The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-05

with the characters around whom
it is written we advise its reading)
In the little town of Stockton, Cal,
Sonia Marsh, 17-year-old daughter
of Sam Marsh, grocery clerk, was
considered wild by the mothers of
the young set because she smoked
cigarettes and acted sophisticated.
Her reputation was utterly ruined,
however, when Mrs. Maine caught
Sonia kissing Joe Carter in the dark
cloak room at party for Mrs.
Names daughter Sidney.
Indignant at Mrs. Names rebuke,
Sonia left the party without explain
ing that this was her first kiss and
that she had done is merely as an
experiment.
When she reached home Sonia did
not tell her parents the reason she
had left the party so early but pas
sionately declared that she would not
stay in Stockton any longer and that
she was going to San Francisco to
secure a position whether her parents
approved or not.
The next day Sonia delivered a
dress to Mrs. Saltwater for her
mother, as Mrs. Marsh was forced
to use her art as a dressmaker to
help make the family living. Mrs.
Saltwater being absent from home
Sonia gave the dress to her son,
Donald, who recently had graduated
from medical college.
An Old Acquaintance
Is Revived
Don, hardly able to realize that
this was the little Sonia March that
he used to know, invited her into
the house, where they had a long
talk Sonia told him of her dreams
Of going to the city to secure a po-
sition and Don promised to get her
position with his uncle, realty
man Of San Francisco. He also
promised to win her parents over to
the plan of her leaving.
Sonia cheerfully returned home
after her talk with Don and learned
. that her father and mother had just
heard of the kissing episode of the
!. night before. With smiles, tears
dHu Lie pIOIllS6 never u tlO IL again
she finally won forgiveness,
A week later when returning
from visit with her sister Vera,
which thoroughly Disguised Sonia
with married life, she met DR.. Don
Saltwater, who>told her that he had
secured her the position he had
promised and that she could leave
Two, Oh
cared to.
Sonia hurried home, told her
mother, and that evening Don Sc
cured her fathers consent for her
to accept the place.
Sonia received several proposals
before she left Stockton, but, thor
oughly disguised with the mediocre
city in which most of the married
couples she knew had fallen, and
filled with dreams of the future, she
scarcely gave them a thought.
Sonia Takes Her Job
and Makes New Friends
Sonia went straight to the office
of Jed Thomas, Don's uncle, when
she arrived in San Francisco. She
was puzzled by the cool way in
which he received her. However,
the head of the bookkeeping depart
ment, Maxine La Rue, was very kind
to her, helping her out with her
books, which she found to be more
difficult than she had anticipated.
The first week in San Francisco,
Sonia was very homesick. Then the
girls at the offic9Nbegan to recognize
her.
Hello, Sonia" fell like mama
upon her ears.
She found that her trick of smok-
ing cigarets by dangling them from
her mouth was fully appreciated.
Her air of independence and self
sufficiency won its own reward.
Sonia spent her evenings alone,
but found many things to do She
started swimming, went to parks
and to moving picture theaters,
where she gloated over the gorgeous
costumes on the screen and vowed
to herself that she would be just
as gorgeously gowned some day in
the near future.
At the end of the first month she
had acquired enough skill in book
keeping to let her mind wander to
other things.
1.-THE dangers of the big city?
There aren't any," quoth the disil-
lusioned Sonia. mo old maid in
walled garden could be safer from
adventure than I am"
Men and Red,
Red Wine
The next day Maxine asked her
to a party at her apartment.
Men and red, red wine" she
promised laughingly
Sonia accepted and met Walter
Henderson and BERTHE Donohue, two
men from the office. After the party,
which was a rather tame affair, she
thought, she longed for the clean
masculinity of the boys of her set
at Stockton. She was strangely dis
appointed with the men she had met.
Sonia found that the party at Max
ines had completed her initiation at
the office. She was accepted now as
one of "the gang"
BERTHE, true to the promise he had
made at Maxine's party, asked her
TO let him take her to a show. Not
wishing to anger him because he
worked at the office, Sonia accepted.
After the theater they got Maxine,
who had quarreled that night with
Mac Macgregor, her married lover,
and went to Giandujas to dance.
At Gianduja's Sonia met Franklin
Crane, salesman for the company in
whose Offices she worked She
learned from Maxine that Crane