Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1939 — Page 26

By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE | | With Major Hosple OUT OUR WAY : srliawet) Th J Willa :

: : 4 TA : A HEARING YOU WAIL FOR ZZ 7 ATS A 5 ™ AER : : ye = 3 THAT'S TH' LATEST ™N ; : iy \ Kl ME MORE BLANKETS ON YOUR 7 GRAND SLAM, THING IN STREAMLINED NE HE ns - : y i \ 21 TIE BEDS, 1 APPLIED THE HOOPLE ! \S

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: ; HE'S STILL A SAY-THE OLD ~ MATOR! LATHES, GUS, AND I'M WAS OVI MACHINIST, BUT | SCIENTIFIC MIND TO THE, |Z ABRAN CELLS WHAT ABOUT | CON TD PU uUON J] THEY | HES REALLY TV PROBLEMwAHAR-R-RUMPH: = SURE MESHED "| ELECTRIC PAD- AUTOMATIC AND : THESE PASAMAS ARE LINED ON THAT ONE «~ .| DED SHOES | WON'T HAVE MIM =~ NOW WITH WITH ELECTRIC PADS CONTROLLED M\ OR DID YOU FOR PEOPLE MUCH TO DO THESE MACHINES y ; ; i A sini ging wiki PULL ‘THAT 10EA WHEN THEY BT I IN i : ag Ak “THE MERCURY GOES BELOW {| OUT OF SoME- GET COLD : 7 By Elinore Cowan Stone : EM 8 UR |) 72 ie Hest TURNS on ALTO- EE 2 vo b \ AYE TO INSULT A CAST OF CHARACTERS re i MATICALLY AND KEEPS YoU Sa SACK? . TH! BOSS : 2 ! :

JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She Ya y pel 4 pr i J AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT engaged to handsome young architec! SS . ; ; Zr i: 4 E 3 / x LANCE BARTSTOW, hero. Lance had } wi ; » 4 : TEMPERATURE panini, great dreams for the future. So did ! 5 % a, @ > 2 3 I~ : CENTHIA CANTRELL, orphaned & F ph ; 1 : J ; : granddaughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNIGHT, newspaperman. But Barney was more than a dreamer.

: Yesterday: When Lance tells Janet he has invested all of his savings in the lots and can hardly see his way out, Janet offers to postpone the wedding. She tells her aunt, who says she has also had bad NEWS.

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J Tb : i CHAPTER TWELVE 1 1 : ; Prear== ‘the old lady’s Snesss ] a po \ i . SY £) : oy » : were pink with excitement, eH ny ho NY 5 ; : : : ® Janet asked, “Why, what is it, Aunt HR Re Be ld): : Ih : nd Ma not going | to leave the a CT Re o pc ; ° Breckenridge, after all.” : — a SERB T LAST ONE nay ited on'by 5 Spe - 2 5 SE. . ‘OF HIS IDEAS «I have been wa i : z ‘ q : cial deputation, consisting of IAr. — ; MTR TTRALITE GETS A PAT : TRWLLAMS ; i f the build- : » — = ON THE BACK=. ; ity - Sartorious, the owner 0 : ro \1-20 NC, T. M. REG. U. SPAT. OFF ASS = of : LS. PAT. OFF. SE a

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“ing, and the house manager, and {=20 Tom. 1933 by United Feature Syndteate, ine. t L A : in. I gather,” Aunt - ; : — : : ‘ begged to rema 8 LI'L ABNER

Mary interpolated dryly, “that the| «sq I said to her, ‘Let's see you TRY to get a property settlement : financial state of the nation has outa me!” ; Ww ” po > i ; started what threatens to be a gen- TELL v2 4 JANTHEN B-BUT [eT ~~ MEANWHILE J— Howpy BOYS! S INDY! Lr DLL Joi LRICHT.] ry ; ne Breckenridge is | R PA { Hi IN’ DO , PALYeral exodus from the g By Clyde Lewis NG IT DRAPPED OUTN TI | Fu BEI oJ DONT Re S—— TH 7 2 A

to cheaper dwellings. It seems that - ROUND HILL 5 TH FLOOR: J, / _. our residence has actual advertising. FN \ 3 i A , Re” CLUB-WEVE) YOU OUR APPRE-

course,” ” she quoted from an imagi- | 39 MO FLOOR! TGO.OH, HAPPY DAY/

nary sales talk, ‘we ave Song : : Py > : “AH hE our guests Mrs. Mary Cantrell, the A 3 ~ Z WAS ; y ATHY ios of Senator Cantrell, and the = x ; ; pa Z\ THERE’ pres , \ 2) socially Bt Miss Janet 3 : Nos y Zn : N Dwight.’ ” ; : 7 “1 don’t believe it,” 7 claimed. “But go on.” “And so,” Aunt Mary continued, her black eyes dancing wickedly, “after a suitable period of coyness, I graciously allowed myself to be persuaded.” . | “Well!” Janet said. “So there is ‘a Santa Claus, after all.” i} I

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| ing that night. She kept remem- : : bering things she was angry with ; a, ; mimi - herself for remembering—creeping, ; : 0 o BYE BYE, ; I'LL SEE OH, GRACE---I THINK I'M IN S' FUNNY, I : ; 3 inuating, hateful things: Lance’s| | i! DEAR --- YOU TONIGHT, 2 OVE AT LAST---WAIT'LL YOU NEVER NOTICED : white, set face as he read the story ; : BETTY! : S ME MUG of Cynthia’s marriage to Timothy | | ox : ; --= A REAL Benton. . . . His angry, “She doesn’t ) i TO THE, ADONIS! really care for that! roughneck.” . . . : OFFICE. Z Snatches of ®' conversation from N > 7 / Sylvia Grant’s luncheon party. Recalling wedding invitations is not a cheerful business—nor returning wedding gifts. Janet went about it next morning with stony composure. “But surely, Miss| Janet, you ain’t g0 to return all them lovely Quoe TT pifsents,” Margy protested, aghast.| Ei : COPR. enc. 1-20 (EwiG | Te

BoRL ows the edging only posi- “I tell you I won’t come down! I know my constitutional rights!”

“Rather indefinitely, Margy,” | EL APPER FANNY By Sylvia

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‘entertain for her. She dreaded that ” \ ' , ir most of all. So difficult to achieve: BN EADY S HES WAITING 100K! MCKEE HEMENS: "ERO OF ME: NOTE ARE SONG TO \ / AC TA \ 2 3 WHAT

just the shading of disappointment: :

and happy confidence in the future = \ 4 XY that was the correet note for the \ & LJ circumstances! | J . a ANE, AY

| 7 8 8 = ; 's {1 4 ANCE has suggested, and it i Ve) To NO 4 had been decided—with some misgivings on Janet's part—to explain to those intimate friends who were entitled to some explanation: that because of the uncertainty o? business conditions, it seemed better to, wait. until the house was nearer completion. . . B Leslie wasn’t exactly an intimate 2 OPE 1910 F _ OFF. : ; : friend; but she had gone to the: ai \ NCE r . ; : - : rm = ; ” ig trouble of planning the’ dinner. e / : LE : : ne : —By Blosser “Well, I'm glad it isn't because | : , Sto FE To NY the fair-haired boy was stuck in the i } BE | [iil He BNT MAD, IS j Wii ! E DONT WORRY, JUNE | stock market,” Leslie said with her | (A cal Eee 1h, 3 ran wan, YT | ote Sm 1 ai JL "mT re JE can DLUTER. Siguz) blun; jmpertinence. 2 AKI ® SPUR HM ON! | Music. AT FIRST I || PUT My HE ISN'T FOOL when Janet relayed Leslie’s message. :

“I don’t know what to say,” Janet TN ACTUALLY “THOUGHT ME FOR: A MINUTE ] 2 3 ; | i 1 WAS JEALOUS OF : - fF % 3 J 2 0 iA His TEACHER , UNTIL PD. ; X ; YA gens” ; : o | : i ih 8 | 1 OiscovereD HOW 4 1 BJ : . wed . o) : | suv Iwas AR tid 8 AEN a ke ow» |i Sa Hf eal | : “The more we're seen out together : } : di . A ; i ? Vd BTN | Ly wr — x LF ;

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have Barney for her, but I'll take, ~: him and cut out some one else.” “Why not?” he asked with a shrug

| hesitated. “Perhaps Lance—” “Anything is all right with Lance 80 long as it’s a party,” Leslie insisted. “And Cynthia will be back | by that time. I had a card from right now the better. It’s the best . way to keep people from thinking RIE : . To - we've actually had a row.” ‘Well, gee, when CAN I get up! I'm TIRED of restin’. ] : #2 = = | THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson| - HEN Janet had finished her : MYR : conversation and hung up, L - : (OO (LBS.oFr | = B 7 v ] 7 ' LDN! « 7 I'VE i CHIEFIE/ DIDI HEAR GOSH! 1 CANT ITS A REHEARSAL PERHAPS THAT'S | ( I WOULDN'T : Tance Went on, “I I <an land ihe | ) ’ ADIT vou Were || & YOU CALL ME DAR- BELIEVE IT'S REAL! OUR CUE TO BEABIT |. Dy oe ee ir : AES = ® een UTHING PHO! SEnE Hea a ENE SURPRISED - ; » SLE I 1S - FX ; < 2 ponement after all.” | ¥ P AT FREEZ/ING GOOD *SHERLOC POSITIVELY RIDICS . BIG SCENE, CHIEFIE?) { : . “Who is it?” Janet asked. { TEMPERATURE, = / 2 “An old codger named Justin, CONTAINS ENOUGH who lives in7&ne of those huge : ; Mid-Victorian “horrors in the East . HEAT Fa Be Seis to Haye retired f TO RAISE THE \ - from active life some time ago— : TEMPERATURE OF been traveling abroad—but there TU .isn’t any question that he’s fairly 65S POUNDS OF dripping money. He's talking about building a house as a surprise for his wife.” ; i “I've no doubt it will surprise the poor woman,” Aunt Mary said Sh BO/IL/INGC tartly. “If there is any inalienable THE POINT.

ht, it's the ri | _— i i viarfin Jit, Jus the Nun i 8 woman to BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES 3: ==By Mar¥in

choose the place she’s going to i have to keep house in.” (OPAL \F CORA WRED AH \S ON OE ICE, \T. DONT

: \ Oh, but pl ” ot y : : “Oh, but please don’t tell him f ; : { : : . : MATIAR NONE HOW AR FIGGARS we fuse!" Lance smiled his most en- ; i Vs 2) y ; A Ta ARENA | 71 +6OLNDS POWFOL NEADS OP SES OF SAE oo gagingly deferential smile. | : 5 os On © 3 | | wr Tue sane, =. . a. ; Shy To ME : Ss 0, : : 75 \ A ; heen N

“By the way, Jan,” he said when OOWG SOME ; : he left, “I'm afraid I can’t get out oe. 4 OPIS BY-NEA SERVICE: WE: FIGURE. SKATING tonight. ITIma¥€ some changes to = VA, make in the plans I drew for Mr. =

Justin. Ill call you before I go to! VASSAR COWLEGE bed, and let you know how things| \WAS INCORPORATED

turn uot. If I can knock the old boy's eyes out with my plan, it may| LNPER THE NAME OF

mean something pretty good for VASSAR me.” | Every time the telephone rang that evening, Janet sat up expectantly. But although she read in : her room until long after midnight, ; J 1 there was no call from Lance. : é IZ oh & (To Be Continued) i rp (All events and characters 3 thic story CAEL © Ad i : ABBIE AN' SLATS

are wholly fiatitious . AND A CONTAGIOUS ONE THAT'S WHAT | SAID=--| WELL THERE'S THE WANT TO RENT STARK MOUSE--27

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