The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-18
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EVE BAYLEss, pretty assist
 ant to EARLE BARNES, adver-
 tisine manager of Blxby,s de.
 uarffncnt store, marries DICk
 RAIDER. a construction superln-
 fendent temporarily working m
 lake City. Dick wants Eve to
 give up working but she refuses.
 SAM HOLERIDGE, an adver-
 tisInr man employed by another
 efore. becomes infatuated with
 ARLENE SMITH, stenogrnpher
 af Bixby's, but she fancies her.
 eeIf in love with GEORGE
 BLISS, Bliss has been vamped
 by MONA ALLEN, blond copy
 writer.
 Without telling Dick, Eve be-
 gins playing tic stock markee on
 borrowed money. Dick Is fre-
 uuentIy absent from home even.
 ines and offers no explanation
 for his absence. This worries
 MARIA vLAD, fashion artist
 at Bixby's, announces that she IS
 to be married soon.
 CHAPTER xxIv
 The announcement of Maryas marriage plans came as q distinct shock to Eve. The girls had work ed together for. several years: Marya was blessed with Q tranquil disposition that often served as oil on the troubled waters of omce trials.
 For q while Marya had been watching sales and making pur- chases for her hope chest, for 1t was . tradition among Marya's people that Q bride should go to her bridegroom with Q complete equipment of linens, cooking uten- sis and silver. Marya's parents also purchased her dining room furniture as Q wedding gift. An uncle invited her to choose 2 liv- ing room suite as his gift. Marya was to take to her new home the bedroom furnishings that had been hers since her 21st birthday. Thus the new home would be practically equipped.
 Marya and Ray had spent many Sundays driving about the city. stopping now and then to look at houses in new allotments. Marya had always maintained that she wanted 0 little gray bungalow when she married but Q red brick house completely captured her fancy. There was 2 beamed ceiling fin the story-and-a-half living room. Tho dining room was ele- vated e trife with c wrought iron bannister beside it's three steps. In one bedroom the walls were panel. ed with an English garden scene and here she planned to place her mahogany bed, using light green spread and draperies. In the other bedroom gay nasturtiums traiied over the walls. This room was to have furniture enameled green.
 CoIorful floral wall paper adorn- cd the breakfast room. The re- creation room in the basement ap. peaied> to Ray. There was Q nurs- cry upstairs with cunning Mother Goose figures on tho wall and light pink woodwork and beside It wan another well-light room which would serve as Marya's studio.
 It really seemed to be an ideal home. For Rays parents 1t was inc continuation of years of thrift to know that their son could pur- chase such q house. Ever since he had received his first earnings Rays father and mother had coached him to prepare for a fu- ture home of his own. Hence. though only in the middle twenties Ray and Marya wero to start mar ried life with no debts except the monthly payments arranged to complete tho purchase of their home.
 Marya and Ray had asked Eve and Dick to drive out to sec the house before the final papers were signed. Dick declared 1t to be well built and, according to the pre- vailing market, a good buy. Eve