Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1939 — Page 18

- Want Beauty

By LOUISE HOLMES

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

. Yesterday: Jeff meets Susie, takes her to his home. He is dubious that she © can be made beautiful but he realizes she has personality, ‘has something.”

CHAPTER TEN

EFF lived in a walkup flat just far enough off Sheridan to be out of the high rent district.

The door was on the latch and|

Jeff pushed it open. “Hi, Edna,” he shouted. . “Coming, Jeff.” With that the door swung: open and Edna Bowman, a very young person considering her big son, slender and graceful, came toward them. “This is Susie Lambert, Edna,” Jeff said. “My mother, Susie. ‘1 call her Edna because she’s so young and pretty.” Edna took Susie’s hand. “I'm so glad to know you, my dear,” she said; ‘not patronizingly but simply grid sweet. “Lay off your hat, won’t you?‘ Perhaps you'd like to wash a- bit-after your trip.” : :Susie ‘said, “Thank you,” and started clumsily for the bathroom. As suddenly as that her selfconsciousness. vanished . and she turned at the door. -“It’s lovely of you to ask ‘me for dinner,” she said with her wide smile. “I appreciate it—really I do.” “We are happy to have you,” Edna returned. She went to the kitchen and Jeff followed. : 2 8 =

. HAT do you think of her?” Jeff asked in a low tone. Edna turned several pieces of --chicken before she spoke. At last she said, “I can tell you better after dinner. There’s a sweetness about her, Jeff, a sort of wistful desperation. That’s a lot to start with.” Edna kept no maid. Ten years ago, ‘when the depression struck, ‘Jeff's father had been washed overboard. Two years later, exhausted and discouraged, he hadn't tried very hard to recover from pneumonia. © Jeff could remember the days before the avalanche. He had been 15 when the big house had ‘gone, when the motor cars had dwindled to one, when they had moved into the flat and Edna had gallantly attacked the housekeeping. Jeff served fried chicken and whipped potatoes and cream gravy and buttered peas from the head of the table. Edna poured tea at the foot. Susie sat between them, eating a tremendous meal. Edna marveled at her capacity, Jeff urged one more piece of chicken on her knowing full well, if Susie didn’t, that it was possibly - the last real meal she would see in many a long day. f 4 ” E 4 USIE found herself conversing easily with the Bowmans, laughing at Jeff's nonsense, looking often and worshipfully at Edna. She actually told an amusing tale. It was when Jeff remarked that a pert .young thing had stopped him on his way to meet Susie and asked for a lift. - > “I went right on with my nose in the air,” he elaborated. “A smart guy doesn’t pick up cuties on the corner.” “Why not, Jeff? Edna asked. “Seems to me it would be only courteous.’ “You don’t know life, Edna, my gal. I'd rather pick up a highwayman with his gun sticking out of his pocket than one of those curbstone racketeers.” Susie said, “I thought the men did the picking up.” Jeff and his mother laughed. “Well, that’s done, too. Wolves of Sheridan Road, they are called.

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Don’t ever let me hear of you stepping into a man’s car.” It was flattering.. Susie flushed with pleasure, forgetting that ne, wolf, no matter how tame, had ever accosted her and very likely never ‘would. “Oh, I'd know how to handle them,” she said with ponderous -airiness. . “You would—how?” .Jeff asked, interested. . That was when Susie launched her story. She’d overheard it in the Wafile Shoppe. “Well,” she began, gaining confidence from their rapt attenticn, “The first time a man stopped I wouldn’t notice him at all. If he went around the block and stopped again—they do that sometimes—no one ever did it to me, of course—,” blushing furiously. “Well, the second time I'd say, ‘No thank you, very coolly.” “And then what, Susie?” was much amused. “If he persisted, and they do sometimes, I understand, I'd take a pad and pencil from my purse, pretty girls carry pads and pencils just in case, you know, and I'd walk around in front of his car and pretend to take his license number. They say it’s a sure method, they say the men scoot away faster than anything.” fo 2 8 8 Je== and’ his mother were appreciative listeners. They laughed and made much of the tale. After dinner Jeff washed the - dishes. He did this every night for Edna. Susie insisted upon wiping them. Edna brought her knitting and sat’ on the kitchen stool. Susie’s cramped soul expanded in the pleasant atmosphere. . It was 11 o'clock when Jeff took Susie to the most luxurious of all the luxurious hotels on Sheridan. Knowing her shyness he suggested that she call room service in the morning. and order what she wanted’ for breakfast. Should she tip the waiter? Yes, it was

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her breakfast. Mr. Harker was taking care of all expenses. Later, at the- elevator, Jeff said, “Ill come for you at 8:30, Susie. When you've had your breakfast come down and wait for me in

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like object close at hand. - - She nodded without speaking. ‘All the old terrors had descended again. She was afraid of the elevator, horribly afraid of the bell boy, smothered by the strange, well-bred elegance of her surroundings. hh :

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