Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-28
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Hecky's Club Dance
Was Success
By CORONA REMINGTON

"a by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
(WNU ServiceN
MARIA NEWCOMB opened the
IN1 door of her friends bedroom and
walked in. She was greeted by Choir
us of voices.
"Hello, Toady, you look as if you'd
been eating spiders"
"Feel worse" said the newly ar
rived. sullenly.
"It's a man." declared Heckfire, 9th
erwise Florence Willis. Il can always
tell when there's man in the case"
Fright, first guess. Where'd you
get the box of candy? From the pres
ident with his lover"
mo, it came from the folks back
home. Today's my birthday, you know,
and you needn't think because I'm the
boss stenog. and he gives me a lift In
his car once in awhile that he's
ready to meet me at the altar"
''But tell us about your man,
Toady," said Alice Williams as she
removed a chocolate-covered nut and
passed the box.
"N-nothin to tell. That tow-head-
ed Jimmy Langston's going to take
Clara Carter to the dance tomorrow
night, and after I'd given him a strong
hint I'd like to go, too. And
to think made him six linen handker-
chiefs for Christmasl Wish I'd put
some sneezing powders in 'em."
"Don't cry, honey, you'll have COM
pany. | predict that Miss Alice Will
liams will spend a quiet evening at
home"
"Here's another" came from Betty
Watson, sitting on the floor in her
kimono with her back against the
door. "Girls have an idea" Heck
fire said suddenly.
speech, speech" they cried in
| chorus.
Heckfre jumped into the middle of
| the bed and addressed her eager lis
teners.
Ladies, this is a serious situation.
l was counting up last night and there
| are exactly five girls in this plant to
every man. OF course, I'm only count
ing the men in the Office and the girls
in the office. Now then, there are no
other men to go with except the ones
in the company and the consequence is
they're spoiled"
absolutely" agreed Alice
Williams.
"All right, we're goin' to fix 'em.
We're goin' to boycott them"
"Hooray!" exclaimed the girls.
"We've depended upon them too
much for our happiness. Now, we're
going to get interested in something
else. We could have dancing teach
er come out from town two nights
week and teach us the latest steps
Then the mend be wild to learn 'em
from u.s."
"Greatm
swell let 'em see we can do with
out 'eml" said Alice excitedly.
"When does this boycott go into eff
fect?" asked Louise Foster.
"Oh, we won't make anyone break
a date, but they mustn't make any
more"
The girls had not been so excited
in months Heckfire called up New
tonville the next morning and engaged
the various instructors. She succeed
ed in getting the gym trainer to com
that evening and all the girls VIII
were not invited to the dance spent
happy hour going through the exeI
cises suggested by the teacher and 1
listening to plans for a basketball
, team and hiking club.
Social activities quoted down tn
first few days after the dance, an
it was nearly week before any repor
| was made.
Wednesday evening Maria burst il
. to the room where the girls were a!
, sembled.
"Say, folks" she laughed, "Jimm
q Langston asked me to go to the sho
! tonight and could just feel HI
, amazement when l turned him dow
He couldn't believe his ears"
q HE called me up at lunch time an
a asked me-" said Alice Williams, "ar
! just knew he'd been turned dow
a before. heard him say under h
breath, We'll, I'll be darnedr
4 81 got bid to the next dance tn
\ morning, but told him l belonged
4 the Self Improvement club and we hi
q an important meeting that night"
h For nearly three months the gil
Il kept their pact. They worked at the
!. orchestra-studied the latest steps
dancing-took gym and were altoget
er busy and happy. Then they decl
a ed to give dance and invite the me
It was a tremendous success,
10 not so much dancing was done
y. might be supposed, for many of
s. couples wandered out onto the &C
20 veranda and down the moonlit pa
n to the lake.
Slang 1t all, Hecky, DEAR" said
X Dayton, the boss, ~ suppose I'll ha
to marry you. You girls have becol
IN so confoundly clannish and wrap
" up in yourselves"
s. Not even ten yards away in
shadows Toady was weeping a
of laughing on Jimmy Langston's mai
chest and promising never TO DIES
him again.
The report for the evening was
us engagements and three "understa
N ings."
NO The club in fever of excitem
he gave three cheers for Heckfire,
nd Hecky remained silent and thong
mt full.
Or. 'Our experiment proved lot
nv things" she said after a while. Z"
lf learned that we must depend VI
ne ourselves for happiness that the m
en- things we know the more we can g
nv others and the more interesting
nus are to them, and that 4
are lovely things. Let's turn in, 81