The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-09

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 you 'Ermintrude objected. With out Q car or anything"
 They'd just betetr try to stop me-" threatened Nary Frances. She was a female thing, questing for love and beauty. Her tiny nostrils dilated slightly.
 The attendant at the service sta. tion, pleasantly named Albert Jolly and as British as "Zed," had noticed two girls, whom he might have described as sweetly comedy, approach and cross his graveled corner. He had noticed them, and busy with hisetaoin shrdlu
 busy with his pumps and his oil cans, he had promptly forgotten them. He was vaguely startled, 15 minutes later, when he saw the two young persons again in his graveled corner.
 Albert was at an age when all youth looked much and beautifully alike to him. Still he had retained an impression that the blue little lady was a bit more agreeable to the eye than was the stockier brown little lady. He looked again at the blue little lady and his eyes opened wide, and his jaw went down a trifle, and murmuring and distinctly troubled he returned to his pumps and oil cans.
 Mary Frances had resolved that, for once in her life, she was going to look decent. The lipstick, which had done double duty for cheeks and lips, had been purloined from Cecily as had the clown-white pow der, undimmend by the tan and the pink powders with which Ceciiy carefully blended 1t. The cork for the eyelashes and eyebrows had been burned In Ermintrude's bed- room the night before; the bluing for the eyelids had been removed from the large bottle in the Hills kitchen to Q small vial that morn ing.
 There could be no doubt as to the altered. appearance of Mary-Fran- ces Ermintrude, looking again at her friend as they left the gravel and gained the sidewalk, declared, beauty, Nary Frances, darling. And my, but you look old! Honest, no foolng, you look lmost--jaded." Which was delivered as high hom- age, and which was 50 received.
 The girls went on, past Rosy meade's Development and Realty company down Tanner stretc, past Ike Crombley's New and socend. Hand Furniture company. past the Sans Souci apartments, past the post showing the sign, "Fenwick avenue"; and if the old street, dap. pied with sunshine through It's preadng locust trees, attempted enticements or invocations they were neither seen nor hoard. A rounded corner brought Nary Frances and Ermintrude to Mrs Van Slycke's Delicatessen Shop, and automatically they stopped be- fore It's windows: fascinating sal ads, golden with mayonnaise; bows of creamy cottage cheese; cakes towering luscious layers of coconnut and chocolate; hams, cut to pink's own perfections; olives oily green, and pungent dill pickles and pies, and little rolls--all only glass window away at 1 o'clock on a warm spring hungry after noon.
 trude. I'm just naturally starved. Let's hury right back to our house and get something to eat. We went to your house yesterday" Mary Frances. too, was torn by the teeth of hunger, but path and
 purpose lay clear before her. and though she turned from the win- dow with a hear-heavy sigh, she took Ermintrude's arm and pulled 1t and said, "Oh. for pity's sake! Come on, can't you"
 Ermintrude's opposition, which, possibly because of the amazing success attending the venture for beauty had been constrained since the girls had left the service sta- ton, now gushed forth, sur- charged with feeling.
 "Yes, but y-Frances Fen wick, I don't think you ought to. I think you'd lots better give 1t all up right now and go in for a col- lege career"
 Ann, at her desk in the office of the Redfern Plumbing and Heat ] ing company, looked again at the clock on the wall. Twenty-Five minutes past four. and Phil had not telephoned to her all day long. iJsually. at least, when things went wrong in the evening. Phil tele- phoned to her early the next day not to make love: Phil did not approve of love-making over the telephone-but to reassure her. to let her know that he was not ngry, to make an engagement for thc evening. It was mean of him not to telephone to-day. She would have called him sladly. but Phil thought 1t not quite nice for girls to telephone to men. It was mean of him, Getting n number was so easy. Waiting for message waiting for anything was hard. (sr0 lHe COntinua6l