Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1941 — Page 13

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By EDITH ELLINGTON

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suit CHAPTER ELEVEN THAT AFTERNOON s0 long ago when she slipped out of her car to Beatrice had the swift approach of narriage to Clarence. She had

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her own hands growing grubby as Toby's had been that day on subway, She did her own nails at night, and mutilated her cuticle Without bath salts and massage, her very skin seamed to her suddenly leather But every time she plaved with the notion of going back home, she thought of Miss Dane's hard, enameled face and brusque voice. She remembered the voice of that heast in Mr. Weeming's office. She looked at Mr. Bradley's straight, broad back, and Toby's vivid, heart-shaped face, “They can't quit. If the: can take it, T can!” Actually, had hardest during the first week when she sat on the edge of the bathtub everv night with her soaking in hot water and the of her back threatening to break in two, Her first pay envelope fixed that, What a thrill it had been! She had the envelone open counted the bills with an she had never experienced hefore Almost, she had gloated over that pay envelope This pay envelope was a symbol achievement, A reward for valor

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ol " RELUCTANTLY, hills away in her bag to be two Kinds of money. Worked-for-money, and the other sort Work-money should be 10 times as valuable as play-money.” She still slept on the couch in Toby and Vera's ment. “Don’t move, Bee,” they had pleaded. “With you here, chipping in, we'll pay the rent on time.” Toby added, “You'd only he moving back in a little while. Because vou're gonna get canned, the way vou're doing!’ For Beatrice was still hunting up dresses with good, simple lines and pushing them at customers hopefully She was still handing out advice that directly contradicted the kind of dresses that hung in rows on the racks—the dresses Miss Dane had bought Miss Dane's sharp eves followed her with evermcereasing hostility, and Miss Dane's tight lips rapped out orders with undisguised dislike. She can't fire me my quota, every day.” Yeah, you're making it. The hard way. But Saturday, when vou told that customer in the dressing room what constitutes the foundation of a good wardrobe, Miss Dane nearly choked.” The customer, however, had bought three basic dresses and proceeded to the accessories on the main floor to purchase belts, collars and some perky pins. Toby said, “When they start asking for you, Miss Dane will take it out on Getzie, watch.” Getzie—Miss Getz—was the mid-dle-aged woman with the carefully | dyed hair and the determined air | of sprightliness who had been so kind to Beatrice her first few davs Miss Getg had taken Beatrice into the stockroom and explained, in great detail, how thing. She had showed Bee a quick way to tally up her sales, at the end of the day: and helped her | get her stock all neatly hung. Miss! Getz was a wizard with the stock, |

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in the very way she touched a dress. But Miss Getz walked heavily, when no one was looking She peered through surreptitiously lifted oxford glasses, behind the fitting rooms, in order to read the size and price on A tag. She had a of looking over her shoulder nervously, every now and then, and fiddling with the glasses dangling from the old-fashioned fleur-de-lis on her breast It was Miss Getz, indirectly, who was responsible for the success of Toby's campaign to get Beatrice assigned to her own department ‘1 simply told Drizzlepuss vou were young and smart looking and so refined you'd lift the whole tone of Budget Fashions.”

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SHE SIGHED. Getzie really was good, up there in the women's dresses before they ritzed it up and called it the Clubwoman’s Corner. She had a lot of old girls she'd been waiting on since before they wore siz2 42. Some of them come here once in a while, but they don't buy much. They don't wear $3.98 numbers. The store really ought to pension Getz off, that’s the truth. She's not well. Ever see her hands shake?” “Yes, T noticed.” “Twenty-two of the best years of

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ton’s! And you know what they'll give her instead of 8 pension? A tes|timonial dinner when she retires.”

make her quota was that she stressed the durability of a number rather than its style son was that the high-heeled, generously ligsticked customers nearly

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Toby or Miss Ryan or even Beatrice when they saw Getz coming “Getz has a sick sister port. Poor thing She every time Mr. Bradley her.” ' ‘Sne him floorwalker | once. 1 thought he'd have a fit. | [WIR AGN He thinks he's in training to be | RE RG, re merchandise man, and being sec- | [vue UNE ? tion manager is just temporary. | J Getz has forgotten more about | ready-to-wear than he'll ever learn But he's kinda cute.” Mr. Bradley was so tall he stood | out like a heacon ame the groups | of customers. He had shoulders | XL 0 al rather more suggestive of football | AR : La veto than of Budget Fashions. For al 1 of EE Thar drt | man so undeniably masculine, his work seemed a little silly. | Mr, Bradley ironed out complaints and misunderstandings, saw to it| that no customer remained unat-| tended for longer than five seconds, | 0. k.'d checks and charges, found out what had become of undeliverea packages, supervised the sales girls,

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kept his eyes on the appearance of | |displays and stock. and, in general, | managed Budget Fashions as first | lieutenant to Miss Dane, the buyer, | | “Learning to be a merchandise man!” snorted Toby. “When they need a merchandise man, I've no-| § > 'ticed, they hire a hig shot away [S73me) [from some other store, “But Bradley's not a bad egg. When he first came, all the girls took a shot at fascinating him. No go.” | She grinned suddenly, “Say, Ree, | [it's your turn now. How would you [like to drag a date out of Bradley?"

AN’ THERE'S TUM) DOWN THERE... LOOKS LIKE HE'S ALL WASHED UP,

SURE

| (To Be Continued)

her long years of experience evident always avoided her, hurrying off tol ‘A! TT ey pe Betitioun th this

WORRIED THERE FOR A SPELL... BUT YOU'RE GONNA BE ALL RIGHT

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YOU'RE RIGHT, OOP... OOOOH WHAT A HEADACHE!

[BUT REGARDLESS | OKAY, PAL... GAY, | OF HEADACHES, |VOU'RE IN LUCK! WE'VE STILL GOT / HERE'S YOUR A JOB TO DO... / HAT--MINE GOT WE'LL GET BENT, ALONG BOOM OR WITH THE REST) BusT! OF MY TIN

By V. T. Hamlin ©

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