Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1926 — Page 24

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wifi) ° W° w ' Business ILrsses ' By BEATRICE BURTON Author of ‘‘Gloria, The Flapper Wife’"

The names In this story are purely flckitlo.is and are not to be taken as relerrins to any particular person. Place or firm

READ THIS FIRST , „ FLOSSIE and MARY ROSE MIDDLETON are two pretty sisters, the daughters of a widowed mother. Both of/them work for the Dexter Automobile ComPa sdssie helps keeps the files under MISS MACFARLANE. - Mary Rose 19 secretary to the sales manager. JOHN MANNERS, and Is in love with .him. but he is engaged tes DORIS IHNICr. Marv Rose discovers that Flossie Is carrying on a flirtation with the preeident of the company. HILARY DEATER. a married man with grown children And when she hem Flossie to trive him up. the srirls threaten to leave home, and so to live with her chum, ALICE JAMES. She neglects her *orfc at the office, depending on Dexter s, interest in her to hold her job for her. And on the side she is carrying on a love affair with SAM JE § s^ P i „ves°her secretary to Mr. Dexter. Sam hives her but is afraid to marry her. lur he is poor, and he knows that Ilosite loves monev She openly Fays so. , , Mairv Rose' s own affairs reach a crisis when DR TOM FITZROY asks her to marry him But she refuses him because of her feeling toward Maimers One night Manners brings her hame from work, and asks her to bpejtfl t £f m eV it ning with him. but she lefts him it wouldn't be fair to Dons Hinig. Later that night one of the neighbors. A r\T HFNNA BLAIR tells Mary Rose Oiather son. LENNIE. who's on the police force, arrested Flossie that afternoon for speeding in Dexter s ear. Mary Rose keeps the fact from her mother, who thinks Flossie has e^use^h U e^as h ”w o aWu^hr 8 e Lennie adm.ts that h’^'out It hi, machine, halfway down the * tre KOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII Luckily the story of Flossie’s arrest did not come out In the paper the next day. But something, much more terrible, from her own point of view, happened to her. She forgot to put her hair up in curlers, for the first time in years! ' Like all pretty girls she 'thought she could make herself much prettier by trying all the beauty aids known to womankind, and it usually took her half an hour to get ready for bed at night. ‘•Look at that hair!” she groaned tcF Mary Rose the next moring, as she stood before the mirror. “Look at it! I ask you to regard me with horror!” Mary Rose laughed. "What s the matter with it?” she asked. "I don't see anything wrong with it except that it’s not so curly as usual.” "Curly!'’ Flossie repeated the word with bitter contempt. "Curly! Why, it’s as straight as a string ” She shook herself with fury. "Oh, I’m not going to be bothered like this with it, any more! I’m going to have a permanent wave this \ ery day!” Her sister watched her silently as she dressed and ran down to the telephone. She listened at the head of the stairs while she called Miss MacFarlane and told her she wouldn’t be at the office until noon. "Flossie, you’re not really going to have a wave?” she asked when the girl returned. "You know they cost S2O, your whole week’s salary. And —” “I don’t care what they cost. I’m going to have one!” Flossie snapped .at her. "I’m sick of having nothing! I’m going to have what I want from now on or know the reason why! I'm sick of going around like the witch of Endor With my hair hanging in strings every time it rains ” She stopped and flung open her, dresser drawers, took out an armful of clothes and threw them on the floor. “Look at those!” she shouted. "Cheap and common and darned in a hundred places! D’you think I enjoy wearing clothes like those? Working my hands off week in and week out. And never having anything to show for it!” She stamped hr foot in helpless anger. , “You haverlots'of new clothes right along, Flossie.” Mary Rose's voice was soothing. “You just had anew hat on Saturday, and you didn’t pay mother any hoard, you remember. We can’t keep this home going—” ■■Oft, what do I care about the home?” Flossie shook her head in blind anger. "I’m getting sick putting all my money in this house, anyway. I’m going to go and live with Alice James! And you and mother can keep poverty hall here to your hearts’ content!” Still Mary Rose refused to he

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ruffled. “You’ll find you can’t go any place else and live for $7 a week the way you can here, young lady,” she said quietly. “You really live here for less than that, because you don’t give mother your board half the time!” Flossie glared at her. "All right, go ahead and insult me all you want to!” she answered. “Either you give me a check- for S2O for a wave this morning, or—or, I’ll ask Hilary Dexter for itl So there!” “Flossie Middleton! You wouldn’t do a thing like that! You wouldn’t ask a man for money?” There was honest horror in Mary Rose’s voice. "Any day I wouldn’t!” Flossie tossed her head. “Don’t kid yourself that I wouldn’t! Why shouldn’t I ask a man friend for money just hs fast as I'd ask a girl friend for it? I’d pay him back. And is it any worse to take the price of a permanent wave from a man that it is to let him buy you theater tickets or take you to lunch?” She stood fluffing her hair around her ears as she watched Mary Rosa in the glass. She saw with- great satisfaction that she was taking a check book from the closet shelf where she kept it. “All right, Floss, I’ll give you the money this time. But you’ve got to remember that It’s the last I’ll ever give you. That money in the banjc is for sickness, or something like that. Suppose we should lose our jobs—” Alary Rose said, staring downstairs. “Yes, and suppose the end of the world should come-,” Flossie called after her, insolently. In a few minutes she followed her downstairs to the breakfast table. "You wouldn’t have to worry about losing your job all the time if you had your boss ‘vamped’ the way I have mine,” she remarked cheerfully, as she poured most of the pitcher of cream into her coffee. “If I were as crazy about a man as you are about John Manners, I’d take him away from that Doris Hinig so fast it would make his head swim!’ Mrs. Middleton looked at her youngest daughter reprovingly. “Fiossie, I don’t like to hear you talk like that about the men you work with,”' she said. "A girl as young as you should he modest always.” Flossie didn’t answer. Her eyes were on the check, as Mary Rose passed it across the table to her. She took it; without a word, find stuffed it into the pocket of her white shirtwaist. , • • *

An hour later Flossie was going through the tortures of a permanent wave. “Does it pull, Miss?" the hairdresser, a kindly woman of uncertain age and indubitable comeliness, asked her. “I should worry if it pulls," Flossie answered. "I’d go through hades to look nice!” She closed her eyes and sat like an idol for three hours while the woman wound her soft corn-colored hair on steel skewers wrapped them' in oily flannels, and thei put the “bakers” on. “Does it burn, Miss?” she asked again, when the electric "bakers” were at their very hottest. “A little,” Flossie admitted. “But what do I care? I’d go through anything to have curly hair! How long will it stay curly?” “For six months.” "‘‘Well, then, I’ll have another wave at the end of six months,” the girl answered, gritting her teeth. "I’m going to start saving for it now.” She watched with anxious eyes while the woman unwrapped her hair. It stood all over her head in little tight corkscrews until it was combed out. Then It was in a mass of bright little ringlets all over he! head. Flossie was enchanted. "Oh! Isn’t it beautiful?" she cried, with eyes like stars and the smile of a child. "I’m just wild about it!” “It’ll he even prettier in two or three weeks, when it’s not so fuzzy,” the hairdresser told her. “And it really is a pretty wave. I never saw a prettier one—or a prettier girl.” a Flossie smiled at the flattery. She loved to be told she was beautiful. Os course, she knew it, herself. But it was nice to hear It from other people. It gave her a feeling of power in her self! She walked along'TVashington St. with its noonday crowds on their way to and froin lunch. And sud denly among all the strange faces she saw one that she knew—John Manners! ' ' A queer little smile slid across Flossie’s face. "I’ll just show Mary Rose a thing or two,” she thought, and the next minute she had caught up with Manners as he walked along in his swift, smooth gait. She gave his sleeve a tug. “Hello, you!” she said to him, as if he were one of her greatest friends. Asa matter of fact, she had seldom said anything to him

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before in her life except, “How d’you do, Mr. Manners?" He turned and spoke to her cordially, although there was a pitzzled look in his eyes. Flossie saw that look, and laughed aloud. “You don’t know me with my hah’ all curly like this, do you, Mr, Manners?” she asked. “I’ve just been having my hair permanently waved, and I’m hunting up a place to eat." She waited. “Well,” she asked pertly, after a long moment. “Well, aren’t you going to ask me to have lunch with you?” { He started. “I suppose I’m awfully ‘slow,’ ” he answered gravely, “but It didn’t occur to me that a radiant butterfly person like yourself would eat at an ordinary lunch counter. That’s where I’m going.” She gave him a sly Glaconda smile from the corner of her sea blue eyes. “Oh, piffle!” she said distinctly, and fell into step beside him. The place where they went was one of those white enameled places with long tables set out with catsup bottles and sugar bowls and paper napkins. Around the walls hung signs thta read, “Watch Your Oyercoat” or “This Week’s Special—Apple Plat Be.” ' and John Manners was not very talkative. -But Flossie was in high spirits. “Won’t Mary Rose drop dead when I tell her I’ve been having lunch with her Greek god,” she thought, with an inward giggle. She chattered to Manners while he ate. She told him all about her lack

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of money for her permanent wave and how she begged for It from Mary Rose. ‘You see, our father’s dead,” he told him.W’And mother isn’t a very good business woman, so Mary Rose takes care of the money and pays all the bills. And It’s like pulling teeth to her to give me a cent.” There came to John Manners, a picture of Mary Rose in her shabby clean clothes, and her old hats, carefully keeping the little brown house going. And something stirred in his heart a pain. How little he really knew, he thought, of this Mary Rose Middleton, with her soft, loxtely ways, her smile, and the brave little life she lived outside the office! The smile he gave Flossie was full of tenderness for Mary Rose. But Flossie thought, of course, that it wab for her. “I’m moking the hit of the year with him,” she said to herself, as they went out into the sunlight. “I’ll run up to your office with you,” she said when they reached the Dexter building at half-past one. “I must show Mary Rose my new wave.” And so when Mary Rose came in from lunch at one thirty-five, the surprise of her life w r as waiting for her. She opened the door of Mr. Manners’ private office. - And there, perched on a corner of his desk with her head almost touching his as shq leaned toward him, sat Flossie Middleton! “You’re one of those big, strong, silent men, aren’t you?” she was flaying. “I just bore you to death M.

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with my silly chatter, don’t I?” (To be continued) Flossie’s love piracy wrings the heart of Mary Rose in tomorrow’s installment. DELEGATES TOUR PARK Jarvis Makes Treasurer’s Report at Convention. Delegates to the Indiana Association of Park Departments convention at the Lincoln Bpent the first morning of their session,on an inspection tour of Willard Fark. The afternoon program consisted of an address of welcome by Alvah J. Rucker, 'representing Mayor Duvall; the report of R. Walter Jarvis, association treasurer, and addresses by Charles W. Clark, Hammond; R. J. Schmoyer, Fred Schoaf, Ft, Wayne; R. E. Luhn, Jr., Terre Haute; V. K. Brown, Chicago; J. Van Dusen, Elkhart; A. R. Wellington, Parks and Recreation Association representative, and Herman P. Lieber and Harry Schopp, Indianapolis. DR. FIFER TO LECTURE Palestine Subject of Central M. E. Church Pastor. “Anew day in Palestine” will be the topic of Dr. Orien W. Fifer, Central Methodist Church pasto(, tonight at 8 p. V - at Earth Place M. E. Church., Barth PI. and Raymond St. The lecture will be under auspices of the Builders’ Society. Specif music has been arranged.

HOLD FIVE BOYS IN STOLEN AUTO Policewoman Calls for Aid With Chief Near By. Policewoman Irene Beyers had her hands full Thursday when she attempted to arrest five colored youths driving a stolen auto in Emerichsville. She noticed the five boys in the machine, and, becoming suspicious, stopped them for questioning. The boys admitted stealing the auto. All are under 13. Policewoman Beyers went into a restaurant to call headquarters for assistance. She did not notice Police Chief Claud© F. Johnson and Capt. Lewis L. Johnson, neither of which are so small, who were in the restaurant and could have given her help. One of the boys, who picked up a bucket and started to a filling station “for water” kept going until the policewoman overtook him some distance away. Motorpollcemen Baker and Petit took the boys tb the Detention Home. Car was stolen at Fifteenth* Sts., Grafton Wood of Gre<v wood reported.

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