Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1925 — Page 14

14

GLORIA

GLORIA GORDON, beautiful flapper, marries DICK GREGORY, a struggling young lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun and fine clothes . . . but no wok or children! ... She refuses to cook or keep house. And she swamps Dick with debts for her clothes and anew automobile. Giloria becomes infatuated with STANLEY WAYBURN. an actor. She and Waybum, with MAY SEYMOUR and JIM CAREWE, make a lolly foursome. Wayburn is offered a job on the New York stage. Gloria lends him S2OO of Dick's money to help him out. Dick almost dies with pneumonia. When he recovers. DR. JOHN SEYMOUR, husband of the flighty May, sends him away for a rest. Gloria refuses to go with hint, because MOTHER GREGORY, whom she hates, is going. As soon as Dick and his mother leave on their inn. Gloria seta out for New York. She. goes straight to Wayburn. But he spurns Gloria, and tells her he has just married his leading woman, a Russian actress. Then Gloria tries everywhere to land a job as a chorus girl, but fails. At last she comes home to Dick. Ho takes her back into his house, but not as his wife. Gloria finds that everyone in town knows about her affair with Wayburn. Her friends snub her on every side. And Dick seems to have slipped away from her. too. On night Gloria finds him having dinner with MISS BRIGGS, his secretary. She goes home and waits until midnight for Dick. By Beatrice Burton CHAPTER XLVIII UDDENLY as Gloria stood there on the stairs, she was afraid. The empty house seemed to be filled with strange sounds and rustlings. The pantry door creaked. . . And was something or somebody moving in the dark dining-room? With her heart in her mouth, Gloria dashed back upstairs to her room. She slammed and bolted the door behind her. The lights in her room were blazing. Without stopping to turn them off, she plunged into bed and pulled the covers up over her head like a frightened child. She lay trembling for long minutes, listening for the sound of Dick’s key in the lock . . . Where in the world was he at this hour of the night? Why didn’t he come home? He had no right to leave his wife alone in the house half the night while he was out, doing. . . what? That was the question! Surely he and Miss Briggs weren’t still working in Dick’s office? Where were they? Together, somewhere ? .. . The questions swarmed like bees in Gloria’s brain. She forgot her fear. Anger toward Dick took its place. She swung her feet over the side of the bed and stepped out onto the rug. Then she put her head out of one of the open windows and looked up and down the street. But it lay empty and still under the hushed calm of midnight. As Gloria stood there, she heard a sound in the house, itself! It came from downstairs .. . the harsh tinkle of metal against metal. Someone was at the silver in the sideboard drawers! Burglars! Gloria pressed one hand tight to her breast. She felt as if her heart were jumping out of her body . . . it beat so fast! She tiptoed across the room to the door that led into the hall. She put her ear against it. and listened fob a long time. But there was no further sound. Gloria to wonder if she really had heard a noise, downstairs or not? Perhaps her tired brain had been playing her tricks. . . . Well, as soon as Dick came she would find out if anyore had been in the house? She wouldn’t be afraid to go downstairs to the dining room then. But why didn’t he come? * • LORIA got back into bed, and lay waiting for him. Oh, but i__J Wouldn’t she pan him when he did get home, though! The very idea! Leaving her alone as if she were Lola‘Hough, or any other faded, middle-aged wife! She’d let him know she wasn’t going to be treated like this. . . . She’d leave him first! That’s what she’d do. She had done it once, and she’d do it again! . . . The next thing Gloria knew it was morning. Her room was filled with the warmth and sunshine of early June. Through the open windows came the sound of a neighbor’s lawnmower and the sw T eet smell of freshcut grass. Gloria smiled and stretched herself like a tiger-kitten. Then she remembered last night. She frowned. Softly she went out Into the hall and listened at Dick’s door. No sound within! She opened the door and peeked Into the room. The bed had been slept in. Dick’s pajamas lay on the rug beside it, where he had stepped out of them. Thei-e were ashes in the tray on the bedside table. He had been home part of the night at least. . . . And he had gone that morning without even saying goodby! Gloria closed the door of his room. “TO be jiggered if I make his bed or clean up the place!” she said to herself. "He can’t treat me like a servant and expect I’ll be one for him! Because I won’t!” ■While she was waiting for her tub to fill, she went downstairs to the dining room. The drawers of th

Puzzle a Day

] p

Jack Layly made a bargain with Connie Mack. Mr. Mack was to take him to the ball game and he was to make Mr. Mack a dog house. Jack was given plenty of lumber, but he cut it so badly that the above irregularly shaped piece is all he had left for the square flooring. In square inches there was enough wood, but Jack did not know how to reshape the plank. So he appealed to Connie Mack who, by sawing the lumber Into three pieces and nailing these pieces together made the square flooring. How did Mr. Mack do this? Let puzzle answer: It took this traveler 1 hour and 58 minutes to measure and cut her lace. She cut sixty lengths, which required only 59 cuts of the scissors, for the 59th cut separated the last two pieces (59 x 2 min. equal 1 hour and 58 min.) But she wasted her time, for she was taxed in spite Os the short lengths.

Softly she went out into the hall and listened at Dick’s door.

sideboard were piled one on top of each other on the floor. They were empty. So there had been burglars in the house last night! And they had taken every piece of the flat silver that had been Mother Gregory’s wedding present! kot so much as a spoon was left! Gloria shivered. Then it was the burglar sho had heard taking the silver out of the sideboard drawers! . . . And it must have been the burglar whom she had seen moving stealthily against the darkness of the dining-room, last night! He must have been in the house when she entered it alone! Why, she might have been shot, if she hadn’t run upstairs when she did! Gloria'' burst into tears of panic at the terrible thought. ... .Well, she’d stand no more of Dick’s neglect. The very idea of his sending her home alone at 9 o’clock at night to a dark house! And then leaving her alone in it until ’way past midnight! She bet she’d never let him do a stunt like that again to her.... •* • . S'— -““I HE bathed and dressed. She didn’t stop to dust or make i_, beds. NBut, leaving the house just as it was, Gloria closed the door of it behind her, and started out. She was going to see Mother Gregory! She’d let her know whose fault it was that Dick's marriage was a fizzzle! She was through talking to Dick ....through pleading with him to treat her decently, Gloria told herself. But she knew she was only trying to bolster up her vanity. Under all her bravado, she know that the fact of the matter was that Dick was through with her!....She had seen it in his eye the night sho had come home from New York. She had heard it in the indifferent tone he used when he talked to her. And his indifference was maddening her. She couldn’t stand it! She had always had love and Indulgence from Dick. He had treated her like a beautiful, spoiled little girl. And now he hardly looked at her. Gloria's heart was heavy as she rang the doorbell of the old Gregory homestead. Maggie opened the door for her. She found Mother Gregory eating her substantial breakfast of ham and eggs, rolls and coffee. Her face was flushed with too much food. “Well, Gloria!” she cried in her rich, full voice. She got up from the table. i She put her well-rounded arms about Gloria and gave her a peck on either cheek.

Fashionable Footwear Not expensive here. Pumps are most fashionable just now and the Thrift’s stock is I T>iriT\ A vnilin if you py more than t>ur y°" I“ y iMen’s Hal * Solcs 75<J I §4 AIIc I l\l I too much. We use beet quality material* Women's Half Soles 50(* I | IVLTAIIUIIU hr ir^u^t tOTld Rubber Heel, .. ."w | Thmift Shoe Store Merchants bank building- —downstairs Waahin&ton end Meridian Streets

THE FLAPPER WIFE

“Come upstairs and talk to me while I get dressed,” she said, steering Gloria out of the dining-room. She nodded her head in the direction of Maggie, who was listening with all her might. “We’ll talk up here where Maggie can’t hear every word we say,” she told Gloria in a stage whisper as they mounted the wide stair-case, "What did you come to see me about, Glory?” She knew that this was no friendly call the girl was making. She knew that Gloria didn’t like her any more than she, herself, like Gloria. She was sure that Gloria had come on a special errand. • • • f=-IHE girl curled herself up in FT Ia little ball on the hard I | leather window seat in Mother Gregory’s room. It was a room as plain as the woman who slept in it a woman who scorned silk underwear and make-up as only Mother Gregory could scorn them! There were no cushions in that room, no ruffled curtains, no dress-ing-table laden with nerfume and powder boxes. Moeher Gregory stood before the walnut dresser and began to hook herself into an elaborate black dress, made in a style that had been popular when Dick was a baby! / “What did you come to see me about, Glory?” she asked again. "We —11,” Gloria began, “last night we were robbed of every bit of that lovely flat silver you gave us for a wedding present! Someone broke Into the house.” Mother Gregory threw up her plump hands. “My stars!... .Dick’s reported it to the police, of course?” she said. “Why, that silver has been in the family for a hundred years!” Slowly Gloria shook her pretty head. • “No, Dick hasn’t reported it to the police. Dick doesn’t know anything about the burglary,” she said calmly. Mother Gregory looked at her with her sharp black eyes. “You see,” Gloria went on without flickering an eyelash, “It all happened in the middle of the night when Dick wasn’t at home.” “When Dick wasn’t at home!” Mother Gregory echoed in a loud surprised tone, “Well, where on earth was he at that time of night, then?” “That’s what I want to know,” Gloria answered, “but I have every reason to think that he was with Miss Briggs.” ♦. The words exploded like a bomb in tho quiet room. “With Susan Briggs!” Mother Gregory repeated. “With Susan Briggs! Oh, no, Gloria!”

Gloria Finds the Silver As Well As Dick Absent and Goes to Mother Gregory.

Gloria shrugged her shoulders. “Have it your own way,” she said. “But I know that I found them having dinner together on the quiet, last night. I left them at nine o'clock. They said they were going to work for a while at the office. And at one o’oclock when I fell asleep, Dick hadn’t come home!” * • * OTHER GREGORY all but fell into a chair that stood l_— opposite Gloria. Her eyes were wide, and her mouth stood open with surprise. “I can't believe it!” she cried at last. “And how do you know when the burglar was in the house?” “I heard him,” Gloria answered. "I thought I heard Dick come in and I ran downstairs. Then I saw someone in the dining-room and I rushed back to my room and locked myself up . . .1 was scared to death!” “You couldn’t have been so terribly frightened.” Mother Gregory mused, “or you wouldn’t have dropped quietly off to sleep at one o'clock, as you said you did.” At that Gloria flared up. . “Well, I’ll tell you Just how frightened I was, if you want to know. Madam Gregory!” she said, furiously, “I was so frightened that I’ll never stay alone in that house again, after dark! . . . And if your son wants to have a love affair with his office girl he’ll have to work at It daytimes!”

"Glo-ree-a!” exclaimed Mother Gregory in the severe tones of the vice president of the Home Women’s Club, “You’re vulgar!” “Vulgar nothing! I’m just telling you the truth about your beautiful son!” Gloria sneered. “When I married Him I thought he was a plaster saint, too! But I’ve found out all about him. . . . Look at those!” She pulled some of the “Roxie” and “Lucie” love letters and pictures from her handbag and threw them Into Mother Gregory’s lap. Dick’s mother laughed her comfortable deep laugh, as she picked them up. “Roxie and Lucie Gilchrist!” she said. “They were both In love with Dick. First Roxie was —and then Lucie. They’re both married now, though. And Lucie has a boy! . . Dick had a lot of girls in his day, Gloria. But that doesn’t prove that he isn’t what you call a ‘plaster saint’!” Gloria’s lip curled. "All right,” she said. “But you can’t explain his staying out most of last night with Susan Briggs!” (To Be Continued)

Bert Jaffe Lewis Jude oTond 7. N. Illinois St.

For Furniture — Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry on Credit Kay Jewelry Cos. 137 W. Washington St. BUSINESS WANTS YOU Prepare definitely and you can go to work at once. For particulars aee. write or telephone Fred W. Case, Principal. Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North Y. W. C. A.. Indlanapollo.

OUT WE GO SALE Now Going On Plenty of Bargains for Every One SIDNEY’S Bargain Store 115 S. Illinois St.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

DEPENDABLE JEWELRY TERMS IF DESIRED Gray, Gribben & Gray Established 1884 151 North Illinois Street

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

BIRDSEED Highballs. “Pep” Maw Mite Powder Cuttle Bone. Manna. “Pie.” Song Restorers. Etc. BIRD CAGES 51.85 up CAGE STANDS 53.25 up

4

EYERITT'S SEED STORE 227 W. Wash. 3-5 N. Alabama. TRY A WANT AD IN THE TIMES. THEY WILL BRING RESULTS.

Window Shades /?£ _W.R. BEARD & CO. Oil Opaque, 36x6. Hartshorn Rollers. east Washington st. 51/2%, 6%, 61/2% Bankers Trust Company Mortgage Lodns Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts.

—Delicious and wholesome. —Easily digested. —l§elf-sufflcient as a diet. —Rich in vitamin C, an essential food element. —2OO times stronger in iodine content than milk, eggs or beefsteak. “EAT MORE OYSTERS” Willis Fish and Oyster Cos. 238 Mass. Ave. First Block MA in 1393 MEMBER OF OYSTER GROWERS’ AND DEAD ERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., OF NORTH AMERICA Try a Blue Point Cocktail at Our Booth at the National Dairy Exposition. Get Your Free Copy of 98 Recipes and Government Booklet About Oysters.

If You Appreciate Quality Unless you judge quality by cost, the high quality of my careful, competent funeral direction will impress you. But you’ll find the cost far below what the quality implies.

ed at JOOO.IIO. ' tlytfr 3fr ' V * flißß

JOHN F. REYNOLDS u Leader in Sensible Prices” MAin 0439 950 N. Penn. St.

Protecting the Family’s Future YOUR money invested in Meyer-Kiser 6% Real Estate certificates is as stable and sound as the real estate behind it. These certificates are secured by real estate worth more than twice the amount of the loan. Every one has an opportunity to invest in these safe securities. Because you can — Buy on Easy Payments The Meyer-Kiser plan makes it possible 'for you to invest as you earn. By paying $lO or more down and $lO a month you can begin building up an income that is absolutely safe. The sooner you start the sooner your income will begin. Meyer-Kiser Bank BOND DEPARTMENT

White Cafeteria now offers table service, specializing particularly upon good steaks and chops, location same as always, “On the Circle”

NOTICE To buyers of toilet soap—You will be glad to know that you can buy the Friteh Famous Vegetable Soap at the grocery, corner of IJelaw.-.re and the Market Uouae, and all of llaag's. Hook’s and Goldamith Bros.’ Drug Stores at 10c per bar or 3 bars for 20c. 11. HOWELL, Gen. Agent. |‘. Q, Box 637. Indianapolis, Ind.

KENTUCKY AVENUE VULCANIZING CO. 36x6 Truck Tires $ 62.50 36x6 Heavy Duty Tubes ....$9.75 32x6 Heavy Duty Tubes ....$8.75 MA In 1137 33-35 Kentucky Ave.

Sweaters SILK OR WOOL 75c Our new process for cleaning fine sweaters restores them to their original brightness and softness. Guaranteed Not to Shrink or Stretch Golf Stockings by the Same Process. 25c per pair. The Best-Grand Laundry = M A in 0774 =====

Good Values tit Glassware for the ffontd

(Sketched ) Optic glass, needle etched, , ' goblets, sherbets, iced teas, each, % doz... gpZt Tumblers, to Match, y 2 Doz., $1 / Clear glass tumbler of good quality blown glass. Veiy durable and yet P |> not heavy. One dozen JL Charles Mayer & Cos: 29-31 W. Washington St. Established 1840.

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

Reed Fibre Furniture 15 to 40% Off CAPITOL FURNITURE CO. 211 E. Washington St.

FLORENCE OIL * GORDON’S STOVES, ALL SIZES AT 127-129 E. Washington St.

GEM LAUNDRY ■■ ■ W ■ —SINCE 1871— PHONES: Lincoln 1327-1328-1329

l|t

Dependable Drug Stores

JOnty to JGxto Household Rubber Gloves, Pair

Heavy rubber gloves Unit como well over the wrists—the Ideal thing for kitchen wear. SI.OO Xtubber Gloves for 79<* Pure Gum Rubber Sheeting, 36x36 51.25 Invalid Cushions, 16-inch...53.15 Sprav Syringes, with extra large bulb 51.29 Marvel Whirling Sprny Syringe 53.39 Guaranteed Red Fountain Syringe, 2-qt. capacity 98<* Combination Set, 5 feet rapid flow tubing, 3 hard rubber pipes and cut-off 48<* Kleinert's Baby Pants, no buttons, pins or strings 50(1 Millers Jiffy Pant Rubberized Crib Sheeting, 36x36 98tf Medicine Droppers St 50c Metalglas, cleans , and polishes without scratching, leaving a QQ brilliant luster JjC Ttkvuf to Special *A This Week! Hot Malted Milk, 10c And a chocolate malt at that! You’ll agree that it is extra good. Made of rich, mild bittersweet chocolate, Horlick’s original malted milk —and a heaping ladle of whipped cream gives it an added tastiness. A dash of powdered cinnamon In a glass of Hot Chocolate Malted Milk gives it an added zest. Ever try it? Salty wafers Served With Kach Hot Chocolate Malted Milk. —” SRHiUft to JfhcA Cure a Cold Over Night With the Aid of

Rinex Rinex is a scientific prescription In convenient tablet and capsule form. Guaranteed to cure a cold within 24 hours. Try it.

WEDNESDAY, OOT. 34,1825;

BUY WATCHES ) ON EASY DIAMONDS TIME JEWELRY ) PAYMENTS SAM TRATTNER 141 S. Illinois St.

“That Eyes May Find Relief” Hoosier Optical Cos. Manufacturing Optician*. 148 North Illinois Street.

Lighting Fixtures LATEST DESIGNS LOW PRICES Free Booklet to Prospective Builders—“ How to Wire My Home” SKuVeLECTRIC^ 129 VT.< market St. Cl role 2716.

Listerine SI.OO Size 74c The safe antiseptic for ulcerated and sore mouths—also splendid for use us a gargle.

SOu\s to TBbetti Effervescent Salts SI.OO Abbott's Saline Laxative. 74^ 70c Badex Salts 54c 4 $l.I Carlsbad Rpriidcl Salts..f)H<y $1.25 Enos Fruit Salts 85c* 60c Epsonnile Salts 4f>C> Hoc Jnd Salts U9ff 50c Limestone Phosphate 39c* $1.40 Sal Hepatlca 79c* 50c Salinos for 99c 4 10c Sterno Canned Og _ Heat, 3 for ./ uDC Bicycle Playing A** Cards, red or blue ‘tJt 10c Shinola, America’s n Home Bhoe Polish fC 25c Tutt’s Pills, an in efficient laxative JL7C $1.25 Norma, quickly reduces blood pres- QQ _ sure to normal 70C Kotex Sanitary Napkins, the new and remarkable way, pack jr of 12s 4s)C 60c McCoy Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets are health building, jq flesh-making 41/C 30c Vick’s Vapo Rub, for croup and o a colds Z4C $1.25 Granular Sodium Ph o s phate, effervescent (Hook’s), QQ pound UOt 50c Stuart’s DyspE Jf Tablets take lmmediate effect Bj 50c 666, a prescription \ jw colds and aA M grippe. |S SI.OO Rheuma, dispels rheul® matlc pains and n 4 1 swollen joints I TtC j