New Britain herald., 1927-01-25
@ JOHNSON FEATURES INC. I92
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| ouI ouc le. ol SSoio odo AdS ocCA dreaming of going to Hollywood, to break into pictures" And now, at 22. she firmly makes up her mind to risk everything and go.
 The only drawback to her ambi- tion to become a film star is the fact that she has no money. for she Is the soul of extravaganza and spends every nickel she makes teaching school. So she asks her father. widower, to lend her five hundred dollars, but he angrily re- fuses to finance such a wild-goose chase. Then Robbie threatens to ask her lover, Andrew Jerrold, for the money much to the horror of her spinster aun'. Gertrude Ran som, who has been like mother to her all her life Aunt Gertrude wishes that Robbie would settle down to school teaching.
 ' That night at dusk. Andrew, or Andy, as Robbie calls him, drives up to the house to see her in one of the used" automobiles that he buys and sells very successfully. Robbie asks him to stay there on the porch and talk instead of go- ing out driving or dancing as they usually do when they're together. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER III
 The next day was Sunday. It was to be blazer-one of those parching days of dry August heat when even the wind is like the breath from a furnace. But 1t was cool and dewy when Robbie woke at six in the morning. and stretched her sender body in It's thin nightgown.
 The nightgown was pale-pink silk and all around the neck and the arlnholes were little embroid- cred scallops. Robbie had made it, herself. with her clever fingers and it had cost exactly four dollars and ten cents.
 But If you had gone to a shop to buy 1t you would have had to pay three or four times that much for 1t. Easily.
 The dainty white room was filled with other proofs of Boobies pas sion for nice things. The curtains at. the window were lengths of sheer white organdy hemmed by hand - by Bobbie's hand. Under the bed was small pair of pink satin mules. and on the toe of each one she had painted cluster of moss rosebuds with oil colors' She had made the shell-p!nk dre3e- l inx gown that hung over the chair by the windows.
 The plain white dresser had an organdy frill all around 1t, and it was covered with cold cream jars and scent bottles, and powder boxes - all of them filled with the most expensive beauty aids that are sold.
 Fool nonsense" was the way Aunt Gertrude described these things that cost small fortune. Aunt Gertrude was proud of the fact that she never used so much as talcum powder on her nose, and she apparently never knew just how large and pink and shiny her nose looked sometimes. * It was very rosy and shiny h. ideed when she opened the door of the room at eight o'clock to see if Robbie was up.
 She wasn't. She was still lying | in bed, with her hands clasped be- hind her yellow-gold head and her dark eyes fixed dreamily on the ceiling.
 My stars, girl! Don't you know {! it's breakfast time? What are you lally-gaggins there tor?" che asked sharply. I'm boiling the water ! for the eggs right now"
 Aunt Gertrude had been getting the family up at eight o'clock for Sunday morning breakfast for years, against their will. Both Robbie and Mir. Ransom would far rather have stayed in bed and gone without breakfast, but Aunt Ger trude wouldn't let them. She just kept nagging and call- ing and complaining until, in sheer desparation, they got Up. If you hadn't stayed out until all hours with Andy Jerrold last night. you'd be ready to get up at a decent time this morning." she scolded Robbie. T heard you incoming around with him til way pass midnight"
 She was always scolding about Andy Jerrold. The plain fact of the matter was that Aunt Gertrude hated to see Robbie or any other woman with & sweetheart, because she never had had one herself. Poor Aunt Gertrude.
 Men liked her. They liked her sharp tongue and her acid sense of humor. They liked her because she seemed 50 unromantic and matter-of-fact And no one ever guessed that way down at the bot tom ct her heart, Aunt Gertrude was hungry and starved for the affection and sentiment that she ecoffed at.
 Whom she was gone, Bobbie 1 jumped up from the bed and ran into the bathroom. On shelf above the tub were all the bath toilet things that belonged to her -geranium bath salts from a French perfumer. skin tonics, rose toilet water, lemon shampoo for her blond hair. and a huge glass jar of dusting powder with 8 l = blue velvet puff tucked into the 1 top.
 Fragrant as any rose. she rushed downstairs to breakfast a few min utes later, with her damp hair curl ing in little rings above her fore head. and the homemade dressing gown wrapped tightly around her body.
 Aunt Gertrude shook her head in silent disapproval when she came in and sat down at her place, Aunt Gertrude thought there was some thing faintIy indecent about