Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1939 — Page 20

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

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Want Beauty, "By LOUISE HOLMES

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.

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Yesterday: Jeff discovers Susie drink- | ing a malted milk in violation of her . * training rules. He seizes it, there is a struggle. i

poe CHAPTER FIFTEEN i . _ :(USIE'S eyes blazed, fire wiping Fa away the guilt. “Give me that alted milk,” she commanded oun set teeth. { “No.” . “Youre not my keeper,” flared. } . Jeff was white with anger. “So this is the way you double-cross ‘the Chief,” he accused scornfully. “You let him spend time and money on you—.” i “I make money for him and you know it.” Her eyes, frantic with * desire, clung to the glass of malted “milk. Jeff carried it to the fountain and paid the check. When he returned to Susie she was trembling. “Please let me have just a little of it,” ‘she begged. “Just a _swallow—." | Jeff's anger subsided in a rush .of pity. “I can’t let you have it, Susie, he said gently. “Be a soldier, fight it out, can’t you?” Suddenly she burst into tears. “I'm so h-hungry, Jeff.” Susie's tears frightened Jeff. Not “versed in feminine nature he did not realize that, to girls, a good. cry was of no more importance than a good laugh, that it almost always paved the way for an uplift of spirit. He said, “Don’t cry, Susie, there's a good -girl.” And, frantically, when she only cried harder, “I'll have the man make you another malted milk and we'll call the whole thing off. I didn’t know we’d made you suffer so—I didnit realize—.” While he talked Susie got up and started for the door. Jeff followed. “Outside, he found that Susie was still weeping and cast about for a means of comiort. “Let’s go to Edna,” he suggested. “Wouldn't you like to see Edna?” “Y-yes.” ¢ : They walked to the car and Jef solicitously helped Susie in. Walking to the other side he slid under the - wheel, THen Jeff did a strange thing. Putting an arm around Susie he pulled her head against his shoulder. She buried her face in his coat and sobbed in an abandoned way that only added to his masculine terror. If he could have but known it Susie was having one of the few really good times she had ever experienced in her barren life. Never had she known the utter joy of}: weeping: upon a sympathetic male .shoulder. She no longer wept because of hunger. Her tears went -back to the fraternity party, to the years of repression and frustrated longing, they were the outward sign _ that Susie's soul was breaking through its bonds.

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; FTER a while she sat up, straightened her hat and wiped her eyes. Jeff, still mightily distressed, started the car and hastened to the safest port in any -old storm, his mother. “Edna,” he said worriedly when - . they went in, “Susie’s been crying. She can’t take it—it’s asking too much—" “I can too take it,” Susie quavered. Edna was all sympathy. Putting an arm around Susie she led her to a chair. “You poor child,” she murmured. “What have they been| _ doing to you?” Jeff let out his breath on a relieved sigh. He sat on one side of Susie, Edna on the other, while ‘they talked it over. Before the conversation ended they were all laughing at Susie’s dramatic tale of how she had been persecuted, she even more than the others. With great . pride she folded pleats in her dress to display her new waistline and showed her hands, soft and white, * the nails growing long and pointed: While they were talking the bell rang and John Harker was admitted. It seemed he was taking Jeffs mother to the theater. They all left the apartment together, Jeff to take Susie to the hotel, Edna and Mr. Harker to be ushered into a long, low car by a liveried chauffeur. Susie looked after the car. “Isn’t - she «lovely, Jeff? Mr. Harker thinks *s0, doesn’t he?” “Yep,” said Jeff. “I wish he didn't like her quite so well.” “I used to hate beautiful women,” Susie observed plaintively, “put I don’t any more.” “Why don’t you?” Susie's views never failed to amuse Jeff. “Because I'm already beautiful _ inside,” she said seriously. It was ‘true. As the pounds dropped away they took sluggishness and the old inferiority with them. She was . lighter on her feet, lighter in mind , and spirit. With the lessening of her shadow confidence grew.

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“JEFF,” she faltered as they| : neared the hotel, “I'm sorry ‘about tonight. I'll never do it again. . I promise.” { “Aw, that’s all right,” Jeff re- . plied 'boyishly. “Guess anybody’s| . got a right to kick over the traces “once in a while.” * They parted on the best of terms, Susie passed the drug store without a. glance. ~~ By the middle of December Harker’'s was elated with Susie's progress. The beautifying cam-| paign had continued to hold the interest of the public. Jeff’s ideas] concerning the radio program and the question and answer column had been tried and found effective. The Susie fans grew by leaps ~ and bounds, her name was a by- + word. : : | § Often Susie laughed at her fol- : {lowers, imagining them at their ex- : {ercises, imagining how’ often they i broke their diet. Their results : i would be negative, but not hers, oh

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ONLY FOOLS REFUSE TO BELIEVE WHAT THER EYES TELL THEM IS TRLE. THIS IS THE STARK HOUSE. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STARK HOUSE. ONLY STARKS ARE WELCOME NIT. GOI

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SCARIN' ABIGAIL SCRAPPLE--WHO= , EVER IN TOPHET YOU ARE ~~

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smooth little girls on the campus, remembering Dick.

own beauty, was intoxicated by it, wanting more and still more. As yet nothing radical had been

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; ino, not hers! She glowed with the | “inner light of achievement. One morning, stooping over to fasten a garter clip to the hem of her stocking, she caught a mirrored glimpse of her leg. It was a beautiful, slim and rounded, tapering down to a slender ankle. In fact the entire + line from neck to ankle, was breath _, takingly lovely. For the first tim

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(To Be Continued)

(All events and characters in this story are wholly fictitious)

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