Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1939 — Page 14

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AE WL 8 aii AND NOU HAVEN'T Sas BE « AINA Li ee eng Tan reamed oO eing beautiful, : X of 5 3 i 5 ; ra | - 4 WW 3 3 ] Nas LN DICK TREMAINE — He liked Susie's ; 3 3 wi GONE TO WORK YET/ : . ANNE Ai on waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. i y 7 7\ > Ai : . . JEFF BOWMAN—His chief concern was to make Susie as beautiful as she wanted . to be. ; } J CHAPTER ONE ‘QUSIE’'S heart was breaking, tears FH AAR stung behind her eyes, a lump oe | | ; : =F g : ANN AN in her throat refused to be swal- fy . : iad SS [ : AAR \ \ lowed. No one looking at Susie ; ; at iN ; i aE i; Col : ; : SA ; NY polishing the nickel-plated coffee| I=8 \ 3 iii”), EL. : ; \ SS | : i ? SAY QS. N : ah urn, industriously wiping counters, nN REE B | Ea” f > | NS FR } \ mn NN a, OR eT Mn IR filling little jugs with syrup, would] § sf & \ : ; ) ATI A” \\ nz, rn, 3, have credited her with emotions of 2 4 ]. a | : : Er ik : Es WS, oo “a any sort. Somehow broken hearts % 1 i Wo 7 § \ 37 )- Bei We and stinging tears were inconsistent Sa 7 : ZZ 2. ZT : with Susie’s ponderous homeliness. pm AFI] - td Fe [ x 1 Sem : * Working at her tasks she kept one . 2, A ‘ tn ® 2-4 ' 3 =| Zi A G9PR. 1935 BY NEA SERVICE. me. THE RECEIVING END - J.RWNLAMS eye on the Jeers dully Posarding ne SEE ETE EE Sy \ COPR, 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Y_W_ REL U.S PAY. OFF, By, vZ: ‘ , Sd : . Zi z= handsome young men and smartly po or opi 1939 by United Feature : sophisticated girls who swarmed a ; : Sante | LI'L ABNER into the Waffle Shoppe in quest of | “Youll find it’s the most economical car on the market—outside of the 3 3 Susie’s. golden brown delicacies. : usual gas, oil and fender straightening expenses!” AH KNOWS HOW CRAZY : AH HAD T'DRAP Wisecracking, patronizing smoothies, : ! - - WIFE HUNGE! IS, J OFF TH’ CLIFF these college students, never treat-| HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis BOVE BUT VHLFFO i TC ni PANSY» AHHEERD i i - " a . 4 DOES * ; So WHAR DI ’ I uN 2 Mimo Reve ATALKIN ‘BOUT EATIN' LY TT HAIR | ACOUNE AR =8 JY : A ALL

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That is, none of them treated her| p IIMA ONNA EAT EACH as a contemporary except Dick 2 OTHER.ISYO'? Tremaine, and in Dick Tremaine 3 Sea a : ; : > E iE INR ASPEN lay the cause of Susie’s despairing TE EE &2 59 : E o heart and the lump in her throat.| § : ) i : > Khowab TEBE It was for Dick that she watched : 1%. 2. Z EI ist J and waited, whipping egg whites to| |}; Zz E 2 frothy stiffness, folding them gently into a creamy batter. It was because of Dick that her heart did a sickening flip-flop each time the door opened. It was the last day of the spring term and excitement pulsed through the Waffle Shoppe. By tomorrow the campus would be deserted, trains and cars and airplanes would have carried the beauful young things away. By tomor- E ii : row Dick Tremaine would be gone. 3 = sb py p - 2 Sppmm— y . 8 8 8 ; : § a1. / 7 L 2 \ A SAY == Y'KNOW === LWAYS Susie had been heart-| | 8 |4 : Z VY E SL TT | KL MAYBE AUNT - . sick at the end of the spring 3 : , 8 : - , | QO ; ‘MAGGIE DON'T Al term, ‘but never like this. Always 3 1! B ; 1 Pp \ : <D WANT US TO SlISPICIOUS she had been able to count the daysj | f BH 50 VISIT HER! : MINDS until autumn, "always she had konwn that Dick would come again in the autumn, that he would swing through the door and greet

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back the ache and joyf of seeing him. It was different today. Dick had received his diploma that morning. For a moment Susie leaned her forehead against the PR.49% oe} dish cupboard. Must it go on and

on? Must she always be tortured| “Everything is going fine at the office, chief. . . . The boys are having | | I © . 1 ~~ 3 = | | r=B-4 z by the longing to see Dick, to hear a checker tournament in the shipping room this afternoon.” i _ Sh ant Be0.8 Fat : | | bem Bemvniriiera 2

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Standing there she was suddenly ; : : 2 . caught by a ray of sunshine from an . § \ % 'g | Ta Te onan ; ; : I WAS BUSY X 1 WEARD YOUR REPORTS. MAYBE THIS RADIOGRAM WiLL EXACTLY. Tienes SEEN A RECONCILIATION ’ dl DOING SOME \ 1uEv'eaUnDED LIKE FouRTR | [WAKE YOU UP. ITS FROM McKEE. THE MCKEE MILLIONS ARE her drabness. Short and stout, ; : C KAY REPORTS, PAPAL. nc iy AT MI SLIPPING FROM OUR heavy limbs ending in large, flat AT) : AND DION'T | ASANML, LWES.... THEY'RE SAILING shoes, a definitely outcurving waist- ! ' 2 HEAR YOU. " FOR THE STATES. kine, ft shoulders, pudgy wrists ES g : iy > ; : and hands. Her clumsily solid body : . ; L0n0ey was topped by a small, round head, LS THY A)! PT : ( x made more round by short, bobbed (0 q Q hair and a limp fringe of bangs ; % Ie A MR &- : 7 a : J across her forehead. She had heavy, : 2 | _ go x beetling brows which came together : A a un in a point over a ridiculously small nose. The nose was snub, the NANA A i ) \ 2 nostrils appearing like two surprised ANAND y : BACK HOME, INTHE polka dots. Her thinly repressed MN oy. ~ MAIN OFFICE OF THE wide mouth and the frowning WW ? 7 : MCKEE INDUSTRIES, brows were constantly contradicted NAAY YOUNG MR. SPLENDIX by the silly little nose, the apple NANA IS VERY OCCUPIED... /

round cheeks and chin. : Ae To make matters worse Susie's]. NN : FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS complexion was definitely on the a N VA N sallow side, her frequent flush was x NAY ~~ GEE, YOU CERTAINLY

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” n 2 FTHE ray of sunshine passed on as if in distaste and Susie ladled a | huge spoonful of batter to a sizzling waffle iron. She had not always minded being homely. Had she not come to the University town she might have settled into a coinfortable, contented niche. It was seeing the young men and girls, having beauty shoved down her throat every day and every day that had 5 embittered her, it was witnessing the t joyous fruits of beauty, it was Dick| : £ Tremaine and her own frustration. “Every time I ask my mother for money, I get an argument. It’s

A coed, smart in tailoring and|_ _ humiliatin’ to hafta go through that three an’ four times a day.” MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

ja n arance, slid . Jannty 1 year A iow CBI THIS CURIOUS WORLD S0 DOLLY'S NEW AUNT FELL FOR |] [AND SO, WEARING A DRAB COSTUME, MYRA waffle. Intently, she watched Susie| f TT A = Cota LA SE pe | DL FOR HE PAI ATIAL DARLIN DOM»

fork a pdt of butter, drop it in the ME TO SHOW HER. 1 AM THE exact center. of the golden brown PROPE ’ He Sa dish. Then she asked: ER 1/ve FORTE JOB : “Where's your boy friend, Susie?” Impudently, she watched the slow flush mount to Susie's cheeks.

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~~ wait on Dick Tremaine, lingering Rom, 0 while he ate, with secret| Het / J } lee. And the girls knew the shame- ~~ k he Nm Al R —_— ) 5 : 1. ul Story behind 1 2. They knew, : ? EEE \ | . : 3a as did Susie, that Dick’s casual kind- ~ ness had lasted through four years SEQUOIA, TREE WILL. FURNISH LUMBER fhecause pe wgs ashamed, sorry for| FOR ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY : : : What he one. : ; \S BOOTS ~ \GHY LAR \ : ANOTHER, DAN ww AND NO LOCK | TM SO TIRED 1 COLD CRY IL) Susie did not encourage her love) peer ee - HOME ver + Now 5 TOOLARED OUT 20 Aa Toro ®t Sort GET A 2OB Po a os er roe loo00z | for Dick, willingly she would have : : ALL BONS WALT PHONED Fors torn it from her heart. No girl, fat ACT 30ST AS \F NOTHING || OATES DEY WAS OUTTA LUCK 60% EE : -and homely and utterly devoid of RAD HAPPENED SHED BE ALONE SY HERSELE OW charm, had any right to love like & oy ESE To

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” ” # i ITH the passing of the after- NN noon fear added to the deso- : Nine ; Jation in her heart. Perhaps Dick ; \\¢ MAINLANDS ‘had gone Shout a Jast waffle, Nah DO THE FOLLOWING withou g her g y. But SRN ISLANDS that wasn’t like Dick. Not once \ Ss LIE in four years had he missed his / CEYLON, TASMANIA, afternoon waffle. If he did not | MALAGCASCARL come on this, the last day, life AND SIC/LY.

uld Sid Hop Susie. 8a. angtish: Not that she expected an g p- ; in particular. Just to see him INDIGO : coe an ; LP NW | gain, that was all. In the back of UNTINGS iy , a 4 er mind was a little hope that he : ) A : Tn : : : By Raeburn Van Burd might say Something, any Small ee : : { on n hing, that she could carry into the a ‘ | PROBABLY JUST OLD DAVID-THE \ ST IT WON TL 2- BE ONE WITH EE Lo asd Dick had nt x RES SOMETHING oe | SETA o tok wees Bern f | | Biche | | Esme ae, NTO one ome. Susie ached with waiting. | ST NG YoU MUST | THERE ARE NO R HOUSES EXCEPT : US-NOTHING AT om habit she kept one eye on the : he is I

por. That door had become = an on, beyond it was nothing’ ANSWER—Ceylon is off the coast of India, Tasmania is just southeast

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ore moment had she asked, only « le—, “Hello, Susie,” Dick said cordially.| Susie kept her. mouth grim. If 177 IN\ \ The door swung open and Dick pe always said it like that, as if he|she smiled her lips would quiver. N (5 A 5 3

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Bere a, Bay, oun were glad to see her. Never the Wanting to say something that Dick

a shot through Susie’s numbness. patronizing, “Hi, Susie, make it|would remember, she flounder stood still, gobs of batter drip-|snappy,” of the other boys. stupidly, “I guess you want a waffi¢.” from her ladle to the waffle] “Hello, Dick.” Her voice was| “Right the first time,” he laughed. , Lifting one leg over a stool, husky with emotion. He had come.|“Your waffles, Susie—they’ve got sat down. He smiled at Susie.|Dick had come to say goodby. what gets me.” flash, friendly twinkle—, “How’s my appetite today?” he : e 2d the waffle iron 18 d, the 1} in ;