The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1931 POLLY AND HER PALS PERHAPS IF YOU CALL GERTRUDE PET NAMES, SHELL WARM UP To You! IM A GAME GUY. GAL. ILL TRY ANYTHING, ONCE! Syncpeis: Failure follows all cf Veaice Muir's attempts to Icarn the secret of popularity. She has loveliness, money and a Mother who holds a high place in New York society, but the lacks the ability to ‘“ex- press” her charm. Mrs. Muir urges her to try to be attrac- tive. Venice has gained an cxaggerated idea of the im- pertance of eceial success. She finds her own satisfaction in {clling fairy tales of her sup- pe-ed conquects to Nolly Spald- ing. Nolly enjoys the vicarious cxcitcment that she cannot have herself; she lives a quiet life, made more retiring by a lame leg, which she has named “Pongc.” At the Mannings’ dinner, Venice forces herself to try to interest Ronald Wain- wright, whom she thinks looks like a faun. He mocks her at- tcmpte. The one man who has ceemed intereted in her, Drake Farrelly, has promised to call her. Venice amuscs herself by trying to write. Chapter 11 JADE LACE VERSUS BIEGE VELVET Evidently Drake was still away or wasn't particularly anxious to see her. Just a nice man sorry for a girl who had admitted she rarely bad a good time, she came to re- flect. LADYwits« DAST BY HARRIET HENRY | nice. | he took me to the Strand. I felt By CLIFF STERRETT SCRAM/ (I = 2 SERRES-0-22- tions. She ran across him at one party or another but he failed to notice her and she took special pains to give him no chance to notice her. The occasional visits to Nolly were secondary high lights too. That gay spinning of the stories that she did not share al- ways sent her home afterwards with that happy relief in reliving what she would have liked actually to live. And even Nolly had something real come into her narrow exist- ence. “I went to the movies last night,” she told Venice one afternoon, her puckish face bright with excite- ment. “Imagine, with a young man!” Y “No, Nolly. How lovely. Who was it?” “A new doctor. Mother took me to him about a month ago. I don't believe he's doing me any good really but he seems to think I'm He has a car. And last night gilly ploughing across the pavement and pulling Pongo down the aisle with me, but Doctor Price didn't seem to mind and Pongo and I had a gorgeous time.” “Of course he didn't mind. You are really a darling, Nolly. He's probably discovered it.” “I don't know. But he has won- derful ideas all carefullly pigeon- holed. And of course I have so Her flares of writing were the|much time to sit and do nothing only high lights monotony of her even-running, un- inspired existence. that broke the | but think that my ideas are neatly filed away too. We looked into The dazzling | each other's pigeon-holes and quite younz man gave her many chapt- approved. He's inviting mother and “¢rs.’ She began to exaggerate his father and me to dinner next appeal on one hand, his insolence | Thursday. I can hardly bear it. I'm on the other. The desire and the so excited. Father said, “Whoopee, hurt made poignant her descrip-'we're dining with Nolly's suitor.” >} “Soon you'll be able to regale me with stories of your goings on.” Venice tried to keep her voice quite level and teasing. Glad as she was for Nolly she could not help won- dering if even her own oases of respite were to disappear now. But no, “Tell me about dinner, Venice.” “There were about sixteen thers. One stunning man. Like a faun. Flat pointed ears and very blue eyes that sparkled and laughed.” “Did he pay attention to you?” “Y-yes.” That slight could not be so lightly tossed aside even for Nolly’s benefit. the Manning’s “Now, don't go modest on me, Venice. Did he take you home?” “Yes. But we went to Connie’s Inn up in Harlem, first.” “And what did you wear?” “Jade lace and silver slippers.” There was a silence. Venice saw herself with the faun. She had never been to Connie's Inn but she visualized sleek, bronzed bodies syncopating madly to the blare of saxophone and drum. The faun looked at her with his sapphire eyes and told her that her dress was a poem. “Whatll T wear Thursday, Ven- ice? I have only this and a dark blue chiffon that’s not long enough for nowadays.” Venice started. Connie’s Inn faded and the faun became an indifferent man who preferred ce- rise nails and a voice that dripped sweet as honey. She looked now at Nolly's dark red wool crepe. She remembered the red blue chiffon. It was not only too short but iti was too long waisted. “Oh, she said quickly, “I have a biege velvet that's too tight for me. Wouldn't you take it, Nolly? You'd look lovely in it. And it absolutely no use to me any more. The elfin face stared hard at her to make sure that this was not charity. “Really, Venice? I'd love it. Oh, Q 1 SPECIAL! Framed Picture Sale Reproductions of French Water Colors, in ma- rine and landscape subjects, nicely framed, size % by 10%. Price 50 cents Framed Laurence Reproductions Regular price $4.00. Special in this sale for $3.00. Alaska subjects, size 8 by 10. Modern Pewter Ware At the new low pricesk. .. Choice sélection of this modern ware. Engraving FREE. Arrived Y esterday A complete assortment of moderistic pen and pencil sets. Name engraved in gold FREE. ——AT THE— TN NI R I NN I am excited.” She clapped hm-' “I had a dinner myself last| same way. hands like a small child. Venice had a desire to cry. She {looked away. | |help me dress | you? “And now go on, venice. I 7 to hear more. What else have y been doing?"” week."” Venice’s mind went back to the dinner as it had actually been. “Go on,” Nolly said. 'manded that she, as hostess, re- DU ceive attention and the attention OU had been granted in exactly the Santa Claus sends The Cash Bazaar a large shipment of Christmas Gifts and Holiday merchandise Santa Claus notifies THE CASH BAZAAR, Ju- neau’s Pioneer CASH DEPARTMENT STORE, that the THREE TONS OF HOLIDAY GOODS AND TOYS, which arrived on the steamer NORTHWESTERN, have been selected with great care for THE CASH BAZAAR and the people of Juneau and vicinity. ADVISES Early Shopping this year and that you SHOP EARLY AT THE CASH BAZAA y OPPOSITE ALASKAN HOTEL “I had on my yellow satin, and | Lola looked her best in white tulle. “You—you wouldn't come and Lola, Alice Schuyler, Betty Paine, | Everyone laughed and talked a lot Thursday, would Jerry Ward, two brothers named and Tony Griscombe sang some Mother's sweet but she Griscombe ,Charlie Muir who was | funny songs afterwards.” He hadn't own choosing. Her thoughts play- ed contentedly about the successful dinner she had given. She actually T R T TR TN T T R TV T H T M R R R T R T R T T T O T T T R T R L) I believed it herself by the time she reached Parak Avenue. Nora ad- mitted a Venice with a happy, eager face, the droop gone from the immature mouth. It was that Thursday that Mrs. Muir chose to give a tea, so Venice went to the Spalding’s, the biege velvet in a box, at about three. “You can't get into your glad rags, now, Nolly,” she said. But I had to come early. Mother’s having a tea and I promised to get back in time to pass things and smile sweetly at all the ladies. Mrs. Muir's delightful daughter you know sort of thing.” “What a nuisance. But I'll dress now. I can sit carefully 'til it'’s time to go but I must have you to help me.” Nolly looked thoroughly charm- ing. The velvet frock fell to her ankles and hid the ill-formed leg. It was square-cut at the neck and her small, dark face rose above the soft coffee-color in flushed oxcite- ment. “And here’s a surprise,” said Venice, searching in her bag. It was a long string of corals. Nolly reached out for it, then drew back her hand. “Oh; no, Venice, I couldn't pos- sibly take it.” doesn't go about very much and her own first cousin, and Horace |but that was the sort of party| .. A 4 8 4 You st. ' you might give me some smai Totten, a Southerner whom she|Venice would have liked to have present. it LA ideas.” | had never met before, the son of a |given. W 4 oL dak A . 4 ell—oh, i “Certainly I will.” friend of her mother’s. 'y one| As usual Venice left Nolly'siygyy b;::d ;:S;lfzg;?:; ?‘;ca]l};l.e Nolly gave a happy sign as ‘ad bad a compara good |aglow with her own weaving Of |14 sto0d on tiptoe to see in the though spent with pleasure. me but herself. Courtesy de-|life’s pattern in the design of h"‘mirrcrr over the mantel. you a million times.” She sat herself carefully in a |chair, spreading the skirt artisti- cally about her, one hand fcelir “Thank Q anxiously of the corals. “And here T sit,” she said “until it’s time to go. How do I look?” | “Like a cover for Judge. ‘Lady in Waiting,’” laughed Venice with real admiration. But rushing homeward in a taxi she saw that little figure sitting ‘there with pathos in its patient attendance for a dinner that was more than two hours away. Nolly’s biggest evening, and it was only a dinner at a young man’s apartment with her mother and father ac- companying her . I Christmas, Lincoln’s Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Easter marched slowly by. Venice's invi- tations became fewer, duller, far- ther apart. Not a word from Drake Farrelly and she had put the thought of his eventually telephon-. ing resolutely from her mind. Sit- ting with her mother one evening she was surprised to see Mrs. Muir unexpectedly put down her news- paper, eye her with discourage-' ment in her glance and say as though a deep and long-sought-out| desicion had been reached, “I think T'll take you abroad next month, Venice.” In the midst of plans for de- | parture, Drake Farrelly tele- phones at last, in the next installment. What does he want? ——————— MRS. CONNORS OPERATED ON Mrs. Bernice Connors of this city succesfully underwent a sur- gical operation in St. Ann's hos-| pital yesterday. | DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY FBEE — One 60c brush to each customer with one quart of QUICK-STEP PAINT— while they last Juneau Puint Store Quotations Phone No. 6 HOT POINT ELECTRIC RANGES THE STANDARD OF COMPARISON Sold here at less than Seattle prices Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. JUNEAU and DOUGLAS, ALASKA EDISON MAZDA LAMPS on request Phone No. 18 Meadowbrook Butter PHONE 39 ALASKA MEAT CO. 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