Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-10-18
Go Out and
Get 1t
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BY LUCILLE BARNES
g. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.

'N. hVN upuut a EulSe
Mr.. Walker said the usual thing
Profits were increasing so were ex
penses. No chance of real improve
ment without continued economy
Besides, she wasn't worth a cen
more than she got.
Joan looked bored, thought n mo.
ment. and then asked him If II
would be putting him In a jam II
she left that afternoon.
"Why, you couldn't possibly dc
that" he said. you're the only
person beside myself who knows
about that deal In Pittsburgh. You
must be crazy. I'd be out hundreds
of dollars If you should leave me
new. There's n law against such a
thing"
Maybe So" she said. but there's
nothing to stop me from having q
nervous breakdown or something,
and never coming back. Except,
possibly, sever dollars more a week
MAKE II four" he said.
"Split the difference, and make II
ive-fifty."
"Oh, all right"
Thank you very much, Mfr. Wal.
kerr" she said In her most business.
like manner.
At ten minutes after five Joan
was on her way TO her favorite
beauty parlor.
You r the lovellest woman In
the world" Stanley Jones told her
when she met him In the lobby of
the Smith-Bradly. absolutely, you
are the lovellest woman In the
world" he told her again as they
sat down at their table In the roof
garden dining room. "Don't you
know that you are gorgeous?"
Joan looked across the table.
avoiding his direct glance by a tan
talizing fraction of an inch.
but I'm just a very ordinary
sort of person." she said. "Just
like thousands of other stenogra
piers working TO make an honest
living In a big city"
but you could do a great deal
better than that If you only knew
It. With your wonderful personal.
ity and intelligence. You don't half
appreciate yourself. don't be
lleve you get a cent more than my
own stenographer. And you're
worth Infinitely more to any man.
You wouldn't even ask for q raise,
| suppose, you shy little girl. With
your personality and intelligence
and charm, there would be no limit
to what you could do. But the trou
BILE Is other people take advantage
of you. What you should do is
make up your mind what you want
and then go out and get 1t, the
same way other people do without
half your ability"
Il don't like to be scolded," Joan
told him. II wish you'd say some
thing NICE"
But, Joan, I've told you how
how adorable you are. I've said all
the nice things ] dare. You're the
most wonderful woman ever
knew. You're positively glamorous."
But I'm really not a bit CLAM.
orous," she said. "And the only
time | ever pretend | am Is when
I'm with you. / never attract at.
tention."
But you could If you wanted to-"
he said, "if you wanted to doll up
and use makeup and spend money
beauty parlors as other girls do.
You know I've often wondered why
you never used rouge or any of the
other kinds of war paint"
"Oh. you're scolding me again"
Joan told him. "First, because Il
didn't ask for a raise, and second
because | don't go to beauty par.
IT'S all part of the same scold,"
said. ats a fault that
makes me love you all the more"
"But you just said you wanted
me to doll up and go to beauty par.
Iors."
mot for my sake" he said
Only for your own sake, to give
you more confidence. and to make
you seem as utterly lovely to your
self as you always do to me--so
that other people would realize.
and you'd know they realized, how
you are"
Perhaps | will sometime said
loan. only men are likely to mis-
understand a girls motives"
"And that" said Stanley, ''was
precisely the sort Of thing you
would say. But don't you see, II
you dolled up. they couldn't. Be
sause with your exquisite taste, II
wouldn't be obvious. They'd never
even suspect 1t. VIII you do II
sometime for my sakeY"
Sometime" she said.
Stanley, utterly oblivious of the
put his hand over Joan's.
"The sometime will be when you
lave consented to be my wife," he
aid.
"And you won't ever tell me that