New Britain herald., 1925-06-19

apepared from the street |. and those other workers the home women, were abroad in their crisp wash dresses and white shoes.
 ''I was one of them once" Gloria thought regretfully, But didn't know my luck when had it."
 . She was furious with herself for going 10 Dicks office.
 ''I suppose it tiekled Briggs to death when l came out, crying!" sho said to herself between clenched teeth.
 Then, with her chin up and her head held high. she went into the real estate office of Forbes. Forgan and Fargo
 She found her knees trembling, and her breath coming fast with nervousness as she followed an office boy into the presence of Ulysses x, Forgan.
 He was n man growing elderly. Rather sparse brown hair streaked with gray, two hard brown eyes with pickets fo wrinkles under them, a high nose. and a mouth like the slot in gum machine . that was Ulysses x. Forgan.
 He had mind like an adding machine. He seldom thought of any thing but figures. They were to him was talk and laughter were to other men.
 The one quality he had that made 1 him human was his love of beauty. .. He loved it in the impersonal way that the Greeks worshiped 1t. And Gloria with her amber eyes, and tremulous mouth was beautiful that morning. Ulsses x. Foran looked at a painting in a museum. He hired her. Worth looking at even if she cant typewrite," he said to himself. And she probably can't The good lockers are all dumbbells." |"
 But as the days went by, he real ized that Gloria knew her business. And she began to study his. She would slip just the paper he hap pened to be looking for under his nose just when he wanted 1t.
 q may have been failure as a wife" she told herself Saturday ' when she took her pay envelope from the cashier, but I've always been a crackerjack business woman .. Maybe it's the thing ] was cut out for, after all!"
 | She had vision of herself in the { coming years, growing large and sharp-eyed and efficient sue cessful business woman with noth- i ing 10 live for but a job!
 It was a gray and dreary out | look. ..
 l When she went home that after noon she took a leisurely bath and curled up on her bed for nap. It was six o'clock when she awoke.
 Her hair was damp with perspira- tion and it curled around her ears and forehead. Her cheks were flushed, and her eyes were starry as a baby's when it wakens from it's , afternoon sleep.
 She looked in the glass. No, she wasn't the type of woman to be unmarried, to live alone. She was too beautiful for that.
 -. Down in the kitchen she could hear her mother at work, get ting supper. She dressed herself in a gingham housefrock and went down to help with the meal. Gloria sliced the cold veal loaf, i and quartered lemons for the pitch- CT of iced tea. She made a plateful ] of lettuce sandwiches. Thank good ness we aren't having anything hot to eat" she said cheerfully to her mother. Its sweltering, isn't 1t? Look at those sandwiches. I'm getting to be some housewife, eh what?"
 1 She laughed brightly. But her i thoughts were anything but cheer | This was Saturday night. Carni' al 1 for everybody. The end of the | long weeks work. 1 All over America girls were way ing their hair, and dressing them- selves in their best bib and tucker to go out stepping" Wives were hurrying with the supper dishes, SC 1 that they might not make their families late for the movies"
 Everybody, everywhere, had something special to do.
 Everybody but me-" Gloria said to herself. as she sat out in the porch swing, after supper.
 She stared out into the gathering dusk. The stars were coming out
 like polished pin points in the sky above the tree tops.
 A Ford car drove up before the house next door, and man jumped out and ran up the steps. Gloria heard d scren door slam. , ..
 Presently he came out again. witt the girl who lived there little Peggy Quin.
 My stars! She ant be more ! than sixteen -. and having z beau already" Gloria exclaimed tc herself. But then that's not so bad when Pm only twenty -one, and mar ricd and" She stopped suddenly She had almost said divorced"
 With a pang of loneliness, sh' listened 10 Peggy Quin's gay voice as she climbed into the little cal and took her seat there. Ii chugget away down the street. ..
 Then her mother and father camt out of the house. They were going out 10 do their regular Saturts! night marketing.
 Better come along" Mir. Gordor advised her. Well probably win( up at a movie. We most always do.
 But Gloria shook her head. 'Nt thapks. darlings" she said, I'm ,tot comfortable 10 move.