Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1939 — Page 22

SDAY, SEPT. 26, 1939 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | PAGE 21 |

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MATCH THE INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONALITY" Yl CHOCOLATE For [7 can: TH BANK FORE CLOSED AN' TH’ OCOLATE FOR [7 CAN'T YOU C BAR TOOK IT OVER AN THEY

WIVES he \ | | “a WHAT AN IDEA FOR TUE HOOPLE=- [> ICE CREAM DO SOMETHING : ' SER = IZER!/ BY JOVE, WE'LL MAKE THE | TRUCKS, COFFEE ABOUT SO 7 ON A EL a By LOUISE HOLMES ¥ ! eg CB 7] LITTLE SCENT CYLINDERS TO ORDER AND A FOR GROCERY GARBAGE TO JAIL AN' THEY SOLD TO TH' CAST OF CHARACTERS «fs oy WILL PUFF OUT THE BOUQUET SHE WAS CINNAMON FOR °F : s RS hy : % CONCOCTED PERSONALLY! IMAGINE 7 \ BAKERY AUTOS? MARIAN HARKNESS—A worki rife. 3 $ : 5 . DAN HARKNESS—Her husbands | © | ££ EPR : / Le EN :

DOLLY HARKNESS—Dan's widowed a » 5 Sister-in-law. \) / if. EMANATING FROM A >

SALLY BLAKE—An ambitious young ; 08 , { ’ Hi Ai ’ Fo | RITZY LIMOUSINE! Yesterday—Marian blames Dan’s lack |} : | of ambition for the failure of their marriage. When she argues with Dolly | about married women working, Dolly changes the subject to Randy's party. Dolly is anxious to have Randy like her.

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CHAPTER NINETEEN ITHOUT speaking to Dan,|} Marian went back to her own | fa apartment and prepared for bed. It |" was a rite and she never neglected | one detail. She heard a cribbage game going on across the hall. She | did not know when Dan came in, |

The next morning she awoke to | : Rie Ls "EY 3 i : 1/5 jj i A 2 & ; 231 \. iD ) @ > y i | — ’ ' Ih "1 7 i OLLARS

cold reality. The fortifying wall] ' J x - tL" . 3 Fel. $ \] J, [ 4 I" HH} 4 { : Ny < 5% 4 , AND

had crumbled during the night and | J I] SZ | BA 42 6) Ji = > 2 = . RAVAN \: SCENTS = a TRL DPR. Y NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M REG. U. §. PAT OFF ey = SS el THE OLD GOSSIP 9-26

She and Dan breakfasted politely, | & Ne 3 they might have been mere ac-| h i i. + WR quaintances. Driving to the office, |} ron V : ST ni RO ERY RE AR 3 £1 | t ay , : Aa ." Sr S /THOUSA ANOTHER HOOMERUS . - fe =) 4 Marian felt unable to face the day “Youll just have to wait for dinner—I've spent a miserable day AH HAIN'T YO C'D CAP-CHUR OF PART OF IT HE REVAN ISLAND? STAND wir WATER” -“ MENTAL L | SINCE YOUR CAPTURE GREAT CAT SURPaH | SPEARS: akin.) Mier I SERENE —]| AROUND IT-S-SOMEWHARY:| DOWN MAN YOU REALIZE ME TOF BUT YO’ KIN FIND HIM STR INSPEC TORRES or |

with difficulty she erected it again. * - > Va rr Ad WERE JEST POSIN' ) THERE. are HOS HOS-THASS w (GULA//AH N-NEVAH NOTICED/-

without a better understanding watching new furniture delivered to the Smiths next door!” with Dan. : IS MERELY INSPECTOR? | ON TH’ ISLAND” ! f “We haven't much except each, HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis! | YOU'RE BOY NA » : o -+TH ISLAND --TH- - - 7 other, Dan,” she said. Y y LI yl PE LTY ) - - " Er oR-TH SLND Z | A y A ” oT =,

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“How?” fearfully. He scowled. “I wouldn't know. We haven't hung together. We haven't the same interests.” 4 “Is it too late for us to go back| : Se : : J \ : and try again?” : rg 2 ) ZB \ i “I'm afraid so. The thread which | = 4 : \ i SAE AN AL

held us together has stretched and | { stretched and finally snapped. I] \ | y ] . 4 think it snapped last Sunday night.” | 3% c—= y TIN UE = Frantically, she asked, “Couldn’t| . be 5 \\ we find the ends and tie them to-| gether again? It might not be just the same, but better than this, Dan. | I need you—" | His laugh jarred on her over- | wrought sensibilities. “Think it] over, Marian, and vou'll find that| you don't need me at all, not in any | way.” | » o n | ARIAN got from the car at the building entrance. Without a word, she hurried through the revolving doors. She was furious.| Mounting anger carried her to the closet, where she slammed her hat

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into the box. |] = ] . Tor c { : B = =) if | Turning to the mirror, she looked | a ult Ak ww, into terrified eves and the anger|| i — ! EE Re 7 is %, > 4 rolled away, leaving her shaken and : Ee, = HE 5) i p 4 C7 onl ond

filled with dread. What if the doc- AT ERT ERNE TR ; tor had been right? Why had Dan| Qe y RD v RR : , ON == VE AN S . - stopped loving her now—oh, why? | | #5 9-26 cops 1939 ay nea SERVICE. hc. a THIS IS TAX ° Y THE OTHER 0s { EVERYONE Y abese TLL She needed him, never had she] " © i ay lH DAY --- HOW PAID THEIRS EN HAS PAID So |B needed him so desperately. ‘I don’t rightly know what accounts for my long life, Bub—1 have { ABOUT YOUR TWO YET ? - Ze HAVE TO A little voice whispered, “He's five companies dickerin’ for my testimonial!” | \, CENTS TAX! . FORK always failed you. What did you] 3 | : ' . expect?” | FLAPPER FANNY Shortly before noon Carma called. Marian was in nc mood for Carma. | “How about lunch today?” she | asked. (fi “I'm so sorry,” Marian lied. “I {l/l have an engagement today.” There was a little disappointed silence, then. “I wanted to ask a l{| favor of you.” “I'll do anything, Carma.” | “I thought vou might see Randy

Means—I have a feeling that he's||: NEA, | interested in Dolly. Am I right or || \ | Sy Tn ‘ VEN THE HOLY MEN RU wrong?” trying to be flippant. {i | / \ \ oe AFTER % 4 : gy 4 FOR SAFETY. = N “More or less right.” | : . A 7 pi wn wy “I thought so. Wouldn't you : : CM A 4 know it, Marian? Men are such |}| 7 fools, a pretiy baby stare—the ‘little | woman’ complex—.” There was a ||| weary, bewildered bitterness in her ||| voice. 11 “Listen, Carma—I'm supposed to be working—" : “Oh, yes—sorry. This is what I wanted to say. I just learned that the girl Pete married—Julie”—the name on her lips had a twisted p= i=s SN STAR SOE AT / » sound—'"was Ray's secretary.” | Co — / FREESE 7 REET Re S 7 ? on “Yes, I know.” Ho : NT HE A Eg AND COLLAPSE SY SE “Find out about her, will you,! TARRY SRT RR RUA REAR SY FROM FUMES THAT POUR 7 ; : abe i Marian? How old is she? Where SA ECR a : = FROM A HUNDRED CRACKS. NZ RILCOPR, 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

did she come from? Are they happy _. - " or—or has Pete sold himself down AS DoS HIT SOE ON THE HEAD o / : ; THERE Swe 1S! 1 - oT SOMEBODY _ THINK es WHO GAVE THUMBED RIDES THE ST HR a ER _ : ; HES Funny ? YOU THAT HAIRCUT 2 WHE WHERE | DOWN WAY DOWN HERE T AND

the river to punish me?” She was crving, the questions came jerkily. : ; DID COME CL Se | VAY DON JAN “I'm going to see Julie tonight, ite Nol Ah pn ey 5 YOu ROM HEN EOPLE SEPP Si Carma.” Instantly Marian wished La BE be ERO : na oe Row IR A qi 2% she had not told Carma that. No| = x esl a Ls Sia AS NT OE I WE A “Well, it’s just the groceries again. But I always look—sometime

sooner she found a life of her own, 4 a life in which Pete and his wife it might be that baby brother I keep askin’ for.”

did not exist, the happier she| would be. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson “I don't know just where we are going,” Marian hedged. “Randy is| COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TM REG U.S. Paro having a little dinner—” | “Oh, Randy—he lives at the Medinah Club, he always enter-| AT ONE TIME, tains there—he said the food was, ABOUT

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Carma was in the frame of mind WERE Lo LN QUOTE A SPELL NWNOW LL 7 7 to do something rash. Why had KILL ~ \ AR \ ROW GET ALONG ARCLUND HERE she been such a fool as to tell her? | z NS REX ELS Y TEEN. BUORT New TANG 10 SA | N ANNUALLY BACK NTO HARNESS) of | 1 STAY RIGRT HERE? | THING TO SAY |, | WIHOST ME n Ts 2 x1 %l J ! 1 i = “> n . :

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report at lunch tomorrow.” FOR USE AS “Randy is taking Dolly, Dan, and DECORATIONS

me. He included Pete and-—and ON Julie.” . “1 see. Tomorrow, then,” Carma WOMENS sounded hurried. » » 5

ARIAN fretted over the situation. She considered asking Randy to change the location of his dinner. Finally, assuring herself | ONE-THIRD that Carma had too much poise! @ OF OUR. and dignity to do anything melo- AUTO DRIVING dramatic, She forgot ale a TAKES PLACE BETWEEN Marian left the office early. t the beauty parlor, her own special | SUNSET anD SUNRISE, operator combed her hair and] BUT TWO-THIRDS changed the polish on her nails. | : T— OF OUR ACCTLENTS Dan picked her up and they drove| JX 3 OCCUR DURING home in a nerve-destroying silence. | gC ce rE THAT TIME. Later, dressed in the new Eisen-| , berg, Marian might have stepped from the cover of a fashion maga- | zine. Even her face might have! belonged to the pictured girl, life-| less, carefully expressionless. She and Dan went to Dolly's apartment |

to await Randy's coming. Dolly's attire, aided and abetted] HEN WE SEE THE bv Marian, was above reproach. In-| MOON AS ACALL, HOW le OAR. al : | ES IT APPEAR TO ner radiance softened her eyes and oo | J EASTERN LOANS,

sweetly curved her lips. Dan looked | 2 ls v Cone 1939 by United Featurr Syndicate. Inc reserved

from her to Marian and back again." . Tom Rev, US Fat. OF am sao Randy came and Marian was ANSWER—The same. Changes in the moon occur all over the ——

amazed at Dolly's easy, charming world at approximately the same time. manner. They drove to the club " in Randy's car, long and low, to the ladies’ lounge, Marian’s bar—she had only seen her back streamlined as a torpedo. Marian heart skipped a beat. Had she |—dark purple gown—rich furs— | and Dan sat in the wide back seat,|seen Carma at the top of the steps had Carma mentioned a purple] IND IANAPOLI 4 far apart, an eternity apart in which led to the bar? It couldn't ensemble? spirit. Weariness dragged at Mar- have been Carma. She had been

jan. The evening had become a mistaken. In spite of herself, she (To Be Continued) GROCERS Because they want their wv i eta

test of rndurance. (had a ahilled sense of foreboding. n At the club, going With Dolly That woman going down to the|‘A" *YRS, names and charactors in this customers fo have only the best

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