San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-05
Sallie Bemoans Prospect
Of Growing Old
All Alone.
CHAPTER XXXIV

Sallle clasped her hands
under the bright red hair
and stretched luxuriously on
the couch in Nora Lees liv-
ing room. She glanced to the
fire, where Nora Lee sat
with her feet all but touch
ing the live Goals.
A blowy, tempestuous
Saturday afternoon in April.
The wind rustled the trees with Il
sound Of water running on rocks and
the rain danced merrily on a tin
roof.
Sallie drew n long, racking sigh
and waited for Nora Lee to inquire
the cause of her anguish. As no
kind sympathy was manifested, she
groaned again; this time in obvious
torment.
They both laughed.
But it's no JOKE" Sallie offered
wiping her eyes: "Twenty-eight next
Tuesday! Ye gods, does it seem six
months since we were sweet II?
Every time I say 27-2S-29, then
30, l get the most awful pinching
OF the heart. Twenty-eight and pros
pectless! Would you advise me to
marry, Nora Lee?"
who is HE?"
Don't mock I'm serious. There's
no one in the offing at present. But
il l could once decide that matri-
mony is the wiser course, I'd up
and find the MAN. 1 can, thanks
to some good advice you gave me
long ago. Remember that? You told
me TO get conceited-to act as
though / were Gaby Deslys and
Venuscs rolled into one-think myself
utterly charming and men would
take me at that valuation. You were
the wise infant, Born in some
danes, isn't it. like the curl in your
hair. But I've practiced it and it
works. So that settles that. As long
ms there remains one eligible bache-
Tor In the world, the problem of
getting married is simple for crea-
ture Of intelligence such ms Sallie
Paul. Treat them with the majestic
indifference all the time having the
follow me lit in your eye and the
kis me ripple on your lips. You
see ] didn't live with you for moth
ing ole dear.
THE QUESTION.
$50 just consider the man on his
knees. what ] want to know is this
shall I take him."
Tired of your job, sal:,
"No-S225 month is very satisfac.
tory and Kennedy's a peach as boss.
You see I'm considering the matter in
strictly rational attitude"
Nora Lee laughed. "You mean
you're eliminating the one grand cause
that makes marriage desirable and
necessary. You think you can enter
matrimony in cold blood the same as
you enter business office and ask for
a better job?"
Sallie shifted: "I'm an affcctionate
creature. or course, ] shall pick out
man OF such qualities that worship
will come very easy. Granted all
these favorable conditions. I still ask
of You: Is marriage advisable? Should
sane woman approaching the terrible
thirties give up n valuable job for a
questionably valuable man?
my instinct hungers for compan-
ionship and love; my common sense
warns me that 90 out of every 100 get
bunked.'
Connie and Mickey are happy"
"Are they! Mickey Grant should
have married woman of my type, be-
cause, as I say, I'm affectionate and
square-shooter. think a woman who
refuses to have n child when she
knows the man Graves one is a low
down GUTTER
Connie means to have one"
YES, she does! Cons a good kid
and you know I'm kind of nutty about
her. She's got the sweet way, but she
never means to do a thing that's going
to greatly hamper one Comics joyous
time. She loves the high lights. She'll
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