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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

wisdom. Barclays was VIGOROUSLY
a hotbed of gossip. The tiniest in
cident that involved Steven Barclay
was always abnormal interest to
his employees. Fortunately the
saleswoman who brought the gowns
was placidly injurious.
The next 5 minutes were sheer
heaven for Ellen. She had never
owned an evening gown, evening
GOWNS being one of the items in
variably missing from Aunt Myra s
boxes. She had not known it would
be such fun to select a gown only
because it made her beautiful.
She stood before a long mirror
and held up before herself, one by
one, gowns that she was convinced
were the loveliest in the world. II
was pure bliss to see that, although
line and color seemed almost to
change her personality as they did
change her appearances not even
the trying burnt orange or the deep
petunia could down the triumph
ant flush of her clear skin or dead
en- her bright hair.
When she came upon the gown
of ivory taffeta she knew she had
found her dress. 1t did not make
her an ingenue. 1t did not make
her a duchess. 1t did not make
her mysterious. 1t only made her
Ellen Rossiter, a girl of 20. clear
eyed and clear skinned, a girl with
slender hands and slender feet
beautiful, but more than that, a
girl who was genuine and secure
in her own personality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

sible, that the whole story was out
before she could check the rush of
| words. Myra and Bert; cher mother
and her disastrous shopping tours;
| Mike, delightful baby Mike, who
should have his chance; the Brook
~ apartment and the countless,
| harassing worries that beset two
girls trying to balance on their slim
| shoulders the burden of family,
| all that and more she poured forth.
She stopped at last in consterna-
J ton. What had she said, lured by
| this mans intent interest? What
had possessed her?
so you see it's really nothing"
she concluded stiffly. "Only the
lack of an evening dress. I'm afraid
I've drawn a dreadful picture. It's
not fair or truthful one. We have
lots Of fun. We low each other.
Anyone would say that an evening
| dress wasn't important"
Il wasn't going to say that"
Ellen felt suddenly annoyed with
herself. annoyed with Barclay. as
though he had taken advantage OF
a moment of weakness to force an
unwilling confidence. What real in
terest could man who sailed for
Europe to buy a single piece of
jade feel in the petty. financial diff
culties of one of his minor employ
es? Her cheeks grew hot.
She remembered that Jenny Ell
kins below in the basement had
promised to care for her counter
only for 10 minutes. She glanced
toward the door, longing to rush
from the room.
Barclay noticed her restiveness
and suspected her attitude.
"No. 1 wasn't going to say that. ;"
he repeated. Il was going to tell
you something about myself, some
thing that might help you, or
hope 1t will. Are you bored?"
Ellen quickly assured him she
was not. She felt again and I'M
willingly his quiet spell, felt his
lack of condescension, his simple
assumption that they were equals
and, as equals. could solve her prob
lem. But how? What possible help
could she accept from him?
Don't think Of me as rich
man." he was saying. Think of
me as I was at your age. trying to
| SuppOlL q youuS WIZ dhu q yOuh5
baby on SIS week in the days
when SIS a week meant more than
it does now but not enough more.
My wife wanted dress too. She
wanted a pink dress with ribbons.
She looked a little like you, had
! that same quick way of turning her
head. And they were wearing pink
and ribbons when she wanted the
dress"
Ellen forgot Jenny Elkins in the
basement. She had not known
that Barclay had been poor. 1t was
hard to imagine that distinguished,
graying man who wore clothes so
carefully cut. SO indicative of
wealth, in such a role. But she
could visualize clearly that young
wife who had wanted pink drses
with pink ribbons.
No one offered to give her that
Dress" Barclay continued. "If any
one had I'm sure we both would
have refused it. We were proud,
you understand-proud as you are
proud. 1 was going to become a
rich managing to buy her dozens
upon dozens of dresses" He hest
tated and added almost roughly
She was dead dead with my
young son before she ever had a
pink dress
Ellen gave a DISTRESSED little cry.
1--WE had fun too" he told her
Much the same sort of fun you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

and your brother, Mike, and your
sister. Myra. are having now. But
If we'd only seen less stiff-necked,
les safraid of the motives of other
people, how much easier it would
have been"
'Afraid?"
The heavy Rossiter brows rose
in twin peaks.
young people haven't changed
much in spite of all the shouting,
Barclay observed o b ique y.
They're still afraid, aren't they, to
accept favor to do a greater fav-
or? They're just as suspicious. just
as conventional and every bit as
proud. You, I'm sure, would never
allow me to give you a lift. You
wouldn't allow me, would you, to
give you one dress from a store
which has hundreds of them?
You'd rather hug your troubles to
yourself, worry yourself sick,
wouldn't you? You'd rather be sell
fish"
Pm afraid I would" Ellen ad-
mitted.
Barclays smile was rueful. He
made one more attempt.
"You know. of course, that you
are depriving me of a great pleas
ure. Are you sure you have that
right? ?"
Ellen felt confused. Was it pos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
BEGIN HERE TODAY

Beautiful ELLEN ROOSTER, who works by day sales
girl Barclays Department lives with her mother MOLLY
ROSTER elder sister, MYRA and her 12yearold brother,
MIKE Eens dead father younger in titled English family
left comfortable fortune provide for his wife and children IRE
spon Molly Rosser through the fortune and since
then the support family has devoved her daughters
Molly fooshy spends precious money buy
say clothes Mike. her mothers suggestion Ellen decides
work night dance hall hostess until the made She
goes JACOB SAOMON offers
job condition that she supply her evening dresses She has
evening Bitterly disappointed she breaks rule and
telephones the her mother.
STEVEN BARCLAY of the department her
telephone booth and asks his office Ellen is
he intends o discharge her.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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sible that she was too stiff-necked,
as he had accused her of being, too
conventional, too careful entirely?
Then she decided, SO quickly that
there was almost no pause before
she answered, that even if she were
it was too late to change.
I'm sure ! have that right" she
said. Her tone was resolute but
she softened 1t with glance of shy
merriment.
The man considered a moment,
His face cleared and when he
smiled so many years dropped away
from him that Ellen felt he must
| look almost as he had looked to
his young wife. She had thought
him handsome and distinguished
before but separated from her by
miles of spiritual distance, sepa-
rated from her by many years and
by great wealth. For the first time
sch saw him not as her employer
| but as q man.
well, If you wont, you WON'T
he said decisively. at may be that
young girls should be suspicious of
older men bearing gifts - 1 don't
know. But I've though of COM
promise. Surely you can't refuse
| to borrow a dress
Borrow a dress.'
"Certainly. Don't look so as
| founded. We seldom sell the gowns
| that the models wear. You'll Dor
row one of them and return it when
| your engagement is over
Taking her consent for granted,
he turned at once to ring u bell.
Ellen had neither the heart nor the
wish to demur. Indeed, she felt her
| spirits rising. By SO simple an act
as ringing a bell. Steven Barclay
had settled the problem of where
the Rossiter rent was to come from
| Wit hthe help of a borrowed dress
it was coming from Dreamland.
A few minutes later a saleswo-
man arrived with a lovely cargo OF
evening dresses. Steven Barclay had
slipped away. Ellen was alone ir
the office. She appreciated the de-
Dartment store owners tao and his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
In 80 Days
Heals Sore She
Had 80 Years!
Happy Woman Used Only
Two IS Cent Boxes of
PetersOn's Ointment

Mrs j. c. Henderson of Winston
Salem, n. c., had an ulcer on her
ankle for 80 years and could not
get it healed. Had medical treat
ment. Then she got boxes of that
powerfully healing and skin-recon-
structive Peterson's Ointment and
entirely healed her ulcer before
she used the second box. She says,
II don't think there's a better rem
edy on earth"
And right she is! Peterson's
Ointment contains aids to healing
bruised, broken tissues which no
other ointment hast replenishes
infected and sickly skin with those
very essentials it's starving fort
promotes rapid healing. Generous
box only 35 cents. Any drugstore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

Never before had she exchanged
word with her employer. In her
SIX years of service she had seen
him no more than half a dozen
times. Steven Barclay spent only
two or three months a year in the
store which, bore his name; the
other months he wandered restless
ly about Europe adding to his col
lection Of jades. But Ellen had as
sumed, as her working mates had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

There were no ornaments. no
frils on Ellen's dress. 1t was only
white taffeta falling to the floor.
But it had been made in France by
a great couturier who called his
creation "Jeune File.
Barclay returned after Ellen had
seen the other gowns carried awav.
He glanced at the ivory taffeta over
her arm. He hesitated and then
said:
"Im glad you selected that one"
AS Ellen looked into his eyes she
saw with little shock, half of fear
and half of strange pride, that life
was suddenly becoming exciting.
ITO BE Continucd)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

ward dip. Her hands, folded in
her lap, ached from their tight grip
upon each other.
When Barclay sat down opposite
her she raised her frightened eyes.
She had been too really terrified be-
fore, too appalled,, to attempt to
draw any hope of possible second
chance from Steven Barclays face
or manner. But now as she looked
at him, she saw all at once that she
had been wrong.
This man did not intend to dis
miss her. He leaned forward, his
fine. lined face grave with SYM
pathy.
II hope" he began almost apollo
getically, that you won't think I'm
interfering in something which
does not concern me. ] am. of
course. But perhaps you'll forgive
men when / tell you that | can not
bear to see an employe = to see
someone as young as you are-in
such trouble without attempting to
learn If there is something I can
do. Some way that l can help"
Ellen had been prepared for dis
missal. She was not prepared for
sympathy. For moment revulsion
of feeling made her actually dizzy.
Her heart was suffocating her and
she felt she could hardl. breathe.
Bue she forced herself to answer
him.
It's - It's nothing important"
she managed at length.
81 was afraid you'd say that. 1t
probably would be nothing to me.
Obviously it's not that to you. But
l do think it's nothing that cant
be solved. Won't you tell me?"
At any other time Ellen would
have withdrawn into the fast
resses of the Rossiter pride. Just
then she had such an overWhelm-
ing need for sympathy, such an
! overwhelming need for the advice
of someone older, someone respon-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26

for the strictness of the store. the
countless, fretting rules, the rigid
discipline. She had youthfully
hated him for that.
Barclay left her sitting at the
rosewood desk. long and fanked
with thin. slender vases of roses,
while he turned to close the door
opening into his secretary's office.
Ellens heart took another down
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-26
CHAPTER III

Ellen had her feet planted firmly in her small world by the Tina
had herself She had other the swift penalty
nconsquen fault She prepared herself
dignity pride She thought dmy that the important thing
to maintain her courage.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
What's Doing Today, When and Where

Public Speaking
Forum, evening, Southeast Center,
Seventh and c Streets Southeast.
Meeting-Young. Peoples Social
Group, evening, Garfield Center,
Twenty-fifth and Alabama Avenue
Southeast.
Reception and Dance-Ath1etic
Club, evening, Garfield Center,
Twenty-ftfth and Alabama Avenue
Southeast.
Meeting-Busy Bee Club, even
ing, Lovejoy Center, Twelfth and
D Streets Northeast.
Meeting-Rainbow Club, even
ing, Lovejoy Center, Twelfth and
D Streets Northeast.
Meeting-Girls Game Group,
evening. Lovejoy Center, Twelfth
and D Streets Northeast.
Rehearsal West Washington
Glee Club, evening. West Wash
ington Center. Twenty-fourth and
N Streets.
Meeting-Sons Of the American
Revolution, all day, Mayflower
Hotel.
Dinner-Inquirendo Club, $50
o. M, Mayflower Hotel.
Dinner-Phi Alpha Banquet
Committee, z p. M, Mayflower
Hotel.
Dim er-Washington Retail
Merchants Credit Association, 7
p. M, Mayflower Hotel.
Luncheon-Lions Club, / p. m,
Mayflower Hotel.
Meeting Entertainment Com
mittee Of the D. C. Bar Associa-
ton, 4:45 p. m. Mayflower Hotel.
Exhibit-Sketches Of old houses
in Ohio and Alabama, by Milton
Smith Osborne, all day. Fine Arts
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

Company Bowling Team. 1880 p.
m, Hamilton Hotel.
Lecture-Orcello Rexford, 8 p.
m, Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting-Dental Assistants, 8
'p. m, Hamilton Hotel.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY of Mis-
souri, Alumni. 1890 p. M, Univer-
sity Club.
Luncheon-Delta Theta Phi
Fraternity, 1890 p. m, Univer-
Sity Club.
Meeting-University Of Mary
land, 8 p. M, University Club.
Luncheon-Zonta Club, 1880
p. M, Raleigh Hotel. l..
Luncheon-Monarch Club, 1918
p. m, New Colonial Hotel.
Meeting-Oxford Group, 9 p.
m. Shoreham Hotel.
Chicken Dinner-The Woman's
Guild Of the st. Luke's Episcopal
Church, z D. M, BladenSburg,
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

| Division Of the Library Of Con-
gress.
Meeting-Washington Society
Of Engineers, s:16 p. M, Cosmos
Club.
Luncheon-Rotary Club, 1880
p. M, Willard Hotel.
Luncheon-D. C. Bankers Asso-
ciation, 12:4S p. m, Willard
Hotel.
Dance-1owa State Society,
$3.50 p. M, willard Hotel.
Meeting-Boy Scouts, evening,
Macfarland Center, Iowa Avenue
and Webster Street.
Mass Meeting-Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company,
evening. Mckinley, Second and
T Streets Northeast.
Meetin g-EaSt washington
Community Players, evening, East
Washington Center, Seventeenth
and East Capitol Streets.
Lecture Frederick Vining
Fisher, Enchanted America" 8
p. m, Central High School Audi
torium, Thirteenth and Clifton
Streets Northwest.
Meeting-Board Of Education,
$3.50 p. m, Franklin Administra-
tion Building.
Annual Brotherhood Elections
Eighth Street Temple, $3.50 p.
m, VeStry Rooms Of the Temple.
Conference-National ASSocia-
tion for the Advancement Of
Colored People, all day, 901
Rhode Island Ave. N. W.
Banque uet-WeStern Electric
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
DRILL KILLS MAN

DENVER, U.NS0-Christ p.
Danielson, AZ, we'll digger, re-
Gently lost his life in a unique
accident while drilling a well on
a chicken ranch west Of Denver.
Danielson was in the bottom Of
a 28-foot well when other work
men started to lower a 62-inch
steel drill. The drill slipped out
Of the rope attached to the wind
lass. The drill point struck Dan
ielSon in the left cheek, ranged
downward through his neck and
chest and pierced his left lung.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18
KIN Of HURLEY
FIGHTS GANGS

DENVER QNS0.-Sister Alloy.
Bh1s. q nun in the convent Of st.
joseph. in Denver, was recently
revealed to be q sister Of the Sec
retary Of War, Patrick ]. Hurley.
She recently came to Colorado
on the advice Of physicians after
spending eight years in religious
work among the poor Of Chicago'$
hack-of-the-yards district. During
this time she learned to know
many Of Chicago'S notorious
gangSters. She said:
II know the sort Of material
out Of which the gangster and
racketeer Is made. II had .
couple Of million dollars would
buy up q lot Of Jail buildings
snd turn them into schools.
Il would take the bright,
imaginative, daring boys from
the sIums and away from
wretched homes and ignorant
parents. 1 would turn the light
ef knowledge into their be-
fuddled minds, fill their time
with real interests, and guar
4ntee that none would become
. gangster."
Sister Aloysius was the eldest
a nine children in the Hurley
j jtmily. She entered a convent in
St. Louis 80 years ago. Upon
onpleting her training she elected
70 work among the poor.
The Washington times., 1932-05-18

transportation worries can be over
.igme economically through the pur-
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lays Classified Section.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
THE FEDERAL BUDGET

Following federal deficit of 2,472
million dollars last year, it is estimated
that the deficit for the current fiscal year
will reach j, 146 million, in spite of in
creased taxation imposed by the last ses-
sion of congress.
For weeks President Hoover and his
advisers have been wrestling with the diff
cut problem of making ends meet, and in
his annual budget message to congress
recommendations of a specific nature were
made.
Economies proposed by the president
would effect a saving of some 500 million
dollars, some of the larger items being a
reduction of 127 million in pensions and
other allowances to veterans, $50 million
in road appropriations, 148 million less for
public building, So million less for federal
employees, cuts in army and navy costs,
less money for the farm board, Hoover
dam, and river and harbor improvements
But even these economies, if approved
by congress, would still fall far short of
balancing the budget, so the president
recommends the imposition of a general
sales tax of two and one-fourth per cent,
estimated to raise 355 million. He made
no mention of the possibility of legalizing
beer and imposing a tax thereon, as is be-
ing proposed by democratic leaders.
Whatever else happens, it is certain
that there will be a, considerable increase
in federal taxation next year, and the
manner of levying it will be the subject of
some lively controversies during the pres
ent session of congress.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
THE REPEAL VOTE

In their natural disappointment at the
result of the vote on repeal Of tie Eigh-
teenth Amendment in the house of rep
resentatives, the people of Key West and
elsewhere do not seem to realize that this
vote was merely the beginning of the end.
1t was a wonderful illustration OF the
complete change of sentiment in regard to
prohibition on the part of our people.
The fact that 271 votes could be mar
shalled for repeal in legislative body
that had many times refused to even per-
nit vote on the question, was tre-
mendous victory for the foes of the pro-
hibition amendment. After such vote
anything is possible.
Members of congress who declared
only short time ago that the Eighteenth
Amendment could never be repealed, voted
for its removal from the Constitution.
The end of a noble experiment is
coming fast The vote of the first days
session was the beginning of the end. An
extra session of the next congress will do
the work, so be patient.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS

The northern disturbance has
moved eastward to Ontario, Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, 2.s6 inches, and
a moderate disturbance is central
this morning over western vir-
ginia, Wytheville, 1850 inches;
while pressure continues low over
southwestern sections. Precipita-
ton has been general during the
last "a hours from the Gulf coast
northeastward over the Atlantic
States and st. Lawrence Valley,
and from southern California east
ward to western Texas, Light rain
also occurred in extreme southern
Florida, and snow in northern Min
nesota. Temperatures have risen
from the southern Plains States
northeastward over the lower Mis-
souri, Valley and in portions of the
and South Atlantic States,
and have fallen in the upper Ohio
Valley and northern Rockies, with
still considerably below
normal throughout the country, ex-
dept in the Atlantic and East Gulf
States, and from southern Arizona
to western Texas.
g. S. KENNEDY.
Official in charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
CONDITIONS TO-DAY


There can be no question that the
distressing conditions of today are due to
overproduetion.
The improved machinery of the pres
ent day has resulted in such tremendously
greater production BY employed labor,
that tremendous surpluses have aceum-
Sulated in the great storehouses of the ma
tons of the world.
In our own country we have a surplus
of almost everything. from the grain OF
the farmer to the products of our mills and
factories.
The supply has exceeded the demand
for SO long time that our farms, factories
and mills have been compelled to cease
from maximum operation because of lack
Of consumption.
The unemployment thus resulting has
further confused the situation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
ARE WE LAWLEss?


We hear lot about lawlessness in
America, and it is true that we are lawless
in one sense of the word That is, there
is more disregard of law in this country,
perhaps, than in any other on the globe.
However, if we define lawless to mean
being without laws, we are certainly any
thing else but We live under many thou
sands of laws and ordinances, most of
which the average citizen never heard of.
A statement by T. r. Preston, former
president of the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION will illustrate this. He said:
st would take man working eight
hours day seven years to read all the laws
enacted last year, yet ignorance of the law
is no excuse. Courts. are so congested that
the district attorney of New York esti-
mates that if every defendant should de-
mand jury trial. the calendars would be
500 years behind in four years. Americans
will go to war and give their iife's blood
for liberty and then turn around and enact
laws depriving themselves of all liberty
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
T0DAY'S WEATHER

tonight and Thursday; gentle to
moderate winds. mostly southeast.
Florida: Cloudy, probably with
rain in north portion tonight and
Thursday.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits:
Moderate southeast winds over
south portion and moderate south
over north portion; weather some
what overcast tonight and Thurs
day, followed By rain over north
portion Thursday.
East Gulf: Moderate to fresh
east and southeast winds over
south portion; moderate south over
northeast portion and moderate
south shifting to north over north
west portion.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
WILL alHeys seek the truth and print it

WILL slHays seek the truth and print it
without fear and NithSpt favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mOuthpiece Of any person. CLIQUE.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injrstice; denQuncs vice and praise virtue;
commend good dons by Individual or organ
ization; tolerant Of Others, rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never com-
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-12-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sTOday's Anniversaries

1503-Michael de Nostradamus,
a famous French physician and
astrologist, born. Died July 2,
1866.
1546-Tycho Brahe, noted DAN
ish astronomer, born. Died Oct.
"A, 1901.
173O-Jonas Clark, patriotic
Congregational clergyman of his
toric Lexington, Mass, from 1868
to 1905, born in Newton, Mass.
Died Nov. Is, 1905.
1739-Pierre Samuel Du Pont,
celebrated French statesman, auth
or and refugee, who, with his sons,
founded the powder-maki indus
try of the name, born in Paris.
Died in Delaware, Aug. 6, 1877.
1794-Israel Coe. Connecticut
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