The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1930, Page 6

| 5§ POLL\ AND HER P/ \I THE DAILY ALASKA E \1PIRE FRIDAY JUNE 27, !930 By CLIFF STERRETT THEN You REFuSE 0 ACCERT TTha USE OF MR. < KNUTENOGGLES SWUNBURN BEACH COTTAGE, RENT 4 BgoMeyita SYNOPSIS: Tony Tithering- ton’s wealthy aunt tells him | that she won't finance his pro- | posed flight around the world until he becomes engaged to | Mary Lou Leslie. Mary Lou is thrilled because Tony's eccen- | fric Aunt Ethelberta likes her, but Tohy himself has no inten- tion of marrying anyone. He | tclls Mary Lou an aviator has | no business getting married. To sclve his problem, he asks Mary Lou to become engaged to him until he can make his flight. This will assure his aunt’s back- ing. Mary Lou is chagrined to think that Tony wants only a make-believe engagement but she finally consents to it. With a gay time in prospect, she dreads to return to her country home in Frinwood. Her London cousin, Jay Jerome, offers Mary Lou a job in her gown shop. Chapter 17 THREE SPARKLERS | Mary Lou was to begin in Jay's gown shop at a salary of two pounds a we€k. Out of that, one pound . would go to Jay for food and lodging, and anothér would be| set aside as a sinking fund to pay for the dresses she already had| taken from the shop, and for oth- ers she was sure to need soon. The ten shillings her father al- Jowed her would help for such mis- cellancous current expenses as silk | stockings. “I'll never be able fo thank. youl enough, Jay,” Mary Lou told her at breakfast. “If you only knew what a load is lifted off my mind by not having to go back to Frin- wood!” “I can well imagine it,” Jay' chuckled. “The delights of the country are not to my taste, eith- er. Come down to the shop when you feel like it and T'll have Miss Fletcher explain some of the rou- tine work to you.” ‘When Tony called a while later,|object. Mary Lou broke the news to him. “Jay's offered me a job in her|Tony at the Berkeley, they ran into “Isn’t | Gwendolyn Carruthers. It means I{surprising, for Gwendolyn haunted need go back to Frinwood|the Berkeley. shop,” that never again, except for visits. Isn't it darling of her?” “Great!” rejoined Tony. she told him excitedly. wonderful? That mated voice ovér the phone. He had been a bit hesitant about call-fshe would take it, how any girl ing her, for the moment of thelwith a grain of sense would appear night before, whén He had held|to take it. her in his arms and kissed her, lingered . disturbingly in his mind. |lightful, “And—are you happy—other-lexclaimed. wise?” “Oh, yes," out hesitation. “Isn't it a lark? I've been chuckling over it all morning. labout it,” Tony remarke dlater, with We'll have great fun, Tony.” Tony was glad of her reassur-|esty to the winds, I always thought ance. They arranged to meet thatfshe had her eye on me. Yet she afternoon, when he was to give her|seemed genuinely glad.” the ring. “Three sparklers,’ “Let's go to the tea dance at the Berkeley. Then I'll slip it on your|what she sald that counts. finger in grand old style” “Fine,” laughed Mdry Lou. Her animation vanished as soon|she worked -the simple, Shé | stunt. sat v.here tor a time, her elbows on|like Tony.' Couldn't ‘you see n m her knees, her chin cupped’in ‘her | her eyes?” as she, replaced the receiver. hands. THE BOSS MEANS OLE HOME SWEET A-NICE-GIRL: COMES-TO-TOWN | that some other dress wo |of the job, ithing. Often it’s best just to let her fanything, even though you've been He was ;rection. “Let's try our news on her. distinctly reliéved to hear her ani- See how she takes it.” Mary Lou replied with-|I don't know what to do!” he told her.|plicity. ‘I you notice ‘her look? It said plain- AFTER ALL, ! OF FA TO I.OVE HIS HOME SO MLUCH! _, BUT LIL HOME, SUITS ME FER THE. SUMMER.; Grels ) Lou, “but supposing the customer | wants to be convinced?” “That is one of our greatest dif- ficulties,” Miss TFletcher agreed. “You must persuade her, tac much better. Tell her that an dress shows off her more advantage, that sh look more smart in the ot that you've decided to Show her some gown that w well on Her, and tell her smartest thing in the house.” | “Wonderful,” Mary Lou smi “And does she swallow the b “Invariably. Every good sales-| woman must try to ynderstand the| mind of her client,” Miss Fletcher | declared. “The old-fashioned days, when you told any old lie for al® sale are gone. You must find oufl‘ what she really iikes, way back in her mind, for that's what's going to please her in the long run. “It’s hard sometimes, for clients, like all of ‘us, are carried away by momentary ~enthusiasms. ~ If you sell them a gown under those con- —watching and feeling ever so| | 1 ! i in the |Jealous. | |ditions it means bad trade in “yes, great,” she repeated with end.” “Supposing,” said Mary Lou, who was determined to make a success “supposing nothing in the shop seems to please her?” “Ah!” returned Miss Fletcher as she shook out a frock of chiffon. “There you're up against some- go. But be sure there’s such genu- ine regret in your manner that she’ll come back again. “Never, by any chance, allow 4 customer to think you're in the least chagrined if she doesn't buy hours showing her every dress in the shop!"” Mary Lou picked up many sales pointers in the course of the morn- ing. = She was to start work in earnest the following week. Already she had written her father about it, and she was sure he wouldnt That afternoon, dancing with wasn't “Hello, there's old Gwendolyn,” cried Tony, waving gaily in her di- Mary Lou knéw very well how: “Oh, darlings, darlings, this is de- de-light-ful,” Gwendolyn “It's just too jolly. We must have a party. I'm so thrilled “Gwendolyn seemed very pleased a chagrined grin. “Chucking mod- Mary Lou laughed at his sim- she mocked, “it's not Didn't “Darlinig,” ly, ‘How has she done it? I'll bet trusting That always gets a man Mary Lou' wonderéd how_ far ¢ u RATHER SWEE 1// (HES JESS A OBSTINATE to her finger. through Mary Lou. She might have {become sentimental, 7 ldown at her grin. ' |termined to take it in a spirit o fun? this tune. Rather jolly, isn't it?” r | laug our case, doesn't it? You see what jring dolyn to her partner. Mary Lou knew & was watching her and Tony from | the corners more convic missed this afte ‘Was it right to accept a ring|was' wise to initlate Nim into the from Tony when he had no .inten- ! mysteries of femininé psyého tlon - whatever of marrying hw} If'she were ‘having him for kl:gs, Was it..quite right to .play this|she might hot.have been ready to| game of make-belleve? Mary Loujtell so much. But sirice theirs whs wondered what her father wouldlonly a temporary affair . .'. . say when he learned of it. “Who cares what Gwendolyn vet she had agreed to play the|thinks or looks, anyway?” Tony re- game with Towy, and there Wwas|marked as thé dance ended. “I say, nothing else to do. she thought, was it quite fair of him to demand so n,nch? Wasn't it a bit selfish? “Look here, Mflry Lou,” she final- ly told herself, “you've got to jan- ish the blues. This cake be stale &t the bottom, but there's tof- oh top. And you'd better esu t,y ‘that toffee as fast as you can. A few minutes later she was in} Jay's shop, receiving her first les- son in salesmanship from Miss flztchet 'She had taken Mary Lou to the alteration room, and they| {yere inspecting ‘s rack of new| gowns which had jult arrived. A "NW er that L ,her, marked with eva “That's maxim No. 1," nfl Mary | Nevertheless, | T haven't given you the sparklers yet. Here they are.” They sat down and he pushed aside a plate of cakes. A small blue velvet box lay in the palm of his hand. He pressed the catch and grinned up at her as the box opened Mary Lou gasped. It was a béau- tiful ring, with three huge dia- monds winking wickedly on a '.hxn| platinum band. i i “It's wondetful! But, Tony, you| shouldn't—" " “Rot! Aunt’ Ethelberta came across and there's no reason why | you shouldn't share in the spollsl You deserve it!” “I feel rather guilty,” Mary Lou murmured. “Forget 'it.- Here, hold out your) hand.” ! Carelessly-he slipped the ring on 1 PIFFLE, FOLLY” b Y\A\ (oL WOODCHUCK,, LA/ THE BEST WAY TO DRIVE A WOODCHUCK OUT OF HIS HOLE, 1S T SMOKE A queer thrill <ho'1 if she hadn't looking | lopsided | anced up to see Tony with his She smiled too. Hadn't she de- “Come along, let’s dance. What" stood a minute beside their | ning. The fat drummer| ing away at the top of his he did stunts with his| ks. It was one of the, s atest tunes: pretend that I love you, pretend that you love me, 1 the world The, ble We can have our fun, Cupid on the run, No heartbreaks when you, Have proved that you're untrue—" | T zhrnw back his head and That’s odd. It just fits idea it is?” eat,” Mary Lou echoed. She glanced from the glittering g on her finger over to Gwen- who sat talking animatedly of her small green e “I wouldn't have noon for worlds!” (Copyright, 1930, Maysie Greig) on. How long will Mary Lou’s fun continue before Tony's flight? See tomorrow's chapter. The Modern Cinderella! 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