New Britain herald., 1926-11-09


 mills except Joe Meadows the ship ping clerk, who makes love to her against her will
 Jack Wallack, who comes to his fathers mills to learn the business, falls in love with Honey Lou the minute he sees her, Brought up by an old fashioned mother, Honey Lou is a mixture of flapper and clinging vine.
 Angela Allen pretends to be a friend of Honey Lou and tells her not to take Jack seriously. Jack is very jealous of pr. Steve Mayhew, a friend of Margret, Honey Lou's sister.
 Honey Lou goes to work with Margret in the office of Holy Cross hospital. One day she goes to tea with the willy Angela and meets Jacks mother, whom Jack calls The Head because she manages everything st home. She tells Honey Lou that Grumpy is not sat- isfied with his new secretary, Ann Ludlow. the office vamp. Jack asks Honey Lou to work for his father. who is at home sick with lumbago, and Honey Lou promises that she will.
 Honey Lou meets Angela who tells her that Jack Waliack is talk ing her out to dance that evening. Honey Lou calls up Tim Donegal deteCmined to have him take her 10 the same place.
 Honey Lou goes with Tim 10 the restaurant and he has been drink ing. The place Is ratded by dry agents and Honey Lou escapes with Jack Wallack. Jack tells Honey Lou that he thought she was trcking him and ends by tell ing her that be loves her and wants her to marry him.
 Honey Lou's engagement is an- nounccd and plans are made for the wedding.
 Jack and Honey Lou have quiet wedding and spend their honey moon camping at Lake Tamaw In the meantime Steve visits the flat and breaks under the realization that Honey Lou is lost to him now.
 Jack and Honey Lou return from their honeymoon and stay with the Wallacks while looking for flat for themselves. Honey Lou stops at the Wallack Mills office to see Ann Ludlow.
 Ann tells Honey Lou why she sent for her. Honey Lou sees Joe Meadows and tells him he must marry Ann at once and he agrees to do so.
 Honey Lou and Jack settle down in their own flat with Mary De- laney. the cook.
 Honey Lou prepares dinner on Marys night out. Jack phones he will not be home and Angela calls Tim Donegal and asks him to play cards with them, much against Honey Lou's wishes.
 Later they meet at Sabine's, but Honey Lou refuses his invitation to tea. Jack and Honey Lou spend the evening with The Head. She sends Jack upstairs to see his father and tells Honey Lou she wants to talk to her.
 The Head scolds Honey Lou for | the money she has spent furnish 1 ing her house. Honey Lou makes 1 up her mind she must not spend | so much, but the next day Honey Lou goes to the beauty parlor to have her hair done and then goes shopping with Suzanne Clemens. 1 On the way home Honey Lou stops to see Angela.
 Angela tells Honey Lou she Is going 10 have a party for her and | Jack Saturday night. Honey Lou l goes home and finds Jack reading | poems about little houses in the | country filled with love and happi- ness. Honey Lou decides to let < Mary go in the morning. do her own work. and try to make the ! kind of home Jack wants. The | next morning Angela calls and | asks Honey Lou to go to town | with her 10 pick out a new dress for the party. Honey Lou sees dress she would like to buy. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XL
 Womens hunger for clothes IS | no new thing.
 It is a half-savage passion that has come down to us from the ! days of Eve and the Garden of {, Eden. It is as strong in women, as craving for drink is in some men. It becomes an actual craving.
 With Honey Lou it had been growing during all the months since she had met Angela Allen. and had seen her wonder ful clothes, her handbags that matched every dress, her stockings | and hats that matched every hand bag.
 Before that she had been more than content with the linen under things that Mrs. Huntley's patient fingers made for her, with her plain little dresses, her hats that lasted a whole season and sometimes a whole year.
 She had enjoyed window shop ping along Nicholson boulevard with Margret on Saturday after moons. exclaiming rapturously over this pair of slippers or that be- plumed hat-and had never been because they were not hers.
 But this morning as she stood be- fore the .spangled pink dress she felt that she never again would want a dress as she wanted this one-and that if she did not get it. l nothing would ever quite make 1t up to her again.
 She was so lost in admiration of it that as first she did not catch what Angela had said, and turned puzzled brown eyes upon her.