize them — oh, as a great gift. Then there would be no shame, but a beauty in the coming of a child —no matter who the mother was, or the father! “And some day this will he, and no law will dare to take a little child and brand it and make all its life a misery- Do you think that's right? You tell me, Miss Simonds —do you think that’s right?” Miss Simonds pushed her chair: ‘'Will you sit down, Miss Bryce? You axe acting very foolish.” "I say—do you think that’s right? Was it right that ' I had to go away and hide and pray that my child would die and pray that I would die? As though to have a child were the ultimate Infamy! "But It should be a glory. And every girl who Is to have a child should be honored —” “I think you’ve said quite enough. Miss Bryce. You are not aiding yourself—” >Ho— aiding myself—but I say there should be a temple builded — the most beautiful place in all the world; and girls who are to have children should go there, and the law should do everything to make the child a worth while child. Then rrfen would acknowledge their children and be proud ot- them, and love would be recognized, as- marriage is! •‘Ho —I’d like to know what you think. Why don’t you answer?” Suddenly she heard this uncontrolled voice of hers shrilling. Suddenly she know she was defeated, the half-won triumph snatched away. She saw Miss Simonds gather papers on the desk and she noticed that Miss Simonds’ nails were pink and shirty, like little petals. She heard a voice of cold dignity: “Are you finished at last, Miss Bryce? Or can you think of something else to say?” Chickie kept her eyes down. And this second death of hope was a frightful, dooming thing. “You are neither chastened nor humbled. I am sorry to see this attitude. I have a sympathy for you. Miss Bryce. But you wish the whole world declared wrong in order that you may be found right. You want to make your own rules and piay vou own game, yet you demand a share In the world’s favors.”

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Chickie gave a sharp, forlorn denial.- “Ho, I want a chance to keep the rules, to show that I will keep them.” And she added, with a broken quiet: “You won’t give it to me. Miss Simonds? Surely—” “Please, Miss Bryce! I have been patient. Now don’t reopen the subject. It Is closed. Make your arrangement when you can I will do all in my power to make It easy for you—” Chlckle closed her eyes. She stood for a few inon.ents resting her weight on her 1 ands. CHAPTER LVIII The Lost Fight The hardest thing Chickie ever did was to walk down that endless corridor with her head up and her !lps quiet. She- had forcibly to keep herself from run.iing. The last few paces she did run, with a flying bolt reached her room, closing the door as though all the wild things of earth pursued her. She felt herself in the midst of a lightning and a clash —and she kept saying: “No! It can’t be! It is not!” But she stooped down suddenly and pulled her trunk from under the bed. She began flinging clothes helter skelter into itIn the ward she had left less than an hour .ago' was a little, homeless girl. And she had a broken back. Chlckle had been drawing a picture to amuse her—a funny picture of a man with a great long nose. The little girl went into gales f laughter and said: “Aw nurse—petty nurse—don’t go!” So Chickie was to rush right back and finish the mouth and put another twist on the nose. Sure now! No fooling? Chickie remembered this now. Her heart swelled In a still passion of revolt. A mere human being, a thing of flesh like herself, had sent for her and had calmly ordered that all these glad, new threads of her life v-we to be snapped. It was stark and incredible as though one rejoicing mightily in each breath he draws is told: "Sfep in here —you are to be murdered!” No one submits to a thing like that! Chickie wouldn’t. They’d see! The frenzy of her hands became terrible. The drawers were empty. She put down the cover on the trunk! And she began to dress —quickly— but pausing now and then and pressing her fists against her cheeks. She wore a dark suit, anew white gardenia pinned to the lapel. Chickie loved a flower, the song of a bird, a ray of light shimmering across the wall. Things like this were music. She wore a dark hat with a brim. Under this her eyes were cavernous, her face had a moonlike pallor. Looking at her, no one would ever dream they were sending her away because she was a girl of doubtful character. The word rang in her ears. She stood at the foot of the bed, touching the white flower. She couldn’t wear a flower! Not humble; not chaste In her. She started to unpin it; hastily snapped it back. Was it true that she could be utterly punished, that other girls might learn? Mies Simonds said so. It had brought out that hysterical tumult. Frantic, uncontrolled sentences flashed back into Chickie’s mind — brought hot stains to her cheeks. How unbridled she had been! How pathetically defiant. She wondered jiow If she might have fared better; might even have remained if she had steadied herself; if she had spoken with a pleading dignity. Oh, no—that wouldn’t have mattered! Why, she had been quiet at first. Oh! who could be quiet in such an hour—quiet when lives are broken and a game fight lost?

Lost —she saw this word in-a picture—that old picture of many waters rising, men drowning, hut, above it all. a girl clinging to the cross. One saved and hundreds lost 1 ! Still she remained at the foot of the bed, staring about the room. Myrtle’s flimsy underwear was drying on the chairs. Powder and hairpins strewed the dresser: all the drawerp were opened. How all this shoddiness had irritated her in the beginning. And now she had railed at Myrtle when she piled careless little mounds of cigarette -ashee in the window box. How she clung to these details now—how she even loved them. She was frozen In a resentful hesitation, unable to leave. Oh, something would happen! So, one looks at the face of a mother who Is dead and waits for the beloved lips to speak again. Twenty months in this room—quitting It now— come rollicking up the steps carrying a great cake from- Jennie —two or three, Phyllis and Myrtle, racing along with her —never light hearted friendships like these again. Her thoughts crowded. They took the breath from her—made her faint. Finally "she took up her purse. And she went back and wiped off the top of her table with an old towel. As she did this a sudden question dashed against her like a blow. Did she have to go? Had Miss Simonds the right, the exclusive right, to send her away? Her muscles tightened: the blood went pounding to her head. There might be someone else—

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Miss Simonds Dismisses Chickie From the Hospital—Chickie Despairs.

She went deliberately to the mirror, took a clean handkerchief and wiped her face. Then she drank a glass of water. With the ulet of a machine she went down the steps, back along that corridor. And she was standing in the office again. It was half an hour before she was admitted. Miss Simonds appeared worried. Seeing Chicitle in street clothes she said astonished: "It’s not necessary that you leave today, Miss Bryce. You may stay until it convenient to go.” Chickie leveled her eyes to a picture on the opposite wall. She smiled with a soft Irony: “It is as convenient now as It can ever lie. I would like to ask, Miss Simonds —■ have you the power—the sole power in this case? Have you the right to take my life in your hands as you are doing? I mean, is it according to the ruies of the hospital?” Miss Simonds’ face reddened: “If you wish to take the matter before the student body, that is your privilege, as you know. But I must warn you that you will only add to the pain of the experience. Further, you may have charges brought against, if you wish. Tut you have admitted everything. The procedure is simply inevitable.! In taking this step I am merely answering a trust put upon me. Your further presence is hurtful to the school. Whether I tell you this, or your fellow students or the officers of the institution pass judgment is of secondary importance. I can assure you, In any case, it will he the same.” “Was I of value before this became known?” “You can answer that yourself.” “And if these charges were not brought to you, I would still be of value?” “What is the purpose of your question?” “I want to know if I may transfer to another hospital and finish—” Miss Simonds passed her large, capable hand across her forehead: “On your transfer I should be bound to state the reason for your leaving.” Chlckle swayed: “Might not some other reason be given?” “Can you ask me, Miss Bryce, to enter into an agreement to deceive and misrepresent? I consider it very wrong that you yourself did this In entering here.” "Oh, Miss Simonds—what else could I do? Wby should It be considered truthful and noble to fasten this thing on me? Why is It righteous to prevent me from serving the right?” "We have gone into all of this. There is no value In argument since you can not be convinced of your wrong doing. . “Oh, yes—l am well convinced of that! But I am not convinced of any one’s power to Insist that, once down, I remain down!” She suddenly flung back her head —suddenly made a little rush to the door. She had an idea that she staggered and kept looking at her feet. Skin Breaking Out? Purify Your Blood Blotches, eruptions, sores and sallow complexion are the usual signs of poor blood. Salves lotions and cosmetics eRn not give real relief Get at the cause, you can’t have clear, healthful skin if vour liver Is torpid, your kidneys weak, vour bowels constipated and your whole jystem poisoned and run-down. Neglect ’ -an bring on rheumatism and other scrims troubles. Viuna has corrected this whole condition for thousands of people. It can make you feel like anew person—.igorous, healthy, with a clear skin, a •eal appetite, and anew enjoyment of iving. Will you give It a chance? VIUNA The vegetable regulator

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holding her arm* rigid to her side. She passed nurses and nodded, but didn’t know to whom. She had reached the end of a world and wanted to plunge herself wildly—anywhere— She went Uke this for three blocks, then she turned around with a fright leaping In her throat. Had any one seen her? ' They would think her mad. It was a golden morning In June —the street bland as a song. She went wandering along. Finally she got on a street car and rode downtown. She walked aimlessly along looking into shop windows. She saw a bolt of blue ribbons—soft, faded blue like Jennie’s eyes. She hurried from that window—oh, what would they say—how would they take It. And Jonathan so proud of her. Jonathan saying: “What do you think of my girl—will she 'make a good nurse?” Jonathan was not to know! Never! This secret she Could keep. She passed a 5 and 10 cent store—entered. She stopped before a counter. Glgss beads of all colors were in little glasses. Was Mary’s little girl old enough to play with them? She bought big ones and a ball of pink string to run them on. (To Be Continued) (Coprrieht. Kinir Feature Syndicate) Chinaman Faces Charge Charles Long, 45, Brevort Hotel, a Chinaman, is held today under a $5,000 bond on charges of violating the narcotic law and vagrancy. Detective Barnaby and Federal Agent J. J. King, arrested Long at his room Wednesday after finding two cans of opiutn. Officers said Long denied peddling the narcotic.

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