Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

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Charlotte Chatterton, whose nick
name is Chatty, is a born gossip
and busybody. She loses her job
in Mrs. Mayberry's hat shop be-
cause she talks too much, and
leaves without collecting her weeks
salary. However, Pud, her young
brother, gets it for her and hears
from Mrs. Mayberry why Chatty
was fired.
Mrs. Harriet Chatterton, Chatty's
mother, does plain sewing. Her
only fashionable customer is an old
friend Of hers, Mrs. Van Mugs.
Through Mrs. Van Mugs Chatty is
given a job, helping in the filing
department of Mr.. Van Mugs bond
house down town.
There Chatty sees a young man
she once noticed buying flowers for
a girl in the flower shop near Mrs.
Mayberry's hat store. Billie LANCE
nau, the head of the filing depart
ment, tells Chatty he is one Of the
bond statesmen, David Jordan, and
that the only girl in the office he
ever goes out with Is MI. Van Nuy's
secretary, Agnes HEREFORD, a plain,
quiet girl.
Chatty thinks he is stunning, and
for the first time in her life she
wants to be attractive to a man.
She buys some French face powder,
and some pink nail polish SO that
she ear have hands as pretty as
Billie's hands. Billie is always well
groomed in the office, for George
Mayhem, the man she is in love
with, works there.
In the evening, following her first
day in the office, Chatty quarrels
with Pud, as they wash the dishes
together, because Pud kids" her
about having the kind of job where
she must not talk much-for Billie
has told her never to mention the
names of customers that are card
indexed in the Van Mugs company's
files. Chatty angrily leaves him to
finish the dishes. She goes itno
her room to experiment with the
new powder and nail polish.
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CHAPTER v
Chatty never had tried to make
herself pretty and alluring for some
mans eyes before in her life.
She had been plain Jane"-clean
as wax and neat as a pin-and let
it go at that. And so she was
awkward and slow as she went to
work to beautify herself that Mon
day night.
It took her a full hour to edo"
her nails. But when they were fin
ished they were almost as shiny
and pink and pointed as Billie
Langeau's lovely finger tips.
Then she fluffed some Of the new
perfumed powder over her face.
She loved the creamy, velvety look
it gave to her skin.
1T takes all the shine away
and it makes my eyes look bigger,
somehow" she told herself, smiling
at herself in the glass.
Next she went out into the kit=
chen and sponged her faded black
working dress with cold tea to
bring the color back. She carefully
pressed it, and hung it up in the
closet all ready for tomorrow morn
ing.
1t was ten o'clock, and she was
brushing her hair before the old
mahogany dresser when Mrs. Chat
terton came itno the bedroom.
What in the world have you put
on your face?" she asked, coming
close. you've put powder on, and
it'll make your pores big just as
Sure-and what on earth HAVE you
done to your nails?"
Polished Them" answered Chat
ty, calmly. Now, mother, don't
pretend you've never seen LIQUID
nail polish before. Most of your
customers use it-and I know I look
much better, fixed up a little, than
I did two hours ago." She puffed
her hair over her ears, and drew
it up in a loose knot at the back
Of her head.
"You look just like a Zulu belle
only you're a blondel" Mrs. Chat
terton declared, shaking her head
mo. I thought you looked sweeter
and younger the old way, Chattyl
And this stuff is positively injur,