Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1928, Page 29

Playing Cupid. money Uncle Hal sent me for 1 B way's window 1 don't be- lieve there will be any pret- tier on the campus, do you>" Betty looked up swiftly from the cake she was stirring, her eyes bewildered “The campus,” she repeated. “What campus? Oh, May, surely you're not | , counting on going 2 “Not counting? Indeed, I've been thinking of the reunion for months. | You know, Betty Marshall, you said | you'd take me." { Betty stared at the flushed indignant | face beneath the mop of glossy curls. | “That was back in the Winter before | dad broke his arm and before Will got | pneumonia. 1 don't see quite how it| can be managed now. May. I shouldn’t | like to go uniess our clothes look right.” | “I have my sports suit. T've been keeping it nice for this. With those plain, expensive pumps and my little felt hat I'll look fine." unger sister. did. just graduated indeed. look what fumbled { health and & able in any form saucy cves and her| upward delightfully. | ed much the same before she t of the family re- | and now, when s was easing up, | she was Jooking brighter, but the Win- ter had been a long pull. Teaching all day and being the angel at odd left her a lot to me.” mu 1 shan't feel so the Fall and 1 may ructors. You'll dean of women, ," chimed a woman inevitable know ar you look and it isn't as X going with a beau.” gled at the old-fashioned term v friend, but Betty colored. It though she had been defi- ed upon the old maid's shelf. urt. Of course, she'd been too | ooking after the family to have any time for frivolity, but it struck hert with an uncomfortable thought. Who had asked her to go to any of the various small-town amusements? No one “You wouldn't disappoint your little sister, would you. Betty? T've told all the girls that we're going to your uni- versity reunion. It won't matter so much what you wear, because you are through. I'm just beginning.” May had no intention of being cruel | when making this statement. She merely spoke as she thought They went to the nearby university eity in the runabout that had been pur- chased second-hand. Betty would have preferred the train, but they could drive in for the cost of one railroad fare, and that decided the question As they approached the stately gray buildings and saw the shining cars| ruked in solid rows, May stirred rest- vely. “Our car does look funny, just| @s you said it would. Suppose we stop | around the comner.” The sisters strolled across the well kept turf toward the huge umbrella | which sheltered Betty's ciass. the year | above it in large figures. Betty dreaded any chance encounters and scorned herself for so doing. It was extremely silly to care about her old suit. She'd more than done her part in the world | in the vear that had intervened. but| 8t 24 one cares more about a smart hat than what lies under it—at such moments. at least And most of the class were right | + there, greeting her with a casual cor- diality. “Living near here, Betty?" asked| Madge, turning to wave to & new ar-/| rival and scarcely listening to Betty's | # Jow answer. | “H’lo, Betts, where shall you go this ‘We're going across for a month in Switzerland.” Anne linked arms in the old fashion, then turned to reply to a dark young man who de- manded her attention. May looked about eagerly dimpling ssucily when her sister presented her to classmates, apparently enjoying every moment. Then, across some benches, Betty saw Frank Moore. Her heart skippe a beat, then thumped riotously. ey had sat together #n English four vears | and the girl had woven some youthful | dreams about the silent man who had | been her escort at many campus ac- | tivities. He looked a trifle older and | had improved greatly. He looked straight into Betty's eyes, smiled and lifted his cap. Bhe forgot the well-worn suit she “It will do you in Mrs. Marsh Reaching The Half-Way Mark The Julius Offering an immense And you have the privilege ments, as usual! Colonial Poster Bed August Sale Price attractive poster hed Strongly constructed wut veneers and gumwood Convenient Deferred Payments Jhe cfulius Jurniture (0. Entrance 909 ETTY. I'm going to spend the | ing the old dream. those ducky pumps in Hollo- | | Frank cared Furniture Company’s AUGUST SALE Of Fine FURNITURE stock, assembled from the world’s greatest furniture markets, at discounts of 107 to 40% in every department of the five spacious floors. ‘The special discount tags clearly show the great savings. wore—forgot the shabby car around the corner-—and stood dream-, There was some- thing in the expression of his face that told her what she wished to know-— a good-looking man. Betty nnels. He is smil- | flushing ador- | “What see, in the white fla ing at me,” cried ably. ‘T used to know him,” answered the | other evenly. Frank had turned and was walking In the opposite direction | with a grav-hairged woman. | Betty never remembered just how | she got through that afternoon and | she vetoed May's request that they ay drive ahead of us."| she insisted; “we'd better start now.”" | Betty, thinking of the welcome that | she felt sure had been in her betray- { ing eves for the man who had not | cared enough to walk a few yards to greet her, was warm with shame. Why had she mot nodded coolly as she'd seen those well-dressed, perfectly pois- ed girls do? Ch, driving?” an acquaintance of the previous year asked the question and regarded Betty with a faint show of interest. “You might drop me at my house if you like. What car do you drive®"” May laughed and named the make | Correct Vision —plays a most important part in a person's life. vet is little appreciated until a mars it. 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FOR SKIN IRRITATIONS Lansburgh of convenient deferred pay- arked | T fancy he's looking for me. | P've_noticed when girls w | you in sight. $16-95 with beautifully turned in choice of genuine mahog- Lanshurgh F Street N.W. LITH HCUHEFROLETYRAETROUNLIEONY PEUURDIOELLAFRABETIN LERRTRRRE UM TP VPO LEFOETOD POV RO DE LD EORRTER RO DO LTI OORRLEORRL LD PVDEE R ERR LRI RO U 0L CLOM OO R | | | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST 15 1928.° “It's only a runabout; you'd crush she observed. “Oh what " she ended. . the beautifully gowned one, “how quaint. Frank Moore has a speedy eight Sun, all silver fittings and fawn velvet. I love to ride in that ‘Bye.” | In complete silence the sisters found the little car and climbed in, then May | said: “T expect you know the man .he | named. Her eyes had that canny look ant to hurt you." | “Yes, T know him, you mentioned.” At the moment when the reluctant starter had been choked into activ- | ity Betty glanced up to scan the traf-| fic and met the radiant smile of Frank, | who had just hurried up. He paused long enough to drop a bill into the cager hand of a small boy, then held | out_his hand to Betty “I wasn't going to take any chances of losing you in this jam. My Aunt Cordelia felt faint from the heat and 1 had to take her back to her friends. | who parked a block from here, so 1| caught that boy and told him to keep Did you hear that ear- | He was that man | T $1.10 Pompeian | went abroad last ycear and have not splitting whistle he gave to cttract my_attention?” When Betty had pri ted him to her attentive sister he sald: “You are both going to dine with me and well take in the sing. I've | come cousins here and we'll get a ta- ble for the six of us | “I've thought stantly, Betty,” they strolled behind the others. of you almost con- he whispered later as ug been back long. Aren't you going to invite me out to your home?" Some boy friend, that Frank," sald May sleepily as they drove into the | quiet town in the lilac-scented dark- | ness. “Think you'll ever see him again?” | “Yes, he's driving out Sunday." | “Why didn’t you tell me you knew | a rich man?” | “I didn’t know it myself. I--T didn't | really think of that.” | “Betty, I could shake you for be. ing so impractical,” said the disgusted May. “Didn't he have a car at col- lege “Yes," Betty spoke dreamily. “T won- der if he remembered this old suit.” “No. I think he was as bemused! N o Interest or Extras Added to Our Budget Plan Face Powder and Vanity, 49c The vanity is the loose non-leakable. had in five di&eram shades. more than the sale price. Goldenberg's—First Floor.—Charge Accounts Invited powder type, dainty and The Pompeian beauty powder may be Fach item alone is worth 80TH SIDES OF 7™ AT K ST you are. You're a fine pair of babes in the wood. Suppose I hadn't made you go today? You might never have met again. I really think you ought to get me a large box of nut-center choco- lates for playing Cupid so successful THE END. i (Copyright. 1028.) NURSES END STUDY. Miss Pearle A. Griffith, supervisor. and Miss Frances D. Willlams, a staff nurse of the Washington Instructive Visiting Nurse Society have returned | from Boston, where they attended the | six-week course given by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission for nurses, health educators, physiothera- pists and others interested in the care of crippled children. These were the first orthopedic schol- arships given by the Instructive Visit-| P ing Nurse Society. The scholarships | w L on | w * | were made possible by a special dona- | “Vicissitudes of the District Govern- | ment from 1820 to 1845." | tion. ITFAYSTO y oy Tl Women's City Club Announces the District of Columbia, to take place | throughout the Winter, has been ar- | | ranged by the Women's Cit for October | man of the Fine Arts Commission Moore wiil cover the period from the settlement of this section to the formal taking over of the District by Congre: in 1801. by slides. ECTURES ON HISTORY OF DISTRICT PLANNED Diseussion Third Saturday of Fach Month During Winter. A series of lectures on the history of n the third Saturday of each month Club, The first of these talks is scheduled | 20 at the clubhouse, and ill be given by Charles Moore, chair- Mr. The lecture is to be illustrated Jesse C. 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