Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1939 — Page 17

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SERIAL STORY—

WIVES

By LOUISE HOLMES

CAST OF CHARACTERS MARIAN HARKNESS—A working wife, PAN HARKNESS—Her hushand. DOLLY HARKNESS — Dan's widowed Gisteran-aw, . SALLY BLAKE — An ambitious young stenographer, |

YESTERDAY — Marian Harkness, 32, | successful private secretary, is unable | te understand why her husband, Dan, | has lost his ambition. She hates their purposeless life, but realizes it is too | late to change.

CHAPTER TWO

ARIAN went back to the bed-! room. Painstakingly, glossed her lips with tangerine. She heard Dan leave the apartment. He would have the car at the building | entrance when she went down. She heard him speak to Dolly, a warm, friendly note in his voice. Dolly lived in one of the small court apartments across the hall. She was the widow of Dan's brother, living on a tiny income, augmenting it by doing Marian's housework at 40 cents an hour. Marian threw the beautiful fox cape around her shoulders. She had | the impersonal sleekness of a man-! nequin, a poured-in, glossed over smoothness. Pulling on spotless gloves, she left the apartment. Dolly's door stood open. “Hello, there,” Marian called. “Good morning — how nice you, look, Marian—but you always look nice.” With cheerful envy Dolly observed Marian's smart sophistication. Dolly was short and round and

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THROW THEM IN THAT GARBAGE PAIL! T'M NOT GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER DOCTOR BILL IN THIS HOUSE - YOUR FATHER COOKED MUSHROOMS ONCE AND THEY TURNED OUT TO BE TOADSTOOLS!

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fair, pretty in a sweet, comfortable way. Although she was 28, there was a childishness about her, an irrepressible gaiety. Dolly would work hard in Marian’s apartment all morning, play contract or see a picture in the afternoon, mend Dan's clothes, read or knit during the evening. “Put two potatoes in the oven at §:30, will you Dolly?” “All richt—I'm going to bake an apple pie and I'll give you half.” The stairs were nicely carpeted, | the fover had a quiet, luxurious air, Marian wondered where she and Dan would be living if she hadn't helped out. In her mind she always | called her work helping out. Certainly Dan would not have been able to pay $75 a month for an apartment. { He waited at the curb and she got into the car. It was a cheap car, provided by Dan's company. Silently, thev drove downtown. Dan stopped at an office building on LaSalle street. “'Bye,| Marian—see vou tonight.” He pat- |

ted her gloved hand. “Be a good! SRR ——— Y NEA 8% os | wy Ta ’ a & “he Ant # little secretarv—maybe theyll make| “The boss won't be able tn see you—he’s expecting some bozo from | 4 A py AER RW 15 os - ; you an executive today.” India any minute now.” Hoa ei 4 3 od 2 ; # 5 = FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia 2:6. 2 desi i; RA

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Muay stepped into an elevator. Dan was different. It wasn’t his habit to make cracks like that. Years ago there had been unhappy times over her job, but, gradually he had come to accept it. She went through the outer office | of the Grant Fellows Brokerage | Firm. speaking graciously to the] telephone operator, the stenographers and office boy. They re-| turned her greeting courteously. | She had hired those girls and that boy, she had the power to dismiss them, | Once, a long time ago, she had sat at the last typewriter, gazing | with purposeful eyes into Grant y Fellows’ private office each time the | |< ; i - y SRA door opened. There had been a! ‘ . > 0 IRIE secretary then, Angie Doran, a RL 2 : = poised, beautifully correct person of 30 or more. Angie Doran had engaged Marian and trained her. | later, surmising Marian's aspir-| ations toward the private office, | she had discharged her with two | weeks’ pay. Grant Fellows, him- | self, had sent for Marian and re-| instated her. Soon after that, Angie had been given a vear's leave of absence and Marian had taken her place. Angie had never come back. | She had trained the girls with | care, deftly nipping any yearning toward her own envied position. Until a few months ago she had] been quite successful. Recently SaNy Blake had become a major problem. Sally was more than a little responsible for the perpendicular line between Marian's brows. | Sally had applied for a position as| IF MANE LEECS WERE stenographer. There had been some- | PROPORTIONATELY AS thing about the girl, an avidity, a| LONG AS THOSE OF A gubtle determination, that Marian had recognized at once. She had| | DADDY LONG-LEGCS, told Sally that there was no opening, | THEY WOULD 8E / OO LEEET LONG

that she might leave her name, Later that day, when Marian| | returned from lunch, Sally had! § sat at one of the typewriters. Re-| sourceful, not to be put off easily, | she had waited for Marian's lunch hour, seen Grant Fellows personally, and been given the job. | It had been a blow to Marian.| Grant Fellows had never before! questioned her authority and she yesented it hotly. Relentlessly, she

had kept the girl in the back- NE euT ground. But, in spite of her vigi- L) ~

lance, Sally was making headway. SQEQT RES

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—By Bushmiller

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By William Ferguson

—By Blosser

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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THERE'S NO SENSE A_ FINE FATHER 7 IN US BOTH WORRYING! oO HE 1S / ILL FIND JUNE N77 I'll. LEAVE MATTERS IN OKAY ! ITs MY MYSELF AND NIP THIS WELL, YOU YOUR CAPABLE HANDS / PROBLEM AND SILLY THING IN BETTER HURRY! 1 IT waS A BLD TWO DAYS

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cising the same skill and enterprize which had brought Marian te the front, that her tactics were identical, added to Marian's uneasiness.

BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

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ARJAN went into the private office, graceful, smart, asgured. Sally Blake sat beside Marfan's mahogany desk, appealingly voung, deceivingly demure, Marian made herself smile brightly. "Good morning, G. F.,” she sald, then turned to Sally. . ¥ “I'll call you if we need you,| -— = R} | Sally,” Marian said. Ses iM » “But, Mr. Fellows—" Sally began. HE RC WN | “I'll call you, Sally.” Re © » Mr. Fellows glanced up, his eyes ~~ IN THE U.S. BIRTHS bi a5 they hae once ARE INCREASING warmed, but pleasantly. e was a ANNUA . small, intense man, 60-odd, with an > i od 2

energy and vitality which never lagged. ANSWER: Wrong. In the U. S,, births are dropping about 50,000 a year, while deaths are increasing about 20.000 annually,

—By Raeburn Van Buren

j NO # KISSING YOU GAVE | DO MYSELF ~ ME NOTHING BUT A VAGUE / BUT THE STORE* v TASTE OF DERRY / ine DION'S \ CHEWIN mo HAVE NO OTHER" YOUNG LADY PERMADS 1 © « DETEST PepPerMTs ) >i GUESS Kil

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COPR. 1937°BY NEA SERVICE, T.M. REG. U. S. PAT, OFF.

[EXPLANATIONS ARE SO BORING BUT ANVWAY, | BELIEVE THAT FOR EVERY GIRL-- THERE

Marisn did not doubt hia fondEXISTS - SOMEWHERE A~SOULMATE ¥ THE

ness for her. He had shown it in a thousand ways through the years. They had battled the depression side by side and emerged victorious. Marian sat down, uncomfortably aware of Sally. Judging from Mr. Fellows’ expression, he was also aware of Sally, pleasurably. As she left the office he beamed. “Theres a comer,” he said. “Yes, she is,” Marian admitted. “She made a good suggestion this | morning,” Mr. Fellows went on.! “She asked if she might understudy you—to be prepared when you go on vacation, or in case you are ill"

(Te Be Continued)

(All events, names and characters In this story are wholly fictitious.)

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