Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1939 — Page 28

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rearrange the muddle of human personalities; even forthe fates it takes a while to make the proper moves in the tricky game of life. So ‘Susie went on through the ] oh | Je ] : : x . summer, adding public speaking to pt : 3) : : : = 3 j _— A\ her course, studying far into the|| ¥ ¥ Ln RD _— = NO BR xl | eae. 7 THE WANTERS night because it was one way to pass = 4 ¥ AF &

the endless, meaningless hours. Her ' eyes.became strained and bloodshot : » and she was fitted to spectacles,| «My hands were simply black—I didn’t have a shampoo customer heavy, horn-rimmed affairs which all day!” MAH ONLY COMFORT were the last disastrous touch. : . he : 1S THET LiL ABNER'S : * Not that the owlish effect of the [HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis PRE NL INNERCENT LIFE int SF HIN lr ‘I~ glasses mattered to Susie. She had y WON a ¢ / = Ee mentally and spiritually. : BLACKENED BY KNOWIN* 7 DO ALL MAH Pers, Her hands were uncared for, she al- ; . THET HIS Eo IS(GULF) 2 FRAO 22. aR lowed her hair to grow, pushing it : . PUFFICK DAY. > MAH "behind her ears, ignoring the ragged < fringe on her neck, she bathed and © dressed and let it go at that. She . plodded wearily to her classes and ~ the shop, at night she plodded back to her lonely room. She scarcely 8 : | thought, simply endured. 5 a 2 Z ; - z ; AN She considered going home, back Wp. : ? = \ AY — ‘ TE i ; JIN to the Wisconsin farm which she : : IL | 4 . : i > & “had left when the agricultural v ! o x : ; 3 "ry. : eS struggle was at its peak. Susie’s fa- A : — ly = 2 : | = ther was on the farm, a lovable, P_ ; - 2h = ) : ; A (5 .. blustering individual who had once b J Yao A : y : >> IN 0 been a power in the community. _ 7) A No " There was also a. stepmother on . : fn : . . . dt \ the farm. and she was the reason : | : 3 : sa we EE ; oe , i why Susie decided against going : ; } ; 3 : : Li : : = : —By Bushmille BS a es sn! BT HM-==I'LL BET : OH, CHAUNCEY --=IF OH, THAT WHERE YA NANCY AND I . i WE CHAUNCEY wouLD You WANT TO MEET ME WiLL BE GOIN’, { ARE GOING HUNTING : 8 = ; : . LIKE TO SEE 44 _AFTER LUNCH, I'LL TAK THRILLING? CHAUNCEY ?. FOR JITTERBUGS-=--T was in the early fall, Susie had : : DANCE = 2 b> YOU TO SEE SOME r— A NEW SPECIES, just passed her 23d birthday, al- : i CONTEST 7 Ne JITTERBUGS! 42 PN ; : : I PRESUME! A

; ; TODAY though, in her sagging maturity, it : : : ON THE

would have taken the family Bible PIER to substantiate this fact, when the & : <n fates made their first definite move.| ° 5 j 2 1 : SHAG And .even then no one could have; [ : LINDY HOP seen that the move in any way con- suzZvY-Q cerned Susie. 5s 2 TRUCKING : This first step took place in the : 3 ; office of Harker’s department store, Chicago. Harker’s, in the past five years, had steadily improved and & was rapidly taking its place as one : ’ COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 2-10 Tne ne EE I “Sure, Doc, the plaster got rid of the lumbago, but now I can't get had gained complete management . rid of the plaster! ; : i : 5 —By Crane

of the store at the almost simul-| FLAPPER FANNY : I By Sylvia , : : = : , . : ETRY Ewin T= SHOW ERS SE

{taneous deaths of his father and ~ ‘HEY! ; uncle, the - staid, - unimaginative GREY. COME WN. WHY, IT'S \YOU. SHE WOULDN'T THE LITTLE THE ICE BOX IS, GET THOSE STUFFY | BEEN RE- | THINK OF RENTING IT SCAMP LIKES WASH, YOUR

“senior partners. Immediately 4 / you 0BOY, WOTTA » oI Ie a Pe UR changes began to occur at Harker’s. | \ WELCOM! CORATED’ . \ , EASYeos : DE Bm ; ; “ AN We FEED / FRIENDS, AND WE

A modernistic front, all chromium » 1 M : 2B and- bent glass, out-dated fixtures . 3 / Sadie J , READY. CHOCLIT a. WANY Mr replaced with the latest mode, prac- 2 : ; 4 = : CAKE! . tically all the stock dumped into a ) 2, GWA MEP CN : 8 modern, bargain basement. New ? : branches with imported goods, the highest paid advertising man in ‘Chicago, the highest paid chef in the tearoom, the highest standards | of merchandising in each and every department. For two years Harker’s went monthly more deeply into the red / _ \ while waiting for Chicago shoppers : dig o to wake up to the fact that the new / / 4 wr

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turned slowly. John Harker and (3 FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Clifford Kane, his advertising head, oT - 07 jd an (7 eal 7 THATS NOT A BAD : 7 ILL GET BUSY AND /

2 LSS watched each step. 27: “) 8. un =» — Te {| po hi] GET ALL RIE IN THE HARMONY Im SOR in ERHAPS, in looking about for : ZN ’ 477) WORDS ¢ You Missep! */ ET ORIG : strings to pull, thé fates de- : : ud ; g : Tee Lyrics] Weil ASSRe Wrio Teieo | BR ,. ciged on John Harker because they gl HK eo : . : : a SO HARD © GET | v Ww he was a step ahead of his : J REESE 8, BY j L 7 ATI ee 7 Po SOMETHING STOLEN] | time, because he obtained results : ” 1 | A : 5 7 FL Ji ; 8 ~ with a bulldog tenacity without counting the cost. Whatever the § reason, John Harker sat at his mahogany - desk one morning with several leading magazines open before him. After perusing the magazines for half an hour he sent for Clifford

Kane, head of the advertising de-| ve 7 iy be 7 A i. 4 J ? es os) partment, and Jeff Bowman, Kane's 2-10 == RRs aE ? B0 Sk 2 2 SN promising assistant. They answered “What a family! Says I gotta stop my perpetual motion machine be-" = 2 Hh : ail : 7

£» the call immediately, Kane, small ’ aly : and quick, Jeff Bowman big and cause it's runnin’ up the electric light bill.”

rangy and red-haired. A glight en- |THIS CUR ili ' : : SHAC 1 HOPE JACK LANE HAS | ity existed between the! two ad- IOUS WORLD By William Fexguson | || Myra! THERES TH NOLO : QUITE HAC DOIN: BEEN READING THE PAPERS ¢ Yertisers, Kane ignoring his subor-| | aT MECCA, GALIEORNIAY, ong RAPS TS “oapDY J | TE, HONEY TLL _J | THE : EY. ALSO! HED LOVE TO » Jeff eager and frustrated. | | A WINDSTORM, BEFORE BLOWING ! ( Bi Bl SEE WOR 8 Bale ENDS —y——— SESS ® THIS!

“Boys,” John Harker remarked OVER. LARGE TREE RST =D when they were seated, “we’re miss- A Lo = - ENV

9 Sing a good bet.” «What do you mean, Chief?” Kane asked, instantly on the defensive. I Harker pushed the magazines across his desk. “These make-the-most-of-yourself contests for homely girls,” he said. “The idea is going * / over big in New York, Why hasn't someone in Chicago thought to do it? Why haven't you, for instance?” Br Kane glanced casually at the ad- SH © yi : _ vertisements and articles, the letters| Gaba ior a © written by unattractive girls, the be-| RISER oO BS . or Pichrss. Jerr waited | BR iy ECT, + | RW ZZ =7250[ RANE Nou FELLOW AN : 2 Fa i “The thing isn’t plausible,” Kane| KONGERS < 27 f I, hs a $eoe 0 98, - RANCH, | WhnZs CZ HEARD RoE aT: 2 ’ : / F SR ps

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said at last. “Homely women don’t ~ want to be exploited. It's nothing but a racket for the beauticians and ~ cosmeticians.” : fF 4 2 # ® EFF BOWMAN edged forward “I think you're wrong.”

“For a plain .girl to become lovely, even temporarily, is an adven- . ture, the most. exciting adventure in * the world. In this establishment we have everything under heaven to make a woman beautiful from the ‘gym on the roof to the imported perfume on the main floor.” © ~ Kane frowned, as usual ignoring eff. “Look, Chief,” he said to : A —— rker. “We don’t want to cheapen| ABBIE AN' SLATS

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gle or twist” CY eRieHTERONG SL “That's what “I hire you for,” a : ®

4 : ker. observed mildly. Turning to ANSWER—Wrong. However, when match fir t , young assistant he said, “You fa "heads contained 5 ind j hes were first invented, it, don’t you, deter ig ne h conta; poiso o Eh : Oe la, ork "oeFlY-\ faced about, “PII Tun dally articles| Did the fates smile? Did they| | ne that would make pikers of |in the papers, what our girl is do- [switch their attention to Susie,| w York. Let's find a homely girl, |ing, sometimes it'll tie up with what [plodding ‘home from the waffle| simply a. plain girl with good |we have to sell, sometimes not. No|shop? - . SAG . <x tures—.” Creative light burned matter. Get. women to follow our| / Li ., = |lead, to make themselves over (To Be Cotinued) : er slapped the desk [through our daily advice. It's all | ‘All vents and characters in this story M1 yell stop at High, Chief—a swell idea. Iambe-| = e———w surgery—braces on [ginning to see it now. COM N ERROR

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