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w \umwny ', S L z « straight throwgh fo | NORFOLK CHAPTER XXXIL Splte “7lfe Ann Forester PR By N N Bhe ached with his Joss—but thought of him was all she had. As though she rience The first office informed her curtly | her hoart that the position was filled. The second | had no interest in her when she con- fessed that she did not know shorthand The third would not talk with her when she confessed to no experience. Ditto the fourth. And the fifth. Experlence —but how did one get it if no one gave one a chance! “We get most of our TLYI! from the large typewriting school explained | Ar!plflln( how they ali wanted expe- | did In the midst of this rushing erowd | A _whimpering little fear, gnawin But there MUST worl for her in this big eity She went into & candy store—less to eat than w sit down and rest. ‘The ache of jealousy | —the torturing thought of Stan seemed very far away. She was like come stunned animal. . She tried the stores. ‘They were | courteous, but final. They were not | taking on help just now. After the first of the month—they might begin adding And that bleak ceiling- -the nm oar t and m.polm fooking fur The hotel room-—she must change. ‘Too | niture were Nnished waid expensive. She would get something | as well, in t dre.dful ohill silence further out that anything young and helpless and 8he found a place. Gaunt—old-fash- friendless who came here was fHinished foned and ugly, a derelict left in s [to0. But, it was cheap—it would mak dreary backwafer of the city. In its | that melting horde of money go further | distant youth it had been one of the |l take it Judy sald wearlly wooden “mansions” which flourished on —Judy' the sandhills of the young city. Today (Tomorrow—Judy's Discovery.) |it was an eyesore. Chill plaster walls, long inadequate windows in the back 'bed room which the slatterly landlady Nearly & month to wait store of sllver meiting in her purse b ROACH DEATH sorry, but there was no opening at | unha; months at . = present. No, e couldn't tell ik Lok Mg b e e kv okt Seevios ith 5 Caskasiiant. when there would be one. You| Was ‘it really there—that big, old-| Noon. A scurrying horde of youth | hedules daily. 8 de iy ts | sce, she owned the library—it was her | fashioned house standing smugly in the | turned loose on the streets. Pouring B & Madern buscs. cory Tropie. | living. Her young niece came down and | midst of its dark gardens, just & few |from the buildings. Pushing into the Alre heat | assisted her at the noo* hour. miles away from this blank hotel room? |tea-rooms, restaurants — hurrying to RICHMOND.... $3.00 | The gray-haired woman's eyes— nud‘wmt did they think of her . . . Mrs. [squeeze a day's shopping into a too-| (Round Trip $5.00 | they were sympathetic brown eyes— | Carter — Vera — Vera would be, right- | short noon hour. Frederickebuin 1.75 followed Judy as she went away. | eously indignant tha. any one could | Never had Judy felt so alone 8s he | c . I8 . | The next woman w’- not so ym-| bring gossip upon the stately house of | =emm———ecm———— Winston-Salem... 8.50 | pathetic. She had hai z]l a ;éurpdlc- Carter. Amy—Amy would be gpiteful | Jackionville s, 2000 |Ted and there was a j.cple-red edge|and highhat aboutit. Madame Oarter— | f Ll on her voice. No, she didn't need any- | the old lady—she would miss her per- | Gas_olme Heaters UNION BUS DEPOT | one. She ran the tea-shop and she'd | haps. The old lady had really liked [only put in the library to keep & rival | Judy thought Rt Anas ik Headauarters for the 1336 New York Ave., N. W. Coleman-American Makes Phone: MEtropolitan 1512 | firm out. Besides, business was rotten. | When Nick came home again he would | raries. The ones in the residentisl dis="| —he would be angry with Stan. The || Automatle gm.unn_mm le_ Con- HE pleasant gray-haired woman 3 SCHEDULES $u.5° in the little corner book-shop was | had dreAmed all these thrilling, €x-|the pleasant woman at the head of an | for the holiday trade. DAILY l The Following Progressive Dealers Carry Linoleum Floors ® Won't Get Scratched ® Are Easy to Clean o Have a Mellow Lustre | No one needed in the down town I wonder—he would ask where she was - tricts couldn't afford her. Just enough | big, brown presence of Nick scemed || Poriabie. Feat Frostem OUND business for the owner—and usually |to be in the small room.- It was com- Beyond ' the Ga Where & that owner was some still-young widow | forting. But Nick would fly away. After Portal tor is Deslred. with a child to support, e | Bk people didn't really matter to Nick. P"‘“‘" iad oot Alove Makin Up an own—pavements _har That was what probably gave him that ri b e i coles of her Shoss. Thase silly | calm strengtn. - Nothinig. mattered £o| cedtromis10 16jto 3008 pumps with spike heels. . Chiffon | Nick but to be high up above the petty blmme’"‘”“ your heating trou- stockings . . . they couldn’t stand the | worries and jealousies of ecarth—up s ATASE RV tercs U Eopttect pounding. ~Showed she'd been used t0 | in the brave blue sky. . Wind and || them- Full Line of Coal Ranges and Heating Stoves riding in cars. . . . Wear her golf shoes [sun . . . that was Nick. Nick was free P SON NORTHWEST i3 , Ered M. Haas, 5010 H: 1. Avi —and it's no more trouble an wiping fomorrow. If she didn't land something | White fog pressed in at the window 723 7th St. N.W., NAt. 2092 A 3. Mashew, 100 1 5t Fred 3. Haas 016 R 1. ; before tomorrow. . the next morning. The golden, un-| A queer sense of having fallen Into |seasonsble Summer was done. Judy | 2 C. our floor with ter! \ ) Washington’s_ Oldest Hardware and Columbia Hdwe. Stores, Aipha Hdwe. Co.. 806 Bladensburg Rd. UBSYOREEOLI AT L a LS o Stove Store C. L. Osborn, 5919 Ga. Av Moore & Cain. minutes with a mellow s surface some dreary dream ere was the | shivered as she stepped into the murky | ith St D. C. Service Station, 3131 R. L Ave. that actually prot 3 pre Petworth Pharmaey, Ave. & Upshur B oA e serves the beauty of your Vi 80 i = Max Goldbers. 259 15th St. Stewart’s Pharmacy, 6224 3rd St. Geo. M. Casper, 1013 N. Carolina Ave. n at our expense 1 ¥ back Walsh Hdwe. Co., 827 Upshur St. SOUTHW " dissatishied Dupont Hdwe. Co.. 2004 M St Geo. M. Yeatman, 4 amazement on | scanned the want ads. FEMALE HELP e = HELPS STOMACH | B| <5 ans s son. o o ave lame Esmee’s blank oval face. | WANTED. Rather comforting to | w Finch, 2116 w:n st ! | 1 ril; lock where a en c wa nd Sts. Trudging wearily down a block Wi | ind how much female help was wanted. When you get up, drink water "mmmn "d‘? RndXem SIS ve J. 332 Hangs On, Mix ‘1 o heard thers was another book | Not so comforting when she'd read the || With a pinch of salt. This washes || a S B8 ) ). It would be nice to get work |long column. Experienced fur qut the stomach. If you have gas, et St Community Paint & Hdwe. Co., Bethesda, X Md. ThlS at Home | « books were old_ friends, | erator . . . beauty operator . . . || add & spoon of simple glycerin, d. impersonal you could forget | enced ‘typist and bookkeeper. . .y buckthorn bark, saline compound your own troubles with books. tandedito \mmgn for l]louat'\ll)rk s DI (known as Adlerika) How her feet hurt! She pretende raised troubled eyes to the refiection v 2 money could buy, can ea e e I eriny hotiing [which Jomad abaak iatt Tiew fromi /thel || aag o e waice 0Pk DOLIE 08 mixed at home. It saves up first hen the other, to Test | spotty mirror—she could type. With || which cause gas, nervousness, bad and gives you the most \ it. Lea t a letter-box on the | three fingers, but fairly fast. She'd || sleep. It is harmless. Get Adlerika quick-acting medicine corner, waiting for the traffic signals|learned on the old rattling machine at ||| today; by tomorrow you feel the used. The way it takes to change. How different the city was|the Summerfield library. And maybe ||| wonderful effect. Peoples Drug stubborn ¢ and_chest when you trudged the sidewalks look- | she could pick up bookkeeping Stores—Advertisement, Y ey iving imediate relief, is aston- || |ing for work instead of looking through She marked the most promising ads. B e - shing . plate glass windows of some expen- Any druggist can supply you with sedan 2% ou ox of Pine Pour this into our o'clock. A wave of tired misery a pint bottle, and fill up with plain ding her limping back to the hotel r””“ ated sug or strain ng herself across the narrow bed loney. It's no tro o | i tiny room. Hungry but too » and when d , you tired to go out and eat. Her feet- ver be | shoes kic cked off—up on the footrail perfectly and tastes good Aching feet for a moment dulling her really like it S et It is surprising bow quickly thi | Rich st loosens the germ: " membranes. At th of the medicine is blood, where it act: bronchial tubes, throw off th e Kevere o 1[‘~ wh inex is & hig compound of ger big hotel where she'd ;inno t‘!? lunrlr; street. The tweed suit wasn't warm. | DT i Ran h Amy and Eunice when they'd all | But it seemed absurd to go begging a Towels and Toilet Tissues | it Ary A B0 o " Don't | job in a fur coat which cost a thousand World's Oldest and Largest pass it—some one from Lockwood might |~ She ate in the same little oyster Manufacturer of Interfolded Products see her. house where she had dinner last night ‘ There—halfway down the block was | Cheaper, eating at the counter like this. | | Madame Esmee’s. Suppose she Was to | One didn't have to tip the waltress as MONT BLE SALT {o the tea-rose satin panelled | you did if you ate at a small table. | She could | * She had bought a newspaper and she \k for work UB SUBURBAN. . - Carr Bros. & Boswell, Hyattsville, Md. Pint e p 75¢ Snyder & Co., East Falls Chureh, Va. E. Brown, Falls Church, Quan ey AR I 51.25 Gallon $4.50 Fries, Beall & Sharp NAtional 1964 K b Pharmacy. Tith and Colo- | Taxvina Feed Store, 25 Carroll Ave., Ta- rado Ave koma Park. Md Henry F. Dismer., 3124 14th St a Hdwe. Co., 37 Laurel Smith Hdwe. & Elec. Co Ave.. Takoma Park, Md. L. . Quackenbush. 3207 M Mt. Rainier Hdwe. Co., ML Rainfer, Md The bes umzh remedy Youncblood, M1 Cedar St. Ta- | Zirkle Hdwe, Co. 828 Ga. Ave. Bilver er. %to - 3 Higgers DEREELSR re, 8017 C : ad 734 10th St. N.W. \slnrr Hardware Co., 204 Carroll Ave., o Rd.. Takoma Park, D. C. t light slanting in to fall on the white plaster walls. It had fallen | that wav on the walls of the old beach house. How long ago that seemed . E Stan and Eunice And Patty. and spiteful Georgia, at her. And Nick. Somehow n't seem real now. But she red how good it had been to cltered and warm and well-fed opened her eyes to find the room k with dusk. She'd slept over an y rily upright | and pulled on flat-heeled golf shoes. | more helpful in_es She was dizzy and weak. Had toeat. ... | colds and bron X An oyster house where she sat on a | les. | stool at the counter and was uncomf t accept a substitute |m~ y aware of the side-long stares of | for Pinex. It is guaranteed men. After all, she was pretty small- (“ give prompt relief or_ 2% | town, she guessed. Back in Summerfield ney refunded xh2p7 she'd known every onc. Down in Lock- | nd elps th for the last seven years has maintained consistent leadership of the screen. All picture-lovers will remem- ber the great succession of hits bearing the lion trade- mark. To mention a few: “Ben-Hur,” “The Big Parade,” “White Shadows,” “The Unholy Three,” “Broadway Melody” and this very season (NOW!) Garbo in “Mata Hari,” Marie Dressler in “Emma,” Wallace Beery and Clark Gable in “Hell Divers,” “The Champ.” Penalties of acid condit Magnesla Oxoids, developed Germany by the world’s foremost Sparing no efforts to bring out the best, M-G-M en- gaged our foremost playwright, Frederick Lonsdale, for Coughs a female animal. thought Judy, with chowder with her eyes on the bowl. | yellow electric lights flaring against ne Pd entrances of theaters. Judy's heart | nesia Oxolds mach, Mag” || not spend the money for show, until to write an original screen play. His “Lovers Cour- take two after each meal. See he Lockwood faint disgust, being stalked by males When she looked up, her gaze met the | sky, a jewelled street—a carnival street. jumped. She thought she saw Eunice Betive oxygen, which does the three ||she'd found work. She wouldn't sit in much better you feel. If not more And suddenly misery flooded in on S | All girls alone in big cities felt it, she | I__ supposed. A nasty, hunted feeling. | SLEEPY, BUT watchful stares of the men in the mirror | hind the counter. Buf a carnival in which she had no part. Theater crowds filling the cars— | in || Wilson. It wasn't. Just another pretty blonde. But Judy turned abruptly and things necessary to correct acidity— || the hotel lobby . stimulates the alkaline gastric mu- An electric light clicking on and off, than surprised with the results, y her again. She rolled her head on the For sale by Pe pillow wet Wwith her tears. Stan—that Grow an armor of 1 lent indifference. | NO SLEEP " She walked back up the street to the filling the streets. Couples, rushing by pharmaceutical house, correct acid- ||| Went up & quieter side street. tus, “checks intestinal putrefaction, || |flling her room with aqueer green res and all o T Stan could do this to her. Stan wood, she'd been one of lhr\ rich Car- | % |ters and every one had known her. | This tentative eyeing, of the city, Was something new and unpleasant Like That accounted for the cool hauteur of city girls She ate her clam Tired, But No Rest— ||| notcl. shivering a little in the tweed SEE jacket to her suit. Red, blue, zreen and | Acidity’s Toll aughing — talking — meeting other | couples and disappearing into the light- | P " Upon contact||| The small blank room. Too bad to with the acid stomach, Mag- | | have to go to bed so early, but she dare Promotes bowel action, Get a pa glare. Somebody's coffee Strange, age of Magnesia Oxoids toda a it was the coffee they used down at ,ists.—Advertisement. her man. 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