Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 24

THE EVENING _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Life’s Darkest Moment B O WS /i3] ey o) —BY WEBSTER UH =M= - ) WANT A LIP STICK AN SOME FACE PowWDER AN A BoX OF MASCARA AN A FOWDER PUFFE AN A BOTTLE oF BATH SALTS AN A CAN OF COLD CREAM Ort AN ERRAMND Fer HI s /"\GTHL:R 44557 Dimples and Moles. ALLIE BETH'S eyes strayed the counter of th e cir- culation desk of the big city library to the open doorway through which a steady stream of borrowers had filed all morning. He had not been among them, how- ever, and Sallie Beth wished that to- day were not her half holiday. he'd almost rather miss it than miss see- sng him. For months now his almost daily visit had come to be her chief source of pleasure. She liked the little humorous crinkles near his deep-set brown ¢y The little chats that had started as mere “shop talk” of books and more hooks, which they Both loved, had broadened of late| 1o _include personalities—had become more delightful and more interesting | each day. For, though a newly or- @ained minister, and the as nt to the rector of staid old St. Stephen Peter Thorne had not seen fit to la @side the boyish candor and keen sense of humor that made him so etractive to all the younger set in d most of all to Sallie , who found his books 3 !Dr him day after day. *She had almost despafred of seeing m when she heard a voice at her w. =%“Check me up, please, £0. I'm in a rush.” he begged. Then, @5 she slid his books back across the desk, “Are you leaving now? Let me your books out to your car.” “’;«]’Z deposited the load on the seat of the little coupe under the biggest elm by the side door and waited emiling, as always, it seemed, when he. looked at her, and Sallie Beth before you grabbed her courage by the forelock | ©nd yielded to a sudden inspiration to yrolong the encounter. “Can I—can't 1 drop you where you wrnt to go?”’ He hesitated a moment. “I was going away out to West- haven—to the university,” he began slowly. . “Let me take you. It's a glorious fay. I'd love it.” All the enthusiasm of early 20 was in her voice, and she was grateful for the enthusiasm of early 30 that rose to meet hers. “No argument against it |ha! I can think of—or would if I could,” he said gratetully, and with a quite unclerical grin as he climbed in. “And you needn't take me too seriously about deing in a rush,” fo stepping hard on t he gas quite the most pleasant thinz I've done today &nd you needn't exceed the speed limit s you're in a frantic hurry your- There was silence for a time after that. The little through the congestio traffic and came finall rolling country. Do you know,” he was saying, Wthere’s a little girl in St. Stephen’s holr who s a little like you. Her air isn’t bobbed, though, nor nearly #s light as yours'—hatless Sallle’s phort locks were blowing in a golden yiot around her head—'and she has a tnost fascinating dimple on one cheek that matches & mgle on the other— the most intriguing mole you ever baw." +And you like her frepidation she v ry. know. I've She’s o little I can't see but he » in the choir and caught more se of her, you of downtown into the opy Sallie hid the teeling under a ¥talls, than hoe— “But you'd like very much—she sits at the end of first row opposite the soloist—you ow the one I mean?"” “I think Salli @ryly noncommittal pttractive—she 1 be much more #o_if she just wouldn't wear her hair po-——so terribly prim—she’s awfully $ld-maidish, don’t you think?” Peter Thorne’s hrown eye $heir disapproval of such here: “No, I don’t,” he defended quickly, »moreover, any one who ever saw ghat dimple in good working order ould mever accuse her of being prim ua oid-maldish—you know—I saw er the other day us she passed my tudy window, Sunday morning, it E was laughing, and _th » and the mole together. Wel ~+ He left the rest hanging in idair. Priving back to town alone, Sallie ecided to give that mole a run for ke oney. Peter Thorne liked her— o always acted as if he did, any- ay—but what chance had one with man who'd been snared by a dimple nd. & mole? llie rubbed her own nblemished left check and smiled gt ! ¢ pet ither 1 Y 1 She is rather ht ped never really | and would prove herself as interesting | and attractive to the 'Rev. Peter | Thorne as any prim, closely coiffed | singer in his choir ever thought of being. A phone call that night set her res—I'll be there? Al right— " On Monday morning she waved an | airy hand as Thorne came through the sunlit door. “Did you ever see such a mornin; Doesn't it make you glad just to be alive?” Tuesday What a day. Had she missed him. | Qull, endiess day! Wedn | he temembered that she always had late duty on Wednesdays? He came | during the quiet hour when all the world was at dinner. There was no | one save themselves in the long, book- |lined room. He seemed rather quiet at moments, Sallie thought, wonder- ing—wondering— “A penny for your thoughts,” she | dared after a noticeable lapse in the | conversation. Then she added, imp- till dreaming about a dimple—" shook the curling mass back from her do you know.” Peter said after a long contented silence, “that girl the “choir had me caught, bound and tied, but the girl in the library never would quite fade out of the picture, I'm glad—glad that I never really had to choose between them. Any an the dimple was real, wasn't it atches are very in- (Copyright. When \uu leel a Cold (o Take Laxative BROMO QUININ. work off the Culd a against an_attack Grip or en nedy . W. Grov 1927 ify” the nflue signature of ment. 30c.—Advertise- Noted Lutheran Dies at 84. NEW YORK, January 4 (P). Dr. Junius B. Remensnyder, 84 vears old, former pre General Synod of Church in the United States, and for 42 years pastor of St. James' Luth- eran Church in this city, died Sun- day at his home here. He resigned the St. James’ pastorate in 1923, He was the author of several books | on religion. she knew he was watching hers. ‘and a mole?” He started a bit guiltily at that. “It's quite beyond me—the some- thing that keeps me remembering her.” Sallie Beth leaned forward eagerly. “Peter Thorne, that is real honest- to-goodness, all-wool-and-a-yard-wide romance and to dreamers such as you the gods are always good.” She stopped then, for Peter was looking at’her with a _queer arrested look on his face. He didn't stay long | after that, but Sallie Beth's heart sang all the next day. | The parish house reception rooms | were humming with the chatter of many voices as the young curate | came in somewhat late the next night. He seemed to be looking for some one and his face lt up in a emile of expectation as the familiar, closely coiffed head of the littlest choir member swung around to meet his gaze. But it was the face of the librarian that was lifted to smile back at him from the depths of the big | chair under the tall lamp. As he leaned over and drew her to her feet, | Sallie found herself somehow follow- | ing him through the long window on | to the shadowy balcony. | “It was vou all the time.” The haif question, half assertion- held a mnote of contentment. “But the girl in the | library never had a mole?” “It ‘was only a beauty patch, Peter Thorne,” Sallie explained, removing | the tiny bit of plaster and holding it for him to see. “Sister's baby scratched me one Sunday morning— and—even bobbed hair can look prim nd old-maidish when choir laws re- | quire it—see?" She released the gold bobbed tresses with a tug at her hair- net_and laughed tremendously as she | Once a woman of her age had to be careful. Today, she eats anything she w.nu'b'ASmux tablet--and afier-cating distress vanishes ! 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