Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1939 — Page 23

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SERIAL STORY— OUR BOARDING HOUSE

: Women Want Beauty

By LOUISE HOLMES

Fn CAST OF CHARACTERS "SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles ‘and dreamed of being beautiful. ° DICK TREMAINE—He liked Susie’s . waffles but cowmdn’t see Susie. JEFF BOWMAN — His chief concern ‘was to make Susie as beautiful as she

‘wanted to be.

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HME! wee IF You WERE IN CHURCH YOU COULDNT REMEMBER TO PULL YOUR® HEAD OUT OF YOUtR HAT, WITHOUT TAKING A MEMORY

OF MAMMON, POSES AS A NOBODY JUST TO TEST YOU OUT, THE WAY UNCLE BRUNO DID Z ~EGAD, BUT FOR ‘MY STALWART MENTALITY 1 WOULD BE GALLOPING AROUND IN A NAPOLEON HAT, WAVING A sSWORD/

Yesterday—Susie accepts a splendid radio offer. She is still confused in her emotions, however, regarding Jeff and Dick. She is dating Dick.

- .. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE r IFE was so full of joy and interest, so. crowded with new experiences and sensations. The most important ones continually escaped Susie, lost in the intoxicating jumble. She wanted to glory in Mr. Jasper’s offer, she wanted to thrill to the dance hour with Dick, deep in her heart she was ecstatic over the prospect of Christmas with Jeff and Edna. New clothes, attention, the very consciousness of beauty— actually she was so busy being joyous that it was difficult to sort out and tabulate the various causes, impossible to drink deeply of any one happiness. ~-_-" Susie’s life was comparable to her diet.. Small tastes of this, a tiny portion of that, never entire satisfaction. Not that she found fault. Susie was in a delirious state, snatching at life’s gifts, hugging them to her heart, letting them go when her arms became tod full. ‘ After three hours in the shoe department, where hundreds of women milled about for a sight of Suzanne, for a word with her, Susie hurried . back to the hotel and made a supreme effort to look her oest for Dick. Her hands shook with exeitement, her breath came unevenly. When a florist’s| box arrived, when she tremblingly \lifted an orchid from the shimmering mass of transparent paper, her rapture was tinged witR tears. : 2 8 =

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guiding her to his car.

Susie paid slight attention. Sit—ting beside Dick, slim and extravagantly garbed, faintly perfumed with a delicate, exotic odor, Susie knew that she had arrived. 3 “You're Hollywood, transplanted in ugly old Chicago,” Dick. said. . “Chicago isn’t ugly,” she objected. . “But you should see Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Westwood— clean and. shining, full lof atmosphere.” , ! ; “Another adopted son of California,” she mused, not quite liking this turning of the back on home. “You bet. And the girls out there—they certainly treat a fella right.” / “Dear me—am I hearing complaints?” Taking his eyes from the traffic he looked down at her with the well-remembered flash of white teeth. “Not you, Suzanne, nary a complaint. | How about letting me show you off at the Hermit Club| party on New Year's Eve?” “It’s a date,” she said. Susie’s joy blazed higher. The Hermit Club . on New Year’s Eve—only a favored few received that gift from the

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OLLOWED two mad, whirling £ - weeks. Dates and double dates with Dick and his friends. The friends gradually drifted away, Susie’s preference for Dick obvicus even to the smitfen young men. Christmas Eve started at 5 o'clock with a cocktail party at the luxurious home of one of Dick’s friends. Susie, with her simple background, felt a bit out of place at this party. She met Dick's sister and was snubbed, not much, but enough to make her wonder. Had she heard Hester Tremaine’s comment to her mother she would not have wondered, she would shave known, might have been more pleased than troubled. -“Dick’s mad about the common little thing,” Hester told her mother. “Can’t keep his eyes off her. Some fine day we'll wake up and find Suzanne, product of Harker’s bargain basement, hanging from our family tree.” This was a misrepresentation and unkind, but Hester was not especially kind. , “Dick’s just having a good time,” her mother said easily. “He isn’t taking on a wife.to support, not since your father has shut down on him.” : “He seems to think Suzanne has money, and maybe she has,” Hester shrugged. “Whether or not, I'll bet my next month’s allowance she'll snag him.” And Susie, who had a more ladylike name for it, was definitely out to win Dick. She was so violently in love with him that she lived in a daze, one moment deliciously sure, i the next frantically dubious. Flowers came daily. On Christ- . mas he gave her a compact, of all . things, a smooth, shining thing, . sweet to the touch, entrancing. Susie offered her lips in an im-

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HEY! QUIT PAWING THAT OUTSIDE SHEET OR YOU'LL BE SPOILING WHAT LITTLE LUCK I DID HAVE!

WELL, SHERLOCK, ANY LUCK?

OH, WELL -FORGET 3-2. IT=- SHE'S SAFE - - P THERE “Walk a little slower, Clarice. I wanta be sure whether those awful boys are still followin’ us.”

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PS i, 2 2 SHEE saw little of Jeff these days. Except for the Christmas party, with Jeff making a palpable effort at holiday cheer, with Edna and John Harker deeply oblivious to everyone save themselves, she had. scarcely seen Jefl.

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“If you want to know the truth,” . he replied, his cheek touching one of her curls, “it’s because a certain girl has ‘a strangle hold on me.” This was only half the truth. Dick's father had not yet seen the advisability of tendering a loan to his son. : Up went Susie’s spirits. Dick often said things like that. Never had he sajd he loved her, never had he verged beyond the indefinite, but small straws in the wind kept her blood at fever pitch. “Maybe your

He side-stepped. “My girl is tied up with a radio contract,” he said. Dick was much impressed with Susie’s contract, especially when she naively mentioned her salary. If she made good— That was another reason why he lingered on, to see if she made good. Meanwhile, the telephone calls, flowers, tea dances, dinners, first nights at the theaters went on and at last came the night of Susie's first broadcast.

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