Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1939 — Page 16

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CAST OF CHARACTERS . SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles and dreamed of being beautiful. i DICK TREMAINE—He liked -Susie’s waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. © %:JEFF BOWMAN—His chief concern ‘was to make Susie as beautiful as she wanted to’ be.

Susie says goodby te Dick, Later Dick sends

Yesterday: giving him a present. flowers toc her.

: CHAPTER THREE

USIE trudged home that: night, the box. of violets clutched to

one of Dick’s kindly gestures and

gesture. To Susie, who had received . so little from life, who asked so little, proportions of a major event.

She climbed single room. Putting the violets in a blue glass bowl from the five and dime she touched them tenderly. With her eyes on the flowers she undressed. She was tired, her feet hurt, but her imprisoned soul throbbed with an exultant song. Knowing that the sensation would soon vanish, that it would be followed by despair, she deliberately clung to the rapture, spreading it thin, tasting her small hour to the last delicious drop. Over a clean cotton nightdress she pulled a kimono. Stepping into ; flat, rundown silppers, she dropped : heavily to a chair before the flowers. : - “He likes me,” she whispered. “He's not only sorry—he likes me. ell wear the tie clip and—and—" Suddenly she was weeping, distorted face buried in her arms, “Oh, God,” she moaned, “it isn’t fair. If you must make some of ‘your women homely you should remember not to give them hearts. Why must I love like the pretty girls? It isn’t fair—it isn’t fair. Oh, God, I want to be beautiful!” After all, Susie was scarcely 22, an unhappy girl who was given the urge to attract but who was denied the means of attraction. Raising her face, she gazed over the flowers into a mirror, lost herself for a moment in a desperately real dream of what it would be like to be really beautiful. Suddenly, the old, unhappy Susie was gone and in her place was a new girl, sweetly prétty, the kind of a girl Susie wanted to be: But the dream lasted only for a moment. It was gone as suddenly as it had come and aloud Susie ‘heard herself saying: “Oh, I'd give my hope of heaven, I'd give all the rest of my life to be really like that, to be pretty, oh, just for one year, to have Dick, just once.” Then she cried in utter abandon,

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FLAPPER FANNY

By Sylvia

T last she wearily made a cup of tea on the gas plate behind! a screen. With it she ate a sugary pecan roll. Too many waffles, too many pecan rolls, too few vege-

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onsible for Susie’s girth and the pastiness of her skin. ~ Outside, the soft spring dusk melted into mysterious night and Susie’s ‘mind turned back to the day when Dick, a freshman, had first come to the waflle shop. She remembered her of him. [A big, fair boy, clean and scrubbed | looking, pink showing through cheeks. first, he’q other boys, less cocky, Kinder. One of the upper classmen had flippantly introduced him to Susie. “This Susie, the waffler,” he had said] “Her face may not launch a, thousand ships, but, boy,

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had noticed Dick’s white She had laughed, too.

Dick had bent slightly from the . waist like a small boy who knew, his manners. He had said politely, | “I'm glad me havea sample of your waffles.: If I like] '’em you've got a steady customer.” Dick came every day after that. Without meaning to, without being aware of it, Susie began to watch for his coming. It wasn’t love at first, rather a natural, human response to the one person who treated her as an equal. .. Susie was smart enough to know there was nothing personal in Dick’s manner, [that he shared his kindness with the cook in the fraternity house, the hoothlack on the corner, ~and herself alike. But it warmed her, nevertheless, it gave color to her drab|days. And then, about a month after Dick's first visit to the shop, the incredible thing happened. ‘He had said, after silently eataffle, “Susie, did you know i that I'm pledged to the Delta Phjs?” i “Yes, I saw your name in the paper,” she answered, glowing because he wanted her to know. : “Well,” he went on, not looking at her, ‘ithe fraternity is having a dance Saturday night at the house and—and I'd like to have you go with me.” At the time she thought how odd for a boy with such nice manners to be so shy. This was Just a fleeting thought under her stupefaction. : | t J os ” USIE had never in her life been asked for a date, the social activities of the chosen few belonged to a fascinating world far removed from her dull existence. Never, in her wildest dreams, had she seen herself part of it. After stupefaction came unbelievable joy. With Dick’s bashful invitation Susie’s inferiority complex, developed through “years of looking on, was replaced ‘with a fearful confidence and assurance. A, “You—you want me to go to the - dance with you?” she stammered, still unbelieving. : . Dick said, “Yes.” ~~ “But all the pretty girls, Dick . —.” That was Susie, stepping aside from force of habit, half out of her mind with delirious hope ‘and uncertainty. - ; - “I'm asking you to go, Susie.” ' “Well—well—I'd love to go—I'd adore to g0,” her very wide mouth growing wider in a delighted smile, tiny pin/points of light dancing be- ~ tween her lashes. : . Dick had looked how ' ashamed for her.

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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