Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-25

Tonight 1t took Chatty twenty
minutes TO make u her face.
She made 1t ID tn way she had
seen Winnie do 1t.
First a tiny bit Of cream. rubbed
all over 1t. Then powder rubbed
e the cream. Then rouge on the
cheek bones, the chin and the lobes
Of Chatty's small ears. LipStick on
her mouth, mascara on her eye
brows.
Mrs. Chatterton came in while she
was doing 1t.
Il certainly never would paint
myself up like that, II I were you'll"
she said severely. sitting down on
the edge OF the bed where she could
see the show. What do you do It
for? You don't think 1t looks nice.
do you?"
please don't make me talk,
mother" said Chatty. shortly. 81
have to hold my mouth open or this
stuff gets In my eye"
you have to hold your mouth
open so that brown stuff you're put
ting on your lashes won't get In
your eyes?" she asked. What TOM
fool nonsense is that? What has
your mouth to do with your eyes.
I'd like to know!"
But Chatty couldn't tell her. All
she knew was that Winnie had told
her to hold her mouth open when
she vas making up her eyes.
Then the mascara doesn't get
intot your eye and make it burn"
Winnie had said. Your eye seems
to stay open when your mouths
open. Funny, isn't it?"
There were a lot Of things like
that that Winnie knew.
She knew how to blow cigarette
smoke through her nostrils. She
knew that the Lice from q tin Of
canned tomatoes makes the very
best kind of breakfast on the morn
ing following a drin'-ing party.
She knew how to mix cinnamon
with brown henna to make her hair
that shade of coppery red.
There we're four kinds OF drinks
that she knew how to make.
And Chatty, in her innocence,
thought that she was wonderful.
Winnie was m king a drink that
she called wi silk" when Bryant
and Chatty reached her little flat
that hot June night.
She was in the tiny kitchen with
Jim Bowen. The two of them were
at the table. carefully mixing equal
parts Of white grape juice and Ice
water and gin.
Hello, therel" she hailed them
when they came wa ing in at her
back door. We'll, where are the
Famous Four going tonight? How
about the old Lollypop Inn, Bry-
ant?"
The Lollypop InnI The silly
name brought back TO Chatty the
memory Of an evening she had
spent there with Dave Jordan weeks
before. For just a second her heart
gave that familiar twist of pain
once more.
Its closed up, isn't it?" asked
Jim. Wasn't there a rail- out there
or something a while ago?"
Bryant nodded, standing close TO
Chatty, his hand : ed around her
arm just above e e~,ow.
Yeah" he said. But it's open
again under a Lew name. Opened
last Monday night. Let's 60 out
there, hmm-?"
He pulled Chatty close to him and
kissed her.
How about It, Babe?" he asked,
and kissed her again.
He made love to her openly. just
as Winnie and Jim Bowen made
love to each other when the four
| Of them were .,gether.
There .yas no embarrassment
among them now. They all under
stood each other-as people do IN
derstand each other after they have
been on at least one wild party"
together.
And II they all had a little con-
tempt for each other, they got along
wonderfully well. nevertheless.
"You take your a and I'll take
mine" Bryant said to Jim. when
they were out in the driveway,
where the two ro~ +sters were park
ed. eff you get there first you get