New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 25

e JRINING g TALENT By ELEANOR EARLY THIS HAS HAPPENED Molly Burnham, graduating from college, inherits $10,000. And it seems destined to bring her nothing but misery. In the first place, Molly is desperately in love with Jack Wells, a handsome boy without any money. Jack loves her, but flatly de- clines to marry her until he can take care of her. They quarrel when she offers him her inheritance. They spend a miser- able evening, bickering over money. And Molly, in tears. announces that she is going to get a job, and live her own life. Her newly acquired fortune will make it possible for her to take an apartment and live com- | fortably while she looks for work. She says that she had rather do that than return to the mean little prairie town where she lives. After Molly has gone, in tears, to her room. Jack takes from his pocket a little diamond ring. He had feant to give it to her that night, but suddenly it seems very small and cheap to him. He drops it mournfully back in his pocket, and departs for the last rain, Next morning Molly goes job- hunting with her dearest friend. Rita Melnotte. Rita is a brilliant, synical voung thing who is experimenting disastrously with a companionate marriage. Eventually Molly is promised a chance on a newspaper. She meets Jack for dinner, and to tell him her hig news. He is maddeningly lm(‘n-i thusiastic, and dampens her ardor | Then he remarks that | considerably. he has some news himself, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI “Well, Sweetheart, “the old man called me in today. and asked me how I'd like to work in the New Yérk office. It's a big chance. Now if you'd only go home, Sweet- heart, like a good girl. and wait a little while, six monhts, maybe. How'd you like to live in New York? Take an apartment in the Village, perhaps— “But Jack, T want a career, too!” “A caree Molly, what's this bug you've got?" “Oh, Jack, you're so able! You expect-me to get all ex- cited about your work. Of course T am awfully glad. I think it's won- derful. But 1 should think you'd know I'd like a little enthusiasm my- self. Tell me about it, Molly,” he said flatly. “T suppose I am very selfish. T was thinking pretty much about myself. Have you honestly a job?" Have 1!" she cried. *T should say I had! Guess what I'm going to do." “Oh, Lord, 1 don't know. What do girls do in newspaper offices? Write things about cooking and clothes? Is that what you're going to do, dea N Molly preened herself Cooking and clothes indeed! “I'm going to be the Inquiring Re- porter!” she announced pompously. “I'm going around rapher. and ask people questions.” “What!" 1t she had said she was going around with a gunman, and people up, Jack could scarcely have sounded more horrified. “You're going to do nothing of the kind!" “Jack Wells, T'm going to Kind 2" “But, sce think any wing what do you mean, do nothing of the here, Molly. do you man’s going to stand for his sweetheart run around. osting . lot of hums. Asking fool questions. Getting herself in- sulted. What in hlazes are you going to say to people " It had been a nerve-wracking day. and Molly began to cry. “On, Jaek: It's awful to quarrel this way. I love you so. it simply breaks my hear Oh, Molly! Molly sweetheart! I'm that's all. T don’t want you working with a lot of men. You're such a little thing, Molly. We'll take a boat on the pond in the Gardens. And, listen, darling, the more 1 fhink ahout Well, gosh. T haven't any k vou to sit around and wait for me. It 1 was durn you wouldn't long day, and a Ak o tenly it right to any 200d have to anyhow e e 1t moon was lovely hid behind the dark was soft and fragrant with the moist odor flowers that bloow in the starlight. “And you honestly don't mind 20 to work?" she asked him “Not a bit," he lied gallantly vant you to.” “I'll promise never to accost a bum,” she vowed. And he kissed her laughing lips. “You know, honestly. dear, T think this is simply a golden opportunity. I've been so awfully hedged in all my life. Now, you see, T've a chance to learn about life, and love, and men . . ." “Hey Jack looked rather g “Lay off this life, and love men stuff." on the pond clouds. sweet, And and of 1 o rm- and She patted his arm lovingly. Hie smiled, From his pocket he drew the ljttle white box that held the solifaire that sparkled so small nd so brave, He was embarrassed, ind trying to make mentous occasion. “What is it?” demanded Molly. Oh, Jack, quick, let me see Oh. Jack. it's beautiful! It's Iy! Lovely 8he slipped it on her finger and held up hr hand and watched it sparkle. “Do you like it?" Honest?" “Like it!" she exclaimed. crazy about i1 ‘It's sort of apolozetically ‘Why, it isn't either. Besides, 1 hate great big stones. It's the very loveliest thing T ever saw.” Tack smiled. A great load was A “Youw'll wear it work in morning ' Violly nesituted. A shaft of moon- ight caught the diamond, making it sparkle fike a little stone alive. And Molly. with her hair gleaming like a lo. turned the ring around and around on her finger 1 word ‘You don't want to wear it do you. Molly light of a mo- it! love- S small,” he offered to Suddenly the lovely night was filled with tragedy. She bent toward Jack told her, | unreason- proudly. | with a photog- | hold | The | if | and never said | him, and the little creeping scent of her perfume was wafted softly. “Why. darling!” She held out her hand. “What do you mean? You see it's too large, dear. I'd lose it.” “No.” He shook his head. that's not it, Molly You don't like it | because it's little. You're disappoint- |ed. T can tell. Never mind. I'll get | vou another one. A big one, like Claudii gantly. “I'll have a raise pretty quick, sorry I bought that thing. “Jack Wells, are you crazy?" Molly's eyes were full of shining bending, kissed him softly. How could she say that it might not be wise to wear an engagment ring to work the first morning? Like tell- ing everyone you were just about married. A girl without any romantic entanglements got along better in business. Men aren't inter- ested in engaged girls. Then, suddenly, Molly was sorry she had hesitated. What did she care about newspaper men? Didn't she love Jack with all her heart? And now she'd hurt his feelings! “Sweetheart!" she cried, and held the little ring toward him. “Wish it on for me. And I'll never take it off till you put a wedding ring beneath it But her lover was filled with shame and humiliation, and a sort of heart-breaking anger. He reached, and taking the ring. dropped it over- board. “Oh!" Molly's on a sob. “Jack!" “You didn't want it,”” he said. “But T did! Oh. Jack. Jack!" She leaned over the side of the boat. “It's gone.” she said, and her voice was flat and empty. “It was so white and shining . . . and now it's gone.” She put her white fingers to her face. “Yes," he answered dully. And he Wondered if there was anything symbolic in her words. If their love, which was also white and shining, had also gone? startled cry broke Molly was erying softly “My poor dear little ring!" she sobbed. “T loved it so much. And now T'll never see it again. It's down in all that awful mud! Way down at the bottom of the pond. And all that money thrown away! Oh, Jack, how could you!” “That's nothing.' bragged. “Money isn't going o count with me much longer. I'll have enough of it to buy you any darn thing your lit- tle heart wants. By the way. darling, did T tell you I'm going to New York first_thing in the morning?” Jack Wells! You're not either! Yes, T am report for work Wednesday.” nd I'll be in Boston all alone.” “Oh, no.” He corrected her gently. | “You'll have Rita and Bob, and Ruth Woods and her husband. And there’ your new job. You won't be lone “But T want you!" she cried. Never anybody but you." Jack’s mouth looked drawn. “You've made your choice,” he r minded her. “You'd never be sati | fied unless you'd found something to | do. Tt’s bettr, you said, than sitting {around, hemming dish towels, and | playing bridge | “Have you packed yet?" “No. it won't take long. Throw a few shirts in a bag. Only thing T have that's worth anything is my sweet- heart's picture, and the beautiful cuff links and the cigarette lighter she g “I'll help you pack “What!" Jack shocked. “Don’t he silly."” she admonished. “Mrs. Maloney would be shocked ath. Gee, she might put you he 1 e me ' she offered. pretended Molly consulted her watch. “It's exactly 10 minutes pas | she said. “And T'm not a bit a | raid | of Mrs. Maloncy. Come on. Start * he predicted Public | aybe she won't be home.” _ “Oh, she'll be all right She's always home. hasn't any | place else to go.” M had never to Jack's quarters before. and every girl is curious about the sort of a place a man lives in. Particularly when she loves that man “You wouldn't visiting my room." | “But home She a Kick out of observed Molly. 1 will out of seeing yours.” And she reflec | 50 many little personal things about her that there would be nothing | particularly revealing about her | room. He knew more than a mere tell him. | bedroom could ever instance, that she | He Kknew, for | used violet toilet soap. And sweet | pea perfume, and baby's talcum | powder. He knew that her favorite color was orchid. And that she had |a taffeta coverlet that she bought second-hand from a girl at college | ror $20, because she had told him about it. | Yes, after all a man knows pretty | much about a gitl. But a girl doesn't {know much of anything about a man, | until she's see his room. Or read his [1etters from his family. Or looked | over his snapshots. | Molly, like all curious. And Jack, it happened, was wrong | about Mrs. Maloney. She had gone Lto the second show at the movie: | women, was And there was nobody in the house, excepting Miss Blake who lived on the Irst floor front, and was deaf as | post. The place was in pitch dark- | ness, except for a light in Miss | Blake's room. She always sat up late | reading Home and Lireside. | They tiptoed up the stairs. And | the stairs creaked, as stairs always {do. Jack stumbled, and Molly | glggled. CHAPTER VII His unde other suit clothes and pajamas. His And his dinner coat. Bhe | rolled his socks up in neat little halls. And wrapped his shoes in paper. so they wouldn't soil | his nice clean shirts. Then she pull- ed a ribhon out of her lingerie, and [ticd it around the letters she sent him And ‘.-napsho tissue he showed her his hook of ts, and a family group in a “No, | Cabot's.”” He boasted arro- | and get you a knock-out stone. I'm | tears. She smiled luminously. And, | to be | d that Jack knew | Molly helped Jack fold his things. | had | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1 92! % © 1929 By NEA Jervice Ine., silver frame. His mother had white hair, and was rathey regal looking Molly supposed she'd meet her be- fessed he had not told the family hat he had a aweetheart. “Mother'd only worry,” he declar- ed. “She thinks modern girls are something fierce. I want to wait un- til T can show you oft properly.” “But Jack.” She was a little hurt. should think you'd want to tell her about me, dear. I've told my They know your eyes are blue. And that you've a cowlick. And broad shoulders. And that you played foot- know everything!" “Well, I'd rather knock my folks dead when they get a look at he declared. “There's no use getting them steamed up. Thy'll fall for you, soon as they lay eyes on you. Why they'll be crazy about you. Particularly my mother. You'll like her, too."” Then he showed her some letter from his mother. And one from his father. His sisters wrote him, Girlish letters, with plenty of words underlined, and ever so many ex- clamation points. Molly packed the family's letters | neatly in a shoe box. She thought it was sweet of Jack to keep them Like most women, she adored sen- timentality in a lover. Sentimental men, “are always tender.” Finally the packing Molly felt pleasantly sat plated her sweetheart's bags. There were two of and ready to close. Then she reflected that she was in a man's bedroom, and it was al- most midnight. She sighed. Jack came, and st on beside her. Tired, Sweetheart?" She leaned against him “A little,” she admitted nice, leaning against your der. There's a dear little | where my head just fits They were lost for their dreams. “Well, Sweetheart.” her gently. “Time to g0 hom she reflected, wifely. She the bed “Tt shoul- hollow, a while in He for little shook girls He laid his head against her hair. And buried his nose in its fragrance. ‘Other gi hair doesn't like yours,” he said. She smiled. That atomizer had cose 3$7.50. but that | was really the only wa could keep her hair scented. Tt | wasn't any good putting drops of | perfume on. You had to spray it “What do you do?" he asked. “Spill bay rum or something like that in it?" She laughed, head. “I love the way you don't know very much about women,” she teld him. “It's awfully sweet.” “I thought girls liked a man that little T'rench and shook | | He was filled with shame | right in sizing—righ L] fore very long, although Jack con-| family every blessed thing about you. | ball and hockey. My goodness, they | vou,” | Molly. | too. | was done. | down on the bed, and contem- | them, neatly packed. | smell | a ginl | | her | knows all about women. Don Juan stuff.” Maybe them do. T don’t. Jack, are you going to miss me?" some of | like Miss you!" die for you, “I'll miss ised. *“But every day You bet he cried. “I'd honey you, t00,” we'll write to she prom. each other “And twice you write * he agreed undays. T mean | twice on Sundays, honey. And tell | me everything about your job. And if any of those guys round there get fresh with you, send me a wire, | will you, Molly?" hey won't,” hey looked Kind of old, asn't true, she assured him. harmless as anything. most of them.” That but it would make Jack feel better. They're bald, and fat. You know. rt of shiny. | Married looking.” And she thought of the city editor. who had light curly hair, and looked as if he | bought his clothes at a Bond street tailor's “I'll tell them I'm engaged, as soon as I get a chance,” she prom- | ised. "Molly, you you home now." she said. your hat, like a good girl She pulled it on, vagabond felt t so adorably childish. Then she patted his pillow with both her small pink palms. She liked know- ing his head rested there, and fondled it with her hands. “Oh, T forgot (o tell you,” she ex- claimed. "I phoned the Y. W. C. A. this morning, and I've taken a room there. Rita's going to send all my truck in for me. Tl write the family tonight, and tell them about (it. And about my position.” 11 it a job,” he advised her. You don't call 'em positions when they only pay $18 a week.” They tip-toed quietly down the stairs. Past Miss Blake's room. The | light was out now. and they could hear her snoring lightly. Molly giggled | “I never knew before,” she “that you could tell an old maid hy | the way she snores. Now wouldn't you just know she was a spinster?"” me take “Put on must let made her look They took a taxi to the Y. W., he- cause Jack declared it mightn't look right to arrving after midnight her first night. And when they reached there a number of girls were on the steps, so that they had to say goodby most circumspectly. Molly was rather glad. She knew would have cried, if it was dark or the street was deserted Tomorrow Jack would he on | way to New York. And it be wedks and weeks before she him again! flung her about him. “Don't zoodby, Just good-night.” She kissed him swiftly. up the stairs. He waited | sidewalk until the had closed behind her. She not turn to wave. And he was beeause she was crying That night mailed it, his W arms say Sweetheart! and ran on the door did knew it she wrote Jack | next morning, with a | special delivery stamp. It was in { the office in New York, waiting for ‘!\mv when he reached there. She also wrote her family, telling nd and humiliation. t in tailoring. Parker & Tyson Collar Attached or Ncekband $3.00 ., $5.00 the little blue | might | them at her “perfectly marvelous de 1o be independent and self-support- ing, and 1er determination ) be happy through self-expression. She mentioned also her dreams It length of r opportunity,” her ire of suc- was rather afraid, and she not expressed by cess and fame a Stift lette felt th herself very well, air mail. and hope A few days late reply from her mother Now, Molly's mother | old-fashioned woman new fangled ideas about nor gainful occ women. Moreover. time, a lonely “Dear daughter, brought letter office this noon when he for dinner. It was st it arrived just as it did the morning preparing a pa | read at the Wednesday Club | having a debate this week: R | that the Modern Girl Ts | Than Her Grandmother | the negative. And it that I had read in magazine hy some wom the moment | “Well, dau think like th said, ‘that the piness, and that upon selfis | tion and publicit modern woman not so hecoming to ficial to others, as the piness enjoyed by mother.’ “My dear da and T believed that gaged to a fine young we had hoped to meet mer. We had kit girl was coming to us we had to have t name up. dear Club, and your heen planning to However, 1 wish emphasize onur disappoint- ment. But what about your man, Molly? Have sake of securing ived a wi S s a rather had independ- for was, at the @n enc upations very wor “Dad ume home nge, the wrote your from the way to We ar solved, Happier per happened well known Mer id point some- she hap- kind competi- make the but it is . nor so hene- frugal hap- grand- is. grades in inferior based your father you were man this sum- little home an planned such lovely tir ther. 1 had f the poor en- whom tho our 1 put you Woman's father vou buy do own a little car, not yo for the liberty. indignant hroken 18 well you, more and per- vour a or two of sonal happiness, promise to him, ficed your loyalty to us? | My dear child. vour Minnie would turn in her could know what her has led you to. And a sition 1 new all th write of the of livin and of f-expression Your aunt Minnie rtainly derived considerable satisfaction from living 11 her }days without reproach. She was never heard about self- expression, order. pr wisp o as sucri- aunt if money on poor v she of joy paper to worry hich lieved that well, he ‘imparted a dignity, a spi which is v dis- she ex- ssed herself very itual elegance women 10t with fear being and suppressed.’ T have quoted that Molly, as best T can from the the magazine so exactly expresses what I like to say Molly do heing ol essed the wslaved article it would by wrter, hecause to yon dropped the letier im- dropped it overboard. Fitch - Jones Co. ALL WHITE SHIRTS ARE | ALIKE---IN COLOR! All men wear white shirts—and some men wear none but white shirts. Our shirts sell because they are right! Right in material—right in cut— no | 1 had spent | T had taken | an article | n writer. I forget her name at | has | atiently If that thoug | Then a caught ist like mother | she reasonably gure on ? attention. “500.” ¢ tehed paper | Her mother had w {the end of the letter 1 have talked thir decided nog to After all ght |in your own her the “Your over, and v stand in your | way you have, 1 sup- a to pursue Aunt Minnie's for | pose happiness | tashion will not settled But your f: you $500, estate be some weeks ver defray have, is going wh intil sends |to ever | t ex you may such time as the executor inheritance es filled 1d You your entire | Molly's ey "‘]M i “And |1 can ¢ can have d a l ( I | MUELLER REPORTED | Heidelbe Germany, | —The marked weather today h relief spent little henette ovously partment! 1 all m own, « bath:” 0 BE CONTINUED) BLTTER 26 () th we Mueller fortal July coolness ad Chanec brought a lor | come 10 the since i | bladder trount | who most | nig operation for ind slept well | A vanqu ! orkers leto oil ficlds in homa accid A. A. MILLS Summer Closin Schedule Friday 9 P. M. Saturday 1 P. M. ing bills within the period prescribed the Constitution after the final journment of the General Assem- | bly. There is error, the judgment is sef aside and the Superior Court di- rected to enter judgment overruling the plaintifi’s demurrer to the an- 1s above set forth and defend= demurrer to the complaint as unds, 5, 7, 8 and 10. FULL TEXT ISSUED IN COURT DECISION red 1 Page 10) opportunity of reconsidering bills returned to it disapproved of by him. his course would not conflict with ower of the Governor in sign- phone service between Enga rts of Czecho-Slovakis n established nd all p Renier, Pickhardt & Dunn g Wear End of Month Clearance Sale < $16 757 AL pRESSES to 5267 o $1 0.75 arw pressss osies. A 87 .75 ALL DRESSES to 59.98. 281,79 $2.59 S0 Brcmoin A QB¢ P proIAL_AN $1.00 and $1.09 Hose. A $1.29 Pair—Broken sizes in Chiffon Hose, Nar- row style heel. Were to $2.00 pair. At — $ ] .98 NOVELTY BAGS—Were $3.00 to $5.75. At —Rayon Slips—in white and flesh color. 5595 and Yegular price $1.98. ; Thus came into being the Furnace with wood or coal for its & fuel. Oh, what a difference this change made with only one | firc to care for and heat in every room! You | younger | g i sitated a fuel supply stored in the cellar with all dust and dirt, ashes to remove, and a. considerable amount of time and labor to keep the fire going, with heat uiteven still — too much in Fa'l and Spring and not enough on cold Winter days. As before, Man felt the need of improvement and so at last he considered Gas, the ideal fuel, and nocw the modern H yme Owne 7 Telephone 6562 installs. .. .Watch tomorrow’s paper. ROONEY CO. Everett I I. Fenner, Fngineer and Manager Commercial Trust Bldg.