Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1939 — Page 18

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{EGAD; CLYDE, LET ME TELL YoU A STARTLING PIECE OF NEWSwa ‘WOMEN ARE GRADUALLY TAKING OVER “THE BUSINESS OF [THE ' COUNTRY HAR-R-RUMF: ARTER AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF “THE SUBJECT 1 HAVE DISCOVERED “THAT THERE HAS BEEN A T% INCREASE IN THE PAST DECADE ww THAT Z IS ANGAPPALLING

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“THAT SHOULDN'T an STARTLE YOU ANYwa 4 Jie THERE'S BEEN A DiS~- : LL PLACEMENT OF WOMAN OVER MAN IN THIS | ESTABLISHMENT OF 100% IN “TH' LAST ) 30 YEARS fw AND BY TH' WAY, YOU'D ‘ . BETTER SLIP ONYOUR 7 SNOWSHOES AND START {| | . MUSHING SHE JUST i FOUND A PADDED - ITEM OF SELTZER WATER ON TH! GROCERY BILL!

y Elinore Cowan Stone CAST OF CHARACTERS INET DWIGHT, heroine. She was en- ¥ te handsome young architect LANCE BARSTOW, hero. Lance had feat dreams for the future. Sp did INTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned grandghter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. another dreamer was

‘BARNEY M’ENIGHT, newspaperman. Barney was more than a dreamer.

Yesterday: Lance breaks the bad news ) Janet but she remembers something knows Lance doesn’t even guess. ‘Later, she is to recall this with bitter amusement. :

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Ld =, “Eat? But, Jan, you don’t under- 4 5 gE) , stand. I had budgeted everything ON 7 = .g ~~ on the basis of the salary I have b, NY id lL ; “2 = dk J] fell been getting—the payments on the a Se 7.1939 by Dake Feature syatieste, toe. = | | LI'L ABNER | house, running expenses, insurance, : | service, entertainment—"

~~ “well, surely’ we might manage "gor awhile without entertainment— HOLD EVERYTHING

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—By Al Capp

ITs SIGNED) 5 SHO NUFF. WHERE'S GOLLY, IS FREDDIE PHOUSE?-

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) t | and you can skip the item for serv- Q) I'VE. BEEN WANTING : . ice . .. Or do you imagine I'm too Lah opie Rit, SISTER, TOOK ALLHER T° = OF K ME THE EUS dumb to learn to cook? Why, Lance, . ME : : | it would be play in that lamb of a || ME YOU RAT?” | | .] | LEFT . OLR DOUG. AVANT JPICKED kitchen!” : ; ~~ _ “Let my wife scrub and stand «over a hot stove? I couldnt bear | that, Jan—your lovely hands!” His lips on her finger tips were angry. _ . “Besides, what would people think?” “I didn’t know you intended me for a museum piece,” Janet said, and was sorry when she saw the ‘ misery in his eyes. Z “If it only weren't for the pay"iments on the house, we could live ~ “ hs—well, suitably—on what I'll-still : ; ; p ; be earning . . . If only the house To . = yr a Pr 4A hr 22 Bere paid for, Jani ; : Enns ARYA Nr HELL FIND OUT-IN OUR NEXT EPISODES Tl tell him now, Janet thought. : : ; She must word it carefully in order | not to wound that hot pride of his.

» ” ” HE excitement of anticipating . his surprise made her words

stumble a little. “Lance,” she begain, “theres something I've never told you. If youll let me, I can help.” «J—_don’t understand,” he said after the briefest of intervals. He did not turn toward her. In-| deed, he did not move at all. Yet ; : “in his very stillness she sensed hw > |

something that puzzled her. It was Qhoe-

meting hs} purdled Tier. 75 vias COPR. 1939 BY NEA Service, me. I-11 Law ill if already he knew what “That's probably the license number of the car that mowed him down!”

she was about to say, and still] = wanted very much to hear it: oso FLAPPER FANNY ~/

‘But that was nonsense, of course. «I have some money, Lance,” she went on. “It isn’t a lot; but the income must be enough to make the payments on the house until—until times are better. If you'll let me, “Yd love to.” When he did not answer at once, she hurried on, “After all, it is our ‘house, isn’t it?” She hardly knew just when understanding came to her, or why. “Perhaps it was because of the very aptness of his objections, because he| }/ ; a Oy said so perfectly all the right things, Z Nb \ a “as if—almost as if he had written i : the scene and had rehearsed himself for it. When he finally allowed himtelf to be persuaded, Janet found her victory strangely hollow. : ® 8 = ? y Fo : § 3 ANCE did not take her home. : eri - or SITET pp co . i i ; ven A RE 7 : ! Janet sent him off confident | : Bron Oa 1 Ea ; 7 yo 1 Port ao and happy, to attend to the last- | n { | music , THEYLL LISTEN Noes. HOw TIME WITH THAT GAL, WASTING

minute details of the bachelor din- To Me ! WILL You HELP IT IS IMPOSSIBLE!

“You mean to say that Omar—tiie guy we work for—started all this : on a single nail?” >

By Clyde Lewis

—By Bushmiller *

G' MORNIN’, CHIEF --- HOW'S D' MARKET 2 TODAY ? gz

WELL--I'LL DO ME BEST T'PLEASE HIM!

HE'S RIGHT === YOU SHOULD TRY TO LOOK MORE DISMIFIED:

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By Sylvia] WASHINGTON TUBBS II (THE FORTUNES OF WAR, MY DEAR DAWSON, W TODAY AND OUT ; | TOMORROW. COME — HELP ME

-AH= «\ LOAD MY =—AH ; <TH

I KNOWED (T. HES TAKIN' THE WHOLE ) BLOOMIN' TREASURY WITH HIM! QUICK, BUST THESE LOCKS, DUMP THE GOLD | IN THE TRUCK, AN’ LOAD HIS PLANE

wiTH EMPTY TRUNKS!

DON'T ARGUE! HIDE! err wi THIS BOX — AND LEAVE ME 1 LOAD YER PLANE!

GREAT GUNS! SN DON'T YOU GET NN MY MESSAGE? WAT Qu '

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THEY'RE LAY-

PERSONAL EFFECTS,

ALL 1 CAN, FRECKLES / "per he was giving that night. ‘all, ‘A drizzling rain overtook Janet Wh: AB on her way up the trail, and driven A Sad by a chilling wind, increased to a Alig downpour before she reached the ara / .. . : » Ls a on gents. Al Ag She stood shivering on the curb, in Wh Ma i looking about for a taxi, when a ~~ fl A zs i; “A A ——— fil

black coupe. whizzed by, stopped TAN 7 h Wo X so suddenly that the wheels slid Zz: Vo Hil; In Nel on the wet asphalt, and backed to- “See, 1 TOLD you there was plenty of room for both of us on wo : THIS CURIOUS WORLD

To MY HOUSE SOME EVENING AND WE'LL

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- ward her. u - “I warned you this wasn’t good flying weather,” Barney McKnight called out as he opened the door. “Better climb in before your wings begin to take ice.” - © “It isn’t my wings,” Janet laughed, displaying feet drenched to the|. ankles. “It’s my landing gear.” : She climbed gratefully into the warmth of the car. : . “Swell brogues to be wearing in the wood,” Barney said, casting a withering glance at her frail brown suede pumps. “Are those the only shoes you have? If you were a 10-buck-a-week shop girl, there'd be some excuse for yeu. But a gilt-edge-bond heiress like you ought to be able to afford a pair of decent walking shoes.” - “A gilt-edged—what?” : “You heard me.” © “You've been grossly misled, my iad. Anyhow, it isn't in bonds— it’s mostly A and S stock.” : 2 & = JTPARNEY checked his speed sud#7 denly. ' : “What's the excitement?” Janet ~ asked. ; “Oh, nothing,” he said after a brief pause. “Skip it!” He drove briskly on. : i “Listen, Barney,” Janet began as they skirted the park and turned into Elm St. “Does everyone know that I—well, that I don’t have to ask Aunt Mary for five cents every time I want to buy peanuts for the squirrels?” : “Every one? Oh, I shouldn't say that. But as a rising young journalist, it’s part of my job to keep Sbrenst of the times. 1 know, for rn CAN BE SEEN nstance, why the Vasco gang had ~—— to liquidate Patsy Skidmore; what EYN=—|LiN A Lieerme 2 ure was brought to bear to ANSWER—Two, at most, since the comet appears only once make the Republicans scratch John every 5 to 77 years. Smizzart the night before election;

MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

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accused you of being ‘an earnest| He drew up before the door of young man?” ‘ the Breckenridge. “Do you know,” he said, “I don’t| “Now run in and soak your feet

entirely like the tone of that ques-|in hot mustard water like a good

tangle—and incidentally what stocks Spe on the skids in Wall Street to ye ;

” “WELL suppose you do knew a all that—where does it get you?” “Oh, well, you never can tell when ar's going to break out or a

Vashington correspondent’s going drop dead 2nd give an earnest

tion. I suppose that being on the point of becoming Mrs. Lance Barstow would give one high ideas, but—" k ; r “Barney, don’t be a complete fool.” i “Thanks for the reminder,” he said with a short laugh. “Now that

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man a break, Nothing like

girl . . . By the way”—he hesitated as he opened the door for her—*“you did say it was A and S stock you have, didn’t you?” “Yes ... Why?” “Oh, just thinking of taking a little whirl on a sure thing my-

you mention it, I really should keep

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