Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1941 — Page 17

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Today's Short Story—

. LOTUS

By Maureen Daly

ORDINARILY SHE wouldn't have been fooled by any man—not Lotus Jones. But this one, Lotus had admitted to the waitresses in the drugstore, had fascinated her. Ever since the first: day when he had stopped at the cash register to pay his lunch check she had known he was different. As she watched him Lotus became more and more amazed. Never before had she seen a man take the straws from his malted milk and lay them on his paper napkin when he was through. And never before had she seen a man eat a cheese-on-whole-wheat

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once eat the crusts. Here, she thought, was the real gentleman! Never in her many months as cashier in the drugstore had she ever seen a man who was actually polite

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even with his food! Sometimes he brought a book with him and read while he ate,| never looking toward Lotus and never even taking his eyes off the page. If he was the intellectual type, then, Lotus knew what she had to do. Every day after that

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she, too, read a book during the lunch-hour. And there was something about the way he wore his clothes—and the waitresses agreed with her on this—that made him different from other men. The way he cocked his hat a little, the way he squared his shoulders when he put his overcoat on—somehow it reminded one of a man in a uniform.

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MAYBE HE was an aristocrat refugee, Lotus thought. Maybe he was some sort of nobility and maybe the reason he never spoke. to her was because he couldn’t speak English very well. But one day while she was giving him his change she dropped a nickel on the floor on purpose. When he said, “I'll get get it” and stooped over to pick it up she noticed disappointedly that there wasn’t a single trace of an accent. But that didn’t prevent him, of course, from being an American blueblood. Of that Lotus was sure. When it finally happened it happened very suddenly. One noon, with no warning, he looked at her

"as he was paying his check and said,

“Could I see you after work tomorrow night?” Lotus’ heart jumped. “Por dinner?” she asked. Tomorrow was her night to work, but she knew for something like this she could get

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WITH RATHER a surprised expression on his face he echoed: “For dinner.” : “I can make it at seven—meet me out front,” Lotus said, and already her mind was busy with thoughts of what to wear, which sort of perfume would be most fascinating to the intelligent type of man and what waitresses would think when she told them she’d done it at last. The malted milk salesman had been fun and the refrigerator agent was

' something, but a date with a mys-

terious blueblood aristoerat—that was an achievement even for Lotus Jones. At a quarter to seven the next evening she turned the cash regis-

ter over to one of the waitresses

and went to the dressing room. With a final satisfied look at herself in the mirror, she decided that everything was just as it should be.

. It was an ensemble, Lotus thought,

that could go anywhere—soft music, polite waiters and finger bowis. He might eat his lunches in a drugstore but a gentleman of his finesse « certainly polished up at better places when he went out for dinner. Of that Lotus was sure.

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WHEN SHE saw him standing at . the door with no car at the curh . Lotus presumed they were cabbing, * When they had walked over three ' blocks without his hailing: any of / the taxis cruising by she presumed : that to walk was the smart thing to do. But when they turned into a very small and very crowded ham-

1+ burger joint, Lotus had a hard time convincing herself that this was

. What people called “slumming” and that for him it was more or less of a treat, probably thinking it would

“., be novel for her, too.

The whole thing didn’t take more

8 than 15 minutes. At first she was ¢ prepared to be pleasant and gay but

when , he ordered one hamburger:

apiece without even consulting her 8s to what she wanted she felt her + spirits go down and her anger go up. : - She softened a little when she saw how neatly he held his hamburger

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ANSWER—Stanley Baldwin, who had held the post three times. He resigned in 1937 in favor of Neville Chamberlain.

racy. But when he turned to her suddenly and put the proposition to her ‘so bluntly, when he told her exactly what he wanted, she was never so insulted in her life. » # ”

WITHOUT ANY apology or hesitation he said to her in the most well-bred, gentlemanly voice, “I'm leaving this territory tomorrow and I'd like to get one big order just to impress my company before I'm transferred. You seem to be good friends with .the manager and I'd like you to put in a good word. Looking around today I noticed for the first time since I've been lunching there—the cod-liver oil stock on your shelves is running low—. Lotus never waited to hear the rest. Back behind the cash register the next day she smiled at the customers as usual, The noon hour came and went and the corner table was still empty—no blue-blooded aristocrat eating his usual malted milk and cheese sandwich. The waitresses were eaten up with curiosity. Between customers Lotus stood with “her arms crossed, very aloof and with a mysterious, unfathomable expression on her face. At first they .couldn’t understand it but then suddenly it all seemed very clear to them. It was just like the cases of: the malted-milk salesman and the refrigerator agent— and now an actual blue-blood! And the waitresses talked it over, nodded their heads and agreed among themselves — she certainly was a heart-breaker, that Lotus Jones!

Tomorrow: A tren old man and $10,0 ; In

“Merry-Go

MUSICAL CAMP AT OAKLANDON OPENED

Representing 22 Indiana cities, 200] "hoNEN | IRNe & Look aT WE. GARDENT

delegates today opened the first annual Salvation Army State-Wide Musical Camp Week at the Oak-

landon fresh air camp. The delegates comprise young people from cities where the Salvation Army is located. In most cases their trip has been sponsored by the Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, American Legion or some other civic group. Classes for all departments of band instrumentalists and vocal training are being conducted by a staff headed by Maj. John Kelly of Lafayette. : Instrumental and vocal contests will be held during this week with Indianapolis citizens as guests, The concluding service will be Sunday when a number of prominent Salvation Army musicians will attend.

DEWEY GRANT NAMED BY LETTER CARRIERS

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 9 (U.

P.).—Dewey Grant of Birdseye yes- |

terday was elected president of the Indiana Rural Letter Carriers’ Association at the final session of the three-day convention.

Raymond . Opal, Farmland, was named vice president and Rush,

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