Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1932 — Page 5

JAN. 23, 1932

TIKE KINDS of LOVE ,§. BY KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN

ntfilN HLRE TODAY ANN and CECILY FENWICK have for Tears supported vouncer sister. MARY-ERANCEB,. and (heir grandparent*. known as "ROSALIE” and "GRAND ” , . Because of this financial responslhllttv, Ann. who Is 28 Is unable to rnarrv PHIL ECROYD. young lawyer to whom she has been engaged for C;bt ■years. Cecily. 22. loves BARRY Melt EEL. an engineer, but when he proposes she refuses to name their wedding date for the same reason. Mary-Frence*. 15. and still in school, believes herself In love with EARL DE ARMOUNT. vaudeville actor whom she has met without knowledge of her slaters. He urges her to leave home and become his stage partner. Ann and Phil quarrel when she hears LETTY KINO, who works in Phil's office building, address him with endearments. Ann tries to forget Phil by going about with KENNETH SMITH, rich and attentive. Mary-Frances. 15. and still in school. Dc Armount The same day Cecily quarrels with her grandfather and drives away with Barrv In hts car. Kenneth Smith asks Ann to marry him and she refuses. NOW GO ON WITH THF. STORY CHAPTER FORTY OPPORTUNITIES for MaryFrances, for Cissy. Cissy could marry, conscience clear, and be happy. What right did Ann have to refuse all this, simply because she did not desire it for herself? Or did she, perhaps, desire it? She never had before thought of it seriously. She couldn't do the boy any harm. He did nbt love her—but he thought that he did. He loved himself so dearly that he could not bear to deny himself anything. The trouble was that marrying this funny boy was just one of those things that could not be done—not for money, nor for any reason. Suppose Grand were ill again this winter? Suppose Cecily might be married, right now. They had not bought their fuel for the coming winter. They had paid only half of j the taxes last March. How soon j could she find another position, with | times as they were right now? People did do mad things. People did do things- like saying suddenly, “Very well. Drive to the city hall and get a license and we’ll be married right away.” There was a phrase—“within the hour.” Suppose she were to say that? Suppose she simply opened her mouth and allowed the words to come out? They what would happen? The minister. The ceremony. “Honor and obey ” She looked furtively at Kenneth. She looked longer, and drew in a deep breath and released it with a giggle, clear and antiseptic. She had been having a melodramatic dream, a bad dream, and she had come suddenly awake. “What’s the joke?” Kenny demanded. 'Nothing. I just thought of something amusing.” “Well. Headache better?” he asked, but with no solicitude. “Much better,” she said, and thought, “it would tell like a dream. Cissy, I dreamed last night that I was going to marry Kenny Smith. It seemed as if I had to, to get a, fur coat for Mary-Frances, and the winter’s wood. 'But when we stood before the minister, and I was just ready to promise to honor and obey, why, Kenny turned into that puppy Mary-Frances used to have. You remember—we called him ‘Scowls.’ He was yellow and pouty, and Grand thought he gave him asthma. “I said to the minister, ‘I can’t marry him.’ And the minister said, ‘One, two, three. I knew all the time you couldn’t. Out goes she.’ And Phil, who had been sort of in the background, all the time—” Ann passed, corrected carefully, “Phil and Letty,” and forgot about the dream. U V * AT 2 o’clock on this same Wednesday afternoon Mary-Frances and Earl De Armount met, according to previously made arrangements, at the corner of Spruce street and Fenwick avenue. There they held converse, earnest but brief, and there they parted. Earl made his way alone to the suburb's business center, and MaryFrances, though she longed to go home, returned, discretion's victim, to Ermintrude Hill's house. Ermintrude, sitting on the front porch, gloomily and slowly shelling green peas, saw her friend approaching, jumped up, spilled a lapful of pods, and rushed to meet her. "Darling!” she exclaimed, "I just knew you’d come to your senses and think about me and everything. I just knew it! One of my ” "It's his brown striped suit,” said Mary-Frances. “The cleaners promised to have it ready by noon, but it isn’t out yet, and we’ll have to

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wait until 4. I'm going to meet him again at 4.” “No!” declared Ermintrude. "Darling—no, please.” entreated Ermintrude. “It is just terrible. And, like I said ” “I promised. He took my sister's bag.” “Well, you kept your promise, didn't you? You promised to meet him at two. It isn't your fault, is it, if he can't even have his clothes ready to wear or anything? “Now, listen, Mary-Frances. You help me with these old peas, and then I'll go with you, and we’ll get your sister’s bag, and —” “I promised again to meet him at 4. I’m going. I’m sorry if it all comes back on you, but I guess it won't. “Anyway, I have to live my own life, I guess, and carve my own career and all. I don’t know where he took Cissy’s bag.” A car had parked behind the pink roses at the curb. Ermintrude looked up and saw it and squealed high, “It’s Uncle Chaney! It’s Uncle Chaney—” and was halfway down the walk to meet him. Uncle Chaney, indeed, and no other, straight from his ranch and a Dickens’ novel, baskets (hampers, one should say) in hand; shirt-blue eyes in a round, red face, chinawhite teeth in a pretty pink plate, beaming, twinkling, “Ho-hoing!” makig all the right gestures, doing all the right things, and thoroughly well pleased with the world and himself. MRS. HILL came, and there were more greetings, and kisses, and laughter, and Mary-Frances on lagging legs followed the three into Mrs. Hill’s chastely charming yel-low-and-white kitchen. Uncle Chaney heaved the hampers to the table’s shining top and said, for the third time, “Essie figured if I was going to camp on you folks, I’d better bring a little something along,” and Mrs. Hill and Ermintrude began to dip into the baskets, and take things out, and exclaim, and say that Essie shouldn’t have—the idea!—and that Uncle Chaney shouldn’t have, and “Salt rising bread!” and “enough for a regiment for a month,” and all that sort of thing. Chickens, spring ones, ready to fry; two quarts of Jersey cream as yellow as cheese; chubby brown cookies, crooked with raisins; and angel-food cake, lacking only wings, and strawberries, early picked with the dew on them, and fragrant in fresh green leaves. Sweet butter packed in a fat, brown crock; white lettuce, crisp as paper; curving green cucumbers; holly-red tomatoes, and fascinating things in glasses that Essie just put in ’cause she wanted you folks to sample ’em—she didn’t know howgood they were. All these, and more, too, were fed to the refrigerator, and plans were afoot for strawberry shortcake with whipped cream, and Mary-Frances watched and listened, faint and forlorn. Since breakfast Mary-Frances had eaten one salted v/afer. She and Ermintrude had lunched together. When Ermintrude’s cousin Esther had been married she had not eaten one bite—the cousin, Esther, that is, of course—for two whole days preceding the event. Ermintrude’s standards were high. Ermintrude’s tongue was a just tongue. For years and years afterward Ermintrude would say, if she could say it truthfully; “We were together all that day, and she was in a land of dreams. Nothing could persuade her to eat a bite.” Mrs. Hill looked at Mary-Frances and thought that the child seemed miserable and said, “You’ll stay and have dinner with us, w'on’t you, Mary-Frances?” “I—l can’t, thank you.” said Mary-Frances, weakly. Oh, so weakly! “Yes, but you must. All this company food needs company.” , n n n 1— CANT. Grand isn’t very well. I’ll be needed at home.” Mrs. Hill said, “You know best, dear, if that is the case,” and felt meanly humbled. Here she had been wondering of late about the complete desirability of the little Fenwick girl as playmate for Ermintrude. She knew that Mary-Frances was a nice little girl; still, she had been planning to encourage Ermintrude

toward other friendships during the summer. And, all the while, the poor little bunr.y was perfectly sweet, with a real sense of responsibility and a capacity for sacrifice that Mrs. Hill feared even Ermintrude might be unable to match. Uncle Chaney sugested, “Maybe the little girls would relish a slice of toe cake.” (He wanted to see it cut, the fox, and hear the exclamations over the white velvet of its texture.) “Essie said the oven was acting up a little, but I shouldn’t wonder If it would be fit to eat, anyway.” Mrs. Hill hesitated only a second before she said bravely (after all, it was Uncle Chaney’s cake, though she had intended to have shortcake tonight and save the angel food for tomorrow, when she might ask the Mercers in), “Bring me the cake knife, please, honey.” Honey brought the cake knife in a flash. Mary-Frances walked toward the door. Large virtue lies within a man who knows his own limitations. “Don’t cut any for me, thank you, Mrs. Hill,” she said. “I —don’t care for any right now.” “I’ll have a piece,” said Ermintrude. “No, you wont,” said Mrs. Hill. “You take some cookies.” Cookies in hand, Ermintrude joined Mary-Frances on the front porch. She said, “You do love him, don’t you, Mary-Frances? I mean, you do really love him, deeply and truly and everything,” and took another large bite, and crumbs iell where they listed. “Um,” said Mary-Frances, ana looked away; perhaps into a roseate, ovation-flooded future —perhaps into a pantry or an ice box. The cookies crunched and crunched. “Love,” said furiously, “is, well, it’s just a perfectly thrilling, awful thing. It’s—well, just perfectly awful, I mean.” “Um,” said Ermintrude, and licked her fingers. (To Be Continued)

Mr. Fixit Write your troubles to Mr. Fixit. He is The Times representative at t.ve city hall and will be rlad to present vour ease to the proper city efTiciais. Write him in care es The Times sirninr your full name and address. Name will nut be published.

Mr. Fixit—On May 2, 1925, I paid to the Marion county treasurer’s office the sum of $5.50, which was a special assessment for the extension and opening of Congress avenue between California and Ethel streets. Nearly seven years has elapsed and, as far as I can see, not a single step has been made to open up the street as provided for in the assessment. No doubt all other property owners on Congress avenue west of the 600 block paid a similar assessment and are wondering if this project ever is going to be put through, and if not, why we should not have our money back with interest. M. C. F. Officials of the works board explain that Congress avenue officially was opened by resolution from the west property line of the first alley west of Shrlver avenue to the east line of Cali.fornla on May 5, 1925, the original resolution having been adopted Sept. 5, 1923. The term “opening" a street merely means that it is platted with the recorder as a street. Before it is paved, a separate petition, signed by affected resident property owners, must be presented to the works board. A blank petition may be obtained at the board office, city hall. Mr. Fixit—There are some bad holes in the road at Thirty-second street and Euclid avenue, at Thirtysecond street and Drexel avenue, and just north of Thirty-second on Drexel. MRS. F. D. Street Commissioner W. H. W’inship has promised to investigate this complaint. Mr. Fixit—Please see about getting some cinders for the alley between Sanders and Orange streets. At 331 Sanders street alley is full of deep holes. H. D. M. This request has been referred to Street Commissioner W. H. lVinship for action. .TncKgftl Can you cut the above shape into two pieces that can be arranged to form a perfect square? Answer for Yesterday SAW LADS CHEEP I CHARLES DAWES Above tbe name of tbe fan*ous statesman, formed by rearranging tbe let- j ters m “saw lads cbeer.“ )

TARZAN THE TERRIBLE

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—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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