Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1925 — Page 12

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GLORIA

THE STORY SO FA*t GLORIA GORDON, beautiful flapper, marries DICK GREGORY, a struggling' lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun and line clothes . . . but no work or children. Dick borrows his mother’s maid, MAGGIE, to teach Gloria to cook. But she refuses to learn. Later. Maggie liares. disgusted with Gloria's '‘wild" parties and jazzy friends. Then Gloria hires RANGHILD SWANSON. although Dick tills her they can’t afford a maid. And she swamps Dick with debts for her clothes. In despair, he sells his old roadster for the new one she nags him into getting for her. Gloria goes riding in it with STANLEY WAYBURN, an actor with whom she was in love before her ncirriog'-. They are seen by MOTHER GREGORY, who begs Gloria to mend her ways. Instead of doing this. Gloria invites Wavburn. MAY SF-YMOUR. wife of DR. JOHN SEYMOUR, and JIM CAREWE, to the house, They are having a jolly time when Diek returns and the guests out. Gloria visits Wayburu in his rooms, but leaves in a fit of jealous anger when she sees dozens of women’s pictures on the walls. She returns home, to find that Dick has been brought home UI by MISS BRIGGS, his secretary. Miss Briggs’ sister. MRS. O’HARA, a nurse, comes to take care of Dick, who partially recovers. Gloria picks up the phone one day to hear the two sisters talking. She listens. By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XXVIX ye, 1 LORIA held her breath and (j listened. Her ear was pressed ■I tight to the receiver. Then Miss Briggs’ voice came over the phone again. This time it was choky with tears. “Tell me the truth... .is Mr. Gregory going to die?’’ she asked brokenly. “How does that w.’fe of his take it?” Miss Briggs asked. Gloria frowned. W.’iat right had these two women to be talking about her and Dick in this way? “Oh, don’t ask me to figure Mrs. Gregory out! She’s too deep for me!” she heard Mrs. O’Hara say. “She never comes near her husbands room....but I can’t get her to stir out of the house. I’ll say this for her, though: She’s the prettiest thing I ever saw.” Miss Briggs sniffed. “Do you think so?” she asked. Stealthily Gloria hung up the receiver. She stood biting the pointed ends of her fingernails, thougthfully. * • • Os course. Miss Briggs couldn’t see that she was pretty! She was too jealous of her! She hated her because she was Dick’s wife! ... .Why couldn’t Miss Briggs see that it was hfr own fault that she hadn’t been able to “land” Dick? Gloria was sure that any woman could marry any mar. she chose to marry.... All she had to do was to “vamp” him intelligently. Thes6 women like Miss Briggs, who scorned a hit of honest make-up and a curling Iron! What conceited simps they were! No man was gong to take the time to look past their colorless faces to find their beautiful souls. Not. on your life! And Miss Briggs, with all her brains, hadn’t had sense enough to see that, Gloria decided. • • • HE ran upstairs to her own IO I room that had been the Utt 1 “spare” bedroom until Dick’s illness. As Mother Gregory had privately remarked to Maggie. . . . "Anybody with a nose would know it was Gloria’s room!” For it was fragrant with the smell of Gloria’s favorite perfume and powder. The bed was heaped with tiny slumber-pillows, and an untidy pile of motion picture magazines littered the window seat. It had always been the dream of Gloria's life to break into the movies ... or to go on the stage. The thought still lurked in the back of her mind, teasingly. She leaneu over the dresser and held her face close to the mirror, so that the coppery sunshine of her hair brushed the glass. . , . How could Miss Briggs say she wasn’t pretty? Why, she was beautiful! Dick had always said so. So had —Stan Wayburn.

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“Zowie but it’s good to see you again,” he said when she met him.

Stan Wayburn! The very thought of him was like sudden light to Gloria. Ten days ago she had made up her mind never to see him again. She had kept her mind on home and poor Dick. She had seen no one but the nurse, the doctor, and Mother Gregory. . . . And oh, but she was sick and tired of the four wells of the house! She needed cheering up, she told herself. In a flash, Gloria’s mind was made up. She would see Stan Wayburn thas very afternoon! She would call him up and ask him to take a walk with her. Surely there could be no harm in that. Then, after that, she would never see him again—perhaps. . . . Gloria dressed to go out, with feverish haste. When she was ready, she tried to slip quietly out of the house without letting Mother Gregory know she was going. But Mother Gregory had X-ray eyes and the ears of a fox. “Where are you going, Glory?” she called. “I want you to get some darning cotton for me at the store, if you re going out.” "Oh, the dickers!” Gloria remarked to herself. She didn’t want Mother Gregory to see how she had dressed herself to go cut to meet Stanley Wayburn. But there was no way out of it. She dragged herself unwillingly into the sunroom. Mother Gregory had been darning Dick's socks and sewing buttons on his shirts, all day. “Glory,” she asked now, “don’t you ever do any mending for Dick?” Gloria shook her head impudently. “I don’t know how to mend. My mother always kept my clothes in order for me,” she said. “Now, when my stockings have holes In them, I throw them away 1 hate darned stockings.”

Puzzle a Day

Eskimos in Alaska use thousands of rods of wire in trapping rare foxes. The fox pelts are shipped to New York City and sola on the fur market. This summer a group oi Eskimo* sent three kinds of fox pelts, winter white fox at S2OO each, 10 times as many summer white fox at SIOO each, and the balance were silver fox at SSOO. Their Alaskan agent received SIO,OOO for the lot. Find out now many of each type of pelt were sent in this last batch. I.ast puzzle answer: departed l ) I AUER ) V-/ |ftooruf ■—l— ■" • ATHOS# t EHTERED -S The difficulty in this puzzle was discovered by this disobedient young woman through an accident. In fright she darted into the building, put one foot inside the altar room and saw that it was tilled with monks. So without leaving the first room she took her foot out of the second room and ran as shown In tne diagram. So you see by being in two rooms; at one time she accomplished the apparently impossible feat of entering each room once only.

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Ml OTHER GREGORY set her lips firmly. j “I’ve alwtys said,” she remarked, rolling a pair of socks into a neat ball, “that a lazy' wife could throw more money into the rag bag and to the garbage can than her husband could earn working night and day.” "I’m no worse than the rest of the women I know," Gloria defended herself. “Then you know the wrong kind of women—you flapper wives aren’t real wives!” replied Mother Gregory. She picked up the Bible that lay on the wicker table beside her. She opened it, and put on her glasses. “Let me read you something,” she said. “Listen to this....‘Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth trust her. She will do him good and not evil.... She aeeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands.’ ” Gloria laughed. “That’s the bunk.... that old stuff. Times have changed since the Bible was written,” she said. “That’s where you’re wrong, Glory. Times haven't changed. They’re just .he same as they were in the days- of King Solomon,” Mother Gregory went on, “and it looks to me as if a virtuous woman Is Just as hard to find these days as she was thousands of year ago. . . Where are you going all dressed up. and covered with that nasty perfume you use?” Gloria began to feel that in some uncanny way Mother Gregory knew that she was going out to telephone Stanley Wayburn to meet her. “Is it tan darning cotton you wanted?” sho evaded. “Like this?” She bent to pick up a little piece that lay on the rug at Mother Gregory’s feet. Suddenly she felt Mother Gregory’s hands on her shoulders. She looked up at her. The older woman s eyes were bright with tears. "My dear,” she said, "I talk to you this way only because I want this marriage of yours and Dick’s to be a success. . . . Let us try to be friends, you and I.” Gloria found herself facing the most suprising fact in human experience . . . the kindliness of a person you believe to be thoroughly unkind! * • * She couldn’t fir.d a word to say. Finally she rose to her feet, and put the scrap of darning cotton into her purse. She went slowly out of the house into the sunny street. ♦ * * |O | telephoned Stan from the I O I store on Gollege Ave., where U- "1 she bought the darning cotton. “Zowie, but it's good to see you again,” he said when she met him. “Didn’t you come in your automobile?” Gloria shook her head. Her eyes shone with welcome. “No. I’m dying to walk, if you don’t mind a little hike,” she said. “I’ve been penned up in the house ever since I saw you last. Dick’s had pneumonia, but he’s better now. ....I guess hb'll be all right If his heart holds out.” “Is that so? Sorry to hear he’s been sick,” Stan answered lndifferentl.y as they swung along. Then his tone changed. “That explains why I haven’t heard from you for so long,” he said. "Now tell me... .why under heaven, did you suddenly get up and beat it that dya you came to see me at the hotel? I never was so surprised in my life. What made you do it?” Gloria blushed uncdmfortably. “Oh, I hate to tell you,” she an swered in a low tone. “It was t>e*cause of all those women’s pictures in your room! I’m so jealous of every woman you’ve ever cared about! And I hated to think I was just one of them. I made up my mind that day that I'd never have a thing to do with you again!”

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Gloria Again Sees Stanley Wayburn Despite Her Resolutions.

Wayburn laughed. Then he turned slightly and tipped his hat to some one who passed. “That was your friend, Mrs Wing ....the dizzy blonde I met at your party,” he said. “Is that so!” Gloria exclaimed. “I suppose by tomorrow she’ll have it all over town that I’m in love with Stanley Wayburn, the well known actor!” Stan grinned. "Are you?” he asked. "I wish I knew. One day I hate you... .and the next day I can't wait to see you,” the girl confessed. ‘‘But I think about you most of the time. If that’s being in love, I suppose I am." Gloria walked along, deep in thought. She wondered what it was she felt for Dick. It was true that life with him W’iJ not exciting... .And yet, she had said a prayer of thankfulness the night he had passed his pneumonia crisis. She had been filled with sorrow, that night, at the thought that Dick might die and leave her. But now, that he was better, she was almost indifferent, again. What ailed her, anyway, Gloria wondered. Why didn't she know her own mind? When she had married Dick she had been almost happy with him. But a bottomless pit had opened between them, with the return of Wayburn into her life. Gloria looked at Stan. With his hands in his pockets, he sauntered along humming a jazzy little tune. Stan was almost cheerful, full of pep, ready for a good time. The wilder the time the better it suited Stan!....He cheered Gloria up like a jazz band. “Y'ou’re a great little worrier. Russet,” he said now, showing his white teeth in a grin. “Why can’t you make up your mind that you and I enjoy being together and let it go at that? Why must you worry yourself about the other women I know?....You know I think you're the ‘some baby’ of all the world, don’t you? Isn’t that enough?” He took her hand' in his and pressed it tight, for a moment. Then let it drop. “Perhaps you do think that. Rut you don’t lov© me,” Gloria cried. “You don’t love me enough! When a man has cared for a girl the way Dick has for me, she can never be fooled by imitation love again. She knows the real thing ” “Tragedy queen!” Stan said, with a mocking light in his eyes. Gloria stamped her foot. Why couldn’t he take her seriously once in a while?

(To Be Continued)

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